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 * Famous People Who Have Leukemia or Have Died From It**

Billy Walsh: He was a famous 49ers coach who died of leukemia at age 75.

Louis Mayer: He was a politician who died of leukemia.

William C. Bullitt: He was a politician who died of leukemia.

Ed Bradley: He was a CBS newsman fought with leukemia, but died at the end after an operation on his spleen on November 2006.

Mary Travers: She was born in 1936. Mary was an American inger and was diagnosed with leukemiain 2004.She made a complete recovery after having chemotherapy.

Marie Curie: She discovered radium, the radioactive chemical and received a Nobel Prize, being the first women to earn a Nobel Prize. She died of leukemia because of large amounts of close contact with radioactive chemicals.

Irene Joliot-Curie: The daughter of Marie Curie, she also developed leukemia as a result of close contact with radium and work with X-rays in the battlefields.



Quiz Question:Name four famous people who died from leukemia.


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