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 Heather O’Rourke 1988 |  Susan Oliver 1990 |  Jacqueline Onassis 1994 |  Hugh O’Connor 1995 |
 Jerry Orbach 2004 |  Peter O’Toole 2013 |  Maureen O’Hara 2015 |  Hugh O’Brien 2016 |
 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
