How Old 100 Iconic Stars Would Be If They Were Alive Today
From activists to singers to major movie stars, these celebs are sadly lost to us.
![Marilyn Monroe](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/02/Marilyn-Monroe-2-e1630353618509.jpg?quality=82&strip=1&resize=640%2C360)
There are countless stars and public figures who we wish were still with us. Some died tragically young, others lived until a ripe, old age that still wasn't enough for their fans. It's anyone's guess what else these celebrities could have achieved if they had lived to see this year, but we do know what age they would be. So read on to learn how old these 100 iconic, late stars would be in 2021.
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1
Robin Williams, 70
![Robin Williams](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2017/08/shutterstock_105468686.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
Born: July 21, 1951
Died: Aug. 11, 2014
2
Jim Morrison, 78
![Jim Morrison in 1970](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/02/Jim-Morrison.jpg)
Born: Dec. 8, 1943
Died: July 3, 1971
3
Mary Tyler Moore, 85
![Mary Tyler Moore Show](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/07/Mary-Tyler-Moore-Show.jpg)
Born: Dec. 29, 1936
Died: Jan. 25, 2017
4
Whitney Houston, 58
![Whitney Houston](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2017/08/shutterstock_94921960.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
Born: Aug. 9, 1963
Died: Feb. 11, 2012
5
John Candy, 71
![Shutterstock John Candy](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/08/john-candy.jpg)
Born: Oct. 31, 1950
Died: Mar. 4, 1994
6
Carrie Fisher, 65
![Carrie Fisher](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/10/Carrie-Fisher-2014.jpg)
Born: Oct. 21, 1956
Died: Dec. 27, 2016
7
Chadwick Boseman, 45
![Chadwick Boseman](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/08/chadwick-boseman.jpg)
Born: Nov. 29, 1976
Died: Aug. 28, 2020
8
Sylvia Plath, 89
![Sylvia Plath](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/08/Sylvia-Plath.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
Born: Oct. 27, 1932
Died: Feb. 11, 1963
9
River Phoenix, 51
![River Phoenix](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/02/River-Phoenix-copy.jpg)
Born: Aug. 23, 1970
Died: Oct. 31, 1993
10
Bernie Mac, 64
![Bernie Mac](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2017/08/shutterstock_255650710.jpg)
Born: Oct. 5, 1957
Died: Aug. 9, 2008
11
Princess Diana, 60
![Princess Diana receiving flowers](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2017/08/GettyImages-73894753.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
Born: July 1, 1961
Died: Aug. 31, 1997
12
James Dean, 90
![James Dean in 1955](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/02/James-Dean.jpg)
Born: Feb. 1, 1931
Died: Sep. 30, 1955
13
Elvis, 86
![Elvis Presley](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/03/Elvis-Presley-Dog-Tag.jpg)
Born: Jan. 8, 1935
Died: Aug. 16, 1977
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14
Anna Nicole Smith, 54
![Anna Nicole Smith](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2017/08/shutterstock_261119894.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
Born: Nov. 28, 1967
Died: Feb. 8, 2007
15
Kurt Cobain, 54
![Kurt Cobain performing](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/05/kurt-cobain.jpg)
Born: Feb. 20. 1967
Died: Apr. 5, 1994
16
Freddie Mercury, 75
![Freddie Mercury](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2017/08/GettyImages-3296013.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
Born: Sept. 5, 1946
Died: Nov. 24, 1991
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17
Martin Luther King, Jr., 92
![Martin Luther King Jr.](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/01/martin-luther-king-jr.jpg)
Born: Jan. 15, 1929
Died: Apr. 4 1968
18
Heath Ledger, 42
![Heath Ledger in 2006](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/02/Heath-Ledger-2006.jpg)
Born: Apr. 4, 1979
Died: Jan. 22, 2008
19
John Lennon, 81
![John Lennon in 1971](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/02/John-Lennon-1971.jpg)
Born: Oct. 9, 1940
Died: Dec. 8, 1980
20
Jimi Hendrix, 79
![Jimi Hendrix](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2017/08/GettyImages-2636580.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
Born: Nov. 27, 1942
Died: Sept. 18, 1970
21
Amy Winehouse, 38
![Amy Winehouse](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2017/08/shutterstock_95330941-e1502744754336.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
Born: Sept. 14, 1983
Died: July 23, 2011
22
Anton Yelchin, 32
