Celebrity Deaths 1997-2024

Celebrity Deaths
Welcome to our Dead Celebrities section of FiftiesWeb, a tribute to the legends who have left an indelible mark on our lives through their talents and contributions during 2024, 2023 and beyond.

A friend of mine once said “All the great men are dying and I don’t feel too well”. That was a joke of course but unfortunately a lot of the great ones have passed away and from what I see of today’s offerings they can never be replaced.

In the following pages I have attempted to keep up with some of the more memorable celebrity deaths. In answer to the question, where have you gone Joe DiMaggio…well, he died. I get a lot of mail asking what happened to this one or that, and sadly, the response too often is – dead!

Not everyone who ever lived is on these lists. Just people we cared about, people who impacted our lives to some degree.

People who were part of the culture from the Fifties onward. I tried to list a popular credit for many of them in case the name was familiar but you needed a helpful hint to bring a face into focus.

For each of the celebrities featured on our website, I’ve tried my best to meticulously curate biographical information to give you an understanding of who they were. Learn about their birthdate, place of birth, and the memorable moments that defined their careers.

You’ll come across iconic figures who have left an indelible mark on history. Take, for example, Elvis Presley, the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll, whose electrifying performances and chart-topping hits continue to captivate audiences worldwide. Elvis’s passing in 1977 marked the end of an era, but his music and charisma live on. Then there’s John Wayne, the quintessential American hero of the silver screen. Known for his roles in classic Westerns like ‘Stagecoach’ and ‘Rio Grande,’ Wayne’s rugged on-screen persona and patriotic fervor made him a beloved symbol of American values. Then of course the beautiful Elizabeth Taylor, the glamorous actress of ‘National Velvet‘ and ‘Cleopatra‘ fame, was not only a cinematic icon but also a dedicated advocate for AIDS-related causes. Who could forget the classic tv show of Lucille Ball in ‘I Love Lucy‘? These are just a few that we celebrate on our Dead Celebrities section.

This section is a labor of love, dedicated to preserving the memories of those who have enriched our lives through their talents and contributions. I invite you to explore our pages, learn more about these unforgettable figures, and join in celebrating their enduring legacies. In a world where time marches forward, we make sure to remember those who will forever hold a special place in our hearts. We’ll miss them. A nation does turn its lonely eyes toward them. Because many were people who rightly could be called heroes.

I personally value your voice and memories. Share your own stories, tributes, and memories related to these legendary individuals in the comments section below each page. Your contributions will help create a community of shared appreciation.

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Your search for information about dead celebrities has led you here, and we are honored to be your source of knowledge, inspiration, and connection to these iconic figures.

Celebrity Deaths By Year

Celebrity Deaths Alphabetically by Last Name

A

Gracie Allen - Celebrity Deaths A
Gracie Allen
1964
Nick Adams
Nick Adams
1968
Desi Arnaz
Desi Arnaz
1986
Steve Allen
Steve Allen
2000
Yasser Arafat
Yasser Arafat
2004
Eddie Albert
Eddie Albert
2005
Don Adams
Don Adams
2005
Lew Anderson - Clarabell
Lew Anderson
(Clarabell)
2006
June Allyson died
June Allyson
2006
Bea Arthur
Bea Arthur
2009
James Arness
James Arness
2011
Neil Armstrong
Neil Armstrong
2012
Patty Andrews
Patty Andrews
2013
Allen Arbus
Allen Arbus
2013
Michael Ansara
Michael Ansara
2013
James Avery
James Avery
2013
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou
2014
Richard Attenborough
Richard Attenborough
2014
Mohamed Ali passed away
Mohamed Ali
2016
Lola Albright died
Lola Albright
2017
Richard Anderson died 2017
Richard Anderson
2017

Bud Abbott b. 1896. d. 1974 (cancer)
Actor – Half of Abbott and Costello

Ian Abercrombie b. 1934 d. January 26, 2012 (heart attack)
Actor – Elaines boss Mr. Pitt on “Seinfield”

Ralph David Abernathy b. 1926 d. 1989 (cancer)
Civil Rights leader

Bella Savitzky Abzug b. 1920. d. 1988 (complications of heart surgery)
Congresswoman from New York

Roy Acuff b. 1903. d. 1992 (congestive heart failure)
Singer – Known as King of Country Music

Ansel Adams b. 1902. d. 1984 (heart failure and cancer)
Photographer

Don Adams b. 1923 d. September 25, 2005 (pulmonary infection)
Actor – Maxwell Smart on Get Smart

Douglas Adams b. 1952 d. May 11, 2001 (heart attack)
Author – Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Edie Adams b.1927 d. 2008 (cancer)
Comedian/Actress-spokesperson for Muriel Cigars

Mason Adams b. 1919 d. April 26, 2005
Actor – Charlie Hume on “Lou Grant

Nick Adams b. 1931. d. 1968 (suicide-disputed)
Actor – The Rebel

Spiro T. Agnew b. 1918. d. 1996 (leukemia)
Vice-President of the United States

Alvin Ailey Jr. b. 1931. d. 1989 (AIDS)
Dancer

Claude Akins b. 1926 d. 1994 (cancer)
Actor – Sheriff Elroy S. Lobo on B.J. and the Bear

Carl Albert b. 1908 d. 2000
Speaker of the US House from 1971-1977

Eddie Albert b. 1908 d. May 26, 2005 (pneumonia)
Actor – Oliver Douglas on Green Acres

Edward Albert Jr. b. 1951 d. September 22, 2006 (lung cancer)
Actor – Don Baker in Butterflies Are Free

Jack Albertson b. 1907 d. 1981
Actor – The Man on Chico and the Man

Lola Albright b. 1924 d. 2017 (peacefully)
Actress – Edie Hart (Peter’s girlfriend) in “Peter Gunn

Robert Alda b. 1914. d. 1986 (stroke)
Actor and Father of Alan Alda

Shana Alexander b. 1925 d. June 23, 2005 (cancer)
Pioneering Journalist – Point-Counterpoint segments on 60 Minutes

Mohamed Ali b. 1942 d. 2016 (Parkinson Disease)
Professional Boxer – (Cassius Clay) three time heavyweight champion (1964, 1974, and 1978), proclaimed “The Greatest”

Gracie Allen b. 1902. d. 1964 (heart attack)
Actress and wife of George Burns

Irwin Allen b. 1916. d. 1991 (heart attack)
Producer of films and TV

Mel Allen b. 1913. d. 1996
Yankee sportscaster

Rex Allen b. 1920 d. 1999 (had a heart attack and fell down behind a parked car, which then ran over him)
Actor – Dr. Bill Baxter on Frontier Doctor

Steve Allen b. 1921 d. 2000
Comedian/author/musician – First Host of the Tonight Show

Duane Allman b. 1946 d.1971 (motorcycle accident)
Singer – Allman Brothers

Gregg Allman b. 1947 d. 2017 (liver cancer)
The Allman Brothers Band, “Ramblin Man” younger brother of Duane

June Allyson b. 1917 d. July 8, 2006 (pulmonary respiratory failure and acute bronchitis)
Actress – The Glenn Miller Story and Strategic Air Command

Robert Altman b. 1925 d. November 20, 2006
Director – M.A.S.H. and Gosford Park

Lyle Martin Alzado b. 1949 d. 1992 (brain cancer)
Football Player

Stephen Ambrose – b. 1936 d. October 13, 2002 (lung cancer)
Author/historian – Band of Brothers; chronicler of “greatest generation” and WWII

Don Ameche b. 1908 d. 1993 (prostate cancer)
Actor – Art Selwyn in Cocoon

Morey Amsterdam b. 1908 d. 1996 (heart attack)
Actor – The Dick Van Dyke Show

Eddie Anderson b. 1905 d. 1977 (cancer)
Actor – Rochester on Jack Benny Show

Herbert Anderson b. 1917 d. 1994
Actor – Father on Dennis the Menace

Jack Anderson b. 1922 d. December 17, 2005 (Parkinson’s disease)
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist

Lew Anderson b. d. May 14, 2006 (prostate cancer)
Actor and musician – Clarabell on Howdy Doody Show

Lynn Anderson b. 1947 d. 2015
C&W Singer – (I Never Promised You A) Rose Garden

Marian Anderson b. 1897 d. 1993
Opera singer

Richard Anderson b. 1926 d. 2017
Actor – Oscar Goldman on TV shows The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman

Laverne Andrews b. 1915 d. 1967 (cancer)
Singer – The Andrews Sisters

Maxene Anglyn Andrews b. 1918. d. 1995 (heart attack)
Singer – The Andrews Sisters

Patty Andrews b. 1918 d. 2013 (natural)
Last surviving Andrews Sister, “Boogie, Woogie Bugle Boy”

Stanley Andrews b. 1891 d. 1969
Actor – The Old Prospector on Death Valley Days

Tige Andrews b. 1920 d. January 27, 2007 (cardiac arrest)
Actor – Capt. Greer on the Mod Squad

Tod Andrews b. 1914 d. 1972 (heart attack)
Actor – Maj. John Singleton Mosby on the Gray Ghost

Maya Angelou b. 1928 d. May 28, 2014 (natural)
Author / Poet – She was also an actor, writer, director, and producer of plays, movies, and public television programs

Walter Annenberg – b. 1908 d. October 1, 2002 (pneumonia)
Founder of TV Guide, Sixteen magazines; U.S Ambassador to the U.K.

Michael Ansara – b. 1922 d. July 31, 2013
Actor – Cochise in tv show “Broken Arrow” (1956-1958)

Yasser Arafat b. 1929 d. November 10, 2004 (mystery blood disease)
Palestinian leader

Allen Arbus b. 1918 d. 2013 (natural causes)
Actor – psychiatrist Dr. Sidney Freedman on “MASH” (1972-1983)

Eddie Arcaro b. 1916 d. 1997 (liver cancer)
Jockey – Won 2 Triple Crowns

Eve Arden b. 1909 d. 1990 (cancer/heart failure)
Actress – Our Miss Brooks

Roone Arledge b. 1931 d. 12/5/2002 (prostate cancer)
TV producer and pioneer – Wide World of Sports, Nightline, 20/20

Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong b. 1900 d. 1971 (heart attack)
Musician

Neil Armstrong b. 1930 d. 2012 (complications from heart surgery)
Astronaut – 1st man to ever step foot on the moon, a true American hero

Desi Arnaz b. 1917 d. 1986 (lung cancer)
Actor – Husband of Lucille Ball

James Arness b. 1923 d. 2011 (natural causes)
Actor – Marshal Matt Dillon on “Gunsmoke” for 20 years (1955-75) and movies until 1993

Eddy Arnold b.1918 d. 2008 (natural causes)
C&W Musician- baritone voice helped change Nashville

Bea Arthur b.1922 d. 2009 (cancer)
Actress/comedienne Emmy awards for hit tv shows Maude & The Golden Girls

Arthur Ashe b. 1943 d. 1993 (AIDS)
Tennis Player

Nick Ashford b. 1941 d. 2011 (throat cancer)
Songwriter – “Aint No Mountain High Enough”

Isaac Asimov b. 1920 d. 1992 (heart and kidney failure)
Science Fiction Writer

Leon Askin b. 1907 d. June 3, 2005
Actor – General Burkhalter on Hogan’s Heroes

Hafez al-Assad b. 1931 d. June 10, 2000
President of Syria

Fred Astaire b. 1899 d. 1987 (pneumonia)
Actor/Dancer – Top Hat with partner Ginger Rogers

Chet Atkins b. 1924 d. June 30, 2001 (cancer)
Guitarist – a founding father of Nashville sound

Robert Atkins, M.D. b.1931 d. April 17, 2003 (complications from a head injury due to fall on ice)
Diet guru of no carb fame

Charles Atlas b. 1892. d. 1972
Body builder

Richard Attenborough b. 1923 d. Aug. 24, 2014
Actor / Director – “Miracle on 34th Street”, and “Jurassic Park”, directed “Gandhi”

Red Auerbach b. 1917 d. October 28, 2006 (heart attack)
Coach – legendary winning coach of the Boston Celtics

Gene Autry b. 1907 d. 1998 (cancer)
Singer/actor/businessman

Richard Avedon b. 1923 d. October 1, 2004 (brain hemorrhage)
Photographer – Known for black and white celebrity photos

James Avery b. 1948 d. Dec. 31, 2013 (complications following open heart surgery)
Actor – Philip Banks on “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”

B

Richard Boone
Richard Boone
1981
John Belushi - celebrity deaths B
John Belushi
1982
Lucille Ball
Lucille Ball
1989
Sonny Bono
Sonny Bono
1998
Jonathan Brandis
Jonathan Brandis
2003
Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando
2004
Anne Bancroft
Anne Bancroft
2005
Barbara Bel Geddes
Barbara Bel Geddes
2005
Ed Bradley
Ed Bradley
2006
Barbaro died
Barbaro
2007
Joey Bishop died
Joey Bishop
2007
Gene Barry
Gene Barry
2009
Sen. Robert Byrd
Sen. Robert Byrd
2010
Barbara Billingsley
Barbara Billingsley
2010
Tom Bosley
Tom Bosley
2010
Roberts Blossom
Roberts Blossom
2011
Peter Breck
Peter Breck
2012
Ernest Borgnine
Ernest Borgnine
2012
Karen Black
Karen Black
2013
Richard Bull
Richard Bull
2014
Shirley Temple
Shirley Temple Black
2014
David Brenner
David Brenner
2014
Lauren Bacall
Lauren Bacall
2014
James Best
James Best
2015
Martin Brooks
Martin Brooks
2015
David Bowie
David Bowie
2016
Tony Burton
Tony Burton
2016
Peter Brown
Peter Brown
2016
Chuck Berry died 2017
Chuck Berry
2017

Lauren Bacall b. 1924 d, 2014 (stroke)
Actress – “To Have and Have Not”, “Key Largo”, “How to Marry a Millionaire” married to Humphrey Bogart

Jim Backus b. 1913 d. 1989 (pneumonia)
Actor – Thurston Howell, III on Gilligan’s Island

Pearl Bailey b. 1918. d. 1990
Singer

Lennie Baker b. 1946 d. 2016 (an infection)
Musician – 1950s music tribute group and TV show Sha-Na-Na (1969-2000)

Conrad Bain b. 1923 d. 2013 (natural causes)
Actor – Phillip Drummond in “Diff’rent Strokes”

George Balanchine b. 1904 d. 1983
Choreographer – New York City Ballet

James Baldwin b. 1924 d. 1987 (cancer)
Writer – Go Tell It On The Mountain

Lucille Ball b. 1911 d. 1989 (ruptured aorta after heart surgery)
Actress – The one and only Lucy

Florence Ballard b. 1943 d. 1976
Singer – The Supremes

Hank Ballard b. 1936 d. March 2, 2003 (throat cancer)
Singer – original artist for The Twist

Martin Balsam b. 1919 d. 1996
Actor – Murray Klein on All in the Family

Howard Baker b. 1925 d. June 26, 2014 (complications of a stroke)
Politician – Senator for Tennessee (1967–1985), Senate Majority Leader (1981–1985), White House Chief of Staff (1987–1988)

Anne Bancroft b. 1931 d. June 6, 2005 (cancer)
Actress – Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate; Anne Sullivan in the Miracle Worker

Frank Bank b. 1942 d. April 13, 2013
Actor – Clarence “Lumpy” Rutherford on “Leave It To Beaver” (1957 – ’63)

Jack Bannon b. 1940 d. Oct. 25, 2017
Actor – Art Donovan on TV show “Lou Grant” (1977-’82)

Barbaro d. January 29, 2007 (euthanized)
Kentucky Derby winner injured at Preakness

Ron Barbour b. 1928 d. August 23, 2011 (lung cancer)
Original member of The Four Freshman

Christiaan Barnard b.1923 d. September 2, 2001
Heart transplant surgeon

Mike Barnett b. 1927 d. 2016 (heart problems)
Singer – co-founder of “The Lettermen” singing group (1959)

Syd Barrett b. 1946 d. July 7, 2006 (complications of diabetes)
Musician – Founder of Pink Floyd

Gene Barry b. 1919 d. 2009 (heart failure)
Actor- had numerous series incl. Bat Masterson and Burkes Law

Jack Barry b. 1918 d. 1984 (heart attack)
Hosted Twenty One

Skye McCole Bartusiak b. 1992 d. July 19, 2014 (epileptic seizure?)
Child Actress – Mel Gibson’s daughter in The Patriot

Richard Basehart b. 1914 d. 1984 (stroke)
Actor – Adm. Harriman Nelson on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

William “Count” Basie b. 1904 d. 1984
Musician

Alan Bates b. 1934 d. December 27, 2003 (cancer)
Actor – Zorba the Greek, Gosford Park

Anne Baxter b. 1923 d. 1986 (stroke)
Actress – Eve Harrington in All about Eve

Hugh Beaumont b. 1909 d. 1982 (heart attack)
Actor – Ward Cleaver on Leave It to Beaver

Terry Becker b. 1921 d. 2014 (in his sleep)
Actor – Chief Sharkey in “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

Samuel Beckett b. 1906 d. 1989
Novelist/playwright – Waiting for Godot

Geoffrey Beene b. 1927 d. September 28 (complications of pneumonia)
Fashion designer known for sportswear and comfort

Noah L. Beery, Jr. b. 1913 d. 1994 (complications of brain surgery)
Actor – Joseph ‘Rocky’ Rockford on The Rockford Files

Menachem Begin b. 1913 d. 1992
Israeli Prime Minister signed Camp David accord in 1978

Barbara Bel Geddes b. 1922 d. August 8, 2005 (lung cancer)
Actress – Miss Ellie on Dallas

1922 d. William J. Bell b. 1927 d. April 29, 2005
Producer/writer/creator – Young and the Restless and Bold and the Beautiful

Ralph Bellamy b. 1904 d. 1991(respiratory Infection)
Actor – FDR in Winds of War

Saul Bellow b. 1915 d. April 5, 2005
Nobel Prize winning author – Humboldt’s Gift, The Adventures of Augie March

John A. Belushi b. 1949. d. 1982 (drugs)
Actor/comedian – SNL, Blues Brothers

Peter Benchley – b. 1940 d. February 12, 2006 (idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis)
Author – Jaws

Paul Benedict b. 1938 d. 2008 (actor)

Estelle Bennett b. 1941 d. February 11, 2009 (colon cancer)
Singer – the girl group The Ronettes

Jack Benny b. 1894 d. 1974 (pancreatic cancer)
Actor/comedian – The Jack Benny Show

Obie Benson b. 1937 d. July 2, 2005 (lung cancer)
Singer – The Four Tops

Lloyd Bentsen b. 1921 d. May 23, 2006
Secretary of the Treasury (under Clinton) and U.S. Senator from Texas 1971-1993

John Berardino b. May 1, 1917 d. May 19, 1996 (cancer)
Actor – Dr. Steve Hardy on General Hospital

Jan Berenstain b. 1923 d. February 24, 2012 (stroke)
Co-creator of the Berenstain Bears with husband Stan 1962

Stan Berenstain b. 1923 d. November 26, 2005
Co-creator of the Berenstain Bears with wife Jan

Polly Bergen b. 1930 d. Sept. 20, 2014
Actress/singer – Helen Morgan in “The Helen Morgan Story”, Peggy Bowden in “Cape Fear”

Ingmar Bergman b. 1918 d. July 30, 2007
Famed Swedish director – The Seventh Seal

Ingrid Bergman b. 1915 d. 1982 (breast cancer)
Actress – Ilsa Lund Laszlo in Casablanca, mother of Isabella Rosellini

Milton Berle b. 1908 d. March 27, 2002 (colon cancer)
Comedian – Texaco Star Theatre; called Uncle Miltie.

Elmer Bernstein b. 1922 d. August 18, 2004
Film Composer – Magnificent 7, Great Escape, True Grit

Leonard Bernstein b. 1918 d. 1990 (heart attack)
Composer/conductor – West Side Story

Yogi Berra b.1924 d. 2015 (natural)
Baseball player – NY Yankees most of (1946-65)

Chuck Berry b. 1926 d. 2017 (in his sleep)
Singer/Songwriter – 1950s rock & roll pioneer, “Maybellene” (1955), “Johnny B. Goode” (1958)

Fred Berry b. 1951 d. October 21, 2003 (consequences of stroke)
Actor – Fred “Rerun” Stubbs in What’s Happening

Jan Berry b. 1941 d. March 26,2004 (lingering effects of brain damage from a 1966 car crash)
Singer – half of Jan and Dean, Deadman’s Curve

Pierre Berton b. 1920 d. 2004 (heart failure)
Author – The National Dream and The Last Spike

Bibi Besch b. 1940 d. 1996 (cancer)
Actress – Dr. Marcus in Star Trek: Wrath of Khan

Ted Bessell b. 1935 d. 1996 (aortic aneurysm)
Actor – Donald Holinger in That Girl

James Best b. 1926 d. 2015 (complications of pneumonia)
Actor – Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane in “The Dukes of Hazard” (1979-1985)

Carl Betz b. 1921 d. 1978 (cancer)
Actor – Dr. Alex Stone on The Donna Reed Show

Beau Biden b. 1969 d. 2015 (brain cancer)
Politician – Attorney General of Delaware and son of Vice President Joe Biden

Richard Biggs b. 1960 d. May 22, 2004 (stroke)
Actor – Dr. Stephen Franlin on Babylon 5

Theodore Bikel b.1924 d. 2015 (natural)
Actor – Sheriff Max Muller in The Defiant Ones

Barbara Billingsley b. 1915 d. 2010
Actress – June Cleaver on “Leave It To Beaver

Whit Bissell b. 1909. d. 1996 (Parkinson’s Disease)
Character Actor

Norman Bird b. 1924 d. April 22, 2005 (cancer)
British character actor

Bill Bixby b. 1934. d. 1993 (cancer)
Actor – Dr. David Banner on the Incredible Hulk

Joey Bishop b. 1918 d. October 17, 2007
Actor, comedian – last surviving member of the Rat Pack

Karen Black b. 1939 d. Aug. 08, 2013
Actress – “Easy Rider” (1969), “Five Easy Pieces” (1970)

Shirley Temple Black b. 1928 d. Feb. 10, 2014
Actress – 1934 film “Bright Eyes” with the song “On the Good Ship Lollipop”

Harry A. Blackmun b. 1908 d. 1999
U. S. Supreme Court Justice

Otis Blackwell b. 1932 d. May 6,2002 (heart attack)
Songwriter – Don’t Be Cruel, All Shook Up, Return to Sender, Great Balls of Fire

Richard Blackwell b. 1922 d. Oct. 19, 2008 (unknown causes) fashion critic, famous for his “Worst Dressed” List

Betsy Blair b.1925 d. 2009 (cancer)
Actress – nominated for an Oscar for the movie “Marty”

Amanda Blake b. 1927 d. 1989 (AIDS, infected by husband)
Actress – Miss Kitty in Gunsmoke

Dan Blocker b. 1928 d. 1972 (pulmonary embolisim)
Actor – Hoss on Bonanza

Joan Blondell b. 1906 d. 1979 (leukemia)
Actress – Lottie Hatfield on Here Comes the Brides

Roberts Blossom b. 1924 d. 2011 (natural causes)
Actor – “old man Marley” in Home Alone

Lisa Blount b. 1957 d. 2010 (Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura)
Actress – An Officer and a Gentleman

Larry Blyden b. 1925 d. 1975 (car crash)
Host of What’s My Line

Humphrey Bogart b. 1899 d. 1957 (cancer)
Actor – Casablanca, Maltese Falcon

Ray Bolger b. 1904 d. 1987
Actor – Scarecrow in Wizard of Oz

Erma Bombeck b. 1927 d. 1996 (kidney failure)
Newspaper columnist/humorist

Ward Bond b. 1903 d. 1960 (heart attack)
Actor – Major Seth Adams in Wagon Train

Sonny Bono b. 1935 d. 1998 (skiing accident)
Congressman/Actor/Singer

Sorrell Booke b. 1930 d. 1994 (colon cancer)
Actor – Boss Hogg in Dukes of Hazzard

Richard Boone b. 1917 d. 1981 (throat cancer)
Actor – Paladin on Have Gun, Will Travel also Hec Ramsey

Billy Booth b. 1949 d. 2006 (liver disease)
Child actor – Tommy Anderson on “Dennis the Menace

Shirley Booth b. 1907 d. 1992
Actress – Hazel

Victor Borge b. 1909 d. December 23, 2000 (heart failure)
Actor/musician – The Clown Prince of Denmark

Ernest Borgnine b. 1917 d. 2012 (renal failure)
Actor – Won Academy Award for “Marty”, also in “McHales Navy” (1962-’68)

Tom Bosley b. 1927 d. 2010 (heart failure)
Actor – Howard Cunningham “Mr. C” on Happy Days

David Bowie b. 1947 d. 2016 (liver cancer)
Musician – influenced music and culture for four decades – “Fame” “Young Americans”

Tommy Boyce b. 1939 d. 1994 (suicide)
Singer / Songwriter – wrote most of the hits for the Monkees (Boyce and Hart)

Jimmy Boyd b. 1939 d. 2009 (cancer)
Singer/actor – recorded the original “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus”

Stephen Boyd b. 1928 d. 1977 (heart attack)
Actor – Messala in Ben Hur

William Boyd b. 1895 d. 1972 (heart failure complicated by Parkinsons Disease)
Actor – Hopalong Cassidy

Charles Boyer b. 1899 d. 1978 (suicide – overdosed on seconal)
Actor – Victor Velasco in Barefoot in the Park

Gregory “Pappy” Boyington b. 1912 d. 1988
WWII Ace – Baa Baa Black Sheep was about him

Peter Boyle b. 1935 d. December 12, 2006. (multiple myeloma and heart disease)
Actor – Frank Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond

Ray Bradbury b. 1920 d. June 6, 2012 (long illness)
Writer – “Martian Chronicles”, “Fahrenhart 451”

Benjamin C. Bradlee b. 1921 d. Oct. 21, 2014 (Alzheimer’s disease)
Executive Editor of The Washington Post (1968-1991), responsible for the uncovering of the Watergate scandal

Ed Bradley b. 1941 d. November 9, 2006 (leukemia)
Journalist – longtime correspondent for 60 Minutes

Omar Bradley b. 1893 d. 1981
5 Star US Army General

Tom Bradley b. 1917 d. 1998 (heart attack)
Mayor of Los Angeles

James Brady b. 1940 d. 2014
Journalist – he was White House Press Secretary and was shot in the head during an assignation attempt on President Ronald Reagan

Pat Brady b. 1914 d. 1972 (car accident)
Actor – Sidekick to Roy Rogers

Sarah Brady b. 1942 d. 2015 (pneumonia)
Crusader for gun control, wife of James Brady, the White House Press Secretary under President Reagan

Neville Brand b. 1920 d. 1992 (emphysema)
Actor and WWII hero – Reese Bennett on Laredo

Jonathan Brandis b. 1976 d. November 12, 2003 (suicide by hanging)
Actor – Lucas Wolenczak on SeaQuest DSV

Christian Brando b. 1958 d. January 26, 2008 (pneumonia)
Son of actor Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando b. 1924 d. July 1, 2004 (pulmonary fibrosis)
Actor – Oscars for On the Waterfront and Godfather

Laura Branigan b. 1952 d. August 26, 2004 (brain aneurysm)
Composer/singer – Gloria, Power of Love, Solitaire

Hugh “Lumpy” Brannum b. 1909 d. 1987
Actor – Mr. Green Jeans on Captain Kangaroo

Scott Brazil b. 1955 d. April 17, 2006 (ALS – Lou Gherig’s Disease)
Producer/director (The Shield and Hill Street Blues)

Rossano Brazzi b. Sep 18, 1919 d. Dec 24, 1994 (infection)
Actor/singer – Emile de Becque in movie South Pacific

Peter Breck b. 1929 d. February 6, 2012
Actor – Nick Barkley on “Big Valley (1965-69)

Eileen Brennan b. 1932 d. July 28, 2013 (bladder cancer)
Actress – Doreen Lewis the mean Captain in Private Benjamin

Walter Brennan b. 1894 d. 1974 (emphysema)
Actor – Grandpa Amos McCoy on The Real McCoys

William Joseph Brennan, Jr. b. 1906 d. 1997
U.S. Supreme Court Justice

David Brenner b. 1936 d. Mar. 15, 2014 (cancer)
Comedian – the most frequent guest on Johnny Carson’s “The Tonight Show”

Teresa Brewer b. d. October 17, 2007 (neuromuscular disease)
Singer – Music! Music! Music!

Lloyd Bridges b 1913 d. 1998
Actor – Mike Nelson on Sea Hunt, father of Beau, Jeff and Cindy

Richard Bright b. 1937 d. February 18, 2006 (run over by a bus)
Actor – Al Neri in the The Godfather films

Paul Brinegar b.1917 d. 1995
Actor – Wishbone on Rawhide

David Brinkley b. 1920 d. June 11, 2003 (complications from a fall)
Journalist – At NBC, the Huntley Brinkley Report and at ABC, This Week with David Brinkley

Albert “Cubby” Broccoli b. 1909 d. 1996
Producer – James Bond Films

Charles Bronson b. 1921 d. August 30, 2003 (pneumonia)
Actor – Magnificent Seven, Dirty Dozen and the Great Escape

Foster Brooks b.1912 d. 2001 (heart failure)
Comedian – fairly regular on The Dean Martin Show

Martin E. Brooks b. 1925 d. 2015 (natural)
Actor – Dr. Rudy Wells in “The Six Million Dollar Man

Dr Joyce Brothers b. 1927 d. 2013
Psychologist – syndicated advice columnist (1960-2013), radio and television personality

Bobbi Kristina Brown b. 1993 d. 2015 (od in a bathtub exactly like her mother)
Singer – only child of Whitney Houston

Edmund G. “Pat” Brown b. 1905 d. 1996 (heart attack)
Former Governor of California, and the father of Jerry Brown

Helen Gurley Brown b. 1922 d. August 13, 2012
Author, Publisher – Editor of Cosompolitan Magazine (1965 -’97)

James Brown b. 1933 d. December 25, 2006 (congestive heart failure)
Godfather of Soul – “I Got You (I Feel Good)”

James Brown b. 1920 d. 1992 (lung cancer)
Actor – Lt. Rip Masters on Rin Tin Tin

Jim Ed Brown b. 1934 d. 2015 (lung cancer)
C&W Performer – “Looking Back To See”, “Pop a Top”

Peter Brown b. 1935 d. 2016 (Parkinson’s disease)
Actor – Deputy Johnny McKay in “Lawman” (1958-62) and Chad Cooper in “Laredo” (1965-67)

Lenny Bruce b. 1925 d. 1966 (drugs)
Comedian

Les Brown b. 1912 d. January 4, 2001 (lung cancer)
Composer/bandleader

Jack Bruce b. 1943 d. 2014 (liver disease)
Musician – bass guitarist, for the group Cream (1966-68)

Yul Brynner b. 1920 d. 1985 (lung cancer)
Actor – The King and I

Edgar Buchanan b. 1903 d. 1979
Actor – Uncle Joe on Petticoat Junction

Navy Cmdr. Lloyd “Pete” Bucher b. 1927 d. January 28, 2004
Commander of spy ship USS Pueblo

Art Buchwald b. 1925 d. January 17, 2007 (kidney failure)
Columnist for the Washington Post

William F. Buckley b. 1925 d. February 27, 2008
Author and conservative commentator

Richard Bull b. 1924 d. Feb. 3, 2014
Actor – Mr. Oleson on “Little House on the Prairie”

William Bundy b. 1917 d. 2000 (heart failure)
Advisor to JFK and LBJ – big supporter of war in Vietnam

Warren Earl Burger b. 1907 d. 1995 (heart failure)
U.S. Supreme Court Justice

Billie Burke b. 1884 d. 1970
Actress – The Good Witch in Wizard of Oz

Paul Burke b. 1926 d. 2009 (lukemia)
Actor – Twelve O’Clock High and Naked City

George Burns b. January 20, 1896 d. March 9, 1996
Actor/Comedian – Straight man to wife Gracie Allen

Raymond Burr b. 1917 d. 1993 (liver cancer)
Actor – Perry Mason, Ironside

Richard Burton b. 1925 d. 1984 (brain hemorrhage)
Actor – King Arthur of Camelot

Tony Burton b. 1935 d. 2016 (pneumonia)
Actor – boxing trainer to Apollo Creed and later Rocky in six “Rocky” movies

Jerry Buss b. 1933 d. 2013 (cancer)
Owner of the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team

Pat Buttram b. 1915 d. 1994 (kidney failure)
Actor/comedian – Mister Eustace Charleton Haney on Green Acres

Spring Byington b. 1893 d. 1971(cancer)
Actress – Lily Ruskin on December Bride

Sen. Robert Byrd b. 1933 d. 2010 (natural causes)
Democratic Senator from W Virginia, was the longest serving U.S. Senator (1948-1965)

Sen. Harry F. Byrd, Jr. b. 1914 d. 2013 (natural)
Politician – U.S. Senator from Virginia (1965-1983), took over his Father’s seat

Edd Byrnes – b. 1932 d. 2020 (natural)
Actor – played Kookie on “77 Sunset Strip” also had a hit song “Kookie, Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb)” with Connie Stevens

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Chuck Connors
Chuck Connors
1992
John Candy
John Candy
1994
John Chancellor
John Chancellor
1996
Rory Calhoun
Rory Calhoun
1999
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
2003
Grdon Cooper
Gordon Cooper
2004
Johnny Carson
Johnny Carson
2005
Johnnie Cochran
Johnnie Cochran
2005
Darlene Conley
Darlene Conley
2007
Kitty Carlisle
Kitty Carlisle (Hart)
2007
George Carlin
George
Carlin
2008
Cyd Charisse
Cyd
Charisse
2008
David Carradine Died
David Carradine
2009
Walter Cronkite - Celebrity Deaths C
Walter Cronkite
2009
Robert Culp
Robert Culp
2010
Dixie Carter
Dixie Carter
2010
Gary Coleman
Gary Coleman
2010
Tony Curtis
Tony Curtis
2010
Stephen J Cannell
Stephen J Cannell
2010
Jill Clayburgh
Jill Clayburgh
2010
Charlie Callas
Charlie Callas
2011
Jackie Cooper
Jackie Cooper
2011
Jeff Conaway
Jeff Conaway
2011
Linda Christian
Linda Christian
2011
Annette Charles
Annette Charles
2011
Dick Clark
Dick Clark
2012
Gary Collins
Gary Collins
2012
Sid Caesar
Sid Caesar
2014
Mohamed Ali passed away
Cassius Clay
2016
Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro
2016
Mike Connors 2017 celebrity death
Mike Connors
2017
Robert Conrad Celebrity death 2020
Robert Conrad
2020

Sebastian Cabot b. 1918. d. 1977
(stroke) Actor – Mr. French on Family Affair

Dr.Robert Cade b. 1927 d. November 27, 2007 (kidney disease)
Univ. of Florida (Gator’s) researcher who invented Gatorade in 1965

Frank Cady b. 1915 d. 2012 (natural)
Actor – Sam Drucker on “Green Acres” (1965 – ’71)

Sid Caesar b. 1922 d. Feb. 12, 2014
Comedian – “Your Show of Shows” and “Caesar’s Hour”

James Cagney b. 1899 d. 1986 (heart attack/diabetes)
Actor – The Yankee Doodle Dandy

Rory Calhoun b. 1922 d. 1999 (diabetes and emphysema)
Actor – Bill Longely on The Texan

Charlie Callas b. 1927 d. 2011 (natural)
Comedian, frequently appeared with Jerry Lewis

Cab Calloway b. 1907 d. 1994 (stroke)
Jazz musician

David Canary b. 1938 d. 2015 (natural)
Actor – Candy on Bonanza (1967-73)

John Candy b. 1950 d. 1994 (heart attack)
Actor – Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Mary Grace Canfield b. 1924 d. Feb. 15, 2014 (lung cancer)
Actress – Ralph Monroe the carpenter on Green Acres

Stephen J Cannell b. 1941 d. 2010 (melanoma)
Screen Writer, Producer, Novelist – wrote or produced over 40 TV shows incl. Silk Stockings, Rockford files, A-Team

J.D. Cannon b. 1922 d. May 20, 2005
Actor – NYPD Chief Peter Clifford on McCloud

Truman Capote b. 1924 d. 1984 (disputed)
Writer – In Cold Blood, Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Alfred ‘Al’ Capp b. 1909. d. 1979
Cartoonist

Frank Capra b. 1897 d. 1991
Director – It’s a Wonderful Life and others

MacDonald Carey b. 1913 d. 1994 (cancer)
Actor – Dr. Tom Horton on Days of Our Lives

Harry Carey Jr. b. 1921 d. 2012
Actor – character actor in John Ford and Howard Hawks westerns and a regular on “Spin & Marty”

Ron Carey b. 1935 d. January 16, 2007 (stroke)
Actor – Ofc. Carl Levitt on Barney Miller

George Carlin b. 1937 d. 2008
Comedian – known for “off color language”

Kitty Carlisle (Hart) b. 1910 d. April 17, 2007 (pneumonia)
Actress – To Tell the Truth

Hoagy Carmichael b. 1899 d. 1981
Actor

Judy Carne b. 1939 d. 2015 (pneumonia)
Actress – the “sock-it-to-me” girl on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In (1968-70)

Art Carney b. 1918 d. November 9, 2003
Actor – Ed Norton on the Honeymooners

Karen Anne Carpenter b. 1950 d. 1983 (heart failure resulting from years of anorexia)
Singer – The Carpenters, “We’ve Only Just Begun”

Charmian Carr b. 1942 d. 2016 (complications of dementia)
Actress – Liesl Von Trapp (eldest daughter) in The Sound of Music (1965)

David Carradine b. 1936 d. 2009 (circumstantial/accident)
Actor – best known for role in “Kung Fu” tv series and “Kill Bill” movies

Leo Carrillo b. 1881 d. 1961(cancer)
Actor – Pancho in the Cisco Kid

Janet Carroll b. 1940 d. 2012
Actress – Tom Cruises’s mother in “Risky Business”

Leo G. Carroll b. 1892 d. 1972 (pneumonia and cancer)
Actor – Cosmo Topper

Johnny Carson b. 1925 d, January 23, 2005 (emphysema)
King of Late Night TV – Host of the Tonight Show for nearly 30 years

Billy Carter b. 1937 d. 1988 (pancreatic cancer)
Brother of President Jimmy Carter

Dixie Carter b. 1939 d. April 10, 2010 (endometrial cancer)
Actress – Julia Sugarbaker on Designing Women for 7 years

Nell Carter b. 9/13/1948 d. January 23, 2003 (heart disease complicated by diabetes)
Actress – Nell Harper in Gimme a Break!

