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List of cancer patients

This is a list of people who have suffered from or died of cancer.

Table of contents

1 Entertainment 2 Literature & Journalism 3 Sports 4 Politics 5 Religion 6 Science 7 Business 8 Symbols 9 Criminals 10 Others

Entertainment

• Bud Abbott, actor
• Ansel Adams, photographer
• Claude Akins, actor
• Jack Albertson, actor
• Steve Allen, actor, composer, writer
• Stephen Ambrose, historian
• Don Ameche, actor
• Pedro Armendáriz, actor
• Desi Arnaz (March 2, 1917 - December 2, 1986), actor and bandleader
• Hal Ashby, actor, director, editor, producer
• Chet Atkins, composer, musician
• Tex Avery, animator
• Chuck Barris, game show host, producer, writer
• Paul Bartel, actor, director, writer, producer
• Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer
• Richard Barthelmess, actor
• Count Basie, musician, composer
• Clyde Beatty, circus performer, hunter
• Melvin Belli, attorney, actor
• Jack Benny, actor, comedian
• Ingrid Bergman, actress
• Milton Berle, actor, comedian
• Bill Bixby, actor who played The Incredible Hulk on television
• Harry Blackstone Jr, magician
• Art Blakey, musician
• Humphrey Bogart, actor
• Ray Bolger, actor, dancer
• Richard Boone, actor
• Lucy Boscana, actress
• Barry Bostwick, actor
• Jacques Brel, actor, composer, director, writer
• Tod Browning, actor, director, writer, producer
• Yul Brynner, actor
• Anthony Burgess, writer
• Raymond Burr, actor
• Pedro Cabrera (1938-2002), Cuban actor and director who starred for many years in Puerto Rico's television. He survived cancer but succumbed to another disease in 2002.
• Cantinflas, actor
• Eric Carr (1946-1991), drummer for the rock band Kiss
• Leo Carrillo, actor
• Rosa Carrillo (1960-2002), Univision news anchor.
• Leo G. Carroll, actor
• Gower Champion, dancer, choreographer
• Lon Chaney, actor
• Graham Chapman, actor, composer, writer, producer (Monty Python)
• Paddy Chayefsky, writer, producer
• Nat King Cole, singer, musician
• John Coltrane, musician, composer
• Chuck Connors, actor
• Gary Cooper, actor
• Joan Crawford, actress
• Richard Crenna, actor
• Lorel Crespo, Puerto Rican television model, skin cancer
• Scatman Crothers, actor
• Celia Cruz, singer
• Bill Cullen, game show host
• Michael Curtiz, director, writer, producer
• Peter Cushing, actor
• Marion Davies, actress
• Bette Davis (April 5, 1908 - October 6, 1989), actress
• Sammy Davis Jr, actor, singer
• Robert De Niro, actor (prostate cancer)
• Walt Disney, writer, producer, voice actor, animator
• Jimmy Dorsey, Big band leader
• Vince Edwards, actor
• Duke Ellington, composer, musician
• Joe Eszterhas, writer, producer, director
• Peter Falk, actor
• Frances Farmer, actress
• Fernandel, actor, director, producer
• Vicente Fernandez, singer
• José Ferrer, actor