![Anton Yelchin](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2017/08/shutterstock_233811934.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
Born: Mar. 11, 1989
Died: June 19, 2016
23
Sid Vicious, 64
![Sid Vicious performing](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/02/Sid-Vicious.jpg)
Born: May 10, 1957
Died: Feb. 2, 1979
24
Keith Moon, 75
![Keith Moon](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2017/08/GettyImages-154822292.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
Born: Aug. 23, 1946
Died: Sept. 7, 1978
25
Aaliyah, 42
![Aaliyah in 2000](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/02/Aaliyah-2000.jpg)
Born: Jan. 16, 1979
Died: Aug. 25, 2001
26
Paul Walker, 48
![Paul Walker](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2017/08/shutterstock_31983643.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
Born: Sept. 12, 1973
Died: Nov. 30, 2013
27
Janis Joplin, 78
![Janis Joplin](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2017/08/Janis_Joplin_1970.jpeg?quality=82&strip=all)
Born: Jan. 19, 1943
Died: Oct. 4, 1970
28
Patrick Swayze, 69
![Patrick Swayze](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/06/patrick-swayze.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
Born: Aug. 18, 1952
Died: Sept. 14, 2009
29
Tupac Shakur, 50
![Tupac](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2017/08/Tupac_Amaru_Shakur2.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
Born: June 16, 1971
Died: Sept. 13, 1996
30
Biggie Smalls, 49
![Notorious BIG in the "Hypnotize" video](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/02/Notorious-BIG.jpg)
Born: May 21, 1972
Died: Mar. 9, 1997
31
Bob Marley, 76
![Bob Marley in 1976](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/01/bob-marley.jpg)
Born: Feb. 6, 1945
Died: May 11, 1981
32
Chris Farley, 57
![Chris Farley in Tommy Boy](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/02/Chris-Farley-Tommy-Boy.jpg)
Born: Feb. 15, 1964
Died: Dec. 18, 1997
33
Marilyn Monroe, 95
![Marilyn Monroe](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/02/M7XJ12_72dpi.jpg)
Born: June 1, 1926
Died: Aug. 4, 1962
34
Buddy Holly, 85
![Buddy Holly in 1970](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/08/Buddy-Holly.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
Born: Sept. 7, 1936
Died: Feb. 3, 1959
35
John Belushi, 72
![John Belushi in Animal House](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/02/John-Belushi-Animal-House.jpg)
Born: Jan. 24, 1949
Died: Mar. 5, 1982
36
Brittany Murphy, 44
![Brittany Murphy](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2017/08/shutterstock_125376269.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
Born: Nov. 10, 1977
Died: Dec. 20, 2009
37
Steve Irwin, 59
![Steve Irwin](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2017/08/shutterstock_98480405.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
Born: Feb. 22, 1962
Died: Sept. 4, 2006
38
Steve McQueen, 90
![Steve McQueen in The Great Escape](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/02/Steve-McQueen-in-The-Great-Escape.jpg)
Born: Mar. 24, 1930
Died: Nov. 7, 1980
39
Marvin Gaye, 82
![Marvin Gaye "What's Going On" Album Cover](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/02/Marvin-Gaye-Whats-Going-On.jpg)
Born: Apr. 2, 1939
Died: Apr. 1, 1984
40
Cory Monteith, 39
![Cory Monteith](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2017/08/shutterstock_118126294.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
Born: May 11, 1982
Died: July 13, 2013
41
Bruce Lee, 81
![Bruce Lee](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/media/images/ext/912466932/bruce-lee.jpg)
Born: Nov. 27, 1940
Died: July 20, 1973
42
Brandon Lee, 56
![Brandon Lee](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/02/Brandon-Lee.jpg)
Born: Feb. 1, 1965
Died: Mar. 31, 1993
43
Alex Trebek, 81
![Alex Trebek in the press room at The 33rd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards at Kodak Theatre on April 28, 2006 in Hollywood, CA.](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/11/alex-trebek-emmys.jpg)
Born: July 22, 1940
Died: Nov. 8, 2020
44
Bran Renfro, 39
![Brad Renfro](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/02/Brad-Renfro.jpg)
Born: July 25, 1982
Died: Jan. 15, 2008
45
Stevie Ray Vaughan, 67
![Stevie Ray Vaughan "Greatest Hits" album cover](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/02/Stevie-Ray-Vaughn-Greatest-Hits.jpg)
Born: Oct. 3, 1954
Died: Aug. 27, 1990
46
Sharon Tate, 78
![Sharon Tate](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2017/08/GettyImages-2662182.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
Born: Jan. 24, 1943
Died: Aug. 9, 1969
