This is a list of notable people who have been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Boldfaced names were alive in November 2022. * Shirley Abrahamson (1933–2020; aged 87), American judge and 25th chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. * Dorothy Arnold (1917–1984; aged 66), American actress. * Charles Arnt (1906–1990; aged 83), American actor. * Syd Barrett (1946–2006; aged 60), English musician and co-founder of Pink Floyd. * Count Basie (1904–1984; aged 79), American jazz pianist and bandleader. * Alphonzo E. Bell Jr. (1914–2004; aged 89), American congressman. * Jack Benny (1894–1974; aged 80), American comedian and entertainer. * John Berardino (1917–1996; aged 79), American actor and baseball player. * Joseph Bernardin (1928–1996; aged 68), American cardinal, archbishop of Cincinnati and later Chicago. * Ruschell Boone (born c.1975), Jamaican-born American television journalist. * Bobby Bowden (1929–2021; aged 91), American college football coach for the Florida State Seminoles (1976–2009). * Wernher von Braun (1912–1977; aged 65), German aerospace engineer and later the lead designer of the American rocket Saturn V. * Mary Ward Brown (1917–2013; aged 95), Alabama short story writer and memoirist. * Madeleine Carroll (1906–1987; aged 81), British-American actress and humanitarian. * Billy Carter (1937–1988; aged 51), brother of former President of the United States Jimmy Carter. * Gloria Carter Spann (1926–1990; aged 63), sister of Jimmy Carter. * James Earl Carter Sr. (1894–1953; aged 58), father of Jimmy Carter. * Lillian Gordy Carter (1898–1983; aged 85), mother of Jimmy Carter. * Ruth Carter Stapleton (1929–1983; aged 54), American Christian evangelist, sister of Jimmy Carter. * Geneviève Castrée (1981–2016; aged 35), French-Canadian musician, illustrator and wife of Phil Elverum. * Johnny Clegg (1953–2019; aged 66), English-born South African musician. * Joan Crawford (c.1906–1977; aged 69–73), American actress. * Richard Crenna (1926–2003; aged 76), American actor. * Chuck Daly (1930–2009; aged 79), American basketball head coach, member of NBA Hall of Fame. * Donna Douglas (1932–2015; aged 82), American actress. * Umberto Eco (1932–2016; aged 84), Italian professor and novelist (The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum). * Vince Edwards (1928–1996; aged 68), American actor. * Ralph Eggleston (1965–2022; aged 56), American art director and animator. * Ralph Ellison (1913–1994; aged 81), American writer, winner of National Book Award for Invisible Man. * Art Fleming (1924–1995; aged 70), American actor and television presenter (Jeopardy!). * Eddie Foy Jr. (1905–1983; aged 78), American actor. * Anne Francis (1930–2011; aged 80), American actress. * Aretha Franklin (1942–2018; aged 76), American singer and pianist ("Respect", "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman"). * Bonnie Franklin (1944–2013; aged 69), American actress (One Day at a Time). * Peggy Ann Garner (1932–1984; aged 52), American actress. * Willie Garson (1964–2021; aged 57), American actor (Sex and the City, Hawaii Five-0, Stargate SG-1). * Ben Gazzara (1930–2012; aged 82), American actor. * Bob Gibson (1935–2020; aged 84), American baseball pitcher. * Dizzy Gillespie (1917–1993; aged 75), American bebop jazz trumpeter and bandleader. * Alfred G. Gilman (1941–2015; aged 74), American pharmacologist and biochemist. * Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933–2020; aged 87), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. * Fred Gwynne (1926–1993; aged 67), American actor. * Sir Rex Harrison (1908–1990; aged 82), English actor. * Alcee Hastings (1936–2021; aged 84), American congressman and judge. * Bill Hicks (1961–1994; aged 32), American comedian and musician. * Michael Houser (1962–2002; aged 40), American musician and founder of the band Widespread Panic. * Sir John Hurt (1940–2017; aged 77), English actor. * Eric Idle (born 1943), English actor and comedian. * Eiko Ishioka (1938–2012; aged 73), Japanese costume designer and art director. * Satoru Iwata (1959–2015; aged 55), Japanese businessman, video game programmer and chief executive officer of Nintendo. * Joe Jackson (1928–2018; aged 89), American talent manager and patriarch of the Jackson family. * Steve Jobs (1955–2011; aged 56), American entrepreneur, business magnate and chief executive officer of Apple. * Wilko Johnson (1947–2022; aged 75), English guitarist and singer-songwriter (Dr. Feelgood). * Robert Katzmann (1953–2021; aged 68), United States circuit judge. * Tim Keller (born 1950), American pastor, theologian, and Christian