They will be forever missed

1. Jonathan Brandis

Actor | The Neverending Story II: The Next Chapter

Born in Danbury, Connecticut, USA, to Greg and Mary, Jonathan Brandis began his career at age 5, acting in several television commercials. He also appeared in small parts in several films and TV shows before his first starring role in the 1990 film The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (1990). ...

2. Heath Ledger

Actor | Brokeback Mountain

When hunky, twenty-year-old heart-throb Heath Ledger first came to the attention of the public in 1999, it was all too easy to tag him as a "pretty boy" and an actor of little depth. He spent several years trying desperately to sway this image, but this was a double-edged sword. His work comprised ...

3. Luke Perry

Actor | Beverly Hills, 90210

Luke Perry was an American actor, primarily remembered as a teen idol throughout the 1990s and the early 2000s. Perry was born in Mansfield, Ohio in 1966. Mansfield was known at the time as a center for the home appliances and stove manufacturing industries. The city's largest employer used to be ...

4. Robin Williams

Actor | Mrs. Doubtfire

Robin McLaurin Williams was born on Saturday, July 21st, 1951, in Chicago, Illinois, a great-great-grandson of Mississippi Governor and Senator, Anselm J. McLaurin. His mother, Laurie McLaurin (née Janin), was a former model from Mississippi, and his father, Robert Fitzgerald Williams, was a Ford ...

5. Raul Julia

Actor | Street Fighter

Raul Julia was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Olga Arcelay, a mezzo-soprano singer, and Raúl Juliá, an electrical engineer. He graduated from Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola High School in San Juan. Here he studied the rigorous classical curriculum of the Jesuits and was always active ...

6. Patrick Swayze

Actor | Dirty Dancing

Patrick Wayne Swayze was born on August 18, 1952 in Houston, Texas, to Patsy Swayze (née Yvonne Helen Karnes), a choreographer, and Jesse Wayne Swayze, a chemical plant engineer draftsman. His mother owned a dance school in Houston, where Patrick was also a student. His father passed away in 1982. ...

7. Brittany Murphy

Actress | Clueless

Brittany Murphy was born Brittany Anne Bertolotti on November 10, 1977 in Atlanta, Georgia, to Sharon Kathleen Murphy and Angelo Joseph Bertolotti. Her father's ancestry is Italian, and her mother is of Irish and Slovak descent. Her father moved the family back to Edison, New Jersey as a native New...

8. Whitney Houston

Soundtrack | The Bodyguard

Whitney Elizabeth Houston was born into a musical family on 9 August 1963, in Newark, New Jersey, the daughter of gospel star Cissy Houston (née Emily Lee Drinkard) and John Russell Houston, Jr., and cousin of singing star Dionne Warwick.

She began singing in the choir at her church, The New Hope ...

9. Michael Clarke Duncan

Actor | The Green Mile

Michael Clarke Duncan was born on December 10, 1957 in Chicago, Illinois. Raised on Chicago's South Side by his single mother, Jean, a house cleaner, Duncan grew up resisting drugs and alcohol, instead concentrating on school. He wanted to play football in high school, but his mother wouldn't let ...

10. Mariví Bilbao

Actress | Aquí no hay quien viva

Mariví Bilbao was born on January 22, 1930 in Bilbao, Vizcaya, País Vasco, Spain. She was an actress, known for Aquí no hay quien viva (2003), La que se avecina (2007) and La primera vez (2001). She died on April 3, 2013 in Bilbao, Vizcaya, País Vasco, Spain.

11. Paul Walker

Actor | The Fast and the Furious

Paul William Walker IV was born in Glendale, California. He grew up together with his brothers, Caleb and Cody, and sisters, Ashlie and Amie. Their parents, Paul William Walker III, a sewer contractor, and Cheryl (Crabtree) Walker, a model, separated around September 2004. His grandfather, William ...

12. Christopher Lee

Actor | Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee was perhaps the only actor of his generation to have starred in so many films and cult saga. Although most notable for personifying bloodsucking vampire, Dracula, on screen, he portrayed other varied characters on screen, most of which were villains, whether it ...

13. Christopher Reeve

Actor | Superman

Christopher D'Olier Reeve was born September 25, 1952, in New York City, to journalist Barbara Johnson (née Barbara Pitney Lamb) and writer/professor F.D. Reeve (Franklin D'Olier Reeve). He came from an upper-class family; his paternal grandfather was CEO of Prudential Financial, and one of his ...

