Famous People Who Died of heart failure

• Allen, Steve

  The original host of The Tonight Show

• Anderson, Marian

  The Black contralto who sang at the Lincoln Memorial

• Atlas, Charles

  Mail-order bodybuilding expert

• Ball, Lucille

  The red-headed star of TV's I Love Lucy

• Borge, Victor

  The witty pianist who created Comedy in Music

• Bosley, Tom

  Mr. C, the dad on TV's Happy Days

• Breitbart, Andrew

  The right-wing activist who brought down Rep. Anthony Weiner

• Brett, Jeremy

  TV's Sherlock Holmes in the 1980s and '90s

• Brubeck, David

  The jazz pianist who did the song "Take Five"

• Capone, Al

  The American gangster known as "Scarface"

• Capra, Frank

  The director of It's a Wonderful Life

• Carlin, George

  The profane comedian known for his "7 Dirty Words" routine

• Carmichael, Hoagy

  The composer of "Stardust"

• Chamberlain, Wilt

  The NBA legend who scored 100 points in a game in 1962

• Clark, Dick

  The host of American Bandstand and New Year's Rockin' Eve

• Cleveland, Grover

  The 22nd and 24th president of the United States

• Clift, Montgomery

  Pvt. Prewitt in the film From Here to Eternity

• Coffin, William Sloane

  The Yale chaplain who opposed the U.S. war in Vietnam

• Conrad, Joseph

  Author of Heart of Darkness

• Conrad, Robert

  The star of TV's The Wild Wild West

• Curtis, Tony

  The star of Some Like it Hot

• Dali, Salvador

  The surrealist artist with the curly mustache

• Dangerfield, Rodney

  The comedian who said "I don't get no respect"

• Dick, Philip K.

  The mind-bending sci-fi author of "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"

• Diddley, Bo

  The early rock 'n' roll inventor nicknamed "The Originator"

• Durst, Robert

  The eccentric killer featured in the HBO show The Jinx

• Einstein, Albert

  Creator of the theory of relativity

• Eisenhower, Dwight

  Supreme commander of Allied forces in WWII

• Eisenstein, Sergei

  Russian director of the film The Battleship Potemkin

• Evans, Dale

  Partner of singing cowboy Roy Rogers

• Fisher, Carrie

  Princess Leia in Star Wars

• Fonda, Henry

  Tom Joad in the movie The Grapes of Wrath

• Gable, Clark

  Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind

• Garcia, Jerry

  Leader of The Grateful Dead

• Gottfried, Gilbert

  The comedian who voiced Iago in 'Aladdin'

• Haber, Fritz

  The German chemist who made fertilizer and poison gas in World War I

• Hamilton, Margaret

  The wicked witch in The Wizard of Oz

• Hayes, Rutherford

  President of the United States, 1877-1881

• Hefner, Hugh

  Founder of the Playboy empire

• Heller, Joseph

  The author of Catch-22

• Hillary, Sir Edmund

  The first man to climb Mount Everest

• Jackson, Mahalia

  Gospel singing legend

• Jackson, Michael

  The eccentric 'King of Pop' who recorded the album Thriller

• Jones, Chuck

  Animated director of Bugs Bunny

• Jones, Davy

  The good-looking front man for The Monkees

• Joseph, Chief

  Chief of the Nez Perce tribe

• Keane, Bil

   The creator of the comic strip 'The Family Circus'

• Kim Il-sung

  Longtime "Great Leader" of North Korea

• Kinski, Klaus

  Star of Werner Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God

• Lord, Jack

  Steve McGarrett on TV's Hawaii Five-O

• Lubitsch, Ernst

  The director of Ninotchka

• Marconi, Guglielmo

  Italian pioneer of wireless telegraphy

• Marcos, Ferdinand

  President of The Philippines, 1965-1986

• Marshall, Thurgood

  The first African-American justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

• Matthau, Walter

  Curmudgeonly star of the film The Odd Couple

• Melville, Herman

  The author of Moby-Dick

• Milosevic, Slobodan

  President of Serbia, 1989-1997

• Morrison, Jim

  Lead singer of the band The Doors

• Morton, Jelly Roll

  The composer of Jelly Roll Blues

• Murphy, Brittany

  Eminem's girlfriend in the 2002 film 8 Mile

• Muskie, Edmund

  U.S. Senator from Maine, 1959-80

• Nesmith, Michael

  The tall Monkee in the wool watch cap

• Parker, Dorothy

  The oft-quoted female wit of the Algonquin Round Table

• Phillips, John

  Co-founder of The Mamas and The Papas

• Puig, Manuel

  The author of Kiss of the Spider Woman

• Rayburn, Gene

  Host of TV's Match Game

• Reagan, Nancy

  First Lady of the United States, 1981-89

• Reeve, Christopher

  The Superman star who later was paralyzed

• Remarque, Erich Maria

  Author of All Quiet on the Western Front

• Rogers, Roy

  Star of TV's Roy Rogers Show

• Russert, Tim

  Host of TV's Meet the Press, 1991-2008

• Sakall, S.Z. "Cuddles"

  Carl the headwaiter in the film Casablanca

• Sandburg, Carl

  Author of the poem Chicago

• Sayers, Dorothy

  The creator of Lord Peter Wimsey

• Serling, Rod

  The creator and host of The Twilight Zone

• Sharon, Ariel

  Prime minister of Israel, 2001-2006

• Silverstein, Shel

  Author of Where the Sidewalk Ends

• Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

  Co-founder of the Seneca Falls Convention

• Stanwyck, Barbara

  The dangerous femme fatale in the film Double Indemnity

• Stevenson, Teófilo

  The Cuban heavyweight who won three Olympic gold medals 

• Taylor, Elizabeth

  The much-married star of Cleopatra

• Thomas, Danny

  Star of TV's Make Room For Daddy

• Thornton, Willie Mae

  Blues legend and original singer of "Hound Dog"

• Truman, Harry S.

  President of the United States, 1945-53

• Twain, Mark

  The author of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn

• Unitas, Johnny

  Baltimore Colts quarterback, 1956-72

• Van Cleef, Lee

  The "bad" guy in the western The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

• Wallace, George

  Segregationist governor of the 1960s

• Williams, Ted

  The last American major leaguer to hit .400

• Wilson, Charlie

  The Texas Congressman who funded Afghan rebels in the 1980s

• Wong, Anna May

  Hollywood's first Chinese American film star

• Yeltsin, Boris

  The first post-Gorbachev president of Russia

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