Rubin “Hurricane” Carter b. 1937 d. April 20, 2014 (colon cancer)
Boxer – Pro boxer who was wrongly jailed for 20 years, a song was written about his case

Barbara Cartland b. 1901 d. 2000
Romance novel writer

Johnny Cash – b. 1932 d. September 12, 2003 (complications of diabetes)
Singer – “Ring of Fire” and “I Walk the Line.” Wife, June (below.)

June Carter Cash b. 1929 d. May 15, 2003 (complications after heart surgery)
Singer/actress – wife of Johnny Cash and composer of “Ring of Fire”

Peggy Cass b. 1924 d. 1999 (heart failure)
Actress/panelist – To Tell the Truth

John Cassavetes b. 1929 d. 1989 (cirrhosis of the liver)
Actor/director – Victor Franko in The Dirty Dozen

David Cassidy b. 1950 d. 2017 (early onset dementia)
Actor/Singer – portrayed Keith Partridge in TV series “The Partridge Family” (1970-74)

Jack Cassidy b. 1927 d. 1976 (fire – fell asleep smoking in living room, couch ignited)
Actor – father of Shawn and David Cassidy

Fidel Castro b. 1926 d. 2016
Dictator – Prime Minister then President of Cuba from 1959-2008 then gave same powers to his brother

Joan Caulfield b. 1922. d. 1991(cancer)
Actress – “Dear Ruth”

Christine Cavanaugh b. 1963 d. 2014
Voice actress – voiced Babe in “Babe”

Eugene Cernan b. 1934 d. 2017
NASA astronaut – Gemini 9A (1966), Apollo 10 (1969), Apollo 17 (1972) last man to walk on the moon

Roger Chaffee b. 1935 d. 1967 (Killed when their Apollo 1 command module had a flash fire on the pad)
Astronaut

Wilt Chamberlain b. 1936 d. 1999 (heart attack)
Basketball player and self-professed stud

John Chancellor b. 1927 d. 1996 (cancer)
Journalist

Harry Chapin b. 1942 d. 1981(car accident)
Musician – Cat’s in the Cradle

Cyd Charisse b. 1922 d. 2008 (heart failure)
Dancer – Singing in the Rain

Annette Charles b. 1948 d. 2011 (lung cancer)
Actress – Cha Cha in Grease (1978)

Ray Charles b. 1918 d. June 10, 2004 (liver disease)
Composer/singer – Georgia on my Mind

Paddy Chayefsky b. 1923 d. 1981(cancer)
Director

John Cheever b. 1912 d. 1982
Writer – Falconer

Maurice Chevalier b. 1888. d. 1972 (cardiac arrest after surgery)
Actor – Honore Lachaille in GiGi

Chiang Kai-shek b. 1887 d. 1975 (heart attack)
Taiwan president – China’s only elected president in 1948

Julia Child b. 1912 d. August 12, 2004
Gourmet author – Known for “Bon Appetite”

Alex Chilton b. 1950 d. 2010 (heart attack)
musician had hit “The Letter” with the Box Tops in the 60’s

Linda Christian b. 1923 d. 2011 (colon cancer)
Actress – played the first Bond girl also married to Tyrone Power

Virginia Christine b. 1920 d. 1996 (heart disease)
Actress – Mrs. Olson in the Folger’s Coffee television commercials

Warren Christopher b. 1925 d. 2011 (kidney and bladder cancer)
Secretary of State during Pres. Clintons Administration

William Christopher b. 1932 d. 2016 (small-cell carcinoma)
Actor – Father Mulcahy on TV show M*A*S*H

Winston Churchill b. 1874 d. 1965
British Prime Minister and statesman

Craig Claiborne b. 1920 d. 2000
Writer – Food books and the NY Times

Liz Claiborne b. 1929 d. June 26, 2007 (cancer)
Famed fashion designer

Tom Clancy b. 1947 d. Oct. 1, 2013
Author – “The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games”

Dick Clark b. 1929 d. April 18, 2012 (massive heart attack)
Host of American Bandstand 1957 – 1987 also New Year’s Rockin’ Eve 1972 – 2011

Tom Campbell Clark b. 1899 d. 1977
U. S. Supreme Court Justice

Arthur C. Clarke b. 1917 d. March 18, 2008 (post-polio syndrome)
Writer – 2001: A Space Odyssey

Cassius Clay b. 1942 d. 2016 (Parkinson Disease)
Professional Boxer – (Mohamed Ali) three time heavyweight champion (1964, 1974, and 1978), proclaimed “The Greatest”

Jill Clayburgh b. 1944 d. 2010 (Leukemia)
Actress – “An Unmarried Woman”, “Starting Over”

Jan Clayton b. 1917 d. 1983
Actress – Lassie

Eldridge Cleaver b. 1935 d. 1998 (heart attack)
Militant Black Panther and activist

Roberto Clemente b. 1934 d. 1972 (Plane crash while delivering relief supplies to earthquake-ravaged Nicaragua)
Baseball Hall of Fame

Clarence Clemons b. 1942 d. 2011 (stroke)
Musician – Saxophone player and earliest member of Bruce Springsteens E Street Band

Clark Clifford b. 1906 d. 1998
Lawyer/DC insider

Montgomery Clift b. 1920 d. 1966 (heart attack)
Actor – Perce Howland in the Misfits

Patsy Cline b. 1932 d. 1963 (plane crash)
Singer and country music pioneer

Rosemary Clooney b. 1928 d. June 29, 2002
Singer/Actress – aunt of George Clooney; with Bing Crosby in White Christmas

Lee J. Cobb b. 1911 d. 1976
Actor – Judge Henry Garth on the Virginian

James Coburn b. 1928 d. November 18, 2002 (heart attack)
Actor – Magnificent 7, Affliction

Imogene Coca b.1908 d. June 2, 2001
Actress – co-star with Sid Caesar on Your Show of Shows

Eddie Cochran b. 1938 d. 1960 (car crash)
Musician – Summertime Blues

Johnnie Cochran b. 1937 d. March 29, 2005 (brain tumor)
Famed attorney who represented O.J. Simpson

Joe Cocker b. 1944 d. 2014 (lung cancer)
Singer – sang “With a Little Help from My Friends” at Woodstock

Iron Eyes Cody b. 1907 d. 1999
Actor – Native American who shed tear in environmental ads

Tristam Coffin b. 1909 d. 1990 (lung cancer)
Actor – Captain Tom Rynning on 26 Men

Leonard Cohen b. 1934 d. 2016 (in his sleep)
Poet / Songwriter – “Suzanne”, “Hallelujah” and “Bird on the Wire”

Claudette Colbert b. 1903 d. 1996 (stroke)
Actress – It Happened One Night

Nat ‘King’ Cole b. 1919 d. 1965 (lung cancer)
Singer – Unforgettable

Natalie Cole b. 1950 d. 2015 (congestive heart failure)
Singer – Daughter of Nat King Cole, sang “Unforgettable”

Gary Coleman b. 1968 d. 2010 (inter cranial hemorrhage)
Actor – Arnold Jackson on “Different Strokes

John Colicos b. 1928 d. 2000 (heart attack)
Actor – Baltar on Battlestar Gallactica

Gary Collins b. 1938 d. 2012
Actor – The Sixth Sense (1972), The Wackiest Ship in the Army” (1965-66)

Jackie Collins b. 1937 d. 2015 (breast cancer)
Novelist – Hollywood Wives (1983)

Bud Collyer b.1908 d. 1969
Game show host – To Tell the Truth

Alex Comfort b. 1919 d. 2000 (strokes)
Writer – Joy of Sex

Perry Como b. 1912 d. 5/12/2001
Singer – Catch a Falling Star

Jeff Conaway b. 1950 d. 2011 (pneumonia & sepsis)
Actor – Kenickie in “Grease” and Zack Allan on “Babylon 5”

Darlene Conley b. 1934 d. January 14, 2007 (stomach cancer)
Actress – Sally Spectra on Bold and the Beautiful

Joe Conley b. 1928 d. July 07, 2013
Ike Godsey the storekeeper on “The Waltons”

John B. Connally b. 1917 d. 1993
Texas Governor wounded in Dallas Nov. 22, 1963

Nellie Connally b. 1919 d. September 1, 2006
Wife of former Texas Governor John B. Connally

Chuck Connors b. 1921 d. 1992 (lung cancer)
Actor – Lucas McCain on The Rifleman

Mike Connors b. 1925 d. 2017 (leukemia)
Actor – Joe Mannix in TV show “Mannix” (1967-1975)

Charles Pete Conrad, Jr. b. 1930 d. 1999 (motorcycle accident)
Astronaut, third man to walk on the moon

Michael Conrad b. 1925 d. 1983 (urethral cancer)
Actor – Sgt. Phil Esterhauser in Hill Street Blues

Robert Conrad b.1935 d.2020 (heart failure)
Actor/stuntman/producer – played James West in TV Western “The Wild Wild West” (1965-’69) and Pappy Boyington in TV show “Baa Baa Black Sheep” (1976-’78)

William Conrad b. 1920 d. 1994 (heart attack)
Actor – Jake and the Fat Man also Cannon

Bert Convy b. 1933 d. 1991(cancer)
Actor/host – Win, Lose or Draw

Pat Conway b. 1931 d. 1981
Actor – Sheriff Clay Hollister on Tombstone Territory

Alistair Cooke b. 1908 d. March 30, 2004
Broadcaster – Letter from America

Jackie Coogan b. 1914 d. 1984 (cardiac arrest)
Actor – Uncle Fester in the Addams Family

Sam Cooke b. 1931 d. 1964 (shooting)
Singer – Wonderful World

Gary Cooper b. 1901 d. 1961(cancer)
Actor – Will Kane in High Noon

Gordon Cooper b. 1927 d. October 4, 2004
Astronaut – One of the original Mercury 7

Jackie Cooper b. 1922 d. 2011 (short illness)
Actor, Director, Producer – Perry White on originl Superman movies

Jeanne Cooper b. 1928 d. 2013
Actress – Katherine Chancellor on the soap opera “The Young and the Restless” (1973–2013)

Aaron Copland b. 1900 d. 1990 (Alzheimer’s disease)
Composer – Fanfare for the Common Man

Ellen Corby b. 1911 d. 1999
Actress – Grandma Walton on the Waltons

Kevin Corcoran b. 1949 d. 2015 (colorectal cancer)
Actor – Old Yeller and Spin & Marty

Don Cornelius b. 1936 d. February 01, 2012 (suicide – gunshot to the head)
TV host & producer – “Soul Train” creator and host

Charles Correll b. 1890 d. 1972
Actor – Andy of Amos and Andy

Douglas “Wrong Way” Corrigan b. 1907 d. 1995
Flew to Ireland instead of the West coast of US

Howard Cosell b 1918 d. 1995 (heart aneurysm)
Sports announcer

Lou Costello b. 1906 d. 1959 (heart attack)
Half of Abbott and Costello

Joseph Cotten b. 1905 d. 1994 (pneumonia)
Actor – Jedidiah Leland in Citizen Kane

Jacques-Yves Cousteau b. 1910 d. 1997 (heart attack)
Oceanographer

Sir Noel Coward b. 1899 d. 1973 (heart attack)
Playwright

William Cowsill b. 1948 d. February 18, 2006 (emphysema, osteoporosis, and other ailments)
Singer – The Cowsills, the band that inspired the TV series “The Partridge Family”

Archibald Cox b. 1912 d. May 29, 2004
Lawyer – Special Prosecutor, Watergate, fired in “Saturday Night Massacre” by Nixon

Wally Cox b. 1924 d. 1973 (heart attack)
Actor – Mr. Peepers

Buster Crabbe b. 1908 d. 1983
Actor – Tarzan

Yvonne Craig b. 1937 d. Aug. 17, 2015 (metastatic breast cancer)
Actress / Dancer – Batgirl and Barbara Gordon in Batman (1967-68)

Jeanne Crain b.1925 d. December 14, 2003 (heart attack)
Actress – “State Fair” and “Pinky”

Bob Crane b. 1928 d. 1978 (murdered)
Actor – Col. Robert Hogan on Hogan’s Heroes

Richard Crane b. 1918 d. 1969 (heart attack)
Actor – Rocky Jones, Space Ranger

Alan Cranston b. 1914 d. December 31, 2000
US Senator from California 1969 – 1993

Broderick Crawford b. 1911 d. 1986 (stroke)
Actor – Chief Dan Mathews on Highway Patrol

Joan Crawford b. 1904 d. 1977 (cancer)
Actress – also known as Mommie Dearest

Richard Crenna b. 1927 d. January 17, 2003 (pancreatic cancer)
Actor – Real McCoys and Rambo

Bob Crewe b. 1931 d. Sept. 11, 2014
Songwriter/singer/music producer – wrote and produced many of The Four Seasons hits

Francis Crick b.1916 d. July 28, 2004 (cancer)
Nobel Prize for Medicine – With Watson, revealed the structure of DNA

Judith Crist b. 1922 d. 2012
Film Criic and Author – Today Show Critic (1964 – ’73)

Jim Croce b. 1943 d. 1973 (plane crash)
Musician – Time in a Bottle

Walter Cronkite b. 1916 d. 2009 (cerebrovascular disease)
Broadcast Journalist – Anchored the CBS Evening News from 1962 to 1981,he was considered an American icon

Hume Cronyn b. 1911 d. June 15, 2003 (prostate cancer)
Actor – Cocoon, husband of 52 years to Jessica Tandy

Bing Crosby b. 1904 d. 1977 (heart attack)
Singer/actor – Jim Hardy in Holiday Inn

Gary Evan Crosby b. 1933 d. 1995 (cancer)
Actor – Bing’s Son

Scatman Crothers b. 1910 d. 1986 (lung cancer)
Actor – Dick Hallorann in the Shining

Suzanne Crough b. 1963 d. 2015
Actress – Tracy Partridge on “The Partridge Family

George Cukor b. 1899 d. 1983
Director – My Fair Lady

Bill Cullen b. 1920 d. 1990 (lung cancer)
Host – The Price is Right, Name That Tune, Joker’s Wild

Robert Culp b. 1930 d. 2010 (head trauma)
played opposite Bill Cosby on “I Spy

Bob Cummings b. 1908. d. 1990
Actor – Love That Bob

Mario Cuomo b.1932 d. 2015 (heart failure)
Politician – Former Governor of New York from 1983 to 1994

Peter Cushing b. 1913 d. 1994 (cancer)
Actor – played both Frankenstein and Sherlock Holmes

Ken Curtis d. 1991 b. 1916
Actor – Festus on Gunsmoke

Tony Curtis b. 1925 d. 2010 (cardiac arrest)
Actor – did comedies and serious , film and stage, “Some Like It Hot”

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James Dean - celebrity deaths D
James Dean
1955
Bette Davis
Bette Davis
1989
Gail Davis
Gail Davis
1997
John Denver
John Denver
1997
Rodney Dangerfield
Rodney Dangerfield
2004
Ossie Davis
Ossie Davis
2005
Celebrity Death - Sandra Dee
Sandra Dee
2005
James Doohan
James Doohan
2005
Bob Denver
Bob Denver
2005
Mike Douglas dies
Mike Douglas
2006
Bo Diddley
Bo Diddley
2008
Dom deluise
Dom Deluise
2009
Jimmy Dean
Jimmy Dean
2009
John Dye
John Dye
2011
Richard Dawson
Richard Dawson
2012
Phyllis Diller
Phyllis Diller
2012
michael clarke duncan
Michael Clarke Duncan
2012
Charles Durning
Charles Durning
2012
Donna Douglas
Donna Douglas
2015
Larry Drake
Larry Drake
2016
Patty Duke
Patty Duke
2016
Fats Domino died 2017
Fats Domino
2017
Celebrity Death 2020 Kirk Douglas
Kirk Douglas
2020
Hugh Downs legendary broadcaster died in 2020
Hugh Downs
2020

Richard Daley b. 1902 d. 1976 (heart attack)
Mayor of Chicago

Paul Dana b. 1976 d. March 26, 2006 (warmup session crash)
IRL race car driver – Rahal Letterman Racing team

Dorothy Jean Dandridge b. 1922 d. 1965 (possible bone fragment poisoning from fractured ankle)
Singer

Rodney Dangerfield b. 1921 d. October 5, 2004 (complications of heart surgery)
Comedian – I don’t get no respect!

Royal Dano b. 1922 d. 1994 (heart attack)
Character Actor

Ray Danton b. 1931 d. 1992 (kidney disease)
Actor – Nifty Cronin on the Alaskans

Bobby Darin b. 1936 d. 1973 (heart disease)
Singer/Actor – Mack the Knife

Linda Darnell b. 1924 d. 1965 (died running back into a burning house to save others)
Actress – Star Dust

Sam Dash b. 1925 d. May 29, 2004
Lawyer/Politician – chief counsel for the Senate Watergate Committee

Hal David b. 1921 d. Sept. 1, 2012 (stroke)
Lyricist – with partner Burt Bacharach “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head”

Ann B. Davis b.1926 d. June 01, 2014 (Subdural hematoma)
Actress – Schultzy in “The Bob Cummings Show” (1955-59) and Alice in “The Brady Bunch” (1969-74)

Beryl Davis b. 1924 d. 2011 (Alzheimer’s disease)
Singer- Benny Goodman,and Four Girls singing group

Bette Davis b. 1908 d. 1989 (breast cancer)
Actress – All About Eve

Brad Davis b. 1949 d. 1991 (AIDS)
Actor – Robert Kennedy in Robert Kennedy and His Times

Gail Davis b. 1925 d. 1997 (cancer)
Actress – Annie Oakley

Jim Davis b. 1915 d. 1981(complications from surgery for a perforated ulcer)
Actor – Jock Ewing on Dallas

Joan Davis b. 1912 d. 1961(heart attack)
Actress – I Married Joan

Miles Davis b. 1926 d. 1991(pneumonia and stroke)
Musician

Ossie Davis b. 1917 d. February 4, 2005
Actor, humanitarian – husband of Ruby Dee; Roots, The Stand, Do the Right Thing

Priscilla Davis b.1942 d. February 19, 2001 (breast cancer)
Dallas socialite shot in 1976. Ex-husband T. Cullen Davis was acquitted of the crime.

Sammy Davis, Jr. b. 1925 d. 1990 (throat cancer)
Entertainer and member of the Rat Pack

Skeeter Davis b. 1931 d. September 19, 2004 (breast cancer)
Singer – Grand Ole Opry; song – End of the World

Richard Dawson b. 1932 d. June 2, 2012 (esophageal cancer)
Actor – Host of “Family Feud” (1976-1985), Hogans Heroes

James Dean b. 1931 d. 1955 (car crash)
Actor – Rebel Without a Cause

Jimmy Dean b. 1928 d. 2010 (natural)
Singer, Businessman – “Big Bad John”, also founder Jimmy Dean Sausage

Michael Deaver b. 1938 d. August 18, 2007 (pancreatic cancer)
Close advisor to President Ronald Reagan

Rosemary DeCamp b.1910 d. February 20, 2001(complications of pneumonia)
Actress – Margaret MacDonald on The Bob Cummings Show

Yvonne De Carlo b. 1922 d. January 8, 2007
Actress – Lily on the Munsters

Jeanine Decker b. 1933 d. 1985 (drug and alcohol overdose)
The Singing Nun – Dominique

Fred de Cordova b. 1910 d. September 15, 2001
Producer/director – The Tonight Show, also Burns and Allen, Jack Benny Show, My Three Sons

Ruby Dee b. 1922 d. June 11, 2014 (natural)
Actress / playwright – “A Raisin in the Sun” (1961) also civil rights activist, married to Ossie Davis

Sandra Dee b. 1942 d. February 20, 2005 (kidney failure and pneumonia)
Actress – Gidget and Tammy;Married to Bobby Darin 1960-1967

Gloria DeHaven b. 1925 d 2016 (in her sleep)
Actress/Singer – “So This Is Paris”, “The Girl Rush”

Dino De Laurentiis b. 1919 d. 2010 (natural)
Producer – Serpico, King Kong, Barbarella and many Italian films

John DeLorean b. 1925 d. March 19, 2005 (complications from a stroke)
Launched DeLorean Motor Corp., made time-traveling vehicle for “Back to the Future” films

Brad Delp b. 1951 d. March 9, 2007 (suicide)
Lead singer of Boston – More Than a Feeling and Long Time

Dom DeLuise b. 1933 d. May 4, 2009 (cancer)
Actor/Comedian/chef, best known for comedy films

William Demarest b. 1892 d. 1983 (heart attack)
Actor – Uncle Charlie in My Three Sons

Richard Denning b. 1914 d. 1998 (cardiac arrest)
Actor – the Governor in Hawaii Five-O

Sandy Dennis b. 1937 d. 1992 (ovarian cancer)
Actress – Honey in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Bob Denver b. 1935 d. September 2, 2005 (cancer & heart problems)
Actor – Maynard G. Krebs on “Many Loves of Dobie Gillis” and Gilligan on “Gilligan’s Island,”

John Denver b. 1943 d. 1997 (plane crash)
Musician and environmental activist

Albert DeSalvo b. 1931 d. 1973 (stabbed to death by inmates)
The Boston Strangler

Johnny Desmond b. 1919 d. 1985
Actor – Jim Kendall in Sally

Andy Devine b. 1905 d. 1977 (heart attack)
Actor – Andy’s Gang and Wild Bill Hickock

Colleen Dewhurst d. 1991 b. 1926
Actress – twice married to George C. Scott

Brandon DeWilde b. 1942 d. 1972 (car accident)
Actor – Joey Starrett in Shane

Selma Diamond b. 1920 d. 1985 (cancer)
Actress – Baliff Selma Hacker in Night Court

Little Jimmy Dickens b. 1920 d. 2015 (cardiac arrest)
C&W Musician – biggest hit, “May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose”

Nancy Dickerson b. 1927 d. 1997 (stroke/heart attack)
Journalist

James Dickey b. 1923 d. 1997 (lung disease)
Writer – Deliverance

Bo Diddley b.1928 d. 2008
(real name Ellas McDaniel) was a behind the scenes influence on most of early rock & roll

Marlene Dietrich b. 1901 d. 1992
Singer/actress – Destry Rides Again

Phyllis Diller b.1917 d. 2012
Comedienne / TV Personality – known for her wild hair, long cigarette holder and self-deprecating humor

Joe DiMaggio b. 1914. d. 1999 (lung cancer)
Baseball Player and husband of Marilyn Monroe

Emilie Dionne b. 1934 d.1954
One of famed Dionne quintuplets

Marie Dionne b. 1934 d.1970
One of famed Dionne quintuplets

Yvonne Dionne b. 1934 d. 2001
One of famed Dionne quintuplets

Walt Disney b. 1901 d. 1966
Entertainment Genius

Jeanne Dixon b. 1918 d. 1997 (heart attack)
Astrologer

Larry Doby b. 1924 d. June 18, 2003
Baseball Hall of Famer – Cleveland Indians,Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers

Jimmie W. Dodd b. 1910 d. 1964
Head Mousketeer

Denny Doherty b. 1940 d. January 19, 2007 (kidney problems after surgery)
Singer – Mamas and the Papas

Fats Domino b. 1928 d. Oct. 25, 2017 (natural)
Singer/Songwriter – “Ain’t That a Shame” (1955), “Blueberry Hill” (1956), he sold over 65 million records

Troy Donahue b. 1936 d. September 2, 2001 (heart attack)
Actor – A Summer Place and Surfside Six

James Doohan b. 1920 d. July 20, 2005 (Alzheimers and pneumonia)
Actor – Commander Montgomery “Scotty” Scott on Star Trek

James “Jimmy” Doolittle b. 1896 d. 1993
Aviator, Medal of Honor Winner

Donna Douglas b. 1933 d. 2015 (pancreatic cancer)
Actress – Elly May Clampett on “The Beverly Hillbillies

Kirk Douglas b.1916 d. 2020
Actor/producer/director/author – appeared in over 90 films here are a few of his movies “Champion” (1949), “Bad & the Beautiful” (1952), “Lust for Life” (1956); his awards are too numerous to list so please click here for the list

Marjory Stoneman Douglas b. 1890 d. 1998
Environmentalist, writer – “First Lady of the Everglades”

Mike Douglas b. August 11, 1925 d. August 11, 2006
Singer and talk show host – The Mike Douglas Show

Hugh Downs b. 1921 d. 2020
Radio and television broadcaster/announcer/host/news anchor

Joe Dowell b. 1940 d. 2016 (heart attack)
Pop Singer – #1 hit song “Wooden Heart” (1961)

Morton Downey Jr. b. 1933 d. March 12, 2001 (lung cancer, respiratory problems)
Talk show host – Mort the Mouth

Jerry Doyle b. 1956 d. 2016 (unknown)
Actor – Michael Garibaldi in Babylon 5 (1994–98)

Larry Drake b. 1950 d. 2016
Actor – Benny Stulwicz on L.A. Law (1987-1994)

Allen Drury b. 1918 d. 1998 (heart failure)
Lawyer/writer – Advise and Consent

James Drury b. 1934 d. 2020 (natural)
Actor – had the title role in TV show “The Virginian” as the ranch foreman (1962-’71)

Peter Duel b. 1940 d. 1971(suicide)
Actor – Hannibal Heyes Alias Smith and Jones

Howard Duff b. 1913 d. 1990 (heart attack)
Actor – Married to Ida Lupino

Andrew Duggan b. 1923 d. 1988 (cancer)
Actor – Bourbon Street Beat and Lancer

Patty Duke b. 1946 d. 2016 (sepsis from a ruptured intestine)
Actress – played identical cousins in “The Patty Duke Show” (1963-1966)

David Dukes b. 1945 d. 2000 (heart attack)
Actor – Dr. Wade Halsey on Sisters

Michael Clarke Duncan b. 1957 d. 2012 (complications from a heart attack)
Actor – “Armageddon”, “The Green Mile”

Michael Dunn b.1934 d. 1973 (suicide)
Actor – Dr. Miguelito Loveless on Wild Wild West

Irene Dunne b. 1898 d. 1990 (heart attack)
Actress – nominated five times for Academy Award for Best Actress

Ryan Dunn b. 1977 d. 2011 (alcohol related car accident)
did stupid stunts in the “Jackass” TV series and movies

John Gregory Dunne b. 1932 d. December 30, 2003 (heart attack)
Writer – husband of Joan Didion, brother of Dominick Dunne

Jimmy Durante b. 1893 d. 1980
Entertainer

Deanna Durbin b. 1921 d. 2013
Actress/Singer – Christmas Holiday (1944)

Charles Durning b. 1923 d. 2012 (natural causes)
Actor – “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas”, “Tootsie”

Leo “The Lip” Durocher b. 1905 d. 1991
Baseball Manager

Dan Duryea b. 1907 d. 1968 (cancer)
Actor – China Smith

John Dye b. 1963 d. 2011 (heart attack)
Actor – Andrew the Angel of Death on “Touched By An Angel

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Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
1955
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Dwight Eisenhower
1969
Mama Cass Elliott
Cass Elliott
1974
Dale Evans
Dale Evans
2001
Leif Erickson
Leif Erickson
1986
Dale Earnhardt
Dale Earnhardt
2001
Dale Evans
Buddy Epsen
2003
Dana Elcar
Dana Elcar
2005
Chad Everett
Chad Everett
2012
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
2013

Sen. Thomas Eagleton b. 1929 d. March 4, 2007 (heart and respiratory complications)
Briefly a Vice Presidential nominee under George McGovern in 1972

Dale Earnhardt b. 1951 d. February 18, 2001 (auto accident during Daytona 500 competition)
Race car driver

Fred Ebb b. 1933 d. September 11, 2004 (heart attack)
Lyricist – Chicago, Cabaret, New York, New York

Roger Ebert b. 1942 d. April 4, 2013
Journalist – Pulitzer Prize winning film critic and screenwriter

Billy “Mr. B” Eckstine b. 1914 d. 1993 (cancer)
Singer

Blake Edwards b. 1922 d. 2010 (natural)
Writer, Director, Producer – Pink Panther, Victor/Victoria, Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Elizabeth Edwards b. 1949 d. 2010 (breast cancer)
Author and spokesperson for health care reform

Ralph Edwards b. 1913 d. November 16, 2005 (heart failure)
TV pioneer and host – This Is Your Life

Ronnie Claire Edwards b. 1933 d. 2016 (in her sleep)
Actress – Corabeth Walton Godsey on The Waltons (1972-81)

Vince Edwards b. 1928 d. 1996 (pancreatic cancer)
Actor – Ben Casey

Richard Egan b. 1921 d. 1987 (cancer)
Actor – Jim Redigo in Redigo and Empire

John Ehrlichman b. 1926 d. 1999
Advisor to Richard Nixon convicted of federal crimes

Albert Einstein b. 1879 d. April 18 1955
Scientific genius

Dwight D. Eisenhower b. 1890 d. 1969
34th US President

John Eisenhower b. 1922 d. Dec. 21, 2013
Army Brigadier General and son of Dwight and Mamie

Mamie Doud Eisenhower b. 1896 d. 1979
Wife of Dwight D. Eisenhower

Jack Elam – b. 1916 d. October 20, 2003
Character actor – Rawhide (movie) and Wichita

Dana Elcar – b. 1927 d. June 6, 2005
Actor – Pete Thornton on “MacGyver“; Col. Lard on “Baa Baa Black Sheep

Duke Ellington b. 1899 d. 1974 (cancer)
Musician

Bob Elliot b. 1923 d. 2016 (throat cancer)
Comedian – one-half of the comedy duo of Bob and Ray

Cass “Mama” Elliot b. 1941 d. 1974 (heart attack)
Singer – The Mamas and the Papas

Patricia Elliott b. 1938 d. 2015 (leiomyosarcoma, a rare cancer)
Actress – Renée Divine Buchanan on “One Life To Live”

John Ellis b. 1939 d. 2012 (alzheimers disease)
Played with the Trammps, “Disco Inferno”

Jack Ely b. 1943 d. 2015 (after a long illness)
Musician / Singer – sang “Louie Louie” while with the Kingsmen (1963)

Keith Emerson b. 1944 d. 2016 (suicide)
Musician / keyboardist – created Emerson, Lake & Palmer rock group (1970)

John Entwistle b. 1944 d. June 27, 2002
Musician – Bassist for the Who

Nora Ephron b. 1941 d. 2012 (acute myeloid leukemia)
Screenwriter/Producer/Director/Novelist – “When Harry Met Sally”, “Sleepless in Seattle”

Buddy Epsen b. 1908 d. July 6, 2003
Actor- Davy Crockett, Beverly Hillbillies, Barnaby Jones

Leif Erickson b. 1911 d. 1986
Actor – Big John Cannon on the High Chaparral

Little Eva (Eva Narcissus Boyd ) b. 1944 d. April 11, 2003 (cervical cancer)
Singer – The Loco-Motion

Dale Evans b. 1912 d.2001 (congestive heart failure)
Actress – wife of Roy Rogers and Queen of the West

Gene Evans b. 1922 d. 1998
Actor – Rob McLaughlin on My Friend Flicka

Mike Evans b. 1949 d. 2006 (throat cancer)
Actor/Writer – Lionel Jefferson on “The Jeffersons

Michael Evans b. 1920 d. September 4, 2007
Actor – Col. Douglas Austin on the Young and the Restless

Chad Everett b. 1936 d. July 25, 2012 (lung cancer)
Actor – Dr. Joe Gannon in “Medical Center” (1969-’76)

Phil Everly b. 1939 d. Jan. 03, 2014 (smoking)
Singer – younger half of the duo The Everly Brothers, “Wake Up Little Susie”

Medgar Evers b. 1925 d. 1963 (murdered – shot)
Civil Rights leader

Tom Ewell b. 1909 d. 1994
Actor – The Tom Ewell Show

Judith Katherine Campbell Exner b. 1934 d. 1999 (breast cancer)
Reported mistress of both JFK and Sam Giancana

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Larry Fine

1975

james Franciscus

James Franciscus

1991

Ed Flanders

Ed Flanders

1995

Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Fitzgerald

1996

Betty Friedan

Betty Friedan

2006

Glen Ford

Glenn Ford

2006

Gerald Ford

President

Gerald R. Ford

2006

Betty Ford

Betty Ford

2011

Jerry Falwell

Rev.

