Photos: A summer of loss
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Farrah Fawcett
Farrah Fawcett, the “Charlie’s Angels” star whose feathered blond hair and dazzling smile made her one of the biggest sex symbols of the 1970s, died Thursday, June 25, after battling cancer. She was 62. (AP) Back to slideshow navigation -
Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson, defined in equal parts as the world’s greatest entertainer and perhaps its most enigmatic figure, died shockingly at the age of 50 on Thursday, June 25. The death of the "King of Pop" set off a worldwide outpouring of grief and a months-long investigation into what killed the musical superstar. (Michael A. Mariant / AP) Back to slideshow navigation -
Patrick Swayze
Patrick Swayze, the hunky actor who danced his way into viewers’ hearts with “Dirty Dancing” and then broke them with “Ghost,” died Monday, Sept. 14, after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57. (Lefteris Pitarakis / AP) Back to slideshow navigation -
Ed McMahon
Ed McMahon, the loyal “Tonight Show” sidekick who bolstered boss Johnny Carson with guffaws and a resounding “H-e-e-e-e-e-ere’s Johnny!” for 30 years, died Tuesday, June 23. He was 86. (Frazer Harrison / Getty Images) Back to slideshow navigation -
Adam 'DJ AM' Goldstein
Adam Goldstein, the celebrity disc jockey known as DJ AM, who publicly acknowledged his history of drug addiction and had filmed a reality show in which he offered to help other addicts, was found dead in his apartment on Friday, Aug. 28. He was 36. (Noel Vasquez / Getty Images) Back to slideshow navigation -
Walter Cronkite
Walter Cronkite, the face of the "CBS Evening News" from 1962 to 1981, when stories ranged from the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to racial and anti-war riots, Watergate and the Iranian hostage crisis, died on Friday, July 17. He was 92. (AP file) Back to slideshow navigation -
Les Paul
Les Paul, who invented the solid-body electric guitar later wielded by a legion of rock ’n’ roll greats, died Thursday, Aug. 13, of complications from pneumonia. He was 94. (Richard Drew / AP) Back to slideshow navigation -
Robert Novak
Political columnist Robert Novak, a conservative, pugilistic debater and proud owner of the "Prince of Darkness" moniker, died Tuesday, Aug. 18, after a battle with brain cancer. He was 78. (Ho / REUTERS) Back to slideshow navigation -
Mary Travers
Mary Travers, one-third of the hugely popular 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, died Wednesday, Sept. 16, after battling leukemia for several years. She was 72. The trio mingled their music with liberal politics, both onstage and off. Their version of “If I Had a Hammer” became an anthem for racial equality. (AP) Back to slideshow navigation -
John Hughes
Writer-director John Hughes, Hollywood’s youth impresario of the 1980s and ’90s who captured the teen and preteen market with such favorites as “Home Alone,” “The Breakfast Club” and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” died of a heart attack on Thursday, Aug. 6. He was 59. (AP) Back to slideshow navigation -
Jim Carroll
Jim Carroll, the poet and punk rocker who wrote "The Basketball Diaries," died of a heart attack on Friday, Sept. 11, at 60. In the 1970s, Carroll was a fixture of the burgeoning downtown New York art scene, where he mixed with artists such as Andy Warhol, Patti Smith, Larry Rivers and Robert Mapplethorpe. (Lawrence Lucier / Getty Images) Back to slideshow navigation -
Don Hewitt
Don Hewitt, the CBS newsman who invented “60 Minutes” and produced the popular newsmagazine for 36 years, died of pancreatic cancer on Wednesday, Aug. 19. He was 86. Hewitt joined CBS News in television’s infancy in 1948, and produced the first televised presidential debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon in 1960. (Rene Macura / AP) Back to slideshow navigation -
Karl Malden
Karl Malden, the Academy Award-winning actor whose intelligent characterizations on stage and screen made him a star despite his plain looks, died of natural causes on Wednesday, July 1, at 97. Malden gained perhaps his greatest fame as Lt. Mike Stone in the 1970s television show "The Streets of San Francisco." (AP) Back to slideshow navigation
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