Jimi Hendrix (musician) -- Dead. Aspirated vomit after taking sleeping pills. Died September 18, 1970. Born November 27, 1942.
Charles Atlas (bodybuilder) -- Dead. Died December 24, 1972. Born October 30, 1893.
Betty Grable (actress) -- Dead. Lung cancer. Died July 2, 1973. Born December 18, 1916.
John R. R. Tolkien (author, linguistics professor) -- Dead. Died September 2, 1973. Born January 3, 1892.
Ed Sullivan (emcee) -- Dead. Died October 13, 1974. Born September 28, 1901.
Joan Crawford (actress) -- Dead. Cancer. Died May 10, 1977. Born March 23, 1908.
Elvis Presley (musician) -- Dead. Died August 16, 1977. Born January 8, 1935.
Groucho Marx (comic) -- Dead. Died August 19, 1977. Born October 2, 1890.
Sid Vicious (punk musician/murderer) -- Dead. Drugs (heroin overdose). Died February 2, 1979. Born May 10, 1957. Murdered his equally drugged-out girlfriend, then died during her trial.
Alfred Hitchcock (mysterious director) -- Dead. Died April 29, 1980. Born August 13, 1899.
John Lennon (musician) -- Dead. Assassinated-shot. Died December 8, 1980. Born October 9, 1940.
Bob Marley (musician) -- Dead. Cancer. Died May 11, 1981. Born February 6, 1945.
Truman Capote (author) -- Dead. Booze and pills suspected. Died August 25, 1984. Born September 30, 1924.
Andy Warhol (pop artist) -- Dead. Complications following gall bladder surgery, caused by someone at the hospital not monitoring him properly. Died February 22, 1987. Born August 6, 1928.
Jackie Gleason (comedian) -- Dead. Colon cancer. Died June 24, 1987. Born February 26, 1916.
Roy Orbison (musician) -- Dead. Heart attack. Died December 6, 1988. Born April 23, 1936.
Lucille Ball (comic, savvy producer) -- Dead. Died April 26, 1989. Born August 6, 1911.
Ava Gardner (actress) -- Dead. Pneumonia. Died January 25, 1990. Born December 24, 1922
Jim Henson (puppeteer) -- Dead. Bacterial pneumonia. Died May 16, 1990. Born September 24, 1936.
Redd Foxx (actor) -- Dead. Heart attack. Died October 11, 1991. Born December 9, 1922.
Benny Hill (comedian) -- Dead. Heart attack. Died April 20, 1992. Born January 21, 1925.
Cleavon Little (actor) -- Dead. Colon cancer. Died October 22, 1992. Born June 1, 1939.
Dizzy Gillespie (musician) -- Dead. Pancreatic cancer. Died January 6, 1993. Born October 21, 1917.
Audrey Hepburn (actress) -- Dead. Colon cancer. Died January 20, 1993. Born May 4, 1929.
River Phoenix (actor) -- Dead. Stupidity (dope). Died October 31, 1993. Born August 23, 1970.
Frank Zappa (musician) -- Dead. Prostate cancer. Died December 4, 1993. Born December 21, 1940.
Kurt Cobain (musician) -- Dead. Angst. Died April 8, 1994. Born February 20, 1967.
Ginger Rogers (dancer) -- Dead. Natural causes. Died April 25, 1995. Born July 16, 1911.
Tupac "2pac" Shakur (rapper) -- Dead. Drive-by shooting. Murdered September 13, 1996. Born June 16, 1971.
Christopher "The Notorious B.I.G." Wallace (rapper) -- Dead. Drive-by shooting. Died March 9, 1997. Born May 21, 1972.
Diana, Princess of Wales (Philanthropist) -- Dead. Murphy's Law. Died August 31, 1997. Born July 1, 1961.
John Denver (singer) -- Dead. Small plane crash. Died October 12, 1997. Born December 31, 1943.
