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In alphabetical order, this is a list of famous people who died of pneumonia .
Name | Profession | Date of Death | Notes |
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Charles X Gustav | King of Sweden | 1660-02-13 | Died at age 37 in Gothenburg. |
Tamerlan Aguzarov | Russian governor of North Ossetia-Alania | 2016-06-19 | Died at age 52 in Moscow. |
George Allen | Football coach | 1990-12-31 | Died at age 72. His death may have been indirectly caused by a Gatorade shower following a season-ending victory. |
Arthur Anderson | Actor/Voice Actor/Film/Radio/Television | 2016-04-13 | Died at age 93 in Manhattan, New York. He was the voice of Eustace Bagg on Courage the Cowardly Dog. |
Melanie Appleby | Singer/Dancer/Model | 1990-01-18 | Died at age 23. One-half of the famous British sister duo Mel and Kim. Appleby was diagnosed with spinal cancer in 1987 and died from pneumonia due to her immune system being weakened by chemotherapy treatments. Interred at St Marylebone Cemetery in East Finchley, London. |
Sudirman Haji Arshad | Famous Malaysian singer, lawyer, actor and businessman | 1992-02-22 | Died at 37 at his sister's house in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
Fred Astaire (born Frederic Austerlitz) | Actor/Singer/Dancer | 1987-06-22 | Died at age 88 in Los Angeles, California. |
Jim Backus | Actor | 1989-07-03 | Played millionaire Thurston Howell, III on the TV show Gilligan's Island; died at St. John's Hospital, Santa Monica CA. |
James Matthew Barrie | Scottish novelist and dramatist, author of "Peter Pan" | 1937-06-19 | Buried at Kirriemuir next to his parents and two of his siblings. |
Jyoti Basu | Politician, CPIM, West Bengal | 2010-01-17 | Died at age 96 in Kolkata, India. |
Barney Battles, Sr. | Scottish footballer | 1905-02-17 | Died at the age of 30. [1] |
Jean-Dominique Bauby | French journalist and author and editor of the French fashion magazine ELLE | 1997-03-09 | Died at age 45. On December 8, 1995 at the age of 43, Bauby suffered a massive stroke. When he woke up twenty days later, he found he was entirely speechless; he could only blink his left eyelid. This rare condition is called locked-in syndrome, a condition wherein the mental facilities remain intact but most of the body is paralyzed. Despite his condition, he wrote the book The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by blinking when the correct letter was reached by a person slowly reciting the alphabet over and over again. Bauby had to compose and edit the book entirely in his head, and convey it one letter at a time. The book was published in France on March 7, 1997. |
Jeremy Beadle | British television presenter and prankster | 2008-01-30 | Died at the age of 59, leaving behind his partner Sue and two daughters. He was best known for his hidden camera show "Beadle's About", and "You've Been Framed". |
Bix Beiderbecke | American musician | 1931-08-06 | Died at age 28 in New York City of untreated pneumonia during a period of heavy drinking. One of the most important figures in early jazz, he played cornet with notables like Paul Whiteman and Jean Goldkette. |
James Best | American actor, musician and college professor | 2015-04-06 | Died at the age of 88 in Hickory, North Carolina. |
Sir Donald Bradman | One of the best cricketers of all time. | 2001-02-25 | Died at the age of 92 |
Christian Brando | Actor, Son of Marlon Brando | 2008-01-26 | Died at the age of 49. He was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the death of the boyfriend of his half-sister Cheyenne. |
Charles Bronson (born Charles Buchinski) | Actor | 2003-08-30 | Died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. |
James Brown | Singer | 2006-12-25 | "The Godfather of Soul", died at age 73 in Atlanta, Georgia, hospitalized the previous day with "severe pneumonia". |
Trevor Byfield | Actor | 2017-10-11 | Died at age 73. |
Calamity Jane (born Martha Jane Canary-Burke) | Sharpshooter, Wild West Show Entertainer | 1903-08-01 | In accord with Jane's dying wishes, she was buried next to Wild Bill Hickok. |
Chris Candido | Professional Wrestler | 2005-05-28 | Died while in surgery to drain his lungs. |
