NEW YORK (AP — Linda Lavin, a Tony Award-winning stage
actress who became a working class icon as a paper-hat
wearing waitress on the CBS – TV sitcom "Alice," has died.
Her representative, Bill Veloric, said Lavin died in Los
Angeles on Sunday of complications from recently
discovered lung cancer.
Photo shows Linda Lavin (as waitress Alice Hyatt) and Vic Tayback (as Mel Sharples, owner of the diner) from "Alice."
(FOX NEWS) – Greg Gumbel, who broadcast the NFL
on CBS and served as the network’s studio host for
March Madness, has died after a bout with cancer.
(FOX NEWS) – Former NFL Hall of Famer and Eagles linebacker
Bill Bergey died today. He was 79.
Bergey, who played for the Philadelphia Eagles from 1974-1980,
had been battling cancer for the past few years.
Roger Eugene Maris was a professional baseball right fielder
who played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball. He is best
known for setting a new MLB single-season home run record
with 61 home runs in 1961.
Maris was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 1983. In
response, Maris organized the annual Roger Maris Celebrity
Golf Tournament to raise money for cancer research and
treatment.
He died of the disease at age 51 on December 14, 1985, at M.D.
Anderson Hospital in Houston, Texas and was buried at Holy
Cross Cemetery in Fargo, North Dakota.
Roger Maris, Joe DiMaggio and Cincinatti Reds team
manager at Al Lang Stadium dugout, St. Petersburg,
Florida in 1983.
George Harrison (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was
an English musician, singer and songwriter who achieved
international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles.
In May 2001, it was revealed that Harrison had undergone an
operation to remove a cancerous growth from one of his lungs.
In November 2001, Harrison began radiotherapy at Staten
Island University Hospital in New York City for non–small
cell lung cancer that had spread to his brain. He died in
Beverly Hills, California with his second wife Olivia and
their son Dhani by his side. He was 58 years old.