Jerry Falwell

2007

Farrah Fawcett

Farrah Fawcett

2009

John Forsythe

John Forsythe

2010

Anne Francis

Anne Francis

2011

Geraldine Ferraro

Geraldine Ferraro

2011

Peter Falk

Peter Falk

2011

James Farentino

James Farentino

2012

John Frid

John Frid

2012

Bonnie Lynn Fields

Bonnie Lynn Fields

2012

Bonnie Franklin

Bonnie Franklin

2013

Annette Funicello

Annette Funicello

2013

Dennis Farina

Dennis Farina

2013

David Frost

David Frost

2013

Joan Fontaine

Joan Fontaine

2013

Glen Frey

Glen Frey

2016

Bernard Fox celebrity deaths

Bernard Fox

2016

Carrie Fisher died in 2016

Carrie Fisher

2016

Celebrity Deaths Miquel Ferrer

Miguel Ferrer

2017

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. b. 1909 d. 2000 (heart attack)
Actor – Son of Douglas Sr. and 1st husband of Joan Crawford

John Fairfax b. 1937 d. 2012 (heart attack)
Adventurer – rowed solo across the Atlantic Ocean

Percy Faith b. 1908. d. 1976
Composer – The Virginian

Peter Falk b. 1927 d. 2011 (Alzheimer’s disease)
Lieutenant Columbo in the TV series “Columbo” from 1971 – ’78 and 1989 – 2003

Jerry Falwell b. 1933 d. May 15, 2007
Founder and Chancellor of Liberty University

James Farentino b. 1938 d. January 24, 2012 (heart failure)
Actor – “The Final Countdown” “The Bold Ones” (TV: 1969-72)

Dennis Farina b. 1944 d. July 22, 2013 (a blood clot in his lung)
Detective Joe Fontana on “Law & Order”

Chris Farley b. 1964 d. 1997 (drugs)
Comedian – SNL

Richard Farnsworth b. 1920 d. 2000 (suicide by gunshot – he had terminal cancer)
Cowboy Stuntman turned actor

Charles Farrell b. 1901 d. 1990 (cardiac arrest)
Actor – My Little Margie’s dad

Minnesota Fats b. 1913 d. 1996 (congestive heart failure)
Pool Player

Farrah Fawcett b. 1947 d. 2009 (cancer)
Actress/ had many challenging roles but was best known for Charlie’s Angels

William Fawcett b. 1894 d. 1974
Actor – Pete Wilkie on Fury

Alice Faye b. 1915. d. 1998 (stomach cancer)
Actress – Melissa Frake in State Fair

Joey Martin Feek b. 1975 d. 2016 (cervical cancer)
C&W Muscian – husband and wife country duo “Joey + Rory”

Marty Feldman d. 1982 b. 1933 (heart attack)
Comedian

Norman Fell b. 1924 d. 1998 (cancer)
Actor – Stanley Roper on Three’s Company

Federico Fellini b. 1920 d. 1993 (heart attack)
Director – La Dolce Vita

Freddy Fender b. 1937 d. October 14, 2006 (lung cancer)
Country singer – Before the Next Teardrop Falls

Vincent M. Fennelly b. 1920 d. December 4, 2000 (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis)
Producer – Rawhide, Trackdown, Stagecoach West, Maverick

José Fernández b. 1992 d. 2016 (boating accident)
Baseball player – starting pitcher for the Miami Marlins and Cuban refugee

Geraldine Ferraro b. 1935 d. 2011 (multiple myeloma)
3 term Congresswoman from NY and Vice Presidential candidate 1984 with Walter Mondale

Jose Ferrer b. 1909 d. 1992
Actor/Director – State Fair, George Clooney’s uncle via marriage to Rosemary Clooney!

Miquel Ferrer b. 1955 d. 2017 (throat cancer)
Actor – Bob Morton in “Robocop” and Owen Granger in NCIS:Los Angeles (son of Jose Ferrer)

Mary Fickett b. 1928 d. 2011
Actress – Nurse Ruth Martin “All My Children”

Bonnie Lynn Fields b. 1944 d. 2012 (throat cancer)
Actress / Dancer – A Mickey Mouse Club Mouseketeer

Arthur Fiedler b. 1894 d. 1979
Conductor – Boston Pops

John Fielder b. 1925 d. June 25, 2005
Actor – voice of Piglet in Walt Disney’s Winnie-the-Pooh; Mr. Peterson on The Bob Newhart Show

Totie (Johnston) Fields b. 1930 d. 1978 (diabetes)
Comedian

Peter Finch b. 1916 d. 1977 (heart attack)
Actor – Howard Beale in Newtork

Larry Fine b. 1902 d. 1975 (stroke)
One of the Three Stooges

Fyvush Finkel b. 1922 d. 2016 (in his sleep)
Actor – lawyer Douglas Wambaugh on “Picket Fences”

Bobby Fischer b. 1943 d. January 17, 2008
World class chess champ and eccentric

Carrie Fisher b. 1956 d. 2016 (heart failure)
Actress/Author – Princess Leia in “Star Wars” (1977) and two sequels, daughter of Eddie Fisher & Debbie Reynolds

Eddie Fisher b. 1928 d. 2010 (complications from hip surgery)
Singer – best known for his marriages to Debbie Reynolds, Elizabeth Taylor, and Connie Stevens

Gail Fisher b. 1935 d. December 2, 2000
Actress – Peggy Fair on Mannix

Ella Fitzgerald b. 1918. d. 1996 (congestive heart failure)
Jazz Singer

Geraldine Fitzgerald b. 1913 d. July 17, 2005(respiratory distress & Alzheimers)
Actress – Wuthering Heights

Jim Fixx b. 1932 d. 1984 (heart attack – while jogging!)
Runner/writer – The Complete Book of Running

Ed Flanders b. 1934 d. 1995 (suicide)
Actor – Dr. Donald Westphall on St. Elsewhere

Robert “Bob” Flanigan b. 1926 d. 2011 (congestive heart failure)
Musician – last surviving original member of “The Four Freshman”

Richard Fleischer b. 1916 d. March 25, 2006
Director – Tora, Tora, Tora and Soylent Green

Art Fleming b. 1924 d. 1995 (pancreatic cancer)
Host – Jeopardy

Eric Fleming b. 1925 d. 1966 (drowned)
Actor – Gil Favor on Rawhide

Ian Fleming b. 1908 d. 1964 (heart failure)
Author – Bond, James Bond

Joe Flynn b. 1924 d. 1974 (heart attack)
Actor – Capt. Wallace Binghamton on McHale’s Navy

Shelby Foote b. 1916 d. June 27, 2005
Novelist and historian – “The Civil War: A Narrative”

Henry Fonda b. 1905 d. 1982 (heart failure)
Actor – Grapes of Wrath

Frankie Fontaine b. 1920 d. 1978
Actor/comedian – Crazy Guggenheim on the Jackie Gleason Show

Joan Fontaine b. 1917 d. Dec. 16, 2013 (natural)
Actress – starred in “Rebecca” and “Suspicion” (1941) sister to Olivia de Havilland

Malcolm Forbes b. 1919 d. 1990 (Threw himself a memorable 70th birthday party before his sudden death)
Businessman/publisher

Scott Forbes b. 1920 d. 1997
Actor – Jim Bowie on Adventures of Jim Bowie

Betty Ford b. 1918 d. 2011 (complications from a stroke)
First Lady 1974 – ’77 and Founder of the Betty Ford Clinic

“Tennessee Ernie” Ford b. 1919 d. 1991 (liver disease)
Musician

Frankie Ford b. 1939 d. 2015
Singer – “Sea Cruise” (1959)

President Gerald R. Ford b. 1913 d. December 26, 2006
President of the United States 1974-1977

Glenn Ford b. 1916 d. August 30, 2006
Actor – The Blackboard Jungle and Put the Blame on Mame

John Ford b. 1895 d. 1973 (stomach cancer)
Director – Rio Bravo and many other Westerns

Steve Forrest b. 1925 d. 2013
Actor – Lt. Hondo Harrelson on tv show S.W.A.T. (1975-1976)

John Forsythe b. 1918 d. 2010 (colrectal cancer)
Actor – Bachelor Father, Dynasty and the voice of Charlie in Charlie’s Angels

Abe Fortas b. 1910 d. 1982
US Supreme Court Justice

Bob Fosse b. 1927 d.1987 (heart attack)
Choreographer/director

Dian Fossey b .1932 d. 1985 (murdered)
Zoologist/writer – Gorillas in the Mist

Preston Foster b. 1900 d. 1970
Actor – Capt. Zachary Wingate in Gunslingers

Pete Fountain b. 1930 d. 2016 (heart failure)
Jazz Musician – played with both Al Hirt and Lawrence Welk

Conrad Fowkes b. 1933 d. 2009 (cancer)
Actor, original cast member of Dark Shadows played Frank Garner

Benard Fox b. 1927 d. 2016 (heart failure)
Actor – Dr. Bombay in “Bewitched” and Colonel Crittendon in “Hogan’s Heroes

Redd Foxx b. 1922 d. 1991(heart attack)
Comedian – Sanford and Sons

Sergio Franchi b. 1930 d. 1990 (brain cancer)
Singer

Anthony Franciosa b. d. January 19, 2006 (stroke)
Actor – The Long Hot Summer and The Name of the Game

Anne Francis b. 1930 d. 2011 (pacreatic cancer)
Actress- title role in Honey West series (1965-66) also the SciFi movie Forbidden Planet

Arlene Francis b. 1908 d. May 31, 2001
Actress – panelist on What’s My Line for 25 years

James Franciscus b. 1934 d. 1991 (emphysema)
Actor – Mike Longstreet

Francisco Franco Bahamonde b. 1892 d. 1975
Spanish Dictator

Pierre Franey b. 1921 d. 1996
Cookbook author

Otto Frank b. 1889 d. 1980
Anne Frank’s father

Steve Franken b. 1932 d. 2012
Actor – Chatsworth Osborne Jr. on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

Felix Frankfurter b. 1882 d. 1965
U.S. Supreme Court Justice

Bonnie Franklin b.1944 d. 2013 (pancreatic cancer)
Actress – portrayed Ann Romano on “One Day at a Time

Mary Frann b. 1943 d. 1998 (heart failure)
Actress – Wife of Bob Newhart on The Newhart Show

William Frawley b. 1887 d. 1966 (heart attack)
Actor – Fred Mertz on I Love Lucy and My Three Sons

“Smokin” Joe Frazier b. 1944 d. 2011 (liver cancer)
Boxer – heavyweight champ & Olympic gold medal winner

Alan Freed b. 1921 d. 1965
DJ and Rock pioneer

Victor French b. 1934 d. 1989 (lung cancer)
Actor – Isaiah Edwards in Little House on the Prairie; Mark Gordon on Highway to Heaven

Glen Frey b. 1948 d. 2016 (complications from intestinal surgery)
Founding member of The Eagles “Take It Easy”, “Peaceful Easy Feeling”

John Frid b. 1924 d. 2012 (after a fall)
Actor – Barnabas Collins in “Dark Shadows” TV show

Florida Friebus b. 1909 d. 1988
Dobie Gillis’ mom and “the knitting patient” on the Bob Newhart Show

Betty Friedan b. 1921 d. February 4, 2006 (congestive heart failure)
Author – “The Feminine Mystique” and early leader of the feminist movement

David Frost b. 1939 d. Aug. 31, 2013 (heart attack)
Journalist, comedian, writer – Interviewed politicians including Nixon

Robert Frost b. 1874 d. 1963
Poet – The Road Not Taken

J. William Fulbright b.1905 d. 1995 (stroke)
Political heavy hitter

Annette Funicello b. 1942 d. 2013 (complications from multiple sclerosis)
Actress / Singer – popular “Mouseketeer” on the original Mickey Mouse Club (1955-1959) also “Beach Party” genre movies

Allen Funt b. 1914 d. 1999 (suffered a stroke in 1993; never fully recovered)
Candid Camera guy

Harvey Fuqua b. 1928 d. 2010 (heart attack)
Singer/Songwriter – The Moonglows

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celebrity deaths - Arthur Godfrey
Arthur Godfrey
1983
Jackie Gleason
Jackie Gleason
1987
Andy Gibb
Andy Gibb
1988
Sir John Gielgud
John Gielgud
2000
Maurice Gibb
Maurice Gibb
2003
L. Patrick Gray
L. Patrick Gray
2005
Curt Gowdy
Curt Gowdy
2006
Estelle Getty
Estelle Getty
2008
Henry Gibson
Henry Gibson
2009
Kathryn Grayson
Kathryn Grayson
2010
Peter Graves
Peter Graves
2010
Betty Garrett
Betty Garrett
2011
Michael Gough
Michael Gough
2011
Carl Gardner
Carl Gardner
2011
Ben Gazzara
Ben Gazzara
2012
Robin Gibb
Robin Gibb
2012
Don Grady
Don Grady
2012
Andy Griffith
Andy Griffith
2012
Art Ginsburg
Art Ginsburg
2012
James Gandoifini
James Gandoifini
2013
Andy Granatelli
Andy Granatelli
2013
James Garner
James Garner
2014
Leslie Gore
Leslie Gore
2015
Frank Gifford
Frank Gifford
2015
Joe Garagiola
Joe Garagiola
2016
John Glenn celebrity deaths
John Glenn
2016
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Zsa Zsa Gabor
2016
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Died 2020
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
2020

Clark Gable b. 1901 d. 1960 (heart attack)
Actor – Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind

Eva Gabor b. 1919 d. 1995 (Respiratory failure)
Actress – Lisa Douglas on Green Acres

Zsa Zsa Gabor b. 1917 d. 2016 (in her sleep)
Hungarian Actress and Socialite – Moulin Rouge (1952), married nine times to mostly wealthy men

Magda Gabor b. 1918 d. 1997
Another Gabor – Eva and Zsa Zsa’s sister

Don Galloway b. 1937 d. 2009 (stroke)
Actor – Ironside

James Gammon b. 1940 d. 2010
Actor – father on “Nash Bridges”

Indira Gandhi b. 1917 d. 1984 (murdered)
Indian President

Rajiv Gandhi d. 1991 b. 1944 (murdered)
Indian President

James Gandoifini b. 1961 d. 2013 (heart attack)
Actor – played Tony Soprano in “The Sopranos”

Joe Garagiola b. 1926 d. 2016 (in his sleep)
Baseball Player – MLB catcher and announcer and television host

Greta Garbo b. 1905 d. 1990 (kidney failure)
Actress – Camille

Jerry Garcia b. 1942 d. 1995 (heart attack)
Musician – The Grateful Dead

Vincent Gardenia d. 1992 b.1922 (heart attack)
Actor – Murray Melman on L.A. Law

Ava Gardner b. 1922 d. 1990 (pneumonia)
Actress – Maxine Faulk in Night of the Iguana

Erle Stanley Gardner b. 1889 d. 1970 (cancer)
Writer – Perry Mason

Hank Garland b.1930 d. December 27, 2004 (staph infection)
Guitarist – For Elvis, the Everly Brothers, Roy Orbison, Patsy Cline, Charlie Parker…

Judy Garland b. 1922 d. 1969 (drug overdose)
Actress – Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz

James Garner b. 1928 d. July 19, 2014
Actor – Bret Maverick in Maverick(1957-’62) also Rockford Files (1974-’80)

Betty Garrett b. 1919 d. 2011 (aortic aneurysm)
Actress – “All in the Family“, “Laverne & Shirley

David Garroway b. 1913 d.1982 (suicide)
First Today Show host

Greer Garson b. 1904 d. 1996 (heart failure)
Actress – Mrs. Miniver

Dick Gautier b. 1931 d. 2017
Actor – Hymie the Robot in TV series “Get Smart” (1965-’70)

Marvin Gaye b. 1939 d. 1984 (shot)
Singer – I Heard It Through The Grapevine

George Gaynes b. 1917 d. 2016
Actor – Commandant Eric Lassard in the Police Academy movies

Janet Gaynor b. 1906 d. 1984 (pneumonia)
Actress – Seventh Heaven and Sunrise

Ben Gazzara b. 1930 d. February 3, 2012 (pancreatic cancer)
Actor – Run for Your Life (1965-68)

Will Geer b. 1902 d. 1978 (respiratory arrest)
Actor – Grandpa Walton on the Waltons

Theodore Geisel b. 1904 d. 1991
Writer/illustrator – Dr. Seuss

Vito Genovese b. 1897 d. 1969
Mobster – ‘Boss of all Bosses.’ He died in prison

Christopher George b. 1929 d. 1983 (heart attack)
Actor – Sgt. Sam Troy on the Rat Patrol

Ira Gershwin b. 1896 d. 1983
Composer

Vitas Gerulaitis b. 1954 d. 1994 (carbon monoxide poisoning)
Tennis Player

Estelle Getty b.1923 d.2008
actress, starred on The Golden Girls

J. Paul Getty b. 1892 d. 1976
Really, really rich guy

John Paul Getty Jr. b. 1933 d. April 17, 2003 (heart problems)
Billionaire philanthropist

Alice Ghostley b. 1926 d. September 21, 2007 (colon cancer)
Actress – Esmeralda on Bewitched and Bernice on Designing Women

Sam (Salvatore) Giancana b. 1908 d. 1975 (mob hit)
Mobster – Friend of Frank Sinatra

Andy Gibb b. 1958 d. 1988 (heart attack)
Singer – cute Bee Gee

Maurice Gibb b. 1949 d. January 12, 2003 (complications after surgery for intestinal blockage)
Singer – Bee Gees

Robin Gibb b. 1949 d. May 20, 2012 (colorectal cancer)
Singer – Bee Gees (survived by the oldest brother Barry Gibb)

Althea Gibson b. 1927 d. September 28, 2003 (respiratory failure)
Tennis – First Black to win Wimbleton and U.S. National

Henry Gibson b. 1935 d. 2009 (cancer)
Actor – Rowan & Martins Laugh-in, Boston Legal

Sir John Gielgud b. 1904 d. 2000
Actor – Hobson in Arthur

Frank Gifford b. 1930 d 2015
Football player and television sportscaster – ABC’s Monday Night Football 1971-’97

Jack Gilford b. 1907 d. 1990
Actor – Bernie Lefkowitz in Cocoon

“Dizzy” Gillespie b. 1917 d. 1993 (pancreatic cancer)
Musician

Allen Ginsberg b. 1926 d. 1997 (liver cancer)
Beat poet – Howl

Art Ginsburg b. 1930 d. 2012 (pancreatic cancer)
Celebrity Chef – “Mr Food” his tag line was “Ooh! It’s so good!”

Ruth Bader Ginsburg b. 1933 d. 2020 (pancreatic cancer)
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1993-’20)

Lillian Gish b. 1893 d. 1993 (heart failure)
Actress

Elizabeth Glaser b. 1946 d. 1994
(AIDS) Activist – Married Paul Michael Glazer

Ron Glass b. 1945 d. 2016 (respiratory failure)
Actor – Det. Ron Harris on “Barney Miller” (1975-’82)

Jackie Gleason b. 1916 d. 1987 (colon cancer)
Actor/comedian – And away he went…

Paul Gleason b. 1944 d. May 27, 2006 (lung cancer)
Actor – Principal Richard Vernon in Breakfast Club

John Glenn b. 1921 d. 2016 (peacefully)
WWII & Korean War Fighter Pilot. Marine Colonel. NASA Astronaut. Senator from Ohio (1974-99). Married for 73 yrs – first American to orbit the Earth (1962)

Marty Glickman b. 1918 d. February 3, 2001(complications of heart surgery)
Voice of New York sports for 55 years

George Gobel, b. 1919 d. 1991(complications after surgery)
Actor/comedian

Paulette Goddard b. 1914 d. 1990 (heart failure)
Actress

Trevor Goddard b. 1965 d. June 8 2003 (overdose)
Actor – Mic Brumby on JAG

Arthur Godfrey b. 1903 d. 1983
Host/Singer – The Arthur Godfrey Show

Alexander Godunov b. 1948 d. 1995 (disputed – alcoholism)
Dancer/actor – Karl in Die Hard

Sarah Goldberg b. 1975 d. Sept. 27, 2014 (heart ailment)
Actress – Sarah Glass Camden on “7th Heaven” tv series

William Golding b. 1911 d. 1993
Writer – Lord of the Flies

Jerry Goldsmith b. 1929 d. July 21, 2004 (cancer)
Composer – Star Trek, Barnaby Jones, Waltons, Air Force One, Mummy

Barry Goldwater b. 1909 d. 1998 (stroke)
U.S. Senator from Arizona, 1964 presidential candidate

Samuel Goldwyn Jr. b. 1926 d. 2015 (congestive heart disease)
Producer – Mystic Pizza (1988)

Benny Goodman b. 1909 d. 1986
Musician

Mark Goodson b. 1915 d. 1992
TV Producer – To Tell The Truth, What’s My Line, I’ve Got a Secret

Leo Gorcey b. 1917 d. 1969 (liver failure)
Actor – played Terence Aloysius ‘Slip’ Mahoney

Gale Gordon b. 1906 d. 1995 (cancer)
Actor – Theodore Mooney on The Lucille Ball Show

Ruth Gordon b. 1896 d. 1985 (stroke)
Actress – Rosemary’s Baby

Esther Gordy (Edwards) b. 1920 d. August 24, 2011
co-founded Motown records with brother Berry Gordy

Lesley Gore b. 1946 d. 2015 (lung cancer)
Singer/ Songwriter – “It’s My Party” &: “You Don’t Own Me”

Eydie Gormè b. 1928 d. Aug. 10, 2013
Singer – worked with husband Steve Lawrence, “Blame It on the Bossa Nova”

Frank Gorshin b. 1934 d. May 17, 2005 (lung cancer, emphysema)
Actor and Impressionist – Riddler on TV’s “Batman“)

John Gotti – b. 1940 d. June 10, 2002 (cancer)
Thug – Gambino crime family boss

Michael Gough b. 1916 d. March 17, 2011 (natural causes)
starred in over 150 films incl. Alfred in 4 Batman movies

Robert Goulet b. 1933 d. October 30, 2007 (pulmonary fibrosis)
Singer/actor – Sir Lancelot in Camelot

Curt Gowdy b. 1919 d. February 20, 2006 (leukemia)
Sportscaster – American Sportsman

Betty Grable b. 1916 d. 1973 (lung cancer)
Actress – The ultimate pin-up girl in WWII

Don Grady b. 1944 d. June 27, 2012 (cancer)
Actor – Robbie Douglas on “My Three Sons” also a Mouseketeer

Katherine Graham b. 1917 d. July 17, 2001
Publisher – The Washington Post

Ruth Graham b. June 10, 1920 d. June 14, 2007 (pneumonia)
beloved wife of Rev. Billy Graham

Virginia Graham b. 1912 d. 1998 (heart disease)
Talk show trail-blazer and a founder of the Cerebral Palsy Association

Andy Granatelli b. 1923 d. Dec. 29, 2013 (natural)
Race Car Designer & Promoter – CEO of STP (motor oil company)

Farley Granger b. 1925 d. 2011 (natural causes)
Actor – played in Hitchcock films “Strangers on a Train” & “Rope”

Stewart Granger b. 1913 d. 1993 (cancer)
Actor – Col. Alan MacKenzie on the Virginian

Cary Grant, b. 1904 d. 1986 (stroke)
Actor – Houseboat, North by Northwest

Kirby Grant b. 1912 d. 1985 (car crash)
Actor –Sky King

Peter Graves b.1926 d. 2010 (heart attack)
Actor – Mission Impossible

L. Patrick Gray b. 1917 d. July 5, 2005 (complications from pancreatic cancer)
F.B. I. Director (1972 – 1973). A Nixon loyalist during Watergate years

Spalding Gray b. 1941 d. January 10, 2004 (suicide)
Actor/writer – Swimming to Cambodia, Killing Fields

Kathryn Grayson b. 1922 d. 2010
Operatic Singer & Actress, Showboat, Anchors Aweigh also did Broadway

Rocky Graziano b. 1922 d. 1990
Boxer

Lorne Greene b. 1915 d. 1987 (respiratory failure)
Actor – Ben Cartwright on Bonanza

Richard Greene b. 1918 d. 1985 (cardiac arrest)
Actor – Robin Hood on The Adventures of Robin Hood

Meg Greenfield b. 1930 d. 1999 (cancer)
Journalist – Editorial editor of the Washington Post for 20 years

Jose Greco b. 1918 d. December 31, 2000 (heart failure)
Musician/choreographer

Merv Griffin b.1925 d. August 13, 2007 (prostate cancer)
Talk show host, game show creator (Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune) and casino owner

Andy Griffith b. 1923 d. July 3, 2012 (heart attack)
Actor/Director/Producer/Grammy Award-winning Singer – “The Andy Griffith Show” (1960-’68), “Matlock” (1986-’95)

Richard Griffiths b. 1947 d. March 28, 2013 (complications following heart surgery)
Actor – Vernon Dursley in the “Harry Potter” films

Tammy Grimes b.1934 d. 2016
Actress – Molly in “The Unsinkable Molly Brown” stage production

Sergei Mikhailovich Grinkov b. 1967 d. 1995 (heart attack)
Olympic figure skating champion

Ann Guilbert b. 1928 d. 2016 (cancer)
Actress – Millie Helper in The Dick Van Dyke Show and Yetta Rosenberg in The Nanny

Virgil “Gus” Grissom b. 1926 d. 1967 (Killed when their Apollo 1 command module had a flash fire on the pad)
One of the first seven, Project Mercury, astronauts

Lewis Grizzard, Jr. b. 1946. d. 1994
Author/humorist

David Groh b. 1941 d. February 13, 2008 (kidney cancer)
Actor – Rhoda’s hubby Joe, on Rhoda

Eddie Guerrero b. 1967 d. November 13, 2005 (inconclusive)
WWE wrestler

William Guest b. 1941 d.2015 (congestive heart failure)
Gladys Knight’s cousin and one of the Pips

Ernesto “Che” Guevara b. 1928 d. 1967 (executed by Bolivian troops)
Revolutionary

Sir Alec Guinness b. 1914 d. 2000 (liver cancer)
Actor – Bridge on the River Kwai – also Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars

Woody Guthrie b. 1912 d. 1967 (Huntington’s corea?)
Musician – This Land Is Your Land

Fred Gwynne b. 1926 d. 1993 (pancreatic cancer) Actor – Herman on the Munsters

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Gabby Hayes
1969
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Rock Hudson
1985
Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn
1993
Phil Hartman
Phil Hartman
1998
Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Hepburn
2003
June Haver
June Haver
2005
Betty Hutton
Betty Hutton
2007
CHrlton Heston
Charlton Heston
2008
Jesse Helms
Jesse Helms
2008
Isaac Hayes
Isaac Hayes
2008
John Hughes
John Hughes
2009
John Hughes
Connie Hines
2009
Alexander Haig
Alexander Haig
2010
Corey Haim
Corey Haim
2010
Lena Horne
Lena Horne
2010
Dennis Hopper
Dennis Hopper
2010
Robert Heyges
Robert Hegyes
2012
Whitney Houston
Whitney Houston
2012
Celeste Holm
Celeste Holm
2012
Sherman Hemsley
Sherman Hemsley
2012
Marvin Hamlisch
Marvin Hamlisch
2012
Larry Hagman
Larry Hagman
2012
Richie Havens
Richie Havens
2013
Phillip Seymour Hoffman
Philip Seymour Hoffman
2014
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Pat Harrington
2016
Dan Haggarty
Dan Haggarty
2016
Robert Horton
Robert Horton
2016
Ken Howard
Ken Howard
2016
Steven Hill Law & Order
Steven Hill
2016
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Florence Henderson
2016
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Barbara Hale
2017
Hugh Hefner died
Hugh Hefner
2017

Buddy Hackett b 1924 d. June 30, 2003
Comedian/actor – It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Love Bug

Joan Hackett b.1933 d. 1983 (ovarian cancer)
Actress – Joan Miller in the Defenders

Kevin Hagen b. 1928 d. July 9, 2005 (esophageal cancer)
Actor – Doc Baker on Little House on the Prairie

Merle Haggard b. 1937 d. 2016 (double pneumonia)
C&W singer/songwriter – “I’m a Lonesome Fugitive”, “Okie From Muskogee”

Dan Haggerty b. 1941 d. 2016 (spinal cancer)
Actor – The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams (1977-78)

Larry Hagman b.1931 d. 2012 (liver cancer)
Actor – JR Ewing on Dallas and Maj. Nelson on “I Dream of Jeannie

Alexander Haig b. 1924 d. 2010 (staph infection)
Four Star General then Politiian served in serveral wars and later as White House Chief of Staff and Secretary of State

Corey Haim b. 1971 d. 2010 (drug overdose)
Actor – the Lost Boys, Lucas and others

Arthur Hailey b. 1920 d. November 24, 2004 (stroke)
Author – Airport, Hotel, Moneychangers

David Halberstam b. 1934 d. April 23, 2007 (car crash)
Author – The Best and the Brightest and The Fifties

H. R. “Bob” Haldeman b. 1926 d. 1993 (cancer)
Nixon’s White House Chief of Staff turned felon

Alan Hale, Jr. b. 1918 d. 1990 (cancer of the thymus)
Actor – The Skipper on Gilligan’s Island

Barbara Hale b. 1922 d. 2017 (in her sleep)
Actress – Della Street on TV show “Perry Mason” (1957-1966)

Alex Haley b. 1921 d. 1992
Writer – Roots

Bill Haley b. 1925 d. 1981 (heart attack)
Musician – Rock Around the Clock

Jack Haley b. 1898 d. 1979 (cancer)
Actor – The Tin Man in Wizard of Oz

Kevin Peter Hall b. 1955 d. 1991(AIDS)
Actor – Harry in Harry and the Hendersons

Monte Hall b. 1921 d. 2017n(heart failure)
Game Show Host – hosted and produced “Let’s Make a Deal” (1963 – 1991 incl syndication)

Andrew (Andy) Hallet b. 1975 d. 2009 (congestive heart failure)
Actor / Singer – Lorne the Vampire on “Angel” tv series

Halston b. 1932 d. 1990 (AIDS)
Fashion designer

Rusty Hamer b. 1947 d. 1990 (suicide)
Actor – Rusty Williams in Make Room for Daddy

George Hamilton IV b. 1937 d. 2014 (heart attack)
C&W star, sang at Grand Ole Opry

John Hamilton b. 1887 d. 1958
Actor – Perry White on Superman

Margaret Hamilton b. 1902 d. 1985 (heart attack)
Actress – The Wicked Witch of the West in the Wizard of Oz

Marvin Hamlisch b. 1944 d. 2012
Composer – “The Way We Were”

Armand Hammer d. 1990 b. 1898 (cancer)
Industrialist

Earl Hamner Jr. b. 1923 d. 2016 (cancer)
Writer/Producer – created “The Waltons” TV show

