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Linus Pauling
Linus Carl Pauling (February 28, 1901 – August 19, 1994) was an American chemist, peace activist, author, and educator. He was one of the most influential chemists in history and ranks among the most important scientists in any field of the 20th...
- x Date of death:
- Aug 19, 1994
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer,
- Cancer
Bill Bixby
Bill Bixby, born Wilfred Bailey Bixby, (January 22, 1934 – November 21, 1993) was an American film and television actor, director and frequent game show panelist. His career spanned over three decades; he appeared on stage, in motion pictures and...
- x Date of death:
- Nov 21, 1993
- x Place of death:
- Century City
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
Eli Whitney
Eli Whitney (December 8, 1765 – January 8, 1825) was an American inventor best known as the inventor of the cotton gin. This was one of the key inventions of the industrial revolution and shaped the economy of the antebellum South. Whitney's...
- x Date of death:
- Jan 8, 1825
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
Frank Zappa
Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, electronic, orchestral, and musique concrète...
- x Date of death:
- Dec 4, 1993
- x Place of death:
- Los Angeles
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
Harry Secombe
Sir Harry Donald Secombe, CBE (8 September 1921–11 April 2001) was a Welsh entertainer with a noted fine tenor singing voice and a talent for comedy. He is best known for playing Neddie Seagoon, the central character in The Goon Show (1951-60), a...
- x Date of death:
- Apr 11, 2001
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
J. G. Ballard
James Graham Ballard (15 November 1930 – 19 April 2009) was an English novelist and short story writer. He was a prominent member of the New Wave movement in science fiction, but his best-known books are the controversial Crash (1973), an...
- x Date of death:
- Apr 19, 2009
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.
Described by Bertrand Russell...
- x Date of death:
- Apr 29, 1951
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
Michael Bentine
Michael Bentine CBE (26 January 1922 – 26 November 1996 ) was a comedian, comic actor, and founding member of The Goons.
Bentine was born Michael James Bentin in Watford, Hertfordshire, of Anglo-Peruvian parentage. and grew up in Folkestone, Kent,...
- x Date of death:
- Nov 26, 1996
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer,
- Cancer
Pierre Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau, PC, CC, CH, QC, MSRC (usually known as Pierre Trudeau or Pierre Elliott Trudeau) (October 18, 1919 – September 28, 2000), was the 15th Prime Minister of Canada from April 20, 1968, to June 4, 1979, and...
- x Date of death:
- Sep 28, 2000
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda (July 12, 1904 – September 23, 1973) was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean writer and politician Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. Neruda assumed his pen name as a teenager, partly because it was in vogue, partly to hide...
- x Date of death:
- Sep 23, 1973
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
Timothy Leary
Dr. Timothy Francis Leary (October 22, 1920 – May 31, 1996) was an American writer, psychologist, futurist, advocate of psychedelic drug research, and one of the first people whose remains have been sent into space. An icon of 1960s counterculture,...
- x Date of death:
- May 31, 1996
- x Place of death:
- Los Angeles
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
Ty Cobb
Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb (December 18, 1886 – July 17, 1961), nicknamed "The Georgia Peach," was a baseball player and is regarded by some historians and journalists as the best player of the dead-ball era, and is generally seen as one of the...
- x Date of death:
- Jul 17, 1961
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
William Shockley
William Bradford Shockley (February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) was an American physicist and inventor. Along with John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain, Shockley co-invented the transistor, for which all three were awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in...
- x Date of death:
- Aug 12, 1989
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
François Mitterrand
François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand ( fʁɑ̃swa mɔʁis mitɛˈʁɑ̃ (help·info), 26 October 1916 – 8 January 1996) served as the President of France from 1981 to 1995, elected as representative of the Socialist Party (PS). First elected during the May...
- x Date of death:
- Jan 8, 1996
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hughes, (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the new literary art form jazz poetry. Hughes is best-known for...
- x Date of death:
- May 22, 1967
- x Place of death:
- New York City
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate 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
Walker Percy
Walker Percy (May 28, 1916 – May 10, 1990) was an American Southern author whose interests included philosophy and semiotics. Percy is best known for his philosophical novels set in and around New Orleans, Louisiana, the first of which, The...
- x Date of death:
- May 10, 1990
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
Fredric March
Fredric March (August 31, 1897 – April 14, 1975) was an American stage and film actor. He won an Oscar for Best Actor in 1932 for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and in 1946 for The Best Years of Our Lives.
March was born Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel in...
