Celebrity Deaths – Y

by Michael RichComment — Updated August 3, 2023
Gig Young
Gig Young
1978
Dick York
Dick York
1992
Robert Young
Robert Young
1998
Loretta Young
Loretta Young
2000
Boris Yeltsin
Boris Yeltsin
2007
Susannah York
Susannah York
2011
Alan Young Mr. Ed
Alan Young
2016
Chekov in Star Trek
Anton Yelchin
2016


Glenn Yarbrough b. 1930 d. 2016 (dementia)
Singer – The Limeliters (1959-63) “Baby the Rain Must Fall”

Bunny Yeager b. 1929 d. May 25, 2014 (congestive heart failure)
Model and fashion photographer (see swimsuit photo’s this site)

Anton Yelchin b. 1989 d 2016 (freak car accident)
Actor – Pavel Chekov in three Star Trek movies (2009-16)

Boris Yeltsin b.1931 d. April 23, 2007 (sudden heart failure)
First democratically elected president of Russia

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi b. 1911 d. February 5, 2008
Taught transcendentalist meditation to the Beatles

Dick York b. 1928 d. 1992 (emphysema)
Actor – The first Darrin Stephens on Bewitched

Susannah York b.1939 d. 2011(bone marrow cancer)
British Actress – Superman, They Shoot Horses Don’t They

Alan Young b. 1919 d. 2016 (natural)
Actor – Wilbur Post on “Mr. Ed” (1961-66)

Faron Young b. 1932 d. 1996 (suicide – shot himself in the head with a .38 caliber handgun)
Country Singer – Hello Walls

Gig Young b. 1913 d. 1978 (Suicide after shooting his fourth wife, Kim Schmidt to death)
Actor – Tony Fleming on the Rogues

Loretta Young b. 1913 d. 2000 (ovarian cancer)
Actress – Letters to Loretta (1953) and the New Loretta Young Show (1962)

Malcolm Young b. 1953 d. 2017b (early onset Alzheimer)
Musician/Guitarist (AUS) – co-founder of rock group ACDC; “Back In Black”, “Highway to Hell”

Robert Young b. 1907 d. 1998 (respiratory failure)
Actor – Jim Anderson on Father Knows Best, Marcus Welby, MD

Skip Young b. 1930 d. 1993 (boating accident)
Actor – Wally Plumstead on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet

Henny Youngman b. 1906 d. 1998 (pneumonia)
Comedian – King of the One Liners

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