Lionel Hampton b 1908 d. August 31, 2002 (heart failure)
Legendary, great jazz musician

Ruth Handler b.1917 d. April 27, 2002 (compliations of colon surgery)
Creator of Barbie doll, co-founder of Mattel toy company

William Hanna b. 1910 d. March 22, 2001
Annimator – half of Hanna-Barbera Productions – The Flintstones, The Jetsons

Edward Hardwicke b. 1932 d. 2011 (cancer)
English Actor – Doctor Watson on TV series “The Return of Sherlock Holmes”

Oliver Hardy b. 1892 d. 1957
Comedian – Of Laurel and Hardy

Michael Hargitay b. 1926 d. September 14, 2006
Bobybuilder ex-husband of Jayne Mansfield and father of Law & Order: SVU star Mariska Hargitay

John Marshall Harlan b. 1899 d. 1971
U.S. Supreme Court Justice

Valerie Harper b.1939 d.2019 (lung cancer which went to her brain)
Rhoda Morgenstern on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” (1970–’77), also on the spin off “Rhoda” (1974–’78)

Pamela Harriman b. 1920 d. 1997 (stroke)
Ambassador to France – Collector of husbands

Pat Harrington Jr. b. 1929 d. 2016 (Alzheimer’s disease)
Actor – Schneider on “One Day At A Time”

Damon Harris b. 1950 d. February 23, 2013 (prostate cancer)
Singer – Temptations (1971 – ’75)

Jonathan Harris b. 1914 d. November 3, 2002 (blood clot in heart)
Actor – Dr. Zachary Smith in Lost in Space

Julie Harris b.1924 d. Aug. 24, 2013 (congestive heart failure)
Actress – “East of Eden” (1955) “Requiem for a Heavyweight” (1962)

Richard Harris b. 1930 d. October 25, 2002 (Hodgkin’s Disease)
Actor – Dumbledore in Harry Potter, King Arthur in Camelot

George Harrison b. 2/25/1943 d. 11/29/2001 (cancer)
The quiet and youngest Beatle

Sir Rex Harrison b. 1908 d. 1990 (pancreatic cancer)
Actor – Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady

Don Harron b. 1924 d. 2015 (cancer)
Actor – Charlie Farquharson on “Hee Haw”

Phil Hartman b. 1948 d. 1998 (murdered by wife)
Actor/Comedian – SNL, News Radio

Paul Harvey (Aurandt) b. 1918 d. Feb. 28, 2009 (old age complications)
Radio Newsman & Broadcaster

Richard Hatch b. 1945 d. 2017 (pancreatic cancer)
Actor – Captain Apollo in “Battlestar Galactica” (1978-80)

Bobby Hatfield b. 1940 d. November 5, 2003
Singer – One of the Righteous Brothers

Richie Havens b. 1941 d. April 22, 2013 (heart attack)
Musician – folk singer and guitarist who’s song “Freedom” opened the 1969 Woodstock Festival

June Haver b. 1926 d. July 4, 2005 (respiratory failure )
Actress – The Dolly Sisters; known as the “pocket Grable”

Howard Hawks b. 1896 d. 1977
Director – Rio Bravo, Rio Lobo

Russell “Lucky” Hayden b. 1912 d. 1981
Western actor

Richard Haydn b. 1905 d. 1985 (heart attack)
Actor – Max Detweiler in the Sound of Music

George “Gabby” Hayes b. 1885 d. 1969 (heart failure)
Actor – Sidekick to Roy Rogers

Helen Hayes b. 1900 d. 1993 (heart failure)
Actress – First Lady of American Theatre

Isaac Hayes b.1942 d. August 10, 2008
Musician/composer (wrote the theme to “Shaft”)

Lloyd Haynes b. 1934 d. 1987 (lung cancer)
Actor – Mr. Dixon on Room 222 – also on General Hospital

Louis “Deke” Hayward b. 1921 d. March 26, 2002 (complications of pneumonia)
Creator of Winky Dink and You

Susan Hayward b. 1917 d. 1975 (brain cancer)
Actress – Barbara Graham in I Want to Live

Rita Hayworth b. 1918 d. 1987 (Alzheimers)
Actress – Vera Simpson in Pal Joey

Edith Head b. 1897 d. 1981 (bone marrow disease)
Costume Designer

Bobby Hebb b. 1938 d. 2010 (lung cancer)
Singer / Songwriter – hit single “Sunny”

Mitch Hedberg b. 1968 d. March 30, 2005 (heart failure)
Comedian

Van Heflin b. 1910 d. 1971 (heart attack)
Actor – Joe Starritt in Shane

Hugh Hefner b. 1926 d. Sept. 27, 2017 (natural)
Publisher – editor-in-chief and publisher of Playboy magazine (1953 – present)

Robert Hegyes b. 1961 d. January 26, 2012 (heart attack)
Actor – Juan Epstein on “Welcome Back Kotter” (1975-79)

Robert Anson Heinlein b. 1907 d. 1988 (Emphysema and related disabilities)
Writer – Science Fiction

Joseph Heller b. 1923 d. 1999 (heart attack)
Writer – Catch-22

Bobby Helms b. 1933 d. 1997
Singer – Jingle Bell Rock, My Special Angel

Sen. Jesse Helms b. 1921 d. 2008 (natural Causes)
Outspoken 5 term Senator from N. Carolina

Leone Helmsley b. 1920 d. August 20, 2007 (heart failure)
New York hotelier known as the “queen of mean”

Margaux Hemingway b. 1954 d. 1996 (suicide – overdose of sedatives)
Actress – Chris McCormick in Lipstick

David Hemming b. 1941 d. December 4, 2003 (heart attack)
Actor – Photographer in Blow Up

Sherman Hemsley b. 1938 d. July 24, 2012
Actor – George Jefferson on “The Jeffersons” (1975 – ’85)

Florence Henderson b. 1934 d. 2016 (heart failure)
Actress / Singer – Carol Brady on “The Brady Bunch” (1969 to 1974)

Skitch Henderson b. 1918 d. October 31, 2005 (natural causes)
Composer, conductor, bandleader – The Tonight Show

Benjamin Hendrickson b. 1950 d. July 1, 2006 (suicide)
Actor – Hal Munson on As the World Turns

Jimi Hendrix b. 1942 d. 1970 (aspirated vomit after taking sleeping pills)
Musician

Douglas James Henning b. 1947 d. 2000 (liver cancer)
Magician

Paul Henreid b. 1908 d. 1992 (complications from pneumonia)
Actor/director – directed over 80 episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Jim Henson b. 1936 d. 1990 (bacterial pneumonia)
Puppeteer – The Muppets

Audrey Hepburn b. 1929 d. 1993 (colon cancer)
Actress – Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady

Katharine Hepburn b. 1907 d. June 29, 2003
Actress – 4 time Oscar winner (Morning Glory, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Lion in Winter, On Golden Pond)

Frank Herbert b. 1920 d. 1986 (pancreatic cancer)
Writer – Created the Dune series

James Herriot b. 1916 d. 1995 (cancer)
British veternarian/writer – All Things Bright and Beautiful

Edward Herrmann b. 1943 d. 2014
Actor – FDR in “Eleanor and Franklin”

Charlton Heston b. 1924 d. April 5, 2008 (Alzheimers)
Actor – Moses in The Ten Commandments

Don Hewitt b. 1922 d. August 19, 2009 (pancreatic cancer)
Television news producer – 60 Minutes

William Hewlett b. 1914 d. January 12, 2001
Half of Hewlett-Packard

Thor Heyerdahl b. 1914 d. April 18, 2002 (brain tumor)
Author of Kon-Tiki and world adventurer

William Hickey b.1928 d. 1997 (emphysema)
Actor – The Don in Prizzi’s Honor

William “Bill” Melvin Hicks b. 1961 d. 1994
Cult comedian

Benny Hill b. 1924 d. 1992 (heart attack)
Actor – The Benny Hill Show

George Roy Hill b. 1922 d. 12/27/2002 (Parkinson’s Disease)
Director – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting

Steven Hill b. 1922 d. 2016 (in his sleep)
Actor – District Attorney Adam Schiff on “Law & Order” (1990-2000)

Cliff Hillegass b. 1918 d. May 5, 2001 (complications from a stroke)
Founder of Cliff Notes.

Wendy Hiller b. 1912 d. May 14, 2003
Actress – Seperate Tables

Conrad Hilton, Jr. b. 1926 d. 1969
Elizabeth Taylor’s first husband

Earl Hindman b. 1942 d. December 29, 2003 (lung cancer)
Actor – Wilson on Home Improvement

Connie Hines b. 1930 d. 2009 (heart disease)
Actress – Carol Post on Mr. Ed tv series

Gregory Hines b. 1946 d. August 9, 2003 (cancer)
Actor/dancer – White Nights, Running Scared

Martin ‘Pat’ Hingle b. 1924 d. 2009 (leukemia)
Actor – the Commissioner in Batman movies

Al Hirt b. 1922 d. 1999 (liver failure)
One of the great trumpeters

Alger Hiss b. 1904 d. 1996
Alleged spy

Alfred Hitchcock b. 1899 d. 1980
Director – Psycho

Don Ho b. 1930 d. April 14, 2007 (heart failure)
Singer/performer – Tiny Bubbles

Cheryl Holdridge b. 1944 d. Jan 06, 2009 (lung cancer)
Actress – a Mouseketeer on The Mickey Mouse Club

James “Jimmy” Hoffa b. 1913 d. 1975 (good question)
Teamster leader – His body is still missing

Abbie Hoffman b.1936 d. 1989 (suicide)
60s activist

Philip Seymour Hoffman b. 1967 d. Feb. 2, 2014 (drug overdose)
Actor / director – “Capote”, “Scent of a Woman”, “Twister”

Ben Hogan b. 1912 d. 1997 (stroke/cancer)
Golfer

William Holden b. 1918 d. 1981(Bled to death from a minor fall while drunk)
Actor- Shears in Bridge on the River Kwai

Geoffrey Holder b. 1930 d. 2014 (Pneumonia)
Actor/ choreographer/ dancer – bad guy Baron Samedi in “Live and Let Die”

Buddy (Holley) Holly b. 1936 d. February 3, 1959 (plane crash)
Musician – Peggy Sue

Celeste Holm b. 1917 d. 2012
Actress – “Gentleman’s Agreement”

Bob Homme b. 1918 d. 2000
Actor – The Friendly Giant on Canadian TV

Jan Hooks b. 1957 d. Oct. 9, 2014 (a long illness)
Actress/Comedian – was a player on Saturday Night Live SNL (1986-1991)

J. Edgar Hoover b. 1895 d. 1972
Director of the FBI

Bob Hope b 1903 d. July 27, 2003 (pneumonia)
“Mr. Entertainment” – consummate comedian, actor, patriot

Dolores Hope b. 1909 d. Sept. 19, 2011 (natural cause)
Singer – Wife of Bob Hope for 69 years

Dennis Hopper b. 1936 d. may 29, 2010 (prostate cancer)
Actor, Filmmaker and Artist – best known for Easy Rider also Rebel Without a Cause and others

Hedda Hopper b. 1890 d. 1966
Gossip Columnist – Mother of William, see below

William Hopper b. 1915 d. 1970 (pneumonia)
Actor – Paul Drake on Perry Mason – son of Hedda

Jack Horkheimer b. 1938 d. 2010 (respiratory ailment)
Astronomer – “Star gazer Show” on PBS and Director of the Miami Planetarium

Lena Horne b. 1917 d. 2010
Actress/Singer – jazz singer starred in movies “Cabin in the Sky” was an activist for civil rights

Gladys Horton b. 1945 d. 2011 (stroke)
R&B Singer – founded and lead singer of the Marvelettes

Johnny Horton b. 1925 d. 1960 (killed by drunk driver)
Singer/actor – Battle of New Orleans

Robert Horton b. 1924 d. 2016 (natural)
Actor – Flint McCullough in “Wagon Train” (1957-1962)

Bob Hoskins b. 1942 d. 2014 (pneumonia due to Parkinson’s disease)
Actor – “Who Framed Roger Rabbit”,”Mona Lisa”

Aaliyah Dana Houghton b. 1979 d. 2001 (plane crash)
R&B singer – “Are You that Somebody?”

John Houseman b. 1902 d. 1988 (spinal cancer)
Actor – Prof. Charles W. Kingsfield, Jr in The Paper Chase

Whitney Houston b. 1963 d. April 11, 2012 (cause, to be announced)
Singer/Actress – movie: “The Bodyguard”, songs: “I Will Always Love You”, “I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)”

Larry Hovis b. 1936 d. September 10, 2003 (cancer)
Actor – Sgt. Andrew Carter on Hogan’s Heroes

Jerome “Curly” Howard b. 1903 d. 1952 (stroke)
Actor – A Stooge

Ken Howard b. 1944 d. 2016 (heart attack)
Actor – Coach Reeves on TV show “White Shadow” & President of SAG-AFTRA

Moe Howard b. 1897 d. 1975 (lung cancer)
Actor – A Stooge

Trevor Howard b. 1916 d. 1988 (bronchitis and influenza)
Actor – Cpt. William Bligh in Mutiny on the Bounty

Gordon “Gordie” Howe b. 1920 d. 2016 (dementia)
Hockey 23 time all-star, Detroit Red Wings 25 seasons

Beth Howland b. 1941 d. 2015 (lung cancer)
Actress – Vera Gorman in the TV show “Alice

L. Ron Hubbard d. 1986
Author – Founder Church of Scientology

David Huddleston b. 1930 d. 2016 (natural)
Actor – Character actor “Santa Claus: The Movie”

Rock Hudson b. 1925 d. 1985 (AIDS)
Actor – Police Commissioner Stewart “Mac” McMillan in McMillan and Wife

Barnard Hughes b. 1915 d. July 11, 2006
Actor – Grandpa in the Lost Boys

Howard Hughes b. 1905 d. 1976
Billionaire nutcase

John Hughes b. 1950 d. 2009 (Heart Attack
Film director, producer and writer – “Pretty in Pink”, “Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Home Alone and more

Rex Humbard b. 1919 d. 2007
TV Evangelist – Cathedral of Tomorrow

Hubert Horatio Humphrey b. 1911 d. 1978 (cancer)
Vice President of the United States under LBJ

Ross Hunter b. 1920 d. 1996
Producer – Pillow Talk, Flower Drum Song

Chet Huntley b. 1911 d. 1974
Newscaster – Goodnight Chet

John Hurt b. 1940 d. 2017 (pancreatic cancer)
Actor – John Merrick in “The Elephant Man” (1980)

Ferlin Husky b. 1925 d. 2011 (congestive heart failure)
Country Muscian – had numerous Top 20 hits including “Wings of a Dove†(1960)

Ruth Hussey b. 1911 d. April 19, 2005 (complications of appendectomy)
Actress – The Philadelphia Story

John Huston b. 1906 d. 1987 (emphysema)
Actor/director – African Queen

Betty Hutton b. 1921 d. March 11, 2007 (colon cancer)
Actress – Greatest Show on Earth and Annie Get Your Gun

Rick Huxley b. 1940 d. 2013 (emphysema)
Musician – bassist for “The Dave Clark Five”

Wilfred Hyde-White b. 1903 d. 1991 (heart failure)
Actor – Col. Pickering in My Fair Lady

Diana Hyland b. 1936 d. 1977 (cancer)
Actress – Dating John Travolta at the time of her death

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John Ireland
1992
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Burl Ives
1995
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Steve Irwin
2006

Gwen Ifill b. 1955 d. 2016 (endometrial cancer)
Journalist – “Washington Week” and “PBS NewsHour” on PBS

Marty Ingels b. 1936 d. 2015 (massive stroke)
I’m Dickens He’s Fenster tv show (1962-63)

John Ingle b. 1928 d. 2012 (cancer)
Actor – Edward Quartermaine on “General Hospital” from 1993 – 2004

Jill Ireland b. 1936 d. 1990 (breast cancer)
Actress – Married to David McCallum and then Charles Bronson

John Ireland b. 1914 d. 1992 (leukemia)
Actor – Jed Colby on Rawhide

Steve Irwin b. 1962 d. September 4, 2006 (stringray attack)
Environmentalist – The Croc Hunter

Burl Ives b. 1909 d. 1995 (mouth cancer)
Musician/Actor – Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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Janis Joplin
1970
Anissa jones
Anissa Jones
1976
David Janssen
David Janssen
1980
Ben Johnson
Ben Johnson
1996
Peter Jennings
Peter Jennings
2005
Lady Bird Johnson
Lady Bird Johnson
2007
Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson
2009
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs
2011
Davy Jones
Davy Jones
2012
Kathryn Joostin
Kathryn Joostin
2012
George Jones
George Jones
2013
Russell Johnson
Russell Johnson
2014

Wolfman Jack b. 1939 d. 1995 (heart attack)
DJ extraordinaire

J.J. Jackson b. 1941 d. March 17, 2004 (heart attack)
L.A. D.J. – first MTV VJ

Mahalia Jackson b. 1912 d. 1972
Singer

Maynard Jackson b. 1938 d. June 23, 2003
Politician – First Black mayor of Atlanta Georgia

Michael Jackson b.1958 d. 2009 (cardiac arrest)
Entertainer – “The King of Pop” was the most influential force in music and culture of his generation

Pervis Jackson b.1938 d. 2008 (cancer)
Singer/ sang bass vocals for the Spinners

Oswald Jacoby b. 1902 d. 1984
Bridge player extraordinaire

Richard Jaeckel b. 1926 d. 1997 (cancer)
Actor – Sergeant Clyde Bowren on the Dirty Dozen

Sam Jaffe b. 1891 d. 1984 (cancer)
Actor – Dr. David Zorba on Ben Casey

Dean Jagger b. 1903 d. 1991 (heart disease)
Actor – Twelve O’Clock High (1949)

Art James b. 1922 d. March 28, 2004
Game show host/announcer – Concentration, Family Feud Challenge

Dennis James b. 1917 d. 1997 (cancer)
Actor, game show host

Etta James b. 1938 d. January 20, 2012 (leukemia & Alzheimer’s disease)
Singer “At Last”, “Dance With Me”

Harry James b. 1916 d. 1983
Musician

Rick James b. 1948 d. August 6, 2004 (heart attack)
Singer – Superfreak

Sonny James b. 1928 d. 2016
Country Music Singer/Songwriter – “Young Love” (1957)

Jimi Jamison b. 1951 d. 2014 (heart attack)
Singer – frontman for Survivor “Eye of the Tiger” and sang the “Baywatch” theme

David Janssen b. 1931 d. 1980 (heart attack)
Actor – The Fugitive

Al Jarreau b. 1940 d. 2017
Jazz Singer – 7 Grammy Awards, “We’re in This Love Together”, “After All”

Gregory B. “Greg” Jarvis b. 1944. d. January 28, 1986
Challenger astronaut

Rick Jason b. 1926 d. 2000 (suicide – self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head)
Actor – Lt. Gil Hanley on Combat!

Leon Jaworski b. 1905 d. 1982
Watergate prosecutor

Aunt Jemima (Rosie Riles) b. 1901 d. 1969
Pancake lady

Richard Jeni b. 1957 d. March 10, 2007 (suicide)
Comedian – HBO special Richard Jeni: Good Catholic Boy

Peter Jennings b. 1938 d. August 7, 2005 (lung cancer)
Journalist – Anchor & chief editor ABC News Tonight

Waylon Jennings b. 1937 d. Ferbruary 13, 2002 (complications of diabetes)
Country music great

George Jessel b. 1898 d. 1981 (heart attack)
Comedian/actor

Michael Jeter b. 1952 d. March 30, 2003 (complications of HIV)
Actor – The Green Mile

Steve Jobs b. 1955 d. October 5, 2011 (pancreatic cancer)
co-founder of Apple Computer invented ipod, itunes, iphone, ipad and more

Ben Johnson b. June 13, 1918. d. April 8, 1996 (heart attack)
Actor – Chisum, Undefeated and many more Westerns

Gail Johnson b. 1942 d. 1999
Actress – Mimi Grosset on Days of Our Lives

John H. Johnson b. 1918 d. August 8, 2005
Publisher – Ebony and Jet magazines

Claudia “Lady Bird” Johnson b 1912 d. July 11, 2007
Former First Lady of the United States 1963-1969

Lyndon B. Johnson b. 1908 d. 1973 (heart attack)
36th President of the United States

Russell Johnson b. 1924 d. Jan. 16, 2014 (kidney failure)
Actor – The Professor on “Gilligan’s Island“(1964-1967)

Van Johnson b. 1916 d. 2008 (natural causes)
Actor / many supporting roles for MGM

Anissa Jones b. 1958 d. 1976 (drug overdose)
Actress – Buffy on Family Affair

Brian Jones b. 1942 d. 1969 (drowned)
Rolling Stone

Carolyn Jones b. 1929 d. 1983 (cancer)
Actress – Morticia on the Addams Family

Davy Jones b. 1945 d. 2012 (heart attack)
Singer/Actor “The Monkees” band and tv show

Deacon Jones b. 1938 d. 2013 (natural causes)
Athlete – Pro football player (1961-1974),he coined the term “sack the quarterback”

Dean Jones b. 1931 d. 2015 (Parkinson’s disease)
Actor – several Walt Disney movies incl. “The Love Bug” and both sequels

Dick Jones b.1927 d. 2014 (natural causes)
Actor – Artimer “Artie” Peters, nephew of Buck Peters, in the Hopalong Cassidy film

George Jones b. 1931 d. 2013 (fever and irregular blood pressure)
Musician – known as the greatest C&W singer for the last 5 decades

Louis “Grandpa” Jones b. 1914 d. 1998 (strokes)
Musician – Co-star of Hee Haw

Robert Trent Jones b. 1906 d. 2000
Golf course architect – 300 courses including Spyglass Hill (Pebble Beach)

Kathryn Joostin b. 1939 d. 2012 (lung cancer)
Actress – Dolores Landingham on “West Wing”

Janis Joplin b. 1943 d. 1970 (herion overdose)
Singer – Me and My Bobby McGee

Barbara Jordan b. 1936 d. 1996
U.S. Congresswoman

Jim “Fibber McGee” Jordan b. 1896 d. 1988
Radio personality

Richard Jordan b.1938 d. 1993 (brain tumor)
Actor – Dirk Pitt in Raise the Titanic

Christine Jorgensen, (George William Jorgensen, Jr.) b. 1926 d. 1989 (bladder cancer)
1952 Sex change pioneer

Louis Jourdan b. 1921 d. 2015
Actor – Gigi (1958), Octopussy (1983)

Florence Griffith “FloJo” Joyner b. 1959 d. 1998 (heart attack)
Olympic track star

Raul Julia b. 1940 d. 1994 (stroke/cancer)
Actor – Gomez Addams in the Addams Family movies

Gordon Jump b. 1932 d. September 23, 2003 (heart and respiratory failure)
Actor – Mr. Arthur “Big Guy” Carlson from WKRP; the second Matag repairman

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Jack Kelly
1992
Charles kuralt
Charles Kuralt
1997
DeForest Kelley
DeForest Kelley
1999
Captain Kangaroo
Bob Keeshan
2004
Alan King
Alan King
2004
Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King
2006
Don Knotts
Don Knotts
2006
Jack Kemp
Jack Kemp
2009
Teddy Kennedy
Edward “Ted” Kennedy
2009
Alex Karras
Alex Karras
2012
Jack Klugman
Jack Klugman
2012
Jane Kean
Jane Kean
2013
Casey Kasem
Casey Kasem
2014
Richard Kiel
Richard Kiel
2014
BB King Died
B.B. King
2015
George Kennedy
George Kennedy
2016

Madeline Gail Kahn b. 1942 d. 1999 (ovarian cancer)
Actress – Pauline in Cosby

Paul Kantner b. 1941 d. 2016 (complications from a heart attack)
Musician – lead guitarist and co-founder of The Jefferson Airplane and Starship

Robert Kardashian b. 1944 d. October 1, 2003 (cancer of the esophagus)
O.J. Simpson’s best bud and pal

Alex Karras b. 1935 d. 2012 (kidney failure)
Athlete / Actor – Detroit Lions (1958-1970), Mondo in “Blazing Saddles”

Casey Kasem b. 1932 d. 2014 (Lewy body dementia)
Radio Disk Jockey – American Top 40, American Top 20 and American Top 10 (1970-2009)

Andreas Katsulas b. 1946 d. February 13, 2006 (lung cancer)
Actor – GKar on Babylon 5

Andy Kaufman b. 1949 d. 1984 (lung cancer)
Comedian – SNL, Latka Gravas in Taxi

Danny Kaye b. 1913 d. 1987 (hepatitis)
Entertainer – The Danny Kaye Show

Elia Kazan b. 1909 d. September 28, 2003
Director – On the Waterfront, Streetcar Named Desire

Beau Kazer b. 1951 d. 2014
Brock Reynolds on “The Young and the Restless”

Jane Kean b. 1924 d. November 26, 2013
Actress – Trixie Norton in the “The Honeymooners Show” (1966-1970)

Joseph Kearns b. 1907. d. 1962
Actor – Mr Wilson on Dennis the Menace

Howard Keel b. 1919 d. November 7, 2004 (colon cancer)
Actor- Broadway – Kiss Me Kate; TV – Dallas

Ruby Keeler b. 1909 d. 1993 (cancer)
Actress – Married to Al Jolson

Bob Keeshan b. 1927 d. January 23, 2004
Legend – Captain Kangaroo

Carey Estes Kefauver b. 1903 d. 1963
U.S. Senator

Brian Keith b. 1921 d. 1997 (Suicide – after being bedridden with cancer, emphysema)
Actor – Uncle Bill on Family Affair

Helen Keller b. 1880 d. 1968
Woman about whom the movie Miracle Worker was made

Clarence M. Kelley b. 1911 d. 1997
Director, FBI

DeForest Kelley b. 1920 d. 1999 (stomach cancer)
Actor – Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy on Star Trek TOS

Brian Kelly b. 1931 d. February 12, 2005 (pneumonia)
Actor – Porter Ricks on Flipper

Emmett Kelly b. 1898 d. 1979 (heart attack)
Famous clown

Gene Kelly b.1912 d. 1996 (stroke complications)
Actor, Singer,Dancer – American in Paris

Jack Kelly b. 1927 d. 1992 (stroke)
Actor – Brother Bart on Maverick

Lisa Robin Kelly b. 1970 d. 2013 (possible overdose while in substance abuse facility)
Actress – Laurie Forman on “That ’70s Show”

Princess Grace (Kelly) b. 1929 d. 1982 (car crash)
Actress and Princess of Monaco

Jack Kemp b. 1935 d. 2009 (cancer)
Pro football player turned politician, Congressman and Secretary of HUD

Arthur Kennedy b. 1914 d. 1990 (brain tumor)
Actor – Pontius Pilate in Barrabbas

Burt Kennedy b.1922 d. February 15, 2001 (cancer)
Director – The Virginian, Combat, Lawman, Simon and Simon

Douglas Kennedy b. 1915 d. 1973 (cancer)
Actor – Marshal Steve Donovan on Steve Donovan, Western Marshal and Sheriff Fred Madden on The Big Valley

Edward Moore Kennedy b. 1932 d. Aug. 25, 2009 (brain cancer)
9 term US Senator from Mass. referred to as “The Lion of the Senate” younger brother of John and Bobby Kennedy

George Kennedy b. 1925 d. 2016
Actor – Academy Award for “Cool Hand Luke”

John Fitzgerald Kennedy b. May 29, 1917 d. November 22, 1963 (assasinated)
35th President of the United States

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr. b. 1960 d. July 16, 1999 (plane crash)
Son of JFK, Publisher of George

Kara Kennedy (Allen) b. 1960 d. Sept. 16, 2011 (heart attack)
oldest child of Edward Kennedy

Robert Francis Kennedy b. 1925. d. June 6, 1968 (shot)
U.S. Attorney General – brother of JFK

Rose Kennedy b. 1890 d. 1995 (pneumonia)
Mother of JFK

Doris Kenner-Jackson b. 1942 d. February 4, 2000
Singer – A Shirelle

Shell Kelpler b. 1959 d. February 1, 2008
Actress – Amy Vining on General Hospital

Jack Kerouac b. 1922 d. 1969
Writer – On the Road – Beat architect

Deborah Kerr b. 1921 d. October 23, 2007 (Parkinson’s Disease)
Actress – From Here to Eternity and The King and I

Ken Kesey – b. 1935 d. November 10, 2001 (liver cancer)
Author – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Hank Ketchum b. 1920 d. June 1, 2001
cartoonist – Creator of Dennis the Menace

Jack Kevorkian b. 1928 d. 2011 (Kidney & Liver disease)
Pathologist – brought national attention to the “Death with Dignity” agenda

Persis Khambatta b. 1950 d. 1998 (heart attack)
Actress who shaved her head to co-star in Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini b. 1900 d. 1989 (heart failure)
Iranian revolutionary leader

Nikita Khrushchev b. 1894 d. 1971
Soviet Premier

Richard Kiel b. 1939 d. 2014 (complications from a a broken leg)
Actor – played the steel-toothed Jaws in two James Bond movies

Richard Kiley b. 1922 d. 1999 (blood disorder)
Actor/singer – The original Man of La Mancha

Dorothy Kilgallen b. 1913. d. 1965 (drug overdose, possible suicide)
Gossip columinist/celebrity – panelist, What’s My Line

Harmon Killebrew b. 1936 d. 2011
Baseball player – Minnesota Twins “Hammerin’ Harmon” top homerun hitter

Alan King b. 1927 d. May 9, 2004 (lung cancer)
Comedian/Actor

B.B. King b. 1925 d. 2015 (complications of high blood pressure and diabetes)
Blues singer/guitarist – “The King of Blues”

Cammie King b. 1935 d. 2010 (lung cancer)
Child Actress – “Bonnie Blue Butler” in Gone with the Wind (1939)

Coretta Scott King b. 1927 d. January 30, 2006
Widow of Martin Luther King and Civil Rights matriarch

Martin Luther King, Jr. b. 1929 d. 1968 (shot)
Civil Rights Activist

Yolanda King b. 1955 d. May 15, 2007
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s eldest child

Sam Kinison b. 1953 d. 1992 (killed in traffic accident)
Comedian

Bruno Kirby b. 1949 d. August 14, 2006 (leukemia)
Ed Funillo in City Slickers

Durward Kirby b. 1912 d. 2000 (congestive heart failure)
Sidekick – The Garry Moore Show and also Candid Camera

Phyllis Kirk b. 1929 d. October 20, 2006 (post-cerebral aneurysm )
Actress – Nora Charles on The Thin Man

Don Kirshner b. 1934 d. 2011 (heart failure)
Promoter – Bobby Darin, Neil Diamond, Carole King, The Archies, The Monkees

Eartha Kitt b.1927 d. 2008 (colon cancer) Entertainer/ Singer/ Actress
best known for singing the song Santa Baby

Richard C. Kleindienst b. 1924 d. February 2, 2000
Nixon’s Attorney General who served for one year during the Watergate scandal

Werner Klemperer b. 1920 d. December 6, 2000 (cancer)
Actor – Colonel Wilhelm Klink on Hogan’s Heroes

Jack Klugman b. 1922 d. December 24, 2012 (throat cancer)
Actor – Oscar Madison in “The Odd Couple” (1970 – ’75), “Quincy, M.E.” (1976 -’83)

Evel Knievel b. 1938 d. November 30, 2007
Legendary motorcycle daredevil

Ted Knight b. 1923 d. 1986 (kidney cancer)
Actor – Ted Baxter in the Mary Tyler Moore Show

Wyatt Knight b. 1955 d. 2011 (cancer then suicide)
Tommy Turner in the Porky’s trilogy

Don Knotts b. 1924 d. February 24, 2006 (pulmonary and respiratory complications)
Actor – Deputy Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show and landlord Ralph Furley on Three’s Company

Keith Knudsen b. 1948 d. February 8, 2005 (pneumonia)
Musician – Longtime drummer for the Doobie Brothers

Ed Koch b.1924 d. February 01, 2013 (heart failure)
Politician – 3 term Mayor of New York City

Howard W. Koch b. 1916 d. February 16, 2001
Producer/director – Johnny Ringo, Maverick, The Odd Couple

Mary Jo Kopechne b. 1940. d. July 19, 1969
Campaign worker Teddy Kennedy drove off a bridge, whereupon she drowned.

