Notable Deaths
- June 12, 1979: Singer-songwriter Minnie Riperton died at 10:00 a.m. from metastatic breast cancer.
- May 16, 1984: Actor and entertainer Andy Kaufman died at 6:27 p.m. from renal failure that was related to lung cancer.
- April, 26, 1989: Actress and comedienne Lucille Ball died of a dissecting aortic aneurysm.
- May 20, 1989: SNL comedienne Gilda Radner died of ovarian cancer.
- July 10, 1989: Mel Blanc, famed voice artist, died from a fat embolism as a result of falling out of his hospital bed and breaking his femur.
- July 18, 1989: Actress Rebecca Schaeffer was shot at her home by stalker Robert John Bardo, and died a few minutes later in the hospital.
- October 31, 1993: Actor River Phoenix was pronounced dead at the hospital after a drug overdose at Johnny Depp's Nightclub The Viper Room.
- March 26, 1995: Rapper Eazy-E, real name Eric Lynn Wright, formerly of N.W.A, succumbed to AIDS and died. He had been admitted to the hospital earlier, then announced his condition publicly.
- March 9, 1997: Rapper Christopher Wallace, also known as The Notorious B.I.G., died as a result of 4 gunshot wounds to the chest and abdomen, suffering internal organ damage and blood loss.
- May 14, 1998: Singer Frank Sinatra died from a heart attack at 10:50 p.m.
- February 7, 2000: Magician Doug Henning died of liver cancer.
- July 15, 2001: Rapper Anthony Ian Berkeley, also known as Poetic, the founder of Gravediggaz, died of colorectal cancer.
- November 12, 2003: Actor Jonathan Brandis died from injuries after a suicide attempt.
- January 23, 2005: The Tonight Show host Johnny Carson died of respiratory failure arising from emphysema.
- February 24, 2006: Actor Don Knotts died from pulmonary/respiratory complications due to pneumonia that was related to lung cancer.
- December 20, 2009: Actress Brittany Murphy died from cardiac arrest due to pneumonia.
- July 8, 2012: Actor Ernest Borgnine died from renal failure.
- September 3, 2012: Actor Michael Clarke Duncan died from heart complications.
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