- Muhammad Ali, the heavyweight boxing champion who transformed himself into a global hero, died June 3 at 74. Ali, who fought a high-profile battle with Parkinson’s disease, died of septic shock.
- The sudden demise of Prince shocked fans from Minnesota to Mozambique. The 57-year-old singer-songwriter-hitmaker was found dead in his Paisley Park, Minn., home on April 21. Toxicology reports revealed that Prince died of an accidental prescription drug overdose.
- David Bowie, the British rocker whose sound and style defied categorization, died Jan. 10 after a secret battle with cancer. He was 69.
- True American hero John Glenn, who in 1962 was the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth — and who was aboard the shuttle Discovery in 1998 at age 77, making him the oldest person to fly in space — died Dec. 8. Glenn, also a decorated Korean War fighter pilot and U.S. senator for 24 years, was 95.
- Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez died Sept. 25 when his speedboat slammed into a jetty near South Beach. The 24-year-old flamethrower was drunk and had traces of cocaine in his system at the time of the crash.
- Arnold Palmer, the gentleman golfer hailed as the King, died Sept. 25 at age 87. The cause was cardiovascular disease.
- Keith Emerson, the keyboardist who founded Emerson, Lake and Palmer, died March 11. The 71-year-old rocker died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. His bandmate Greg Lake, 69, who was also a founding member of King Crimson, died Dec. 7.
- Actor Alan Thicke, 69, who played the father in the ’80s sitcom “Growing Pains,” died Dec. 13 after his aorta artery ruptured.
- Florence Henderson, best known as quintessential TV mom Carol Brady in “The Brady Bunch,” died Nov. 24 of heart failure. She was 82.
- Comedian Garry Shandling died March 24, apparently of a heart attack. He was 66.
- Gene Wilder, whose four-decade acting career included unforgettable comic roles in “Blazing Saddles” and “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory,” was 83 when he died Aug. 29 due to complications of Alzheimer’s disease.
- Patty Duke, who won an Oscar for “The Miracle Worker” and later played “identical cousins” on her own TV show, died March 29 at 69. The cause was sepsis from a ruptured intestine.
- Edward Albee — the playwright who penned “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” — died Sept. 16 at 88.
- Harper Lee, an author who shunned the spotlight and who penned “To Kill a Mockingbird,” died in her sleep Feb. 19 at age 89.
- Joe Garagiola, the baseball catcher and colorful TV announcer, died March 23 at 90.
- Abe Vigoda, best known for playing mob capo Sal Tessio in “The Godfather” and as Detective Fish on “Barney Miller,” died Jan. 26 at 94.
- George Kennedy, who co-starred in “Cool Hand Luke,” “Airport” and “Naked Gun,” died Feb. 28 at 91.
- Garry Marshall, creator of TV’s “Happy Days” and “The Odd Couple,” died July 19 at 81.
- Robert Vaughn, who played a spy in the cult ’60s series “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,” died Nov. 11 after a battle with acute leukemia. He was 83.
- Doris Roberts, a five-time Emmy-winner best known as the grandmother on TV’s “Everybody Loves Raymond,” died April 17 at 90.
- Ron Glass, the 71-year-old actor best known for his role in the TV sitcom “Barney Miller,” died Nov. 25 due to respiratory failure.
- Tom Hayden, the 1960s radical who was once married to Jane Fonda, died Oct. 23 at 76.
- Kenny Baker, the diminutive 81-year-old British actor who played the droid R2-D2 in six “Star Wars” films, died Aug. 13 after a long illness.
- Leonard Cohen, the legendary singer-songwriter, died Nov. 7 at 82. He died in his sleep following a fall.
- Singer Maurice White, founder of Earth, Wind & Fire, died Feb. 3 at 74, after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease.
- Country music outlaw Merle Haggard died April 6 on his 79th birthday. The cause was pneumonia.
- Malik Taylor, the rapper with A Tribe Called Quest known as Phife Dawg, died March 22 due to complications from diabetes. He was 45.
- Glenn Frey, the rocker who co-founded the Eagles, died Jan. 18 at 67. The cause was complications from rheumatoid arthritis and pneumonia.
- Sharon Jones, lead singer of the Dap-Kings, died Nov. 18 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. She was 60.
- Pat Summitt, the former coach of the University of Tennessee’s Lady Volunteers who notched the most wins in NCAA basketball history, died June 28 after a five-year battle with dementia. She was 64.
- Globetrotting CBS journalist Morley Safer, who filed more than 900 reports for “60 Minutes,” died May 19 of pneumonia. He was 84.
- Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner, died July 2 at 87.
- Egyptian statesman Boutros Boutros-Ghali, who became the United Nations’ sixth secretary general in the early 1990s, died Feb. 16. He was 93.
- Henry Heimlich, the surgeon who created the eponymous anti-choking technique, died Dec. 17 at 96.
- Alan Rickman, 69, the British actor who lent his elegant charm to dark roles in “Die Hard” and the Harry Potter movies, died Jan. 14 from pancreatic cancer.
- Anton Yelchin, best known for playing a young Chekov in the reboot “Star Trek” films, died on June 19 when he was crushed by his Jeep Grand Cherokee outside his Los Angeles home. He was 27.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor, a Hungarian model-turned-Hollywood socialite whose turbulent romances titillated the public long before the rise of celebrity reality shows, died Dec. 18 of a heart attack. Gabor, who wed nine times, was 99.
- George Michael, ‘80s pop music icon and former member of Wham!, died on Christmas Day of heart failure. He was 53.
- Carrie Fisher, forever known as “Star Wars” heroine Princess Leia, died Dec. 27 after suffering a heart attack several days earlier. The actress and writer was 60.
- Richard Adams, author of the seminal childrens’ novel Watership Down, died on 24 December 2016. Adams was 96.
(via New York Daily News)
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