Solomon King

Solomon King

male, deceased (2005)
Nashville, Lexington, musician, Jewish American, singer, composer…cancerdeath, cancer
Solomon King (born Allen Levy, 1932, Lexington, Kentucky - died 21 January 2005), was a 1960s and 1970s popular music singer. King was originally a...
Neville Chamberlain

Neville Chamberlain

male, deceased (1940)
policy of appeasement, appeasement, British, Abdication, Munich Agreement, George VI…Stomach cancer death, cancerdeath
Arthur Neville Chamberlain (18 March 1869 - 9 November 1940), known as Neville Chamberlain, was a British Conservative politician and Prime...
Charlie Norwood

Charlie Norwood

male, deceased (2007) (Augusta, Georgia, United States)
Charles Whitlow Norwood, Jr, Georgia's 10th congressional district, American military, 10th district, republican party, dentist…cancerdeath
Charles Whitlow Norwood, Jr. was an American politician and dentist, serving as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives...
David Lean

David Lean

male, deceased (1991)
English, quaker, film producer, film director, the bridge on the river kwai, Sir David Lean…cancerdeath
Sir David Lean KBE (March 25, 1908 - April 16, 1991) was an English film director and producer, best remembered for big-screen epics such as...
Cicely Saunders

Cicely Saunders

female, deceased (2005)
Dame Cicely Mary Saunders, Old Roedeanian, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Palliative medicine, palliative care, South London…cancerdeath
Dame Cicely Mary Saunders, OM, DBE (June 22 1918 in Barnet, Hertfordshire, England - July 14 2005 at St Christopher's Hospice, South London,...
R. W. Apple Jr.

R. W. Apple Jr.

male, deceased (2006)
Thoracic cancer death, war correspondent, Food writer, Gettysburg College, New York Times, The New York Times…cancerdeath
Raymond Walter Apple, Jr. (November 20 1934 - October 4 2006), known to all as "Johnny", but bylined as R.W. Apple, was an associate editor at "The...
Brian Piccolo

Brian Piccolo

male, deceased (1970)
Testicular cancer death, Lung cancer death, Louis Brian Piccolo, Brian's Song, carcinoma, American football players who died before retiring…cancerdeath
Louis Brian Piccolo (October 31, 1943 - June 16, 1970) was a professional football player for the Chicago Bears for four seasons. He died from...
Roger Needham

Roger Needham

male, deceased (2003)
British, cancerdeath, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Research laboratory, computer scientist, Microsoft employee
Roger Michael Needham CBE FREng FRS (9 February, 1935 - 1 March, 2003) was a British computer scientist. Needham began his undergraduate studies at...
Roger Maris

Roger Maris

male, deceased (1985)
american league, Right Fielder, American, Lymphoma death, Cleveland Indians player, Major league right fielder…cancerdeath
Roger Eugene Maris (September 10 1934 - December 14 1985) was an American right fielder in Major League Baseball who is primarily remembered for...
Golda Meir

Golda Meir

female, deceased (1978) (Israel)
heads of government, Jewish, Former Member of the Knesset, Golda Myerson, politician, Prime Minister of Israel…cancerdeath
Golda Meir (born Golda Mabovitz on 3 May 1898, died December 8, 1978, also known as Golda Myerson from 1917-1956), was one of the founders of the...