14. Lina Morgan

Actress | Hostal Royal Manzanares

Lina Morgan was born on March 20, 1936 in Madrid, Spain. She was an actress, known for Hostal Royal Manzanares (1996), Hermana, pero ¿qué has hecho? (1995) and Compuesta y sin novio (1994). She died on August 19, 2015 in Madrid, Spain.

15. Gene Wilder

Actor | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

When he was 11, he wanted to be a comedian like Sid Caesar. Then, when he was 15 and saw Lee J. Cobb in 'Death of a Salesman,' he decided he would be a comedy actor and found that Mel Brooks was a great influence on his screen writing. He combined both talents with directing in The World's Greatest...

16. David Bowie

Soundtrack | Labyrinth

David Bowie was one of the most influential and prolific writers and performers of popular music, but he was much more than that; he was also an accomplished actor, a mime and an intellectual, as well as an art lover whose appreciation and knowledge of it had led to him amassing one of the biggest ...

17. Prince

Soundtrack | Under the Cherry Moon

Prince Rogers Nelson was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Mattie Shaw, a jazz singer and social worker, and John L. Nelson, a lyricist and pianist. His father's stage name was "Prince Rogers". His parents were both from African-American families from Louisiana. They separated during his youth, ...

18. Chris Cornell

Soundtrack | Casino Royale

Chris Cornell was a rock icon who thrived on contradictions. An innovator who resisted genre labels, he was nonetheless a chief architect of the 90s grunge movement. Frequently ranked as one of the best voices in music history, he successfully maintained his own unique identity over decades as a ...

19. Chester Bennington

Soundtrack | Transformers

Chester Charles Bennington was born in Phoenix, Arizona, to Susan Elaine (Johnson), a nurse, and Lee Russell Bennington, a police detective. His parents divorced when he was 11 years old. He has two half sisters and a half brother. He attended Centennial High School at the beginning of his freshman...

20. Roger Moore

Actor | Moonraker

Roger Moore will perhaps always be remembered as the man who replaced Sean Connery in the James Bond series, arguably something he never lived down.

Roger George Moore was born on October 14, 1927 in Stockwell, London, England, the son of Lillian (Pope) and George Alfred Moore, a policeman. His ...

21. Jerry Lewis

Actor | The Nutty Professor

Jerry Lewis (born March 16, 1926 - August 20, 2017) was an American comedian, actor, singer, film producer, screenwriter and film director. He is known for his slapstick humor in film, television, stage and radio. He was originally paired up with Dean Martin in 1946, forming the famed comedy team ...

22. Warrel Dane

Soundtrack | Lovesick: Sick Love

Warrel Dane was born on March 7, 1961 in Seattle, Washington, USA. He was an actor, known for Lovesick: Sick Love (2004), Doro: All for Metal (2018) and Metalocalypse (2006). He died on December 13, 2017 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.

23. Dolores O'Riordan

Soundtrack | Mission: Impossible

Dolores Mary Eileen O'Riordan was born in Ballybricken, a town 8 miles outside Limerick on Sept. 6, 1971. Her parents are Eileen and Terrance. Terrance was in a wheelchair due to a motorcycle accident. Dolores was the youngest of seven children, and one of two girls. In the late eighties, Dolores ...

24. Marie Fredriksson

Music_department | Arn: Tempelriddaren

Marie Fredriksson was born on May 30, 1958 in Östra Ljungby, Skåne län, Sweden. She was an actress and composer, known for Arn: The Knight Templar (2007), Marie Fredriksson: Sista sommarens vals (2013) and The Master Plan (2015). She was married to Mikael Bolyos. She died on December 9, 2019 in ...

25. María Dolores Pradera

Actress | Zalacaín el aventurero

María Dolores Pradera was born on August 29, 1924 in Madrid, Spain. She was an actress, known for Zalacaín el aventurero (1955), Es peligroso asomarse al exterior (1946) and María Antonia 'La Caramba' (1951). She was married to Fernando Fernán Gómez. She died on May 28, 2018 in Madrid...

26. Kurt Cobain

Soundtrack | The Batman

Kurt Cobain was born on February 20 1967, in Aberdeen, Washington. Kurt and his family lived in Hoquiam for the first few months of his life then later moved back to Aberdeen, where he had a happy childhood until his parents divorced. The divorce left Kurt's outlook on the world forever scarred. He...

