Louis Armstrong, musician
Desi Arnaz, actor and husband of Lucille Ball, lung cancer
Lucille Ball, actress
Leonard Bernstein, composer, lung cancer and emphysema
Amanda Blake, actress
Humphrey Bogart, actor, esophageal cancer
Yul Brynner, actor, lung cancer
Rory Calhoun, actor, emphysema
John Candy, actor

Roy Castle, entertainer, lung cancer from passive smoking
Nat King Cole, singer, lung cancer
Chuck Connors, actor
Gary Cooper, actor
Bing Crosby, singer
Bette Davis, actress
Sammy Davis Jr., singer, throat cancer
John Diamond, columnist, Times Newspaper, throat cancer

Joe DiMaggio, baseball player, lung cancer
Joe DiMaggio Jr., emphysema
Everett Dirkson, senator, lung cancer
Walt Disney, lung cancer
Duke Ellington, musician
Sigmund Freud
James Franciscus, actor
Clark Gable, actor
Jerry Garcia, Grateful Dead musician, heart attack
A. Bartlett Giamatti, baseball commissioner and Yale president, heart attack
Jackie Gleason, actor
Arthur Godfrey, actor, emphysema
Betty Grable, actress, lung cancer
Ulysses S. Grant, general, throat cancer
George Harrison, Beatle, throat cancer

Chet Huntley, reporter, lung cancer
John Huston, director
David Janssen, actor
Stubby Kaye, actor, lung cancer
Buster Keaton, actor, emphysema
Brian Keith, actor, lung cancer (actual death a suicide)
King George VI, Queen Elizabeth's father, lung cancer
King Hussein of Jordan, cancer
Michael Landon, actor, pancreatic cancer
Alan Jay Lerner, lyricist, lung cancer
Larry Linville, Frank Burns in MASH TV series, lung cancer
Lloyd Mangrum, World Golf Hall of Fame, heart attack
Dean Martin, singer, emphysema
Audrey Meadows, actress, lung cancer
Wayne McLaren, Marlboro Man, lung cancer
Melina Mercouri, actress
Robert Mitchum, actor, emphysema and lung cancer
Gary Morton, Lucille Ball's second husband, lung cancer
Edward Mulhare, actor, lung cancer
Edward R. Murrow, reporter, lung cancer
Pat Nixon, wife of Dick
Roy Orbison, singer, heart attack
Jesse Owens, Olympic athlete
Bert Parks, host
Princess Margaret, stroke

George Peppard, actor
Vincent Price, actor
Giacomo Puccini, opera composer, throat cancer
Eddie Rabbit, singer, lung cancer
Harry Reasoner, reporter, heart and lung disease
Pee Wee Reece, baseball player, lung cancer
Lee Remick, actress, kidney and lung cancer
Babe Ruth, throat cancer
Rod Serling, "Twilight Zone", heart attack
Ed Sullivan, TV host, lung cancer
William Talman, lung cancer (lost all of his 251 TV court cases to Perry Mason)
Gene Tierney, actress, emphysema
Carl Wilson, Beach Boys lead guitarist, lung cancer
Wolfman Jack, disk jockey, heart attack
Dick York, actor, emphysema