• John Ford, cinematographer, director, writer, editor, producer, actor
• Victor French, actor
• Giorgio Gaber, Italian singer, composer, comedian
• Andres Garcia, Dominican-born Mexican national who is a soap opera (telenovela) super star
• George Gershwin, musician, composer
• Arthur Godfrey, radio and television host
• Delta Goodrem, singer, actress
• Betty Grable, actress
• Gloria Grahame, actress
• Tom Green, comedian
• Fred Gwynne, comedian (Herman Munster)
• Joan Hackett, actress
• George Harrison, musician, member of The Beatles
• Rex Harrison, actor
• Susan Hayward, actress
• Audrey Hepburn, actress
• Bill Hicks, comedian
• Jill Ireland, actress
• Kate Jackson, actress (Charlie's Angels), breast cancer survivor
• Ann Jillian, actress, breast cancer survivor, had a double masectomy,
• Carmita Jimenez, Puerto Rican singer
• Funky Joe, Puerto Rican television and radio gossiper.
• Andy Kaufman, comedian, actor
• Michael Landon actor
• Jack Lemmon (February 8, 1925 - June 27, 2001), actor and pianist
• Myrna Loy, actress
• Ida Lupino, actress, director
• Linda McCartney, musician, first wife of Sir Paul McCartney
• Hattie McDaniel, actress
• Roddy McDowall, actor
• Steve McQueen, actor
• Bob Marley, musician
• Zeppo Marx (February 25, 1901 - November 30, 1979), actor
• Gary Merrill (August 2, 1915 - March 5, 1990), actor
• Ann Miller, actress, dancer
• Eddie Miro, Puerto Rican television show host
• Elizabeth Montgomery, actress
• Robert Montgomery, actor
• Agnes Moorehead, actress
• Alfredo Najera, sexologist at Telemundo's Ao Rojo Vivo television show, survivor of prostate cancer
• Olivia Newton-John, singer, actress, survivor of breast cancer
• Omi Nieves (1979-2004), son of Salsa music singer Tito Nieves
• Sharon Osbourne, wife of Ozzy Osbourne
• Edith Piaf (1915-1963), famous French singer
• William Powell, actor
• Gilda Radner, comedian
• Donna Reed, actress
• Robert Reed, actor, played Mike Brady on The Brady Bunch
• Lee Remick, actress
• Jason Robards (July 26, 1922 - December 26, 2000), actor
• Rod Roddy (1938-2003), announcer, The Price is Right
• Fred Rogers (1928-2003), Presbyterian minister known for "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" children's television show
• Telly Savalas, actor, Kojak
• Joan Sebastian, famous Mexican northern music singer
• Ann Sheridan 1915-1967, actress
• Robert Stack 1919-2003, actor, died of unrelated cause.
• Robert Taylor, actor
• Ramon Valdez (1923-1988), Mexican actor
• Raúl Vale, Venezuelan-born Mexican comedian
• Barry Watson, star of 7th Heaven
• John Wayne, actor
• Wesley Willis (1963-2003), singer
• Kerri Yascheshyn (1985-2003), aspiring actress whose friendship with Madonna made the newspaper headlines across Canada.
• Loretta Young (1913-2000), actress
• Frank Zappa (1940-1993), composer and musician
• Warren Zevon (1947-2003), musician and songwriter