Katrin Cartlidge | Actress, (Career Girls) | 2002-09-07 | Cartlidge died at age 41, due to complications from pneumonia and septicaemia, stemming from a pheochromocytoma. |
Herbert Chapman | Association football player and manager | 1934-01-06 | Chapman died aged 55 after attending a football match in the rain while nursing a cold. |
Roscoe Conkling | Politician | 1888-04-18 | Died at age 58. He contracted pneumonia attempting to travel during the Great Blizzard of 1888 and died several weeks later. |
Allen Collins | Musician | 1990-01-23 | Died at age 37. Lynyrd Skynyrd guitar player. Was paralyzed in 1986 |
Dick Curtis | Actor | 1952-01-02 | Died at age 49. Character actor best known for his villainous roles in Three Stooges films such as Crash Goes the Hash and Yes, We Have No Bonanza . |
Doris Day | Actress | 2019-05-13 | Died at the age of 97. |
Nicole DeHuff | Actress | 2005-02-16 | Died at age 30. DeHuff had visited a hospital twice shortly before her death complaining of chest pain and flu-like symptoms, but was sent home both times. She collapsed in her Hollywood Hills home gasping for breath and arrived at the third hospital unconscious. She died of sepsis caused by viral pneumonia and a staph infection. |
Guillaume Depardieu | French Actor | 2008-10-13 | Died at age 37 from pneumonia contracted on set in Romania. |
René Descartes | French philosopher, mathematician and scientist | 1650-02-11 | Died from pneumonia contracted in Stockholm, where Descartes was required to teach Queen Christina of Sweden philosophy in the early hours of the morning during the harsh winter. |
Chi Chi DeVayne (born Zavion Michael Davenport) | American drag queen, dancer, and reality television personality | 2020-08-20 | Died at age 34 following a bout of pneumonia he contracted after a hospital stay for scleroderma-related kidney failure. |
Betty Driver | Actress | 2011-10-15 | Died at age 91. |
Bernard Edwards | Musician | 1996-04-18 | Bassist for the disco group Chic and producer for songs by Diana Ross, Rod Stewart and Sister Sledge died in Tokyo at age 43. |
Blake Edwards | Director | 2010-12-15 | Producer of Peter Sellers Pink Panther movies. |
R. Lee Ermey | Actor/voice actor/drill instructor/United States Marine | 2018-04-15 | Died at age 74 in Santa Monica, California. |
Kate Belinda Finn | Chess player | 1932-03-08 | Died of pneumonia at the age 67. |
Thomas Fletcher | Arkansas politician | 1880-02-25 | Died at age 62 in Little Rock, Arkansas. |
Bruce Forsyth | Presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer, and screenwriter | 2017-08-18 | Died at age 89 in Surrey, England. |
John Forsythe | actor | 2010-04-01 | Died at age 92 |
Donald Paige Frary | Professor, Author | 1919-04-08 | Died at age 25 while attending the Paris Peace Conference, 1919. |
Janice Freeman | Vocalist | --- | Died at age 32 from pneumonia complications and a blood clot. |
Debbie Friedman | Jewish liturgical singer/songwriter | 2011-01-09 | Died at age 59 in Mission Viejo, California. |
Arthur Gamgee | Physiologist | 1909-05-29 | Born on 11 October 1841. Died at age 67 during a visit to Paris. [2] |
Geronimo | Leader of the Chiricahua Apache | 1909-02-17 | He fought against Mexico and the United States and their expansion into Apache tribal lands for several decades. Died at the age of 79. |
Kathi Goertzen | News Anchor (KOMO-TV) | 2012-08-13 | Died at 54. She was a long-time news anchor for KOMO-TV. Contracted pneumonia because of a complication with recurring meningiomas. |
Nathan Goodell | Politician | 1883-06-02 | Died at age 84 |
Frank Gorshin | Actor, Impressionist | 2005-05-17 | The show biz veteran best known as The Riddler to TV's Batman and as Bele on Star Trek also succumbed to lung cancer and emphysema. |
Devendra Prasad Gupta | Indian botanist and academician | 2017-12-26 | Died at age 84 in India. Diagnosed with sepsis and pneumonia after surgery of Femur fracture. |
Merle Haggard | Singer | 2016-04-06 | American country singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler. |
Corey Haim | Actor | 2010-03-10 | Died at age 38. The Canadian actor broke through in the 1980s as a teenager and was best known for License to Drive and The Lost Boys. He had been ill with flu-like symptoms for a few days before collapsing in his apartment in the early morning hours of March 10, 2010. Official autopsy reports showed Haim died of pneumonia. He also suffered a pulmonary edema and an enlarged heart. |