apologist. * Irrfan Khan (1967–2020; aged 53), Indian Hollywood and Bollywood actor. * Dmitri Kolker (1968–2022; aged 54), Russian physicist. * Satoshi Kon (1963–2010; aged 46), Japanese film director and animator. * Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019; aged 85), German fashion designer, creative director of Chanel. * Fiorello La Guardia (1882–1947; aged 64), American politician, mayor of New York City. * Fernando Lamas (1915–1982; aged 67), Argentine-American actor and director. * Michael Landon (1936–1991; aged 54), American actor (Bonanza, Little House on the Prairie, Highway to Heaven). * John Lewis (1940–2020; aged 80), American civil rights activist, politician, and Democratic Congressman from Georgia. * Charlie Louvin (1927–2011; aged 83), American country music singer. * René Magritte (1898–1967; aged 68), Belgian surrealist artist. * Henry Mancini (1924–1994; aged 70), American film composer, conductor, pianist and flautist. * Benoit Mandelbrot (1924–2010; aged 85), Polish-born French and American mathematician. * Joseph Mar Thoma (1931–2020; aged 89), Malankara Metropolitan. * Kenneth Mars (1935–2011; aged 75), American actor. * Dame Clare Marx (born 1954), British surgeon. * Marcello Mastroianni (1924–1996; aged 72), Italian film director. * Marian McCargo (1932–2004; aged 72), American actress and champion tennis player. * Margaret Mead (1901–1978; aged 76), American cultural anthropologist (Coming of Age in Samoa). * Nargis (1929–1981; aged 51), Indian actress. * Benjamin Orr (1947–2000; aged 53), American musician and co-founder of the rock band The Cars. * Billy Paul (1934–2016; aged 81), American soul singer ("Me and Mrs. Jones"). * Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958; aged 58), Austrian pioneer of quantum physics, winner of Nobel Prize. * Randy Pausch (1960–2008; aged 47), American educator. * Luciano Pavarotti (1935–2007; aged 71), Italian operatic tenor. * Brock Peters (1927–2005; aged 78), American actor. * Wolfgang Petersen (1941–2022; aged 81), German film director (Das Boot, Air Force One). * Webb Pierce (1921–1991; aged 70), American honky-tonk vocalist. * Pete Postlethwaite (1946–2011; aged 64) English actor. * Harve Presnell (1933–2009; aged 76), American actor. * Ray Price (1926–2013; aged 87), American country music singer. * Juliet Prowse (1936–1996; aged 60), Indian-American dancer and actress. * Sam Rayburn (1882–1961; aged 79), American politician and longest-serving Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. * Donna Reed (1921–1986; aged 65), American actress. * Harry Reid (1939–2021; aged 82), American politician and lawyer who served as Senate Majority Leader. * Alan Rickman (1946–2016; aged 69), English actor and director (Harry Potter, Die Hard, Love Actually). * Sally Ride (1951–2012; aged 61), American astronaut and physicist. * Pernell Roberts (1928–2010; aged 82), American actor. * Denise Robertson (1932–2016; aged 83), British writer, television broadcaster and agony aunt (Breakfast Time, This Morning). * Simone Signoret (1921–1985; aged 64), French actress. * Felix Silla (1937–2021; aged 84), American actor and stuntman. * Mickey Spillane (1918–2006; aged 88), American crime novelist (detective Mike Hammer). * Patrick Swayze (1952–2009; aged 57), American actor (Dirty Dancing, Ghost, Donnie Darko). * Dyanne Thorne (1936–2020; aged 83), American actress. * Alex Trebek (1940–2020; aged 80), Canadian television personality and presenter (Jeopardy!). * Linda Tripp (1949–2020; aged 70), American civil servant. * Roger Williams (1924–2011; aged 87), American popular music pianist. * Keenan Wynn (1916–1986; aged 70), American actor. * Irving Younger (1932–1988; aged 55), American lawyer, law professor, judge and writer. 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This is a list of notable people who have been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Boldfaced names were alive in November 2022. * Shirley Abrahamson (1933–2020; aged 87), American judge and 25th chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. * Dorothy Arnold (1917–1984; aged 66), American actress. * Charles Arnt (1906–1990; aged 83), American actor. * Syd Barrett (1946–2006; aged 60), English musician and co-founder of Pink Floyd. * Count Basie (1904–1984; aged 79), American jazz pianist and bandleader. * Alphonzo E. Bell Jr. (1914–2004; aged 89), American congressman. * Jack Benny (1894–1974; aged 80), American comedian and entertainer. * John Berardino (1917–1996; aged 79), American actor and baseball player. * Joseph Bernardin (1928–1996; aged 68), American cardinal, archbishop of (en)