On Friday, news broke that comedian Ralphie May, 45, had died of cardiac arrest, the same cause of death that claimed rock star Tom Petty, 66, and Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, 91, in the span of a week.
The 27 Club
- Brian Jones (1942-1969)
- Alan “Blind Owl” Wilson (1943-1970)
- Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970)
- Janis Joplin (1943-1970)
- Jim Morrison (1943-1971)
- Ron “Pigpen” McKernan (1945-1973)
- Kurt Cobain (1967-1994)
- Amy Winehouse (1983-2011)
Musicians Who Have Died in 2017. Popular artists like Tom Petty, Chris Cornell and Prodigy. Musical trailblazers like Fats Domino and Chuck Berry.
Friends actor Ron Leibman dies at the age of 82. Award-winning American actor Ron Leibman, famed for playing Rachel Green's overbearing dad in the sitcom Friends, has died at the age of 82. His agent said the cause was pneumonia.
Pages in category "American male actors who committed suicide"
- Art Acord.
- Stanley Adams (actor)
- Ross Alexander.
- Chet Allen (actor, born 1939)
- Keith Andes.
- Gerald Anthony.
- David Arkin.
- Todd Armstrong.
Is Inger Stevens still alive?
Van Gogh suffered from psychotic episodes and delusions and though he worried about his mental stability, he often neglected his physical health, did not eat properly and drank heavily. His friendship with Gauguin ended after a confrontation with a razor when, in a rage, he severed part of his own left ear.
Where is Van Gogh buried?
Auvers-sur-Oise Town Cemetery, Auvers-sur-Oise
Vincent van Gogh was a post-Impressionist painter whose work — notable for its beauty, emotion and color — highly influenced 20th-century art. He struggled with mental illness and remained poor and virtually unknown throughout his life.
Why did Vincent van Gogh cut off his ear? Vincent van Gogh cut off his left ear when tempers flared with Paul Gauguin, the artist with whom he had been working for a while in Arles. Van Gogh's illness revealed itself: he began to hallucinate and suffered attacks in which he lost consciousness.
Van Gogh was never famous as a painter during his lifetime and constantly struggled with poverty. He sold only one painting while he was alive: The Red Vineyard which went for 400 francs in Belgium seven months before his death. His most expensive painting Portrait of Dr. Gachet was sold for $148.6 million in 1990.
A farmer found the gun in 1965 in the French village of Auvers-sur-Oise, where the artist died. The discovery was made in the same field in which Van Gogh is thought to have shot himself in the stomach in July 1890.
The museum's founder Dirk Hannema (1895–1984), who bought the anonymous painting from a Parisian art dealer in 1975 for 6,500 francs (less than 1,000 euros), was always convinced it was a Van Gogh and insured it for a sum equivalent to 35,000 euros.
