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Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday, September 18, 2020. She was 87 years old. The cause was complications of metastatic pancreas cancer. Ginsburg was born Joan Ruth Bader on March 15, 1933. She attended both Harvard Law School and Columbia Law School where she faced discrimination due to her gender. Despite that, she was on…

Paul G. Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, died in the afternoon of Monday, October 15, 2018, at the age of 65. The cause of death was complications associated with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The disease returned recently after Allen was in remission for many years following his first brush with cancer in the early 1980’s. He left…

George Taliaferro passed away on Monday, October 8, 2018, at the age of 91. He was considered to be a football legend, a status many athletes aspire to earn. Taliaferro, however, did not make history because he was a once in a lifetime ball player. Instead, he earned his sports immortality by being the first…

Burt Reynolds, the star of “Smokey and the Bandit” and “Deliverance,” died from a heart attack on Thursday, September 6, 2018. He was 82 years old. Reynolds had heart problems for a number of years and underwent major heart surgery in February 2010. The surgery was a success that left Reynolds with “a great motor…

United States Senator John McCain passed away on Saturday, August 25, 2018, from an aggressive form of brain cancer known as glioblastoma. He was 81 years old. McCain was diagnosed with brain cancer in July 2017. Doctors discovered malignant tumor when McCain underwent a procedure to have a blood clot removed from above his left…

Embed from Getty Images Robin Leach, the entertainment journalist best known for his work on TV’s Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, died early Friday morning. He was 76. The cause of death wasn’t announced, but it was reported that Leach had been hospitalized since November, when he suffered a stroke in the Mexican resort…

Aretha Franklin, the undisputed “Queen of Soul,” passed away on the morning of Thursday, August 16, 2018. Franklin had been battling pancreatic cancer and finally succumbed to the disease. She was 76 years old at the time of her death. A statement from Franklin’s family confirmed her cause of death. The statement said, “Franklin’s official…

Charlotte Rae, the actress responsible for bringing Edna Garrett to life on “Diff’rent Strokes” and “The Facts of Life,” died on Sunday, August 5, 2018. She was 92 years old. A cause of death was not immediately identified, but Rae was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2010 and revealed that she had bone cancer in…

Joe Jackson died following a battle with pancreatic cancer early in the morning on Wednesday, June 27, 2018. He was 89 years old. Joe Jackson was the patriarch and manager of the Jackson 5, Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson. Though Jermaine Jackson stated that Joe “kept [them] off the streets,” Joe was a notoriously harsh…

Dorothy Cotton, a civil rights leader who worked with Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., has passed away at the age of 88. She had been battling illness recently and died in her retirement home in Ithaca, New York on Sunday, June 10, 2018. Cotton first met King in 1960 when he was preaching at her…
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