Gary Coleman, the child star of the smash 1970s TV sitcom “Diff’rent Strokes,” has died after suffering an intercranial hemorrhage. He was 42. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Actor Corey Haim died March 10, 2010 from a reported drug overdose. He’s most known from his turn in “The Lost Boys.” He also starred in “Lucas,” “License to Drive” and “Dream A Little Dream.” Haim was 38. (Michael Bezjian/WireImage)
Shakur was just 25 when he was killed in 1996 in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas. The celebrated rapper had already released five studio albums, served time for a sexual abuse conviction and survived a previous shooting during a robbery. (Perry C. Riddle / Los Angeles Times)
Mystery surrounds the death of the lead singer of the Doors, who died in 1971 in Paris at the age of 27. The official account is that he was found in a bathtub, and because no foul play was suspected, an autopsy was never performed. Rumors have circulated ever since that Morrison died of a heroin overdose. (Larry Hulst / Getty Images)
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Rob Pilatus, singer, April 2, 1998 Rob Pilatus, of the defunct pop duo Milli Vanilli, killed himself by overdosing on prescription drugs. (NICK UT / AP)
Cory Lidle, baseball player, Oct. 11, 2006 Cory Lidle, a pitcher for the New York Mets, died after his small airplane crashed into a building in New York City. (CHARLES KRUPA / AP)
Bob Marley, 36, cancer (Tony Barnard/LAT)
Kurt Cobain ushered in a new era in rock in the early ‘90s with his band Nirvana. But fame was never his intention, and it seemed to add to his suffering, brought on by depression, chronic bronchitis and heroin addiction. He died at 27 of a self-inflicted gunshot to the head. (Frank Micelotta / Getty Images)
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A. Bartlett Giamatti , major league baseball commissioner, September 1, 1989 A. Bartlett Giamatti died of a massive heart attack. (RICHARD DREW / AP)
