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“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. (Benjamin Franklin)
Continue on to Celebrity Deaths – 1997
Jan 8 – Jesse White, actor (Maytag repairman), age 77
Jan 11 – Sheldon Leonard, producer/director (Dick Van Dyke Show), age 89
Jan 12 – Jill Summers, actress (Agatha Coronation Street), age 86
Jan 16 – Ennis Cosby, son of Bill Cosby, murdered on California highway, age 29
Jan 21 – Colonel Tom Parker, manager (Elvis Presley), age 87
Jan 25 – Jean Dixon, psychic (Gift of Prophecy), heart attack, age 79
Feb 11 – Don Porter, actor Russell Lawrence on “Gidget” – age 84
Feb 19 – Deng Xiaoping, leader of the People’s Republic of China, age 94
Feb 26 – David Doyle, actor, Bosley on “Charlie’s Angels” – age 67 (heart attack)
Mar 10 – La Vern Baker, singer, “I Cried a Tear” (1958) – age 67 (cardiovascular disease)
Mar 15 – Gail Davis, actress, Annie Oakley in the TV western – age 71 (cancer)
Apr 24 – Pat Paulsen, comedian, Smothers Brothers TV show, ran for U.S.President 6 times, age 69
June 24 – Brian Kieth, actor, “The Parent Trap” (1961), age 75 (self-inflicted gunshot wound)
June 25 – Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French explorer & marine conservation, age 87 (heart attack)
July 01 – Robert Mitchum, actor, “Cape Fear”, “Rio Bravo (1959), age 79 (lung cancer)
July 02 – Jimmy Stewart, actor, George Bailey in “It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946) age 89 (pulmonary embolism)
July 04 – Charles Kuralt, television reporter, did the “On the Road” segments for CBS, age 62
July 25 – Ben Hogan, golfer who won 9 major championships, age
Aug 31 – Diana, Princess of Wales, married then divorced Charles, Prince of Wales, age 36 (car accident while being hounded by French paparazzi)
Sept 09 – Burgess Meredith, actor, trainer Mickey Goldmill in several “Rocky” movies, age 89
Oct 12 – John Denver, musician, “Rocky Mountain High”, “Thank God I’m a Country Boy”, age 53 (plane crash, he was the pilot and only occupant)
Oct 14 – Harold Robbins, writer, “The Carpetbaggers”, age 81 (heart failure)
Oct 16 – James A. Michener, writer, Pulitzer Prize for “Tales of the South Pacific”, age 90 (kidney failure)
Dec 18 – Chris Farley, actor and comedian, “Saturday Night Live” (1990-95), age 33 (drug overdose)
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