Literature & Journalism

• James Baldwin, writer
• Robert Bloch, writer
• Neil Cavuto, FOX News Anchor
• John Diamond, Times columnist and broadcaster
• Faith Fancher (1950 - October 19, 2003), television journalist and breast cancer awareness activist
• Ted Hughes (August 17, 1930 - October 29, 1998), poet
• Stan Rice (1943 - December 9, 2002), poet and artist
• Edward Said, (+ 2003, also a musician)
• Charles Sheffield , physicist and author
• Carol Shields, (+ 2003) writer
• (b. 1968), wikipedian

Sports

• Lyle Alzado, American football player
• Roone Arledge, broadcaster
• Lance Armstrong, cyclist
• Don Baylor, baseball player and coach
• Bobby Bonds (1946-2003), baseball player and coach
• Mikhail Botvinnik, World Chess Champion
• Tommy Brooks (+ 2004), well known boxing trainer
• Brett Butler, baseball player
• Edna Campbell, basketball player, Sacramento Monarchs
• Ty Cobb, Baseball Hall of Famer
• Eric Davis, baseball player
• Joe DiMaggio, Baseball Hall of Famer
• Dave Dravecky, baseball player
• Dan Duva (+ 1996), boxing manager
• Heather Farr, LPGA golfer
• Curt Flood (1938-1997), baseball player who helped create free agency in sports.
• Bayard Forrest, former NBA player, Seattle SuperSonics and Phoenix Suns.
• Zach Gowen, professional wrestler
• Scott Hamilton, figure skater
• Ray Harford, British Association football player
• Julie Krone, Horse Racing jockey
• John Kruk, baseball player
• Mario Lemieux, hockey player
• Vince Lombardi, football coach
• Mickey Mantle (1931-1995), baseball player
• Sara Meltz, Puerto Rican Olympic committee mission director, survivor of breast cancer
• Tug McGraw (1944-2004), baseball player
• Wesley Mouzon (+2003), boxer
• Roger Neilson, NHL hockey coach
• Walter Payton (1954-1999), American football player
• Kim Perrot (+1999), WNBA basketball player, Houston Comets
• Tigran Petrosian, World Chess Champion
• Brian Piccolo (+1971), American football player
• Barry Sheene (1950-2003), world motocross champion
• Mel Stottlemyre, major league baseball player and coach
• Darryl Strawberry, baseball player
• Mikhail Tal, World Chess Champion
• Dick Tiger, world champion boxer
• Rudy Tomjanovich, former NBA player and head coach of the Houston Rockets
• Jim Valvano (+ 1993), college basketball coach
• Babe Zaharias (1911-1956), Olympic athlete and women's golf pioneer

Politics

• Willy Brandt, German politician
• Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (July 28, 1929 - May 19, 1994), American first lady
• Prescott Bush (May 15, 1895 - October 8, 1972), US Senator from Connecticut
• Cai E, protagonist of anti-Yuan movement
• Claire Chennault, United States general
• Chou En-lai, Chinese Communist leader and Premier of China
• Moshe Dayan, Israeli General, politician
• Bob Dole, US presidential candidate
• Janez Drnovšek, Slovenian president
• John Foster Dulles, United States Secretary of State
• King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom
• Rudy Giuliani, former Mayor of New York
• King Hussein
• Seham Ibrahim, stepsister of Saddam Hussein
• John F. Kerry, US Senator and presidential canidate
• Lester Maddox, former governor of Georgia
• Lila Mayoral, former first lady of Puerto Rico (+2003)
• Thelma Catherine (Pat) Ryan Nixon (March 16, 1912 - June 22, 1993), American first lady
• Henri d'Orleans, Count of Paris (July 5, 1908 - June 19, 1999)
• Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran (October 26, 1919 - July 27, 1980)
• Evita Peron, first lady of Argentina
• King George VI of the United Kingdom (December 14, 1895 - February 6, 1952)
• King Paul of Greece (December 14, 1901 - March 6, 1964)
• Colin Powell
• Donald Regan
• Winthrop Rockefeller (1912-1973), Governor of Arkansas
• John Savage (1932-2003), premier of Nova Scotia
• Ulysses Simpson Grant (April 27, 1822 - July 23, 1885), general and U.S. President
• Mary Stanfield (+1977), former first lady of Nova Scotia
• Paul Tsongas, Massachusetts state senator and US Presidential candidate

Religion

• Philip Berrigan, priest
• St. Charlie (1918-1963)
• Tammy Faye Bakker, Lung cancer
• Pope John XXIII
• Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927-2001), monk and notable author of English language books on Hinduism

Science

• Rachel Carson, biologist, author of Silent Spring
• Pierre Curie, physicist, chemist
• Edsger Dijkstra, computer scientist
• Enrico Fermi, physicist
• Richard Feynman, physicist
• Rosalind Franklin, contributor to the discovery of the structure of DNA
• Stephen Jay Gould, paleontologist and science writer
• John von Neumann, mathematician and computer pioneer
• Simon Newcomb, mathematician
• An Wang, early Chinese-born American computer pioneer

Business

• Gianni Agnelli (1921-2003), Italian industrialist

Symbols

• Milivi Adams (1997-2002), young symbol of the battle many Vieques citizens had against the stay of the military in their island.

Criminals

• Aniello DelaCrosse
• Meyer Lansky (1902-1983)
• Abu Nidal (1937-2002)
• Jack Ruby

Others

• Margaret Brown (1867-1932), Titanic survivor
• Skylar Neil, daughter of Motley Crue's Vince Neil; she died at age four.

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