27. Freddie Mercury

Soundtrack | Flash Gordon

Freddie Mercury was born on the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar. His parents, Bomi and Jer Bulsara, sent him off to a private school in India, from 1955 til 1963. In 1964, he and his family flew to England. In 1966 he started his education at the Ealing College of Art, where he graduated in 1969. He ...

28. Michael Jackson

Soundtrack | Michael Jackson: Thriller

Michael Joseph Jackson was born on August 29, 1958 in Gary, Indiana, and entertained audiences nearly his entire life. His father, Joe Jackson (no relation to Joe Jackson, also a musician), had been a guitarist, but was forced to give up his musical ambitions following his marriage to Michael's ...

29. Taylor Hawkins

Soundtrack | Real Steel

Taylor Hawkins was born on February 17, 1972 in Fort Worth, Texas, USA. He was a music artist and actor, known for Real Steel (2011), CBGB (2013) and Boyhood (2014). He was married to Alison Hawkins . He died on March 25, 2022 in Bogota, Colombia.

30. Aretha Franklin

Actress | The Blues Brothers

Grammy-winning Queen of Soul and the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Aretha Louise Franklin was born in Memphis, Tennessee, to Barbara Vernice (Siggers) and C. L. Franklin, a Baptist minister, who preached at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit for over thirty ...

31. Naya Rivera

Actress | Glee

Naya Rivera was an Afro-Latina American actress, model and singer known for playing Santana Lopez from Glee and Hillary Winston from The Royal Family. She also was in The Master of Disguise, Baywatch, CSI: Miami, American Dad, Batman: The Long Halloween Parts 1 and 2, Even Stevens and The Bernie ...

32. Rosa Maria Sardà

Actress | Todo sobre mi madre

Rosa Maria Sardà was born on July 30, 1941 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. She was an actress and writer, known for All About My Mother (1999), Les nits de la tieta Rosa (1980) and Anita no perd el tren (2001). She was married to Josep Maria Mainat. She died on June 11, 2020 in Barcelona, Barcelona...

33. Pau Donés

Soundtrack | Cuéntame cómo pasó

Pau Donés was born on October 11, 1966 in Montanuy, Huesca, Aragón, Spain. He was an actor and composer, known for Cuéntame cómo pasó (2001), Estoy vivo (2017) and Apariencias (2000). He died on June 9, 2020 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

34. Chadwick Boseman

Actor | Black Panther

Chadwick Boseman was an American actor. He is known for his portrayal of T'Challa / Black Panther in the Marvel Cinematic Universe from 2016 to 2019, particularly in Black Panther (2018), and for his starring roles as several pioneering Americans, Jackie Robinson in 42 (2013), James Brown in Get on...

35. Sean Connery

Actor | The Rock

The tall, handsome and muscular Scottish actor Sean Connery is best known as the original actor to portray James Bond in the hugely successful movie franchise, starring in seven films between 1962 and 1983. Some believed that such a career-defining role might leave him unable to escape it, but he ...

36. Marion Ramsey

Actress | Police Academy

Marion Ramsey was an American actress and singer from Philadelphia. She is primarily known for her role as the soft-spoken policewoman Laverne Hooks in the "Police Academy" film series (1984-1994). Hooks was depicted as a "diminutive, soft-spoken and unassertive woman" with a high-pitched voice. ...

37. Dustin Diamond

Actor | Saved by the Bell

Attended Zion Lutheran School in Anaheim, California. While in fifth grade, he portrayed 8th-grader Samuel "Screech" Powers in the television series Good Morning, Miss Bliss (1987), which evolved into Saved by the Bell (1989) and its various television movies and spin-offs. Also appeared in the ...

38. Pilar Bardem

Actress | Carne trémula

Pilar Bardem was born on March 14, 1939 in Seville, Seville, Andalucía, Spain. She was an actress, known for Live Flesh (1997), Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead (1995) and María querida (2004). She was married to José Carlos Encinas Doussinague. She died on July 17, 2021 in Madrid, ...

39. Antonio Gasset

Director | Los hábitos del incendiario

Antonio Gasset was born on May 19, 1946 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain. He was a director and writer, known for Los hábitos del incendiario (1970), Días de cine (1991) and Los viajes escolares (1976). He was married to Andrea. He died on September 29, 2021 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

40. Anne Rice

Writer | Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

Anne Rice began life in New Orleans as Howard Allen O'Brien, named after her father, as the second of four daughters of Howard and Katherine Allen O'Brien. She decided to call herself "Anne" when she enrolled in first grade at the Redemptorist Catholic School. Her mother (who had long suffered from...