Paul Halmos | Mathematician | 2006-10-02 | Died at age 90. |
William Henry Harrison | 9th U.S. President | 1841-05-04 | Died at age 68, one month after taking office. |
Jim Henson | Puppeteer/film producer | 1990-05-16 | Creator of the Muppets and founder of The Jim Henson Company; died at age 53 in New York City. |
Christopher Hitchens | Writer/Journalist | 2011-12-15 | Prolific intellectual writer and speaker; author of God Is Not Great; anti-theist; was diagnosed with metastasized esophageal cancer in 2010. |
Bob Hope | Actor | 2003-07-27 | Best remembered for his work with the US Armed Forces and his numerous USO tours entertaining American military personnel. He died at the age of 100. |
Bob Hoskins | Actor | 2014-04-30 | Died at age 71. |
Derek Hudson | Conductor | 2005-12-20 | Died at age 71. |
Rochelle Hudson | Actress | 1972-01-17 | Best remembered as: Natalie Wood's mother in Rebel Without A Cause (1955); Richard Cromwell's love interest in the Will Rogers showcase Life Begins at 40 (1935); and the daughter of carnival barker W.C. Fields in Poppy (1936). |
William Hughes | Farmer/politician | 1899-02-04 | Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly. |
Josef Issels | Doctor | 1998-02-11 | Holistic doctor who treated Bob Marley in Bavaria; died in California. |
Claiborne F. Jackson | 15th Governor of Missouri | 1862-12-06 | Died at age 56 in Little Rock, Arkansas. [3] |
Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson | Confederate general | 1863-05-10 | Mortally wounded at age 39; died in Guinea Station, Virginia. |
Trish Keenan | Singer | 2011-01-14 | Lead singer of the band Broadcast; died of pneumonia relating to complications from H1N1. |
Kim Mu-saeng | Actor | 2005-04-16 | Died at age 62 |
Koichiro Kimura | Professional wrestler and mixed martial artist | 2014-10-28 | Died at age 44. |
Ante Kovačić | Writer | 1889-03-10 | Died in mental hospital in Vrapče. |
Kevin Laffan | Writer, creator of Emmerdale | 2003-03-11 | Died at age 80. |
Bert Lahr | American Actor | 1967-12-04 | Died in New York City at age 72. |
Jack LaLanne | Fitness Expert | 2011-01-23 | Died of respiratory failure due to pneumonia at his home in Morro Bay, California. |
Jake LaMotta | Professional boxer, former world middleweight champion, and stand-up comedian | 2017-09-19 | Died at age 95 in Aventura, Florida. |
Lee Kuan Yew | Former Prime Minister of Singapore | 2015-03-23 | Died at the age of 91 in Singapore General Hospital in Singapore. |
Stan Lee | American comic-book writer editor and publisher (Chairman of Marvel Comics) | 2018-11-12 | Died at age 95 in Los Angeles |
Will Lee | American Actor | 1982-12-07 | Died of pneumonia at age 74. He was best known as Mr. Hooper on Sesame Street . After his death, the character was killed off. |
Shari Lewis | Ventriloquist and puppeteer | 1998-08-02 | Diagnosed with uterine cancer as well, the combination proved to be fatal. Died at age 65 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. |
Rosalia Lombardo | An Italian child who died of pneumonia. Her body was one of the last corpses to be admitted to the Capuchin catacombs of Palermo in Sicily. | 1920-12-06 | Died of pneumonia at almost 2 years of age. |
Franz Liszt | Musician | 1886-07-31 | Died in Bayreuth aged 74 after contracting pneumonia during a festival held there in honour of Richard Wagner. |
Bernie Mac | Comedian | 2008-08-09 | He suffered from sarcoidosis, an inflammatory lung disease that produces tiny lumps of cells in the body's organs, but was reported that the pneumonia was not related to the disease. He died in a Chicago area hospital at the age of 50. |
Diosdado Macapagal | President of the Philippines | 1997-04-21 | He died due to complications with Heart failure and Renal failure at age 86 in Makati. He was the 9th President of the Philippines (1961-1965) |
Marie-Thérèse Charlotte de France | Princess | 1851-10-19 | Died at age 72. She was the eldest child of King Louis XVI of France and his wife, Queen Marie Antoinette. |
Magic Alex (birthname: Yanni John Alexis Mardas) | Electronic Engineer | 2017-01-13 | Died at age 74. |
