- Peter Jennings
Peter Jennings, CM (July 29, 1938 - August 7, 2005) was a Canadian-American journalist and news anchor. He was the sole anchor of ABC's "World News Tonight" from 1983 until his death in 2005 of complications from lung cancer. A high-school dropout, he transformed himself into one of America's most prominent journalists. Jennings started his career early, hosting a Canadian radio show at the age of nine. - Fred Hutchinson
Frederick Charles Hutchinson was an American pitcher and manager in Major League Baseball. Stricken with fatal lung cancer at the zenith of his managerial career as leader of the pennant-contending Cincinnati Reds, he was commemorated one year after his death when his brother, Dr. William Hutchinson, created the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center as a division of the Pacific Northwest Research Foundation, in the Hutchinsons’ native city of Seattle, Washington. - Roy Castle
Roy Castle OBE (born August 31 1932 in Scholes, near Holmfirth; died September 2 1994) was an English dancer, singer, comedian, actor, television presenter and musician. He attended Honley High School. where there is now a building in his name. He was a talented jazz trumpet player. He was diagnosed with lung cancer in January 1992 and died in September 1994, just two days after his 62nd birthday. He blamed his illness on years of playing the trumpet in smoky jazz clubs, … - John Wayne
John Wayne (May 26, 1907 - June 11, 1979) was an iconic, Academy Award-winning, American film actor. He epitomized ruggedly individualistic masculinity, and has become an enduring American icon. He is famous for his distinctive voice, walk and height. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Wayne thirteenth among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time. A Harris Poll released in 2007 placed Wayne third among America's favorite film stars, … - Richard Doll
Sir William Richard Shaboe Doll CH OBE FRS (28 October 1912-24 July 2005) was a British physiologist who became the foremost epidemiologist of the 20th century, turning the subject into a rigorous science. He was a pioneer in research linking smoking to health problems. With Ernst Wynder, Bradford Hill and Evarts Graham, he was the first in the modern world to prove that smoking caused lung cancer and increased the risk of heart disease. - Bueno de Mesquita
Abraham ('Appie') Bueno de Mesquita (Amsterdam, July 23, 1918 - Lelystad, August 19, 2005), commonly known under his stage name Bueno de Mesquita was a Dutch comedian, actor and stage artist, well known for his ability to make funny faces. His comical talents literally saved his life. In World War II, the (Sephardi) Jewish Bueno de Mesquita was imprisoned in the Dossin Barracks in Mechelen, Belgium, and was scheduled to be deported to Auschwitz. - Charles Gibson
Charles "Charlie" Dewolf Gibson (born March 9, 1943), is an American media personality best known as co-anchor of "Good Morning America" on ABC from January 1987 to May 1998 and from January 1999 to June 28, 2006, a span of 19 years. On May 29, 2006, Gibson became the sole anchor of "ABC World News Tonight", later renamed "World News with Charles Gibson" on July 19, 2006. - Bonnie J. Addario
Bonnie J. Addario is the Founder and Chair of The Bonnie J. Addario A Breath Away From The Cure Foundation (ABAFTC), a San Francisco, California based nonprofit that is the nation's largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to eradicating lung cancer. In that role, Addario works with a diverse group of physicians, organizations, and individuals to identify solutions and make timely and meaningful change through research, screening, education, prevention, and treatment. - Heather Crowe
Heather Crowe (born April 23, 1945 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, died May 22, 2006 in Ottawa, Ontario) was a former Canadian waitress who became the public face of Canada's anti-smoking campaign. She contracted lung cancer in 2002, allegedly from second-hand smoke encountered at her workplace of over forty years, and later appeared in numerous television public service announcements. The last place she worked was the well-known Newport Restaurant in Ottawa. - Fred Singer
Siegfried Frederick Singer (born September 27, 1924 in Vienna) is an electrical engineer and physicist. He is best known as President and founder (in 1990) of the Science & Environmental Policy Project, which disputes the prevailing scientific opinion on climate change. Singer is also skeptical about the connection between CFCs and ozone depletion, between UV-B radiation and melanoma and between second hand smoke and lung cancer. - Austin Bradford Hill
Austin Bradford Hill (July 8, 1897 - April 18, 1991), English epidemiologist and statistician, pioneered the randomized clinical trial and, together with Richard Doll, was the first to demonstrate the connection between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. - Lauren Terrazzano
Lauren Elizabeth Terrazzano was an American journalist best known for her "Life, With Cancer" "Newsday" column and other writings about her battle with cancer. Terrazzano graduated from high school in Tewksbury, Massachusetts. In 1990, Terrazzano earned a bachelor's degree from Boston University. After graduating from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in 1994, … - Alton Ochsner
Alton Ochsner (May 4, 1896 - September 6, 1981) was a surgeon and medical researcher who worked at Tulane University and other New Orleans hospitals before he established his own world-renowned The Ochsner Clinic. Reared in a small South Dakota town, Ochsner was an unlikely hero of southern medicine. He was recruited to Tulane from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. - Steve Patterson
