Cause of Death: Cancer - Throat
- ️Wed Dec 17 2008
Cause of Death: Cancer - Throat
LISTS
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Babe Adams | Baseball | 18-May-1882 | 27-Jul-1968 | Pitcher, Pittsburgh Pirates |
| Joseph P. Albright | Judge | 8-Nov-1938 | 20-Mar-2009 | WV Supreme Court Justice, 2001-09 |
| Nickolas Ashford | Songwriter | 4-May-1942 | 22-Aug-2011 | Half of Ashford and Simpson |
| Hank Ballard | Singer | 18-Nov-1927 | 2-Mar-2003 | The Twist |
| Richard Barthelmess | Actor | 9-May-1895 | 17-Aug-1963 | Tol'able David |
| Bill Blass | Fashion Designer | 22-Jun-1922 | 12-Jun-2002 | Bill Blass, Ltd. |
| Humphrey Bogart | Actor | 25-Dec-1899 | 14-Jan-1957 | Casablanca |
| Richard Boone | Actor | 18-Jun-1917 | 10-Jan-1981 | Have Gun, Will Travel |
| Robert F. Brachtenbach | Judge | 28-Jan-1931 | 2-May-2008 | Justice, WA Supreme Court, 1972-94 |
| Big Bill Broonzy | Musician | 26-Jun-1898 | 15-Aug-1958 | Blues singer and guitarist |
| Bruce Cabot | Actor | 20-Apr-1904 | 3-May-1972 | Saved Fay Wray from King Kong |
| Constantine P. Cavafy | Poet | 29-Apr-1863 | 29-Apr-1933 | Greek poet in Alexandria |
| Graham Chapman | Comic | 8-Jan-1941 | 4-Oct-1989 | Monty Python's King Arthur |
| Sammy Davis, Jr. | Singer | 8-Dec-1925 | 16-May-1990 | Coolest hepcat in the Rat Pack |
| Richard Dawson | Game Show Host | 20-Nov-1932 | 2-Jun-2012 | Host of Family Feud, 1976-85 |
| Bob Denver | Actor | 9-Jan-1935 | 2-Sep-2005 | Gilligan on Gilligan's Island |
| John Diebold | Author | 8-Jun-1926 | 26-Dec-2005 | Advocate of automation |
| Brian Donlevy | Actor | 9-Feb-1901 | 5-Apr-1972 | The Great McGinty |
| Andrew Duggan | Actor | 28-Dec-1923 | 15-May-1988 | Bourbon Street Beat |
| Stanley H. Durwood | Business | 5-Aug-1920 | 15-Jul-1999 | Father of the multi-screen movie theater |
| David W. Dyer | Judge | 28-Jun-1910 | 7-Jun-1998 | 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1966-76 |
| King Edward VIII | Royalty | 23-Jun-1894 | 28-May-1972 | King of England, 1936 |
| Friedrich Engels | Economist | 28-Nov-1820 | 5-Aug-1895 | Communist Manifesto |
| Mike Evans | Actor | 3-Nov-1949 | 14-Dec-2006 | Lionel Jefferson on The Jeffersons |
| Rowland Evans | Columnist | 28-Apr-1921 | 23-Mar-2001 | Evans and Novak |
| Frances Farmer | Actor | 19-Sep-1913 | 1-Aug-1970 | Hollywood actress, institutionalized |
| Curt Flood | Baseball | 18-Jan-1938 | 20-Jan-1997 | Tried to topple MLB's antitrust exemption |
| Eddie Fontaine | Singer | 6-Mar-1927 | 13-Apr-1992 | Rock-a-billy singer and character actor |
| Jean Genet | Novelist | 19-Dec-1910 | 15-Apr-1986 | Theatre of the Absurd |
| Robert Goddard | Scientist | 5-Oct-1882 | 10-Aug-1945 | Father of modern rocketry |
| John Gotti | Criminal | 27-Oct-1940 | 10-Jun-2002 | The Teflon Don |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Head of State | 27-Apr-1822 | 23-Jul-1885 | Eighteenth President of the United States |
| Charles Gwathmey | Architect | 19-Jun-1938 | 3-Aug-2009 | Designed extension to the Guggenheim |
| Jean Hagen | Actor | 3-Aug-1923 | 29-Aug-1977 | Singin' in the Rain |
| Kevin Hagen | Actor | 3-Apr-1928 | 9-Jul-2005 | Little House on the Prairie |
| William Hanna | Cartoonist | 14-Jul-1910 | 22-Mar-2001 | Half of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon sweatshop |
| Michael Harrington | Activist | 24-Feb-1928 | 31-Jul-1989 | The Other America |
| Bret Harte | Author | 25-Aug-1836 | 5-May-1902 | Master of the western short story |
| Levon Helm | Drummer | 26-May-1940 | 19-Apr-2012 | Drummer for The Band |
| Anthony Hope | Novelist | 9-Feb-1863 | 8-Jul-1933 | The Prisoner of Zenda |
| Lightnin' Hopkins | Guitarist | 15-Mar-1912 | 30-Jan-1982 | Mojo Hand |
