list of people with brain tumors
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A brain tumor is an abnormal growth of cells within the brain or inside the skull, and can be cancerous (malignant) or non-cancerous (benign). Just over half of all primary brain tumors are malignant; the rest are benign, though they may still be life-threatening. In the United States in 2000, survivors of benign primary brain tumors outnumbered those who had cancerous primary brain tumors by approximately 4:1. Metastatic brain cancer is over six times more common than primary brain cancer, as it occurs in about 10–30% of all people with cancer.{{cite web|url=http://www.nabraintumor.org/facts.html|title=Know the Facts| publisher=North American Brain Tumor Coalition|access-date=2006-08-20}}
This is a list of notable people who have had a primary or metastatic brain tumor (either benign or malignant) at some time in their lives, as confirmed by public information. Tumor type and survival duration are listed where the information is known. Blank spaces in these columns appear where precise information has not been released to the public. Medicine does not designate most long-term survivors as cured.
The National Cancer Institute estimated 22,070 new cases of primary brain cancer and 12,920 deaths due to the illness in the United States in 2009. The age-adjusted incidence rate is 6.4 per 100,000 per year, and the death rate is 4.3 per 100,000 per year. The lifetime risk of developing brain cancer for someone born today is 0.60%. Only around a third of those diagnosed with brain cancer survive for five years after diagnosis. These high overall mortality rates are a result of the prevalence of aggressive types, such as glioblastoma multiforme. Nearly 14% of new brain tumor diagnoses occur in persons under 20 years of age.{{cite web
| url = http://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/brain.html
| title = Cancer of the Brain and Other Nervous System
| access-date = 2009-08-20
| year = 2009
| publisher = National Cancer Institute
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| {{sortname|Tony|Anholt}} | 1941–2002 | Actor with various television credits, including Space: 1999, The Protectors and Howards' Way |{{center|—}} |{{center|—}} |first = Dennis |last = Barker |title = Obituary: Tony Anholt |url = https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/aug/01/guardianobituaries.filmnews |work=The Guardian |date = August 1, 2002 |access-date = 2009-08-20 | location=London }} |
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| {{sortname|Sam|Bottoms}} | 1955–2008 | Actor who played in the movies Apocalypse Now and The Last Picture Show |{{center|—}} |first = Dennis |last = McLellan |title = Sam Bottoms Dies at 53 |url=http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-bottoms18-2008dec18,0,6453698.story |work = Los Angeles Times |date = December 17, 2008 |access-date = 2008-12-17 }} |
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| {{sortname|Patrick|Cargill}} | 1918–1996 | British film and television actor who had been in ill health since being treated for a brain tumor and died a year later; his death was initially attributed to a hit-and-run accident | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} |
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| {{sortname|Bert|Convy}} | 1933–1991 | Stage, film and television actor and host | Glioblastoma multiforme |15 months |
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| {{sortname|Ross|Davidson}} | 1949–2006 | Actor who played Andy O'Brien in the BBC soap opera EastEnders | Glioblastoma multiforme | 20 months |first = Kevin |last = O'Sullivan |title = Courage of Eastender Ross as Cancer Returns |publisher = The Mirror |date = July 6, 2005 |url= https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2005/07/06/exclusive-courage-of-eastender-ross-as-cancer-returns-115875-15703662/ |access-date = 2006-09-12 }} |
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| {{sortname|Sandy|Duncan}} | 1946– | Tony Award–nominated Broadway actress, television actress | {{center|—}} | 1971– |
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| {{sortname|Linda|Gary}} | 1944–1995 | Voice artist for Scooby-Doo and other animated series | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | first = Tim | last = Hollis |author2=Ehrbar, Greg | title = Mouse Tracks: The Story of Walt Disney Records | date = May 1, 2006 | publisher = University Press of Mississippi | isbn = 1-57806-849-5 | pages = 150–51 }} |
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| {{sortname|Brian|Glover}} | 1934–1997 | Actor, professional wrestler and teacher | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | url = https://www.independent.co.uk/news/brian-glover-dies-in-his-sleep-after-fight-against-tumour-1252335.html | title = Brian Glover Dies in His Sleep After Fight Against Tumour | work = The Independent | access-date = 2009-08-01 | location=London | date=July 25, 1997 }} |
| Cathy Godbold
|1974–2018 |Australian actress. After having a brain tumor successfully removed in 2007, a second inoperable brain tumor was discovered in 2018. |{{center|—}} |11 years (2007–2018) |
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| {{sortname|Richard|Greene}} | 1918–1985 | Actor who appeared in more than 40 movies and in the British television series The Adventures of Robin Hood | {{center|—}} | 3 years |last=Van Neste |first=Dan |year=1999 |url=http://www.classicimages.com/past_issues/view/?x=/1997/october97/greene.html |title=Richard Greene: Swashbuckler with a Double-Edged Sword |publisher=Classic Images |access-date=2009-08-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090710210634/http://www.classicimages.com/past_issues/view/?x=%2F1997%2Foctober97%2Fgreene.html |archive-date=July 10, 2009 }} |
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| {{sortname|Susan|Hayward}} | 1917–1975 | Academy Award–winning film actress | {{center|—}} | 2 years |
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| {{sortname|Edward|Herrmann}} | 1943–2014 | Actor of stage, screen and film | Glioblastoma multiforme | 1 year |{{cite news | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/01/arts/television/edward-herrmann-actor-with-a-noble-air-dies-at-71.html?_r=0 | title = Edward Herrmann, Actor with a Noble Air, Dies at 71 | first = Bruce | last = Weber | newspaper = The New York Times | date = December 31, 2014 | access-date = October 20, 2016}} |
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| {{sortname|Richard|Jordan}} | 1937–1993 | Actor of stage, screen and film | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | url = http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/79517 | title = Jordan, Richard | publisher = British Film Institute | access-date = 2006-09-16 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071208134028/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/79517 | archive-date = December 8, 2007 | url-status = dead }} |
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| 1961– | Actor and former pop musician who is in the band Spandau Ballet |{{center|—}} | 1995– |
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| 1914–1990 | Stage and film actor; Tony Award winner | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | first = James C. | last = McKinley | title = Arthur Kennedy, Actor, 75, Dies; Was Versatile in Supporting Roles | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/07/obituaries/arthur-kennedy-actor-75-dies-was-versatile-in-supporting-roles.html | work = New York Times | date = January 7, 1990 | access-date = 2009-08-20 }} |
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| 1922–1993 | Actress who played Geraldine Weldon Whitney Saxon on the television soap opera The Edge of Night | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} |{{cite book |editor1-last=Willis |editor1-first=John |editor1-link=John A. Willis |title=John Willis Theatre World 1993–1994 Season Volume 50 |date=1996 |publisher=Applause Theatre Book Publishers |isbn=1-55783-235-8 |page=242 |chapter=Lois Kibbee |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/theatreworld19930050unse/page/242/mode/2up |access-date=2021-05-03}} |
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| 1933–2005 | Child actor who played Porky in the Our Gang (The Little Rascals) comedies | Metastatic tumor | {{center|—}} | first = Ronald | last = Bergan | title = Obituary: Gordon Lee | url = https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/oct/28/guardianobituaries.film | work = The Guardian | date = October 28, 2006 | access-date = 2009-08-20 | location=London }} |
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| 1910–1995 | Broadway actress in the late 1930s | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} |
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| 1944–2000 | Television actress and host | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} {{cite web | url = http://www.meredithmacrae.com/biography.html | title = Meredith Mac Rae | publisher = Mac Rae Mullavey Productions | access-date = 2006-09-11 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061109180953/http://www.meredithmacrae.com/biography.html | archive-date = November 9, 2006 | url-status = dead | df = mdy-all }} |
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| 1926–1993 | Supporting actor in films | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} |
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| 1933–1998 | Irish-born stage actor, film and television character actor | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | first = Peter | last = Applebome | title = Joseph Maher, Versatile Character Actor, Is Dead at 64 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/21/arts/joseph-maher-versatile-character-actor-is-dead-at-64.html | work = New York Times | date = July 21, 1998 | access-date = 2009-08-20 }} |
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| 1928–2002 | Film and television actress, eponymous role in the 1950s television series Sheena, Queen of the Jungle | {{center|—}} | Less than 18 months | author = Accociated Press | title = TV Actress Irish McCalla Dead at 73 | url = http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2002/Feb/11/il/il08a.html | work = Honolulu Advertiser | date = February 11, 2002 | access-date = 2006-09-12 }} |
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| 1949–2017 | Film and television actress, role in the 1965 film The Sound of Music | {{center|—}} | Less than one month | author = TMZ | title = Heather Menzies-Urich Dead at 68 | url = http://www.tmz.com/2017/12/25/heather-menzies-urich-dead-dies-sound-of-music | work = TMZ | date = December 24, 2017 | access-date = 2017-12-24 }} |
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| 1920–1999 | British actor who played Uncle Albert in the BBC comedy Only Fools and Horses | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | title = Fools Stars Pay Tribute to Buster | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/376245.stm | work = BBC News | date = June 23, 1999 | access-date = 2006-09-12 }} |
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| 1918–2005 | Comedian, actor and stage artist, known for his ability to make funny faces; suffered from lung cancer (probable metastasis) | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | author = ANP | title = Varieté-artiest Bueno de Mesquita overleden | url = http://www.volkskrant.nl/kunst/article143283.ece/Variete-artiest_Bueno_de_Mesquita_overleden | newspaper = de Volkskrant | date = August 19, 2005 | access-date = 2006-09-12 | language = nl }} |
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| 1933–1996 | African American television actor (Mission: Impossible series) | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} |title = Facts About Brain Tumors |publisher = National Brain Tumor Foundation }} |
| Marshall Napier
|1951–2022 |New Zealand-Australian actor, playwright, and graphic artist |{{center|—}} |{{center|—}} |
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| 1897–1987 | Polish-American silent movie actress who played numerous femme fatale roles; refused treatment, died of pneumonia | {{center|—}} | 2 years | last = Starr | first = Steve | date = September 6, 2006 | url = http://emol.org/film/archives/negri/index.html | title = Starrlight: Pola Negri | publisher = Entertainment Magazine | access-date = 2006-09-12 | archive-date = February 25, 2007 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070225030511/http://emol.org/film/archives/negri/index.html | url-status = dead }} |
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| 1921–1968 | Actor and Producer, best known for supporting role vs Marilyn Monroe in the 1953 film, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | {{center|—}} | 8 months | date = April 25, 1968 | url = https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22869364/obituary_tom_noonan/ | title = Tommy Noonan, Actor and Producer, Dies | work = Los Angeles Times | access-date = 2019-09-18 }} |
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| 1925–1986 | Actor and director; played Jerry Helper on the television series The Dick Van Dyke Show | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | first = Joan | last = Cook | title = Obituary: Jerry Paris, TV Director, 60 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1986/04/02/obituaries/jerry-paris-tv-director-60.html | work = New York Times | date = April 2, 1986 | access-date = 2009-08-20 }} |
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| 1910–1978 | Actress; wife of Charles Boyer | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} |
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| 1927–1997 | Comedian, featured on the Smothers Brothers television show in the 1960s | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} |author = Robert Jablon |title = Pat Paulsen, Comic Who Satirized Presidential Politics, Dies at 69 |url = http://www.lubbockonline.com/news/042697/pat.htm |work = Lubbock Avalanche-Journal |date = April 25, 1997 |access-date = 2006-09-08 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060212202353/http://www.lubbockonline.com/news/042697/pat.htm |archive-date = February 12, 2006 |df = mdy-all }} |
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| 1919–1983 | Rodeo clown turned film actor (Dr. Strangelove) | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | title = Actor Is Reported Better | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1982/08/14/nyregion/actor-is-reported-better.html | work = New York Times | date = August 14, 1982 | access-date = 2009-08-20 | first = Albin | last = Krebs | title = Slim Pickens, Known for Cowboy Roles, Dies | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1983/12/10/obituaries/slim-pickens-known-for-cowboy-roles-dies.html | work = New York Times | date = December 10, 1983 | access-date = 2009-08-20 }} |
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| 1930–1993 | Canadian actress of stage, film and television | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | last = Gardner | first = David | url = http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0006754 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061219020417/http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0006754 | url-status = dead | archive-date = December 19, 2006 | title = Reid, Daphne Kate | encyclopedia = Canadian Encyclopedia | access-date = 2006-09-11 }} |
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| 1967– | American film actor; an operation to remove a benign tumor caused him temporary partial paralysis. | 2001– | last = Cavagna | first = Carlo | date = August 2004 | url = http://www.aboutfilm.com/features/ruffalo/ruffalo.htm | title = Profile & Interview: Mark Ruffalo | publisher = AboutFilm.com | access-date = 2006-09-11 | archive-date = March 3, 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160303180848/http://www.aboutfilm.com/features/ruffalo/ruffalo.htm | url-status = dead }} |
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| c. 1902–1973 | Actress who played Granny in the television series The Beverly Hillbillies; she was never told of her tumor and died after suffering a stroke onstage while performing in Pippin in her Broadway debut | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | date = December 5, 2002 | url = http://www2.una.edu/universityrelations/December2002.htm | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070101014241/http://www2.una.edu/universityrelations/December2002.htm | archive-date = January 1, 2007 | title = Two UNA Actors Selected for Regional Competition | publisher = University of North Alabama | access-date = 2006-09-11 }} |
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| 1914–1965 | American film actor, specializing in playing villains (Mildred Pierce) | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} |last=Van Neste |first=Dan |date=March 1998 |url=http://www.classicimages.com/past_issues/view/?x=/1998/march98/zacharyscott.html |title=Zachary Scott: A Scoundrel with Style |publisher=Classic Images |access-date=2009-08-20 }} {{dead link|date=May 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite book | last = Davis | first = Ronald L. | title = Zachary Scott: Hollywood's Sophisticated Cad | date = March 1, 2006 | publisher =University Press of Mississippi | isbn = 1-57806-837-1 | page = 194 }} |