Ernie Kovacs b. 1919 d. 1962 (car crash)
Comedian – Husband of Edie Adams

Stanely Kramer b.1913 d.2001 (pneumonia)
Producer/director – High Noon

Ray Kroc b. 1902 d. 1984
Founder of McDonalds, the franchise

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross b. d. August 24, 2004 (compliations of strokes)
Psychiatrist & author – “On Death and Dying”

Stanley Kubrick b. 1928 d. 1999
Director – 2001, A Space Odyssey

Bowie Kuhn b. 1926 d. March 15, 2007
Former Major League Baseball commissioner

William Kunstler b.1919 d. 1995 (heart failure)
Lawyer/activist

Charles Kuralt b. 1934 d. 1997 (Lupus)
Journalist

Akira Kurosawa b. 1910 d. 1998 (stroke)
Movie Director

Burt Kwouk b. 1930 d. 2016 (cancer)
Actor – Cato in the “Pink Panther” films

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Richard Long
1974
Michael Landon
Michael Landon
1991
Tom Landry
Tom Landry
2000
Larry Linville
Larry Linville
2000
Janet Leigh
Janet Leigh
2004
Heath Ledger died
Heath Ledger
2008
Art Linkletter
Art Linkletter
2010
Steve Landesberg
Steve Landesberg
2010
Jack Lalanne
Jack Lalanne
2011
Len Lesser
Len Lesser
2011
Judy Lewis
Judy Lewis
2011
George Lindsey
George Lindsey
2012
Susan Luckey
Susan Luckey
2012
Ed Lauder
Ed Lauter
2013
Tom Laughlin
Tom Laughlin
2013
Geoffrey Lewis
Geoffrey Lewis
2015
Christopher Lee
Christopher Lee
2015
Robert Loggia
Robert Loggia 2015
Marjorie Lord
Marjorie Lord 2015
Martin Landau celebrity death 2017
Martin Landau 2017
Jerry Lewis 2017
Jerry Lewis

Greg Lake b. 1947 d. 2016 (cancer)
founding member of Emerson, Lake & Palmer “Lucky Man”

Fernando Lamas b. 1915 d. 1982
Actor – Married to Esther Williams, father of Lorenzo (by Arlene Dahl)

Dorothy Lamour b. 1914 d. 1996 (cardiac arrest)
Actress – Road Shows with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby

Burt Lancaster b. 1913 d. 1994 (heart attack)
Actor – Elmer Gantry

Martin Landau b. 1928 d. 2017 (lung cancer)
Actor – “Mission: Impossible” (1966 -1973), “Space: 1999” (1976-’77)

Ann Landers (Esther Pauline Friedman) b. July 4, 1918 d. June 22, 2002 (multiple myeloma, a bone marrow cancer)
Columnist – dispensed advice to millions

Steve Landesberg b. 1945 d. 2010 (cancer)
Actor – Arthur Dietrich on Barney Miller

Michael Landon b. 1936 d. 1991(cancer)
Actor – Little Joe on Bonanza

Tom Landry b. 1924 d. 2000 (leukemia)
First coach of the Dallas Cowboys

Allan “Rocky” Lane b. 1904. d. 1973
Voice of Mr. Ed

Hope Lange b. 1931 d. December 19, 2003 (intestinal inflammation – ischemic colitis)
Actress – “The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

Jim Lange b. 1932 d. Feb. 25, 2014 (heart attack)
Radio and TV Host – hosted “The Dating Game” (1965-1980)

Frances Langford b. 1914 d. July 11, 2005 (congestive heart failure)
Actress and USO entertainer known as “Sweetheart of the Fighting Fronts,”

Meyer Lansky b. 1902 d. 1983
Gangster they never could convict

Gracie Lantz b. 1903 d. 1992 (spinal cancer)
Voice of Woody Woodpecker, wife of Walter

Walter Lantz b. 1900 d. 1994
Cartoonist – creator of Woody Woodpecker

Ring Lardner Jr. b. 1915 d. October 31, 2000
Screenwriter – One of the blacklisted Hollywood 10

Julius La Rosa b.1930 d. 2016 (natural)
Singer – “Anywhere I Wander” fired by Arthur Godfrey on the air

Jack Larson b. 1928 d. 2015
Actor – Jimmy Olsen on Adventures of Superman (1952-58)

Fred LaRue b. 1929 d. July 24, 2004
Watergate bagman

Lash LaRue b. 1917 d. 1996
Western Actor – often played character by own name or Cheyenne Davis

Estee Lauder b. 1906 d. April 26, 2004 (cardiopulmonary arrest)
Cosmetics pioneer

Tom Laughlin b. 1931 d. Dec. 12, 2013 (complications from pneumonia)
Actor – wrote, co-produced and starred in four “Billy Jack” movies

Stan Laurel b. 1890 d. 1965 (heart attack)
Actor – half of Laurel and Hardy

Ed Lauter b. 1938 d. Oct. 16, 2013
Actor – character actor, “The Magnificent Seven Ride!”, “ER”, “Golden Years”, hundreds more

Harry Lauter b. 1914 d. 1990 (heart failure)
Actor – Ranger Clay Morgan on Tales of the Texas Rangers

Patricia Kennedy Lawford b. 1924 d. September 17, 2006 (pneumonia)
Sister of John F. Kennedy and former wife of Peter Lawford

Peter Lawford b. 1923 d. 1984 (cirrhosis of the liver)
Actor/Rat Pack/brother-in-law of JFK – Ocean’s Eleven

Ken Lay b. 1942 d. July 5, 2006
Fomer CEO of Enron – Convicted of 9 counts of conspiracy and fraud

Timothy Leary b. 1920 d. 1996 (prostate cancer)
Writer and free thinker

Heath Ledger b. 1979 d. January 22, 2008 (Cardiac arrest brought on by prescription drug intoxication)
Actor – A Knight’s Tale and Brokeback Mountain

Alvin Lee b. 1944 s. March 06, 2013 (complications from minor surgery)
Musician – lead guitarist for Ten Years After rock group

Anna Lee b.1913 d. May 14, 2004 (pneumonia)
Actress – Lila Quartermaine on General Hospital

Brandon Lee b. 1965 d. 1993 (Shot by a gun that was supposed to have been cleaned out by a stage hand, but it hadn’t been completely)
Actor – The Crow

Bruce Lee b. 1940 d. 1973 (brain edema)
Actor – Fist of Fury

Christopher Lee b. 1922 d. 2015 (heart failure)
Actor – Saruman in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy

Curtis Lee b. 1939 d. 2015 (cancer)
Singer – “Pretty Little Angel Eyes”

Gypsy Rose Lee b. 1914 d. 1970 (cancer)
Stripper – subject of play/movie Gypsy

Harper Lee b. 1926 d. 2016
Novelist – Pulitzer Prize for fiction (1961) for novel “To Kill a Mockingbird”

Peggy Lee b. 1920 d. January 21, 2002 (heart attack)
Singer – Fever

Ernest Lehman b. 1915 d. July 2, 2005
Screenwriter – North by Northwest, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Sound of Music

Jerry Leiber b. 1933 d. August 22, 2011 (heart ailment)
Songwriter – “Jailhouse Rock”, “Hound Dog”

Janet Leigh b. 19.27 d. October 3, 2004 (vasculitis)
Actress – Psycho; mother of Jamie Lee Curtis

Vivien Leigh b. 1913 d. 1967 (tuberculosis)
Actress – Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With The Wind

Harvey Lembeck b. 1923 d. 1982 (heart attack)
Actor – The Phil Silvers Show and Ensign O’Toole

Jack Lemmon b. 1925 d. June 27, 2001
Actor – Felix Unger in the Odd Couple movies

Bob Lemon b. 1920 d. 2000
Baseball player – pitcher for Cleveland Indians

Medowlark Lemon b. 1932 d. 2015
Basketball Player – Harlem Globetrotters (1955-1980)

Mark Lenard b. 1924 d. 1996 (cancer)
Actor – Sarek, Spock’s father on Star Trek

Cynthia Lennon b.1939 d. 2015 (cancer)
1st wife of John Lennon of the Beatles, married, 1962 divorced, 1968

John Lennon b. 1940 d. 1980 (shot)
Beatle

Elmore Leonard, Jr b.1924 d. 2013
Novelist – “Get Shorty”, “Mr. Majestyk”, “3:10 to Yuma”

Sheldon Leonard b. 1907 d. 1997
Actor/Producer – Make Room for Daddy, I Spy, The Andy Griffith Show and Gomer Pyle USMC

Mervyn LeRoy b. 1900 d. 1987 (Alzheimers disease)
Director – Mister Roberts, Gypsy

Len Lesser b. 1922 d. 2011 (pneumonia from cancer)
Actor – Uncle Leo on Seinfield

Irving R Levine b. 1922 d. 2009 (colon cancer)
Newsman with NBC for over 40 years

Al Lewis b. 1923 d. February 3, 2006
Actor – Grandpa on The Munsters and Officer Leo Schnauzer on Car 54, Where Are You?

Geoffrey Lewis b. 1935 d. 2015 (natural)
Actor – Orville Boggs in “Every Which Way But Loose” and “Any Which Way You Can”

Jerry Lewis b. 1926 d. 2017 (natural)
Comedian/Actor/Humanitarian – “The Bellboy” (1960), Nutty Professor (1963), Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon (1966-2010)

Judy Lewis b. 1935 d. November 25, 2011 (colon cancer)
Actress – illegitimate daughter of Hollywood stars Loretta Young and Clark Gable

Rick Lewis b. 1934 d. April 19, 2005
Pop singer – The Silhouettes

Shari Lewis b. 1933 d. 1998 (pneumonia/ovarian cancer)
Entertainer – Lamb Chop’s mom

Liberace (Wladziu Valentino) b. 1919 d. 1987 (AIDS)
Pianist and colorful entertainer

Richard Libertini b. 1933 d. 2016 (cancer)
Actor – the Editor in “Fletch” (1985) and two sequels

Corey Lidle b. 1972 d. October 12, 2006 (plane crash)
Pitcher for the New york Yankees

Evelyn Norton Lincoln b. 1909 d. 1995
Personal secretary to JFK

Anne Morrow Lindbergh b. 1907 d. February 7, 2001
Writer – Gift from the Sea, widow of Charles Lindbergh

Charles Lindbergh b. 1902 d. 1974
Aviator

Audra Lindley b. 1918 d. 1997 (leukemia)
Actress – Mrs. Roper on Three’s Company

Art Linkletter b. 1912 d. 2010 (natural death)
“House Party” on both Radio and TV, 1944 – 1969 and “People Are Funny, 1954 – 1961

John Lindsay b. 1921 d. December 19, 2000
Mayor of New York City 1966-1974

George Lindsey b. 1928 d. May 6, 2012
Actor – Goober on “Andy Griffith” and “Hee Haw”

Larry Linville b. 1939 d. 2000 (lung cancer)
Actor – Major Frank Burns on MASH

Charles Sonny Liston b. 1932 d. 1970 (drug overdose)
Boxer

Cleavon Little b. 1939 d. 1992 (colon cancer)
Actor – Ron Freeman on True Colors

Desmond Llewelyn b. 1914 d. 1999 (car crash)
Actor – Q in 17 of the James Bond movies

Frederick Loewe b. 1904 d. 1988
Composer – My Fair Lady

Robert Loggia b. 1930 d. 2015 (Alzheimer’s disease)
Actor – “Big”, “An Officer and a Gentleman”, “Scarface”

Vince Lombardi b. 1913 d. 1970 (cancer)
Coach of the Green Bay Packers

Guy Lombardo b. 1902 d. 1977
Orchestra Leader

Julie London b. 1926 d. 2000 (complications of a stroke)
Singer/Actress – nurse Dixie McCall oEmergency, with husband Bobby Troup as neurosurgeon Dr. Joe Early, and ex-husband Jack Webb as producer

Huey Long b. 1904 d. 2009 (natural)
Guitarist – was original member of the Ink Spots

Richard Long b. 1927 d. 1974 (heart failure)
Actor – Jarod Barkley on the Big Valley

Jack Lord b. 1920. d. 1998 (heart failure)
Actor – Steve McGarrett on Hawaii Five-O. Book ’em Dano!

Marjorie Lord b. 1918 d. 2015 (natural)
Actress – Kathy “Clancy” Williams on “Make Room for Daddy

Sherman Loudermilk b. 1913 d. April 30, 2005 (complications from Alzheimer’s disease)
Art director;also host of Cowboy Slim on KTLA-TV

Joe “The Brown Bomber” Louis b. 1914 d. 1981(heart attack)
Boxer

Anita Louise b. 1915 d. 1970 (stroke)
Actress – Nell McLaughlin on My Friend Flicka

Linda Lovelace – b. 1949 d. April 22, 2002 (car crash)
Porn star turned anti-porn advocate – Deep Throat

Myrna Loy b. 1905 d. 1993 (complications during surgery)
Actress – Mrs. Blandings in Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

Susan Luckey b. 1938 d. 2012
Actress – “Carousel” (1956) and Zaneeta Shinn in “The Music Man” (1962)

Allen Ludden b. 1917 d. 1981(cancer)
Host – Password. married to Betty White

Robert Ludlum b. 1927 d. March 12, 2001 (heart attack)
Writer – The Bourne Identity, Holcroft Covenant

Sidney Lumet b. 1924 d. 2011 (Lymphoma)
Director & Producer “12 Angry Men”, “Dog Day Afternoon”, “Network”

Lamar Lundy b. 1935 d. February 24, 2007
Defensive lineman and part of the “Fearsome Foursome” of the L.A. Rams of the ’60s

Ida Lupino b. 1918 d. 1995 (stroke,colon cancer)
Actress/Director – directed episodes of Untouchables, Fugitive, Twilight Zone. Married to Howard Duff

Pierce Lyden b. 1908 d. 1998
Western actor

Frankie Lymon b. 1942 d. 1968 (heroin overdose)
Singer – Why Do Fools Fall in Love

Richard Lynch b. 1940 d. 2012 (heart attack)
Actor – King Cromwell in The Sword and the Sorcerer

Paul Lynde b. 1927 d. 1982 (cardiac arrest due to extreme substance abuse)
Actor/comedian – Center Square on the Hollywood Squares

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Christa McAuliffe - Celebrity Death M
Christa McAuliffe
1986
Jock Mahoney
Jock Mahoney
1989
Walter Matthau
Walter Matthau
2000
Richard Mulligan
Richard Mulligan
2000
Eugene McCarthy
Eugene McCarthy
2005
Tamy Faye Messner
Tammy Faye
Messner
2007
Jim McKay
Jim McKay
2007
Bernie Mac
Bernie Mac
2008
Bernie Mac
Ricardo Montalban
2009
Patrick McGoohan
Patrick McGoohan
2009
Ed McMahon Died
Ed McMahon
2009
Billy Mays
Billy Mays
2009
Karl Malden Died
Karl Malden
2009
Karl Malden Died
Brittany Murphy
2009
Rue McClanahan
Rue McClanahan
2010
Mitch Miller
Mitch Miller
2010
Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy
2010
James MacArthur
James MacArthur
2010
Don Meredith
Don Meredith
2010
Harry Morgan
Harry Morgan
2011
Dorothy McGuire
Dorothy McGuire
2012
Mindy McCready
Mindy McCready
2013
Cory Monteith
Cory Monteith
2013
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela
2013
Denny Miller
Denny Miller
2014
Anne Meara
Anne Meara
2015
Martin Milner
Martin Milner
2015
Al Molinaro
Al Molinaro
2015
Mary Tyler Moore died 2017
Mary Tyler Moore
2017
John McCain Celebrity Death 2018
John McCain
2018

Garry Marshall b. 1934 d. 2016 (pneumonia after suffering a stroke)
Writer/Producer/Actor – created “Happy Days”, “Mork & Mindy”, “Laverne & Shirley

Sir George Martin b. 1926 d. 2016 (in his sleep)
Producer for the “Beatles” albums, known as “The Fifth Beatle”

Dean Martin b. 1917 d. 1995 (lung cancer)
Actor/Singer – movie- “Ocean’s 11” hit song – “Everybody Loves Somebody”

Jeanne Martin b. 1927 d. 2016 (cancer)
Model – Orange Bowl Queen (1947), Dean Martin’s 2nd wife

Ricci Martin b. 1954 d. 2016
Entertainer – youngest son of Dean Martin

Joseph Mascolo b. 1929 d. 2016 (Alzheimer’s disease)
Stefano DiMera in “Days of Our Lives”

John McCain b.1936 d. 2018 (brain tumor “glioblastoma”)
War Hero – US Senator (2001-’14), US House (1983-’87), Capt. US Navy ret. (1958-’81) was called a “maverick” in the Senate

Brooke McCarter b. 1963 d. 2015 (rare liver disease)
Actor – Paul in “The Lost Boys” (1987)

Jayne Meadows b. 1919 d. 2015
Actress – “To Tell the Truth” married to Steve Allen

Dale Messick b. 1906 d. April 5, 2005
Cartoonist – Brenda Starr

Tammy Faye (Bakker) Messner b.1942 d. July 20, 2007 (cancer)
Fomer wife of TV preacher Jim Bakker

Michu Meszaros b.1939 d. 2016 (complications from a stroke)
Actor / Circus Performer – was the man in the ALF costume (ALF TV Show 1986-1990)

Grace Metalious b. 1924 d. 1964 (liver disease)
Writer – Peyton Place

Lou Meyers b. 1935 d. 2013
Actor – Mr. Gaines on “A Different World” (1987-’93)

George Michael b. 1963 d. 2016 (?)
Singer/Songwriter – #1 hits; “Faith”, “I Want Your Sex”, “Careless Whisper”

James A. Michener b. 1907 d. 1997 (kidney failure)
Writer – Tales of the South Pacific, Space, Hawaii

George Mikan b. 1924 d. June 1, 2005 (diabetes and kidney ailments)
Basketball Center – Minneapolis Lakers

John Milford b. 1929 d. 2000 (melanoma)
Actor – a hundred parts in a hundred shows

Ann Miller b. 1923 d. Jaunary 22, 2004 (lung cancer)
Actress/dancer – On the Town, Easter Parade and Sugar Babies

Arthur Miller b. 1915 d. February 10, 2005 (heart failure)
Playright – Death of a Salesman, Married to Marilyn Monroe 1956-1961

Denny Miller b. 1934 d. 2014 (ALS)
Duke Shannon on Wagon Train

Henry Miller b. 1891 d. 1980 (heart failure)
Writer – Tropic of Cancer

Mitch Miller b. 1911 d. 2010
Singer, Conductor, Musician – “Sing Along with Mitch” TV Show 1961 – 1966

Roger Miller b. 1936 d. 1992 (throat cancer)
Singer – King of the Road, Dang Me, Chug-A-Lug

Donald Mills b. 1915 d. 1999 (pneumonia)
Singer – The Mills Brothers

Harry Mills b. 1913 d. 1982 (pneumonia)
Singer – The Mills Brothers

Sir John Mills b. 1908 d. April 23, 2005
Brisitsh actor – “Ryan’s Daughter”; father of Haley, Juliet and Jonathan Mills

Herbert Mills b. 1912 d. 1989 (pneumonia)
Singer – The Mills Brothers

Martin Milner b.1931 d. 2015 (heart failure)
Actor – Route 66 (1960-64) and Adam-12 (1968-75)

Slobodan Milosevic b. 1942 d. March 11, 2006
Tyrant – Butcher of the Balkans

Sal Mineo b. 1939 d. 1976 (murdered/stabbing)
Actor – Dov Landau in Exodus

Jan Miner b. 1917 d.February 15, 2004 (natural causes)
Actress – Madge the manicurist in the Palmolive ads

Vincente Minnelli b. 1903 d. 1986
Director/producer – Father of Liza Minnelli, husband of Judy Garland

Cameron Mitchell b. 1918 d. 1994 (lung cancer)
Actor – Buck on High Chaparral

Don Mitchell b. 1943 d. 2013
Actor – Mark Sanger on Ironside

Guy Mitchell b. 1925 d. 1999 (complications after surgery)
Singer/actor – Heartaches by the Number

James Mitchell b. 1920 d. 2010 (pulmonary disease)
actor, dancer – portrayed Palmer Cortlandt on “All My Children” also was a ballet dancer

Martha Mitchell b. 1918 d. 1976
Watergate gossip – Wife of Attorney General John Mitchell

Shirley Mitchell b. 1919 d. 2013 (heart failure)
Actress – “I Love Lucy” played Lucy’s friend Marion Strong (last surviving cast member)

Robert Mitchum b. 1917 d. 1997 (emphysema and lung cancer)
Actor – Victor ‘Pug’ Henry in Winds of War

François Mitterrand b. 1916 d. 1996 (prostate cancer)
Twenty-first president of the French Republic from 1981 to 1995

Art Mix b. 1896 d. 1972
Western Actor

Mary Ann Mobley b. 1939 d. 2014 (breast cancer)
Actress / Beauty Queen – Miss America 1959 and tv shows Fantasy Island and Diff’rent Strokes

Arnold Molinaro b. 1919 d. 2015 (infected gallbladder)
Actor – Arnold on Happy Days

John Paul “Jay” Monahan b. 1956 d. 1998 (colon cancer)
NBC legal analyst – Husband of Katie Couric

Eleanor Mondale b. 1960 d. 2011 (brain cancer)
daughter of VP Walter Mondale

Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jeane Baker) b. 1926 d. 1962 (suicide?)
Actress – The Misfits

Montie Montana b. 1910 d. 1998 (stroke)
Western actor

Yves Montand b. 1921 d. 1991(heart attack)
Actor – Jean-Marc Clement in Let’s Make Love

Cory Monteith b. 1982 d. 2013 (mixture of drugs and alcohol)
Actor / Singer – Finn Hudson on the tv series “Glee”

Hugo Montenegro b. 1925. d. 1981 (emphysema)
Composer – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Elizabeth Montgomery b. 1933 d. 1995 (cancer)
Actress – Samantha Stephens in Bewitched

George Montgomery b. 1916 d. December 12, 2000
Actor – Matt Rockford in Cimarron City

Ricardo Montalban b. 1920 d. January 14, 2009 (aging)
Actor – Fantasy Island

Keith Moon b. 1946 d. 1978 (drugs)
Musician – The Who

Archie Moore b. 1913 d. 1998(heart failure)
Boxer

Clayton Moore b. 1914 d. 1999 (heart attack)
Actor – The Lone Ranger

Dudley Moore b. 1935 d. March 27, 2002 (pneumonia as a complication of progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP)
Actor – Arthur and 10

Garry Moore b. 1915 d. 1993 (emphysema)
Actor/host – To Tell the Truth, I’ve Got a Secret

Mary Tyler Moore b. 1936 d. 2017 (Diabetes)
Actress – Laura Petrie on The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961-1966) and Mary Richards on The Mary Tyler Show (1970-1977)

Scotty Moore b. 1931 d. 2016 (in his sleep)
Guitarist – backed Elvis in early recordings and pioneered new styles

Agnes Moorehead b. 1906 d. 1974 (cancer)
Actress – Endora, Samantha’s mother on Bewitched

Harry Morgan b. 1915 d. December 07, 2011
Actor – Col. Potter on M.A.S.H. & Det. Bill Gannon on Dragnet (1967- ’70)

Henry Morgan b. 1915 d. 1994
Actor/panelist – I’ve Got a Secret

Pat Morita b. 1932 d. November 24, 2005 (natural causes)
Actor – Arnold on Happy Days and Mr. Miyagi in The Karate Kid

Greg Morris b. 1934 d. 1996 (cancer)
Actor – Barney Collier on Mission Impossible

Howard Morris b. 1919 d. May 21, 2005 (heart problem)
Actor/director – Ernest T. Tubbs on the Andy Griffith Show

Morris The Cat, I. b. 1968. d. 1978
Cat actor known for 9 Lives commercials

Jim Morrison b. 1943 d. 1971 (drugs)
Musician – The Doors

Barry Morse b. 1918 d. February 2, 2008
Actor – Lt. Philip Gerard on The Fugitive

Anna Karen Morrow b. 1914 d. 2009 (aging)
Actress – portrayed Mrs Chernak on “Peyton Place

Vic Morrow b. 1929 d. 1982 (Killed by helicopter blade while filming Twilight Zone: The Movie)
Actor – Sergeant Chip Saunders on Combat!

Gary Morton b. 1921 d. 1999 (lung cancer)
Husband of Lucille Ball

Milt Moss b. 1922 d. 2016
Actor – Did Alka-Seltzer commercial (1972) which coined the phrase “I can’t believe I ate the whole thing”

Daniel Partick Moynihan b. 1927 d. March 26, 2003 (infection stemming from a ruptured appendix )
U.S. Senator from New York

Mr. Ed b. in the 50s d. 1979
Animal actor – Mr. Ed

Edward Mulhare b. 1923 d. 1997 (lung cancer)
Actor – Capt. Daniel Gregg (the Ghost) in the Ghost and Mrs. Muir

Richard Mulligan b.1932 d. 2000 (colon cancer)
Actor – Burt Campbell on Soap and Dr. Harry Weston on Empty Nest

Audie Murphy b. 1924 d. 1971(plane crash)
Actor – Most decorated soldier in WWII, including Medal of Honor, starred in Whispering Smith

Brittany Murphy b. 1977 d. 2009 (cardiac arrest??)
Actor and singer – Girl Interrupted, 8 Mile, Sin City also produced an award winning dance song

Danny Murphy b. 1955 d. 2014 (cancer)
Actor – a quadriplegic since he was 19, appeared in several Farrelly Bros. movies incl. “There’s Something About Mary”

Mary Murphy b. 1931 d. 2011 (heart disease)
Actress – “The Wild One” with Marlon Brando, discovered in a diner

Jan Murray b. 1916 d. July 2, 2006
Comic host – Treasure Hunt

Edward R. Murrow b. 1908 d. 1965
Journalist

Stan Musial (“Stan the Man”) b. 1920 d. 2013 (natural)
Athlete – played MLB for the St. Louis Cardinals (1941–1963)

Edmund Muskie b. 1914 d. 1996 (heart attack)
Vice-Presidential candidate with Hubert Humphrey in 1968

Bess Myerson b. 1924 d. 2014
Model – she was the first Jewish Miss America 1945

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Ozzie Nelson
1975
David Niven
David Niven
1983
Pat Nixon
Pat Nixon
1993
Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon
1994
Paul Newman
Paul Newman
2008
Patricia Neal
Patricia Neal
2010
leslie Nielsen
Leslie Nielsen
2010
Ricky Nelson
Ricky Nelson
1985
Harriet Nelson
Harriet Nelson
1994
David Nelson
David Nelson
2011
Ed Nelson
Ed Nelson
2014
Taylor Negron
Taylor Negron
2015
Leonard Nimoy
Leonard Nimoy
2015
James Noble
James Noble
2016
Noel Neill in Superman
Noel Neill
2016
Celebrity Death Jim Nabors
Jim Nabors
2017

Jim Nabors b. 1930 d. 2017
Actor/Singer – Gomer Pyle on TV shows; “The Andy Griffith Show” and “Gomer Pyle USMC

Noel Neill b. 1920 d. 2016
Actress – Lois Lane in “Adventure of Superman” (1952-58)

Harriet Nelson b. 1909 d. 1994(congestive heart failure)
Actress – Ozzie and Harriett

Ozzie Nelson b. 1907 d. 1975 (cancer)
Actor – Ozzie and Harriett

Ricky Nelson b. 1940 d. 1985 (plane crash)
Actor/singer – Ozzie and Harriett, Hello Mary Lou

Lois Nettleton b. 1927 d. January 18, 2008 (lung cancer)
Actor – Evelyn in Crossing Jordan

Anthony Newley b. 1931 d.1999 (renal cell cancer)
Singer, actor, composer – Stop the World I Want to Get Off

Paul Newman b. 1925 d. Sptember 26, 2008 (lung cancer)
Actor – “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”, “Cool Hand Luke”, “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”

Tommy Newsom – b.1929 d. April 29, 2007 (cancer)
Bandleader called “Mr. Excitement” by Johnny Carson on the “Tonight Show”

Haing S. Ngor b. 1940 d. 1996 (murdered)
Actor – The Killing Fields

Mike Nichols b. 1931 d. 2010 (heart attack)
Director – The Graduate, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, married to Diane Sawyer

Leslie Nielsen b. 1926 d. 2010 (pneumonia)
Actor, Airplane and Naked Gun movies

Harry Nilsson b. 1941 d. 1994 (heart attack)
Musician – The Point

Chester W. Nimitz b. 1885 d. 1966
U.S. Naval Admiral

Leonard Nimoy b. 1931 d. 2015 (Pulmonary disease)
Actor – Spock in the original Star Trek series and through the franchise (1966-2013)

David Niven b. 1910 d. 1983 (Lou Gehrig’s Disease)
Actor – Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days

Pat Nixon b. 1912 d. 1993 (cancer)
Wife of Richard M. Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon b. 1913 d. 1994 (stroke)
37th American President

James Noble b. 1922 d. 2016
Actor – Governor Gatling on “Benson” (1979-1986)

Lloyd Nolan b. 1902 d. 1985
Actor – Dr. Morton Chegley in Julia

Ken Norton b. 1943 d. 2013 (heart failure)
Heavyweight boxer – won the title from Muhammad Ali, (1973)

Rudolf Nureyev b. 1938 d. 1993 (AIDS)
Dancer

Laura Nyro b. 1947 d. 1997 (ovarian cancer)
Musician/composer – Wrote Stoney End, And When I Die,Wedding Bell Blues

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Heather O’Rourke
1988
Susan Oliver
Susan Oliver
1990
Jacqueline Onassis
Jacqueline Onassis
1994
Hugh O'Connor
Hugh O’Connor
1995
Jerry Orbach
Jerry Orbach
2004
Peter O'Toole
Peter O’Toole
2013
Maureen O'Hara
Maureen O’Hara
2015
Wyatt Earp - Hugh O'Brien
Hugh O’Brien
2016
celebrity death - lani o'grady
Lani O’Grady
2001

Edmond O’Brien b. September 10, 1915. d. 1985 (Alzheimers)
Actor – Frank Bigelow in D.O.A.

Hugh O’Brian b. 1925 d. 2016
Actor – starred in TV series “The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp” (1955–1961)

Pat O’Brien b. November 11, 1899 d. October 15, 1983 (heart attack)
Actor – Knute Rockne, All American

Carroll O’Connor b. d. June 21, 2001 (heart attack)
Actor – Archie Bunker in “All in the Family

Donald O’Connor b. 1925 d. Deptember 27, 2003 (heart failure)
Actor/dancer – Singin’ in the Rain, There’s No Business Like Show Business

Hugh O’Connor b. April 7, 1962. d. March 28, 1995 (suicide, shot himself in the head)
Actor – Lonnie Jamison on In the Heat of the Night – adopted son of Carroll O’Connor

Kenneth O’Donnell P. b. 1924. d. 1977
Press Secretery to JFK. After the assassination, he became a depressed alcoholic

Lani O’Grady b. 1954 d. 2001 (multiple drug intoxication)
Actress – Mary Bradford in “Eight Is Enough” 1977-81

Madalyn Murray O’Hair d 1995 (missing presumed dead?)
Atheist activist – Disappeared with son Jon, grandaughter Robin and US$629,500 of American Atheists organization money

Maureen O’Hara b. 1920 d. 2015
Actress – Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

Georgia O’Keeffe b. 1887 d. 1986
Artist – American abstract painter

Kate O’Mara b. 1939 d. 2014
Actress – Caress Morell, the sister of Alexis Colby (Joan Collins) in “Dynasty” (1986)

Patrick O’Neal b.1927 d. 1994 (respiratory failure)
Actor

Tip O’Neill d. 1994 b. 1912
Speaker of the U.S. House

Heather O’Rourke b. December 27, 1975 d. February 1, 1988 (intestinal stenosis)
Actress – Poltergeist Girl

Maureen O’Sullivan b. May 17, 191. d. June 23, 1998 (heart attack)
Actress – Mia Farrow’s Mother

Milo O’Shea b. 1926 d. 2013 (natural)
Character Actor – the Judge in 1982 movie “The Verdict”

Warren Oates b. 1928 d. 1982 (heart attack)
Actor

Merle Oberon b. 1911 d. 1979 (stroke)
Actress

Michaela Odone b. 1939 d. 2000 (lung cancer)
Real mother from story in the movie Lorenzo’s Oil. Her son has outlived her

Susan Oliver b.1937 d. 1990 (cancer)
Actress – Vina in the Star Trek pilot, The Cage

Lord Laurence Olivier b. 1907 d. 1989
Actor – former husband of Vivien Leigh

Johnny Olsen b. 1910 d. 1985 (brain hemhorrage)
Game show announcer – Price is Right, Match Game, Concentration

Merlin Olsen b. 1940 d. 2010 (mesothelioma)
Football great for LA Rams, Actor on Little House on the Prairie

Aristotle Onassis b. 1906 d. 1975 (Myesthenia Gravis)
Greek tycoon – Husband of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Christina Onassis b. 1950 d. 1988 (heart attack)
Heiress – Daughter of Aristotle

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis b. 1929 d. 1994 (Non-Hodgkins lymphoma)
Former First Lady and later, editor at Doubleday (see kennedy section on this site)

Robert J. Oppenheimer b. 1904 d. 1967
Nuclear Physicist

Jerry Orbach b. 1935 d. December 28, 2004 (prostate cancer)
Actor – Promises, Promises; Lennie Briscoe in Law and Order

Roy Orbison b. 1936 d. 1988 (heart attack)
Singer

Robert Osborn b. 1932 d. 2017
Film historian – host of Turner Classic Movies and The Movie Channel

Johnny Otis b. 1921 d. January 17, 2012
R&B Singer/Songwriter – “Willie and the Jive Hand”

Peter O’Toole b. 1932 d. December 14, 2013 (long illness)
Actor – T. E. Lawrence in “Lawrence of Arabia” (1962)

Buck Owens b. 1929 d. March 26, 2006
Singer and host of Hee Haw

Gary Owens b. 1934 d. 2015 (complications from diabetes)
Voice Actor – the announcer on Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In (1968-1973)

Jesse Owens b. 1913. d. 1980 (lung cancer)
Olympic Athlete

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Eva Peron
Eva Peron
1952
Celebrity Death - Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley
1977
George Peppard
George Peppard
1994
Walter Payton
Walter Payton
1999
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II
(Karol Wojtyla)
2005
Rosa PArks
Rosa Parks
2005
Richard Pryor
Richard Pryor
2005
Jack Palance died
Jack Palance
2006
Tom Poston died
Tom Poston
2007
Luciano Pavorati died
Luciano Pavoratti
2007
Suzanne Pleshette died
Suzanne Pleshette
2008
Betty Page
Betty Page
2008
Fess Parker
Fess Parker
2010
Ron Palillo
Ron Palilla
2012
Patti Page
Patti Page
2013
Prince
Prince
2016
Arnold Palmer golfer
Arnie Palmer
2016
Bill Paxton died
Bill Paxton
2017
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Luke Perry
2019
Regis Philpon died 2020
Regis Philbon
2020
Prince Phillip royal death 2021
Prince Philip
2021

Jack Paar b. 1918 d. January 27, 2004 (long illness after stroke)
Talk show host – Pioneered the Tonight Show

Doris Packer b. 1904 d. 1979
Actress – Mrs. Rayburn on Leave It To Beaver

Bettie Page b.1923 d. 2008 (heart attack)
Model/ famous 1950s pin up girl

Geraldine Page b. 1924 d. 1987 (heart attack)
Actress – Wife of Rip Torn

Joy Page b.1924 d. 2008 (stroke)
Actress/ was the newlywed woman in Casablanca

Patti Page b.1927 d. 2013 (natural causes)
Singer – Top selling female artist of the 1950’s – “Tennessee Waltz” & “(How Much Is That) Doggie in the Window”