| Larry Hovis | Actor | 20-Feb-1936 | 9-Sep-2003 | Sgt. Carter on Hogan's Heroes |
| Burl Ives | Singer | 14-Jun-1909 | 14-Apr-1995 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| Robert Kardashian | Attorney | 22-Feb-1944 | 30-Sep-2003 | O. J. Simpson's attorney |
| Edgar Kennedy | Actor | 26-Apr-1890 | 9-Nov-1948 | Mad Wednesday |
| Dorothea Lange | Photographer | 26-May-1895 | 11-Oct-1965 | Depression-era photographer |
| Tom Lantos | Politician | 1-Feb-1928 | 11-Feb-2008 | Congressman from California, 1981-2008 |
| Andrew Bonar Law | Head of State | 16-Sep-1858 | 30-Oct-1923 | UK Prime Minister, 1922-23 |
| Stephen Leacock | Author | 30-Dec-1869 | 28-Mar-1944 | Literary Lapses |
| Brenda Marshall | Actor | 29-Sep-1915 | 30-Jul-1992 | Footsteps in the Dark |
| Bill McKinney | Actor | 12-Sep-1931 | 1-Dec-2011 | Deliverance |
| Barbara McNair | Singer | 4-Mar-1934 | 4-Feb-2007 | You're Gonna Love My Baby |
| John Everett Millais | Painter | 8-Jun-1829 | 13-Aug-1896 | British Pre-Raphaelite painter |
| Roger Miller | Country Musician | 2-Jan-1936 | 25-Oct-1992 | King of the Road |
| Robert Oppenheimer | Physicist | 22-Apr-1904 | 18-Feb-1967 | Physicist, headed the Manhattan Project |
| Giacomo Puccini | Composer | 22-Dec-1858 | 29-Nov-1924 | Madame Butterfly |
| Edna Purviance | Actor | 21-Oct-1895 | 11-Jan-1958 | Leading lady in Chaplin films |
| Anthony Quinn | Actor | 21-Apr-1915 | 3-Jun-2001 | Zorba the Greek |
| Ella Raines | Actor | 6-Aug-1920 | 30-May-1988 | Hail the Conquering Hero |
| Anne Ramsey | Actor | 1-Sep-1929 | 11-Aug-1988 | Throw Momma from the Train |
| Aldo Ray | Actor | 25-Sep-1926 | 27-Mar-1991 | The Green Berets |
| Ann Richards | Politician | 1-Sep-1933 | 13-Sep-2006 | Governor of Texas, 1991-95 |
| Harold W. Ross | Publisher | 6-Nov-1892 | 6-Dec-1951 | Founder of The New Yorker |
| Damon Runyon | Journalist | 4-Oct-1884 | 10-Dec-1946 | Guys and Dolls |
| Babe Ruth | Baseball | 6-Feb-1895 | 16-Aug-1948 | The Bambino |
| Ann Sheridan | Actor | 21-Feb-1915 | 21-Jan-1967 | Torrid Zone |
| Mikhail Sholokhov | Author | 24-May-1905 | 21-Feb-1984 | The Silent Don |
| Andy Sidaris | Film Director | 20-Feb-1931 | 7-Mar-2007 | Hard Ticket to Hawaii |
| Sylvia Sidney | Actor | 8-Aug-1910 | 1-Jul-1999 | Mama Carlson on WKRP |
| Jeremy Slate | Actor | 17-Feb-1926 | 19-Nov-2006 | The Mini-Skirt Mob |
| Stephen Solarz | Politician | 12-Sep-1940 | 29-Nov-2010 | Congressman from New York, 1975-93 |
| Jack Soo | Actor | 28-Oct-1916 | 11-Jan-1979 | Det. Yemana on Barney Miller |
| Henry Spira | Activist | 19-Jun-1927 | 12-Sep-1998 | Animal rights activist |
| Carl B. Stokes | Politician | 21-Jun-1927 | 3-Apr-1996 | Mayor of Cleveland, 1968-71 |
| Billy Strayhorn | Composer | 29-Nov-1915 | 31-May-1967 | Take the A Train |
| Ed Sullivan | TV Personality | 28-Sep-1902 | 13-Oct-1974 | The Ed Sullivan Show |
| John Thaw | Actor | 3-Jan-1942 | 21-Feb-2002 | Inspector Morse |
| Hugh Trevor-Roper | Historian | 15-Jan-1914 | 26-Jan-2003 | Historian fooled by fake Hitler diaries |
| Lana Turner | Actor | 8-Feb-1920 | 29-Jun-1995 | The Postman Always Rings Twice |
| Ian Wallace | Drummer | 29-Sep-1946 | 22-Feb-2007 | Ex-Crimson and active session drummer |
| Deborah Walley | Actor | 12-Aug-1943 | 10-May-2001 | Gidget Goes Hawaiian |
| Pop Warner | Football | 5-Apr-1871 | 7-Sep-1954 | Coach and kids' football namesake |
| Mary Wells | Singer | 13-May-1943 | 26-Jul-1992 | My Guy |
| Hugh Williams | Actor | 6-Mar-1904 | 7-Dec-1969 | One of Our Aircraft Is Missing |
| Nicol Williamson | Actor | 14-Sep-1938 | 16-Dec-2011 | Merlin in Excalibur |
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