Peter Tork – Feb 21

Peter Tork gained instant fame in 1966 when he was cast on the TV series The Monkees, about a group of young musicians. He revealed in 2009 that he had been diagnosed with adenoid cystic carcinoma, a form of head and neck cancer. Tork underwent radiation and surgery, but the cancer returned in 2018. He died at his home in Connecticut at age 77 on February 21, 2019.