Phil Hartman: May 28, 1998

Cocaine use and alcohol reportedly contributed to Brynn Hartman's decision to shoot her husband, actor Phil Hartman, at point-blank range with his own Smith & Wesson .38 as he slept in the bed they shared in their Encino, Calif. home. She shot him twice in the head and once on his side.

Hartman, best known for his work on Saturday Night Live, NewsRadio, and for voicing several characters on The Simpsons, had reportedly threatened to divorce his wife of 11 years, during an argument over her drug use. Along with her drug problems, which resulted in two stints in rehab, Brynn also suffered from depression. She was taking the antidepressant drug, Zoloft, at the time of the shooting.

Shortly after admitting to a friend that she killed her husband in the early morning hours of May 28, 1998, Brynn climbed into the couple's bed where Phil's dead body still lay and sitting up against the headboard she put the gun in her mouth and fired her own fatal shot. When police arrived, they found Brynn's dead body slumped over that of her husband, orphaning the couple's two children. In 1999, Hartman's estate filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against Pfizer, the manufacturer of the antidepressant drug that Brynn was taking, as well as her psychiatrist. Pfizer settled.

Bonnie Lee Bakley: May 4, 2001

Though out of the public eye for some time, Robert Blake — star of Truman Capote's 1967 film In Cold Blood, and the 1970's show Baretta — became a household name again after he was charged with murdering his wife of one year, Bonnie Lee Bakley.

The high profile trial intrigue centered on Bakley's background and the couple's strange history. She was widely known as a con artist and for allegedly swindling men for money and had been arrested for writing $200,000 in bad checks, along with having more than 30 fake identifications. She served jail time before meeting Blake in 1999 and becoming his wife after a paternity test proved he was the father of her daughter, Rose, which she initially named Christian Shannon Brando after claiming Marlon Brando's son, Christian, was the father.

On May 4, 2001, the couple had dinner at a restaurant, and upon leaving the restaurant, Blake claimed to have realized that he left his revolver in the restaurant and returned to retrieve it. When he came back to the car, he found his wife dead with a gunshot wound to her head. Blake was charged with one count of murder with special circumstances, two counts of solicitation of murder, and one count of murder conspiracy. He was acquitted in 2005, but found liable for the wrongful death of his wife in the civil case filed by Bakley's children and ordered to pay $30 million in restitution.

Stars Who Died Too Soon

1. YouTube star Logan Bratayley died in October, 2015. He was 13.

2.Jim Carrey’s on-again/off-again girlfriend Cathriona White was found dead on September 28, 2015

3.Simone Battle of G.R.L. was found dead on September 5, 2014

4.‘American Idol’ alum Michael Johns died in August 2014

5.Peaches Geldof — the 25-year-old daughter of iconic music mogul Bob Geldof — died in April 2014

6.Amy Winehouse was found dead in her London apartment on July 23, 2011. She was 27.

7.Whitney Houston was found dead in her Beverly Hills hotel room on February 11, 2012. She was 48

8.Jenni Rivera died in a tragic plane crash on Dec. 9, 2012. She was 43.

9.Robin Gibb passed away following a long battle with cancer on May 20, 2012

10.Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, died of a cardiac arrest at the age of 50 in Los Angeles on June 25, 2009

11.DJ AM — whose real name was Adam Goldstein — was found dead in a NYC apartment on August 28, 2009. He was 36.

12.TLC singer Lisa ‘Left Eye’ Lopez was killed in a car accident in Honduras at age 30 on April 25, 2002

13.Queen of R&B, Aaliyah, died in a plane crash in the Bahamas at the age of 22 on August 25, 2001

14.America’s golden boy, John F. Kennedy Jr. lost his life in a plane crash on his way to Martha’s Vineyard on July 16, 1999. He was 38 years old.

15.Beloved folk artist John Denver passed in a plane crash at age 53 on October 12, 1997

16.West Coast hip-hop legend Tupac Shakur had his life taken in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas at age 25 on September 13, 1996

17.Diana, the Princess of Wales, lost her life in an automobile accident at 36 years old on August 31, 1997

18.The East Coast rap superstar Notorious B.I.G. was shot down in LA at the age of 24 on March 9, 1997

19.Prince of Motown, Marvin Gaye left us at the age of 44 after being shot by his father on April 1, 1984

20.‘Nirvana’ front man Kurt Cobain’s struggles with addiction led to his end with a bullet to the head at 27 years old on April 5, 1994

21.Leader of the Revolution, iconic musician John Lennon was shot at the age of 40 by an alleged stalker in front of his apartment building on December 8, 1980

22.Elvis “The King” Presley died on August 16, 1977 in his Graceland mansion. The cause of death was a cocktail on 10 prescription drugs. He was just 42 years old.

23.Famed ‘Doors’ front man Jim Morrison passed away in his Paris hotel room at the age of 27 on July 3, 1971

24.Known as the best guitarist in history, Jimi Hendrix died due to an overdose at age 27 on September 18, 1970