Joe Frazier, the former heavyweight champion who handed Muhammad Ali his first defeat yet had to live forever in his shadow, died Nov. 7 after a brief final fight with liver cancer. He was 67. (Photo by Brad Barket/Getty Images)
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Evelyn Lauder
In her long career as an executive at cosmetics giant Estee Lauder Cos., the company founded by her mother-in-law, Lauder worked with many shades of red, peach, bronze and even blues, but pink was the one hue that changed her life. Lauder died Nov. 12 at her Manhattan home from complications of nongenetic ovarian cancer. She was 75 (credit: Theo Wargo/Getty Images Entertainment)
Gregory Papalexis
The New Jersey man whose Sabrett hot dogs are part of the New York City experience died Nov. 18 at age 86. (credit: Marathon Enterprises)
Olga Bloom
Olga Bloom, founder of Bargemusic, died on Thursday, November 24, 2011 at age 92. (credit: Randy Duchaine / Bargemusic)
Patrice O'Neal
Comedian Patrice O'Neal died Nov. 29 from complications from a stroke. He was 41 (Christopher Polk/Getty Images Entertainment)
Christopher Hitchens, the noted atheist essayist and author, died age 62 on Thursday, December 15, 2011 of pneumonia, a complication of his esophageal cancer. (Photo credit: Amanda Edwards/Getty Images)
Kim Jong Il
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il (credit: Korean Central Television/Yonhap via Getty Images)
Andy Rooney
Andy Rooney, one of the giants of CBS News, died Nov. 4, 2011 in a hospital in New York City of complications following minor surgery. He was 92. (Photo credit: JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)
Dorothy Rodham
Dorothy Rodham, mother of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and former President Bill Clinton's mother-in-law, died Tuesday, Nov. 1 at age 92 after an illness. (Photo by Barbara Kinney via Getty Images)
Vic Miles
WCBS-TV veteran reporter and anchorman Vic Miles died on Oct. 12, 2011. He was 79. (credit: YouTube.com)
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple, died Oct. 5, 2011. He was 56. (credit: Shaun Curry/AFP/ Getty Images)
Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth
Civil rights leader the Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth died Oct. 5, 2011. He was 89. (credit: Glenn Hartong/AFP/Getty Images)
Bert Jansch
Legendary Scottish folk musician Bert Jansch died Oct. 5, 2011 after a long battle with lung cancer. He was 67.
Kara Kennedy
U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy's daughter Kara Kennedy Allen speaks during funeral services for Sen. Kennedy on August 29, 2009 in Boston. Kara, the eldest of the senator's three children, died Sept. 16, 2011 at age 51, collapsing after her daily workout at a Washington health club. (Photo by Brian Snyder-Pool/Getty Images)
Andy Whitfield
Actor Andy Whitfield, 39, star of Showtime's 'Spartacus: Blood And Sand,' died of Lymphoma on Sept. 11, 2011. (credit: Jason Merritt/Getty Images)
Singer Nick Ashford, half of the Motown songwriting duo 'Ashford & Simpson,' died on Aug. 22, 2011 following a battle with throat cancer. Ashford & Simpson wrote 'Solid As A Rock,' 'Ain't No Mountain High Enough,' and many more hits. (credit: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)
Vic Dunlop
"Make Me Laugh'' comic Vic Dunlop died Aug. 13 in California of diabetes complications. He was 62. (credit: MySpace)
Jani Lane
Jani Lane, the former lead singer of the metal rock band Warrant, died August 11 in Los Angeles. He was 47. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)
Annette Charles
Actress Annette Charles, best known for her role as Cha Cha in Grease, died from cancer. She was 63.
Amy Winehouse
In this Feb. 16, 2007 file photo, British singer Amy Winehouse poses for photographs after being interviewed by The Associated Press at a studio in north London, Friday, Feb. 16, 2007. British police say singer Amy Winehouse has been found dead at her home in London on Saturday, July 23, 2011. The singer was 27 years old. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)
Betty Ford
She was more than just a first lady, admirers said of Betty Ford who died at the age of 93 on July 8. She was a role model for every presidential wife who followed her into the White House, not to mention a tireless advocate for women's rights and other causes that improved the lives of millions. (credit: ROSE M. PROUSER AFP/Getty Images)
Sherwood Schwartz
Sherwood Schwartz - who created "Gilligan's Island" and "The Brady Bunch" - died on Tuesday, July 12, 2011 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he was being treated for an intestinal infection and underwent several surgeries. He was 94. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
Billy Costello
Former World Boxing Council light welterweight champion Billy Costello, (left) winner of his first 30 professional fights, died of lung cancer June 29. He was 55. (credit: AP file photo)
Elaine Stewart
Elaine Stewart, a leading lady in a series of films in the 1950s, including "Brigadoon,'' and star of the 1970s game shows "Gambit'' and "High Rollers,'' died June 27. She was 81.