Gustav Mahler | Musician/Composer | 1911-05-18 | Died at the age of 50 in Vienna, Austria. |
John Marmaduke | 25th Governor of Missouri | 1887-12-28 | Died at age 54 in Jefferson City, Missouri. |
John Martyn | Musician | 2009-01-29 | The British innovative and influential folk, rock, jazz musician died in Ireland of double pneumonia. |
Miyu Matsuki | Voice actress | 2015-10-26 | Died at age 38. She been hospitalized for acute pneumonia since the previous July. |
Freddie Mercury | Musician | 1991-11-24 | A little over 24 hours after issuing a statement to the press he died at his home in Kensington, London, England at the age of 45. The official cause of death was bronchial pneumonia resulting from AIDS. |
Léon Minkus | Famous Czech composer of ballet music for the Russian Imperial Ballet | 1917-12-07 | Died at age 91 in Vienna, Austria. |
Kenji Miyazawa | Japanese novelist and poet of children's literature | 1933-09-21 | Died at age 37 in Hanamaki, Iwate Prefecture [ citation needed ] |
Mary Tyler Moore | Actress | 2017-01-25 | Died at age 80 in Greenwich, Connecticut. |
Kary Mullis | American biochemist, credited for development of PCR | 2019-08-07 | Died at age 74 in Newport Beach, California, USA from complications of pneumonia. |
Brittany Murphy | American actress and singer | 2009-12-20 | Died at age 32 in Los Angeles, California. Although pneumonia and multiple drug overdose has the official cause of death, there are some hypotheses that claim that deadly mold entered her system, or that there was foul play usually involving her late husband. [4] |
Leslie Nielsen | Actor/Comedian | 2010-11-28 | Died at the age of 84. |
Bruce Paltrow | T.V. and film producer | 2002-10-03 | The father of actress Gwyneth Paltrow, and husband of actress Blythe Danner, died from complications of oral cancer and pneumonia. He was best known for his work on The White Shadow , St. Elsewhere , and Duets . |
Alexandros Papadiamantis | Greek writer | 1911-10-03 | A very influential writer of the 19th century who never married and was referred to as the worldly monk. |
Pieter Paulus | Dutch lawyer and politician | 1796-03-17 | One of the main ideologues of the Dutch Patriot movement for democracy, he was elected unanimously to become chairman of the Batavian Republic's National Assembly, the first democratic Dutch parliament. At the inauguration on the first of March, he caught a serious cold from which he died. |
Luciano Pavarotti | Italian tenor | 2007-09-06 | Died in Modena, Italy of pneumonia resulting from pancreatic cancer. |
Afonso Pena | 6th President of Brazil and 4th Vice President of Brazil | 1909-06-14 | Died at 61 in the Catete Palace, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was the first President of Brazil to die in office. |
George Peppard | American actor | 1994-05-08 | Heavy smoker most of his life contributed to his condition, but official cause of death was pneumonia. |
House Peters Jr. | Actor, best known for Mr. Clean ad | 2008-10-01 | Died in Motion Picture and Television Fund Hospital at the age of 92. |
John Pettus | 20th and 23rd Governor of Mississippi | 1867-01-28 | Died at age 53 in Pulaski County (present-day Lonoke County), Arkansas. |
Ferenc Puskás | Hungarian footballer and manager | 2006-11-17 | He scored a remarkable 84 goals in 85 international matches for Hungary and 514 goals in 529 matches in the Hungarian and Spanish leagues. Died at the age of 79. |
Tony Randall | Actor | 2004-05-17 | Died at 84 in New York City. |
Ronald Reagan | 40th President of the United States | 2004-06-05 | Died at the age of 93 from complications from Alzheimer's disease in Bel-Air, Los Angeles. |
Charles Nelson Reilly | American actor, comedian, director | 2007-05-25 | Died at 76 in Beverly Hills, California. |
Carlos Eugenio Restrepo Restrepo | Colombian President, journalist | 1937-07-06 | President of Colombia from 1910 to 1914. He was born in Medellín, Antioquia, he was a lawyer, professor and journalist, and also served as Ambassador to the Holy See. He died in Medellín alongside his family. |
Ed Roberts | Inventor | 2010-04-01 | Died at the age of 68. Credited as the "father of the personal computer" by inventing the Altair 8800, a machine that sparked the home computer era, kick-starting the careers of Microsoft founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen. [5] |
