Pictures: Shocking celebrity deaths
Anton Yelchin, a charismatic and rising actor best known for playing Chekov in the new “Star Trek” films, has died at the age of 27. He was killed in a fatal traffic crash on Sunday, June 19.
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Kimbo Slice, a street-fighting sensation from Miami whose fisticuffs went viral on YouTube, died June 6, 2016. Slice, whose real name was Kevin Ferguson, was 42.
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Pro-BMX biker Dave Mirra was one of the most decorated athletes in X Games history. He held the record for the most medals in history with 24. He was 41. Full obituary
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David Bowie, the innovative and iconic singer whose illustrious career lasted five decades, died Jan. 10, 2016, after battling cancer for 18 months. He was 69. Read more.
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Oscar-winning actor and comic Robin Williams died August 11, 2014 of an apparent suicide. He was 63. (Carl Court / AFP/Getty Images)
Singer Michael Johns, a former ‘American Idol’ finalist, died on August 1, 2014. He was 35 years old. (Jason Merritt / Getty Images)
Actress Skye McCole Bartusiak, best known for her role as the daughter of Mel Gibson’s character’s in the 2000 hit movie “The Patriot,” died July 19 at the age of 21. (Alberto E. Rodriguez / Getty Images)
Peaches Geldof, daughter of Bob Geldof, has died at her home in Kent, southern England, aged 25, British media reported on April 7, 2014. (LUKE MACGREGOR / REUTERS)
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Award-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead in his apartment in New York City on February 2. (Max Rossi/Reuters)
‘Sopranos’ star James Gandolfini died at age 51. (Matt Carr / Getty Images)
Canadian actor Cory Monteith, the 31-year-old heart throb of Fox’s musical-comedy television series “Glee”, was found dead in a hotel room in Vancouver. (Gus Ruelas/Reuters)
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Actor Corey Haim died March 10, 2010 from a reported drug overdose. He’s most known from his turn in “The Lost Boys.” He also starred in “Lucas,” “License to Drive” and “Dream A Little Dream.” Haim was 38. (Michael Bezjian/WireImage)
Former President John F. Kennedy was assassinated Nov. 22, 1963 at age 46. He was shot three times by Lee Harvey Oswald. (HANDOUT / Reuters)
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Shakur was just 25 when he was killed in 1996 in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas. The celebrated rapper had already released five studio albums, served time for a sexual abuse conviction and survived a previous shooting during a robbery. (Perry C. Riddle / Los Angeles Times)
Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, a member of the successful music group TLC with Tionne Watkins and Rozanda Thomas, was killed on April 25, 2002, in a car crash in La Ceiba, Honduras. She was 36. (Geraldine Wilkins / Los Angeles Times)
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Princess Diana: She died after a car accident Sunday, Aug. 31, 1997 in Paris (Tim Graham/Getty Images)
The aircraft of former New York Yankees pitcher flew from New Jersey and struck the 20th floor of a 50-story residential building in Manhattan. His flight instructor also died. (Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images)
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Bob Marley, 36, cancer (Tony Barnard/LAT)