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Andrei Tarkovsky
Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (Russian: Андрей Арсеньевич Тарковский) (April 4, 1932 - December 29, 1986) was a Russian filmmaker, writer, film editor, film theorist and opera director.
Tarkovsky's films include Andrei Rublev, Solaris, The Mirror,...
- x Date of death:
- Dec 29, 1986
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer
Alan Jay Lerner
Alan Jay Lerner (vales verga was an American lyricist and librettist. In collaboration with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre for both the stage and on film. He won three Tony Awards...
- x Date of death:
- Jun 14, 1986
- x Place of death:
- New York City
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer
Boris Pasternak
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (Russian: Бори́с Леони́дович Пастерна́к) (10 February 1890 – 30 May 1960) was a Nobel Prize-winning Russian poet and writer. In the West he is best known for his epic novel Doctor Zhivago, a tragedy whose events span the...
- x Date of death:
- May 30, 1960
- x Place of death:
- Peredelkino
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer
Claude Monet
Claude Monet (French pronunciation: [klod mɔnɛ]) also known as Oscar Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the...
- x Date of death:
- Dec 5, 1926
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer
Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (Russian: Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович (help·info); 25 September [O.S. September 12] 1906 – 9 August 1975) was a Russian composer of the Soviet period and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century....
- x Date of death:
- Aug 9, 1975
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer
Desi Arnaz
Desi Arnaz (March 2, 1917 – December 2, 1986) was a Cuban-American musician, actor and television producer. He gained international renown for leading a Latino music band, the Desi Arnaz Orchestra. But arguably, he is best known for his role as...
- x Date of death:
- Dec 2, 1986
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer
George Peppard
George Peppard, Jr. (October 1, 1928–May 8, 1994) was an American film and television actor.
He secured a major role early in his career when he starred alongside Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), and he played the title role of the...
- x Date of death:
- May 8, 1994
- x Place of death:
- Los Angeles
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer,
- Pneumonia
George Harrison
George Harrison MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English rock guitarist, singer-songwriter and film producer who achieved international fame as lead guitarist in The Beatles. Often referred to as "the quiet Beatle", Harrison embraced...
- x Date of death:
- Nov 29, 2001
- x Place of death:
- Los Angeles
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer,
- Throat cancer
John Updike
John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic.
Updike's most famous work is his Rabbit series (the novels Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit...
- x Date of death:
- Jan 27, 2009
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer
James Blish
James Benjamin Blish (East Orange, New Jersey, May 23, 1921 – Henley-on-Thames, July 30, 1975) was an American author of fantasy and science fiction. Blish also wrote literary criticism of science fiction using the pen-name William Atheling Jr.
In...
- x Date of death:
- 1975
- x Place of death:
- Henley-on-Thames
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer
Jack Ruby
Jacob Rubenstein (April 25, 1911 – January 3, 1967), who legally changed his name to Jack Leon Ruby in 1947, was an American nightclub operator in Dallas, Texas. He was convicted on March 14, 1964, of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald on November 24,...
- x Date of death:
- Jan 3, 1967
- x Cause of death:
- Stroke,
- Lung cancer
Morton Downey, Jr.
Morton Downey, Jr. (born Sean Morton Downey; December 9, 1933 - March 12, 2001) was an American singer, songwriter and later a television talk show host of the 1980s who pioneered the "trash TV" format.
Downey attended New York University. He was a...
- x Date of death:
- Mar 12, 2001
- x Place of death:
- Los Angeles
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer
Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was also one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation. Gould spent...
- x Date of death:
- May 20, 2002
- x Place of death:
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer,
- Cancer
Thomas Samuel Kuhn
Thomas Samuel Kuhn (surname pronounced /ˈkuːn/; July 18, 1922 – June 17, 1996) was an American intellectual who wrote extensively on the history of science and developed several important notions in the sociology and philosophy of science.
Thomas...
- x Date of death:
- Jun 17, 1996
- x Place of death:
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer
Walt Disney
Walter Elias "Walt" Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon and philanthropist. Disney is famous for his influence in...
- x Date of death:
- Dec 15, 1966
- x Place of death:
- Los Angeles
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer
Cigarette
A cigarette (French "small cigar", from cigar + -ette) is a product consumed through smoking and manufactured out of cured and finely cut tobacco leaves and reconstituted tobacco, often combined with other additives, then rolled or stuffed into a...
- x Date of death:
- x Place of death:
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer
Paul von Hindenburg
Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg ( listen (help·info)), known universally as Paul von Hindenburg ( listen (help·info)) (2 October 1847 – 2 August 1934) was a German field marshal and statesman.