- x Date of death:
- Apr 14, 1975
- x Place of death:
- Los Angeles
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
Mobutu Sese Seko
Mobutu Sésé Seko Nkuku Ngbendu wa Za Banga (14 October 1930 – 7 September 1997), commonly known as Mobutu or Mobutu Sésé Seko (pronounced /məˈbuːtuː ˈsɛseɪ ˈsɛkoʊ/ in English), born Joseph-Désiré Mobutu, became the President of Zaire (now the...
- x Date of death:
- Sep 7, 1997
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
Bud Abbott
William Alexander “Bud” Abbott (October 2, 1895 – April 24, 1974) was an American actor, producer and comedian. He is best remembered as the straight man of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Lou Costello.
Abbott was born in Asbury Park,...
- x Date of death:
- Apr 24, 1974
- x Place of death:
- Woodland Hills
- x Cause of death:
- Cancer,
- Prostate cancer
Timothy Dwight IV
Timothy Dwight (May 14, 1752 – January 11, 1817) was an American academic and educator, a Congregationalist minister, theologian, and author. He was the eighth president of Yale College (1795-1817).
Dwight was the eldest son of merchant and farmer...
- x Date of death:
- Jan 11, 1817
- x Place of death:
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
Tom McCall
Thomas Lawson McCall (March 22, 1913 – January 8, 1983) was an American politician and journalist in the state of Oregon. A Republican, he was the 30 governor of the state, in office from 1967 to 1975. A native of Massachusetts, he grew up there and...
- x Date of death:
- Jan 8, 1983
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
Charles Haughey
Charles James "Charlie" Haughey (Irish: Cathal Séamas Ó hEochaidh; 16 September 1925 – 13 June 2006) was Taoiseach of Ireland, serving three terms in office; from December 1979 to June 1981, March 1982 to December 1982 and March 1987 to February...
- x Date of death:
- Jun 13, 2006
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
Paul Touvier
Paul Touvier (April 3, 1915 - July 17, 1996) was convicted of crime against humanity for his Collaborationist role during Vichy France.
He was born in Saint-Vincent-sur-Jabron, Alpes de Haute-Provence, in south-eastern France. As a teenager, Touvier...
- x Date of death:
- Jul 17, 1996
- x Place of death:
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
Bob Monkhouse
Robert Alan Monkhouse OBE (1 June 1928 – 29 December 2003) was an English entertainer. He was a successful comedy writer, comedian and actor and was also well known on British television as a presenter and game show host. Monkhouse was famous for...
- x Date of death:
- Dec 29, 2003
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
Roone Arledge
Roone Arledge (July 8, 1931 – December 5, 2002) was an American sports broadcasting pioneer who was chairman of ABC News from 1977 until several years before his death, and a key part of the company's rise to competition with the two other main...
- x Date of death:
- Dec 5, 2002
- x Place of death:
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
Christopher Isherwood
Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (August 26, 1904 – January 4, 1986) was an Anglo-American novelist.
Born at Wyberslegh Hall, High Lane, Cheshire in the North West England, Isherwood spent his childhood in various towns where his father, a...
- x Date of death:
- Jan 4, 1986
- x Place of death:
- Santa Monica
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
Peter Cushing
Peter Wilton Cushing, OBE (26 May 1913 – 11 August 1994) was an English actor, known for his many appearances in Hammer Films, in which he played Baron Frankenstein and Dr. Van Helsing, amongst many other roles, often appearing opposite Christopher...
- x Date of death:
- Aug 11, 1994
- x Place of death:
- Canterbury
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
Floyd Patterson
Floyd Patterson (January 4, 1935 – May 11, 2006 in Waco, North Carolina) was an American 2-time world heavyweight boxing champion. At 21, Patterson was then the youngest man to win the world heavyweight championship and, later, the first to regain...
- x Date of death:
- May 11, 2006
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer,
- Alzheimer's disease
Harold Lloyd
Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) was an American film actor and producer, most famous for his silent comedies.
Harold Lloyd ranks alongside Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton as one of the most popular and influential film...
- x Date of death:
- Mar 8, 1971
- x Place of death:
- Beverly Hills
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
Gianni Agnelli
Giovanni Agnelli, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (12 March 1921 – 24 January 2003), better known as Gianni Agnelli, was an Italian industrialist and principal shareholder of Fiat. As the head of Fiat, he controlled 4.4% of Italy's GDP, 3.1% of its...
- x Date of death:
- Jan 24, 2003
- x Place of death:
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
Eldridge Cleaver
Eldridge Cleaver (August 31, 1935 – May 1, 1998) was an influential writer, social critic and radical intellectual and the author of Soul on Ice, Post-Prison Writings and Speeches and Target Zero. Cleaver served as the Minister of Information for...
