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Aaliyah
1971-2001
Plane
crash
|
Barbara
Acklin
2/28/43
- 11/27/98 Pneumonia.
|
LaVern
Baker
11/11/29
- 3/11/97
Diabetes
|
Hank
Ballard
11/18/36
- 3/2/03
Throat
cancer
|
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Brook
Benton
9/19/31
- 4/9/88
Complications
from spinal meningitis
|
James Brown
5/3/33
- 12/25/06
Pneumonia
|
Ruth Brown
1/30/28
- 11/17/06
Heart attack, stroke
|
Solomon
Burke
1940
- 2010
Natural Causes
|
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Ray Charles
9/23/30 - 6/10/04
Liver disease
|
Dee
Clark
11/7/38
- 12/7/90
Heart attack
|
Arthur Conley
4/1/46 - 11/17/03
Intestinal cancer
|
Sam
Cooke
1/22/31 - 12/1/64
Gunshot wound in by female motel
manager under
mysterious
circumstances
|
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King
Curtis
2/7/34
- 8/13/71
Stabbed
to death in New York City
|
Tyrone Davis
5/4/38 - 2/9/05
Stroke
|
Bo
Diddley
12/30/28
- 6/2/08
Heart failure
|
Betty
Everett
11/23/39
-8/19/01
|
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Marvin
Gaye
4/2/39 - 4/1/84
Fatally shot by his
father after a
quarrel in Los
Angeles
|
Donny Hathaway
10/1/45 - 1/13/79
Committed suicide
jumping from 15th
floor of New York
City's Essex House
|
Isaac Hayes
8/20/42 - 8/10/08
Stroke
|
Jimi
Hendrix
1942
- 1970
Drug
overdose
|
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Whitney
Houston
8/9/63 - 2/11/2012
|
Ivory
Joe Hunter
10/10/14
- 11/8/74 Lung cancer
|
Phyllis Hyman
7/6/51 - 7/1/95
Committed suicide
|
Luther Ingram
11/30/44
- 3/19/07
Kidney problems
|
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Michael
Jackson
8/29/58 -
6/25/09
Cardiac arrest
|
Etta James
1/25/38 - 1/20/2012
|
Rick James
2/1/48 - 8/6/04
Natural causes
|
Marv
Johnson
10/15/38
- 5/16/93
Died
after collapsing in a concert in South Carolina
|
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Joe Jones
8/12/26 - 12/11/05
Complications of heart surgery
|
Louis Jordan
7/8/08 - 2/4/75
Heart attack
|
Ernie
K-Doe
2/22/36 - 7/5/01
Died after three days in a coma
|
Eddie
Kendricks
12/17/39
- 10/5/92
Lung cancer
|
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Major
Lance
4/4/42
- 9/3/94
Heart
disease
|
Gerald Levert
7/13/66 - 11/10/06
Heart attack
|
Little
Eva
6/29/45
- 4/10/03
Cancer
|
Teena Marie
3/5/56 -
12/26/2010
Natural
Causes
|
|
Van
McCoy
1/6/44
- 7/6/79
Heart
attack
|
Clyde
McPhatter
11/15/32
- 6/13/72
Heart
attack
|
Curtis
Mayfield
6/3/42
- 12/26/99
Complications
from trauma, quadriplegic
|
Notorious
B.I.G.
1972-1997
Murdered
|
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Teddy
Pendergrass
3/6/50
- 1/13/2010
Colon cancer
|
Wilson Pickett
3/18/41
- 1/19/06
Heart attack
|
Billy Preston
9/9/46
- 6/6/06
Heart infection
|
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Lou Rawls
12/1/35
- 1/6/06
Cancer
|
|
Otis Redding
9/9/41
- 12/10/67
Plane
crash
|
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Minnie
Riperton
11/8/47 - 7/12/79
Cancer
|
David
Ruffin
1/18/41 - 6/1/91
Drug
overdose
|
O.C.
Smith
6/21/36
- 11/23/01
|
|
Edwin
Starr
1/21/42
- 4/2/03
|
Billy
Stewart
3/24/37
- 1/17/70
Auto accident
|
2Pac
6/16/71
- 9/13/96 Gunned down in Las Vegas, died five days later
|
Johnnie
Taylor
5/5/38
- 5/31/00
Heart
attack
|
|
Tammi
Terrell
1/24/46 - 3/16/70
Brain tumor
|
Joe Tex
8/8/33
- 8/13/82
Heart
attack
|
Doris
Troy
1/6/37 - 2/16/04
Emphysema
|
Luther Vandross
4/20/51 - 07/1/05
Stroke
|
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Dinah Washington
8/29/24 - 12/14/63
Overdose
|
Mary
Wells
5/13/43 - 7/26/92
Throat cancer
|
Barry
White
9/12/44 -
7/4/03
Kidney failure
|
Al Wilson
6/19/39 - 4/22/08
Kidney failure
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