47
Philip Seymour Hoffman, 54
![Philip Seymour Hoffman](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2017/08/shutterstock_189135677.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
Born: July 23, 1967
Died: Feb. 2, 2014
48
Mitch Hedberg, 53
![Mitch Hedberg on Conan O'Brien](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/02/Mitch-Hedberg-on-Conan.jpg)
Born: Feb. 24, 1968
Died: Mar. 29, 2005
49
Michael Jackson, 63
![Michael Jackson](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2017/08/shutterstock_244216060.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
Born: Aug. 29, 1958
Died: June 25, 2009
50
Otis Redding, 80
![Otis Redding "Love Man" album cover](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/02/Otis-Redding-Album-Cover.jpg)
Born: Sept. 9, 1941
Died: Dec. 10, 1967
51
Marlon Brando, 97
![Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/08/Marlon-Brando.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
52
John F. Kennedy, Jr., 61
![John F. Kennedy Jr. and Caroline Bissett](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2017/08/GettyImages-103938031.jpg)
Born: Apr. 3, 1924
Died: July 1, 2004
53
Andy Kaufman, 72
![Andy Kaufman](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/06/Andy-Kaufman.jpg)
Born: Jan. 17, 1949
Died: May 16, 1984
54
Anne Frank, 92
![Anne Frank "The Diary of a Young Girl" book cover](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/01/The-Diary-of-a-young-girl-.jpg)
Born: June 12, 1929
Died: Feb. or Mar. 1945
55
Sam Cooke, 90
![Sam Cooke](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/08/sam-cooke.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
Born: Jan. 22, 1931
Died: Dec. 11, 1964
56
Jeff Buckley, 55
![Jeff Buckley performing](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/02/Jeff-Buckley-Live.jpg)
Born: Nov. 17, 1966
Died: May 29, 1997
57
Ritchie Valens, 80
![Ritchie Valens "La Bamba: The Definitive Collection" album cover](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/02/Ritchie-Valens-La-Bamba.jpg)
Born: May 13, 1941
Died: Feb. 3, 1959
58
Corey Haim, 50
![Corey Haim](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/06/corey-haim.jpg)
Born: Dec. 23, 1971
Died: Mar. 10, 2010
59
Rita Hayworth, 103
![Rita Hayworth in Gilda](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/08/Rita-Hayworth.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
Born: Oct. 17, 1918
Died: May 14, 1987
60
Hank Williams, 98
![Hank Williams "Gold" album cover](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/02/Hank-Williams-Gold-album-cover.jpg)
Born: Sept. 17, 1923
Died: Jan. 1, 1953
61
Jim Croce, 78
![Jim Croce "Photographs and Memories" album cover](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/02/Jim-Croce-album-cover.jpg)
Born: Jan. 10, 1943
Died: Sept. 20, 1973
62
John Coltrane, 95
![John Coltrane "Blue Train" album cover](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/02/John-Coltrane-album-cover.jpg)
Born: Sept. 23, 1926
Died: July 17, 1967
63
Michael Hutchence, 61
![Michael Hutchence](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/02/Michael-Hutchence.jpg)
Born: Jan. 22, 1960
Died: Nov. 22, 1997
64
John Singleton, 53
![John Singleton](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/02/John-Singleton.jpg)
Born: Jan. 6, 1968
Died: Apr. 28, 2019
65
Luke Perry, 55
![Luke Perry](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/03/luke-perry.jpg)
Born: Oct. 11, 1966
Died: Mar. 4, 2019
66
Tom Petty, 71
![Tom Petty](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2017/10/tom-petty-cardiac-arrest.jpg)
Born: Oct. 20, 1950
Died: Oct. 2, 2017
67
Jam Master Jay, 56
![Jam Master Jay performing](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/02/Jam-Master-Jay-Live.jpg)
Born: Jan. 21, 1965
Died: Oct. 30, 2002
68
Jayne Mansfield, 88
![Jayne Mansfield](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/10/jayne-mansfield.jpg)
Born: Apr. 19, 1933
Died: June 29, 1967
69
Mac Miller, 29
![Mac Miller](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/02/Mac-Miller.jpg)
Born: Jan. 19, 1992
Died: Sept. 7, 2018
70
Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, 50
![Shutterstock Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/08/lisa-lopes-tlc.jpg)
Born: May 27, 1971
Died: Apr. 25, 2002
71
Bea Arthur, 99
![Bea Arthur at the GLAAD Media Awards in 2002](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/06/Bea-Arthur.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
Born: May 13, 1922
Died: Apr. 25, 2009
72
Lenny Bruce, 96
![Lenny Bruce performing](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/02/Lenny-Bruce.jpg)
Born: Apr. 13, 1925
Died: Aug. 3, 1966
73
Selena, 49