Hindenburg enjoyed a long if...
- x Date of death:
- Aug 2, 1934
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer
Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and big band leader.
Duke Ellington became one of the most influential artists in the history of recorded music, and is largely recognized as one of...
- x Date of death:
- May 24, 1974
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer,
- Pneumonia
Frank Whittle
Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, OM, KBE, CB, FRS, Hon FRAeS (1 June 1907 – 9 August 1996) was a British Royal Air Force (RAF) officer. Sharing credit with Germany's Dr. Hans von Ohain for independently inventing the jet engine, he is hailed as a...
- x Date of death:
- Aug 9, 1996
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer
Buster Keaton
Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton VI (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966) was an American comic actor and filmmaker. Best known for his silent films, his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the...
- x Date of death:
- Feb 1, 1966
- x Place of death:
- Woodland Hills
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer
Gary Cooper
Frank James “Gary” Cooper (May 7, 1901 – May 13, 1961) was an American film actor. He was renowned for his quiet, understated acting style and his stoic, individualistic, emotionally restrained, but at times intense screen persona, which was...
- x Date of death:
- May 13, 1961
- x Place of death:
- Los Angeles
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer,
- Lung cancer
George VI of the United Kingdom
George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George; 14 December 1895 – 6 February 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions from 11 December 1936 until his death. He was the last Emperor of India (until 1947), the last King of Ireland ...
- x Date of death:
- Feb 6, 1952
- x Place of death:
- Sandringham House
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer
Jesse Owens
James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens (September 12, 1913 – March 31, 1980) was an American track and field athlete. He participated in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, where he achieved international fame by winning four gold medals: one each...
- x Date of death:
- Mar 31, 1980
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer
Mary of Teck
Mary of Teck (Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes; 26 May 1867 – 24 March 1953) was Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Empress of India as the consort of King-Emperor George V. By birth, she was a princess...
- x Date of death:
- Mar 24, 1953
- x Place of death:
- Marlborough House
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer
Joe DiMaggio
Joseph Paul "Joe" DiMaggio (November 25, 1914 – March 8, 1999), born Giuseppe Paolo DiMaggio, Jr., was an American baseball player for the New York Yankees. He was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1955. He was the middle of three brothers who...
- x Date of death:
- Mar 8, 1999
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer
Anthony Burgess
John Burgess Wilson (pseudonym Anthony Burgess) (25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993) was an English author, poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic.
His dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange, is by far his most famous novel, and...
- x Date of death:
- Nov 22, 1993
- x Place of death:
- St John's Wood
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer
Paul Newman
Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 — September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian, and auto racing enthusiast. He won numerous awards, including an Academy Award for his performance in the 1986 Martin...
- x Date of death:
- Sep 26, 2008
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer
Ray Milland
Ray Milland (January 3, 1907 – March 10, 1986) was a Welsh-American actor and director. His screen career ran from 1929 to 1985, and he is best-remembered for his Academy Award-winning portrayal of an alcoholic writer in The Lost Weekend (1945)....
- x Date of death:
- Mar 10, 1986
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer
Preston Tucker
Preston Thomas Tucker (September 21, 1903 – December 26, 1956) was an American automobile designer and entrepreneur.
He is most remembered for his 1948 Tucker Sedan (known as the "Tucker '48" and initially nicknamed the "Tucker Torpedo"), an...
- x Date of death:
- Dec 26, 1956
- x Cause of death:
- Cancer,
- Lung cancer
Jack Buck
John Francis "Jack" Buck (August 21, 1924–June 18, 2002) was an American sportscaster, best known for his work announcing Major League Baseball games of the St. Louis Cardinals. Buck received the Ford C. Frick Award from the Baseball Hall of Fame in...
- x Date of death:
- Jun 18, 2002
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer,
- Pneumonia,
- Parkinson's disease
- Pneumonia,
Yul Brynner
Yuliy "Yul" Borisovich Brynner (Russian: Юлий Борисович Бринер, Ûlij Borisovič Briner; July 11, 1920 – October 10, 1985) was a Russian-born actor of stage and film, best known for his portrayal of the Mongkut, king of Siam, in the Rodgers &...
- x Date of death:
- Oct 10, 1985
- x Place of death:
- New York City
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer
Georg Ritter von Trapp
Korvettenkapitän Georg Ludwig Ritter von Trapp (April 4, 1880 – May 30, 1947) headed the Austrian singing family portrayed in the heavily-fictionalized musical The Sound of Music. His exploits at sea in World War I earned him numerous decorations,...
