 Jack Kelly 1992 |  Charles Kuralt 1997 |  DeForest Kelley 1999 |  Bob Keeshan 2004 |  Alan King 2004 |  Coretta Scott King 2006 |
 Don Knotts 2006 |  Jack Kemp 2009 |  Edward “Ted” Kennedy 2009 |  Alex Karras 2012 |  Jack Klugman 2012 |  Jane Kean 2013 |
 Casey Kasem 2014 |  Richard Kiel 2014 |  B.B. King 2015 |  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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