Famous People Who Died of stroke

• Baker, Josephine

  The Black American singer/dancer famous in 1920s Paris

• Brice, Fanny

  The vaudeville star who was the basis for the musical Funny Girl

• Chase, Salmon P.

  The Secretary of the Treasury who was on the $10,000 bill

• Cummings, E. E.

  The experimental poet who spelled his name without capitals

• Daniels, Charlie

  The fiddle player who did "The Devil Went Down to Georgia"

• DeLorean, John

  Creator of the DeLorean car

• Dewey, Melvil

  Inventor of the Dewey Decimal Classification System

• Hart, Johnny

  Creator of the strip B.C.

• Hayes, Isaac

  The singer of "Theme from Shaft"

• Jones, Grandpa

  Co-star of the show Hee Haw

• Julia, Raul

  Gomez in The Addams Family movies

• Margaret, Princess

  Sister to Queen Elizabeth II

• McCay, Winsor

  Creator of the comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland

• Nixon, Richard M.

  The U.S. president who resigned after the Watergate scandal

• Obereon, Merle

  Cathy in the 1939 movie version of 'Wuthering Heights'

• Peres, Shimon

  The 8th prime minister of Israel

• Perry, Luke

  Dylan on the 1990s series 'Beverly Hills 90210'

• Reynolds, Debbie

  Star of the 1952 musical "Singin' in the Rain"

• Scott, Sir Walter

  The author of Ivanhoe

• Sendak, Maurice

  The illustrator who created Where the Wild Things Are

• Singleton, John

  The writer and director of Boyz N the Hood

• Sorensen, Ted

  Counselor and speechwriter for John F. Kennedy

• Thatcher, Margaret

  The first woman to be prime minister of the United Kingdom

See: All Causes of Death