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