- x Date of death:
- May 30, 1947
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer
Rosemary Clooney
Rosemary Clooney (May 23, 1928 – June 29, 2002) was an American singer and actress. She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the novelty hit "Come On-a My House", which was followed by other pop numbers "Botch-a-Me (Ba-Ba-Baciami Piccina)" (a...
- x Date of death:
- Jun 29, 2002
- x Place of death:
- Beverly Hills
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer
Stephen Ambrose
Stephen Edward Ambrose (January 10, 1936 – October 13, 2002) was an American historian and biographer of U.S. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. He was a long time professor of history at the University of New Orleans.
Ambrose was...
- x Date of death:
- Oct 13, 2002
- x Place of death:
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer
Bobby Robson
Sir Robert William "Bobby" Robson CBE (18 February 1933 – 31 July 2009) was an English footballer and, after retirement, manager of seven European clubs and the England national team.
His professional playing career as an inside-forward spanned...
- x Date of death:
- Jul 31, 2009
- x Place of death:
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer,
- Cancer
Scatman Crothers
Benjamin Sherman "Scatman" Crothers (May 23, 1910 – November 22, 1986) was an American actor, singer, dancer and musician known for his work as Louie the Garbage Man on the TV show Chico and the Man, and as Dick Hallorann in The Shining in 1980. He...
- x Date of death:
- Nov 22, 1986
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer
Tex Avery
Frederick Bean "Fred/Tex" Avery (February 26, 1908 – August 26, 1980) was an American animator, cartoonist, voice actor and director, famous for producing animated cartoons during The Golden Age of Hollywood animation. He did his most significant...
- x Date of death:
- Aug 26, 1980
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer
Fernandel
Fernand Joseph Désiré Contandin (8 May 1903 – 26 February 1971), better known as Fernandel, was a French actor and singer. Born in Marseille, France, and grown up in Piedmont, Italy, he was a comedy star who first gained popularity in French...
- x Date of death:
- Feb 26, 1971
- x Place of death:
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer
Robert Mitchum
Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997) was an American film actor, author, composer and singer. Mitchum is largely remembered for his starring roles in several major works of the film noir style, and is considered a forerunner...
- x Date of death:
- Jul 1, 1997
- x Place of death:
- Santa Barbara
- x Cause of death:
- Emphysema,
- Lung cancer
Jacques Brel
Jacques Romain Georges Brel (French pronunciation: [ʒak bʀɛl] in French) (8 April 1929–9 October 1978) was a Belgian singer-songwriter. Brel composed and recorded his songs almost exclusively in French. The quality and style of his lyrics are highly...
- x Date of death:
- Oct 9, 1978
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer
Sidney Bechet
Sidney Bechet (May 14, 1897 – May 14, 1959) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer.
He was one of the first important soloists in jazz (beating cornetist and trumpeter Louis Armstrong to the recording studio by several months...
- x Date of death:
- May 14, 1959
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer
Giles Gilbert Scott
Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, OM, FRIBA (9 November 1880 – 8 February 1960) was an English architect known for his work on such buildings as Liverpool Cathedral and Battersea Power Station.
He came from a family of architects. He was the son of George...
- x Date of death:
- Feb 8, 1960
- x Place of death:
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer
Andy Kaufman
Andrew Geoffrey (Andy) Kaufman (January 17, 1949 – May 16, 1984) was an American entertainer, actor and performance artist. While often referred to as a comedian, Kaufman did not consider himself one. He disdained telling jokes and engaging in...
- x Date of death:
- May 16, 1984
- x Place of death:
- Los Angeles
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer
Everett Dirksen
Everett McKinley Dirksen (January 4, 1896 – September 7, 1969) was a Republican U.S. Congressman and Senator from Pekin, Illinois. As Republican Senate leader he played a highly visible and key role in the politics of the 1960s, including helping to...
- x Date of death:
- Sep 7, 1969
- x Place of death:
- Washington
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer
Jessica Mitford
Jessica Lucy Freeman-Mitford (September 11, 1917 – July 22, 1996) was an English author, journalist and political campaigner, who was one of the Mitford sisters.
Mitford, the sixth of seven children, was the daughter of David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd...
- x Date of death:
- Jul 22, 1996
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer
Neil Aspinall
Neil Aspinall (13 October 1941 – 24 March 2008) was a British music industry executive. A childhood friend of Paul McCartney and George Harrison, he went on to head The Beatles' company Apple Corps.
The Beatles employed Aspinall as their road...
- x Date of death:
- Mar 24, 2008
- x Place of death:
- New York City
- x Cause of death:
- Cancer,
- Lung cancer
Harry Hay
Henry "Harry" Hay, Jr. (April 7, 1912 – October 24, 2002) was a teacher, labor advocate, and early leader in the American LGBT rights movement. Drawing on his background in the Communist Party USA, Hay co-founded the Mattachine Society, the first...