Peter Falk
Peter Falk, an actor who was best known for his role as Lieutenant Columbo in the television series Columbo, dies June 23, 2011. (credit: AP)
Ryan Dunn
"Jackass'' cast member Ryan Dunn, 34, died June 20, 2011 of injuries sustained in a car crash in suburban Philadelphia. Police said Dunn and a passenger in his 2007 Porsche died after the car left the roadway and burst into flames.(credit: Michael Buckner/Getty Images)
Clarence Clemons
Clarence Clemons, the saxophone player in the E Street Band, died June 18 after complications from a stroke. Clemons was 69. (Photo by Frank Micelotta/ImageDirect.)
Andrew Gold
Andrew Gold, a singer, musician and composer whose songs included the 1977 hit "Lonely Boy,'' died June 3. He was 59. (credit: Andrewgold.com)
James Arness
Arness, famous for playing U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon in the 1955-75 CBS Western "Gunsmoke," died on Friday, June 3, 2011 of natural causes. (credit: AP)
Dr. Jack Kevorkian
Dr. Jack Kevorkian, an assisted suicide advocatem died June 3, 2011 at the age of 83. Kevorkian was released from a Michigan prison in 2007 after serving eight years for second-degree murder. He claims to have assisted in at least 130 suicides. (credit: Jason Merritt /Getty Images)
Fayrene "Faye" Treadwell
As manager of The Drifters, she was one of the first African-American female managers in show business. She died the week of May 23, 2011 in Burbank, CA. Her daughter said she had suffered a long illness, but did not elaborate.died last week in Burbank, Calif. She was 84. (credit: AP Photo/Treadwell Entertainment)
Mark Haines
Derek Boogaard
The 28-year-old Boogaard was found dead in his Minneapolis apartment Friday, May 13, five months after he sustained a season-ending concussion with the New York Rangers. (credit: Paul Bereswill/Getty Images)
'Macho Man' Randy Savage
Pro-Wrestler Randy Savage was killed in a car accident in Florida on May 20. He was 58. (credit: Vince Bucci/Getty Images Entertainment)
Sada Thompson
Sada Thompson, the durable matriarch of stage and screen who won a Tony Award for her portraits of three sisters and their mother in the 1971 comedy "Twigs'' and an Emmy Award for playing the eternally understanding mother in the television series "Family,'' died May 4. She was 81. (AP Photo)
Arthur Laurents
Arthur Laurents, the director, playwright and screenwriter who wrote such enduring stage musicals as "West Side Story" and "Gypsy," as well as the movie classics "Rope" and "The Way We Were," died on May 5, 2011. He was 93. (credit: Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images)
Jackie Cooper
Jackie Cooper, at age 9, was the youngest actor to receive an Academy Award nomination. He would star in several "Our Gang" productions as a child and went on to play Daily Planet editor Perry White in the four Christoper Reeve "Superman" films. He also was a director, including many episodes in the early run of "M*A*S*H." He died in Santa Monica, CA on May 3, 2011 at 88-years-old. (photo credit: AP)
Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Laden, the glowering mastermind behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks that killed thousands of Americans, was slain in his luxury hideout in Pakistan May 2 in a firefight with U.S. forces, ending a manhunt that spanned a frustrating decade. (AP)
Rev. David Wilkerson
Rev. David Wilkerson, founding pastor of Times Square Church in New York City and author of the best-selling book, "The Cross and the Switchblade,'' died in a car crash in Texas April 27. He was 79. (credit: CBS)
Phoebe Snow
Singer, guitarist and songwriter Phoebe Snow died Tuesday, April 26, 2011 in Edison, N.J., from complications of a brain hemorrhage she suffered in January 2010, said Rick Miramontez, her longtime friend and public relations representative. She was 58. (credit: Sue Cameron, Robert Raphael/AP)
Gerard Smith
TV on the Radio bassist Gerard Smith died April 20 of lung cancer. He was 36.
Chris Hondros, Tim Hetherington
Chris Hondros and Tim Hetherington
Grete Waitz
Grete Waitz had never run a marathon before the New York City race in October 1978. After it, her name and New York would be forever linked. Waitz died April 19 at age 57 in a hospital in her native Oslo after a six-year battle with cancer. (credit: David Cannon/Getty Images)
Sydney Lumet
Sidney Lumet, the award-winning director of acclaimed films such as "Network,'' "Serpico,'' "Dog Day Afternoon'' and "12 Angry Men,'' died April 9. He was 86.(Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)
Farley Granger
Farley Granger, the 1950s bobby sox screen idol who starred in the Alfred Hitchcock classics "Rope'' and "Strangers on a Train,'' died March 27 . He was 85.