41. Verónica Forqué

Actress | ¿Qué he hecho YO para merecer esto!!

Verónica Forqué was born on December 1, 1955 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain. She was an actress, known for What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984), Kika (1993) and Eva y Adán, agencia matrimonial (1990). She was married to Manuel Iborra. She died on December 13, 2021 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

42. Betty White

Actress | The Proposal

Betty White was born in Oak Park, Illinois, to Christine Tess (Cachikis), a homemaker, and Horace Logan White, a lighting company executive for the Crouse-Hinds Electric Company. She was of Danish, Greek, English, and Welsh descent.

Although she was best known as the devious Sue Ann Nivens on the ...

43. Andrew Fletcher

Music_department | Depeche Mode: 101

Andrew Fletcher was born on July 8, 1961 in Nottingham, East Midlands, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Depeche Mode: 101 (1989), Depeche Mode: Personal Jesus 2011 (2011) and Depeche Mode: Hole to Feed (2009). He was married to Gráinne Mullan. He died on May 26, 2022 in the UK.

44. Olivia Newton-John

Soundtrack | Grease

Olivia Newton-John was an English singer and actress who was born on September 26, 1948, in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK. In 1954, her family relocated to Australia when her father was offered a job as the dean of a Presbyterian college in Melbourne. After winning a singing talent contest...

45. Jesús Quintero

A la diestra del cielo: Silvio, un cantaor rockero

Jesús Quintero was born on August 18, 1940 in San Juan del Puerto, Huelva, Spain. He was a director and writer, known for A la diestra del cielo: Silvio, un cantaor rockero (2007), Cuerda de presos (1996) and Algesia (2007). He died on October 3, 2022 in Ubrique, Cadiz, Spain.

46. Angela Lansbury

Actress | The Manchurian Candidate

Angela Lansbury was born in 1925 into a prominent family of the upper middle class living in the Regent's Park neighborhood of London. Her father was socialist politician Edgar Isaac Lansbury (1887-1935), a member of both the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) and the Labour Party. Edgar ...

47. Robbie Coltrane

Actor | Cracker

Robbie Coltrane, one of Britain's most popular comedians who was head of debating society at school and won prizes for his art, is now a film star who played in two James Bond films and in the "Harry Potter" franchise.

Coltrane was born Anthony Robert McMillan on March 30, 1950, in Rutherglen, a ...

48. Kirstie Alley

Actress | Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Kirstie Louise Alley was an American actress. Her breakout role was as Rebecca Howe in the NBC sitcom Cheers (1987-1993), receiving an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe in 1991 for the role. From 1997 to 2000, she starred in the sitcom Veronica's Closet, earning additional Emmy and Golden Globe ...

49. Vivienne Westwood

Costume_department | Leaving Las Vegas

Vivienne Westwood was born on April 8, 1941 in Glossop, Derbyshire, England, UK. She was a costume designer and writer, known for Leaving Las Vegas (1995), Shadowboxer (2005) and Twenty-One (1991). She was married to Andreas Kronthaler and Derek Westwood. She died on December 29, 2022 in Clapham, ...

50. Tina Turner

Soundtrack | Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

With almost fifty years in the music business, Tina Turner became one of the most commercially successful international female rock stars. Her sultry, powerful voice, her incredible legs, her time-tested beauty and her unforgettable story all contributed to her legendary status.

Born to a ...

51. Julian Sands

Actor | A Room with a View

Tall, gaunt, and particularly effective in horror and drama films, British actor Julian Sands was born in Otley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, to Brenda and William Sands. He came to the attention of NBC when the network cast him in the TV miniseries The Sun Also Rises (1984) and then with Anthony Hopkins...

52. Michael Gambon

Actor | Gosford Park

Sir Michael Gambon was born in Cabra, Dublin, Ireland, to Mary (Hoare), a seamstress, and Edward Gambon, an engineer. After joining the National Theatre, under the Artistic Directorship of Sir Laurence Olivier, Gambon went on to appear in a number of leading roles in plays written by Alan Ayckbourn...

53. María Jiménez

Actress | Heroico

María Jiménez was born on February 3, 1950 in Seville, Seville, Andalucía, Spain. She was an actress, known for Heroic (2023), ¡Ja me maaten...! (2000) and Courage (1999). She was married to José Sancho. She died on September 7, 2023 in Seville, Seville, Andalucía, Spain.