- x Date of death:
- May 1, 1998
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
Walter Winchell
Walter Winchell (April 7, 1897 – February 20, 1972) was an American newspaper and radio commentator. He invented the "gossip column" while at the New York Evening Graphic.
Born Walter Winschel in New York City, he started performing in vaudeville...
- x Date of death:
- Feb 20, 1972
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
William Gaddis
William Gaddis (December 29, 1922 – December 16, 1998) was an American novelist. He wrote five novels, two of which won National Book Awards.
Gaddis was born in New York City to William Thomas Gaddis, who worked "on Wall Street and in politics," and...
- x Date of death:
- Dec 16, 1998
- x Place of death:
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
James Herriot
James Herriot is the pen name of James Alfred Wight, OBE, also known as Alf Wight (3 October 1916 – 23 February 1995), a British veterinary surgeon and writer. Wight is best known for his semi-autobiographical stories, often referred to collectively...
- x Date of death:
- Feb 23, 1995
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
Sam Wanamaker
Samuel Wanamaker (14 June 1919 – 18 December 1993) was an American film director and actor, credited as the person most responsible for the modern recreation of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London.
Wanamaker was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son...
- x Date of death:
- Dec 18, 1993
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
Gregory Corso
Gregory Nunzio Corso (March 26, 1930 – January 17, 2001) was an American poet, youngest of the inner circle of Beat Generation writers (with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs).
Corso's first volume of poetry The Vestal Lady on...
- x Date of death:
- Jan 17, 2001
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
Hume Cronyn
Hume Blake Cronyn, OC (July 18, 1911 – June 15, 2003) was a Canadian actor of stage and screen, who enjoyed a long career, often appearing professionally alongside his second wife, Jessica Tandy.
Cronyn, one of five children, was born in London,...
- x Date of death:
- Jun 15, 2003
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
Lester Maddox
Lester Garfield Maddox (September 30, 1915 – June 25, 2003) was an American Democratic Party politician who was governor of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1967 to 1971.
Maddox came to prominence as a staunch segregationist and maintained, to his...
- x Date of death:
- Jun 25, 2003
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer,
- Pneumonia,
- Cancer
- Pneumonia,
Herbie Mann
Herbert Jay Solomon (April 16, 1930 – July 1, 2003), better known as Herbie Mann, was an American jazz flautist and important early practitioner of world music. Early in his career, he also played saxophones and clarinets (including bass clarinet),...
- x Date of death:
- Jul 1, 2003
- x Place of death:
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
Stokely Carmichael
Stokely Standiford Churchill Carmichael (June 29, 1941 – November 15, 1998), also known as Kwame Toure, was a Trinidadian-American black activist active in the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement. He rose to prominence first as a leader of the...
- x Date of death:
- Nov 15, 1998
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
Telly Savalas
Aristotelis “Telly” Savalas (January 21, 1922 – January 22, 1994) was an American film and television actor and singer, whose career spanned four decades. Best known for playing the title role in the 1970s crime drama Kojak, Savalas was nominated...
- x Date of death:
- Jan 22, 1994
- x Place of death:
- Universal City
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer,
- Bladder cancer
Orval Faubus
Orval Eugene Faubus (January 7, 1910 – December 14, 1994) was a six-term Democratic Governor of Arkansas, serving from 1955 to 1967. He is best known for his 1957 stand against the desegregation of Little Rock public schools during the Little Rock...
- x Date of death:
- Dec 14, 1994
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
Kinji Fukasaku
Kinji Fukasaku (深作 欣二, Fukasaku Kinji, 3 July 1930 – 12 January 2003) was a Japanese film actor, screenwriter, and best known as a celebrated and innovative filmmaker. He was born in Mito, Ibaraki, Japan, and died in Tokyo, from prostate cancer. He...
- x Date of death:
- 2003
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
Lamar Hunt
Lamar Hunt (August 2, 1932 – December 13, 2006) was an American sportsman and promoter of American football, soccer, basketball, and ice hockey in the United States and an inductee of the first three sports' halls of fame. He was one of the founders...
- x Date of death:
- Dec 13, 2006
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
Joseph Papp
Joseph Papp (June 22, 1921 - October 31, 1991) was an American theatrical producer and director. He was a high school student of Harlem Renaissance playwright Eulalie Spence.
Born in Brooklyn, New York to Jewish immigrants from Russia, he ("Joe")...
