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Celebrity
Death Certificates
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Price, Vincent:
(May 27, 1911 - October 25, 1993)
Vincent Price was a talented American actor
who starred in many great films including
House of Wax, House on
Haunted Hill, The Fly,
and Tales of Terror. In
addition, Price played Professor
Ratigan in Walt Disney Pictures' The
Great Mouse Detective, and performed
a sinister "rap" on the title track of
Michael Jackson's Thriller
album . He also hosted the Mystery! series
on PBS. On
October 25, 1993, after battling
emphysema and Parkinson's disease, Price
died of lung cancer at his home in Los
Angeles, California. He was cremated and his ashes scattered off
Point Dume in Malibu, California.
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Stompanato, Johnny:
(October 25, 1910 - April 4, 1958)
Johnny Stompanato was
the bodyguard and enforce for gangster,
Mickey Cohen. Stompanato was in a
relationship with actress Lana Turner, when
in 1958, he was stabbed and killed by
Turner's teenage daughter from her second
marriage, Cheryl Crane. Crane claimed
that Stompanato was abusing and attacking
her mother at the time of the stabbing and
as such, the incident was ruled "justifiable
homicide." Johnny Stompanato's
official cause of death is listed as "stab
wound of the abdomen penetrating liver,
portal vein, and aorta with massive
hemorrhage."
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Tchaikowsky, André:
(November 1, 1935 - June 26, 1982)
Tchaikowsky was a Polish composer and
pianist who talent was learned early in his
childhood when his mother started to teach
him the piano when he was four years old. As
a skilled and talented pianist, Tchaikowsky
recorded variation of compositions by
artists such as Bach, Chopin, Fauré, Haydn,
Mozart, and Schubert. In addition to his
love for the piano, Tchaikowsky's passion
was composition where he wrote two Piano
Concertos, a String Quartet, a setting of
Shakespeare's Seven Sonnets for voice with
piano, a Piano Trio and several other
compositions for piano solo. He also
completed an opera, The Merchant of
Venice, based on Shakespeare's play.
On June 26, 1082, Tchaikowsky passed away
from colon cancer in Churchill Hospital in
Oxford, England. He donated his body to The
Royal Shakespeare Company with the hopes
that his skull would one day used as the
skull of Yorick in the production of Hamlet.
In 2008, Tchaikowsky's wish was honored as
it was officially used in several
performances of Hamlet held at the
Courtyard Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.
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Tsarnaev, Tamerlan: (October
21, 1986 - April 19, 2013)
Tsarnaev was one of the Chechen
brothers suspected perpetrating the April 15th, 2013 Boston
Marathon Bombings. Tsarnaev was born in the Kalmyk
Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic now known as Kalmykia,
a North Caucasus unit of the Russia Federation. In the
early hours of April 19, 2013, in Watertown, a suburb of Boston,
Tamerlan was apprehended by police after being shot multiple
times. The exact sequence of events remains clouded in
confusion, as do key details. According to police, Tamerlan's
younger brother Dzhokhar ran him over with an SUV and dragged
him with the vehicle for 20 feet. He was taken to Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center, where, despite efforts to revive him,
he was pronounced dead from several critical injuries, massive
blood loss, and cardiac and respiratory arrest. Also, read the
criminal complaint filed against his brother, Dzhokhar.
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Westover, Charles:
(December 30, 1934 - February 8, 1990)
Charles Westover, also known as Del Shannon,
was an American rock and roll singer and
songwriter, who was known for top hits in
the 1960's such as Runaway,
Little Town Flirt, Do You
Want to Dance, and Handy Man.
On February 8, 1990, Shannon suffering from
long bouts of depression, took a .22 caliber
rifle and committed suicide. The official
cause of death is listed as a "gunshot wound
to the head." On March 15, 1999, Shannon was
inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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Williams, Hank:
(September 17, 1923 - January 1, 1953)
Hank Williams
was an outstanding, young singer and
songwriter who was
regarded as one of the
most important country music artists of all
time. He had top hits that included "I
Saw the Light," "Your Cheatin'
Heart," "Hey Good Lookin',"
and "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry."
On December 31, 1952, Williams was scheduled
to perform in Charleston, West Virginia;
however, due to inclement weather Williams
could not make it to the scheduled
performance and had a college student,
Charles Carr, drive him from Montgomery,
Alabama to Canton, Ohio for his next concert
on New Year's Day. Williams and Carr arrived
at a hotel in Knoxville, Tennessee to stop
and eat and rest. They checked in to the
hotel at 7:08 p.m and ordered dinner. Carr
also requested a doctor for Williams, as he
was feeling the combination of the chloral
hydrate and alcohol he had drunk on the way
from Montgomery to Knoxville. Dr. P.H.
Cardwell injected Williams with two shots of
vitamin B12 in addition to a quarter-grain
of morphine. Carr and Williams checked out
of the hotel at around 10:45 pm. While
traveling through West Virginia, Carr
stopped for gas in Oak Hill, West Virginia
and found Williams unresponsive. The cause
of death was listed as a heart attack due to
"acute right ventricular dilation" of the
heart.
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Zappa, Frank:
(December 21, 1940 - December 4, 1993)
Zappa was an American composer, singer,
songwriter and activist. He was posthumously inducted
into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 and received the
Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997. On December 4,
1993, at the age of 52, Zappa died from complications from
prostate cancer.
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