Stroke-related deaths in California

The list Stroke-related deaths in California includes Debbie Reynolds, Luke Perry, Betty White, Cloris Leachman and Peter Lorre. The list consists of 142 members.

1.

Betty White

American actress and comedian (1922–2021)

Overview: Betty Marion White Ludden (January 17, 1922 – December 31, 2021 ) was an American actress and comedian. A pioneer of early television, with a career spanning over nine decades, White was noted for her ...

Date of birth: 17 January 1922

Date of death: 31 December 2021

Age: 99 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

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Neurological disease deaths in California 457T

Women civil rights activists 611T

Comedians from Los Angeles County 24T
2.

Debbie Reynolds

American, Actress

Overview: Mary Frances "Debbie" Reynolds (April 1, 1932 – December 28, 2016) was an American actress, singer and entrepreneur. Her acting career spanned almost 70 years. Reynolds performed on stage and television ...

Date of birth: 1 April 1932

Date of death: 28 December 2016

Age: 84 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 2" (157 cm)

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American sitcom actresses 542T

American comedy actresses 409T

American women autobiographers 203T
3.

Luke Perry

American, Actor

Overview: Coy Luther "Luke" Perry III (October 11, 1966 – March 4, 2019) was an American actor. He became a teen idol for playing Dylan McKay on the Fox television series Beverly Hills, 90210 from 1990 to 1995 ...

Date of birth: 11 October 1966

Date of death: 4 March 2019

Age: 52 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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Cardiovascular disease deaths in California 34T

Neurological disease deaths in California 471T

2019 deaths 10,610T
4.

Gene Kelly

American actor, dancer, singer, and producer (1912–1996)

Overview: Eugene Curran Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) was an American actor, dancer, singer, filmmaker, comedian and choreographer. He was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good ...

Date of birth: 23 August 1912

Date of death: 2 February 1996

Age: 83 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

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Male actors of Irish descent 682T

Directors of Golden Bear winners 82T

Broadway actors 482T
5.

Miles Davis

American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer (1926–1991)

Overview: Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and ...

Date of birth: 26 May 1926

Date of death: 28 September 1991

Age: 65 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Trumpeter

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

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American male jazz composers 567T

Miles Davis Quintet members 18T

American male trumpeters 659T
6.

Ida Lupino

British actress and filmmaker (1918–1995)

Overview: Ida Lupino (4 February 1918 – 3 August 1995) was an English-American actress, singer, director, and producer. She is widely regarded as one of the most prominent female filmmakers working during the 1950s ...

Date of birth: 4 February 1918

Date of death: 3 August 1995

Age: 77 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

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20th-century memoirists 804T

Actresses of Irish descent 597T

American women memoirists 620T
7.

Nate Dogg

American singer and rapper (1969–2011)

Overview: Nathaniel Dwayne Hale (August 19, 1969 – March 15, 2011), known professionally as Nate Dogg, was an American singer-songwriter and rapper. He gained recognition for providing guest vocals for a multitude ...

Date of birth: 19 August 1969

Date of death: 15 March 2011

Age: 41 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Rapper

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)

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Deaths from congestive heart failure 119T

Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Long Beach) 11T

African-American male singer-songwriters 364T
8.

Cloris Leachman

American actress (1926–2021)

Overview: Cloris Leachman (April 30, 1926 – January 27, 2021) was an American actress and comedienne whose career spanned more than seven decades. She won many accolades, including eight Primetime Emmy Awards from ...

Date of birth: 30 April 1926

Date of death: 26 January 2021

Age: 94 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

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Theodore Roosevelt High School (Iowa) alumni 29T

2021 deaths 12,029T

Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in California 67T
9.

Romeo Vasquez

Filipino actor and former matinee idol (1939-2017)

Overview: ‹The template Philippine name is being considered for merging.›

Date of birth: 9 April 1939

Date of death: 2 May 2017

Age: 78 (age at death)

Nationality: Filipino

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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2017 deaths 10,038T

Male actors from Quezon 9T

Deaths from cerebrovascular disease 795T
10.

Peter Lorre

Austrian actor

Overview: Peter Lorre (born László Löwenstein; 26 June 1904 – 23 March 1964) was a Hungarian-American actor. Lorre began his stage career in Vienna before moving to Germany where he worked first on the stage, then ...

Date of birth: 26 June 1904

Date of death: 23 March 1964

Age: 59 (age at death)

Nationality: Hungarian

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)

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Naturalized citizens of the United States 511T

Hollywood Walk of Fame 354T

Jews who emigrated to escape Nazism 126T
11.