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| 1921–1993 | Canadian-born film, stage, musical theatre and television actress | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} |
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| 1965– | Actress, played Phyllis Summers Abbott Newman on the soap opera The Young and the Restless | {{center|—}} | 1985– |
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| 1928–2008 | British actress who played Nora Batty in Last of the Summer Wine | {{center|—}} | Less than 12 months |
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| 1955–1993 | Bavarian Film Award (Bayerischer Filmpreis) for Best Young Actors shared with Dana Vávrová for Herbstmilch; featured role in television's Highlander: The Series | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | first = Debbie | last = Douglass | date = September 12, 1997 | url = http://www.bowch.co.uk/highlander/extra/faq/FAQ-4.shtml | title = The Official Hypertext Highlander FAQ File | access-date = 2006-09-19 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20020528121204/http://www.bowch.co.uk/highlander/extra/faq/FAQ-4.shtml | archive-date = May 28, 2002 }} |
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| 1972– | American actress and designer; diagnosed in 2009. Successfully underwent surgery, but was left with permanent nerve damage and deafness in right ear. | Acoustic neuroma | {{center|—}} |
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| 1909–1977 | Japanese film actress and director | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | url = http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/16694 | title = Tanaka, Kinuyo | publisher = British Film Institute | access-date = 2006-09-16 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090116153343/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/16694 | archive-date = January 16, 2009 | url-status = dead }} |
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| 1915–1970 | Model, showgirl, actress and wife of the songwriter Harold Arlen | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | first = Sharon Zak | last = Marotta | url = http://www.haroldarlen.com/bio-9.html | title = Harold Arlen – Biography | publisher = haroldarlen.com | access-date = 2006-09-20 }} |
| Tiny Ron Taylor
|1947–2019 |American film actor and basketball player known for his height. |{{center|—}} |{{center|—}} |
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| 1932–2011 | Academy Award–winning actress, star of numerous films | 1997–2011 |agency = Associated Press |title = Elizabeth Taylor Suffers from Heart Condition |url = https://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2004-11-30-taylor-heart_x.htm |date = November 30, 2004 |access-date = 2006-09-08 | work=USA Today }} |
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| 1892–1945 | Character actor (played "Hercules" in the 1932 film Freaks) | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | url = http://www.classichorror.free-online.co.uk/actorsv.htm | title = Classic Horror Movie Players V | publisher = The Missing Link | access-date = 2009-08-20 | first = Thomas | last = Staedeli | url = http://www.cyranos.ch/spvict-e.htm | title = Portrait of the Actor Henry Victor | publisher = Collector's Page for Autographs | access-date = 2006-09-11 }} |
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| 1915–1992 | Movie actor who played Kit Carson in the 1950s TV series Adventures of Kit Carson | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} |
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| 1941–2006 | Composer, television and voice actor | {{center|—}} | 15 months | last = Winkless | first = Nelson |date=August 2006 | url = http://pages.swcp.com/correspo/lasttwo.htm | title = The ABQ Correspondent: Last Two Issues | publisher = ABQ Communications | access-date = 2009-08-20 }} |
Business
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| 1936–1995 | chief executive officer (CEO) of Knight-Ridder publishing. | {{center|—}} | 1 year |
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| 1929–2004 | Banker who became a director of S. G. Warburg & Co. and the father of actress Helena Bonham Carter. He became quadriplegic and partially blind after an operation to remove a non-cancerous brain tumor. | {{center|—}} | 25 years | title = Raymond Bonham Carter | url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1452428/Raymond-Bonham-Carter.html | work = Daily Telegraph | date = January 24, 2004 | access-date = 2006-09-12 | location=London }} |
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| 1965– | Technologist and businesswoman, with a focus on optics and electronics. | Pituitary tumor | many years | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/24/opinion/sunday/bringing-back-my-real-self-with-hormones.html?_r=0 | title=Bringing Back My Real Self With Hormones | newspaper=The New York Times | date=November 24, 2013 | access-date=October 5, 2014 }} |
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| 1942–1993 | CEO of TLC Beatrice International Holdings Inc, the first African-American-run company to have over $1 billion in annual sales. | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} |
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| 1945–1998 | Chief executive officer of Cott Beverages. Pencer and his family became significant philanthropists of brain tumor research and medicine. | Glioblastoma multiforme | 8 months |
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| 1944–2005 | Stockbroker convicted of insider trading | Multiple meningioma | {{center|—}} | first = Valerie | last = Lawson | title = Benign brain tumours keep Rivkin out of jail, for now | url = http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/06/18/1055828384596.html | work = The Sydney Morning Herald | date = June 19, 2003 | access-date = 2006-09-12 }} |
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| 1946–1997 | First female top executive of a major Hollywood studio | {{center|—}} | 20 months |
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| 1926–2005 | Businessman; former Postmaster General and half-owner of the New York Giants | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | first = Douglas | last = Martin | title = Preston Robert Tisch, Owner of Loews Hotels and Giants, Dies | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/16/business/16tisch.html?ex=1289797200&en=ca0b7aca47e5e5e1&ei=5090 | work = The New York Times | date = November 16, 2005 | access-date = 2006-09-12 }} |
Film, television, and radio
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| 1934–1984 | Progressive talk radio host in Denver, Colorado who broadcast his program on KOA. He was murdered in 1984; his story formed the basis of the Oliver Stone film Talk Radio. | {{center|—}} | 8 years |
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| 1916–1998 | Sports broadcast announcer | {{center|—}} | 6 months | url = http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/mlb/nl/news/1998/08/06/news.brickhouse.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110604044441/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/mlb/nl/news/1998/08/06/news.brickhouse.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = June 4, 2011 | title = Hall of Fame broadcaster Brickhouse dead at 82 | publisher = CNN Sports Illustrated | date = August 6, 1998 | access-date = 2006-09-20 }} |
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| 1939–2005 | Radio broadcaster who announced Major League Baseball games for the Toronto Blue Jays | {{center|—}} | 15 months |url = http://toronto.bluejays.mlb.com/news/press_releases/press_release.jsp?ymd=20040614&content_id=770335&vkey=pr_tor&fext=.jsp&c_id=tor |title = Update on Tom Cheek |work = mlb.com |date = June 14, 2004 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111128062151/http://toronto.bluejays.mlb.com/news/press_releases/press_release.jsp?ymd=20040614&content_id=770335&vkey=pr_tor&fext=.jsp&c_id=tor |archive-date = November 28, 2011 |df = mdy-all | url = https://www.tsn.ca/mlb/news_story/?ID=139222 | title = Jays announcer Tom Cheek passes away | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070929111241/http://www.tsn.ca/mlb/news_story/?ID=139222 | publisher = TSN.ca | archive-date= September 29, 2007 | date = October 9, 2005 | access-date = 2006-09-20}} |
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| 1928–2006 | Emmy Award–winning director and producer of television and film | {{center|—}} | 4 months |
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| 1938–2003 | Award-winning anchor and reporter for WWL-TV in New Orleans. | Glioblastoma multiforme | 5 years |
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| 1938–2008 | Renowned British journalist and TV anchor with BBC and News Corporation. | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} |
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| 1959–2023 | British television and radio presenter and former model | Glioblastoma multiforme | 4 months |
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| 1951– | British astrologer and media personality | {{center|—}} | 2022– | {{cite news|title=Astrologer Russell Grant shares cancer battle update while recovering from brain tumour operation|url=https://metro.co.uk/2023/03/01/russell-grant-shares-cancer-update-after-brain-tumour-operation-18371513/|access-date=19 December 2023|work=Metro|date=1 March 2023}} |
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| 1933–1996 | Former producer at ABC Sports and winner of 11 Emmy Awards | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | first = Richard | last = Sandomir | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/22/business/chuck-howard-63-pioneer-tv-sports-producer.html | title = Obituary: Chuck Howard, 63, Pioneer TV Sports Producer | work = The New York Times | date = November 22, 1996 | access-date = 2009-08-20 }} |
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| 1990– | Swedish YouTube personality, TV host and inventor | {{center|—}} | 2018– | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpa4kp4lK60 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/tpa4kp4lK60 |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live| title=I have a brain tumor. | author= Simone Giertz | date=April 30, 2018 | publisher=YouTube}}{{cbignore}} |
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| 1901–1962 | Pioneer radio sportscaster | {{center|—}} | 6 years | first = Ted | last = Patterson | title = The Golden Voices of Football | date = August 1, 2004 | publisher = Sports Publishing LLC | isbn = 1-58261-744-9 | page = 42 }} |
| Miles Jupp
| 1979– |Actor and stand-up comedian best known for his roles in Balamory and The Thick of It; later would go on to dedicate an entire stand-up tour about his experience. |Meningioma |2021– |
| Sam Lloyd
| 1963–2020 | American actor, singer, and musician, best known for his portrayal of lawyer Ted Buckland on the comedy-drama series Scrubs and the sitcom Cougar Town. | {{center|—}} | 6 years |
| Anita Martini
| 1939–1993 | Pioneer print, radio and TV sports journalist who was the first woman to do an interview inside a professional sports locker room (1974); first woman to do on-the-field interviews at a Major League Baseball All-Star Game (1973); and first woman to do radio play-by-play of a professional baseball game (1976). She was the sports anchor for the Houston NBC affiliate and hosted radio sports talk shows for many years in the city. | Glioblastoma multiforme | July 1989 – July 1993 |
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| 1986– | American sports journalist | | 2020– | url=https://twitter.com/BrittMcHenry/status/1233151079573053446 | title=I was trying to keep this relatively private... | author= Britt McHenry | date=February 27, 2020 | publisher=Twitter}} |
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| 1978– | Television host of shows such as Today, Access Hollywood, and Extra | Meningioma | 2017– | url=http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/03/entertainment/maria-menounos-brain-tumor/index.html | title=Maria Menounos recovering from brain tumor surgery | author= Lisa Respers France | date=July 4, 2017 | publisher=CNN}} |
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| 1960–2011 | Cable television host on the E! network; daughter of former United States Vice President Walter Mondale | Glioma with astrocytoma cells | June 2005 – September 2011 |author=Darcy Pohland |title=Eleanor Mondale Recovers From Tumor, Joins WCCO-AM |url=http://wcco.com/local/eleanor.mondale.wcco.2.664933.html |publisher=CBS Broadcasting Inc |date=August 22, 2006 |access-date=2006-09-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100121070113/http://wcco.com/local/eleanor.mondale.wcco.2.664933.html |archive-date=January 21, 2010 }} |
| David Morrow
|1953–2024 |Australian sports radio and television broadcaster and commentator |{{center|—}} |4 months |{{Cite web |date=2024-02-09 |title=Aussie sports fans rocked by news about beloved media personality |url=https://au.sports.yahoo.com/sports-commentator-david-morrows-sad-revelation-as-radio-world-rallies-around-him-014143405.html |access-date=2025-04-05 |website=Yahoo Sports |language=en-AU}}{{Cite news |last=Snape |first=Jack |date=2024-07-17 |title=‘One of the great voices of the game’: rugby league commentator David Morrow dies aged 71 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/jul/17/david-morrow-nrl-commentator-death-age-71-brain-cancer |access-date=2025-04-05 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}} |
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| 1947–1995 | Australian radio and television presenter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation | Glioblastoma multiforme | 5 days after collapsing (which led to diagnosis){{cite news|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/133919588|title=Olle: tributes to a 'great guy'|work=Canberra Times|date=13 December 1995|access-date=19 November 2023}} | first = Helen | last = Pitt | title = A cancer with still no cure in mind | url = http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/a-cancer-with-still-no-cure-in-mind/2005/12/11/1134235951361.html | work = The Sydney Morning Herald | date = December 12, 2005 | access-date = 2006-09-12 }} |
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| 1955–2000 | Emmy Award–winning television news reporter, co-anchor of CNN Newsstand | Astrocytoma | About 6 years |
| Gerardo Rozín
|1970–2022 |Argentine journalist, producer, and radio and television presenter |{{center|—}} |2021–2022 |
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| 1946–1999 | Film critic for the Chicago Tribune; television partner of fellow critic Roger Ebert | {{center|—}} | Less than 1 year |
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| 1947– | Television news anchor and reporter who has worked for BBC News and ITN | {{center|—}} | 1993– | url = http://www.mult-sclerosis.org/news/Mar2002/UKShortageOfNeurologists.html | title = Patients with emergency brain disorders are denied specialist care | publisher = Association of British Neurologists | date = March 14, 2002 | access-date = 2006-09-20 }} |
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| 1932–1984 | Film director with over 25 films to his credit, including The 400 Blows | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | url = http://www.1worldfilms.com/francois_truffaut.htm | title = François Truffaut | access-date = 2006-09-09 | author =Baseline's Encyclopedia of Film | publisher = 1-World Festival of Foreign Films }} |
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| 1947–2007 | Australian radio broadcaster and television personality; presented a night-time show on the radio station 2UE | Glioblastoma multiforme | 15 months | first = Jano | last = Gibson | url = http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/07/12/1183833644068.html | title = Shock jock's funeral an 'open house' | work = Daily Telegraph | date = July 12, 2007 | access-date = 2006-07-13 }} |
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| Kasino | 1950–1997 | Indonesian actor and comedian member of the comedy group Warkop. | {{center|—}} | 13 months |
Military
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| 1915–1997 | Lieutenant General in the Spanish Army who was dismissed in 1981 for his role in the failed coup d'état of February 23, 1981 (23-F) | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | first = Juan C. | last = Serrano | url = http://www.guardiasciviles.com/ver_noticias.asp?id=4034 | title = Cuatro de los golpistas del 23-F siguen en activo | publisher = GuardiasCiviles.com | access-date = 2006-09-20 | language = es |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060427041521/http://www.guardiasciviles.com/ver_noticias.asp?id=4034 |archive-date = April 27, 2006}} |
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| 1920–1974 | One of the most highly decorated airmen of the Royal Air Force in World War II | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} |
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| 1931–1987 | Nigerien military officer who led a 1974 coup d'état that deposed the government of Niger's first president, Hamani Diori; ruled the country as military head of state from 1974 to 1987 | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} |
