Celebrity Deaths
Unknown cancers
- Bud Abbott, Abbott and Costello.
- Claude Akins, Sheriff Lobo.
- Klaus Barbie, Nazi war criminal, died in prison with cancer. "The leading French specialist, a Jew, refused to treat him."
- Uzi Gal, inventor of the Uzi submachine gun.
- Rube Goldberg, cartoonist.
- Armand Hammer, Soviet Agent of Influence.
- Werner Heisenberg, scientist.
- Werner Klemperer, actor, Col. Klink.
- Gummo Marx, Marx Brother.
- Marlin Perkins, Wild Kingdom (maybe just old age.)
- Otto Preminger, actor, Batman villain.
- Edward G. Robinson, actor, Soylent Green.
- Hugh Trevor-Roper, historian, fooled by fake Adolf Hitler diaries.
- Walter Winchell, pundit.
Miscellaneous Cancers
- Richard Feynman, scientist, died from a rare abdominal cancer.
- H.R. "Bob" Haldeman, Watergate criminal, abdominal cancer.
- Alan Hale, Jr., The Skipper, cancer of the thymus, Vincent's Medical Center, in Los Angeles.
- John Houseman, actor, Smith-Barney commercials, spinal cancer.
- Jack Lemmon, actor, cancer of the gall bladder.
- Robert Urich, actor, Synovial Cell Sarcoma (a soft tissue cancer.)
Anorexia
Timeline
27 Mar 1972 |
Artist M. C. Escher dies of cancer at Rosa-Spier artists' retirement home, Laren Netherlands. |
7 Sep 1994 |
Author James Clavell dies of cancer followed by a stroke, Vevey Switzerland. |
7 Jan 2000 |
Mad Magazine cartoonist Don Martin dies of cancer at Baptist Hospital in Miami FL. |
9 Nov 2003 |
The Honeymooners actor Art Carney dies at his home in Chester CT of an undisclosed illness. |
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