54. María Teresa Campos

Director | Día a día

María Teresa Campos was born on June 18, 1941 in Tetuan, Morocco. She was a director and actress, known for Día a día (1996), Pasa la vida (1991) and Cada día (2004). She was married to José María Borrego. She died on September 5, 2023 in Madrid, Spain.

55. Francisco Ibáñez

Writer | La gran aventura de Mortadelo y Filemón

Francisco Ibáñez was born on March 16, 1936 in Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain. He was a writer and actor, known for La gran aventura de Mortadelo y Filemón (2003), El sulfato atómico: Una aventura de Mortadelo y Filemón (1998) and Mortadelo y Filemón. Misión: Salvar ...

56. Carmen Sevilla

Actress | El techo de cristal

Born on October 6, 1930 in Seville, popular Spanish entertainer Carmen Sevilla is better regarded as a dancer and singer than for her output of films, most of them, especially her later ones, seldom testing her abilities. Starting very young, she made her movie debut in grand style with the musical...

57. Treat Williams

Actor | Deep Rising

Richard Treat Williams was born in Stamford, Connecticut, to Marian (Andrew), who dealt in antiques, and Richard Norman Williams, a corporate executive. At the age of three, his family moved to Rowayton, Connecticut. Educated at prep-school, he first made a serious commitment to his craft during ...

58. Antonio Gala

Writer | Si las piedras hablaran

Antonio Gala was born on October 2, 1930 in Brazatortas, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. He was a writer, known for Si las piedras hablaran (1972), Digan lo que digan (1968) and Esa mujer (1969). He died on May 28, 2023 in Córdoba, Córdoba, Andalucía, Spain.

59. Laura Valenzuela

Actress | Españolas en París

Laura Valenzuela was born on February 18, 1931 in Seville, Andalusia, Spain. She was an actress, known for Españolas en París (1971), Madame (1961) and Cyrano et d'Artagnan (1964). She was married to José Luis Dibildos. She died on March 17, 2023 in Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid, Spain.

60. Raquel Welch

Actress | The Three Musketeers

A new reigning 1960s international sex symbol took to the cinematic throne as soon as Raquel Welch emerged from the sea in her purposely depleted, furry prehistoric bikini. Tantalizingly wet with her garb clinging to all the right amazonian places, One Million Years B.C. (1966), if nothing else, ...

61. Paco Rabanne

Costume_designer | Barbarella

Paco Rabanne was born on February 18, 1934 in Pasaia, Gipuzkoa, Pais Vasco, Spain. He was a costume designer and actor, known for Barbarella (1968), Two for the Road (1967) and The Last Adventure (1967). He died on February 3, 2023 in Portsall, Ploudalmézeau, Brittany, France.

62. Annie Wersching

Actress | The Last of Us

This talented actress was born Anne Marie Wersching and grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. She opted early on for a life in the entertainment industry, performing in community theatre and later as a dancer for some fourteen years with a troupe called the St. Louis Celtic Stepdancers. After moving to ...

63. Gina Lollobrigida

Actress | Notre-Dame de Paris

Gina Lollobrigida was born on July 4, 1927 in Subiaco, Italy. Destined to be called "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World", Gina possibly had St. Brigid as part of her surname. She was the daughter of a furniture manufacturer, and grew up in the pictorial mountain village. The young Gina did some ...

64. Matthew Perry

Actor | Friends

Matthew Perry was born in Williamstown, Massachusetts, to Suzanne Marie (Langford), a Canadian journalist, and John Bennett Perry, an American actor. His ancestry includes English, Irish, German, Swiss-German, and French-Canadian.

Perry was raised in Ottawa, Ontario, where he became a top-ranked ...

65. Lisa Marie Presley

Actress | Lisa Marie Presley: Idiot

Lisa Marie Presley was born on February 1, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. She was a music artist and actress, known for Lisa Marie Presley: Idiot (2005), Michael Jackson: You Are Not Alone (1995) and Lisa Marie Presley: Dirty Laundry (2005). She was married to Michael Lockwood, Nicolas Cage, ...

66. John Lennon

Actor | A Hard Day's Night

John Winston (later Ono) Lennon was born on October 9, 1940, in Liverpool, England, to Julia Lennon (née Stanley) and Alfred Lennon, a merchant seaman. He was raised by his mother's older sister Mimi Smith. In the mid-1950s, he formed his first band, The Quarrymen (after Quarry Bank High School, ...

67. George Harrison