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| 1904–1973 | Military officer in the United States Army Air Corps and United States Air Force. During World War II, he commanded the 456th Bomb Group (Heavy) throughout its combat service. | {{center|—}} |author=RJF |date=July 7, 2005 |url=http://www.456thbombgroup.org/steed.html |title=Dedication Page: Col. Steed |publisher=456th Bomb Group Association |access-date=2006-09-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060922221659/http://www.456thbombgroup.org/steed.html |archive-date=September 22, 2006 }} |
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| 1860–1927 | Physician who served as the Chief of Staff of the United States Army and Governor General of the Philippines | Parasagittal meningioma | 17 years | author = Ljunggren B | title = The case of General Wood | journal = Journal of Neurosurgery | volume = 56 | issue = 4 | pages = 471–74 | year = 1982 | pmid = 7038053 | doi = 10.3171/jns.1982.56.4.0471 }} |
Miscellaneous
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| 1929–2002 | Yacht designer. | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} |first = Diane M. |last = Byrne |date = August 2002 |url = http://powerandmotoryacht.com/megayachts/0802bannenberg/ |title = Jon Bannenberg: 1929–2002 |work = Power & Motoryacht |access-date = 2006-12-12 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061218160209/http://powerandmotoryacht.com/megayachts/0802bannenberg/ |archive-date = December 18, 2006 |df = mdy-all }} |
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| 2002–2005 | Huntington, West Virginia child who attracted media attention and fundraising efforts | ATRT | 1 year |author=Deanne Stein |url=http://wowktv.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=1158 |title='Big Ben" Bowen Dies |publisher=WOWK-TV, Channel 13, Charleston & Huntington, West Virginia |date=February 27, 2005 |access-date=2007-04-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061117034655/http://www.wowktv.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=1158 |archive-date=November 17, 2006 |df=mdy }} |
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| 1867–1932 | Socialite, philanthropist, and activist; survivor of the Titanic disaster; portrayed in the 1964 film The Unsinkable Molly Brown and the 1997 film Titanic | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | url = http://womenshistory.about.com/od/westernamerica/p/molly_brown.htm | title = Molly Brown | access-date = 2006-09-08 | author = Jone Johnson Lewis | publisher = About.com | archive-date = September 12, 2006 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060912054453/http://womenshistory.about.com/od/westernamerica/p/molly_brown.htm | url-status = dead }} |
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| 1937–2005 | Defense attorney, best known for being a member of the "Dream Team", during the infamous O.J. Simpson murder trial. Also defense attorney for the 1993 Michael Jackson child molestation case. Jackson settled the case with the accusing family. | {{center|—}} | 1 year |author1=Dree DeClamecy |author2=Stan Wilson |author3=Eric Philips | title = Famed attorney Johnnie Cochran dead | url = http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/03/29/cochran.obit/ | publisher = CNN.com | date = March 30, 2005 | access-date = 2006-09-08 }} |
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| 1942–2012 | American commercial airline pilot. Known for his actions that helped to save the lives of 184 of the passengers on board United Airlines Flight 232. | {{center|—}} | 2 years | author = Don Babwin | title = Pilot who helped fly crippled jet in 1989 dies | url = http://start.toshiba.com/news/read.php?rip_id=%3CD9ULDR4O1%40news.ap.org%3E&ps=1018 | agency=The Associated Press | date = May 8, 2012 | access-date = 2012-05-10 }} |
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| 1926–2005 | Academic theologian; author and founder of the Jesus Seminar | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | first = Larry B. | last = Stammer | title = Obituary: Robert Funk, founder of Jesus Seminar | url = http://www.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2005/09/09/robert_funk_founder_of_jesus_seminar/ | work= The Boston Globe | date = September 9, 2005 | access-date = 2006-09-08 }} |
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| 1952–2005 | Horticulturist at the University of Guelph Arboretum | {{center|—}} | 18 months |
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| 1899–1967 | Gangster, head of the Lucchese Family of the New York City Mafia's Five Families, 1951–1967 | {{center|—}} | 2 years |
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| Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent | 1906–1968 | Member of the British royal family | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/30/newsid_3067000/3067773.stm | title = 1968: Princess Marina laid to rest | access-date = 2006-09-08 | work = BBC News | date=August 30, 1968 }} |
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| 1984–2014 | Advocate for the legalization of aid in dying | 11 months | author = Hirschhorn, Dan | url = https://time.com/3553770/brittany-maynard-dies/ | title = Terminally Ill Woman Who Planned Assisted-Suicide Dies | magazine = Time | date = November 2, 2014 | access-date = November 2, 2014 | author-link = Dan Hirschhorn }} |
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| 1911–1980 | Canadian Communications theorist and educator | {{center|—}} | 11 years | url = http://www.percysaltzman.com/Interviews/Interview-Mcluhan.htm | title = Marshall Mcluhan, His Global Village, and Me (The Village Idiot) | access-date = 2006-09-08 | author =Percy Saltzman | publisher = Percy Saltzman's Official Web Site }} |
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| 2005–2014 | Professional wrestling fan and posthumous WWE Hall of Fame | 5 years | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/wwe-mma-wrestling/wwe-releases-touching-video-tribute-to-connor-the-crusher-michalek-9330983.html | title=WWE releases touching YouTube tribute to Connor 'The Crusher' Michalek | access-date= July 29, 2017 | date=May 7, 2014 | last = Hines | first = Martin |work = The Independent }} |
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| 1955–2000 | Architect whose works include the Scottish Parliament Building | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | first = Nicolai | last = Ouroussoff | title = A Survey of Spain, Architects' Playground | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/10/arts/design/10ouro.html?ex=1297227600&en=61d484106a6cf6b9&ei=5088 | work= The New York Times | date = February 10, 2006 | access-date = 2006-12-12 }} |
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| 1920–2000 | Eleventh bishop (eighth archbishop) of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/735520.stm | title = US Catholics mourn Cardinal O'Connor | work = BBC News | date = May 4, 2000 | access-date = 2006-09-11 }} |
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| 2001–2020 | Daughter of Joe & Susan Clark Sestak | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} |author=Joe Klein |url=https://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100516/us_time/08599198895000 |title=Arlen Specter – Joe Sestak Race Heats Up in Pennsylvania |magazine=Time |date=May 16, 2010 |access-date=2010-05-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100520075419/http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100516/us_time/08599198895000 |archive-date=May 20, 2010 }} |
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| 1979–2020 | Former brain cancer patient who received more than 33 million greeting cards, earning him a place in the Guinness Book of Records. He recovered fully. | {{center|—}} | 1989– | last = Mikkelson | first = Barbara | date = December 26, 2001 | url = http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/medical/shergold.asp | title = Craig Shergold | publisher = Urban Legends Reference Pages | access-date = 2009-08-20 }} |
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| 1924–1993 | One of the seven Mercury Seven astronauts | Malignant brain tumor | 1 year |author = Barbara Schwartz |title = Mercury Astronaut Donald K. "Deke" Slayton Deceased |url = http://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/news/releases/1993_1995/93-043.html |publisher = National Aeronautics and Space Administration |date = June 13, 1993 |access-date = 2006-09-08 }} |
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| 1924–1992 | Activist in the victims' rights movement; mother of murder victim Sharon Tate | Metastatic tumor | {{center|—}} |author = Michael Quintanilla |title = Patti Tate Leads a Justice Crusade in the Name of Her Sister Sharon |url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-07-11-mn-1432-story.html |work= Los Angeles Times |date = January 10, 1994 |access-date = 2006-09-08 }} |
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| 1915–1968 | Steel heiress and socialite | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | first = Laurie | last = Steiber | title = Her Private Devil | url = http://nymag.com/nymag/features/1063/index5.html | work= New York Times Magazine | date = January 4, 1999 | access-date = 2006-12-12 }} |
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| 1941–1966 | Ascended the University of Texas at Austin's 27-story tower in 1966, and shot passersby in the city and on the campus below before being shot dead by Austin Police. Tumor found on autopsy. | Glioblastoma multiforme | {{center|—}} | last = Lavergne | first = Gary M. | title = A Sniper in the Tower: The Charles Whitman Murders |date=March 1997 | publisher = University of North Texas Press | isbn = 1-57441-029-6 | page = 145 }} |
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| 1912–1978 | Former Chief Justice of New Zealand (1966–1978) | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} |url = http://www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/about/judges/former-chiefs.html#wild |title = Former Chief Justices |publisher = Courts of New Zealand |access-date = 2006-09-12 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061126201856/http://www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/about/judges/former-chiefs.html#wild |archive-date = November 26, 2006 |df = mdy-all }} |
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| 1948–2000 | Security guard who uncovered the break-in that led to the Watergate scandal | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | year = 2005 | url = http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/1730/Frank_Wills_the_truth_will_set_you_Free | title = Frank Wills, the truth will set you Free! | publisher = The African American Registry | access-date = 2006-09-11 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060113095127/http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/1730/Frank_Wills_the_truth_will_set_you_Free |archive-date = January 13, 2006}} |
Music
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| {{sortname|Luther|Allison}} | 1939–1997 | Blues guitarist | Metastatic tumor | Less than 1 year |author = Gloria Pierce |year = 1997 |url = http://www.torontobluessociety.com/9709luther.htm |title = Luther Allison 1939–1997 |publisher = Toronto Blues Society |access-date = 2006-09-08 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060727161649/http://www.torontobluessociety.com/9709luther.htm |archive-date = July 27, 2006 |df = mdy-all }} | |
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| {{sortname|William "Cat"|Anderson}} | 1916–1981 | A jazz trumpeter who played with Duke Ellington's orchestra | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | editor-last = Yanow | editor-first =Scott | title = Trumpet Kings: The Players Who Shaped the Sound of Jazz Trumpet | date = July 17, 2001 | publisher = Backbeat Books | isbn = 0-87930-640-8 | pages = 21–22 }} | |
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| {{sortname | Arrow (Alphonsus Cassell)|Arrow (musician)}}
| 1949–2010 | Montserrat soca singer-songwriter | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} |
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| {{sortname|Arleen|Auger}} | 1939–1993 | American soprano | Glioblastoma | 14 months | author = Allan Kozinn | year = 1993 | title = Arleen Auger, 53, Subtle Interpreter of Art Songs | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/12/obituaries/arleen-auger-53-subtle-interpreter-of-art-songs.html | newspaper = NY Times | access-date = 2014-07-02 }} | |
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| {{sortname|David M.|Bailey}} | 1966–2010 | Contemporary Christian songwriter and musician | Glioblastoma | July 1996 – October 2010 | url = http://davidmbailey.com/home.html | title = David M. Bailey Website | access-date = 2009-08-19 | publisher = davidmbailey.com }} | |
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| {{sortname|Bill|Black}} | 1926–1965 | Rock and roll bass player; recorded with Elvis Presley during 1954–1958 | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | url = http://www.rockabillyhall.com/BillBlack1.html | title = Blackie | access-date = 2009-08-01 | publisher = Rockabilly Hall of Fame | archive-date = February 4, 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120204054658/http://www.rockabillyhall.com/BillBlack1.html | url-status = dead }} | |
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| {{sortname|Davey von|Bohlen}} | 1975– | Musician and songwriter | 2000– | |
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| {{sortname|Michael|Bolton}} | 1953– | Singer and songwriter | - | 2024- | url= https://www.businessinsider.com/michael-bolton-shares-brain-tumor-diagnosis-announces-temporary-touring-break-2024-1 | title =Michael Bolton says he underwent 'immediate' surgery after being diagnosed with a brain tumor: 'I will be devoting my time and energy to my recovery'|author=Eve Crosbie|date= Jan 6, 2024 |publisher=Business Insider | access-date = 2024-01-05 }} | |
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| {{sortname|Ray|Bumatai}} | 1952–2005 | Musician, comedian and voice actor | Glioblastoma | 3 years | first = Derek | last = Paiva | title = Entertainer Ray Bumatai, 52, succumbs to brain cancer | url = http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Oct/07/ln/FP510070354.html | work= The Honolulu Advertiser | date = October 7, 2005 | access-date = 2006-09-12 }} | |
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| {{sortname|Gregg|Burge}} | 1957–1998 | Tap dancer and choreographer | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | first =Jennifer | last = Dunning | title = Gregg Burge, 40, Choreographer And Dancer on Stage and Screen | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/24/arts/gregg-burge-40-choreographer-and-dancer-on-stage-and-screen.html | work= The New York Times | date = August 24, 1998 | access-date = 2009-08-20 }} | |
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| {{sortname|A. J.|Croce}} | 1971– | Singer-songwriter; son of singer-songwriter Jim Croce | {{center|—}} | 1975– | author = A.J. Croce | url = http://www.ajcroce.com/aj-croce-biography.htm | archive-url = https://archive.today/20060822124526/http://www.ajcroce.com/aj-croce-biography.htm | url-status = dead | archive-date = 2006-08-22 | title = A. J. Croce Biography | publisher = A.J. Croce | access-date = 2006-09-19 }} | |
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| {{sortname|Sheryl|Crow}} | 1962– | Singer-songwriter and guitarist | Meningioma | 2011– |author=Steinman, Alex |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/sheryl-crow-reveals-benign-brain-tumor-reps-singer-healthy-happy-diagnosis-article-1.1090426 |title=Sheryl Crow reveals benign brain tumor: Reps says singer is healthy and happy despite diagnosis |newspaper=Daily News |access-date=2015-08-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016033821/http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/sheryl-crow-reveals-benign-brain-tumor-reps-singer-healthy-happy-diagnosis-article-1.1090426 |archive-date=October 16, 2015 |url-status=dead }} | |
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| {{sortname|Celia|Cruz}} | 1925–2003 | Cuban salsa singer, Afro-Cuban music | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | url = http://www.musicofpuertorico.com/index.php/artists/celia_cruz/ | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080129081658/http://www.musicofpuertorico.com/index.php/artists/celia_cruz/ | archive-date = January 29, 2008 | title = Cruz, Celia | access-date = 2009-08-20 | author =Evan Bailyn | publisher = Music of Puerto Rico }} | |
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| {{sortname|Gord|Downie}} | 1964–2017 | Canadian rock singer-songwriter, musician, writer and activist; lead singer and lyricist for the Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip | Glioblastoma | Dec 2015 – Oct 2017 | url = https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/gord-downie-obit-1.4359906 | title = Tragically Hip's Gord Downie dead at 53 | access-date = 2020-01-12 | publisher = CBC News }} | |
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| {{sortname|William|Finn}} | 1952– | Tony Award–winning Broadway songwriter; wrote the show A New Brain, which was about his experiences. | {{center|—}} | 1992– | |
| Hardy Fox
