10. Bob Marley
The picture above depicts the 36 year old cultural icon and musician with his wife receiving cancer treatment in Germany. He would pass away on May 11, 1981, after landing in Miami coming home to Jamaica from Germany. It is hard to believe judging from his frailty in the picture that just a year earlier he was performing in stadiums with crowds approaching 100,000 people. Four years prior to his death he was diagnosed with a type of malignant melanoma under the nail of a toe, a symptom of an earlier cancer he had. Refusing to take his Doctor’s treatment citing religious beliefs, he held on for four more years.
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