Alan Pakula b. 1928 d. 1998 (killed when another car struck a metal pipe lying in the road and it flew into the windshield of his car)
Director/producer – To Kill A Mockingbird, Klute and All the President’s Men

Jack Palance b. 1919 d. November 10, 2006
Actor – Curly in City Slickers

Ron Palillo b. 1949 d. August 14, 2012 (heart attack)
Actor – Horshack on “Welcome Back Kotter” (1975 – ’79)

Arnold “Arnie” Palmer b. 1929 d. 2016 (heart related complications)
Golfer – One of the greatest golfers ever, did more to popularize the sport than any other golfer

Robert Palmer b.1949 d. September 26, 2003 (heart attack)
Singer – Addicted to Love, Simply Irresistible

Bruce Paltrow b. 1943 d. October 3, 2002 (throat cancer, pneumonia)
Producer-director of St. Elsewhere; father of Gwyneth Paltrow

Andreas Papandreau b. 1919. d. 1996
First Socialist Prime Minister of Greece

Fess Parker b. 1924 d. 2010 (natural)
Actor – appeared as Davy Crockett in Disney TV series also Daniel Boone

Colonel Tom Parker b. June 28, 1909. d. January 22, 1997 (stroke)
Elvis Presley’s manager

Williard Parker b. 1912 d. 1996 (heart failure)
Actor – Ranger Jace Pearson on Tales of the Texas Rangers

Bert Parks b. 1914 d. 1992 (lung cancer)
Actor/singer/host

Rosa Parks b. 1913 d. October 24, 2005
“The mother of civil rights” in America

Louella Parsons b. 1880 d. 1972.
Gossip Columnist

Robert Pastorelli b. 1954 d. March 8, 2004 (drug overdose)
Actor – Eldin the painter on Murphy Brown

Joseph “Joe” Paterno b. 1926 d. January 22, 2012
Head Coach Penn State University 1966 – 2011, final win/loss record of 409-136-3 (111 wins were vacated by the NCCA in 2012)

Luana Patten b. 1938. d. 1996 (respiratory failure)
Actress – many Disney films

Floyd Patterson b. 1935 d. May 11, 2006 (Alzheimer’s disease and prostate cancer)
Heavyweight boxing champion and Olympic Gold medalist

Billy Paul b. 1934 d. 2016 (pancreatic cancer)
Singer – Grammy Award for “Me and Mrs. Jones” (1972)

Les Paul b. 1915 d. August 13, 2009 (complications from pneumonia)
Inventor, muscian and songwriter – credited with inventing the electric guitar

Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla) b. 5/18/1920 d. April 2, 2005
Polish, elected Pope in October of 1978

Dr. Linus Pauling b. 1901 d. 1994
Chemist – only person to win two, unshared Nobel Prizes

Pat Paulsen b. 1927 d. 1997 (complications after surgery, brain and colon cancer)
Comedian and presidential candidate

Luciano Pavoratti b. 1935 d. September 6, 2007 (pancreatic cancer)
Legendary Italian tenor

Bill Paxton b. 1955 d. 2017 (complications from heart surgery)
Actor – “Aliens”, “Predator 2”, “True Lies”, “Apollo 13”, “Twister”

Johnny Paycheck b. 1938 d. 2/19/2003 (emphysema and asthma)
Musician – Take This Job and Shove It

John Payne b. 1912 d. 1989 (heart ailment)
Actor – Vint Bonner on the Restless Gun

Walter “Sweetness” Payton b.1954. d. 1999 (liver disease complicated by cancer)
Running back for Chicago Bears

Dick Peabody b. 1925. d. 1999 (prostate cancer)
Actor – Littlejohn on Combat

Minnie Pearl b. 1912. d. 1996 (cancer)
Country comedian

Drew Pearson b. 1897 d. 1969
Journalist

Lester Bowles Pearson b. 1897 d. 1972
14th Prime Minister of Canada

Gregory Peck b. 1916 d. June 11, 2003 (old age, no ailment)
Oscar winning actor – Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird

M. Scott Peck b. 1936 d. September 25, 2005 ( pancreatic and liver duct cancer)
Author – “The Road Less Traveled”

Sam Peckinpah b. 1925 d. 1984 (stroke)
Director – The Wild Bunch

Clara Peller b. 1901 d. 1987
“Where’s the beef?” lady

Elizabeth Peña b. 1959 d. 2014
Actress / Director Rosie Morales-Valenzuela in “La Bamba”

Teddy Pendergrass b. 1950 d. 2010 (colon cancer),
R&B Singer (Turn Off the Lights” and “Love TKO),

Chris Penn b. 1965 d. January 24, 2006
Actor – Reservoir Dogs; brother of Sean Penn

George Peppard b. 1928 d. 1994 (pneumonia)
Actor – Banacek and Col. John ‘Hannibal’ Smith on the “A-Team

Frank Perdue b. 1920 d. April 1, 2005
CEO of Perdue Farms – the chicken man

Anthony Perkins b. 1932 d. 1992 (AIDS)
Actor – Norman Bates in Psycho

Carl Perkins b. 1932 Â d. 1998
Musician – Blue Suede Shoes

Marlin Perkins b. 1905 d. 1986
Host of The Wild Kingdom

Eva “Evita” Peron, (Maria Eva Duarte) b. 1919 d. 1952 (cervical cancer)
Argentinian wife of Juan Peron

Juan Peron b. 1895 d. 1974
President of Argentina 1946-1955

Jim Perry b. 1933 d. 2015 (cancer)
TV Host – “$ale of the Century” game show

Luke Perry b. 1966 d. March 03, 2019 (stroke)
played Dylan McKay on the TV series “Beverly Hills, 90210” (1990-2000)

Brock Peters b. 1927 d. August 23, 2005 (pancreatic cancer)
Actor – Tom Robinson in To Kill a Mockingbird

Ray Peterson b. 1935 d. January 25, 2005 (cancer)
Singer – Tell Laura I Love Her

Roger Peterson b. May 24, 1937. d. February 3, 1959 (plane crash)
Pilot of the plane that crashed killing Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper

Tom Petty b. 1950 d. Oct. 02, 2017 (heat attack)
Singer/Songwriter – Tom Petty and the Heart Breakers: “I Won’t Back Down”, “Free Fallin”, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee (2002)

Regis Philbin b.1931 d. July 25, 2020 (natural)
TV personality/singer/actor – Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh b.1921 d. 2021
husband to Queen Elizabeth II for 75 years (1947-2021)

John Phillips b. 1935 d. March 18, 2001 (heart failure)
Singer/songwriter – The Mamas and Papas

Sam Phillips b 1923 d. July 30, 2003 (respiratory failure)
Music promoter – Founder of Sun Records; Man who “discovered” Elvis

River Phoenix b. 1970. d. 1993 (multiple drug intoxication)
Actor

Edith Piaf b. 1915. d. 1963
Singer

Pablo Picasso b. 1881. d. 1973
Artist

Brian Piccolo b. 1943. d. 1970 (cancer)
Football Player – Running back, Chicago Bears, roommate of Gayle Sayers

Nigel Pickering b. 1929 d. 2014
Musician – founder of the 1960s folk-rock group “Spanky and Our Gang”

Mary Pickford b. 1893. d. 1979 (cerebral hemorrhage)
Actress – silent film star

Slim Pickens b. 1919 d. 1983 (brain tumor)
Comic cowboy and bomb-rider in Dr. Strangelove

Bobby “Boris” Pickett b. 1938 d. April 25, 2007 (leukemia)
Singer – Monster Mash

Wilson Pickett b. 1941 d. January 19, 2006 (heart attack)
Soul singer – Midnight Hour and Mustang Sally

Walter Pidgeon b. 1897 d. 1984 (stroke)
Actor – Advise & Consent, Funny Girl

Michael Piller b. 1948 d. November 1, 2005 (cancer)
Writer/prodcer – Star Trek TNG, DS9 and Voyager

Gene Pitney b.1941 d. April 5, 2006
Singer/songwriter – Town Without Pity and Liberty Valance

Dana Plato b. 1964. d. 1999 (drug overdose – suicide?)
Actress – Kimberly Drummond on Different Strokes

Edward Platt b. 1916 d. 1974 (cancer)
Actor – Chief on Get Smart

Donald Pleasence b. 1919. d. 1995.
Actor – Dr. Loomis in the Halloween movies

Suzanne Pleshette – b. 1937 d. January 19, 2008 (lung cancer)
Actress – Bob Newhart Show and Rome Adventure

George Plimpton b. 1927 d. September 26, 2003
Author – The Paper Lion

Jackson Pollock b. 1912. d. 1956 (car crash)
Abstract Expressionist Artist

Sidney Pollock b.1934 d. 2008 (stomach cancer)
Director / The Way We Were, Jeremiah Johnson, Out of Africa

Georges Pompidou b. 1911. d. 1974
19th President of France from 1969 to 1974

Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla) b. 5/18/1920 d. April 2, 2005
Polish, elected Pope in October of 1978

Jon Polito b. 1950 d. 2016 (Multiple myeloma)
Actor – Steve Crosetti on “Homicide: Life on the Street”

Carlo Ponti b. 1912 d. January 10, 2007
Producer of Doctor Zhivago and husband of Sophia Loren

Cole Porter b. June 9, 1891 d. 1964
Composer / Lyricist

Don Porter b. 1912 d. 1997
Actor – Gidget‘s Dad

Emily (Price) Post b. 1872. d. 1960
Etiquette Writer

Tom Poston b. 1921 d. May 1, 2007
Actor – Married to Suzanne Pleshette; Cliff Murdock on The Bob Newhart Show

Ezra (Weston Loomis) Pound b. 1885. d. 1972
Poet/Critic

Dick Powell b. 1904. d. 1963 (cancer)
Actor – Married to Joan Blondell and then to June Allyson

Eleanor Powell b. 1912. d. 1982
Dancer/actress – Married to Glenn Ford

Lewis F. Powell, Jr. b. 1907 d. 1998 (pneumonia)
US Supreme Court Justice

William H. Powell b. 1892. d. 1984 (heart attack – in his sleep!)
Actor

Ben Powers b. 1950 d. 2015
Actor – Thelma’s husband Keith on “Good Times

Francis Gary Powers b. 1929. d. 1977 (crash of the helicopter he piloted for television station KNBC in Los Angeles)
U-2 Spy Pilot

Otto Preminger b. 1906. d. 1986
Director/producer

Elvis Presley b. January 8, 1935. d. August 16, 1977 (heart attack)
The King

Gladys Love Smith Presley b. April 25, 1912. d. August 14, 1958 (heart failure)
Mother of Elvis Presley

Reg Presley b. 1941 d. Feb. 4, 2013 (lung cancer and strokes)
Singer – The Troggs,biggest hit “Wild Thing”

Vernon Elvis Presley b. April 10, 1916. d. June 26, 1979
Father of Elvis Presley

Vester Presley b. September 11, 1914. d. January 18, 1997.
Uncle of Elvis Presley – Known as “Uncle Vester” to fans

Billy Preston b. 1946 d. June 6, 2006 (heart and kidney disease)
Keyboardist who played with the Beatles and the Stones

Robert Preston b. 1918. d. 1987 (lung cancer)
Actor – Harold Hill in The Music Man

Wayde Preston b. 1929 d. 1992 (colon cancer)
Actor – Christopher Colt on Colt 45

Ray Price b. 1926 d. Dec. 16, 2013 (pancreatic cancer)
C&W Singer – “For the Good Times”, “Night Life”

Vincent Price b. 1911. d. 1993 (lung cancer)
Actor – The Fly

Louis Prima b. 1910. d. 1978
Big Bandleader

Prince (Prince Rogers Nelson) b. 1958 d. 2016 (flu like symptoms?)
Musician – flamboyant on stage, seven Grammy Awards “Purple Rain”

Bob Prince b. 1915. d. 1985 (cancer)
Voice of the Pittsburgh Pirates

Freddie Prinze b. 1954. d. 1977 (suicide by .32 caliber revolver)
Actor – Chico and the Man

Juliet Prowse b. 1936 d. 1996 (pancreatic cancer)
Actress/dancer – Mona McCluskey

William Proxmire b. 1915 d. December 15, 2005
U.S. Senator (1957-1989) known for “Golden Fleece” awards

Richard Pryor b. 1940 d. December 10, 2005 (heart attack)
Comedian, actor – Silver Streak

Kirby Puckett b. 1961 d. March 6, 2006 (stroke)
Baseball Hall of Famer who played for Minnesota Twins

Tito Puente b. 1923 d. 2000 (heart disease)
Bandleader – “The Mambo King”

Melvin Purvis b. 1900. d. 1960
FBI agent that lead the group that gunned down John Dillinger in Chicago

Buford Hayse Pusser b. 1937. d. 1974 (car crash)
Real McNairy County, TN Sheriff, of ‘Walking Tall’ movie fame

Mario Puzo b. 1920 d. 1999 (heart failure)
Writer – The Godfather

Denver Dell Pyle b. 1920 d. December 25, 1997 (lung cancer)
Actor – Uncle Jesse in Dukes of HazzardJack Paar b. 1918 d. January 27, 2004 (long illness after stroke)
Talk show host – Pioneered the Tonight Show

Doris Packer b. 1904 d. 1979
Actress – Mrs. Rayburn on Leave It To Beaver

Bettie Page b.1923 d. 2008 (heart attack)
Model/ famous 1950s pin up girl

Geraldine Page b. 1924 d. 1987 (heart attack)
Actress – Wife of Rip Torn

Joy Page b.1924 d. 2008 (stroke)
Actress/ was the newlywed woman in Casablanca

Patti Page b.1927 d. 2013 (natural causes)
Singer – Top selling female artist of the 1950’s – “Tennessee Waltz” & “(How Much Is That) Doggie in the Window”

Alan Pakula b. 1928 d. 1998 (killed when another car struck a metal pipe lying in the road and it flew into the windshield of his car)
Director/producer – To Kill A Mockingbird, Klute and All the President’s Men

Jack Palance b. 1919 d. November 10, 2006
Actor – Curly in City Slickers

Ron Palillo b. 1949 d. August 14, 2012 (heart attack)
Actor – Horshack on “Welcome Back Kotter” (1975 – ’79)

Robert Palmer b.1949 d. September 26, 2003 (heart attack)
Singer – Addicted to Love, Simply Irresistible

Bruce Paltrow b. 1943 d. October 3, 2002 (throat cancer, pneumonia)
Producer-director of St. Elsewhere; father of Gwyneth Paltrow

Andreas Papandreau b. 1919. d. 1996
First Socialist Prime Minister of Greece

Fess Parker b. 1924 d. 2010 (natural)
Actor – appeared as Davy Crockett in Disney TV series also Daniel Boone

Colonel Tom Parker b. June 28, 1909. d. January 22, 1997 (stroke)
Elvis Presley’s manager

Williard Parker b. 1912 d. 1996 (heart failure)
Actor – Ranger Jace Pearson on Tales of the Texas Rangers

Bert Parks b. 1914 d. 1992 (lung cancer)
Actor/singer/host

Rosa Parks b. 1913 d. October 24, 2005
“The mother of civil rights” in America

Louella Parsons b. 1880 d. 1972.
Gossip Columnist

Robert Pastorelli b. 1954 d. March 8, 2004 (drug overdose)
Actor – Eldin the painter on Murphy Brown

Joseph “Joe” Paterno b. 1926 d. January 22, 2012
Head Coach Penn State University 1966 – 2011, final win/loss record of 409-136-3 (111 wins were vacated by the NCCA in 2012)

Luana Patten b. 1938. d. 1996 (respiratory failure)
Actress – many Disney films

Floyd Patterson b. 1935 d. May 11, 2006 (Alzheimer’s disease and prostate cancer)
Heavyweight boxing champion and Olympic Gold medalist

Les Paul b. 1915 d. August 13, 2009 (complications from pneumonia)
Inventor, muscian and songwriter – credited with inventing the electric guitar

Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla) b. 5/18/1920 d. April 2, 2005
Polish, elected Pope in October of 1978

Dr. Linus Pauling b. 1901 d. 1994
Chemist – only person to win two, unshared Nobel Prizes

Pat Paulsen b. 1927 d. 1997 (complications after surgery, brain and colon cancer)
Comedian and presidential candidate

Luciano Pavoratti b. 1935 d. September 6, 2007 (pancreatic cancer)
Legendary Italian tenor

Johnny Paycheck b. 1938 d. 2/19/2003 (emphysema and asthma)
Musician – Take This Job and Shove It

John Payne b. 1912 d. 1989 (heart ailment)
Actor – Vint Bonner on the Restless Gun

Walter “Sweetness” Payton b.1954. d. 1999 (liver disease complicated by cancer)
Running back for Chicago Bears

Dick Peabody b. 1925. d. 1999 (prostate cancer)
Actor – Littlejohn on Combat

Minnie Pearl b. 1912. d. 1996 (cancer)
Country comedian

Drew Pearson b. 1897 d. 1969
Journalist

Lester Bowles Pearson b. 1897 d. 1972
14th Prime Minister of Canada

Gregory Peck b. 1916 d. June 11, 2003 (old age, no ailment)
Oscar winning actor – Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird

M. Scott Peck b. 1936 d. September 25, 2005 ( pancreatic and liver duct cancer)
Author – “The Road Less Traveled”

Sam Peckinpah b. 1925 d. 1984 (stroke)
Director – The Wild Bunch

Clara Peller b. 1901 d. 1987
“Where’s the beef?” lady

Elizabeth Peña b. 1959 d. 2014
Actress / Director Rosie Morales-Valenzuela in “La Bamba”

Teddy Pendergrass b. 1950 d. 2010 (colon cancer),
R&B Singer (Turn Off the Lights” and “Love TKO),

Chris Penn b. 1965 d. January 24, 2006
Actor – Reservoir Dogs; brother of Sean Penn

George Peppard b. 1928 d. 1994 (pneumonia)
Actor – Banacek and Col. John ‘Hannibal’ Smith on the “A-Team

Frank Perdue b. 1920 d. April 1, 2005
CEO of Perdue Farms – the chicken man

Anthony Perkins b. 1932 d. 1992 (AIDS)
Actor – Norman Bates in Psycho

Carl Perkins b. 1932 Â d. 1998
Musician – Blue Suede Shoes

Marlin Perkins b. 1905 d. 1986
Host of The Wild Kingdom

Eva “Evita” Peron, (Maria Eva Duarte) b. 1919 d. 1952 (cervical cancer)
Argentinian wife of Juan Peron

Juan Peron b. 1895 d. 1974
President of Argentina 1946-1955

Brock Peters b. 1927 d. August 23, 2005 (pancreatic cancer)
Actor – Tom Robinson in To Kill a Mockingbird

Ray Peterson b. 1935 d. January 25, 2005 (cancer)
Singer – Tell Laura I Love Her

Roger Peterson b. May 24, 1937. d. February 3, 1959 (plane crash)
Pilot of the plane that crashed killing Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper

John Phillips b. 1935 d. March 18, 2001 (heart failure)
Singer/songwriter – The Mamas and Papas

Sam Phillips b 1923 d. July 30, 2003 (respiratory failure)
Music promoter – Founder of Sun Records; Man who “discovered” Elvis

River Phoenix b. 1970. d. 1993 (multiple drug intoxication)
Actor

Edith Piaf b. 1915. d. 1963
Singer

Pablo Picasso b. 1881. d. 1973
Artist

Brian Piccolo b. 1943. d. 1970 (cancer)
Football Player – Running back, Chicago Bears, roommate of Gayle Sayers

Nigel Pickering b. 1929 d. 2014
Musician – founder of the 1960s folk-rock group “Spanky and Our Gang”

Mary Pickford b. 1893. d. 1979 (cerebral hemorrhage)
Actress – silent film star

Slim Pickens b. 1919 d. 1983 (brain tumor)
Comic cowboy and bomb-rider in Dr. Strangelove

Bobby “Boris” Pickett b. 1938 d. April 25, 2007 (leukemia)
Singer – Monster Mash

Wilson Pickett b. 1941 d. January 19, 2006 (heart attack)
Soul singer – Midnight Hour and Mustang Sally

Walter Pidgeon b. 1897 d. 1984 (stroke)
Actor – Advise & Consent, Funny Girl

Michael Piller b. 1948 d. November 1, 2005 (cancer)
Writer/prodcer – Star Trek TNG, DS9 and Voyager

Gene Pitney b.1941 d. April 5, 2006
Singer/songwriter – Town Without Pity and Liberty Valance

Dana Plato b. 1964. d. 1999 (drug overdose – suicide?)
Actress – Kimberly Drummond on Different Strokes

Edward Platt b. 1916 d. 1974 (cancer)
Actor – Chief on Get Smart

Donald Pleasence b. 1919. d. 1995.
Actor – Dr. Loomis in the Halloween movies

Suzanne Pleshette – b. 1937 d. January 19, 2008 (lung cancer)
Actress – Bob Newhart Show and Rome Adventure

George Plimpton b. 1927 d. September 26, 2003
Author – The Paper Lion

Jackson Pollock b. 1912. d. 1956 (car crash)
Abstract Expressionist Artist

Sidney Pollock b.1934 d. 2008 (stomach cancer)
Director / The Way We Were, Jeremiah Johnson, Out of Africa

Georges Pompidou b. 1911. d. 1974
19th President of France from 1969 to 1974

Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla) b. 5/18/1920 d. April 2, 2005
Polish, elected Pope in October of 1978

Carlo Ponti b. 1912 d. January 10, 2007
Producer of Doctor Zhivago and husband of Sophia Loren

Cole Porter b. June 9, 1891 d. 1964
Composer / Lyricist

Don Porter b. 1912 d. 1997
Actor – Gidget‘s Dad

Emily (Price) Post b. 1872. d. 1960
Etiquette Writer

Tom Poston b. 1921 d. May 1, 2007
Actor – Married to Suzanne Pleshette; Cliff Murdock on The Bob Newhart Show

Ezra (Weston Loomis) Pound b. 1885. d. 1972
Poet/Critic

Dick Powell b. 1904. d. 1963 (cancer)
Actor – Married to Joan Blondell and then to June Allyson

Eleanor Powell b. 1912. d. 1982
Dancer/actress – Married to Glenn Ford

Lewis F. Powell, Jr. b. 1907 d. 1998 (pneumonia)
US Supreme Court Justice

William H. Powell b. 1892. d. 1984 (heart attack – in his sleep!)
Actor

Ben Powers b. 1950 d. 2015
Actor – Thelma’s husband Keith on “Good Times

Francis Gary Powers b. 1929. d. 1977 (crash of the helicopter he piloted for television station KNBC in Los Angeles)
U-2 Spy Pilot

Otto Preminger b. 1906. d. 1986
Director/producer

Elvis Presley b. January 8, 1935. d. August 16, 1977 (heart attack)
The King

Gladys Love Smith Presley b. April 25, 1912. d. August 14, 1958 (heart failure)
Mother of Elvis Presley

Reg Presley b. 1941 d. Feb. 4, 2013 (lung cancer and strokes)
Singer – The Troggs,biggest hit “Wild Thing”

Vernon Elvis Presley b. April 10, 1916. d. June 26, 1979
Father of Elvis Presley

Vester Presley b. September 11, 1914. d. January 18, 1997.
Uncle of Elvis Presley – Known as “Uncle Vester” to fans

Billy Preston b. 1946 d. June 6, 2006 (heart and kidney disease)
Keyboardist who played with the Beatles and the Stones

Robert Preston b. 1918. d. 1987 (lung cancer)
Actor – Harold Hill in The Music Man

Wayde Preston b. 1929 d. 1992 (colon cancer)
Actor – Christopher Colt on Colt 45

Ray Price b. 1926 d. Dec. 16, 2013 (pancreatic cancer)
C&W Singer – “For the Good Times”, “Night Life”

Vincent Price b. 1911. d. 1993 (lung cancer)
Actor – The Fly

Louis Prima b. 1910. d. 1978
Big Bandleader

Prince b. 1958 d. 2016 (flu like symptoms?)
Musician – flamboyant on stage, seven Grammy Awards “Purple Rain”

Bob Prince b. 1915. d. 1985 (cancer)
Voice of the Pittsburgh Pirates

Freddie Prinze b. 1954. d. 1977 (suicide by .32 caliber revolver)
Actor – Chico and the Man

Juliet Prowse b. 1936 d. 1996 (pancreatic cancer)
Actress/dancer – Mona McCluskey

William Proxmire b. 1915 d. December 15, 2005
U.S. Senator (1957-1989) known for “Golden Fleece” awards

Richard Pryor b. 1940 d. December 10, 2005 (heart attack)
Comedian, actor – Silver Streak

Kirby Puckett b. 1961 d. March 6, 2006 (stroke)
Baseball Hall of Famer who played for Minnesota Twins

Tito Puente b. 1923 d. 2000 (heart disease)
Bandleader – “The Mambo King”

Melvin Purvis b. 1900. d. 1960
FBI agent that lead the group that gunned down John Dillinger in Chicago

Buford Hayse Pusser b. 1937. d. 1974 (car crash)
Real McNairy County, TN Sheriff, of ‘Walking Tall’ movie fame

Mario Puzo b. 1920 d. 1999 (heart failure)
Writer – The Godfather

Denver Dell Pyle b. 1920 d. December 25, 1997 (lung cancer)
Actor – Uncle Jesse in Dukes of Hazzard

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Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mother b. 1900 d. March 30, 2002 (died in her sleep, age 101)
Wife of King George, Mother of Queen Elizabeth

Mae Questel b. September 13, 1908. d. January 4, 1998 (Alzheimer’s Disease)
Actress and cartoon voice – Betty Boop, Olive Oyl and Sweet Pea

Anthony Quinn b. 1915 d. June 3, 2001 (Pneumonia and respiratory failure)
Actor – Zorba the Greek

Francis Quinn b. 1963 d. August 08, 2011 (Heart attack)
Actor – “Rhoh” in Platoon, son of Anthony Quinn

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1977
Gilda Radner
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1989
Harry Reasoner
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1991
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1991
John Ritter
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2003
John Russell
Fred Rogers
2003
John Ritter
Tony Randall
2004
Ronald Reagan
President
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2004
Christopher Reeve
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2004
Prince Rainer
Prince Rainier III
2005
William Rehnquist
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2005
Lou Rawls
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2006
Patsy Ramsey
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2006
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Tim Russert
2008
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2009
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Lynn Redgrave
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2010
Jane Russell
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2011
Cliff Robertson
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Andy Rooney
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2011
Sally Ride
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Dale Robertson
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2013
Harold Ramis
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James Rebhorn
James Rebhorn
2014
Mickey Rooney
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2014
Joan Rivers
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2014
Alan Rickman
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2016
Nancy Reagan
Nancy Reagan
2016
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2016
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2017
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2020

Eddie Rabbitt b. 1941. d. 1998 (lung cancer)
Singer – Every Which Way But Loose, I Love a Rainy Night

Yitzak Rabin b. 1922 d. 1995 (assassinated)
Israeli Prime Minister

Gilda Radner (Wilder) b. 1946 d. 1989 (ovarian cancer)
Actress/comedian – SNL, married to Gene Wilder

Prince Rainier III b. 1923 d. April 6, 2005 (heart, lung and kidney failure)
Monaco monarch who married Grace Kelly in 1956

John Raitt b. 1917 d. February 20, 2005 (complications from pneumonia)
Musical theatre – Carousel, Oklahoma, Pajama Game; father of Bonnie Raitt

Dack Rambo b. 1941 d. 1994 (AIDS)
Actor – Jeff Sonnet on Guns of Will Sonnett; twin of Dirk

Dirk Rambo b. 1941 d.1967 (fire)
Twin of Dack

Harold Ramis b. 1944 d. Feb. 24, 2014 ( vasculitis)
Actor – Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters and Russell Ziskey in Stripes

Patsy Ramsey b. 1956 d. June 24, 2006 (ovarian cancer)
Mother of slain child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey

Ayn Rand b. 1905 d. 1982
Writer/Philosopher – Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged

Sally Rand b. 1903 d. 1979 (heart failure)
Fan dancer, actress

Sue Randall b. 1935. d. 1984
Actress – Miss Landers on Leave It To Beaver

Tony Randall b. 1920 d. May 17, 2004 (complications from a prolonged illness)
Actor – Felix Unger on The Odd Couple

Boots Randolph b. 1927 d. 2007 (brain hemorrhage)
Musician – 1963 saxophone hit “Yakety Sax”

Basil Rathbone b. 1892 d. 1967
Actor – Sherlock Holmes

Thurl Ravenscroft b. 1914 d. May 22, 2005 (prostate cancer)
Actor – Voice of Tony the Tiger

Lou Rawls b. 1935 d. January 6, 2006 (lung cancer)
Singer – Lady Love

Aldo Ray b. 1926 d. 1991
Actor

James Earl Ray b. 1928 d. 1998 (liver failure)
Confessed assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr. He quickly recanted his confession

Johnnie Ray b. 1927 d. 1990 (liver failure)
Singer – Cry

Martha Raye b. 1916 d. 1994
Comedian

Gene Rayburn b. 1917. d. 1999 (heart disease) Game show host -The Match Game

Sam Rayburn b. 1882 d. 1961 (cancer)
US Speaker of The House

Maureen Reagan b. 1941 d. August 8, 2001 (cancer)
Activist – daughter of President Ronald Reagan

Nancy Reagan b. 1921 d. March 6, 2016 (in her sleep)
First Lady of the U.S.(1981-1989) Husband, 40th President Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan b. February 6, 1911 d. June 5, 2004 (pneumonia)
President of the United States 1981-1989

Harry Reasoner b. 1923. d. 1991 (heart attack)
Journalist and host of 60 Minutes

James Rebhorn b. 1948 d. 2014 (skin cancer)
Secretary of Defense Albert Nimzicki in “Independence Day”

Otis Redding b. 1941 d. 1967 (plane crash)
Musician – Sittin on the Dock of the Bay

Orville Redenbacher b. 1907 d. 1995
Popcorn Pioneer

Lynn Redgrave b. 1943 d. 2010 (breast cancer)
Actress – Oscar nominated for “Georgey Girl” also did Weight Watchers commercials

Alan Reed b. 1920 d. 1977
Actor – Voice of Fred Flintstone

Donna Reed b. 1921 d. 1986 (pancreatic cancer)
Actress – The Donna Reed Show

Herb Reed b. 1928 d. 2012 (heart disease)
Muscian/ Singer – Founded The Platters (1953) and was last surviving original member

Jerry Reed b. 1937 d. 2008 (emphysema)
Country Musician, Actor/ co-starred in Smokey and the Bandit

Lou Reed b. 1942 d. 2013 (complications from a liver transplant)
Musician – 1960’s group “The Velvet Underground” also solo hit “Walk on the Wild Side”

Oliver Reed b. 1938 d. 1999 (heart attack)
Actor – Bill Sykes in Oliver!

