List of cancer patients

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Table of contents

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

Entertainment

Bud Abbott, actor
Ansel Adams, photographer
Claude Akins, actor
Jack Albertson, actor
Steve Allen, actor, composer, writer
Stephen Ambrose, historian
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
Scatman Crothers, actor
Celia Cruz, singer
Bill Cullen, game show host
Michael Curtiz, director, writer, producer
Peter Cushing, actor
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
Fernandel, actor, director, producer
Vicente Fernandez, singer
José Ferrer, actor
John Ford, cinematographer, director, writer, editor, producer, actor
Andres Garcia Dominican born Mexican national who is a soap opera (telenovela) super star
George Gershwin -- musician, composer
Tom Green, comedian
Fred Gwynne, comedian, Herman Munster
Joan Hackett - actress
George Harrison -- musician
Rex Harrison
Audrey Hepburn
Bill Hicks, comedian
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
Linda McCartney - first wife of Sir Paul McCartney
Bob Marley - musician
Zeppo Marx - (February 25, 1901 - November 30, 1979) - actor
Gary Merrill - (August 2, 1915 - March 5, 1990) -- actor
Elizabeth Montgomery -Actress
Sharon Osbourne - wife of Ozzy Osbourne
Edith Piaf - (1915-1963) Famous French singer
Gilda Radner - comedian
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
Joan Sebastian - Famous Mexican northern music singer
Ann Sheridan- Actress 1915-1967
Robert Stack- actor, 1919-2003, died of unrelated cause.
Ramon Valdez- (1923-1988), Mexican actor
Raúl Vale- Venezuelan born Mexican comedian
Barry Watson - star of 7th Heaven
John Wayne - actor
Wesley Willis - 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
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
user:Mkweise (b. 1968), wikipedian

Sports

Lyle Alzado, American football player
Roone Arledge, broadcaster
Lance Armstrong, cyclist
Don Baylor, baseball player and coach
Bobby Bonds baseball player and coach
Brett Butler baseball player
Edna Campbell basketball player, Sacramento Monarchs
Ty Cobb, Baseball Hall of Famer
Julie Cronin Horse Racing jockey
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 baseball player who helped create free agency in sports.
Bayard Forrest former NBA player, Seattle Supersonics and Phoenix Suns.
Zach Gowen, wrestler
Scott Hamilton figure skater
Ray Harford, British Association football player
John Kruk baseball player
Mario Lemieux hockey player
Mickey Mantle baseball player
Wesley Mouzon (+2003) boxer
Roger Neilson. NHL hockey coach
Walter Payton American football player
Kim Perrot (+1999) WNBA basketball player, Houston Comets
Barry Sheene (1950-2003) world motocross champion
Mel Stottlemyre major league baseball player and coach
Darryl Strawberry baseball player
Dick Tiger world champion boxer
Rudy Tomjanovich former NBA player and head coach of the Houston Rockets
Jim Valvano (+ 1993) college basketball coach

Politics

Willy Brandt German politician
Jacqueline Bouvier-Kennedy Onassis - (July 28, 1929 - May 19, 1994)
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
John Foster Dulles, United States Secretary of State
King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom
Rudy Giuliani - former Mayor of New York
King Hussein
Lester Maddox- former governor of Georgia
Lila Mayoral- former first lady of Puerto Rico (+2003)
Richard Nixon- American President
Thelma Catherine (Pat) Ryan Nixon- American first lady - (March 16, 1912 - June 22, 1993)
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 Governor of Arkansas (1912-1973)
John Savage premier of Nova Scotia (1932-2003)
Ulysses Simpson Grant - (April 27, 1822 - July 23, 1885) -- 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)
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
Enrico Fermi, physicist
Richard Feynman, physicist
Rosalind Franklin, contributor to the discovery of the structure of DNA
An Wang, early Chinese-born American computer pioneer
John von Neumann, mathematician and 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.