Most Shocking Celebrity Deaths of 2009

The Top Ten
1 Brittany Murphy Brittany Murphy, born November 10th, 1977, was an american actress, best known for roles in films such as "8 Mile", "Clueless", "Happy Feet", "Sin City", and "Just Married", as well as the voice of Luanne Platter on the animated series "King Of The Hill". She passed away on December 20th, 2009 at the age of 32 due to pneumonia and anemia from multiple drug intoxication.

She appeared in the best 90's movie ever, Clueless! She also appeared in awesome and amazing movies! R.I.P.

Totally loved and adored her. So talented,

She was amazing!

2 Michael Jackson Michael Jackson (Michael Joseph Jackson; August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, dancer, and songwriter. He passed away from cardiac arrest caused by a propofol and benzodiazepine overdose on June 25, 2009. He donated (at least) a remarkable 500,000,000 dollars to charity. Michael is also known as The King of Pop (a title given to him by Elizabeth Taylor) or under the initials MJ. Dubbed the King of Pop, he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century. ...read more.

His death shocked the world, and almost killed the internet.

I thought Michael Jackson would get number one!

This should be number one.

3 Farrah Fawcett Mary Farrah Leni Fawcett (February 2, 1947 – June 25, 2009) was an American actress and artist. A four-time Emmy Award nominee and six-time Golden Globe Award nominee, Fawcett rose to international fame when she posed for her iconic red swimsuit poster – which became the best selling pin-up poster in history – and starred as private investigator Jill Munroe in the first season of the television series Charlie's Angels (1976–77). In 1996, she was ranked No. 26 on TV Guide's "50 Greatest TV stars of All-Time".
4 Patrick Swayze Patrick Wayne Swayze was an American actor, dancer, singer, and songwriter. Having gained fame with appearances in films during the 1980s, he became popular for playing tough guys and romantic lead males.
5 Billy Mays
6 Dom DeLuise
7 Natasha Richardson Natasha Jane Richardson was an English-American actress of stage and screen. Richardson was a member of the Redgrave family, being the daughter of actress Vanessa Redgrave and director/producer Tony Richardson, and the granddaughter of Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson.
8 Wayne Allwine
9 Lou Albano

He was a professional wrestler for some time, before appearing in the Super Mario Bros Super Show as everyone's favorite Nintendo plumber (mine's actually Luigi, by the way)

10 Ted Kennedy
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11 John Hughes John Wilden Hughes Jr. was an American filmmaker. Beginning as an author of humorous essays and stories for National Lampoon, he went on to write and direct some of the most successful comedy films.

He created so many great movies like national lampoons vacation, Ferris bueller's day off, pretty in pink, home alone, the breakfast club, sixteen candles and flubber

12 Umaga Edward Smith "Umaga" Fatu was an American Samoan professional wrestler. He was best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation/World Wrestling Entertainment in the 2000s under the ring names Umaga and Jamal.
13 Steve Williams
14 Jett Travolta
15 Bea Arthur
16 Steve McNair
17 Roy E.Disney
18 Roy O. Disney
19 Test Andrew James Robert Patrick Martin was a Canadian-American professional wrestler and actor. He was best known for his time with the World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment under the ring name Test.
20 Jennifer Jones
21 Lucy Gordon
22 Arnold Stang
23 La Parkita
24 Ricardo Montalban
25 Naomi Sims
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