MAY 25
- Anne Heche (actress, Men In Trees, Donnie Brasco, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Volcano, Wag the Dog, Ellen Degeneres’s former girlfriend) (43)
- Sir Ian McKellen (British actor, Gandalf in the Lord Of The Rings movies, Magneto in the X-Menmovies) (73)
- Mike Myers (actor-comedian, Saturday Night Live, the Wayne’s World movies, the Austin Powersmovies) (49)
- Lauryn Hill (hip hop singer) (37)
- Connie Sellecca (actress, John Tesh’s wife) (57)
- Leslie Uggams (actress and singer, Rose on All My Children) (69)
- Karen Valentine (actress, Room 222, host of TVs Dream Girl Of 67) (65)
- Cillian Murphy (actor, Batman Begins, Red Eye, 28 Days Later) (36)
- Molly Sims (model/actress, Las Vegas, host of MTV’s Fashionably Loud) (39)
- Lindsay and Sidney Greenbush (identical twin actresses, played the role of Carrie on TVs Little House On The Prairie) (42)
- Jamie Kennedy (actor, The Ghost Whisperer, The Jamie Kennedy Experiment, Scream movies) (42)
- Klaus Meine (lead singer, the Scorpions) (64)
- Paul Weller (singer-guitarist, the Jam, the Style Council) (54)
- Stacy London (co-host, What Not To Wear) (43)
- Frank Oz (actor, The Blues Brothers, Trading Places; the voice of Yoda in the Star Wars movies, as well as the Muppets characters Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, and Animal, and Sesame Street‘s Bert, Cookie Monster, and Grover) (68)
- Hal David (famous lyricist, songwriting partner of Burt Bacharach) (91)
- Demetri Martin (actor/comedian, The Daily Show, Important Things with Demetri Martin, Taking Woodstock) (39)
- Octavia Spencer (Academy Award winning actress, The Help) (42, some sources say 40)
MAY 26
- Isaac Slade (singer/pianist, the Fray) (31)
- Stevie Nicks (singer, Fleetwood Mac) (64)
- Lenny Kravitz (rock singer) (48)
- Verden Allen (keyboardist, Mott The Hoople) (68)
- Garry Peterson (drummer, the Guess Who) (67)
- Helena Bonham Carter (actress, Sweeney Todd, Terminator Salvation, A Room With A View,Howard’s End, Mighty Aphrodite, Fight Club, Planet Of The Apes) (46)
- Genie Francis (actress, General Hospital‘s Laura Veining Faulkner Webber Baldwin Spencer Cascading Spencer) (50)
- Bobcat Goldthwait (actor-comedian) (50)
- Philip Michael Thomas (actor, Miami Vice‘s Ricardo Tubbs) (63)
- Pam Grier (actress, Coffy, Foxy Brown, Fort Apache The Bronx, Above The Law, Escape From L.A.,Jackie Brown, The L Word) (63)
- Dr. Sally Ride (Astronaut, the first American woman in space) (61)
- Hank Williams Jr. (Country singer) (63)
- Matt Stone (actor, along with Trey Parker created TVs South Park) (41)
MAY 27
- ToddBridges (actor, Diff’rent Strokes) (47)
- Peri Gilpin (actress, Frasier’s Roz) (51)
- Louis Gossett Jr. (actor, Roots, An Officer and a Gentleman) (76)
- Henry Kissinger (former Secretary of State, winner of the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize) (89)
- Lee Meriwether (actress, 1955 Miss America) (77)
- Joseph Fiennes (actor, Shakespeare In Love, Elizabeth, Stealing Beauty) (42)
- Bruce Weitz (actor, Hill Street Blues) (69)
- Jamie Oliver (TVs Naked Chef, Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution) (37)
- Shiloh Jolie-Pitt (daughter of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie) (6)
- Ramsey Lewis (jazz keyboardist) (77)
- Christopher Lee (actor, the Lord Of The Rings movies, Star Wars: Episode II and III; played Count Dracula and Fu Manchu several times in his career) (90)
- Andre 3000 (rapper, of OutKast) (37)
- Pete Sears (bassist, Jefferson Starship, did lots of 1970s session work including for Rod Stewart) (64)
- Neil Finn (singer-guitarist, Split Enz, Crowded House) (54)
- Bruce Cockburn (singer-songwriter) (67)
- Adam Carolla (comedian/co-host, Loveline, The Man Show, Crank Yankers) (48)
- Cilla Black (singer, “You’re My World”) (69)
- Paul Bettany (actor, The Da Vinci Code, Wimbledon, A Beautiful Mind, husband of Jennifer Connelly) (41)
- Jadakiss (rapper) (37)
- Chris Colfer (actor and singer, Glee) (22)
MEMORIAL DAY
- Elisabeth Hasselbeck (The View co-host) (36)
- Patricia Quinn (actress, played “Magenta” in The Rocky Horror Picture Show) (68)
- Gladys Knight (R&B singer) (68)
- Rudolph Giuliani (Former New York City mayor) (68)
- Jerry West (Hall of Fame NBA guard and coach) (74)
- Christa Miller (actress, The Drew Carey Show‘s Kate, Scrubs) (48)
- Kylie Minogue (Australian pop star) (44)
- John Fogerty (singer-guitarist, Creedence Clearwater Revival) (67)
- Brandon Cruz (actor, The Courtship Of Eddie’s Father‘s Eddie, The Bad News Bears) (50)
- Marc Antoine (smooth jazz guitarist) (49)
- Justin Kirk (actor, Andy Botwin on Weeds, Angels in America) (43)
- Jesse Bradford (actor, Hackers, Romeo + Juliet, Swimfan, Flags of Our Fathers, Far From Home) (33)
- Carey Mulligan (actress, Pride & Prejudice, Shame, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Never Let Me Go, Drive) (27)