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Gone Too Soon: Stars We Lost in 2008
PEOPLE.com says goodbye to the celebs who left an indelible mark. By Cara Lynn Shultz
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CHARLTON HESTON
Six years after announcing his diagnosis with Alzheimer's, the Academy Award winner and onetime president of the National Rifle Association died in his Beverly Hills home April 5 at 84. Longtime friend Dick Van Patten told PEOPLE, "He was just a nice man. I'm going to miss him very, very much."