Geraldine Ferraro
Geraldine Ferraro, a former New York Congresswoman and the first woman vice presidential candidate of a major party, died March 26 at the age of 75. (AP)
Elizabeth Taylor
Actress Elizabeth Taylor Poses In An Old Film Still, circa 1950. The iconic, Oscar-winning actress died at age 79 on March 23, 2011 of congestive heart failure. (credit: Getty Images)
Pinetop Perkins
Pinetop Perkins, one of the last old-school bluesmen who played with Muddy Waters and became the oldest Grammy winner this year, died on March 21 at his home of cardiac arrest. He was 97.
Drew Hill
Former NFL wide receiver Drew Hill, a two-time Pro Bowler who was a key part of the Houston Oilers' famed "Run and Shoot'' offense of the 1980s, died in Atlanta on March 18 after suffering two massive strokes. He was 54 (AP File Photo)
Nate Dogg
Singer Nate Dogg died at age 41 on March 16, 2011 following numerous strokes. Nathaniel D. Hale sang in a distinctive monotone style on numerous hip-hop tracks. (credit: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
David Broder
David Broder, the Pulitzer-Prize winning Washington Post political columnist whose even-handed treatment of Democrats and Republicans set him apart from the ideological warriors on the nation's op-ed pages, died March 9. He was 81. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images for Meet the Press)
Mike Starr
Former Alice in Chains bassist Mike Starr was found dead March 8 in a home in Salt Lake City. He was 44. (Photo: VH1)
Mike DeStefano
Comedian Mike DeStefano, who finished among the top five finalists last season in NBC's "Last Comic Standing,'' died on March 6. He was 44. (Photo: Cringe Humor Entertainment/AP)
Duke Snider
Former Dodgers great Duke Snider died on Feb. 27, 2011. The Hall of Fame center fielder helped the Dodgers bring their elusive and only World Series crown to Brooklyn in 1955. (credit: Lisa Blumenfeld/Getty Images)
Jane Russell
Jane Russell is shown in a scene from the movie "The Outlaw." A family member on Monday, Feb. 28, 2011 said Russell, stunning star of 1940s and 1950s films, died at age 89. (AP File Photo)
Dwayne McDuffie
Dwayne McDuffie, who wrote comic books for Marvel and DC and co-founded his own publishing company before crossing over to television and animation, died Feb. 21. He was 49. (Photo: Comicvine.com)
Edward Zigo
Edward Zigo, the New York City detective who cracked the notorious Son of Sam case in the 1970s by acting on a hunch about a parking ticket and arrested killer David Berkowitz, died Feb. 19. He was 84. (Photo: Zigo holds up the .44 caliber gun used by the Son of Sam killer, David Berkowitz, August 11, 1977. (AP Photo/Dan Goodrich)
Chuck Tanner
The former Pittsburgh Pirates manager died on Feb. 11 at age 83 (Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images)
Gary Moore
Legendary guitarist behind the rock band "Thin Lizzy" died on Feb. 6 of a heart attack. He was 59. Moore seen in July 2010 (Photo: Sebastien Feval/AFP/Getty)
Sargent Shriver
VP Candidate, Peace Corps founder and father of Maria, "Sarge" died on January 18 at the age of 95. Eunice Kennedy Shriver and husband Sargent Shriver in 2004 (Photo: Doug Benc Collection: Getty Images Entertainment)
Jack LaLanne (Fitness Enthusiast) (96)
Jack Lalane died on January 23, 2011, of respiratory failure due to pneumonia at his home in Morro Bay, California. (Photo: Toby Canham/Getty Images)
Susannah York ("Superman" Actress) (72)
She died of bone marrow cancer on January 15. (Photo by MJ Kim/Getty Images)
Peter Yates ("Bullitt" Director) (81)
Yates died in London on January 9. (Photo via AP)
Tom Cavanagh (Hockey Player) (28)
Tom Cavanagh of the San Jose Sharks was found dead in a Providence, Rhode Island mall parking garage on January 6. The cause was ruled to be blunt force trauma. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)
Anne Francis (Actress) (80)
The star of "Forbidden Planet" died of pancreatic cancer on January 2. (AP Photo)
Pete Postlethwaithe (Actor) (64)
The actor, known for "Jurassic Park," "Inception," and "The Usual Suspects," died of cancer on January 2. (Photo by Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images)
John Barry (12-Time James Bond Composer) (77)
The composer died on January 30 of an unreleased cause. (Photo: Dave Hogan/Getty Images
Actor Len Lesser (Uncle Leo on "Seinfeld") (88)
He died of cancer-related pneumonia on February 16. (Photo by Matthew Simmons/Getty Images)