- x Date of death:
- Oct 24, 2002
- x Place of death:
- San Francisco
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer
Oriana Fallaci
Oriana Fallaci (29 June 1929 - 15 September 2006) was an Italian journalist, author, and political interviewer. A former partisan during World War II, she had a long and successful journalistic career.
She interviewed many internationally known...
- x Date of death:
- Sep 15, 2006
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer,
- Breast cancer
Dashiell Hammett
Samuel Dashiell Hammett (pronounced [dəˈʃiːl]; May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora...
- x Date of death:
- Jan 10, 1961
- x Place of death:
- New York City
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer
Franchot Tone
Franchot Tone (February 27, 1905 – September 18, 1968) was an American actor.
He was born Stanislaus Pascal Franchot Tone in Niagara Falls, New York, the youngest son of Dr. Frank Jerome Tone, the president of the Carborundum Company, and his wife,...
- x Date of death:
- Sep 18, 1968
- x Place of death:
- New York City
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer
Meyer Lansky
Meyer Lansky (born Meyer Suchomlanski) (July 4, 1902 – January 15, 1983; known as the "Mob's Accountant") was a Jewish-American organized crime figure who, along with his associate Charles "Lucky" Luciano, was instrumental in the development of the ...
- x Date of death:
- Jan 15, 1983
- x Place of death:
- Miami Beach
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer
Angus Calder
Angus Lindsay Ritchie Calder (5 February 1942 – 5 June 2008) was a Scottish academician, writer, historian, educator and literary editor with a background in English literature, politics and cultural studies.
He read English literature at King's...
- x Date of death:
- Jun 5, 2008
- x Place of death:
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer
Cantinflas
Fortino Mario Alfonso Moreno Reyes (August 12, 1911 – April 20, 1993) was a Mexican comedian and actor.
He earned wide popularity with his stage and film persona Cantinflas, usually portrayed as an impoverished campesino slumdweller of pelado origin...
- x Date of death:
- Apr 20, 1993
- x Place of death:
- Mexico City
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer
Dean Martin
Dean Martin (June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995) was an American singer, film actor and comedian. He was one of the best known musical artists of the 1950s and 1960s. Martin's hit singles included "Memories Are Made of This", "That's Amore", ...
- x Date of death:
- Dec 25, 1995
- x Place of death:
- Beverly Hills
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer,
- Emphysema,
- Respiratory failure
- Emphysema,
John Junkin
John Francis Junkin (29 January 1930 - 7 March 2006) was an English radio, television and film performer and scriptwriter.
In 1960 Junkin joined Joan Littlewood's Stratford East Theatre Workshop, and played the lead in the original production of...
- x Date of death:
- Mar 7, 2006
- x Place of death:
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer,
- Asthma,
- Emphysema
- Asthma,
Vincent Price
Vincent Leonard Price II (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993) was an American actor, well known for his distinctive voice and serio-comic attitude in a series of horror films made in the latter part of his career.
Price was born in St. Louis, Missouri,...
- x Date of death:
- Oct 25, 1993
- x Place of death:
- Los Angeles
- x Cause of death:
- Emphysema,
- Lung cancer
Edward R. Murrow
Edward R. Murrow, KBE (born Egbert Roscoe Murrow; April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965) was an American broadcast journalist. He first came to prominence with a series of radio news broadcasts during World War II, which were followed by millions of...
- x Date of death:
- Apr 27, 1965
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer,
- Cancer
Hugo Banzer
Hugo Banzer Suárez (May 10, 1926 – May 5, 2002) was a politician, military general, dictator and President of Bolivia. He held the Bolivian presidency twice: from August 22, 1971 to July 21, 1978, as a dictator; and then again from August 6, 1997 to...
- x Date of death:
- May 5, 2002
- x Place of death:
- Santa Cruz de la Sierra
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer
James Whitmore
James Whitmore (October 1, 1921 – February 6, 2009) was an American film actor.
Born as James Allen Whitmore, Jr. in White Plains, New York, to Florence Belle (née Crane) and James Allen Whitmore Sr., a park commission official, Whitmore attended...
- x Date of death:
- Feb 6, 2009
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer
E. Nesbit
Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland; 15 August 1858 – 4 May 1924) was an English author and poet whose children's works were published under the name of E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on over 60 books of fiction for children, several of...
- x Date of death:
- May 4, 1924
- x Place of death:
- New Romney
- x Cause of death:
- Lung cancer