|1945–2018 |Co-founder and composer of The Residents |Glioblastoma |1 month |{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/03/obituaries/hardy-fox-dead.html|title=Hardy Fox, of the Avant-Garde Band the Residents (Maybe), Dies at 73|website=The New York Times|access-date=3 November 2018}} | |
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| {{sortname|Sergio|Franchi}} | 1926–1990 | Italian-American tenor | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | url = http://www.sergiofranchi.com | title = Sergio Franchi Home Page | access-date = 2006-09-08 | publisher = Diversified Inc | url = http://www.grandi-tenori.com/tenors/singers/franchi.php | title = Sergio Franchi | access-date = 2006-09-08 | author =Joern H Anthonisen | date = July 7, 2003 | publisher = Grand Tenori }} | |
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| {{sortname|Marie|Fredriksson}} | 1958–2019 | Lead singer of the Swedish pop duo Roxette | {{center|—}} | 2002–2019 | url = http://www.mariefredriksson.net/?p=b | title = Biography: Gun-Marie Fredriksson | publisher = www.mariefredriksson.net | access-date = 2006-09-12 | archive-date = September 2, 2006 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060902210601/http://www.mariefredriksson.net/?p=b | url-status = dead }} | |
| Jeanna Friske
|1974–2015 |Member of the Russian girl group Blestyashchiye, actress, model |Glioblastoma |Feb 2013 — June 2015 | |
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| {{sortname|George|Gershwin}} | 1898–1937 | Jazz and classical music composer; co-writer of stage musicals and film scores | Astrocytoma of unknown variety | 1 month | doi = 10.1590/S0004-282X2002000300033 |vauthors=Teive H, Germiniani F, Cardoso A, de Paola L, Werneck L | title = The uncinated crisis of George Gershwin. | journal = Arq Neuropsiquiatr | volume = 60 | issue = 2–B | pages = 505–508 | year = 2002 | pmid = 12131961 | doi-access = free }} | |
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| {{sortname|Lou|Gramm}} | 1950– | Rock music vocalist and songwriter, former lead vocalist for Foreigner | Craniopharyngioma | 1996– |url=http://www.lougramm.com/bio.htm |title=Lou Gramm – Biography |publisher=www.louggramm.com |access-date=2006-09-12 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061104045319/http://www.lougramm.com/bio.htm |archive-date=November 4, 2006 |df=mdy }} | |
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| {{sortname|Bill|Haley}} | 1925–1981 | Leader of one of the first rock and roll bands, The Comets | {{center|—}} | 2 years | first = Jay | last = Warner | title = On This Day in Music History | date = November 30, 2004 | publisher = Hal Leonard | isbn = 0-634-06693-5 | pages = 41, 129 | first = Gary | last = James | url = http://www.classicbands.com/CometsInterview.html | title = Interview With Marshall Lytle of Bill Haley's Comets | publisher = classicbands.com | access-date = 2006-09-19 }} | |
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| {{sortname|George|Harrison}} | 1943–2001 | Lead guitarist of the Beatles, songwriter, successful solo artist, and influential spiritual figure. | Metastatic tumor | {{center|—}} | |
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| {{sortname|Simon|Jeffes}} | 1949–1997 | Guitarist, composer and arranger; member of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra | {{center|—}} | Less than 2 years |url = http://www.penguincafe.com/simon3.htm |title = Simon Jeffes |publisher = Penguin Cafe Orchestra |access-date = 2006-09-12 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070111171143/http://www.penguincafe.com/simon3.htm |archive-date = January 11, 2007 |df = mdy-all }} | |
| Peter Jones
|1963–2012 |English-Australian musician; drummer for the Australian-New Zealand pop rock band Crowded House |{{center|—}} |14 months | |
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| {{sortname|Barney|Kessel}} | 1923–2004 | Jazz guitarist who played with Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman, Elvis Presley, and The Beach Boys | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | |
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| {{sortname|Lemmy|Kilmister}} | 1945–2015 | Lead vocalist, bassist, and founding member of Motörhead | Metastatic prostate cancer | Two days | url = http://www.theledger.com/article/20160102/news/160109916 | title = Ian 'Lemmy' Kilmister, Motorhead bassist and founder, dies at 70 | access-date = 2016-01-04 | author = Sandy Cohen | date = January 2, 2016 | work = The Ledger }} | |
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| {{sortname|Otto|Klemperer}} | 1885–1973 | Conductor; father of actor Werner Klemperer | {{center|—}} | 40 years |url=http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761561610/Otto_Klemperer.html |title=Otto Klemperer |access-date=2006-09-08 |publisher=Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091029163019/http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761561610/Otto_Klemperer.html |archive-date=October 29, 2009 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }} | |
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| {{sortname|John|Loder|John Loder (sound engineer)}} | 1946–2005 | Sound engineer, record producer and founder of Southern Studios. | {{center|—}} | Less than 2 years | first = Penny | last = Rimbaud |date = August 19, 2005 | url = https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/aug/19/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries | title = Obituary: John Loder | work= The Guardian | access-date = 2009-08-20 | location=London }} | |
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| {{sortname|John|Mack|John Mack (musician)}} | 1926–2006 | Principal oboist with the Cleveland Orchestra | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | first = Adam | last = Bernstein | title = Obituary: John Mack; One of the Nation's Top Oboists | url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/25/AR2006072501497.html | newspaper= Washington Post | date = July 27, 2006 | access-date = 2006-09-12 }} | |
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| {{sortname|Brian|MacLeod|Brian MacLeod (Canadian musician)|Macleod, Brian}} | 1952–1992 | Musician, songwriter and music producer; member of the bands Chilliwack and The Headpins | {{center|—}} | Less than 3 years |url=http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Street/1487/brian.htm |title=Brian MacLeod |publisher=The S.L. Feldman and Associates Agency |access-date=2006-09-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091021040324/http://geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Street/1487/brian.htm |archive-date=October 21, 2009 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }} | |
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| {{sortname|Bob|Marley}} | 1945–1981 | Reggae musician | Metastatic melanoma | {{center|—}} | |
| Duncan McGuire
|1943–1989 |Australian musician, songwriter, recording engineer, producer, and founding member of the Australian rock band Ayers Rock. Diagnosed with lung cancer, the cancer spread to his brain. |{{center|—}} |{{center|—}} | |
| Aaron McMillan
|1977–2007 |Australian classical pianist |6 years (2001–2007) | |
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| {{sortname|Johnny|Mercer}} | 1909–1976 | Songwriter and lyricist | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | |
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| {{sortname|Ethel|Merman}} | 1908–1984 | Broadway singer and actress | Glioblastoma multiforme | 10 months |title = Ethel Merman |access-date = 2006-09-10 |year = 2001 |publisher = Educational Broadcasting Corporation |url = https://www.pbs.org/wnet/broadway/stars/merman_e.html |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060830102805/http://www.pbs.org/wnet/broadway/stars/merman_e.html |archive-date = August 30, 2006 |df = mdy-all }} (Source: Excerpted from {{cite book | editor1-first = Nicolas |editor1-last=Slonimsky | title = Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians | edition = Centennial | year = 2001 | publisher = Schirmer | chapter = Ethel Merman }}){{cite web | author = John Kenrick | year = 2003 | url = http://www.musicals101.com/mermbio3.htm | title = Merman 101 Biographical Sketch – Part III | publisher = Musicals101.com | access-date = 2006-09-10 }} | |
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| {{sortname|Robert|Moog}} | 1934–2005 | Inventor of the modern music synthesizer | Glioblastoma multiforme | 4 months | author = Adam Bernstein | title = Robert Moog Dies; Created Electronic Synthesizer | url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/22/AR2005082201215.html | newspaper= Washington Post | date = August 23, 2005 | access-date = 2006-09-08 | title = Robert Moog Biography | url = http://www.notablebiographies.com/newsmakers2/2006-Le-Ra/Moog-Robert.html | access-date = 2017-07-22 }} | |
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| {{sortname|Ted|Mulry}} | 1947–2001 | Australian singer, songwriter and musician who formed the band Ted Mulry Gang (TMG). | {{center|—}} | 7 months |url=http://www.howlspace.com.au/en3/mulryted/mulryted.htm |title=Ted Mulry (Ted Mulry Gang) |publisher=HowlSpace |access-date=2006-09-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061004031543/http://www.howlspace.com.au/en3/mulryted/mulryted.htm |archive-date=October 4, 2006 }} | |
| Marcos Mundstock
|1942–2020 |Argentine musician, writer, comedian, and founding member of the comedy-musical group Les Luthiers |{{center|—}} |2019–2020 | |
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| {{sortname|James|Murphy|James Murphy (metal guitarist)}} | 1967– | Heavy metal guitarist who played in several groups | Pituitary macro-adenoma | 2001– | url = http://www.msanthrope.com/jamesmurphy/story.htm | title = James Murphy Story Page | publisher = msantrope.com | access-date = 2006-09-14 | archive-date = September 28, 2007 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070928151653/http://www.msanthrope.com/jamesmurphy/story.htm | url-status = dead }} | |
| Doc Neeson
|1947–2014 |Australian singer-songwriter and musician known as the front man of the hard rock band The Angels |Glioblastoma multiforme |{{frac|1|1|2}} years | |
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| {{sortname|Wayne|Osmond}} | 1951–2025 | Singer, second oldest of the performing Osmond brothers | Ependymoma | 1994–2025 |url = http://www.osmondbros.com/wayne.htm |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060203025552/http://www.osmondbros.com/wayne.htm |url-status = dead |archive-date = 2006-02-03 |title = Wayne Osmond |access-date = 2006-09-08 |publisher = The Osmonds Official Web Site }} | |
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| {{sortname|Renato|Pagliari|Renée and Renato}} | 1940–2009 | Italian-born British singer famous for the 1982 Christmas number-one Save Your Love | {{center|—}} | 5 months |first=Nick |last=McCarthy |title=Tributes after Birmingham singer Renato loses battle to beat brain tumour |url=http://www.birminghammail.net/news/staffordshire-news/2009/08/04/tributes-after-birmingham-singer-renato-loses-battle-to-beat-brain-tumour-97319-24309908/ |work=Birmingham Mail |date=August 4, 2009 |access-date=2009-08-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120328140914/http://www.birminghammail.net/news/staffordshire-news/2009/08/04/tributes-after-birmingham-singer-renato-loses-battle-to-beat-brain-tumour-97319-24309908/ |archive-date=March 28, 2012 | title = Save Your Love singer Renato dies | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8186652.stm | work= BBC | date = August 5, 2009 | access-date = 2009-08-06 }} | |
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| {{sortname|Junior|Parker}} | 1932–1971 | Blues singer | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | url = http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/1424/Junior_Parker_Mr_Blues | title = Junior Parker, "Mr. Blues" | access-date = 2006-09-08 | publisher = The African American Registry |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060105044040/http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/1424/Junior_Parker_Mr_Blues |archive-date = January 5, 2006}} | |
| {{sortname|Tom|Parker|Tom Parker (singer)}}
|1988–2022 |Musician (vocals/guitar/piano) and member of The Wanted |Glioblastoma |2020–2022 {{cite news |first= Sarah |last= Do Couto |title= Tom Parker of boy band The Wanted dies of brain cancer at 33 |url= https://globalnews.ca/news/8722069/tom-parker-dead-the-wanted-brain-cancer/ |work= Global News |date= March 30, 2022 |access-date=2022-03-30}} | |
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| {{sortname|Frank|Patterson}} | 1938–2000 | Classically trained Irish tenor | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | last = Keelan | first = Malley | url = http://www.irishcultureandcustoms.com/AMusic/FPatterson.html | title = We miss you, Frank | publisher = Irish Culture and Customs | access-date = 2006-09-14 | |
| Neil Peart
|1952–2020 |Drummer and primary lyricist for Rush |{{frac|3|1|2}} years |{{cite web |last1=McLevy |first1=Alex |title=R.I.P. Neil Peart, drummer for Rush |url=https://www.avclub.com/r-i-p-neil-peart-drummer-for-rush-1840934739 |website=A.V. Club |date=January 10, 2020 |language=en-us}}{{cite web |author = Tsioulcas, Anastasia |year = 2020 |url = https://www.npr.org/2020/01/10/795385342/rush-drummer-and-lyricist-neil-peart-has-died |title = Rush Drummer And Lyricist Neil Peart Has Died |publisher = NPR |access-date = 2020-01-10 }} | |
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|{{sortname|Lucia|Popp}} | 1939–1993 | Operatic soprano |{{center|—}} |{{center|—}} | first = Aryeh | last = Oron | year = 2004 | url = http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Popp-Lucia.htm | title = Lucia Popp (Soprano) | publisher = Bach Cantatas | access-date = 2006-12-12 }} | |
| Steve Prestwich
|1954–2011 |English-Australian drummer, guitarist, singer, and songwriter, known as the drummer of the rock band Cold Chisel |{{center|—}} |Less than 2 weeks | |
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|{{sortname|Louis|Prima}} | 1910–1978 | Entertainer, singer, actor, and trumpeter known as the "King of the Swingers". He never recovered from an operation to remove a benign brain-stem tumor, which left him in a coma for nearly three years. |{{center|—}} |{{center|—}} | |
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|{{sortname|Rainer|Ptacek}} | 1951–1997 | Guitarist, singer and songwriter |{{center|—}} |{{center|—}} | last = Mills | first = Fred | url = http://www.kxci.org/rainer/RainerPtacekObituary.htm | title = Rainer Ptacek Obituary | publisher = KXCI Radio | access-date = 2006-09-14 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060812130843/http://www.kxci.org/rainer/RainerPtacekObituary.htm |archive-date = August 12, 2006}} | |
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|{{sortname|Lou|Rawls}} | 1933–2006 | Soul, jazz, and blues singer; philanthropist | Metastatic tumor | 7 months | title = Lou Rawls dead at 72 | url = http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/showbiz/2006/01/06/vargas.rawls.obit.affl?iref=videosearch | format= Video | publisher = CNN.com | date = January 7, 2006 | access-date = 2006-09-08 }} | |
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|{{sortname|Buddy|Rich}} | 1917–1987 |Jazz drummer and bandleader |{{center|—}} |{{center|—}} |url = http://www.buddyrich.com/about/bio.html |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20030622174926/http://www.buddyrich.com/about/bio.html |url-status = dead |archive-date = 2003-06-22 |title = Biography |publisher = Buddy Rich: The Official Site |access-date = 2006-09-14 }} | |
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|{{sortname|Johnny|Ruffo}} | 1988–2023 | Australian singer, songwriter, dancer, actor and television presenter |{{center|—}} | 2017–2023 |{{cite news|url=http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/sydney-confidential/home-and-away-star-johnny-ruffo-to-start-aggressive-cancer-treatment-after-surgery-to-remove-brain-tumour/news-story/0d4aee76a4e0128f3b138987794f79dc?nk=cfb429b18655ca0e93ccfee99540e4e4-1502992052|title=Former Home and Away star Johnny Ruffo to start aggressive cancer treatment|last=Moran|first=Jonathon|date=17 August 2017|work=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=17 August 2017}} | |
| Kaija Saariaho
|1952–2023 |Finnish composer of contemporary classical music, including several operas |Glioblastoma |2 years, 4 months | |
| Conway Savage
|1960–2018 |Australian musician, pianist for the band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds |{{center|—}} |2017–2018 | |
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|{{sortname|Chuck|Schuldiner}} | 1967–2001 | Former guitarist and singer for the band Death; former guitarist for Control Denied; influential figure in the development of death metal | Pontine glioma | 2 years | |
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|{{sortname|Sam|Sneed}} | 1968– | A record producer and rapper |{{center|—}} | 1999– | |
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|{{sortname|Bill|Stevenson|Bill Stevenson (musician)}} | 1963– | Drummer for Descendents |{{center|—}} |{{center|—}} | |
| {{sortname|Sara|Tavares |
| 1978–2023
| Portuguese singer-songwriter
|{{center|—}}
| 14 years
|- valign="top"
|{{sortname|Tammi|Terrell}}
| 1945–1970
| Soul/R&B/Motown Singer, duettist with Marvin Gaye on "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" and other hit singles. Also toured with James Brown.