Oral Roberts | Evangelist | 2009-12-15 | Died at the age of 91. |
Fred Rogers | Television Personality | 2003-02-27 | He died from pneumonia in his hometown in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at age 74. He was best known as the host of the PBS kids show, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. |
Wayne Rogers | Actor, director, screenwriter, investor and television personality | 2015-12-31 | Known as Captain "Trapper" John McIntyre in the 1972 CBS television sitcom M*A*S*H . Died at the age of 82. |
Carl Sagan | American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator | 1996-12-20 | Died at age 62 in Seattle. |
Carl Schlechter | Chessmaster | 1918-12-27 | Drew a match for the world chess championship vs. Emanuel Lasker. Pneumonia was brought on by privations following World War I; according to some sources, death was due to starvation. |
Chuck Schuldiner | Band Leader for death metal band Death | 2001-12-13 | Schuldiner was diagnosed with brain cancer and received a chemotherapy drug to help with his therapy. As a side effect, the drug weakened him; he died the same year he was diagnosed with cancer. |
Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr. | American general | 2012-12-27 | Died in Tampa at the age of 78. |
Will Shade | Musician | 1966-09-18 | Died at age 68 at John Gaston Hospital and was buried in Shelby County Cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee. |
Neil Simon | Playwright, screenwriter and author | 2018-08-26 | Died at age 91 in Manhattan, New York. |
David Smyrl | African American actor, singer, and producer | 2016-03-23 | Died at the age of 80 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was best known as Mr. Handford on the PBS kids series Sesame Street |
Beatrice Straight | Actress | 2001-04-07 | Died in Los Angeles at age 86. |
Johann Strauss II | Composer | 1899-06-03 | Died at age 73 in Vienna. |
Irving Thalberg | MGM's "Boy Wonder" Movie Producer of the 1920s and 1930s, husband of actress Norma Shearer | 1936-09-14 | Afflicted with a weak heart, he died at his home on Palisades Beach Road in Santa Monica. |
Jim Thurman | American voice actor | 2007-04-14 | Cartoon voice actor. Best known as the Teeny Little Super Guy on Sesame Street. He also played MathMan on Square One Television as well as the three baby monkeys on an episode of Marsupilami. |
Leo Tolstoy | Russian novelist | 1910-11-20 | Died at Astapovo Railway Station, during an attempt to satisfy his wanderlust. |
Paul Tsongas | Greek-American US Senator and a one-time candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination | 1997-01-18 | Died at the age of 55. |
Harriet Tubman | Abolitionist and humanitarian | 1913-03-10 | Buried at Fort Hill Cemetery, Auburn, NY. |
Thomas W. Wallace | Lieutenant Governor of New York | 1943-07-17 | Died at age 43. Began suffering from pneumonia two days after contracting chicken pox from his two children. |
Marcia Wallace | Actress, Voice Artist, and Comedian | 2013-10-25 | Died at age 70. She was the voice of Edna Krabappel on The Simpsons . After she died, the character was killed off. |
Tetsuya Watari | Japanese actor | 2020-08-10 | Died at age 78 in Tokyo [ citation needed ] |
Lawrence Welk | Big band leader | 1992-03-17 | Died at his home in Santa Monica. Buried at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, CA. |
Billy Wilder | Writer and director | 2002-03-27 | Died at age 95 at his home in Beverly Hills. |
Robert Shaw Wilkinson | Educator and South Carolina State University president | 1932-03-13 | Died at age 67 in Orangeburg, South Carolina |
Chris Wood | Rock musician | 1983-07-12 | Died at age 39 in Birmingham, England. |
Hiroshi Yamauchi | President and Chairman, Nintendo (1949–2002, 2002–2005) | 2013-09-19 | Died at 85 in the hospital. |
Akira Yoshizawa | Origami master | 2005-03-14 | Died in hospital in Ogikubo, on his 94th birthday. |
Louis Zamperini | Olympic Athlete and World War 2 prisoner of war | 2014-07-02 | Died at his home in Los Angeles, California, at age 97. |
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