February 4 th is World Cancer Day and Metro has produced a gallery in the memory of the famous men and women who lost their lives to cancer. Among the many lost are politicians, actors and musicians from Jacqueline Kennedy to Bob Marley. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Ted Kennedy Farrah Fawcett Roger Ebert Eartha Kitt Bob Marley Patrick Swayze Frank Sinatra John Wayne Walt Disney Andy Whitfield Steve Jobs Sammy Davis Jr Babe Ruth Paul Newman Peter Jennings Bea Arthur
July 28, 1929 -May 19, 1994
Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
February 22, 1932 -August 25, 2009
Brain cancer
February 2, 1947 -June 25, 2009
Anal cancer
June 18, 1942 –April 4, 2013
Thyroid cancer
January 17, 1927 -December 25, 2008
Colon cancer
6 February 1945 -11 May 1981
Skin cancer
August 18, 1952 -September 14, 2009
Pancreatic cancer
December 12, 1915 -May 14, 1998
Bladder Cancer
Humphrey Bogart
December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957
Esophageal cancer
May 26, 1907 -June 11, 1979
Stomach cancer
December 5, 1901 -December 15, 1966
Lung Cancer
October 17, 1971 – September 11, 2011
Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
February 24, 1955 -October 5, 2011
Pancreatic cancer
December 8, 1925 -May 16, 1990
Throat cancer
February 6, 1895 -August 16, 1948
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma
January 26, 1925 -September 26, 2008
Lung cancer
July 29, 1938 -August 7, 2005
Lung cancer
May 13, 1922 -April 25, 2009
Cancer (unspecified)