Deaths from brain cancer in California

The list Deaths from brain cancer in California includes Irene Ryan, Elisabeth Brooks, Susan Atkins, Neil Peart and Kim Walker. The list consists of 139 members.

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James Ingram

American singer, songwriter, and record producer (1952–2019)

Overview: James Edward Ingram (February 16, 1952 – January 29, 2019) was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and instrumentalist. He was a two-time Grammy Award-winner and a two-time Academy Award ...

Date of birth: 16 February 1952

Date of death: 29 January 2019

Age: 66 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Male

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Deaths from brain cancer in the United States 516T

African-American male singer-songwriters 376T

Singer-songwriters from Ohio 207T
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Irene Ryan

Actress

Overview: Irene Ryan (born Jessie Irene Noblitt; October 17, 1902 – April 26, 1973) was an American actress and comedienne who found success in vaudeville, radio, film, television, and Broadway. Ryan is most ...

Date of birth: 17 October 1902

Date of death: 26 April 1973

Age: 70 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 2" (157 cm)

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Deaths from glioblastoma 45T

Deaths from brain cancer in the United States 504T

Deaths from heart disease 262T
3.

Alexis Smith

Actress

Overview: Margaret Alexis Smith (June 8, 1921 – June 9, 1993) was a Canadian-born stage, film, and television actress and singer. She appeared in several major Hollywood films in the 1940s and had a notable career ...

Date of birth: 8 June 1921

Date of death: 9 June 1993

Age: 72 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

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20th-century Canadian women singers 290T

20th-century American women singers 2,155T

20th-century women singers 3,658T
4.

Candy Johnson

American films singer and dancer

Overview: Candy Johnson (February 8, 1944 – October 20, 2012) was an American singer and dancer who appeared in several films in the 1960s.

Date of birth: 8 February 1944

Date of death: 21 October 2012

Age: 68 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Dancer

Gender: Female

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Neurological disease deaths in California 452T

Dancers from California 124T

21st-century American women 14,115T
5.

Elisabeth Brooks

Canadian actress (1951–1997)

Overview: Elisabeth Brooks Luyties (July 2, 1951 – September 7, 1997) was a Canadian actress. She is probably best remembered for her role as the evil, leather-clad siren Marsha Quist in The Howling (1981) ...

Date of birth: 2 July 1951

Date of death: 7 September 1997

Age: 46 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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Singers from Toronto 420T

Deaths from brain cancer in the United States 504T

Neurological disease deaths in California 457T
6.

Emmaline Henry

Actress

Overview: Emmaline Henry (November 1, 1928 – October 8, 1979) was an American actress best known for playing Amanda Bellows, the wife of Dr. Alfred Bellows, on the hit 1960s situation comedy I Dream of Jeannie ...

Date of birth: 1 November 1928

Date of death: 8 October 1979

Age: 50 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

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20th-century American women singers 2,001T

Singers from Pennsylvania 384T

20th-century American singers 5,176T
7.

George Gershwin

American composer

Overview: George Gershwin (born Jacob Bruskin Gershowitz; September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned both popular and classical genres. Among his best-known ...

Date of birth: 26 September 1898

Date of death: 11 July 1937

Age: 38 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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Jewish American film score composers 50T

Broadway composers and lyricists 200T

20th-century American male musicians 6,966T
8.

Neil Peart

Canadian and American drummer (1952–2020)

Overview: Neil Ellwood Peart, OC (September 12, 1952 – January 7, 2020) was a Canadian musician and writer best known as the drummer and primary lyricist of the rock band Rush. Peart received numerous awards for ...

Date of birth: 12 September 1952

Date of death: 7 January 2020

Age: 67 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 3" (190 cm)

Partner: Carrie Nuttall (Married)

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Musicians from St. Catharines 13T

Canadian male jazz musicians 117T

2020 deaths 11,737T
9.

Meredith MacRae

Actress

Overview: Meredith Lynn MacRae (May 30, 1944 – July 14, 2000) was an American actress and singer known for her roles as Sally Morrison on My Three Sons (1963–1965) and as Billie Jo Bradley on Petticoat Junction ...

Date of birth: 21 May 1944

Date of death: 14 July 2000

Age: 56 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

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20th-century American women singers 2,001T

20th-century women singers 3,624T

Actors from Manhattan Beach, California 17T
10.

Lou Rawls

American singer, record producer, composer, and actor (1933–2006)

Overview: Louis Allen Rawls (December 1, 1933 – January 6, 2006) was an American singer, songwriter, actor, voice actor, and record producer. Rawls released more than 60 albums, sold more than 40 million ...