Robert Reed b. 1932 d. 1992 (AIDS)
Actor – Mike Brady in the Brady Bunch

Roger Rees b. 1944 d. 2015 (stomach cancer)
Robin Colcord in Cheers and Lord John Marbury in The West Wing

Harold Henry “Pee Wee” Reese b. 1918 d. 1999 (cancer)
Baseball Player – The Brooklyn Dodgers

Christopher Reeve b. September 25, 1952 d. October 10, 2004 (complications of infection)
Actor/advocate – Superman and advocate for stem cell research

Dana Reeve b. 1961 d. March 6, 2006 (lung cancer)
Widow of actor Christopher Reeve

George Reeves b. 1914 d. 1959 (suicide? – gunshot wound to the head with a 9mm Luger pistol)
Actor – Superman

Steve Reeves b. 1926 d. 2000 (complications from lymphoma)
Actor and Body Builder – Mr. Universe

Donald Regan b. 1919 d. June 10, 2003
Secretary of the Treasury and Chief of Staff under Pres. Ronald Reagan

William Rehnquist b. 1924 d. September 3, 2005 (thyroid cancer)
Associate Justice United States Supreme Court 1972-2005, Chief Justice 1986-2005

Charles Nelson Reilly b. 1931 d. 2007 (pneumonia)
Actor – many game shows, The Ghost & Mrs. Muir

Hugh Reilly b. 1915 d. 1998 (emphysema)
Actor – Paul Martin on Lassie

Carl Reiner b. 1922 d. 2020
Creator, producer, writer, and actor on “The Dick Van Dyke Show

Estelle Reiner b.1914 d. 2008 (natural causes)
Actress/ also Mother of Rob and wife to Carl Reiner

Lee Remick, b. 1935 d. 1991 (cancer)
Actress – The Omen

Duncan Renaldo b. 1904 d. 1980 (lung cancer)
Actor – The Cisco Kid

Brad Renfro b. 1982 d. January 15, 2008
Actor – Mark Shay in The Client

Michael Rennie b. 1909 d. 1971
Actor – Klaatu in Day the Earth Stood Still

Janet Reno – b.1938 d. 2016 (Parkinson’s Disease)
Attorney General of the United States 1993-2001 nominated by President Bill Clinton

Oscar de la Renta b. 1932 d. 2014 (cancer)
Fashion Designer – dressed Jacqueline Kennedy, Ann Hathaway, Amy Adams, Sarah Jessica Parker and many more

Judith Resnick b. 1950 d. 1986
Space shuttle Challenger astronaut

Tommy Rettig b. 1941 d. 1996 (heart attack)
Actor – Jeff on Lassie

Paul Revere b. 1939 d. 2014 (cancer)
Musician – front man and organist for Paul Revere and The Raiders

Charles Revson b. 1906 d. 1975
Revlon Founder

Alejandro Rey b. 1930 d. 1987 (cancer)
Actor

Debbie Reynolds b. 1932 d. 2016 (stroke)
Actress – Kathy Selden in “Singin’ in the Rain”, Mother of Carrie Fisher (died the day after her daughter)

Madlyn Rhue b. 1935 d. December 16, 2003 (pneumonia and multiple sclerosis)
Actress – “Bracken’s World” as Marjorie Grant

Mack Rice b. 1933 d. 2016 (Alzheimer’s disease)
Song writer – “Mustang Sally” & “Respect Yourself”

Buddy Rich b. 1917 d. 1987
Drummer

Candace Rich b. 1950 d. May 20, 2008
Writer, author, webmaster, beloved Sister – created FiftiesWeb.com and others

Sean Rich b. 1980 d. June 25, 2019
Fisherman/outdoorsman/beloved Son – jack of all trades, he contributed to the lives of everyone he met

Little Richard b. 1932 d. May 09, 2020 (bone cancer)
Singer/song writer – “Tutti Frutti” (1955), “Long Tall Sally” (1956), rock & Roll Hall of Fame (1986)

Ann Richards b. 1933 d. September 13, 2006 ( esophageal cancer)
Governor of Texas 1991 – 1995

Elliot Richardson b. 1920 d. 1999 (brain hemorrhage)
Attorney General of US who refused to fire Archibald Cox so Nixon fired him

J. P “Big Bopper” Richardson, Jr. b. 1930. d. February 3, 1959 (plane crash)
Singer – Chantilly Lace

Natasha Richardson b. 1963 d. March 18, 2009 (brain damage due to a sking accident)
Tony Award winning Actress – from an acting dynasty family

Sir Ralph David Richardson b. 1902. d. 1983 (stroke)
Actor – Alexander Gromeko in Dr. Zhivago

Eddie Vernon Rickenbacker b. 1890 d. 1973 (heart failure)
America’s “Ace of Aces”

Don Rickles b. 1926 d. 2017 (kidney failure)
Comedian/Actor – comedic style was “King of the insults”, starred in C.P.O. Sharkey (1976-78)

Alan Rickman b. 1946 d. 2016 (cancer)
Hans Gruber in “Die Hard” (1988) and Severus Snape in Harry Potter

Nelson Riddle b. 1921 d. 1985 (cardiac and kidney failure)
Composer and orchestra leader

Sally Ride b. 1951 d. 2012 (pancreatic cancer)
Physicist/Astronaut – 1st woman in space 1983 on Challenger

Bobby Riggs b. 1918 d. 1995 (prostate cancer)
Tennis player – famous match with Billy Jean King

Jack Riley b. 1935 d. 2016 (pneumonia)
Actor – Elliot Carlin on “The Bob Newhart Show”

Michael Ritchie b. 1938 d. April 16, 2001 (complications of prostate cancer)
Director – Fletch, Downhill Racer

John Ritter b. 1948 d. September 11, 2003 (aortic dissection – heart)
Actor – “Three’s Company” – son of Tex Ritter (below)

Tex Ritter b. 1905 d. 1974
Western Actor

Joan Rivers b. 1933 d. Sept. 4, 2014 (complications from throat surgery)
Comedian/Writer/TV Host – best known for her self deprecating humor and celebrity bashing

Phil Rizzuto b. 1917 d. August 13, 2007 (pneumonia)
New York Yankee shortstop and Baseball Hall of Famer

Harold Robbins b. 1916 d. 1997 (heart failure)
Writer – The Carpetbaggers

Jerome Robbins b. 1918 d. 1998 (stroke)
Choreographer – West Side Story

Doris Roberts b. 1925 d. 2016
Actress – Marie Barone on “Everybody Loves Raymond” (1996–2005)

Oral Roberts b. 1918 d. 2009 (natural causes)
Christian Minister, author, televangelist and founder of Oral Roberts University

Pernell Roberts b. 1928 d. 2010 (pancreatic cancer)
Actor – portrayed Adam Cartwright on “Bonanza” ’59-’65 and Dr John McIntyre on “Trapper John”

Cliff Robertson b. 1923 d. 2011 (natural)
played young Lt. Jack Kennedy in “PT-109”

Dale Robertson b. 1923 d. 2013 (lung cancer)
Actor – Tales of Wells Fargo (1957-’62), Death Valley Days (1969-’72)

Edward G. Robinson b. 1893 d. 1973 (cancer)
Actor best known for portraying a gangster in numerous roles

Jason Robards b. 1922 d. December 26, 2000 (metastasized lung cancer)
Actor – Dashiell Hammett in Julia

Gail Robbins b. 1931 d. April 12, 2011(colon cancer)
Musician with The Highwaymen, “Michael Row the Boat Ashore” also father to Tim Robbins

Eddie Robinson b. 1919 d. April 3, 2007 (Alzheimer’s disease)
Head football coach for 56 years at Grambling State University

Jackie Robinson b. 1919 d. 1972
Baseball Hall of Famer, 1962

Max Robinson b. 1939 d. 1988 (AIDS)
Journalist – First full-time black evening news anchor, ABC

Sugar Ray Robinson b. 1921 d. 1989
Boxer

Vickie Sue Robinson d. 2000 b. 1955
Singer (disco) – Turn theBeat Around

Alex Rocco b. 1926 d. 2015 (cancer)
Actor – Moe Greene in The Godfather

Laurance Rockefeller b. 1910 d. July 7, 2004 (pulmonary fibrosis)
Billionarie philanthropist

Nelson Rockefeller b. 1908 d. 1979 (heart attack)
US Vice President and Governor of New York

Lt. Gov. Win Rockefeller b. 1948 d. July 16, 2006 (blood disorder)
Arkansas politician, billionaire great-grandson of Standard Oil founder John D. Rockefeller

Norman Rockwell b.1894 d. 1978
Artist

Gene Roddenberry b. 1921 d. 1991 (heart attack)
Producer/writer – Star Trek

Peter Rodino b. 1909 d. May 7, 2005
House Judiciary Committee chairman who directed the impeachment investigation of Nixon

Richard Rodgers b. 1902 d. 1979
Composer 1/2 of Rodgers and Hammerstein

Bobby Rogers b. 1940 d. 2013
Singer / songwriter – original member of The Miracles (1956 – ’11)

Fred Rogers b. 1928 d. February 27, 2003 (stomach cancer)
Television’s “Mister Rogers”

Ginger Rogers b. 1911 d. 1995 (diabetic coma)
Dancer/Entertainer

Kenny Rogers b 1938 d. 2020
C&W singer/songwriter/actor – sang with The First Edition – “Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town” (1969) and solo won a Grammy Award for “The Gambler”

Roy Rogers, (Leonard Franklin Slye) b. 1911 d. 1998 (congestive heart failure)
Cowboy Actor/Singer/Entertainer – “King of Cowboys”

William P. Rogers b. 1909 d. January 2, 2001
Eisnehower’s Attorney General (1957–1961) and Nixon’s Secretary of State

Esther Rolle b. 1920 d. 1998 (diabetes)
Actress – Florida Evans on “Good Times

Howard Rollins b. 1950 d. 1996 (lymphoma)
Actor – Virgil Tibbs in TV version of In the Heat of The Night

Ruth Roman b. 1923 d. 1999
Actress

Cesar Romero b. 1907 d. 1994
Actor – Joker on TV’s Batman plus many other roles

George Romney b. 1907 d. 1995 (heart attack)
Chairman of American Motors, Governor of Michigan, Secretary of HUD (1969-1972)

Andy Rooney b. 1919 d. 2011 (complications from minor surgery)
Writer – commentary on 60 Minutes news show for 33 years (’78-’11)

Mickey Rooney b. 1920, d. 2014
Actor, performed on stage and in films from 1920 till 2014, Boys Town (1938)

Teddy Rooney b. 1950 d. 2016 (a long illness)
Actor/Musician – son of Mickey Rooney and Martha Vickers

David Rose b. 1909 d. 1990
Composer – “The Stripper” and music of TV themes

Judd Rose b. 1955 d. 2000 (brain cancer)
Journalist

Ethel Rosenberg b. 1915 d. June 19, 1953 (executed)
Convicted Spy

Julius Rosenberg b. 1918 d. June 19, 1953 (executed)
Convicted Spy

Steve Rossi b. 1932 d, June 22, 2014 (cancer)
Singer / Comedian – the straight man half of the comedy duo “Allen & Rossi” with Marty Allen

Judith Rossner b. 1935 d. August 9, 2005
Author – Looking for Mr. Goodbar

Carl T. Rowan b. 1925 d. 2000
Journalist/columnist

Dan Rowan b. 1922 d. 1987 (lymphatic cancer)
Comedian – Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In

Billy Joe Royal b. 1942 d. 2015
Singer – Down in the Boondocks (1965)

Mike Royko b. 1932 d.1997 (brain aneurysm and strokes)
Columnist

Pete Rozelle b. 1926 d. 1996 (brain cancer)
NFL commissioner from 1960-1989

Jerry Rubin b. 1938 d. 1994 (killed while jaywalking)
Activist – One of the Chicago Seven

Jack Ruby b. 1911 d. 1967
Shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald

Wilma Rudolph b. 1940 d. 1994
Olympic athlete – 3 Golds in 1960 for track and field

Jimmy Ruffin b. 1936 d. 2014
Singer – recorded “What Becomes of the Brokenhearted”

Louis Rukeyser b. 1933 d. May 2, 2006 (multiple myeloma)
Journalist – Wall $treet Week With Louis Rukeyser

Janice Rule b.1931 d. October 17, 2003 (cerebral hemorrhage)
Actress – Bell, Book and Candle

Dean Rusk b. 1909 d. 1994
US Secretary of State from 1961-1969 under JFK and LBJ

Jane Russell b. 1921 d. 2011 (respiratory Failure)
Legendary Actress – “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” and “the Road” movies with Bob Hope

John Russell b. 1921 d. 1991
Actor – Marshal Dan Troop on the Lawman

Leon Russell b. 1942 d. 2016
Musician / Songwriter – “A Song for You”, “Tight Rope” and “This Masquerade”

Nipsey Russell b. 1924 d. October 2, 2005 (cancer)
Poet laureate of television – Hollywood Squares, The $50,000 Pyramid, and Match Game

Rosalind Russell b. 1908 d. 1976 (cancer)
Actress – Auntie Mame

Irene Ryan b.1902 d. 1973 (stroke)
Actress – Granny on The Beverly Hillbillies

Tim Russert b. 1950 d. 2008 (heart attack) Political Commentatory and host of NBC’s Meet the Press

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1981
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1990
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1998
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2005
Hank Stram
Hank Stram
2005
Aaron Spelling
Aaron Spelling
2006
Anna Nicole Smith
Anna Nicole Smith
2007
Wally Schirra
Wally Schirra
2007
Beverly Sills
Beverly Sills
2007
Tom Snyder
Tom Snyder
2007
Roy Schneider
Roy Schneider
2008
Merl Saunders
Merl Saunders
2008
Ron Silver
Ron Silver
2009
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
2009
Patrick Swayze
Patrick Swayze
2009
Soupy Sales
Soupy Sales
2009
Jean Simmons
Jean Simmons
2010
George Steinbrenner
George Steinbrenner 2010
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Sargent Shriver 2011
Elisabeth Sladen
Elisabeth Sladen 2011
Michael Sarrazin
Michael Sarrazin 2011
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Leonard Stone 2011
Donna Summer
Donna Summer 2012
Jean Stapleton
Jean Stapleton 2013
Elaine Stritch
Elaine Stritch 2014
Stuart Scott
Stuart Scott 2015
Bob Simon
Bob Simon 2015
Omar Sharif
Omar Sharif 2015
Joe Santos
Joe Santos 2016
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Garry Shandling
2016
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2016
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2016
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2016
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2020

Robin Sachs b. 1951 d. 2013
Actor – Ethan Rayne on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”

Anwar Sadat b. 1918 d. 1981 (assassinated)
Egyptian President

Barry Sadler b. 1940 d. 1987
US Army Sgt./composer/singer – Ballad of the Green Berets

Morley Safer b. 1931 d. 2016 (in his sleep)
Journalist – CBS News for 52 years (1964-2016), 60 Minutes for 46 years (1970-2016), won 12 Emmy Awards

Carl Sagan b. November 9, 1934. d. December 20, 1996 (bone marrow cancer)
Astronomer/writer – The Cosmos

Craig Sager b. 1951 d. 2016 (acute myeloid leukemia)
Sports Reporter – best known for covering the NBA and for his loud suits

Andrei Sakharov b. 1921 d. 1989 (heart attack)
Nobel Prize wining Russian physicist

Theresa Saldana b. 1954 d. 2016 (pneumonia)
Actress – Rachel Scali on “The Commish” (1991-’96)

Soupy Sales b.1926 d. 2009
Comedian, panelist on What’s My Line? and childrens show Lunch with Soupy

JD Salinger b. 1919 d. 2010 (natural causes)
Author, wrote “Catcher In The Rye” he shunned fame and became a recluse

Pierre Salinger b.1925 d. October 16, 2004 (heart failure)
Press Secretary to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson

Jonas Salk – b. 1914 d. 1995
Physician/microbiologist – Developed the polio vaccine

Albert Salmi d. 1990 b. 1928 (murdered his wife and then shot himself)
Actor – many Western parts

Carl Sandburg b. 1878. d. 1967 (heart attack)
Poet/biographer

Harland ‘Colonel’ Sanders b. 1890. d. 1980 (leukemia)
Kentucky Fried Chicken founder – Finger lickin’ good!

Billy Sands b. 1911 d. 1984 (lung cancer)
Actor – Machinist Mate Harrison ‘Tinker’ Bell on McHale’s Navy

Isabel Sanford b. 1917 d. July 9, 2004 (natural causes)
Actress – Louise Jefferson on “The Jeffersons

Joe Santos b. 1931 d. 2016 (heart attack)
Actor – Lieutenant Dennis Becker on The Rockford Files (1974-1980)

Dick Sargent b. 1933. d. 1994 (cancer)
Actor – He replaced Dick York as Darren on Bewitched

David Sarnoff b. 1891 d. 1971
First to recieve the wireless message from the Titanic. Founded NBC. Was Brig. General in Army in WWII.

Michael Sarrazin b. 1940 d. 2011 (cancer)
Canadian Actor – “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?”

Merl Saunders b. 1934 d. 2008 (complications from stroke)
Musician – keyboardist with The Grateful Dead

Randy “MachoMan” Savage b. 1958 d. 2011 (heart attack)
Entertainer / Wrestler – WCW and WWF Champ many times over

Telly Savalas b. 1924 d. 1994 (prostate cancer)
Actor – Kojack

Antonin Scalia b. 1936 d. 2016
Supreme Court Justice 1986-2016(death), appointed by Ronald Reagan

Rebecca Schaeffer b. 1967 d. 1989 (Murdered by stalker, Robert John Bardo, who was sentenced to life in prison. )
Actress – Patti Russell on My Sister Sam

William Schallert b. 1922 d. 2016
Actor – Martin Lane (Patty’s Father) on The Patty Duke Show

Roy Scheider b. 1932 d. February 10, 2008 (multiple myeloma, a cancer of the plasma cell)
Actor – Police Chief Brodie in Jaws

Maximilian Schell b.1930 d. Feb. 1, 2014 (pneumonia)
Actor – “Judgment at Nuremberg,”

DrBo Schembechler b. 1929 d. November 17, 2006 (heart failure)
Legendary football coach at University of Michigan

Chris Schenkel b. 1923 d. September 11, 2005 (emphysema)
Sportscaster

Vincent Schiavelli b. 1948 d. December 26, 2005 (lung cancer)
Actor -Subway ghost in “Ghost”

Terri Schiavo b.12/3/1963 d. March 31, 2005
Brain damaged woman whose care and death sparked controversy

Oskar Schindler b. 1908 d. 1974
Saved 1200 Jews during WWII – subject of Spielberg movie

Wally Schirra b. 1923 d. May 3, 2007
Original Mercury 7 astronaut who also flew in the Gemini and Apollo programs

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. b. 1917 d. February 28, 2007 (heart attack)
Historian and Kennedy family confidant

Maria Schneider b.1952 d. 2011 (cancer)
Actress – Jeanne in Last Tango in Paris

William Scholl b. 1921 d. March 15, 2002
Famed for foot comfort!

Marge Schott b. d. March 2, 2004 (lung related problems)
Deposed owner of the Cincinnati Reds

Charles Schulz b. 1922. d. February 12, 2000 (colon cancer)
Creator of Peanuts – His last strip ran Sunday, February 13, 2000

Jack Schwab b. 1904. d. 1980
Owner of Schwab’s Drug Store on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood

General Norman Schwarzkopf b. 1934 d. 2012 (complications of pneumonia)
Soldier – commanded coalition forces in the first Persian Gulf War, “Desert Storm”

Albert Schweitzer b. 1875. d. 1965
German philosopher, physician and humanitarian

Francis R. “Dick” Scobee b. 1939 d. 1986
A Challenger astronaut

Paul Scofield b. 1922 d. March 19, 2008 (leukemia)
Actor – A Man for All Seasons

George C. Scott b. 1927 d. 1999 (ruptured abdominal aortic aneurism)
Actor – Patton

Gordon Scott (Werschkul) b. 1926 d. 2007 (complications from multiple heart surgeries)
Actor – the eleventh Tarzan in the series (1955-1960)

Randolph Scott b. 1898. d. 1987
Western Actor

Stuart Scott b. 1965 d. 2015 (cancer)
Sportscaster – anchor on ESPN’s Sports Center

Tony Scott b. 1944 d. 2012 (suicide)
Movie & TV Director – “Top Gun”, “Days of Thunder”, “A-Team

William Scranton b. 1917 d. 2013 (cerebral hemorrhage)
Politician – Governor of Pennsylvania (1963 to 1967)and Ambassador to the U.N. (1976)

Angus Scrimm b. 1926 d. 2016
Actor – the Tall Man in “Phantasm” (1979) and four sequels

Earl Scruggs b. 1924 d. 2012 (natural causes)
Banjo Player – “The Ballad of Jed Clampett” (theme to Beverly Hillbillies)

Jean Seberg b. 1938 d. 1979 (barbiturate overdose)
Actress – Lillith, Saint Joan

Pete Seeger b. 1919 d. 2013
Singer / songwriter – folk singer, wrote “If I Had a Hammer”, “Where Have All the Flowers Gone

Peter Sellers b. 1925. d. 1980 (heart attack)
Actor – Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau in the Pink Panther

Rod Serling b. 1924. d. 1975 (complications of heart surgery)
Writer/producer – The Twilight Zone

Dr. (Theodore Geisel) Seuss b. 1904 d. 1991
Writer/illustrator

Eric Sevareid b.1912 d. 1992
Journalist

Johnny Seven b. 1926 d. 2010
Actor- Lt. Carl Reese on Ironside (1967-75)

Garry Shandling b. 1949 d. 2016 (heart attack)
Comedian – “Garry Shandling Show” and “The Larry Sanders” Show

Del Shannon b. 1934 d. 1990 (self-inflicted gunshot wound)
Singer – Runaway

Omar Sharif b. 1932 d. 2015 (natural)
Actor – Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965) and Funny Girl (1968)

Ray Sharkey b. 1952 d. 1993 (AIDS)
Actor – Sonny Steelgrave on Wiseguy

Artie Shaw b. 1910 d. December 30, 2004
Clarinetist and Bandleader

Robert Shaw b. 1927 d. 1978 (heart attack)
Actor – Quint in Jaws

Dick Shawn b. 1929. d. 1987 (heart attack – while onstage)
Comedian

George Beverly Shea, b.1909 d. 2013 (at 104 years old)
Gospel singer and hymn composer – described as “America’s beloved Gospel singer”

Johnny Sheffield, b. 1931 d. 2010 (heart attack)
Actor – Boy in Tarzan movies

Carroll Shelby b. 1922 d. 2012
Automotive designer – Shelby Cobra, Shelby Mustang

Sidney Sheldon b. 1917 d. January 30, 2007 (pneumonia)
Author, producer – The Other Side of Midnight and I Dream of Jeannie

Alan B Shepard, Jr b. 1923 d. 1998 (leukemia)
Astronaut – First American in space, oldest man to walk on the moon (Apollo 14)

Dr. Sam Sheppard b. 1923 d. 1970
Accused of murdering his wife and spent ten years in prison

Tony Sheridan b. 1940 d. 2013 (complications from heart surgery)
Singer / songwriter – recorded several songs singing with the Beatles (1961)

Allan Sherman b. 1924 d. 1973
Musician/comic – Hello Mudduh, Hello Fadduh

Madeleine Sherwood b. 1922 d. 2016 (in her sleep)
Actress – Reverend Mother Placido in “The Flying Nun” (1967-70)

Roberta Sherwood b. 1913 d. 1999
Singer – “Lazy River”

Willie Shoemaker b. 1931 d. October 12, 2003 (died in his sleep)
Jockey – 8,883 victories are the second-most in thoroughbred racing history

Dinah Shore b. 1916 d. 1994 (cancer)
Actress, host, great lady

Bobby Short b. 1924 d. March 21, 2005
Pianist, for 35 years at the Carlyle Hotel in New York City

Eunice Kennedy Shriver b. 1921 d. August 11, 2009
Philanthropist and champion for the mentally disabled , founded the Special Olympics

Sargent Shriver b. 1915 d. 2011 (Alzheimers disease)
Diplomat and Politician – married to Eunice Kennedy

Hugh Sidey b. 1927 d. November 21, 2005 (heart attack)
Journalist – Covered White House for Time magazine

Joel Siegel b. 1943 d. June 29, 2007 (colon cancer)
Longtime movie critic for “Good Morning America”

Ruth Siems b. 1931 d. November 13, 2005 (heart attack)
Invented Stove Top Stuffing

Simone Signoret b. 1921 d. 1985 (cancer)
Actress – Room at the Top

Karen Silkwood b. 1946. d. 1974 (murdered)
Nuclear Reactor Worker

Beverly Sills b.1929 d. July 2, 2007 (cancer)
Brooklyn-born opera diva

Ron Silver b. 1948 d. March 15, 2009 (esophageal cancer)
Actor & political activist – West Wing

Jay Silverheels b. 1919. d. 1980 (stroke)
Actor – Tonto on The Lone Ranger

Phil Silvers b.1911 d. 1985
Comedian – Sgt. Bilko

Jean Simmons b. 1928 d. 2010 (lung cancer)
Actress – The Robe, Spartacus, Guys and Dolls

Richard Simmons b. 1913 d. January 11, 2003 (Alzheimers)
Actor – Sgt. Preston of the Yukon

Paul Simon b.1928 d. December 9, 2003 (complications of heart surgery)
U.S. Senator from Illinois with signature bow tie

Bob Simon b. 1941 d. 2015 (car accident)
Journalist – television correspondent for CBS News (1969–2015)

Nina Simone b.1933 d. April 21, 2003
Singer – I Loves You Porgy

Nicole Brown Simpson b. 1959 d. 1994
Murdered by ex-husband O.J. Simpson – hey, my site, my opinion

Barbara Sinatra b.1927 d.2017 (natural)
Performer/model – married Frank Sinatra (1976-1998)

Frank Sinatra b. 1915. d. 1998 (heart attack)
Singer/actor – Ol’ Blue Eyes

Frank Sinatra Jr. b. 1944 d. 2016 (heart attack)
Singer- son of Frank Sinatra and a talented singer

Isaac B. Singer b. 1904 d. 1991
Writer – Nobel Prize winner in 1978

Doris Singleton b. 1919 d. 2012
Actress – Carolyn Appleby on “I Love Lucy” (Lucy’s wealthy neighbor)

Penny Singleton b. 1908 d. 2003
Actress – comic strip heroine Blondie Bumstead (1939-1950)

Gene Siskel b. 1946 d. 1999 (complication from brain surgery)
Movie critic

Red Skelton b. 1913. d. 1997 (pneumonia)
Comedian – The Red Skelton Hour

Elisabeth Sladen b. 1946 d. 2011 (cancer)
Actress – Sarah Jane Smith on “Doctor Who”

Donald K. “Deke” Slayton b. 1924 d. 1993 (brain cancer)
One of the “Original Seven” Mercury astronauts

Joni Sledge b. 1957 d. 2017 (unknown)
Singer – with two sisters founded R&B group Sister Sledge “We Are Family”

Percy Sledge b. 1941 d. 2015 (liver cancer)
R&B Singer – “When a Man Loves a Woman”

Karl Slover b. 1918 d. 2011 (heart attack)
munchkin in 1939 production of “Wizard of Oz”

Sen. George Smathers b. 1913 d. January 20, 2007 (stroke)
Former U.S. Senator and confidant to several Presidents

Anna Nicole Smith b. 1967 d. February 8, 2007
Playmate and Reality TV star

Buffalo Bob Smith b. 1917 d. 1998
Actor – Howdy Doody Show

Bubba Smith b. 1945 d. 2011 (acute drug intoxication and heart disease)
Athlete/Actor – NFL defensive end and Hightower in “Police Academy” films

Claydes Charles Smith b. 1948 d. June 20, 2006
Musician – Co-founder and lead guitarist of Kool & the Gang

Harold “Hal” Smith b. 1916. d. 1994 (heart attack)
Actor – Otis, the town drunk on the Andy Griffith Show

Howard K. Smith b. 1914 d. February 15, 2002 (pneumonia, complication of heart disease)
Journalist – one of the “Murrow Boys” and anchor for ABC

Jewel “Sammi” Smith b. 1943 d. February 12, 2005
Country Singer – Help Me Make It Through The Night

John Smith b. 1931 d. 1995 (cirrhosis of the liver)
Actor – Slim Sherman on Laramie

Kate Smith b. 1909 d. 1986 (diabetes)
Singer – The Kate Smith Show

Lane Smith b. 1936 d. June 13, 2005 (Lou Gehrig’s Disease)
Actor – Perry White in Lois & Clark:The New Adventures of Superman

Merriman Smith b. 1913 d. 1970 (suicide by gunshot)
UPI White House Correspondent – broke the story of JFK’s assassination

Michael John Smith b. 1945. d. January 28, 1986
US Space Shuttle Challenger Pilot

Mike Smith b. 1943 d. 2008 (pneumonia)
Musician/ was lead vocalist for the Dave Clark Five

William French Smith b. 1917 d. 1990
Attorney General of the U.S., 1981-1985

Sam Snead b. 1912 d. May 23, 2002 (complications from stroke)
Golfer – Slammin’ Sammy

Carrie Snodgress b. 1946 d. April 1, 2004 (heart failure)
Actress – Diary of a Mad Housewife, Pale Rider

Hank Snow b. 1914 d. December 20, 1999
Musician – The Singing Ranger

Phoebe Snow b. 1950 d. 2011 (brain hemorrage)
Singer / Songwriter most famous for “Poetry Man” and setting aside her career to care for a sick daughter

Tony Snow b. 1955 d. 2008 (colon cancer)
Reporter/ was White House spokesman/ Press Secretary for the Bush Administration

Tom Snyder b. 1936 d. July 29, 2007 (leukemia)
TV talk host – Tomorrow and Late Late Show

Arlen Specter b. 1930 d. 2012 (non-Hodgkin lymphoma)
Moderate Pennsylvania Senator served 1980-2011

Aaron Spelling b. 1923 d. June 23, 2006 (stroke)
Producer – Mod Squad, Starsky and Hutch, Charlie’s Angels, The Love Boat, Dynasty, Beverly Hills 90210

Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder d. 1996
Oddsmaker

Jack Soo b. 1917 d. 1979 (cancer)
Actor – Det. Nick Yemana on Barney Miller

Joe South b. 1940 d. Sept. 5, 2012 (heart Failure)
Songwriter – won a Grammy for “Games People Play”

Ted Sorensen b. 1928 d. 2010 (stroke)
White House Counsel, special advisor and speech writer for President Kennedy

Ann Sothern b. 1909 d. March 15, 2001 (heart failure)
Actress – The Ann Sothern Show

John Spencer b. 1946 d. December 16, 2005 (heart attack)
Actor – Leo McGarry on the West Wing

Wendie Jo Sperber b. 1958 d. November 29, 2005 (breast cancer)
Actress – Bosom Buddies, also Back to the Future

Mickey Spillane b. 1918 d. July 17, 2006 (cancer)
Writer – Mike Hammer novels

Dr. Benjamin Spock b. 1903 d. 1998
Pediatrician/writer – Baby and Child Care

Dusty Springfield b. 1939 d. 1999 (breast cancer)
Singer – I Only Want to Be with You, Wishin’ and Hopin’

Robert Stack b. 1919 d. May 15, 2003 (heart failure)
Actor – Elliott Ness in the Untouchables

Lionel Stander b.1908 d. 1994 (lung cancer)
Actor – Max on Hart to Hart

Barbara Stanwyck b. 1907 d. 1990 (congestive heart failure)
Actress – Victoria Barkley on The Big Valley

Jean Stapleton b. 1923 d. May 31, 2013 (natural)
Actress – Edith Bunker on “All in the Family” (1971-1979)

Maureen Stapleton b. 1925 d. March 13, 2006 (chronic pulmonary disease)
Actress – Reds and Interiors

Ray Stark b. 1914 d. January 17, 2004 (heart attack)
Producer – Funny Girl, The Way We Were

Charles Starrett b. 1903 d. 1986 (cancer)
Western actor – Durango Kid

Harold E. Stassen b. 1908 d. March 4, 2001
Ran 9 times for the Republican presidential nomination between 1948 and 1992

James St. Clair b. 1921 March 10, 2001
Tricky Dick’s Watergate lawyer

Bob Steele b. 1907 d. 1988 (heart failure)
Actor – Trooper Duffy on F Troop

Don Steele b. 1936 d. 1997 (lung cancer)
DJ – L.A. “Boss Jock” of the 1960’s

Karen Steele b. 1931 d. 1988 (cancer)
Actress – Virginia in “Marty” and Eve McHuron in the Star Trek episode “Mudd’s Women” – age 56

Rod Steiger – b. 1925 d. July 9, 2002 (pneumonia and kidney failure)
Actor – On the Waterfront, In the Heat of the Night

George Steinbrenner b. 1930 d. July 13, 2010 (heart attack)
Businessman – Flamboyant owner of the NY Yankees, won 7 World Series and 11 Pennants

Max Steiner b. 1888 d. 1971
Composer – Gone With the Wind ,77 Sunset Strip, Hawaiian Eye, Sugarfoot

Casey Stengel b. 1890 d. 1975
Manager of the New York Yankees

Robert Sterling b. 1917 d. May 30, 2006
Actor – ghost George Kerby in Topper

Issac Stern b. 1920 d. September 22, 2001 (heart attack)
Violinist

Leonard Stern b. 1923 d. 2011 (heart failure)
Screenwriter/ Producer/ Director – developed word game “Ad Libs”

Craig Stevens b. 1918 d. 2000 (cancer)
Actor – Peter Gunn

George Stevens b. 1904 d. 1975 (heart attack)
Actor/director – Giant, Diary of Anne Frank, Gunga Din

Inger Stevens b. 1934 d. 1970 (suicide-overdose)
Actress – Katy Holstrum on The Farmer’s Daughter

Adlai Stevenson b. 1900 d. 1965 (heart attack)
Governor of Illinois, Presidential candidate (lost to Ike)

McLean Stevenson b. 1929 d. 1996 (heart attack)
Actor – Lt. Col. Henry Blake on MASH

Jay Stewart b. 1918 d. 1989 (suicide)
Monty Hall’s assistant on Let’s Make a Deal

Jimmy Stewart b. 1908. d. 1997 (pulmonic blood clot)
Actor – It’s a Wonderful Life

John Stewart b.1939 d. 2008 (brain aneurysm)
Muscian/ sang with the Kinston Trio

Potter Stewart b. 1915 d. 1985
US Supreme Court Justice

Jerry Stiller b. 1927 d. 2020 (natural)
Ben Stiller’s Father,played Frank, George Costanza’s father on TV show “Seinfeld”

Retired Vice Adm. James Stockdale b. 1923 d. July 5, 2005 (Alzheimers)
Medal of Honor recipient and Ross Perot’s running mate for president in 1992

Leonard Stone b. 1923 d. November 02, 2011
Actor – Judge Hanson on “L.A. Law” and the father in “Willy Wonka”

Milburn Stone b. 1904 d. 1980 (heart attack)
Actor – Dr. Galen ‘Doc’ Adams on Gunsmoke

Gale Storm b. 1922 d. 2009 (aging)
Actress – TV series My Little Marjie and Gale Storm Show

Beatrice Straight b. 1914 d. April 7, 2001
Actress – Network and the Mother on Wonder Woman

Hank Stram b. 1923 d. July 4, 2005 (complications of diabetes)
Coach of the Kansas City Chiefs and Pro Football Hall of Famer

Glenn Strange b. 1899 d. 1973
Actor – Sam the bartender on Gunsmoke

Lee Strasberg b. 1901 d. 1982
Actor/teacher – Actor’s Studio famed for “method acting”

Susan Strasberg b. 1938 d. 1999 (breast cancer)
Actress – Daughter of Lee, friend of Marilyn Monroe

Marica Strassman b. 1948 d. Oct. 25, 2014 (breast cancer)
Actress – Julie Kotter in “Welcome Back, Kotter

Dorothy Stratten b. 1960 d. 1980 (murdered by husband)
Playboy Model

Richard Street b. 1942 d. 2013 (pulmonary embolism)
Singer – member of The Temptations (1971 – ’93)

David Strickland b. 1969 d. 1999 (suicide)
Actor – Todd Stites on Suddenly Susan

Elaine Stritch b. 1925 d. 2014 (natural causes)
Actress / singer – primarily a stage actrees also Jack Donaghy’s mother, Colleen, on NBC’s 30 Rock

Levi Stubbs b. 1936 d. 2008 (cancer)
he was the front man for the very popular 50’s group The Four Tops

Barry Sullivan b.1912 d. 1994 (respiratory ailment)
Actor – Deputy Sheriff Pat Garrett on The Tall Man