Jeffrey Hunter

American actor (1926–1969)

Overview: Jeffrey Hunter (born Henry Herman "Hank" McKinnies Jr.; November 25, 1926 – May 27, 1969) was an American film and television actor and producer known for his roles in films such as The Searchers and King ...

Date of birth: 25 November 1926

Date of death: 27 May 1969

Age: 42 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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Whitefish Bay High School alumni 21T

Film producers from Wisconsin 30T

Film producers from Louisiana 18T
12.

Jean Parker

Actress

Overview: Jean Parker (born Lois May Green; August 11, 1915 – November 30, 2005) was an American film and stage actress. A native of Montana, Parker's parents were indigent during the Great Depression, and she was ...

Date of birth: 11 August 1915

Date of death: 30 November 2005

Age: 90 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 3" (160 cm)

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Broadway actors 482T

American acting coaches 61T

People from Deer Lodge, Montana 29T
13.

Doris Roberts

American actress (1925–2016)

Overview: Doris May Roberts (née Green; November 4, 1925 – April 17, 2016) was an American actress, author, and philanthropist whose career spanned six decades of television and film. She received five Emmy ...

Date of birth: 4 November 1925

Date of death: 17 April 2016

Age: 90 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 1" (155 cm)

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2016 deaths 9,448T

Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Primetime Emmy Award winners 41T

Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Primetime Emmy Award winners 47T
14.

John Singleton

American filmmaker (1968–2019)

Overview: John Daniel Singleton (January 6, 1968 – April 28, 2019) was an American director, screenwriter, and producer. He made his feature film debut writing and directing Boyz n the Hood (1991), for which he ...

Date of birth: 6 January 1968

Date of death: 28 April 2019

Age: 51 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

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Eisenhower High School (Rialto, California) alumni 18T

African-American male writers 379T

Neurological disease deaths in California 462T
15.

Bill Paxton

American, Actor

Overview: William Paxton (May 17, 1955 – February 25, 2017) was an American actor and filmmaker. He starred in films such as Aliens (1986), Near Dark (1987), Tombstone (1993), True Lies (1994), Apollo 13 (1995) ...

Date of birth: 17 May 1955

Date of death: 25 February 2017

Age: 61 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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Deaths from medical malpractice 13T

Neurological disease deaths in California 471T

Male actors of Scottish descent 224T
16.

Carmen McRae

American jazz singer (1920–1994)

Overview: Carmen Mercedes McRae (April 8, 1920 – November 10, 1994) was an American jazz singer. She is considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century and is remembered for her ...

Date of birth: 8 April 1922

Date of death: 10 November 1994

Age: 72 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Vocalist

Gender: Female

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20th-century American LGBT people 1,589T

20th-century African-American women singers 859T

20th-century LGBT people 3,348T
17.

Edgar Buchanan

Actor

Overview: William Edgar Buchanan II (March 20, 1903 – April 4, 1979) was an American actor with a long career in both film and television. He is most familiar today as Uncle Joe Carson from the Petticoat Junction ...

Date of birth: 20 March 1903

Date of death: 4 April 1979

Age: 76 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)

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20th-century dentists 354T

People from Humansville, Missouri 6T

Western (genre) television actors 280T
18.

Mel Tormé

American singer

Overview: Melvin Howard Tormé (September 13, 1925 – June 5, 1999), nicknamed "The Velvet Fog", was an American musician, singer, composer, arranger, drummer, actor, and author. He composed the music for "The Ch ...

Date of birth: 13 September 1925

Date of death: 5 June 1999

Age: 73 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Male

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American male jazz composers 567T

20th-century male singers 5,297T

20th-century American male writers 6,911T
19.

Jack Kelly

American actor

Overview: John Augustus Kelly Jr. (September 16, 1927 – November 7, 1992), known professionally as Jack Kelly, was an American film and television actor most noted for the role of Bart Maverick in the tel ...

Date of birth: 16 September 1927

Date of death: 7 November 1992

Age: 65 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)

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Male actors from Queens, New York 156T

Deaths from cerebrovascular disease 814T

Western (genre) television actors 411T
20.

Rita Johnson

Actress

Overview: Rita Ann Johnson (August 13, 1913 – October 31, 1965) was an American actress.

Date of birth: 13 August 1913

Date of death: 31 October 1965

Age: 52 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

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Actresses from Worcester, Massachusetts 12T

Actresses from Massachusetts 176T

20th-century American actresses 6,858T