Deaths from respiratory failure in the United States

president of the United States from 1857 to 1861

Tupac Amaru Shakur was an American rapper and actor. He was one of the most influential musical artists of the 20th century, and a prominent political activist for Black America. He is among the best-selling music artists, having sold more than 75 million records worldwide. Some of Shakur's music addressed social injustice, political issues, and the marginalization of African Americans, but he was also synonymous with gangsta rap and violent lyrics.

American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer (1926–1991)

American actor (1921–2003)

Charles Milles Manson was an American criminal, cult leader, and musician who was the founder of the Manson Family. He gained notoriety for ordering the Tate–LaBianca murders, where his followers murdered nine people around Los Angeles in 1969.

American actor (1957–2012)

Dean Martin was an American singer, actor, comedian and television host. Nicknamed the "King of Cool", he is regarded as one of the most popular entertainers of the 20th century.

American actor and filmmaker (1940–2019)

American exercise instructor (1914–2011)

American actress and author (1906–1987)

American composer, composition teacher, writer, and conductor (1900-1990)

Hawaiian singer (1959–1998)

American talk show host and comedian (1925–2005)

American actress (1910–2000)

American tennis player (1927-2003)

Edward Theodore Gein, also known as the Butcher of Plainfield and the Plainfield Ghoul, was an American murderer and body snatcher. His crimes, committed around his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin, gathered widespread notoriety in 1957 after authorities discovered that he stole corpses from local graveyards and fashioned keepsakes from their bones and skin. He also confessed to killing two women: tavern owner Mary Hogan in 1954 and hardware store owner Bernice Worden in 1957.

Hungarian-American actress and socialite (1919–1995)

American country musician (1931–2013)

United States Senator from Hawaii (1924–2012)

American novelist (1916–1997)

American rapper (1971–2000)

US physicist, editor of the journal Science, and director of the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Geophysical Laboratory (1913–2004)

American businessman, record executive, record producer and DJ (1923–2003)

American singer (1950–2010)

American jazz musician

American actress (1938-1992)

American actor (1907–1998)

heaviest ever recorded human (1941-1983)

American blues musician and songwriter (1925–1976)

Indian actor (1932–2004)

American businessman, music publisher (1931–2009)

American boxer (1919–1990)

American singer (1907-1986)

American actress (1883–1938)

American actress (1926–2005)

American singer and actor (1928–2018)

American actor (1945-2016)

American actress and singer (1927-2017)

American actress (1891-1987)

American actor (1927-1994)

American writer (1925–2008)

American psychologist and columnist (1927–2013)

American actress (1890–1989)

American actor (1966-1998)

American Delta blues guitarist (1915-2006)

American businessman, conservationist, financier, philanthropist (1910-2004)

American popular music singer (1924-1999)

American chess player (1929-2017)

American country musician (1910–1968)

actress (1938-1996)

American linguist

American country music singer and musician (1932-2017)

American actress (1924-2003)

American script supervisor (1924–1995)

American actor and singer (1923–2011)

Japanese-American interned during World War II

Comedian and actor (1922-2015)

American sound engineer (1937-2015)

American actor (1933-2020)

Austrian-American opera impresario (1902-1997)