| Acorn-sized astrocytoma in thalamus
| 2 years, 5 months.
|url = http://www.tammiterrell.com/tammi.html
|title = In memory of Thomasina "Tammi" Montgomery Terrell
|access-date = 2006-09-08
|publisher = Tammi Terrell Memorial Site
|url-status = dead
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060717172741/http://www.tammiterrell.com/tammi.html
|archive-date = July 17, 2006
|df = mdy-all
}}
|-
|{{sortname|Michael Tilson|Thomas}}
|1944–
|Conductor, pianist and composer
|Glioblastoma multiforme
|2022–
|- valign="top"
|{{sortname|Tionne|Watkins}}
| 1970–
| R&B singer from the R&B/Hip Hop group TLC
| Strawberry-sized acoustic neuroma on her vestibular nerve
| 2006–
|- valign="top"
|{{sortname|Russell|Watson}}
| 1966–
| English tenor who has released popular albums of operatic-style songs
| Pituitary adenoma
| 2006–
| url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5391544.stm
| title = Brain surgery for Russell Watson
| work = BBC News
| date = September 29, 2006
| access-date = 2006-09-29
|- valign="top"
|{{sortname|Sandy|West}}
| 1959–2006
| Musician, singer-songwriter and drummer
| Metastatic lung cancer
|{{center|—}}
|- valign="top"
|{{sortname|Carl|Wilson}}
| 1946–1998
| Musician, singer-songwriter and guitarist; member of The Beach Boys
| Metastatic lung cancer
|{{center|1997—1998}}
|{{cite web |title=Carl Wilson, 51, a Founder of The Beach Boys|agency=Associated Press|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/08/us/carl-wilson-51-a-founder-of-the-beach-boys.html|work= The New York Times |date= 8 February 1998}}
|- valign="top"
|{{sortname|Kai|Winding}}
| 1922–1983
|Trombonist and jazz composer
|{{center|—}}
|{{center|—}}
| last = Payne
| first = Doug
| url = http://www.dougpayne.com/kwbio.htm
| title = Kai Winding Biography
| publisher = Doug Payne
| access-date = 2006-09-14
|- valign="top"
|{{sortname|Webster|Young}}
| 1932–2003
| Jazz trumpeter and cornetist.
|{{center|—}}
|{{center|—}}
|first = Adam
|last = Bernstein
|title = D.C. Jazz Trumpeter Webster Young Dies at 71
|url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A9947-2003Dec17?language=printer
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200107100440/https://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A9947-2003Dec17/?language=printer
|url-status = dead
|archive-date = January 7, 2020
|newspaper = The Washington Post
|date = December 18, 2003
|access-date = 2006-12-12
}}
|}
Politics and government
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| style="width:14%;" | Name
! style="width:5%;" | Life ! style="width:56%;" | Comments ! style="width:9%;" | Diagnosis ! style="width:10%;" | Survival ! style="width:6%;" | Reference |
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| 1951–1991 | Chairman of the United States Republican National Committee | Anaplastic astrocytoma | 1 year | url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/bckgrnd/atwater.htm | title = I'm Still Lee Atwater | access-date = 2006-09-09 | author =John Brady | date = December 1, 1996 | newspaper= The Washington Post }} |
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| 1969–2015 | Attorney General of Delaware. Biden was also the first son of the 46th US President (2021-2025) Joe Biden and his first wife, Neilia.{{Cite web|date=2015-06-09|title=Vice President's Son, Beau Biden, Dies of Brain Cancer|url=https://ana-neurosurgery.com/biden-brain-cancer/|access-date=2020-11-05|website=Advanced Neurosurgery Associates|language=en-US}} | Glioblastoma multiforme | 21 months | url = https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/vice-president-joe-bidens-son-beau-dies-n367171 | title = Vice President Joe Biden's Son Beau Dies After Battle With Brain Cancer | access-date = 2015-05-30 | author = Phil Helsel | date = May 30, 1996 | work = NBC News }} |
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| 1913–1987 | Director of the Central Intelligence Agency | {{center|—}} | 5 months |
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| 1974–2023 | Attorney who argued before the Supreme Court of the United States | {{center|—}} | 2 years | {{Cite web |last=Biskupic |first=Joan |author-link=Joan Biskupic |date=October 19, 2022 |title=Conservative lawyer who argued challenges to Harvard admissions policies has brain cancer |url=https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/19/politics/consovoy-harvard-affirmative-action/index.html |access-date=January 11, 2023 |publisher=CNN |archive-date=November 8, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221108064711/https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/19/politics/consovoy-harvard-affirmative-action/index.html |url-status=live }} |
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| 1924–2024 | 39th President of the United States, and Governor of Georgia | Melanoma | {{center|—}} | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/21/us/jimmy-carter-cancer-health.html?_r=0 | title = Jimmy Carter Says Doctors Found Cancer on His Brain | access-date = 2015-08-20 |author1=Alan Blinder |author2=Richard Fausset | date = August 20, 2015 | work= The New York Times }} |
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| 1939–2006 | Trade unionist and politician |{{center|—}} | 1 month | first = Raphael | last = Tenthani | url = http://www.mg.co.za/article/2006-06-12-veteran-malawi-opposition-politician-dies-in-sa | title = Veteran Malawi opposition politician dies in SA | work= Mail & Guardian | date = June 12, 2006 | access-date = 2009-08-20 }} |
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| 1928–1999 | British Conservative politician, historian and diarist | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/440937.stm | title = Alan Clark: Politician and diarist | work = BBC News | date = September 7, 1999 | access-date = 2006-09-14 }} |
| Sandy Dawson
|1972–2022 |Australian barrister |{{center|—}} |{{center|—}} |
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| 1964–2019 | Canadian Member of Parliament | Glioblastoma |1 year |{{Cite web | url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/paul-dewar-cancer-1.4540578 |title = Support pours in after former MP Paul Dewar diagnosed with brain tumour | CBC News}}{{cite web| url = https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/paul-dewar-dead-brain-cancer-1.4822073| title = Politician, advocate, husband and father Paul Dewar succumbs to brain cancer {{!}} CBC News}} |
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| 1911–1964 | United States Representative and United States Senator from California. Late in his illness, he broke a filibuster and helped pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Wheelchair-bound and no longer able to speak, he raised his hand to his eye to signal his vote ("aye"). | {{center|—}} |1 year | url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/junkie/archive/junkie042001.htm | title = When a Lawmaker Is Incapacitated | access-date = 2006-09-09 | author = Ken Rudin | date = April 20, 2001 | newspaper= Washington Post |
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| 1938–1994 | Parti Québécois politician and cabinet minister | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | {{cite web|url=https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1994/8/1/a-touch-of-class|title=A Touch of Class|date=1 August 1994|publisher=Rogers Media|work=Maclean's}}{{cite web|url=https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1994/10/24/passages|title=Passages|date=24 October 1994|publisher=Rogers Media|work=Maclean's|access-date=March 13, 2020|archive-date=October 1, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001181424/https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1994/10/24/passages|url-status=dead}} |
| Vanessa Goodwin
|1969–2018 |Australian politician, criminologist, and lawyer |Glioblastoma multiforme |11 months (March 25, 2017 – March 3, 2018) |{{Cite news |title=Support for seriously ill Goodwin |url=https://www.themercury.com.au/news/politics/attorneygeneral-vanessa-goodwin-hospitalised-with-multiple-brain-tumours/news-story/63c315127f54639db5af8261a6da6a2f |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20170330110951/http://www.themercury.com.au/news/politics/attorneygeneral-vanessa-goodwin-hospitalised-with-multiple-brain-tumours/news-story/63c315127f54639db5af8261a6da6a2f |archive-date=2017-03-30 |access-date=2025-04-04}}{{Cite news |date=2018-03-03 |title=Vanessa Goodwin, former Tasmanian attorney-general, dies aged 48 |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-03/vanessa-goodwin-former-tasmanian-attorney-general-dies/9505992 |access-date=2025-04-04 |work=ABC News |language=en-AU}} |
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| Former Premier of Queensland, Australia | {{center|—}} | 17 years (1997–2014) |url = http://www.abc.net.au/tv/talkingheads/transcripts/s1338277.htm |title = Wayne Goss |access-date = 2006-09-09 |author = Ken Rudin |date = May 6, 2005 |publisher = Australian Broadcasting Corporation |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150719183953/http://www.abc.net.au/tv/talkingheads/transcripts/s1338277.htm |archive-date = July 19, 2015 |url-status = dead |df = mdy-all }} |
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| 1942–1993 | Evangelical Christian, professor of political science, and United States Representative from Michigan | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | url = http://www.calvin.edu/henry/henry_book/intro.htm | title = Serving the Claims of Justice: The Thoughts of Paul B. Henry | publisher = The Henry Institute | access-date = 2006-09-14 }} |
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| 1936–2000 | United States Ambassador to Norway | {{center|—}} | 1 year |url = http://www.hermelinbraintumorcenter.org/body.cfm?id=48881&SubDomain=true&i=21 |title = Hermelin Brain Tumor Center |access-date = 2006-09-09 |publisher = Henry Ford Hospital |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110726145516/http://www.hermelinbraintumorcenter.org/body.cfm?id=48881&SubDomain=true&i=21 |archive-date = July 26, 2011 |df = mdy-all }} |
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| 1947–2018 | British Labour politician | Glioblastoma multiforme | 1 year |
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| 1932–2009 | United States Senator from Massachusetts | Glioblastoma multiforme | 15 months |{{cite news |author1=Gina Kolata |author2=Lawrence K. Altman |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/28/health/28brain.html?scp=1&sq=ted%20kennedy%20gbm&st=cse|title=Forty Years' War: Weighing Hope and Reality in Kennedy's Cancer Battle |date=August 27, 2008 |work= The New York Times|access-date=2011-05-25}} |
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| 1948–2006 | Welsh politician, independent Member of Parliament (MP) and AM. | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/4898824.stm | title=Labour challenger Peter Law dies | work=BBC News | date=April 25, 2006 | access-date=2006-09-11 }} |
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| Mia Love | 1975–2025 | United States Representative from Utah | Glioblastoma | 3 years | {{cite news|url = https://www.ksl.com/article/51265302/family-of-former-utah-congresswoman-mia-love-says-say-cancer-not-responding-to-treatment|title = Family of former Utah congresswoman Mia Love says cancer not 'responding to treatment'|last = Williams|first = Carter|date = March 1, 2025|accessdate = March 1, 2025|work = KSL-TV}} |
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| 1903–1987 | American politician and diplomat; an editor, playwright, social activist and journalist | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} |url=http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/luce-cla.htm |title=Women in History. Clare Booth Luce biography |access-date=2006-09-09 |publisher=Lakewood Public Library |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060828170615/http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/luce-cla.htm |archive-date=August 28, 2006 |
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| 1949–2006 | Politician and former President of the Swiss National Council | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | url = http://www.letemps.ch/Page/Uuid/cba2b838-cc77-11dd-b87c-1c3fffea55dc/Jean-Philippe_Maitre_est_d%C3%A9c%C3%A9d%C3%A9 | title = Jean-Philippe Maitre est décédé | work= Le Temps | date = February 1, 2006 | access-date = 2006-09-15 | language = fr }} |
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| 1941–2005 | Political activist and former president of the Communist Party of Chile | Glioblastoma multiforme | {{center|—}} | url = http://www.pww.org/article/view/6521/1/254/ | title = Gladys Marín muy grave | work = People's Weekly World | date = February 19, 2005 | access-date = 2006-09-15 | language = es |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20050925163658/http://www.pww.org/article/view/6521/1/254/ |archive-date = September 25, 2005}}{{cite news | first = Michael | last = Mullan | url = https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/mar/09/guardianobituaries.chile | title = Obituary: Gladys Marín | work=The Guardian | date = March 9, 2005 | access-date = 2009-08-20 | location=London }} |
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| 1936–2018 | Vietnam War POW, United States Representative and United States Senator from Arizona and 2008 Republican presidential nominee | Glioblastoma multiforme | 13 months | url = http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/19/health/gupta-mccain-glioblastoma/index.html | title = Sen. John McCain has brain cancer, aggressive tumor surgically removed | work = CNN | date = July 19, 2017 | access-date = 2017-07-19 | language = en }} |
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| 1923–2007 | {{center|—}} | 50 days |
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| 1929–2006 | {{center|—}} | 7 months | url = http://www.riik.ee/lennartmeri/?id=31287 | title = Statement by Lennart Meri's family members | publisher = Government Communication Office of Estonia | date = March 15, 2006 | access-date = 2007-04-30 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070928001903/http://www.riik.ee/lennartmeri/?id=31287 | archive-date = September 28, 2007 }} |
| Matthew Morris
|1969–2020 |Australian politician |{{center|—}} |{{center|—}} |
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| 1949–2005 | Secretary of State for Northern Ireland | {{center|—}} | 7 years |author1=Michael White |author2=Tania Branigan | url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2005/aug/20/uk.obituaries2 | title=Our Mo, one hell of a woman, dies at 55 | work=The Guardian | date=August 20, 2005 | access-date=2009-08-20 | location=London }} |
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| 1931–2009 | Political pundit | {{center|—}} | 1 year |
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| 1958–2015 | United States Representative from Mississippi | {{center|—}} | 9 months |
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| 1944–2006 | Central nervous system (CNS) lymphoma | {{center|—}} | first = Rich | last = Lord | url = http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06245/718608-53.stm | title = City mourns the death of Mayor Bob O'Connor at age 61 | work= Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | date = September 2, 2006 | access-date = 2006-09-15 }} |
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| Pío Pico | 1801–1894 | Last Mexican governor of California; suffered from Acromegaly between at least 1847 to 1858, followed by selective pituitary tumor apoplexy with reversal of all tumor manifestations and survival to 1894 | Growth hormone–secreting pituitary adenoma with apoplexy | 1847–1894 |
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| 1957–2025 | President of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and its affiliated Planned Parenthood Action Fund from 2006 to 2018 | Glioblastoma multiforme | 2 years |
| Kim Santow
|1941–2008 |Australian Supreme Court Judge from New South Wales. |{{center|—}} |{{center|—}} |
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| 1930–2012 | United States Senator from Pennsylvania | {{center|—}} | 1993–2012 | url = https://www.today.com/news/sen-arlen-specter-stuck-middle-wbna7839734 | title = Sen. Arlen Specter stuck in the middle | access-date = 2006-09-09 | author =Katie Couric | date = May 13, 2005 | publisher = Today.com }} |
| Bob Such
|1944–2014 |South Australian politician |{{center|—}} |7 months and 1 week |
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| 1950–1996 | United States Representative from Oklahoma | Glioblastoma multiforme | 5 months |