![Selena "Amor Prohibido" album cover](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/02/Selena-Album-Cover.jpg)
Born: April 16, 1971
Died: Mar. 31, 1995
74
Patsy Cline, 89
![Patsy Cline "Showcase" album cover](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/02/Patsy-Cline-album-cover.jpg)
Born: Sept. 8, 1932
Died: Mar. 5, 1963
75
Prince, 63
![Prince playing the piano](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/09/prince-playing-piano.jpg)
Born: June 7, 1958
Died: Apr. 21, 2016
76
Gary Coleman, 53
![Shutterstock Gary Coleman](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/08/gary-coleman.jpg)
Born: Feb. 8, 1968
Died: May 28, 2010
77
Natalie Wood, 83
![Natalie Wood in Splendor in the Grass](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/02/Natalie-Wood-in-Splendor-in-the-Grass.jpg)
Born: July 20, 1938
Died: Nov. 29, 1981
78
Cass Elliot, 80
![Cass Elliot performing](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/02/Cass-Elliot-performing.jpg)
Born: Sept. 19, 1941
Died: July 29, 1974
79
Karen Carpenter, 71
![Karen Carpenter performing](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/02/Karen-Carpenter-performing.jpg)
Born: Mar. 2, 1950
Died: Feb. 4, 1983
80
Farrah Fawcett, 74
![Farrah Fawcett](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/07/Farrah-Fawcett.jpg)
Born: Feb. 2, 1947
Died: June 25, 2009
81
Roberto Clemente, 87
![Roberto Clemente](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/02/Roberto-Clemente.jpg)
Born: Aug. 18, 1934
Died: Dec. 31, 1972
82
Malcolm X, 96
![Malcolm X](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/02/1024px-Malcolm-x.jpg)
Born: May 19, 1925
Died: Feb. 21, 1965
83
James Gandolfini, 61
![James Gandolfini in The Sopranos](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/01/James-Gandolfini-in-the-Sopranos.jpg)
Born: Sept. 18, 1961
Died: June 19, 2013
84
Andy Gibb, 63
![Andy Gibb "Shadow Dancing" album cover](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/02/Andy-Gibb-Shadow-Dancing.jpg)
Born: Mar. 5, 1958
Died: Mar. 10, 1988
85
Phil Hartman, 73
![Phil Hartman](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/08/Phil-Hartman.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
Born: Sept. 24, 1948
Died: May 28, 1998
86
David Bowie, 73
![David Bowie](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/02/David-Bowie.jpg)
Born: Jan. 8, 1947
Died: Jan. 10, 2016
87
Natalie Cole, 71
![Natalie Cole](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/08/Natalie-Cole.jpg)
Born: Feb. 6, 1950
Died: Dec. 31, 2015
88
Audrey Hepburn, 92
![Audrey Hepburn](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/07/Audrey-Hepburn.jpg)
Born: May 4, 1929
Died: Jan. 20, 1993
89
George Michael, 58
![George Michael](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/05/george-michael-singer.jpg)
Born: June 25, 1963
Died: Dec. 25, 2016
90
Gregory Peck, 105
![Gregory Peck](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/05/gregory-peck.jpg)
Born: Apr. 5, 1916
Died: June 12, 2003
91
Judy Garland, 99
![Judy Garland](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/08/judy-garland-.jpg)
Born: June 10, 1922
Died: June 22, 1969
92
Alan Rickman, 75
![Alan Rickman](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2017/11/shutterstock_162128780.jpg)
Born: Feb. 21, 1946
Died: Jan. 14, 2016
93
Sammy Davis. Jr, 96
![Sammy Davis Jr "Mr. Bojangles" album cover](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/02/Sammy-Davis-Jr.jpg)
Born: Dec. 8, 1925
Died: May 16, 1990
94
Grace Kelly, 92
![Grace Kelly](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/09/Grace-Kelly.jpg)
Born: Nov. 12, 1929
Died: Sep. 14, 1982
95
Freddie Prinze, 67
![Freddie Prinze](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/02/Freddie-Prinze.jpg)
Born: June 22, 1954
Died: Jan. 29, 1977
96
Elizabeth Taylor, 89
![Elizabeth Taylor](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/02/R1JAHN_72dpi.jpg)
Born: Feb. 27, 1932
Died: Mar. 23, 2011
97
Maya Angelou, 93
![Maya Angelou](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/08/Maya-Angelou.jpg?quality=82&strip=all)
Born: Apr. 4, 1928
Died: May 28, 2014
98
Adam Yauch, 57
![Adam Yauch](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/02/Adam-Yauch.jpg)
Born: Aug. 5, 1964
Died: May 4, 2012
99
David Foster Wallace, 59
![David Foster Wallace](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2021/02/David-Foster-Wallace.jpg)
Born: Feb. 21, 1962
Died: Sept. 12, 2008
100
Dorothy Dandridge, 99
![Dorothy Dandridge](https://bestlifeonline.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/10/dorothy-dandridge.jpg)
Born: Nov. 9, 1922
Died: Sept. 8, 1965
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