Famous People Who Died of heart attack

• Adams, Douglas

  The author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

• Agee, James

  The author of 'A Death in the Family'

• Arbuckle, Fatty

  The rotund silent film comedian

• Armstrong, Louis

  The charismatic jazz trumpeter who recorded "Hello Dolly"

• Barkley, Alben W.

  Vice President under Harry S. Truman, 1949-53

• Birdseye, Clarence

  The man who figured out how to flash-freeze foods

• Burroughs, William S.

  The author of Naked Lunch

• Cagney, James

  Star of the movies Public Enemy and Yankee Doodle Dandy

• Candy, John

  Steve Martin's hefty co-star in Planes, Trains and Automobiles

• Chimpsky, Nim

  The language-learning chimp named for Noam Chomsky

• Cleaver, Eldridge

  The Black Panther who wrote Soul on Ice

• Coburn, James

  Lanky star of Our Man Flint

• Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

  The author of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

• Crosby, Bing

  The singer of "White Christmas"

• Darwin, Charles

  The naturalist who came up with the theory of evolution

• Dixon, Jeane

  Popular astrologer and psychic

• Douglass, Frederick

  Former slave turned anti-slavery leader

• Doyle, Arthur Conan

  The creator of Sherlock Holmes

• Elliot, Cass

  The big member the pop group The Mamas & The Papas

• Ellis, Don

  The experimental post-bop jazz musician who invented the "superbone"

• Faulkner, William

  American author of As I Lay Dying

• Fitzgerald, F. Scott

  The author of The Great Gatsby

• Fosse, Bob

  The director and choreographer of the Broadway show Chicago

• Gabor, Zsa Zsa

  The much-married celebrity sister of Eva Gabor

• Gallup, George

  The founder of Gallup public opinion polls

• Gandolfini, James

  Tony Soprano in the TV series The Sopranos

• Garner, James

  Star of the TV show The Rockford Files

• Guaraldi, Vince

  The jazz pianist who wrote the music for Charlie Brown

• Haley, Alex

  The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the book Roots

• Harding, Warren G.

  President of the United States, 1921-23

• Henry, Buck

  The screenwriter of 'The Graduate'

• Hunter, Tab

  The blonde box office idol of the 1950s who also sang "Young Love"

• James, Rick

  Funky singer of "Super Freak"

• Johnson, Lyndon

  President of the United States, 1963-1969

• Johnston, Daniel

  The eccentric singer/songwriter of 'Hi, How Are You?'

• Juárez, Benito

  Presidential hero of Mexico

• Kelly, Emmett, Sr.

  The melancholy tramp clown Weary Willie

• Larsson, Stieg

  The author of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

• Lee, Peggy

  Singer of "Fever"

• Lowell, Robert

  The "confessional" poet with the collection Life Studies

• Luciano, Charles "Lucky"

  1930s Italian-American gangster with businesslike approach

• Lynde, Paul

  Center square on the original The Hollywood Squares

• Maradona, Diego

  The hero of Argentina's 1986 World Cup win

• Marvin, Lee

  Rugged star of The Dirty Dozen

• Maslow, Abraham

  Creator of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

• Ness, Eliot

  The G-Man who nabbed Al Capone

• Nilsson, Harry

  The guy who sang "Jump into the Fire"

• Omarr, Sydney

  Syndicated horoscope columnist from Los Angeles

• Orbison, Roy

  Singer of "Only the Lonely"

• Peel, John

  Influential British DJ from BBC's Radio 1

• Philbin, Regis

  Host of the TV morning show Live With Regis And..., 1988-2011

• Pinochet, Augusto

  Dictator, then president of Chile, 1973-1990

• Pope John Paul I

  The pope who reigned for 33 days

• Porcaro, Jeff

  Founder of the group Toto

• Presley, Elvis

  "The King of Rock 'n Roll"

• Pryor, Richard

  The comedian who recorded Live on the Sunset Strip

• Punisher, Big

  Super-sized Latin rapper

• Ripley, Robert L.

  Founder of Ripley's Believe It Or Not!

• Roethke, Theodore

  The Michigan poet who wrote "Elegy for Jane"

• Russell, Harold

  The disabled vet in The Best Years of Our Lives

• Sellers, Peter

  Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther comedies

• Shackleton, Ernest

  Leader of The Endurance expedition to Antarctica

• Sinclair, Gordon

  Creator of the famous "Americans" broadcast

• Stevenson, Adlai

  Presidential runner-up of 1952 and 1956

• Stevenson, McLean

  Lt. Col. Henry Blake on TV's M*A*S*H

• Veidt, Conrad

  The villainous Major Strasser in Casablanca

• Welles, Orson

  The man who made Citizen Kane

• Wright, Richard

  Author of Native Son

• Yale, Linus Jr.

  The inventor of the cylinder lock

• Zinn, Howard

  Boat-rocking U.S. historian

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