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| 1946–1997 | United States Representative from Texas | {{center|—}} | 1 year | url=http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/01/31/briefs/ | title=Tejeda Dead at 51 | publisher=CNN.com | date=January 31, 1997 | access-date=2006-09-09 }} |
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| 1919–1987 | Former Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1973 until 1977, as a member of the social democratic Labour Party (PvdA). | {{center|—}} | 3 months | author = A.A. de Jonge | date = September 5, 2003 | url = http://www.inghist.nl/Onderzoek/Projecten/BWN/lemmata/bwn4/uijl | title = Uijl, Johannes Marten den (1919–1987) | publisher = Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis (Institute for Dutch History) | access-date = 2006-09-15 | language = nl }} (quoting Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland 4 (Den Haag 1994)){{cite book |author=Wilsford, David |title=Political leaders of contemporary Western Europe: a biographical dictionary |publisher=Greenwood Press |location=Westport, Conn |year=1995 |page=[https://archive.org/details/politicalleaders00wils/page/109 109] |isbn=0-313-28623-X |url=https://archive.org/details/politicalleaders00wils/page/109 }} |
Science
Sports
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! style="width:5%;" | Life ! style="width:56%;" | Comments ! style="width:9%;" | Diagnosis ! style="width:10%;" | Survival ! style="width:6%;" | Reference |
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| {{sortname|Lyle|Alzado}} | 1949–1992 | National Football League (NFL) football player; made public statements attributing his tumor to anabolic steroids, a claim not supported by medical research. | CNS lymphoma | {{center|—}} | first = Elisabeth | last = Rosenthal | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/04/sports/football-alzado-tumor-is-rare-and-deadly.html?sec=health&pagewanted=print | title = Football; Alzado Tumor Is Rare and Deadly | work= The New York Times | date = July 4, 1991 | access-date = 2009-08-20 }} |
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| {{sortname|Lance|Armstrong}} | 1971– | Racing cyclist who was diagnosed with testicular cancer that spread to his abdomen, lungs and brain. | Metastatic tumor | 1996– | url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/cycling/lancearmstrong/5842320/Tour-de-France-2009-Lance-Armstrong-sends-John-Hartson-message-of-support.html | title = Tour de France 2009: Lance Armstrong sends John Hartson message of support | author = Telegraph staff | work = The Telegraph | date = July 16, 2009 | access-date = 2009-08-16 | location=London }} |
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| {{sortname|Seve|Ballesteros}} | 1957–2011 | Spanish golfer; winner of five major championships | Oligoastrocytoma | 2008–2011 | url = https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2009/jun/25/seve-ballesteros-public-appearance-brain-tumour | title = Seve Ballesteros grateful for 'free shot' at life after brain tumour | author = Sid Lowe | work = The Guardian | date = June 25, 2009 | access-date = 2009-08-16 | location=London |
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| {{sortname|Kevin|Berry}} | 1945–2006 | Butterfly swimmer, Olympic gold medalist | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} {{cite news | first = Margie | last = McDonald | title = Record stood test of time for Olympian | url = http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20891355-2722,00.html | work = The Australian | date = December 8, 2006 | access-date = 2006-12-12 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071030073226/http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20891355-2722,00.html | archive-date = October 30, 2007 | url-status = dead | df = mdy-all }} |
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| {{sortname|Angelo|Bertelli}} | 1921–1999 | American football quarterback | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} |author1=Paul Guido |author2=Bob Boyles | title = 50 Years of College Football: A Modern History of America's Most Colorful Sport | publisher = Skyhorse Publishing | year = 2007 | page = 619 | isbn = 978-1-60239-090-4 }} |
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| {{sortname|Bobby|Bonds}} | 1946–2003 | Right fielder in Major League Baseball from 1968 to 1981, primarily with the San Francisco Giants; father of Barry Bonds | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | url = http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0308/23/cst.02.html | title = Remembering Bobby Bonds | publisher = CNN | date = August 23, 2003 | access-date = 2006-09-15 }} |
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| {{sortname|Ken|Brett}} | 1948–2003 | Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher; brother of Hall of Famer George Brett | {{center|—}} | 6 years |url=http://www.spokesmanreview.com/pf.asp?date=112003&ID=s1442672 |title=Brett, 55, succumbs |work=The Spokesman-Review |date=November 20, 2003 |access-date=2009-08-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110524091315/http://www.spokesmanreview.com/pf.asp?date=112003&ID=s1442672 |archive-date=May 24, 2011 }} |
| Keith Bromage
|1937–2024 |Australian rules footballer |{{center|—}} |{{center|—}} |
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| {{sortname|José María|Buljubasich}} | 1971– | Argentine association football goalkeeper | {{center|—}} | 2006– | url = https://www.espn.com/espn/print?id=2599666&type=story | title = Soccer-Argentine keeper Buljubasich found to have brain tumour | work= ESPN.com | date = September 23, 2006 | access-date = 2009-08-16 }} |
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| {{sortname|Richard|Burns}} | 1971–2005 | Rally driver, 2001 WRC Champion | Astrocytoma | 2 years | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/world_rally/3277637.stm | title=Burns diagnosed with brain tumour | work=BBC Sport | date=November 17, 2003 | access-date=2006-09-09 }} |
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| {{sortname|Matt|Cappotelli}} | 1979–2018 | Astrocytoma later Glioblastoma | 2006–2018 | author = Louie Dee | url = http://www.wwe.com/inside/news/archive/cappotelliupdate | title = Matt Cappotelli to undergo brain surgery | publisher = World Wrestling Entertainment | date = April 6, 2007 | access-date = 2009-08-13 }} |
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| {{sortname|Richard|Chelimo}} | 1972–2001 | Track champion from Kenya; former 10,000-meter world record holder | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/athletics/1495148.stm | title = Chelimo dies aged 34 | access-date = 2009-08-01 | date = August 16, 2001 | work = BBC News }} |
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| {{sortname|Maurice|Colclough}} | 1953–2006 | Rugby player, part of England's Grand Slam–winning team in the 1980 Five Nations Championship | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | author=Ian Malin | url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/feb/02/guardianobituaries.rugbyunion | title=Obituary: Maurice Colclough | work=The Guardian | date=February 2, 2006 | access-date=2009-08-20 | location=London }} |
| Darren Daulton
|1962–2017 |Phillies catcher and leader |Glioblastoma |4 years | |
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| {{sortname|Chris|Doleman}} | 1961–2020 | NFL Hall of Fame defensive end; played for Minnesota Vikings, Atlanta Falcons, San Francisco 49ers | Glioblastoma | 2 years |
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| {{sortname|Dan|Duva}} | 1951–1996 | Boxing promoter behind more than 100 world championship bouts | Primary brain tumor | |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/sports/1996/01/31/1996-01-31_family_came_first_for_late_d.html |author=Michael Katz |title=Family Came First For Late Dan Duva |access-date=2009-08-13 |newspaper=New York Daily News |date=January 31, 1996 }} {{dead link|date=May 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} |
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| {{sortname|Vugar|Gashimov}} | 1986–2014 | Chess grandmaster; 2009 European Team Chess Championship winner | {{center|—}} | 14 years |
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| {{sortname|Josh|Gibson}} | 1911–1947 | Negro league baseball player; home run hitter with the highest career batting average in league history | {{center|—}} | 4 years | url = https://www.espn.com/sportscentury/features/00016050.html | title = No joshing about Gibson's talents | access-date = 2006-09-09 | author = Larry Schwartz | publisher = ESPN }} |
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| {{sortname|Tim|Gullikson}} | 1951–1996 | Champion doubles tennis player alongside his twin brother Tom; coach of Pete Sampras | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} |publisher=PRWeb |date=September 21, 2004 |url=http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/09/prweb159979.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121005125830/http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/09/prweb159979.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 5, 2012 |title= Tim & Tom Gullikson Foundation to Mark Its 10th Year and Announces National Week of Celebration |access-date=2009-08-20 }} |
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| {{sortname|Scott|Hamilton|dab=figure skater}} | 1958– | Figure skater and Olympic gold medalist | Pituitary gland | 2004– | agency = Associated Press | title = Skating Champion Hamilton Has Benign Brain Tumor | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/11/sports/othersports/12HAMILTON-WIRE.html?ei=5090&en=eca38854489ed290&ex=1258002000 | work= The New York Times | date = November 11, 2004 | access-date = 2006-12-12 }} |
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| {{sortname|John|Hartson}} | 1975– | Professional footballer | Metastatic tumor | 2009– |
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| {{sortname|Craig "Ironhead"|Heyward|Craig Heyward}} | 1966–2006 | American football running back who played in the NFL | Chordoma | 8 years | first = Len | last = Pasquarelli | url = https://www.espn.com/nfl/news/story?id=2460799 | title = 'Ironhead' Heyward loses battle with recurring tumor | publisher = ESPN | date = May 28, 2006 | access-date = 2006-09-16 }} |
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| {{sortname|Heiko|Herrlich}} | 1971– | German association football player; Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) Champions League and Intercontinental Cup winner | Germinoma | 2000– |url = https://docs.google.com/gview?a=v&q=cache%3ALGurwxwtrg4J%3Awww.la84foundation.org%2FSportsLibrary%2FSoccerAmerica%2F2001%2Fsa1497ab.pdf+%22Heiko+Herrlich%22+brain+tumor&hl=en&gl=us&pli=1 |title = Soccer: Heiko Herrlich wins battle against brain tumor |access-date = 2009-08-01 |date = April 2, 2001 |work = Soccer America Magazine }} {{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite web |url = http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-20128824.html | title = Idole – Der öffentliche Krebs | access-date = 2012-01-29 | date = September 15, 2012 | work = Der Spiegel 38/2001 }} |
| Roger Hickman
|1954–2016 |Australian yachtman. He was diagnosed with multiple brain tumors after collapsing after competing in the 2015 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race |{{center|—}} |2 months |
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| {{sortname|Lauren|Hill|dab=basketball}} | 1995–2015 | Mount St. Joseph University student whose quest to play college basketball received major publicity in the U.S. | Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma | 16 months }} |
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| {{sortname|Terry|Hoeppner}} | 1947–2007 | Indiana University, Miami (Ohio) University head football coach | {{center|—}} | 18 months (2005–2007) |url=http://iuhoosiers.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/061907aaa.html |title=Indiana Football Coach Terry Hoeppner passes away |access-date=2007-06-19 |author=IU Athletics |date=June 19, 2007 |publisher=Indiana University |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070621100215/http://iuhoosiers.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/061907aaa.html |archive-date=June 21, 2007 }} |
| Bob Holland
|1946–2017 |Australian cricketer |{{center|—}} |6 months |{{Cite web |last=Nag |first=Soham |date=2017-07-05 |title=Former Australian cricketer Bob Holland recognized with brain cancer |url=https://www.crictracker.com/former-australian-cricketer-bob-holland-recognized-with-brain-cancer/ |access-date=2025-04-05 |website=CricTracker |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Former Australian cricketer Bob Holland dies aged 70 |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/former-australian-cricketer-bob-holland-dies-aged-70-1121076 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20230202151841/https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/former-australian-cricketer-bob-holland-dies-aged-70-1121076 |archive-date=2023-02-02 |access-date=2025-04-05 |website=ESPNcricinfo}} |
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| {{sortname|Dick|Howser}} | 1936–1987 | MLB shortstop and manager; led Kansas City Royals to 1985 World Series championship. | {{center|—}} | 1 year |url=https://baseballbiography.com/dick-howser-1937 |title=Dick Howser |access-date=2009-08-13 |publisher=baseballbiography.com }} |
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| {{sortname|Emlyn|Hughes}} | 1947–2004 | Association football player; European Cup winner of 1977; also known from the BBC television quiz show A Question of Sport | {{center|—}} | 15 months | url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-nov-10-me-passings10.2-story.html | title = Emlyn Hughes, 57; Liverpool Soccer Star of the 1960s and '70s | access-date = 2009-08-01 | work= Los Angeles Times | date=November 10, 2004 }} |
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| {{sortname|Colin|Ingleby-Mackenzie}} | 1933–2006 | English cricketer | {{center|—}} | 4 months | last = Marlar | first = Robin | url = http://www.cricinfo.com/england/content/player/15391.html | title = Players and Officials: Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie | publisher = Cricinfo | access-date = 2009-08-20 }} |
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| {{sortname|Riccardo|Ingram}} | 1966–2015 | MLB player and coach | {{center|—}} | 2009–2015 | {{center|—}} |
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| {{sortname|"Badger" Bob|Johnson|Bob Johnson (ice hockey, born 1931)}} | 1931–1991 | Ice hockey coach, won the 1991 Stanley Cup with the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League (NHL) | {{center|—}} | 2 months | url = http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1140123/1/index.htm | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121025052744/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1140123/1/index.htm | url-status = dead | archive-date = October 25, 2012 | title = In A Class By Himself: When Badger Bob Johnson died on Nov. 26, U.S. hockey lost its biggest and best booster | access-date = 2009-08-13 | author =E.M. Swift | date = December 9, 1991 | magazine = Sports Illustrated }} |
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| {{sortname|Walter|Johnson}} | 1887–1946 | Right-handed pitcher in MLB; one of the first five members of the Hall of Fame | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | last = Thomas | first = Henry W | title = Walter Johnson: Baseball's Big Train | date = February 1, 1998 | publisher = University of Nebraska Press | isbn = 0-8032-9433-6 | page = 344 | url = http://www.cmgworldwide.com/baseball/johnson/biography.htm | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070928014449/http://www.cmgworldwide.com/baseball/johnson/biography.htm | archive-date = September 28, 2007 | title = Walter Johnson Biography | publisher = Estate of Walter Johnson | access-date = 2006-09-16 }} |
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| {{sortname|Ruben|Kruger}} | 1970–2010 | South African rugby union player; member of the Springboks team that won the 1995 Rugby World Cup, portrayed in the film Invictus | {{center|—}} | 10 years | url = http://www.supersport.com/rugby/article.aspx?headline=Ruben%20Kruger%20passes%20away&id=331131 | title = Kruger's funeral on Wednesday | first = Dan | last = Retief | date = January 28, 2010 | access-date = 2010-05-05 | publisher = SuperSport }} |
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| {{sortname|Kyle|Kuric}} | 1989– | American basketball player (University of Louisville, Estudiantes, Gran Canaria) | Meningioma | {{center|—}} |{{cite news | url = http://www.wdrb.com/story/30424959/crawford-former-louisville-star-kuric-to-undergo-brain-surgery-in-spain | title = Former Louisville star Kuric to undergo brain surgery in Spain | first = Eric | last = Crawford | publisher = WDRB | location = Louisville, KY | date = November 3, 2015 | access-date = November 4, 2015}} |
