Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer
Bill Graham, American concert promoter, The Fillmore, helicopter crash
Gary Cooper, actor, prostate cancer
Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, writer, assassination
Robert Lowell, American Poet, heart attack
Stephen Jay Gould, American scientist, author “It’s a Wonderful Life”, lung cancer
George S. Patton, US Army General, complications auto accident
Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President, writer, explorer, naturalist, blood clot lungs, January 6, 1919
Van Heflin, actor, heart attack
Syd Barrett, English musician, Pink Floyd, pancreatic cancer
Buddy Miles, US musician, congestive heart failure
Sergio Leone, Italian director, heart attack
Mahalia Jackson, gospel signer, heart failure, diabetes
Calvin Coolidge, 30th US President, coronary thrombosis
Walter Tetley, American voice actor, voice of Sherman in The Bullwinkle Show, after never fully recovering from motorcycle accident injuries
Jim Carroll, poet, musician, author “The Basketball Diaries”, heart attack
Peter Finch, British born Australian actor, heart attack
Bob Fosse, dancer/choreographer, heart attack
Amanda Blake, actress, Miss Kitty on Gunsmoke, AIDS
James J. Kilroy, shipyard inspector “Kilroy was here”
Anthony Perkins, actor, AIDS
Benedict Arnold, turncoat general American Revolutionary War, dropsy
Susan Strasberg, actress breast cancer, along with 10 other notables due to breast cancer
Winthrop Rockefeller, governor Arkansas, cancer of the pancreas
Murray “the K” Kaufman, New York City disc jockey, cancer
R. J. Reynolds, III, emphysema
Allison Doupe, American neuroscientist, cancer
John J. McGraw, baseball player and manager NY Giants
Shemp Howard, actor and comedian, the Three Stooges, heart attack
Tom Mix, American Actor, car accident
Peter Grant, English, manager Led Zeppelin, heart attack
John Constable, British artist, apparently heart failure