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(TC) Gone Too Soon: Do You Know All These Comedy Icons?
John Candy is being interviewed at an event in 1985 in Los Angeles, California. Candy died of a heart attack at age 43 on March 4, 1994, in Durango, Mexico.Getty Images
Chris Farley holds a phone receiver underneath his headband in a scene from the film ‘Black Sheep’ in 1996. Farley died of a drug overdose at age 33 in his Chicago apartment on December 18, 1997.Getty Images
Comedian Gilbert Gottfried attends An Amazing Night Of Comedy at New York City Center on April 30, 2016 in New York City. Gottfried died from recurrent ventricular tachycardia on April 30, 2016 in New York, New York.Getty Images
Madeline Kahn appears in a scene from the movie ‘The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother’, in 1975. Kahn died from ovarian cancer at age 57 on December 3, 1999 in New York, New York.Getty Images
Cloris Leachman attends a signing for her book ‘Cloris’ at the 14th annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on April 26, 2009 in Los Angeles. Leachman died from a stroke in her sleep on January 27, 2021, in Encinitas, California.Getty Images
Bernie Mac appears on MTV’s Total Request Live on September 10, 2004 in New York City. Mac died due to complications from pneumonia at age 50 on August 9, 2008, at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois.Getty Images
Norm Macdonald performs on the second day of KAABOO Del Mar on September 16, 2017 in Del Mar, California. Macdonald died of cancer at age 61 on September 14, 2021 in Pasadena, California.Getty Images
Charlie Murphy Headlines at The Brea Improv on Decemeber 10, 2006 in Brea, California. Murphy died from leukemia at age 57 on April 12, 2017 in New York, New York.FilmMagic
Richard Pryor poses during a photo session at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, California on January 7, 1987. He died of a heart attack on December 10, 2005 at age 65 in Los Angeles, California.Bob Riha Jr/WireImage.com
Gilda Radner plays the role of Roseanne Roseannadanna during in Saturday Night Live’s episode “Weekend Update” on April 7, 1979. Radner died of Ovarian Cancer on May 20, 1989 at age 42 in Los Angeles, California.NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via
Joan Rivers appears during Comedy Central’s “Roast of Joan Rivers” at CBS Studios on July 26, 2009 in Studio City, California. Rivers died at age 81 from therapeutic complication stemmed from a throat surgery on September 4, 2014 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, New York.FilmMagic
Bob Saget appears on the Oprah Winfrey Show, in Chicago, Illinois, on April 24, 1990. Saget died by accidentally hitting his head in a hotel room on January 9, 2022 in Orlando.Getty Images
Betty White poses during portrait session on March 29, 2011 at the Museum of Radio and TV in Los Angeles, California. White died from a stroke at age 99 on December 31, 2021, at her home in Los Angeles.Getty Images
Robin Williams poses for a portrait photo in 1999 in Los Angeles, California. Williams died by suicide on August 11, 2014 at age 63 in Paradise Cay, California.Getty Images
Victoria Wood appears on the set of the BBC television series ‘Victoria Wood’, on April 29th 1994. Wood died from cancer on April 20, 2016 at her home in London, United Kingdom.Getty Images