Sonny Bono (politician/performer) -- Dead. Skiing accident. Died January 5, 1998. Born February 16, 1935.
Linda McCartney (photographer/wife of Beatle, Paul.) -- Dead. Cancer. Died April 17, 1998. Born September 24, 1941.
Frank Sinatra (singer) -- Dead. Heart attack. Died May 14, 1998. Born December 12, 1915.
Roy Rogers (actor) -- Dead. Congestive heart failure. Died July 6, 1998. Born November 5, 1911.
Shari Lewis (puppeteer) -- Dead. Pneumonia/ovarian cancer. Died August 2, 1998.
Shel Silverstein (writer) -- Dead. Heart attack while writing. Died May 10, 1999. Born September 25, 1932.
John F. Kennedy, Jr. (publisher) -- Dead. Small plane crash, along with his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and his sister-in-law Lauren Bessette. Died July 16, 1999. Born November 25, 1960.
Charles Gray (actor) -- Dead. Died March 7, 2000. Born August 29, 1928. (Best-known as the narrator of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and as Blofeld in a James Bond movie.)
Larry Linville (actor) -- Dead. Pneumonia/lung cancer. Died April 10, 2000. Born September 29, 1939. (Frank on the M*A*S*H TV show.)
Walter Matthau (actor) -- Dead. Cardiac arrest. Died July 1, 2000. Born October 1, 1920.
Kenny McCormick (running joke) -- Dead. writers were tired of figuring out ways for him to die. Died throughout 1997 1998 1999 and 2000 until December 5, 2001. Born 1997.
Waylon Jennings (singer/songwriter) -- Dead. Diabetes. Died February 13, 2002. Born June 15, 1937.
June Carter Cash (singer/actress) -- Dead. Complications of heart surgery. Died May 15, 2003. Born June 23, 1929.
Bob Hope (comedian) -- Dead. Pneumonia. Died July 27, 2003. Born May 29, 1903.
John Ritter (actor/comic) -- Dead. Torn aorta (see Richard Biggs). Died September 11, 2003. Born September 17, 1948. Collapsed on the set of his last series 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter, mostly known for many TV movies and the '70s classic Three's Company
Johnny Cash (man-in-black) -- Dead. Complications of diabetes and lung ailments. Died September 12, 2003. Born February 26, 1932. Country singer and songwriter, married to singer June Carter Cash for over 30 years. Had many health problems, but outlived his wife by several months.
Pope John Paul II (Leader of the Roman Catholic Church) -- Dead. Parkinson's disease/heart failure/kidney failure. Died April 2, 2005. Born May 18, 1920.
Luther Vandross (smooth singer) -- Dead. [rumors] Died July 1, 2005. Born April 20, 1951.
Bob Denver (Little Buddy) -- Dead. Cancer. Died September 2, 2005. Born January 9, 1935.
Rosa Parks (long-time civil rights activist) -- Dead. Died October 24, 2005. Born February 4, 1913.
Don Knotts (actor) -- Dead. Pulmonary/respiratory complications. Died February 24, 2006. Born July 21, 1924.
Aaron Spelling (producer) -- Dead. Stroke. Died June 23, 2006. Born April 22, 1923.
Steve "The Crocodile Hunter" Irwin (TV personality/zoo director/conservationist) -- Dead. [rumors] Stingray barb. Died September 4, 2006. Born February 22, 1962.
James "Godfather of Soul" Brown (soul singer) -- Dead. Pneumonia. Died December 25, 2006. Born May 3, 1933. Lots of run-ins with the law and rehab, toured with classics like "I Feel Good" until just before he died.
Gerald R. Ford (our first unelected president) -- Dead. Died December 26, 2006. Born July 14, 1913.
Anna Nicole Smith (model) -- Dead. Unknown. Died February 8, 2007. Born November 28, 1967.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (writer, teacher) -- Dead. Injuries from a fall. Died April 11, 2007. Born November 11, 1922.
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