Steven J. Patterson was an American professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association for five seasons. A 6'9"/2.06 m center from UCLA, Patterson spent his first year of athletic eligibility (1968-69, the third of the Bruins' unprecedented string of seven consecutive national titles) as the backup to Lew Alcindor, later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. He then was the starting center for the Bruins' 1970 and 1971 championship teams. - Vivian Liberto
Vivian Liberto was the first wife of country singer Johnny Cash. Liberto met Johnny Cash in 1950 at a roller skating rink in San Antonio, Texas three weeks before the Air Force deployed him to Germany. At the time, she was still a senior at Providence High School, an all-girl Catholic school in San Antonio. During Cash's military tour overseas, the couple wrote each other over 10,000 pages of love letters. On July 3, 1954, Cash was discharged from the Air Force. - Laurel Hester
Lt. Laurel Hester was a lesbian New Jersey police officer who rose to national attention with her deathbed appeal for the extension of pension benefits to domestic partners. Laurel Hester was a 23-year veteran of the Ocean County prosecutor's office when she was struck down by rapidly spreading lung cancer. The cancer metastasized and spread to her brain, and it became clear that she had little time to live. - Andreas Katsulas
Andrew C. "Andreas" Katsulas was a Greek-American actor best known for his roles as Ambassador G'Kar in the science fiction television series "Babylon 5", as the one-armed villain Sykes in the film "The Fugitive" (1993), and as the Romulan Commander Tomalak on "Star Trek: The Next Generation". Katsulas guest starred on many television shows, including "Alien Nation", "The Equalizer", "Murder, She Wrote", "NYPD Blue", … - Wayne McLaren
Wayne McLaren (12 September 1940 - 22 July 1992) was an American actor. In 1976, he did promotional work for the famous Marlboro cigarette advertising campaign as the "Marlboro Man". He smoked a pack-and-a-half every day before developing lung cancer at the age of 49. Chemotherapy and the removal of one of his lungs did not stop the cancer spreading to his brain, killing him two years after the initial diagnosis. - Edward Albert
Edward Albert (February 20 1951 - September 22 2006) was an American film and television actor. He was also known as Edward Laurence Albert and occasionally Eddie Albert Jr. He was born Edward Laurence Heimberger in Los Angeles, California, the son of actor Eddie Albert and Mexican actress Margo (Margo Albert); both parents were once blacklisted. - Kara Kennedy
Kara Kennedy (Allen) was born on February 27, 1960, in Bronxville, New York. She is the only daughter of U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy, D-MA and Virginia Joan Bennett. Her siblings are Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy of Rhode Island and Teddy Kennedy of Connecticut. She is also very close to her two step-siblings (children of Victoria Reggie Kennedy): Curran Raclin of Boston, MA and Caroline Reggie Raclin, a student at Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT. - Jimmy Walker
James "Jimmy" Walker (April 8 1944 - July 2 2007) was an American professional basketball player. A 6'3" guard, he played nine seasons (1967-1976) in the NBA as a member of the Detroit Pistons, Houston Rockets, and Kansas City Kings. Walker was a two-time All-Star who scored 11,655 points in his career. He was also the father of current NBA player Jalen Rose, though he abandoned Rose's mother prior to his birth and took no part in the child's upbringing. - David McLean
David McLean (May 19, 1922 - October 12 1995) was an American film and television actor, best-known for appearing in many Marlboro television and print advertisements, starting in the early 1960s. McLean also starred as the title character in the short-lived 1960 western "Tate", and appeared in numerous television series' and feature films in the '60s and '70s. A lifelong smoker, McLean started suffering from emphysema in 1985, and had a tumour removed in 1994. - Caroline Knapp
Caroline Knapp (November 8, 1959-June 4, 2002) was an American writer and columnist whose candid best-selling memoir "Drinking: A Love Story" recounted her 20-year battle with alcoholism. Knapp grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts and graduated from Brown University. From 1988-95, she was a columnist for the Boston Phoenix, where her column "Out There" often featured the fictional "Alice K." In 1994, those columns were collected in her first book, … - Samantha Fox
Samantha Fox (born Stasia Therese Angela Micula, December 3 1951, in New York City) is an American actress. She appeared in over 100 pornographic films between 1977 and 1984, many for director Chuck Vincent. She twice won the Adult Film Association of America Best Actress awards, in 1979 for "Jack 'n' Jill, Part 1", and in 1980 for "This Lady Is a Tramp". In 1984 she quit hardcore pornography, and moved to sexploitation films, … - Richard Joseph
Richard Joseph (1953? - 4 March 2007) was a computer game composer, musician and sound specialist. He had a career spanning some 20 years starting in the early days of gaming on the C64 and the Amiga and onto succeeding formats through to the present day. After being diagnosed with lung cancer, he died on 4 March, 2007 aged 53 years. - Paul Lennon
Paul Anthony Lennon (born 8 October 1955), Australian politician, has been Premier of Tasmania since 21 March 2004. He is a member of the Australian Labor Party. Lennon is rare among modern Australian politicians in that he does not have a university education and comes from a working-class background. Born in Hobart, he worked as a storeman and clerk before becoming an organiser with the Storemen and Packers Union in 1978. - Robert Ryan