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| {{sortname|Joe|Lewis|Joe Lewis (martial artist)}} | 1944–2012 | American martial artist, kickboxer, point karate fighter, and actor. | {{center|—}} | 13 months | url = http://articles.philly.com/2012-09-11/news/33738392_1_martial-arts-martial-arts-karate-champion | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121016193124/http://articles.philly.com/2012-09-11/news/33738392_1_martial-arts-martial-arts-karate-champion | url-status = dead | archive-date = October 16, 2012 | title = Joseph Lewis, 68, U.S. champion in karate, kickboxing | first = Sally | last = Downey | publisher = Philadelphia Media Network | location = Coasteville, PA | date = September 11, 2012 | access-date = November 4, 2015}} |
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| {{sortname|Eric|Liddell}} | 1902–1945 | Olympic gold medalist in track; portrayed in the film Chariots of Fire | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/sportscotland/asportingnation/article/0019/page02.shtml | title = A Sporting Nation – Eric Liddell | access-date = 2009-08-13 | publisher = BBC }} |
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| {{sortname|Reginald|Lisowski|The Crusher (wrestler)}} | 1926–2005 | Professional wrestler; known as "The Crusher" | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | first = Greg | last = Oliver | url = http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2005/10/23/1275272.html | archive-url = https://archive.today/20120721090259/http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2005/10/23/1275272.html | url-status = usurped | archive-date = July 21, 2012 | title = The Crusher dead at 79 | publisher = SLAM! Sports | date = October 23, 2005 | access-date = 2006-09-16 }} |
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| {{sortname|Wayne|Maki}} | 1944–1973 | Vancouver Canucks player in the NHL | {{center|—}} | Less than 5 months |url=http://www.legendsofhockey.net:8080/LegendsOfHockey/jsp/SearchPlayer.jsp?player=13497 |title=NHL Player: Wayne Maki |publisher=Hockey Hall of Fame and Museum |access-date=2006-09-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929150003/http://www.legendsofhockey.net:8080/LegendsOfHockey/jsp/SearchPlayer.jsp?player=13497 |archive-date=September 29, 2007 | last = Malcolm | first = G Kelly |author2=Askin, Mark | title = The Complete Idiot's Guide to Hockey | date = October 1, 2001 | publisher = Alpha Books | isbn = 0-02-864257-0 | page = 95 }} |
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| {{sortname|Peter|May|dab=cricketer}} | 1929–1994 | An English cricketer who played for Surrey, Cambridge University and England | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} |last=Hill |first=Alan |url=http://www.cricketsociety.com/peter_may.pdf |title=Peter May |publisher=The Cricket Society |access-date=2008-03-27 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708203811/http://www.cricketsociety.com/peter_may.pdf |archive-date=July 8, 2011 }} |
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| {{sortname|Frank Edward "Tug"|McGraw|Tug McGraw}} | 1944–2004 | Major League Baseball pitcher; father of country music star Tim McGraw | Glioblastoma multiforme | 9 months | agency=Associated Press | url=https://www.espn.com/espn/wire?section=mlb&id=1701250 | title=Former relief pitcher Tug McGraw dead at 59 | publisher=ESPN | date=January 6, 2004 | access-date=2006-09-09 }} |
| Ken McMullen
|1941–1986 |Australian rugby union footballer |{{center|—}} |{{center|—}} |last1=Webster |{{Cite news |last=Webster |first=Jim |date=February 8, 1986 |title='Nipper' McMullen dies |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/123805941 |work=The Sydney Morning Herald}} |
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| {{sortname|Robert|Müller|Robert Müller (hockey)|Mueller, Robert}} | 1980–2009 | Professional (Deutsche Eishockey Liga) ice hockey goaltender. | Glioblastoma multiforme | 3 years | title=Solace in Pads in a Fight for Life | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/26/sports/hockey/26goalie.html?_r=2 | work=The New York Times | last=Hinz | first=Oliver | date=November 25, 2008 | access-date=2010-12-17 }} |
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| {{sortname|Bobby|Murcer}} | 1946–2008 | Major League Baseball player and broadcaster | {{center|—}} | 19 months |author=STATS LLC and The Associated Press |url=http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/story/10896247 |title=Ex-Yankees star, broadcaster Murcer dies at 62 |publisher=CBS |date=July 12, 2008 |access-date=2009-08-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120921032658/http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/story/10896247 |archive-date=September 21, 2012 }} |
| DIkembe Mutombo
|1966–2024 |National Basketball Association center |{{center|—}} |2 years |
| Mark Naley
|1961–2020 |Australian rules footballer |{{center|—}} |4 years |
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| {{sortname|Johnny|Oates}} | 1946–2004 | MLB catcher and manager | Glioblastoma multiforme | 3 years | url=https://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/2004-12-24-oates-obit_x.htm | title=Johnny Oates loses battle to brain tumor | work=USA Today | date=December 24, 2004 | access-date=2006-09-09 }} |
| Michael Parsons
|1960–2009 |Australian rules footballer |{{center|—}} |{{center|—}} |
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| {{sortname|Kim|Perrot}} | 1967–1999 | Basketball player on the Houston Comets of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) | Metastatic (lung cancer) | {{center|—}} | agency=Associated Press | url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/wnba/news/1999/08/19/obit_perrot_ap/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001001054415/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/wnba/news/1999/08/19/obit_perrot_ap/ | url-status=dead | archive-date=October 1, 2000 | title=Kim Perrot dead at age 32 | publisher=CNN Sports Illustrated | date= August 20, 1999 | access-date=2009-08-20 }} |
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| {{sortname|John|Prentice|dab=footballer born 1926}} | 1926–2006 | Scottish association football player and Scotland national football team manager | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/scotland/4701398.stm | title = Ex-Scotland manager Prentice dies | work = BBC News | date = February 10, 2006 | access-date = 2006-09-16 }} |
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| {{sortname|Dan|Quisenberry}} | 1953–1998 | MLB pitcher, mostly as a closer; pitched with "submarine" style | Astrocytoma | 9 months | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/01/sports/dan-quisenberry-45-submarine-style-pitcher.html | title = Dan Quisenberry, 45, Submarine-Style Pitcher | access-date = 2009-08-03 | author = Richard Goldstein | date = October 1, 1998 | work = The New York Times | url=http://www.scc.net/~heather/quiz.html | author=Heather Henderson | title= Dan Quisenberry – In His Own Words | work= The 1999 Big Bad Baseball Annual |year=1999 | access-date=June 24, 2013 }} |
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| {{sortname|Robert|Ramsay|dab=baseball}} | 1973–2016 | Former Seattle Mariners pitcher | {{center|—}} | 15 years |author=Anthony Castrovince |url=https://www.mlb.com/news/rob-ramsay-loved-family-baseball-c194337252 |title=Ramsay's life not measured by stats |work=MLB.com |date=August 8, 2016 |access-date=2016-08-08 }} |
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| {{sortname|Bobby|Robson}} | 1933–2009 | A former association football player and England national football team manager | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} |author=Nick Britten |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/international/england/5949548/Bobby-Robson-timeline-of-his-battle-with-cancer.html |title=Bobby Robson: timeline of his battle with cancer |work=The Telegraph |date=August 1, 2009 |access-date=2009-08-03 |location=London |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090804094452/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/international/england/5949548/Bobby-Robson-timeline-of-his-battle-with-cancer.html |archive-date=August 4, 2009 }} |
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| {{sortname|Glenn|Roeder}} | 1955–2021 | English association football manager and former player | {{center|—}} | 2003–2021 | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/n/newcastle_united/4770157.stm | title = Roeder named as Newcastle manager | work = BBC News | date = May 16, 2006 | access-date = 2006-09-16 }} |
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| {{sortname|Pete|Rozelle}} | 1926–1996 | NFL commissioner | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | author=William N. Wallace | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/07/sports/pete-rozelle-70-dies-led-nfl-in-its-years-of-growth.html | title=Pete Rozelle, 70, Dies; Led N.F.L. in its Years of Growth | work=The New York Times | date= December 7, 1996 | access-date=2009-08-05 }} |
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| {{sortname|Wilma|Rudolph}} | 1940–1994 | Olympic gold medalist in track | {{center|—}} | 5 months | author = Ruth, Amy | title = Wilma Rudolph | publisher = Lerner Publications Co | location = Minneapolis | year = 2000 | page = [https://archive.org/details/wilmarudolph00ruth/page/97 97] | isbn = 0-8225-4976-X | url = https://archive.org/details/wilmarudolph00ruth/page/97 |author = Len Ashburn |url = http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=37196&FS=HILLCLIMB |title = Pikes Peak Champion Nick Sanborn Dead |publisher = Motorsport.com |date = December 8, 1999 |access-date = 2006-09-09 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070310210809/http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=37196&FS=HILLCLIMB |archive-date = March 10, 2007 |df = mdy-all }} |
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| {{sortname|Robert|Stone|dab=rugby league}} | 1956–2005 | a professional rugby league footballer and official who played for the St. George Dragons | {{center|—}} | 17 months | first = Roy | last = Masters | url = http://www.smh.com.au/news/league/dragons-in-depths-of-grief-as-robert-stone--very-reluctantly-loses-cancer-fight/2005/08/01/1122748580252.html | title = Dragons in depths of grief as Robert Stone – very reluctantly – loses cancer fight | work= The Sydney Morning Herald | date = August 2, 2006 | access-date = 2006-09-16 }} |
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| {{sortname|Earl|Strom}} | 1927–1994 | A basketball referee for 29 years in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and for three years in the American Basketball Association (ABA) | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | first = Robert McG. | last = Thomas Jr | title = Earl Strom, Ex-N.B.A. Referee Known for His Flair, Dies at 66 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/12/obituaries/earl-strom-ex-nba-referee-known-for-his-flair-dies-at-66.html | work = The New York Times | date = July 12, 1994 | access-date = 2009-08-05 }} |
| Matt Tifft
|1996– |American NASCAR driver |{{center|—}} |{{center|—}} |
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| {{sortname|Fritz|Von Erich}} | 1929–1997 | Wrestler and wrestling promoter of independent promotion World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW); patriarch of the Von Erich family | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | url = http://slam.canoe.ca/SlamWrestlingArchive/sep11_fritz.html | archive-url = https://archive.today/20130115180632/http://slam.canoe.ca/SlamWrestlingArchive/sep11_fritz.html | url-status = usurped | archive-date = January 15, 2013 | title = Fritz Von Erich dead at 68 | access-date = 2009-08-05 | work = Slam! Wrestling | agency = Associated Press | date = September 11, 1997 }} |
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| {{sortname|John|Vukovich}} | 1947–2007 | MLB infielder and third base coach | {{center|—}} | 18 months | url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-09-me-passings9.2-story.html | title = John Vukovich, 59; Phillies coach, player on 2 World Series teams | date = March 9, 2007 | work = Los Angeles Times | access-date = 2009-08-03 }} |
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| {{sortname|Dick|Wantz}} | 1940–1965 | Relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the California Angels | {{center|—}} | 1 month |first=Keith |last=Olbermann |author-link=Keith Olbermann |url=http://www.salon.com/news/sports/col/olbermann/2002/10/17/angels/index.html |title=Dusty's drama, the Angels' angst |work=Salon.com |date=October 17, 2002 |access-date=2006-09-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051201102508/http://www.salon.com/news/sports/col/olbermann/2002/10/17/angels/index.html |archive-date=December 1, 2005 }} |
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| {{sortname|Michael|Weiner|dab=executive}} | 1961–2013 | executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association | {{center|—}} | 15 months | first = Bill | last = Madden | url = http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/madden-baseball-better-mike-article-1.1528010 | title = MLBPA executive director Michael Weiner remembered by friends and family | work= New York Daily News | date = November 25, 2013 | access-date = 2014-11-25 }} |
Visual arts
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| {{sortname|Kevyn|Aucoin}} | 1962–2002 | Make-up artist and photographer | Pituitary gland tumor | {{center|—}} | last = Levy | first = Ariel | author-link=Ariel Levy (writer) | date = July 22, 2002 | url = http://nymag.com/nymetro/urban/gay/features/6236/ | title = Makeup Breakup | work= New York Magazine | access-date = 2009-08-20 }} |
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| {{sortname|Fred|Conlon}} | 1943–2005 | Sculptor | Glioblastoma | 8 months |last=Frank |first=Conway |date=January 2005 |url=http://www.fredconlon.com/become_fredconlon.htm |title=Become – Video Installation |publisher=fredconlon.com |access-date=2006-09-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928142714/http://www.fredconlon.com/become_fredconlon.htm |archive-date=September 28, 2007 | first = Jackie | last = McKenna | url = http://www.leitrim.ie/Arts_Rec/artsnews311.pdf | title = Leitrim Arts Newsletter | publisher = Leitrim County Council |date=June–July 2005 | access-date = 2006-09-20 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060304011622/http://www.leitrim.ie/Arts_Rec/artsnews311.pdf |archive-date = March 4, 2006}} |
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| {{sortname|Arthur "Weegee"|Fellig|Weegee}} | 1899–1968 | Photographer and photojournalist; works include stark black-and-white street photography | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} |last=Carlo |first=McCormick |date=February 2003 |url=http://artnews.com/issues/article.asp?art_id=1266 |title=The Mouths That Roared: A portrait of comedienne Martha Raye shows Weegee at his most deliriously inventive |work=ARTnews |access-date=2006-09-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061106192353/http://artnews.com/issues/article.asp?art_id=1266 |archive-date=November 6, 2006 }} |
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| {{sortname|Eva|Hesse}} | 1936–1970 | Abstract sculptor | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} |author1=Nemser, Cindy |author2=Nixon, Mignon | title = Eva Hesse | publisher = MIT Press | location = Cambridge, Mass | year = 2002 | page = 93 | isbn = 0-262-64049-X }} |
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| {{sortname|Philip|Iverson}} | 1965–2006 | Expressionist painter | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | url = https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/expressionist-painter-philip-iverson-dies-1.586985 | title = Expressionist painter Philip Iverson dies | publisher = CBC Arts | date = August 16, 2006 | access-date = 2009-08-03 }} |
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| {{sortname|Lynn|Kohlman}} | 1946–2008 | Fashion model, photographer, and author | Glioblastoma multiforme | 2002–2008 |first=Lynn |last=Kohlman |url=http://www.livestrong.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=khLXK1PxHmF&b=2661271&ct=3755237&printmode=1 |title=Lynn Kohlman |publisher=LiveStrong |access-date=2006-09-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160215095350/http://www.livestrong.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx/?c=khLXK1PxHmF&b=2661271&ct=3755237&printmode=1 |archive-date=February 15, 2016 | first = Tina | last = Gaudoin | url = http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2091-2021706,00.html | title = All woman | work= The Sunday Times | date = February 4, 2006 | access-date = 2006-09-20 | location=London }}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} |
