Notable Deaths

Famous people who have died.

Full gallery »Notable deaths of 2012

  • Donna Summer died on Thursday, May 17, 2012. She was 63.
  • In this Aug. 5, 1985 file photo shows George “Goober” Lindsey, the jovial persona on “The Andy Griffith Show” and “Hee Haw.' Lindsey, who spent nearly 30 years as the grinning Goober Pyle, died early Sunday, May 6, 2012. He was 83. (AP Photo, File)
  • In this 1989 file photo originally provided by Capitol Records, members of the Beastie Boys, from left, from left, Adam Horovitz, known as Adrock, Michael Diamond, known as Mike D and Adam Yauch, known as MCA, are shown. Yauch, the gravelly voiced Beastie Boys rapper who co-founded the seminal hip-hop group, died, Friday, May 4, 2012, at age 47 after a nearly three-year battle with cancer. Also known as MCA, Yauch was diagnosed with a cancerous salivary gland in 2009. (AP Photo/Capitol Records)
  • Former NFL star Junior Seau was found dead on May 2 of an apparent suicide.
  • FILE - In this undated file photo released by ABC, Dick Clark hosts the New Year's eve special from New York's Times Square. Clark, the television host who helped bring rock `n' roll into the mainstream on 'American Bandstand,' has died. He was 82. Spokesman Paul Shefrin says Clark died but did not provide further details. Clark had continued performing even after he suffered a stroke in 2004 that affected his ability to speak and walk. (AP Photo/ABC, Donna Svennevik, File)
  • In this Oct. 28, 2006, file photo, musician Whitney Houston arrives at the 17th Carousel of Hope Ball benefiting the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes in Beverly Hills, Calif. Houston died Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012, she was 48. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)


Full gallery »Notable deaths in 2011

  • Apple Inc. said the company's co-founder Steve Jobs died Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011. He was 56. Jobs shows off the new iPad during an event in San Francisco, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
  • Elizabeth Taylor, shown during the 26th Annual Macy's Passport to Fashion gala in September 2008 in Santa Monica, Calif., died Wednesday, March 23, 2011, at the age of 79. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)
  • FILE - In this June 18, 2011 file photo, Amy Winehouse performs on stage during her concert in Belgrade, Serbia. British police say singer Amy Winehouse has been found dead at her home in London on Saturday, July 23, 2011. The singer was 27 years old. (AP Photo/File)
  • In this file handout photo, Jane Russell is shown in a scene from the movie 'The Outlaw.' A family member on Monday, Feb. 28, 2011 said Russell, stunning star of 1940s and 1950s films, has died at age 89.
  • Anne Francis and Robbie the Robot, who both starred in the 1956 science fiction thriller 'Forbidden Planet,' share a hug, during the taping of an Easter Seals television special in 1998 in Los Angeles. Francis, 80, died Sunday, Jan 2, 2011, at a Santa Barbara nursing home, said Bill Guntle, a funeral director McDermott-Crockett & Associates Mortuary in Santa Barbara. (AP Photo/John Hayes, File)
  • This is Feb. 22, 1984, photo shows British film director Peter Yates during a press conference in Berlin, Germany. British filmmaker Peter Yates, whose eclectic output included 'Bullitt' and 'Breaking Away,' has died at the age of 81. A statement from Yates' agent, Judy Daish, said he died Sunday Jan. 9. 2011 in London after an illness. (AP FILE)

Famous people who have died this year.



Full gallery »Notable deaths in 2010

  • FILE - In this June 8, 2008 file photo, actress Rue McClanahan arrives at the TV Land Awards in Santa Monica, Calif. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, file)
  • Dixie Carter
  • Gary Coleman
  • Kathryn Grayson, motion picture soprano, rehearses a song Sept. 3, 1950, that she will sing on the radio in New York. Grayson, whose beauty and lilting soprano voice brightened some of the most popular movie musicals of the 1940s and '50s, died Wednesday Feb. 17, 2010 at age 88 at her home in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Robert Kradin, File)
  • Art Linkletter
  • FILE -- In a March 7, 1982 file photo Grammy Award winner Lena Horne, center, is flanked by record producer Quincy Jones, left, holding his Grammy, and Dan Morgenstern, of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, as she displays her award, and the record that earned it, in New York. Singer Lena Horne, who broke racial barriers as a Hollywood and Broadway star famed for her velvety rendition of 'Stormy Weather,' has died at age 92. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm/file)

Famous people who have died this year.



Full gallery »Notable deaths in 2009

  • FILE - In this Jan. 31, 1993 file picture, Michael Jackson performs during the halftime show at the Super Bowl XXVII in Pasadena, Calif. Jackson has died in Los Angeles at age 50 on Thursday, June 25, 2009. (AP Photo/Rusty Kennedy)
  • Farrah Fawcett.
  • In this Jan 28, 2005 file photo, Eunice Kennedy Shriver arrives at the Golden Jubilee Gala of the Viennese Opera Ball at New York's Waldorf Astoria. Shriver, JFK's sister and Special Olympics founder, has died at age 88. (AP Photo/Jennifer Szymaszek, File)
  • FILE - In this Dec. 11, 1997 file photo, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass. gestures during a luncheon address at the National Press Club in Washington. Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has dies after a yearlong battle with a brain tumor. (AP Photo/Karin Cooper)
  • In this Nov. 26, 2006 file photo, U.S. actress Brittany Murphy arrives in Leicester Square for the European premiere of her latest film 'Happy Feet' in central London. A Los Angeles hospital spokeswoman says actress Brittany Murphy has died, Sunday, Dec. 20, 2009. She was 32.
  • FILE - In this Thursday, May 7, 2009 file photo Evangelist Oral Roberts smiles after being honored on the floor of the Oklahoma Senate in Oklahoma City. A spokesman for Oral Roberts on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009 said the evangelist and university founder has died at age 91. (AP Photo/File)



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