Robert Ryan (November 11, 1909 - July 11, 1973) was an Irish-American Oscar and Bafta award-nominated actor born in Chicago, Illinois. He most often played hardened cops and ruthless villains throughout his career. - Herb Caen
Herbert Eugene Caen (April 3, 1916 - February 1, 1997) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist working in San Francisco. Born in Sacramento, California, Caen worked for the "San Francisco Chronicle" from the late 1930s until his death, with an interruption from 1950 to 1958 during which he wrote for the "San Francisco Examiner." His collection of essays entitled "Baghdad-by-the-Bay" was published in 1949. - Oriana Fallaci
Oriana Fallaci (June 29 1929 - September 15 2006) was an Italian journalist, author, and political interviewer. A former partisan during World War II, she died in her native Florence, Italy, at age 77. She was called "our most celebrated female writer" by Ferruccio De Bortoli, former director of the newspaper "Corriere della Sera". - Paul Desmond
Paul Desmond (25 November 1924 - 30 May 1977), born Paul Emil Breitenfeld, was a jazz alto saxophonist and composer born in San Francisco, best known for the work he did in the Dave Brubeck Quartet and for penning that group's greatest hit, "Take Five". Known to have possessed an idiosyncratic wit, he was one of the most popular musicians to come out of the West Coast's "cool jazz" scene. - Nancy Marchand
Nancy Marchand (June 19, 1928 - June 18, 2000) was an American actress. Born in Buffalo, New York, Marchand was perhaps best known for her Emmy Award-nominated role of acerbic family matriarch Livia Soprano, mother of Tony Soprano, on the HBO series, "The Sopranos". She created the role of Hester Crane, mother of Frasier Crane, on "Cheers", … - Gerald M. Boyd
Gerald Michael Boyd was an American journalist. He was the first African American metropolitan editor and managing editor at "The New York Times" and received a Nieman Fellowship. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, he won a full scholarship to the University of Missouri–Columbia, with a guaranteed job to follow at the "St. Louis Post-Dispatch" upon graduation in 1973. - Glenn Hughes
Glenn Hughes (July 18, 1950 - March 4, 2001) was the original "Biker" character in the disco group Village People from 1977 to 1996 and one of the group's straight members. He graduated Class of 1968 from Chaminade High School. He was interested in motorcycles, and was working as a toll collector in Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel when he responded to an advertisement by composer Jacques Morali seeking "macho" singers and dancers. - Roe Messner
Roe Messner (b. Ronald Roe Messner) is an American religious writer and building contractor. He married Tammy Faye Bakker in 1993, after her very public divorce from Jim Bakker. He co-authored "Building For The Master: By Design" (ISBN 0-940609-00-2). He founded the now bankrupt Wichita, Kansas-based church builder, Messner Construction, the contractor that built most of Heritage USA and many other church buildings. - John Brignell
John Brignell, Ph.D., is a retired Professor of Industrial Instrumentation who has a part-time interest in debunking the use of what he sees as poor science and false statistics in media. John Brignell was educated at Stationers' Company's School and began his career as an apprentice at STC. He studied at Northampton Engineering College (which became the City University, London) and took the degrees of BSc(Eng) and PhD of the University of London. - Skip Spence
Alexander Lee "Skip" Spence was a musician and singer-songwriter. He was born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Spence was a guitarist in an early line-up of Quicksilver Messenger Service before Marty Balin got him to be the drummer for Jefferson Airplane. After one album with Jefferson Airplane, their debut "Jefferson Airplane Takes Off", he left to co-found Moby Grape, once again as a guitarist. Spence suffered from schizophrenia. - Scatman John
John Paul Larkin, better known as Scatman John, was a famous stuttering jazz musician who created a unique fusion of scat singing and techno, best known for his 1994 hit "Scatman (Ski Ba Bop Ba Dop Bop)". As he liked to say, this was a process of "turning my biggest problem into my biggest asset." He received 14 golds and 18 platinums for his albums and singles. - Barbara Epstein
Barbara Epstein was a literary editor and a founding co-editor of the "New York Review of Books". Epstein, née Zimmerman, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, to a Jewish-American family, and graduated from Radcliffe College in 1949. Ms. Epstein rose to prominence as the editor at Doubleday of Anne Frank's "Diary of a Young Girl", among other books. She then worked at Dutton, McGraw-Hill and "The Partisan Review". - Frank Loesser
Frank Henry Loesser was an American composer and lyricist. He died of lung cancer at age 59. During World War II, he wrote 1942's "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition". Formerly a successful lyricist in collaboration with other composers, this was the first song for which Loesser composed the melody in addition to the lyric. Loesser was awarded a Grammy Award in 1961 for Best Original Cast Show Album for "How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying". - Leroy Jenkins
Leroy Jenkins was an American composer and free jazz violinist and violist. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Jenkins became a music teacher after graduating from Florida A&M University. Jenkins was involved in the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) while a public school teacher in Chicago. He co-founded the Creative Construction Company with Anthony Braxton and others.
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