Date of birth: 1 December 1933

Date of death: 6 January 2006

Age: 72 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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American former Scientologists 52T

20th-century African-American male singers 975T

20th-century American male singers 1,929T
11.

Bert Convy

American actor, singer, game show panelist and host(1933–1991)

Overview: Bernard Whalen "Bert" Convy (July 23, 1933 – July 15, 1991) was an American actor, singer, game show host and panelist known for hosting Tattletales, Super Password and Win, Lose or Draw.

Date of birth: 23 July 1933

Date of death: 15 July 1991

Age: 57 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)

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North Hollywood High School alumni 68T

20th-century male singers 5,297T

American actor-athletes 88T
12.

Johnny Mercer

American musician

Overview: John Herndon Mercer (November 18, 1909 – June 25, 1976) was an American lyricist, songwriter, and singer. He was also a record label executive who co-founded Capitol Records with music industry businessmen ...

Date of birth: 18 November 1909

Date of death: 25 June 1976

Age: 66 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Songwriter

Gender: Male

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Broadway composers and lyricists 196T

The Dorsey Brothers members 22T

ASCAP composers and authors 37T
13.

Sandy West

American rock musician (1959–2006)

Overview: Sandy West (July 10, 1959 – October 21, 2006) was an American musician, singer, songwriter and drummer. She was one of the founding members of the Runaways, the first teenage all-girl hard rock band to ...

Date of birth: 11 July 1959

Date of death: 21 October 2006

Age: 47 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Drummer

Gender: Female

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20th-century American women singers 2,001T

20th-century American drummers 1,414T

American female drummers 91T
14.

Slim Pickens

American rodeo performer, film and television actor (1919–1983)

Overview: Louis Burton Lindley Jr. (June 29, 1919 – December 8, 1983), better known by his stage name Slim Pickens, was an American rodeo performer and film and television actor. For much of his career Pickens played ...

Date of birth: 29 June 1919

Date of death: 8 December 1983

Age: 64 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)

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American male comedy actors 146T

United States Army personnel of World War II 4,472T

ProRodeo Hall of Fame inductees 69T
15.

Buddy Rich

Jazz drummer and bandleader

Overview: Bernard "Buddy" Rich (September 30, 1917 – April 2, 1987) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He is considered one of the most influential drummers of all time.

Date of birth: 30 September 1917

Date of death: 2 April 1987

Age: 69 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Drummer

Gender: Male

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Hep Records artists 25T

American male jazz composers 567T

20th-century American male musicians 6,873T
16.

Michelle Nicastro

American actor

Overview: Michelle Nicastro (March 31, 1960 – November 4, 2010) was an American actress and singer.

Date of birth: 31 March 1960

Date of death: 4 November 2010

Age: 50 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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Actresses of Italian descent 660T

Actresses from Washington, D.C. 135T

Deaths from brain tumor 948T
17.

Susan Atkins

Convicted murderer

Overview: Susan Denise Atkins (May 7, 1948 – September 24, 2009) was an American convicted murderer who was a member of Charles Manson's "Family". Manson's followers committed a series of nine murders at four l ...

Date of birth: 7 May 1948

Date of death: 24 September 2009

Age: 61 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Criminal

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 3" (160 cm)

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Neurological disease deaths in California 453T

People from Los Banos, California 15T

Christians from California 94T
18.

Robert Forster

Road bicycle racer

Overview: Robert Wallace Forster Jr. (July 13, 1941 – October 11, 2019) born Robert Wallace Foster, Jr. was an American actor, known for his roles as John Cassellis in Medium Cool (1969), Captain Dan Holland in ...

Date of birth: 13 July 1941

Date of death: 11 October 2019

Age: 78 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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Male actors of Irish descent 682T

Male actors of English descent 380T

Male actors from Rochester, New York 41T
19.

Margo

American actress

Overview: Margo (born María Marguerita Guadalupe Teresa Estela Bolado Castilla y O'Donnell, May 10, 1917 – July 17, 1985) was a Mexican-American actress and dancer. She appeared in many American film, stage ...

Date of birth: 10 May 1917

Date of death: 17 July 1985

Age: 68 (age at death)

Nationality: Mexican

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

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People from Pacific Palisades, California 39T

Naturalized citizens of the United States 511T

Actresses of Irish descent 597T
20.

Jim Davis

American actor

Overview: Jim Davis (born Marlin Davis, August 26, 1909 – April 26, 1981) was an American actor, best known for his role as Jock Ewing in the CBS primetime soap opera, Dallas, a role he continued until he was too ...

Date of birth: 26 August 1909

Date of death: 26 April 1981

Age: 71 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)

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United States Coast Guard personnel of World War II 143T

Western (genre) television actors 284T

Male actors from Missouri 113T