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Celebrity Deaths
William Hamilton
February 28, 2012
A theologian and a member of the Death of God movement in 1960s whose 1966 book "Radical Theology and the Death of God" spuured "Is God Dead" debate has died of complications from congestive heart failure at his home in Portland, Oregon. He was 87.
Vaclav Havel
December 18, 2011
A former playwright who was a leader in the revolution against the totalitarian communist regime and the Czechoslovakia's first democratically elected president died at his weekend home in northern Czech Republic. He was 75.
Walt Hazzard
November 18, 2011
A former star basketball player who played on the championship team in 1964 at UCLA and 10 years in NBA died after recuperating a long time from complications from a heart surgery. He also coached the basketball team at his alma mater for four seasons in the 1980s. He was 69.
John Randolph Hearst, Jr.
November 4, 2011
Nicknamed "Bunky" after a character in his grandfather's newspapers, a grandson and heir of William Randolph Hearst who worked for the company his grandfather founded and the family trust and foundation died in New York. He was 77.
Robert Hegyes
January 26, 2012
An actor who was one of the Sweathogs with John Travolta on the 1970s television show "Welcome Back, Kotter" died of a heart attack at JFK Medical Center in Edison, New Jersey. He was 60.
Levon Helm
April 18, 2012
The drummer and singer of the Band, widely credited to have establishing a genre known as Americana music and an inductee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and a member of the band who toured with Bob Dylan in the mid-1960s, died of cancer in New York. He was 71.
Ernest Hemingway
July 2, 1961
An author and journalist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954 died of self-inflicted gun shot wound at his home in Ketchum, Idaho. He was 61.
Audrey Hepburn
January 20, 1993
One of the most famous actresses of all time, she won Oscar, Emmy, Grammy and Tony awards. She devoted her later years as UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. She died of appendiceal cancer at her home in Switzerland. She was 63.
Katharine Hepburn
June 29, 2003
An actress who appeared in movies, on stage and television and won four Academy Awards for Best Actress died at the Hepburn family home in Fenwick, Connecticut. She was 96.
Gordon Hirabayashi
January 2, 2012
One of three Japanese Americans who refused to comply with Executive Order 9066, signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in February 1942 which gave military authorities the power to restrict the freedom of people of Japanese ancestry on the West Coast following the Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor died in Edmonton, Canada. He was 93.
Bob Hope
July 27, 2003
A British-born American comedian and actor who appeared in vaudevill, on broadway, in television, radio and movies and entertained American military personnel died at his home in Toluca Lake, California. He was 100.
Dolores Hope
September 19, 2011
Widow of comedian Bob Hope who oversaw the couple's charitable givings died of natural causes. She was 102.
John Houseman
October 31, 1988
An actor, director and producer of stage plays and films who was best known for playing Professor Kingsfield in the movie "The Paper Chase" and won an Oscar died of spinal cancer at his home in Malibu, California. He was 86.
Whitney Houston
February 11, 2012
A pop superstar, who saw her career top the music charts in the 1980s and 1990s and starred in numerous movies but had troubled personal life, including drug addictions and tumulous marriage to fellow singer Bobby Brown, was found unresponsive in her room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California and pronunced dead later. She was 48.
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