 Richard Long 1974 |  Michael Landon 1991 |  Tom Landry 2000 |  Larry Linville 2000 |  Janet Leigh 2004 |  Heath Ledger 2008 |  Art Linkletter 2010 |
 Steve Landesberg 2010 |  Jack Lalanne 2011 |  Len Lesser 2011 |  Judy Lewis 2011 |  George Lindsey 2012 |  Susan Luckey 2012 |  Ed Lauter 2013 |
 Tom Laughlin 2013 |  Geoffrey Lewis 2015 |  Christopher Lee 2015 |  Robert Loggia 2015 |  Marjorie Lord 2015 |  Martin Landau 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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