Ed Sullivan b. 1901 d. 1974
Entertainer – The Ed Sullivan Show

Donna Summer b. 1948 d. 2012 (lung cancer)
Singer/Songwriter – many disco hits “Last Dance”, “Bad Girls”

Pat Summerall b. 1930 d. 2013 (cardiac arrest following hip surgery)
Athlete / Broadcaster – “the voice of the NFL” did commentary for CBS & Fox

Pat Summitt b. 1952 d. 2016 (Alzheimer’s disease)
NCAA Basketball Coach – University of Tennessee Woman’s team (1974 – 2012) the winningest NCAA coach ever

JD Sumner b. 1924. d. 1998
Singer – backed up Elvis – JD Sumner and the Stamps

Carol Ann Susi b. 1952 d. 2014 (cancer)
Actress- voice of Mrs. Wolowitz on “Big Bang Theory”

Bob Suter b. 1957 d. 2014 (heart attack)
Athlete – member of the Miracle on Ice 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team

Frank Sutton b. 1922 d. 1974
Actor – Sgt. Vincent Carter on Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

Gloria Swanson b. 1899 d. 1983
Actress – Sunset Boulevard

John Cameron Swayze b. 1906 d. 1995
Journalist/Timex ads – Just this once, it took a licking but…

Patrick Swayze b. 1952 d. 2009 (pancreatic cancer)
actor/dancer, movies include Ghost, Road House, Dirty Dancing

Patsy Swayze b. 1927 d. 2013 (stroke)
Dancer / Choreographer – Mother of Patrick Swayze

Sawyer Sweeten b. 1995 d. 2015 (self inflicted gunshot)
Actor – one of two twins sons on “Everyone Loves Raymond”

Jack Swigert b. 1931 d. 1982 (cancer)
Command module pilot of Apollo 13 – Said, “Houston, we have a problem”

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Celebrity Death - Forrest Tucker
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1986
Conway Twitty
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1993
Lana Turner
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1995
Pat Tillman
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2004
Mary Travers
Mary Travers
2009
Liz Taylor
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2011
Sada Thompson
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2011
Ginny Tyler
Ginny Tyler
2012
Margaret Thatcher
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2013
Shirley Temple
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2013
Meshach Taylor
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2013
Rod Taylor
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2015
Fred Thompson
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2015
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2016
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1996

William Talman b. 1915. d. 1968 (lung cancer)
Actor – District Attorney Hamilton Burger on Perry Mason

Paul Tanner b. 1917 d. 2013 (pneumonia)
Musician – Trombonist with The Glen Miller Band

Herman Tarnower b. 1910 d. 1980 (shot)
“Scarsdale Diet” doctor who was murdered by a jilted lover, Jean Harris

Brandon Tartikoff b. 1949. d. 1997 (Hodgkin’s disease)
NBC Executive

Sharon Tate b.1943 d. 1969 (murdered by members of the Manson Family)
Actress – Jennifer North in movie “Valley of the Dolls”

Vic Tayback b. 1930. d. 1990 (heart failure)
Actor – Mel on Alice

Clarice Taylor b. 1917 d. 2011 (congestive heart failure)
Actress – Anna Huxtable on “The Cosby Show”

Elizabeth Taylor b. 1932 d. March 23, 2011
Actress- many Oscars, many famous films some include: National Velvet (1944), Giant (1956),
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1956) Cleopatra (1960), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf (1966)

Jackie Lynn Taylor b. 1925 d. 2014 (Alzheimer’s)
Actress – as a child was in “Our Gang” (1934-’35)

Kent Taylor b. 1907 d. 1987 (complications from a heart operation)
Actor – Boston Blackie and Capt. Jim Flagg on Rough Riders

Koko Taylor b. 1928 d. 2009 (complications from surgery)
Singer – known as the “Queen of the Blues”

Meshach Taylor b. 1947 d. June 28, 2014
Actor – Anthony Bouvier on Designing Women (1986-1993)

Robert Taylor b. 1911 d. 1969 (lung cancer)
Actor

Rod Taylor b. 1930 d. 2015 (heart attack)
Actor – “The Time Machine”, “The Birds”

Sean Taylor b. 1984 d. November 27, 2008 (homicide)
Safety for the Washington Redskins, and before, the Miami Hurricanes

Walter “Dub” Taylor b. 1907. d. 1994 (congestive heart failure)
Western Actor

Shirley Temple (Black) b. 1928 d. Feb. 10, 2014
Actress – 1934 film “Bright Eyes” with the song “On the Good Ship Lollipop”

Margaret Thatcher b. 1925 d. April 8, 2013 (stroke)
Politician – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1979 – 1990) “The Iron Lady”

Phyllis Thaxter b. 1919 d. August 14, 2012 (Alzheimer’s disease)
Actress – Ma Kent in “Superman” Movie (1978)

Alan Thicke b. 1947 d. 2016 (heart attack)
Actor – Jason Seaver, the father on “Growing Pains” (1985-’92)

Lynne Thigpen b.1948 d. March 12, 2003
Actress – Ella Farmer on the District

Mel Tillis b.1932 d. 2017
C&W Singer/Songwriter – “I Ain’t Never”, “Good Woman Blues”; CMA Entertainer of the Year 1976

Fred Thompson b. 1942 d. 2015 (non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma)
Actor / Politician – Senator from Tenn. (1994-2003) and was a DA on Law & Order

Danny Thomas d. 1914 d. 1991 (heart attack)
Actor/singer – Make Room for Daddy

Dave Thomas b. 1932 d. January 8, 2002 (liver cancer)
Wendy’s founder

Helen Thomas b. 1920 d. July 20, 2013
Journalist – United Press International (UPI) for 57 years and White House corespondent

Jay Thomas b. 1948 d. 2017 (cancer)
Actor – Remo DaVinci on “Mork & Mindy” (1979–’81), Eddie LeBec on “Cheers” (1987–’89)

Michelle Thomas b. 1969 d. 1998 (stomach cancer)
Actress – Myra Monkhouse on Family Matters

Hunter S. Thompson b. 1937 d. February 20, 2005 (self-inflicted gunshot wound)
Author – “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; coined term “gonzo journalism”

Sada Thompson b. 1927 d. 2011 (lung disease)
Actress – Kate Lawrence on “Family”

Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton b. 1926 d. 1984
Musician – ‘Hound Dog and Ball and Chain were her songs first

Strom Thurmond b. 1902 d. June 26, 2003
U.S. Senator from South Carolina who served 8 terms, for 47 years and five months

Gen. Paul Tibbets b. 1915 d. November 1, 2007
Pilot of the Enola Gay which dropped the bomb on Hiroshima

Gene (Lee) Tierney b. 1920 d. 1991(emphysema)
Actress – Laura in the movie Laura

Pat Tillman b. 1977 d. April 22, 2004 (killed in Afghanistan in war)
NFL star (Arizona Cardinals), Hero and Patriot

Tiny (Herbert Khaury) Tim b. 1932 d. 1996 (cardiac arrest)
Singer – Tip Toe Thru the Tulips With Me

Grant Tinker b.1925 d. 2016 (in his sleep)
Television executive – Chairman and CEO of NBC (1981-’86) married to Mary Tyler Moore (1962-’81)

Josip Broz (Josef) Tito b. 1892 d. 1980 (complications of surgery to amputate his leg)
Leader of Yugoslavia, 1945-1980

George Tobias b. 1901 d. 1980
Actor – Abner Kravits on Bewitched

Dqan Toler b. 1948 d. 2013 (ALS amyotrophic lateral sclerosis)
Musician – guitarist with The Allman Brothers Band

Clyde Tolson d. 1975
Best Friend for Life of J. Edgar Hoover

Mel Torme b. 1925 d. 1999 (stroke)
Singer – “The Velvet Fog”

John Tower b.1925 d. 1991 (plane crash)
US Senator from Texas

Mary Ellen Trainor b. 1950 d. 2015 (pancreatic cancer)
Actress – Dr. Stephanie Woods in all 4 Lethal Weapon movies

Maria Franziska von Trapp b. 1914 d. 2014 (natural)
Singer – last of “The Sound of Music” siblings, portrayed as “Louisa”

Mary Allin Travers b. 1936 d. 2009 (leukemia)
Singer / songwriter with the folk group Peter, Paul & Mary

Jet Travolta b. 1992 d. 2009 (seizure)
Son of John Travolta & Kelly Preston

Jay Traynor b. 1943 d. 2014 (liver cancer)
Singer – Jay of Jay and the Americans, “She Cried”

Trigger b. 1932 d. 1965
Roy Rogers‘ horse – yes, Roy had him stuffed.

Bobby Troup b. 1918 d. 1999 (heart attack)
Singer/songwriter/actor – Wrote theme for Route 66, played Dr. Joe Early on Emergency

Pierre Elliot Trudeau b. 1919 d. 2000 (prostate cancer)
15th Prime Minister of Canada

Harry S. Truman b. 1884 d. 1972
33rd President of the U.S.

Tom Tryon b. 1926 d. 1991 (cancer)
Writer/actor – J.D. Slaughter in Texas John Slaughter

Mao (Zedong) Tse-Tung b. 1893 d. 1976
Chinese Leader

Paul Tsongas b. 1941 d. 1997
US Senator from Massachusetts

Forrest Tucker b. 1919. d. 1986 (cancer)
Actor – Sgt. Morgan O’Rourke on F-Troup

Big Joe Turner b. 1911 d. 1985
Musician – “Boss of the Blues”

Ike Turner b. 1931 d. December 12, 2007
Controversial Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and Tina Turner’s ex-husband

Lana Turner b. 1921 d. 1995 (throat cancer)
Actress

Conway Twitty b. 1933 d. 1993 (complications of surgery)
Musician

Ginny Tyler b. 1925 d. 2012
Animal Voice Actress – Head Mouseketeer (1963)

U

“Johnny Unitas b. 1933 d. September 11, 2002 (heart attack)
Quarterback – Baltimore Colts (1956-72); San Diego Chargers, (1973)

John Updike b. 1932 d. January 9, 2009 (lung cancer)
Novelist, poet, reviewer – won 2 Pulitzer Prizes for his Rabbit series

Robert Urich b. 1946 d. April 16, 2002 (synovial cell sarcoma – cancer)
Actor – Spenser: For Hire

Leon Uris b. 1924 d. June 21, 2003
Writer – Exodus

Peter Ustinov b.1921 d. March 28, 2004 (heart failure)
Actor – Spartacus, Topkapi

Garrick Utley b. 1939 d. Feb. 20, 2014 (prostate cancer)
Journalist – worked for NBC for 30 years anchoring the weekend news

V

Ritchie Valens celebrity death
Ritchie Valens
1959
Vivian Vance
Vivian Vance
1979
Herve Villechaize
Herve Villechaize
1993
Gianni Versace
Gianni Versace
1997
Luther Vandross
Luther Vandross
2005
Dick Van Patten
Dick Van Patten
2015
Abe Vigoda
Abe Vigoda
2016
Robert Vaughn died
Robert Vaughn
2016
Bobby Vee Celebrity Deaths 2016
Bobby Vee
2016

Roger Vadim b. 1928 d. 2000 (cancer)
Director – Barbarella, married Bridget Bardot and Jane Fonda

Jerry Vale b. 1932 d. 2014 (natural)
Singer / Actor – his version of “The Star-Spangled Banner” was a favorite at sporting events

Michael Vale b. 1922 d. December 24, 2005 (diabetes)
Actor – Dunkin’ Donuts ad man – “Time to make the doughnuts”

Ritchie Valens (Valenzuela) b. May 13, 1941. d. February 3, 1959 (plane crash)
Singer – Come On Let’s Go, La Bamba

Jack Valenti b. 1921 d. April 26, 2007 (complications of a stroke)
Former White House aide and long time president of the Motion Picture Association of America

Rudy Vallee b. 1901 d. 1986
Singer/bandleader

Bobby Van b. 1928. d. 1980 (brain tumor)
Actor/host – Tattletales, Showoffs

Lee Van Cleef b. 1925. d. 1989 (heart attack)
Actor – Angel Eyes Sentenza in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

James “Jimmy” Van Heusen b. 1913 d. 1990
Composer – Themes for Hazel, Ocean’s Eleven and many more

Dick Van Patten b. 1928 d. 2015 (complications from diabetes)
Actor – Tom Bradford on “Eight is Enough

Vivian Vance b. 1909 d. 1979 (cancer)
Actress – Ethel Mertz on I Love Lucy

Jean Vander Pyl b. 1919 d. 1999 (lung cancer)
Actress – Voice of Wilma Flintstone

Luther Vandross b. 1951 d. July 1, 2005 (complications of stroke)
R&B singer – “Never Too Much”James ”

Jim” Varney b. 1949 d. 2000 (lung cancer)
Actor – Ernest in all the Ernest Goes To… movies

Sarah Vaughan b. 1924 d. 1990 (lung cancer)
Singer

Stevie Ray Vaughan b. 1954 d. 1990 (helicopter crash)
Musician

Robert Vaughn b.1932 d. 2016 (in his sleep)
Actor – Napoleon Solo in “The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964-’68)

Bobby Vee (Velline) b. 1943 d. 2016 (Alzheimer’s disease)
Singer – “Take Good Care of My Baby”, “The Night Has a Thousand Eyes”

Gwen Verdon b. 1925 d.2000
Actress/dancer – 4 time Tony winner and wife to Bob Fosse

John Vernon b. 1932 d. February 1, 2005 (complications of heart surgery)
Actor – Dean Wormer in Animal House

Gianni Versace b. 1946 d. July 15, 1997 (murdered)
Fashion designer

Yvette Vickers b. 1928 d. unknown date 2010 (heart failure)
Actress – “Attack of the 50 Woman” found alone in her home after 1 year of death

Gore Vidal b. 1925 d. July 31, 2012 (pneumonia)
Author/ Playwright/ Activist – wrote “Myra Breckenridge”

Abe Vigoda b. 1921 d. 2016 (natural)
Actor – Salvatore Tessio in “The Godfather” (1972) Fish in Barney Miller

Herve “Tattoo” Villechaize b. 1943 d. 1993 (suicide – self-inflicted gunshot wound)
Actor – Tattoo on Fantasy Island

Gene Vincent b. 1935 d. 1971 (bleeding ulcer)
Singer – Be Bop a Lula

Joe Viterelli b. 1937 d. January 28, 2004 (stomach hemorrhage after heart surgery)
Actor – Jelly in Analyze This and Analyze That

Werner Von Braun b. 1912. d. 1977 (cancer)
Rocket scientist

Maria Von Trapp b. 1905 d. 1987
The real Sound of Music woman

Kurt Vonnegut b. 1922 d. April 11, 2007 (brain injury after a fall)
Author – Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat’s Cradle

W

John Wayne
John Wayne
1979
Natalie Wood
Natalie Wood
1981
Guy Williams
Guy Williams
1989
Terry Wilson
Terry Wilson
1999
Paul Winfield
Paul Winfield
2004
William Westmoreland
Gen. William Westmoreland
2005
Shelley WInters
Shelley Winters
2006
Dennis Weaver
Dennis Weaver
2006
Jane Wyatt
Jane Wyatt
2006
Jim Walsh
Jim Walsh
2007
Jane Wyman
Jane Wyman
2007
Mr. WHipple
Dick Wilson
(Mr. Whipple)
2007
Jerry Wallace
Jerry Wallace
2008
James Whitmore Died
James Whitmore
2009
Joseph Wiseman
Joseph Wiseman
2009
Helen Wagner
Helen Wagner
2010
margaret Whiting
Margaret Whiting
2011
Dana Winter
Dana Wynter
2011
Amy Winehouse
Amy Winehouse
2011
Mike Wallace
Mike Wallace
2012
William Windom
William Windom
2012
Andy Williams
Andy Williams
2012
Ned Wertimer
Ned Wertimer
2013
Jonathan Winters
Jonathan Winters
2013
Esther Williams
Esther Williams
2013
Marcia Wallace
Marcia Wallace
2013
Paul Walker
Paul Walker
2013
Ralph Waite
Ralph Waite
2014
Eli Wallach
Eli Wallach
2014
Robin Williams
Robin Williams
2014
Gene Wilder - Blazing Saddles
Gene Wilder
2016
Van Williams Celebrity Death
Van Williams
2016

Henry M. Wade b. 1914 d. March 1, 2001
Dallas Prosecutor – in the Roe v. Wade case

Porter Wagoner b. 1927 d. October 28, 2007 (lung cancer)
Country Singer and Grand Ole Opry star

Helen Wagner b. 1916 d. 2010 (cancer)
Actress – Nancy Hughes-McClosky on “As the World Turns” from 1956 until 2010 (50 Years)

Ralph Waite b. 1928 d. Feb. 13, 2014
Actor – John Walton, Sr. on “The Waltons” and Jackson Gibbs on “NCIS”

Jimmy Wakely b. 1914 d. 1982 (heart failure)
Country singer/actor

Jersey Joe Walcott b. 1914 d. 1994
Boxer – Heavyweight Champion

Nancy Walker b. 1921 d. 1992 (lung cancer)
Actress – Ida on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rhoda, Bounty paper towel spokeswoman

Paul Walker b. 1973 d. 2013 (car crash)
Actor – Brian O’Conner in “The Fast and the Furious” films

George C Wallace b. 1919 d. 1998 (heart failure)
Governor of Alabama, Presidential candidate in 1968,1972 and 1976

Irving Wallace b. 1916 d. 1990 (pancreatic cancer)
Writer – The Prize, the Chapman Report and others

Jerry Wallace b.1928 d. 2008 (heart disease)
Muscian, 1950’s country & western star

Lurleen B. Wallace b. 1926 d. 1968
Alabama Governor – Wife of George C. Wallace

Marcia Wallace b. 1942 d. 2013 (complications from breast cancer)
Actress – Receptionist Carol Kester on “Bob Newhart Show“(1972 – 1978)

Myron Leon “Mike” Wallace b. 1918 d. 2012
correspondent for “60 Minutes” news show (1968 – 2008)

Eli Wallach b. 1915 d. 2014 (natural)
Actor – Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

Karl Wallenda b.1905 d. 1978 (fell!)
High wire circus performer

Eddy Waller b. 1889 d. 1977 (stroke)
Western Actor

Deborah Walley b. 1943 d. May 10, 2001 (esophageal cancer)
Actress – Gidget Goes Hawaiian

Wallis (Simpson), Duchess of Windsor b. 1896 d. 1986
King Edward VIII of England abdicated the throne for her

J. T Walsh b. 1943 d. 1998 (heart attack)
Actor – John Ehrlichman in Nixon

Bill Walsh b. 1931 d. July 31, 2007 (leukemia)
Legendary coach of the San Francisco 49ers

Ray Walston b. 1914 d. January 1, 2001 (lupus)
Actor – My Favorite Martian and Judge Henry Bone on Picket Fences

John Walton b. 1947 d. June 27, 2005 (plane crash)
Wal-Mart heir, Sam Walton’s son

Sam Wanamaker b. 1919 d. 1993 (cancer)
Actor/director

Andy Warhol b. 1928 d. 1987 (complications of surgery)
Artist

Jack Warden b. 1920 d. July 19, 2006 (heart and kidney failure)
Actor – Crazy Like a Fox and Heaven Can Wait

Jack Warner b. 1892 d. 1978 (pulmonary edema)
Warner Brothers President

Earl Warren b. 1891 d. 1974
Chief Justice, US Supreme Court 1953-1969

Fran Warren b. 1926 d. 2013
Singer – biggest hit, “A Sunday Kind Of Love”

Robert Penn Warren b. 1905 d. 1989
Writer – All the King’s Men

Ruth Warrick b. 1915 d. January 15, 2005 (complications from pneumonia)
Actress – Phoebe Wallingford on All My Children

Harold Washington b. 1922 d. 1987
First Black Mayor of Chicago

Ethel Waters b. 1896 d. 1977 (heart disease)
Actress – Beulah

Muddy Waters b. 1915 d. 1983
Musician – I Got My Mojo Working

Thomas Watson, Jr. b. 1914 d. 1993
Made IBM B-I-G

Bernie Wayne b. 1919 d. 1993
Songwriter – Miss America theme and Blue Velvet

John Wayne (Marion Michael Morrison) b. 1907 d. 1979 (lung and stomach cancer)
Actor – The Duke

David Wayne b. 1914 d. 1995 (lung cancer)
Actor – Dr. Amos Wetherby on House Calls

Ken Weatherwax b. 1955 d. 2014 (heart attack)
Actor – Pugsley on the original Addams Family (1964-’66)

Rudd Weatherwax d. 1985 b. 1915
Dog trainer – Lassie

Dennis Weaver b. 1924 d. February 24, 2006 (cancer)
Actor – Chester Goode on Gunsmoke and Sam McCloud on McCloud

Fritz Weaver b. 1926 d. 2016
Dr. Josef Weiss in the mini series “Holocaust”

Sylvester “Pat” Weaver b. 1908 d. March 15, 2002 (pneumonia)
TV Pioneer, created Today show – father of Sigourney Weaver

Jack Webb b. 1920 d. 1982 (heart attack)
Actor – Sgt. Joe Friday on Dragnet

Caspar Weinberger b. 1917 d. March 28, 2006 (pneumonia)
Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan

Johnny Weissmuller b. 1904 d. 1984 (series of strokes)
Swimming champion and actor – Tarzan and Jungle Jim

Bob Welch b.1945 d. 2012 (suicide after unsuccessful spinal surgery)
Guitarist / song writer with Fleetwood Mac (1971 – 1974)

Lawrence Welk b. March 11, 1903 d. 1992 (pneumonia)
Musician/Bandleader – The Lawrence Welk Show 1955-1982

Kitty Wells b. 1919 d. 2012 (stroke)
C&W Singer – 1952 hit “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels”

Orson Welles b. 1915 d. 1985 (heart attack)
Actor/Director – Citizen Cane

Cory Wells b. 1941 d. 2015 (myeloma blood cancer)
Singer – Three Dog Night

Mary Wells b. 1943 d. 1992 (throat cancer)
Singer – My Guy

Vince Welnick b. 1951 d. June 2, 2006
Keyboard Player for the Grateful Dead

Ned Wertimer b. 1923 d. January 08, 2013 (complications from a fall)
Actor – Ralph Hart the doorman on “The Jeffersons” (1975 – ’85)

Dottie West b. 1932 d. 1991 (car accident)
Country Singer

Mae West b. 1893 d. 1980 (complications from stroke)
Actress and sex symbol

Gen. William Westmoreland b. 1914 d. July 18, 2005
Leader of the U.S. forces in Vietnam from 1964 to 1968

Jack Weston b. 1924 d. 1996
Actor – Max Kellerman in Dirty Dancing

Dan Wheldon b. 1978 d. October 16, 2011
British born race car driver, won Indy 500 twice, died in a 15 car accident at Las Vegas 300

Barry White b. 1944 d. July 4, 2003 (kidney failure as a result of high blood pressure)
Singer – Can’t Get Enough of Your Love, Babe” and “You’re the First, the Last, My Everything.”

David White b. 1916 d. 1990 (heat attack)
Actor – Larry Tate on Bewitched

Lt. Col. Edward White II b. 1930 d. 1967
Astronaut – died in Apollo 1 fire

Jesse White b. 1917 d. 1997
Actor – the Maytag repairman

Maurice White b. 1941 d. 2016 (Parkinson’s disease)
Singer / Songwriter – founder of Earth, Wind & Fire

Reggie White b. 1961 d. December 26, 2004 (heart attack)
Defensive end for the Philadelphia Eagles and Green Bay Packers from 1985-1998

Billie Whitelaw b. 1932 d. 2014
Mrs Baylock, the demonic nanny in “The Omen”

Margaret Whiting b.1924 d. 2011 (natural)
Singer, popular in late 40’s early 50’s

Slim Whitman b. 1924 d. 2013 (natural)
Singer – known for his yodeling abilities and his smooth high octave falsetto

James Whitmore b.1921 d. 2009 (lung cancer)
Actor, portrayed Will Rogers on stage

Grace Lee Whitney b. 1930 d. 2015 (natural)
Actress – Yeoman Janice Rand in Star Trek the original series

Mary Wickes b. 1910 d. 1995 (complications of surgery)
Actress – Sister Mary Lazarus in Sister Act (1&2)

Richard Widmark b. 1914 d. March 24, 2008
Actor – How the West Was Won and Madigan

Elie Wiesel b. 1928 d. 2016 (natural)
Jewish Writer/political activist – Holocaust survivor, and Nobel Laureate

Simon Wiesenthal b. 1908 d. September 20, 2005
Holocaust survivor who devoted his life to hunting Nazi war criminals

Frank Wilcox b. 1907 d. 1974
Actor – John Brewster on the Beverly Hillbillies

Cornel Wilde b. 1915 d. 1989 (leukemia)
Actor – The Great Sebastian in Greatest Show on Earth

Gene Wilder b. 1933 d. 2016 (Alzheimer Disease)
Actor – Blazing Saddles (1974), Young Frankenstein, Willy Wonka

Roy Wilkins b. 1901 d. 1981
Civil Rights Leader

Andy Williams b. 1927 d. 2012 (bladder cancer)
Singer – Moon River, Andy Williams Show (1959-’71)

Billy Williams b. 1915 d. 1992 (brain tumor)
Actor – Kit Carson, father, with Barbara Hale of William Katt

Esther Williams b. 1921 d. 2013 (natural causes)
Swimmer & Actress – starred in movies that featured swimming and diving

Grant Williams b. 1930 d. 1985 (peritonitis)
Actor – Scott Carey in The Incredible Shrinking Man

Guy Williams b. 1924 d. 1989 (brain aneurysm)
Actor – Zorro and Prof. John Robinson on Lost in Space

Paul “Hucklebuck” Williams b. 1915 d. 2002
Saxaphone Player – biggest hit “The Hucklebuck”, was the only act to play the Moondog Coronation Ball

Paul Williams b. 1939 d. 1973 (suicide – shooting)
Singer – Temptations, asked to leave band due to drinking problem

Robin Williams b. 1951 d. 2014 (suicide by asphyxiation)
Actor / Comedian – “Good Will Hunting”, “Good Morning, Vietnam”, “Dead Poets Society”

Roger Williams b. 1924 d. 2011 (pancreatic cancer)
Pianist – Autumn Laeves, Born Free was discovered by Authur Godfrey

Roy Williams b. 1907 d. 1976
“The Big Moosketeer” on the Mickey Mouse Club

Ted Williams b. 1918 d. July 5, 2002 (heart failure)
Baseball legend – 2 time triple crown winner, Boston Red Sox

Tennessee Williams b. 1911 d. 1983 (accidental asphyxiation while drunk)
Writer – Streecar Named Desire, Glass Menagerie and more

Tex Williams b. 1917 . d. 1985
Country Singer/Songwriter

Van Williams b. 1934 d. 2016 (renal failure)
Actor – Kenny Madison in “Bourbon Street Beat” (1959) & “Surfside 6” (1960)

Boxcar Willie b. 1932 d. 1999 (leukemia)
Country singer

Noble Willingham b. 1931 d. January 17, 2004 (natural causes)
Actor – C. D. Parker on Walker, Texas Ranger

August Wilson b. 1945 d. October 2, 2005 (liver cancer)
Playwright – “Fences” and “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”

Charles “Charlie” Wilson b. 1933 d. 2010 (pulmonary arrest)
Politician – 12 term US Congressman, helped to organize and fund the secret war in Afghanastan

Dick Wilson b. 1916 d. November 19, 2007
Actor – Mr. Whipple of over 500 Charmin ads

Frank Wilson b. 1940 d. 2012 (prostate cancer)
Songwriter / Producer – “Love Child” for Supremes, “Castles In the Sand” for Stevie Wonder

Meredith Wilson b. 1902 d. 1984(heart failure)
Composer – The Music Man, The Unsinkable Molly Brown and more

Carl Wilson b. 1946 d. 1998 (brain cancer)
Musician – The Beach Boys

Dennis Wilson b. 1944 d. 1983 (drowning)
Musician – The Beach Boys

Flip Wilson b. 1933 d. 1998 (liver cancer)
Actor/Comedian, “The Flip Wilson Show”

Harold Wilson b. 1916 d. 1995 (cancer)
British Prime Minister, 1964-1970 and 1974-1976

Jackie Wilson b. 1934 d. 1984 (stroke)
Singer – Lonely Teardrops, Higher and Higher

Terry Wilson b. 1923 d. 1999
Stuntman/Actor – Bill Hawks on Wagon Train

Paul Winchell b. 192 d. June 24, 2005 (natural causes)
Ventriloquist – voice of Tigger in Walt Disney’s “Winnie-the-Pooh”; “The Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney Show”

Walter Winchell b. 1897 d. 1972
Journalist

Amy Winehouse b. 1983 d. 2011 (alcohol overdose)
Singer/Songwriter – “Back to Black”, 5 Grammy awards

William Windom b. 1923 d. 2012 (congestive heart failure)
Actor – played a doctor on “Murder, She Wrote”

Paul Winfield b. 1941 d. March 7, 2004 (heart attack)
Actor – Sounder, King, Roots: The Next Generation

Edward Winter b. 1937 d. 2001 (Parkinson’s disease)
Actor – Col. Samuel Flagg in M*A*S*H

Johnny Winter b. 1944 d. July 16, 2014
Musician – Grammy Award winning blues guitarist and producer

Jonathan Winters b. 1925 d. April 11, 2013
Comedian / Actor – The Wacky World of Jonathan Winters (1972–74) also Mork & Mindy

Shelley Winters b. 1920 d. January 14, 2006 (heart failure)
Actor – The Diary of Anne Frank and A Patch of Blue

Robert Wise b. 1914 d. September 14, 2005 (heart failure)
Producer/director – West Side Story and Sound of Music

Joseph Wiseman b. 1915 d. October 19, 2008 (natural causes)
Canadian Actor played Dr. No in the James Bond film

Bobby Womack b. 1944 d. 2014
R&B Singer/ Songwriter – “Lookin’ For a Love”, “Across 110th Street”

Ed Wood b. 1914 d. 1978 (heart failure)
Dubbed worst director of all time

Evelyn Wood b. 1909 d. 1995
Speed reading guru

Natalie Wood b. 1938 d. 1981 (drowning)
Actress – Rebel Without A Cause, West Side Story – wife of Robert Wagner

Pat Woodell b. 1944 d. 2015 (cancer)
Actress / Singer – Bobbie Jo Bradley on Petticoat Junction

John Wooden b. 1910 d. 2010 (natural)
Basketball Coach – UCLA 1948 – 1975 won ten National Championships

Earl Woods b. 1932 d. May 3, 2006 (prostate cancer)
Father of golfer Tiger Woods, age 74

Georgie Woods b. 1927 d. June 18, 2005 (heart attack)
Legendary Philadelphia radio broadcaster,”The Guy With the Goods” on WDAS and WHAT

Rose Mary Woods b.1918 d. January 22, 2005
Secretary to Richard Nixon who took blame for 18 ½ minute gap in tapes

Ali-Ollie Woodson b. 1951 d. May 30, 2010 (Leukemia)
Singer / Songwriter sang with the Temptations

Sheb Wooley b. 1921 d. September 16, 2003 (leukemia)
Actor/songwriter – Pete Nolan on Rawhide, wrote “Flying Purple People Eater

Keo Woolford b. 1967 d. 2016 (stroke)
Actor – Det. Chang on Hawaii Five-0 (2010 version)

Hank Worden b. 1901 d. 1992
Western actor

Fay Wray b. 1907 d. August 8, 2004
Actress – King Kong

Richard Wright b.1943 d. 2008 (cancer)
Muscian- keyboardist for Pink Floyd

Teresa Wright b. 1918 d. March 6, 2005 (heart attack)
Actress – Mrs. Miniver, Shadow of a Doubt, The Best Years of Our Lives

Jane Wyatt b. 1910 d. October 20, 2006
Actress – Margaret Anderson on Father Knows Best

William Wyler b. 1902 d. 1981
Director – Ben Hur, Roman Holiday, Funny Girl

Jane Wyman b. 1917 d. September 10, 2007
Actress – Angela Channing on “Falcon Crest”) and 1st wife of Ronald Reagan

Tammy Wynette b. 1942 d. 1998 (blood clot – died in her sleep)
Country Singer

Keenan Wynn b.1916 d. 1986 (cancer)
Actor

Dana Wynter b. 1931 d. 2011 (congestive heart failure)
Actress – best known for “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”

X

Malcolm X

Malcolm X (Malcolm Little) b. 1925 d. 1965 (murdered)
Civil Rights Leader

Y

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

Z

Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa
1993
Michael Zaslow
Michael Zaslow
1998
Elmo Zumwalt
Elmo Zumwalt
2000
Norma Zimmer
Norma Zimmer
2011
Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
2014

Darryl F. Zanuck, b. 1902 d. 1979 (Alzheimer’s disease)
Studio Mogul – Twentieth Century Fox

Richard Zanuck, b. 1934 d. 2012 (heart attack)(son of Darryl Zanuck)
Producer – Academy award for “Driving Miss Daisy” also “Jaws”, “Cocoon”

Frank Zappa b. 1940 d. 1993 (prostate cancer)
Musician/composer – The Mothers of Invention

Michael Zaslow b. 1942 d. 1998 (ALS – Lou Gehrig’s Disease)
Actor – Roger Thorpe on Guiding Light

Ron Ziegler – b. 1939 d. February 10, 2003 (heart attack)
Press secretary to President Richard Nixon

Efrem Zimbalist Jr. b. 1918 d. May 2, 2014 (natural)
Actor – “77 Sunset Strip” and The F.B.I.

Norma Zimmer b. 1923 d. may 10, 2011 (neurological disorder)
Singer – Champagne Lady with the Lawrence Welk Show for 22 years

Laura Ziskin b. 1950 d. June 12, 2011 (breast cancer)
Film Producer – 3 Spider Man movies, Pretty Woman, (helped to craete “Stand Up To Cancer”)

Elmo Zumwalt b. 1921 d. January 2, 2000
Progressive U.S. Navy Admiral who worked to end discrimination

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