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| {{sortname|Bunny|Matthews}} | 1951–2021 | New Orleans cartoonist | {{center|—}} | 2015–2021 |Keith Spera, [http://www.theneworleansadvocate.com/news/15362389-98/bunny-matthews-creator-of-iconic-new-orleans-cartoon-characters-vic-and-natly-battling-back-from-bra "Bunny Matthews, creator of iconic New Orleans cartoon characters Vic and Nat'ly, battling back from brain cancer"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160406050329/http://www.theneworleansadvocate.com/news/15362389-98/bunny-matthews-creator-of-iconic-new-orleans-cartoon-characters-vic-and-natly-battling-back-from-bra |date=April 6, 2016 }}, The Advocate, April 2, 2016.Will Coviello, [https://www.nola.com/gambit/music/article_b32333c6-c315-11eb-8a71-6f6854b7580f.html] GambitJune 1, 2021. |
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| {{sortname|Owen|Merton}} | 1887–1931 | Post-Impressionist painter, primarily in watercolor landscapes and seascapes | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} |author1=Norris, Kathleen |author2=Merton, Thomas |author3=Szabo, Lynn | title = In the dark before dawn: new selected poems of Thomas Merton |url=https://archive.org/details/indarkbeforedawn0000mert |url-access=registration | publisher = New Directions | location = New York | year = 2005 | page = xxv | isbn = 0-8112-1613-6 }} |
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| {{sortname|Ferdinand|Preiss}} | 1882–1943 | Art deco sculptor who specialized in ivory and bronze | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | url = http://www.preiss.de/engl/pkbiographie.htm | title = Biography Ferdinand Preiss | access-date = 2006-09-09 | author =Jutta Stern | publisher = Perdinand Preiss Web Site }} |
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| {{sortname|Eero|Saarinen}} | 1910–1961 | Architect whose work included the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri | {{center|—}} | 11 days |author1=Albrecht, Donald |author2=Saarinen, Eero |author3=Pelkonen, Eeva-Liisa |title=Eero Saarinen: shaping the future |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven, Conn |year=2006 |page=[https://archive.org/details/eerosaarinenshap0000saar/page/338 338] |isbn=0-9724881-2-X |url=https://archive.org/details/eerosaarinenshap0000saar/page/338 }} |
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| {{sortname|John|Willie}} | 1902–1962 | Fetish photographer and bondage artist | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} |last=Denise |first=Dowling |date=March 11, 2000 |url=http://archive.salon.com/health/sex/urge/2000/03/11/john_willie/index.html |title=The Rembrandt of pulp |work=Salon.com |access-date=2006-09-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060814201416/http://archive.salon.com/health/sex/urge/2000/03/11/john_willie/index.html |archive-date=August 14, 2006 }} |
Writing
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| 1955–2006 | Magazine editor; author of cookbooks (with Regis and Kathie Lee) and also books about the craft of knitting. | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | url = http://www.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2006/07/09/barbara_albright_wrote_books_on_food_knitting_at_51/ | title = Barbara Albright, prolific writer, dies in hospice | work= The Boston Globe | date = July 6, 2006 | access-date = 2009-08-03 }} |
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| 1946–2006 | Author and activist for women's rights | {{center|—}} | 2 years | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/01/world/01asena.html?ex=1312084800&en=a6b150bbf577e911&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss | title = Duygu Asena, 60, Turkish Feminist Writer, Dies | work= The New York Times | date = August 1, 2006 | access-date = 2006-09-17 }} |
| Georgia Blain
|1964–2016 |Australian novelist, journalist, and biographer |{{center|—}} |2015–2016 |
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| 1950–2006 | Author whose books dealt with race and mental health issues | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | title = Author Bebe Moore Campbell dies | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6194388.stm | work = BBC News | date = November 29, 2006 | access-date = 2006-12-12 }} |
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| 1938–1988 | Short-story writer and poet | Metastatic tumor | {{center|—}} | url = http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19931022/REVIEWS/310220301/1023 | title = Short Cuts | access-date = 2006-09-09 | author =Roger Ebert | date = October 22, 1993 | publisher = rogerebert.com }} |
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| 1956–2008 | Author of fantasy series Chronicles of an Age of Darkness | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} |url=http://zenvirus.com/cancer-patient/index.html |title=Cancer Patient |access-date=2006-09-09 |author=Hugh Cook |publisher=zenvirus.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060715034439/http://www.zenvirus.com/cancer-patient/index.html |archive-date=July 15, 2006 }} |
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| 1948–2023 | Author of A Long Way From Tipperary. During his period with this illness he made medical history in Canada as the first Albertan to be authorized and receive the groundbreaking and potentially life-changing Autologous Dendritic Cell Vaccine treatment for brain tumours through Health Canada's Special Access Program. | Glioblastoma multiforme | 22 months |url=https://lethbridgeherald.pressreader.com/article/281543705423665 |title=Cormican part of a Canadian first for innovative immunotherapy treatment |access-date=2023-07-28 |author=Theodora MacLeod |publisher=Lethbridge Herald }} |
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| 1914–1984 | Screenwriter and film producer | {{center|—}} | 6 to 9 months |url=http://www.amanda-foreman.com/relativevalues.shtml |title=Relative Values: Amanda Foreman and her brother, Jonathan |publisher=amanda-foreman.com |year=2008 |access-date=2009-08-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707122437/http://www.amanda-foreman.com/relativevalues.shtml |archive-date=July 7, 2011 }} |
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| 1932–2002 | Physicist and science fiction writer | {{center|—}} | 4 months | url = http://www.robertforward.com/ | title = Dr. Robert L. Forward | access-date = 2006-09-17 }} |
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| 1867–1933 | Nobel prize–winning novelist and playwright whose works include The Forsyte Saga | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | url = https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/forsyte2/ei_galsworthy.html | title = John Galsworthy | publisher = Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) | access-date = 2006-09-11 | archive-date = July 12, 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160712062252/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/forsyte2/ei_galsworthy.html | url-status = dead }} |
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| 1941–1997 | Writer, humorist and former editor of The New Yorker | {{center|—}} | 13 months | first = Jennifer | last = Senior | url = http://nymag.com/nymetro/arts/features/858/ | title = Humor Came Her | work= New York | date = May 17, 1999 | access-date = 2009-08-20 }} |
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| 1929–1947 | Teenage brain tumor patient, son of novelist John Gunther. His illness became the central theme of his father's book Death Be Not Proud. | Right parietal-occipital glioblastoma multiforme | 15 months |author=Ris MD |title=Lessons in pediatric neuropsycho-oncology: what we have learned since Johnny Gunther |journal=J Pediatr Psychol |volume=32 |issue=9 |pages=1029–37 |year=2007 |pmid=17426043 |doi=10.1093/jpepsy/jsm018 |doi-access=free }} |
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| 1965–2013 | Author, blogger, painter and illustrator. Blog about his life with the tumor: Arbeit und Struktur. | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | url = http://www.goethe.de/en/kul/lit/20382244.html | title = The Internet as a Way of Life | work = Goethe Institut | access-date = 2015-04-02 }} |
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| 1887–1938 | Author, playwright, poet, journalist and translator | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | url = http://www.nybooks.com/nyrb/authors/13455 | title = Karinthy Frigyes | work = The New York Review of Books | access-date = 2009-08-01 }} |
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| 1940–2008 | British literary agent | {{center|—}} | 5 weeks | url = http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4980987.ece | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100524081626/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4980987.ece | url-status = dead | archive-date = May 24, 2010 | title = Pat Kavanagh: leading London literary agent | work=The Times | date=October 21, 2008 | access-date = 2008-10-24 }} |
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| 1951–1985 | Author who was known for his books criticising the Freemasons. He started having seizures in 1977 and in 1980, agreed to take part in a BBC documentary TV program Horizon on epilepsy. The producers arranged for a brain scan, which showed up a tumor. This was removed but returned in 1984 and despite further surgery he died in 1985. | {{center|—}} | 5 years | last = Whittington-Egan | first = Richard |date=June 2002 | title = Stephen Knight | journal = Ripperologist | volume = 41 | url = http://casebook.org/authors/obituaries/knight.html | access-date = 2006-11-24 }} |
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| 1935–2004 | Columnist for the British newspaper Daily Mail | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3759786.stm | title=Columnist Lynda Lee-Potter dies | work=BBC News | date=October 20, 2004 | access-date=2006-09-10 }} |
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| 1963–2023 | 2015 Pulitzer Prize winning former reporter (feature writing) for Los Angeles Times; author of books “The Tenth Island” and “The Fallen Stones” | Glioblastoma multiforme | {{center|—}} | url=https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-08-10/pulitzer-prize-winning-reporter-diana-marcum-obituary | title=Diana Marcum, Pulitzer Prize-winning former reporter for Los Angeles Times, dies | work=Los Angeles Times | date=August 10, 2023 | access-date=2023-11-15 }} |
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| 1946–2000 | Writer and counterculture figure | Glioblastoma multiforme | Less than 1 year |author1=Jon Hanna |author2=Sylvia Thyssen | url = http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v10n2/10206mck.html | title = Terence McKenna Speaks... | year = 1999 | publisher = Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies | access-date = 2006-09-10 }} |
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| 1869–1910 | Dramatist and poet | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | url = http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=81508 | title = William Vaughn Moody (1869–1910) | publisher = Poetry Foundation | access-date = 2009-08-20 }} |
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| 1967–2005 | BBC journalist and science writer who published columns about his experience with the illness; author of Like a Hole in the Head | Glioblastoma multiforme | {{frac|2|1|2}} years | author=Ivan Noble | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4211475.stm | title=Tumour diary: The time has come | work=BBC News | date=January 30, 2005 | access-date=2006-09-10 | first = Helen | last = Pidd | url = https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/jun/07/booksonhealth.lifeandhealth | title = I was angry science couldn't offer Ivan more | work=The Guardian | date = June 7, 2005 | access-date = 2009-08-20 | location=London }} |
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| 1929–2002 | Rabbi and author whose works included the 1967 novel The Chosen | {{center|—}} | 2 years | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/2147773.stm | title=Novelist Chaim Potok dies | work=BBC News | date=July 24, 2002 | access-date=2006-09-10 }} |
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| 1961–2007 | Australian journalist and newspaper columnist. | Glioblastoma multiforme | 6 weeks |url = http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/mattprice/index.php/theaustralian/comments/journalist_matt_price_dies_aged_46 |title = Journalist Matt Price dies aged 46 |newspaper = The Australian |date = November 26, 2007 |access-date = 2010-02-04 |url-status = bot: unknown |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071127094647/http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/mattprice/index.php/theaustralian/comments/journalist_matt_price_dies_aged_46 |archive-date = November 27, 2007 |df = mdy-all }} |
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| 1947–2002 | Historian who specialized in the study of medieval Germany | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | first = Jinty | last = Nelson | url = https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/oct/17/guardianobituaries.obituaries | title = Obituary: Timothy Reuter | work= The Guardian | date = October 17, 2002 | access-date = 2009-08-20 | location=London }} |
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| 1943–2005 | Los Angeles Times journalist who won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1991 | {{center|—}} | Less than 3 months | first = Jon | last = Thurber | title = David Shaw, 62; Prize-Winning Times Writer Forged New Standards for Media Criticism | url = http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-shaw2aug02,1,2344490.story?coll=la-news-obituaries | work = Los Angeles Times | date = August 2, 2005 | access-date = 2006-12-12 }} |
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| 1935–2002 | Mathematician, physicist and science fiction writer | {{center|—}} | 3 months | url=http://www.sfwa.org/News/sheffield.htm | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070927184440/http://www.sfwa.org/News/sheffield.htm | archive-date = September 27, 2007 | title = Charles Sheffield (1935–2002) | publisher = Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America | access-date = 2006-09-10 | date = November 4, 2002 }} |
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| 1797–1851 | Author of Frankenstein; wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley | {{center|—}} | 46 days |author=Schor, Esther H. |title=The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge, UK |year=2003 |page=xix |isbn=0-521-00770-4 |url=https://archive.org/details/cambridgecompani0000unse_n1c5 |url-access=registration }} |
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| 1931–1999 | Award-winning author of numerous business histories and syndicated newspaper columnist | {{center|—}} | 9 months | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/04/business/robert-sobel-68-a-historian-of-business-dies.html | title = Robert Sobel, 68, a Historian of Business, Dies | work = New York Times | date = June 4, 1999 | last1 = Henriques | first1 = Diana B. }} |
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| 1952–1997 | Writer, editor and critic | {{center|—}} | 10 months |url=http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1997_May_7/ai_19381662 |title=Obituary: DC Comics Editor Lou Stathis is Dead |agency=Business Wire |date=May 7, 1997 |access-date=2006-09-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151105150653/http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1997_May_7/ai_19381662 |archive-date=November 5, 2015 }} |
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| 1874–1904 | Swiss-born American poet | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | url = http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=81613 | title = Biography of Trumbull Stickney | publisher = Poetry Foundation | access-date = 2009-08-01 }} |
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| 1926–2005 | Socialist historian and journalist; founder and publisher of In These Times | {{center|—}} | {{center|—}} | first = Godfrey | last = Hodgson | url = https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/jun/21/guardianobituaries.obituaries | title = Obituary: James Weinstein | work= The Guardian | date = June 21, 2005 | access-date = 2009-08-20 | location=London }} |