- x Date of death:
- Oct 31, 1991
- x Place of death:
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
Joshua Nkomo
Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo (June 19, 1917–July 1, 1999) was the leader and founder of the Zimbabwe African People's Union and a member of the Kalanga tribe. He was affectionately known in Zimbabwe as Father Zimbabwe, Umdala Wethu, Umafukufuku or...
- x Date of death:
- Jul 1, 1999
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
Mitchell Sharp
Mitchell William Sharp, PC, CC (May 11, 1911 – March 19, 2004) was a Canadian politician and a Companion of the Order of Canada, was most noted for his service as a Liberal Cabinet minister. He had, however, served in both private and public sectors...
- x Date of death:
- Mar 19, 2004
- x Place of death:
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
Thurl Ravenscroft
Thurl Arthur Ravenscroft (February 6, 1914 – May 22, 2005) was an American voice actor and singer known for his deep, booming voice. For 53 years, he was best-known as the voice of Tony the Tiger in more than 500 television commercials for Kellogg's...
- x Date of death:
- May 22, 2005
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
Francis Alexander Shields
Francis Alexander Shields (May 16, 1941 - April 27, 2003) was an American businessman, an executive at Revlon in New York, and best known as the father of the actress Brooke Shields.
He was born in New York City, the eldest son of Francis Xavier...
- x Date of death:
- Apr 27, 2003
- x Place of death:
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
Clive Charles
Clive Charles (October 3, 1951-August 26, 2003) was a football player, coach and television announcer.
Charles was born in London, the youngest of nine children. He grew up in a working class neighborhood playing street soccer. When he was 12 years...
- x Date of death:
- Aug 26, 2003
- x Place of death:
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
Howard W. Hunter
Howard William Hunter (November 14, 1907 – March 3, 1995) was the fourteenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in 1994 and 1995. His nine month presidential tenure is the shortest in the history of the Church....
- x Date of death:
- Mar 3, 1995
- x Place of death:
- Salt Lake City
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
Stewart Granger
Stewart Granger (6 May 1913 – 16 August 1993), born James Lablache Stewart, was an Anglo- American film actor of Scottish and Italian descent, mainly associated with heroic and romantic leading roles. He was a popular leading man from the 1940s to...
- x Date of death:
- Aug 16, 1993
- x Place of death:
- Santa Monica
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
Dick Sargent
Dick Sargent (April 19, 1930 – July 8, 1994) was an American actor, best known for his portrayal of "the second Darrin Stephens" on the television series Bewitched. The actor took the name Dick Sargent from a Saturday Evening Post illustrator/artist...
- x Date of death:
- Jul 8, 1994
- x Place of death:
- Los Angeles
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
Robert Vaughn Young
Robert Vaughn Young (April 23, 1938 - June 15, 2003) commonly known by his initials RVY, was a whistleblower against the Church of Scientology after working high inside their organization for over twenty years.
Of his years with the Church, RVY said...
- x Date of death:
- Jun 15, 2003
- x Place of death:
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
Bob Hayes
Robert Lee "Bullet Bob" Hayes (December 20, 1942 – September 18, 2002) was an Olympic sprinter turned American football wide receiver in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys. An American track and field athlete, he was a two-sport...
- x Date of death:
- Sep 18, 2002
- x Place of death:
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
Bernard Crick
Sir Bernard Rowland Crick (16 December 1929 – 19 December 2008) was a British political theorist and democratic socialist whose views were often summarised as "politics is ethics done in public". He sought to arrive at a "politics of action", as...
- x Date of death:
- Dec 19, 2008
- x Place of death:
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
Hoyt Vandenberg
Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg (January 24, 1899 – April 2, 1954) was a U.S. Air Force general, its second Chief of Staff, and the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Vandenberg was briefly the U.S. Chief of Military Intelligence during World War...
- x Date of death:
- Apr 2, 1954
- x Place of death:
- Walter Reed Army Medical Center
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
Don Ameche
Don Ameche (May 31, 1908 – December 6, 1993) was an American actor.
Ameche was born Dominic Felix Amici in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the son of Barbara, who was of Irish and German descent, and Felix Ameche, an immigrant from Italy whose original surname...
- x Date of death:
- Dec 6, 1993
- x Place of death:
- Scottsdale
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
Andrew Rowe
Andrew John Bernard Rowe (11 September 1935 - 21 November 2008) was a politician in the United Kingdom. He was born in London. He served as Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Mid Kent from 1983 to 1997 and its successor constituency...
- x Date of death:
- Nov 21, 2008
- x Place of death:
- x Cause of death:
- Prostate cancer
