List of celebrities who were widowed young, loosely ranked by fame and popularity. Several famous people have suffered the devastating blow of losing a spouse when they were young. Some celebrities lost their spouses to suicide, while others lost their significant others to cancer. Famous actors, musicians, authors, and politicians have all been widowed young.
Who is the most famous person who was widowed young? Courtney Love tops our list. The Hole front woman became a widow at age 30, after her husband Kurt Cobain committed suicide in 1994. Cobain struggled with heroin addiction, illness and depression for most of his life and his death solidified him as a member of the forever 27 club. Conspiracy theorists believe that Love may have played a role in Cobain's death.
Pierce Brosnan became a widower at 38 when his wife Cassandra Harris died from ovarian cancer in 1991. Brosnan described the difficult time when his wife was dying of cancer saying “When your partner gets cancer, then life changes. Your timetable and reference for your normal routines and the way you view life, all this changes. Because you're dealing with death. You're dealing with the possibility of death and dying.”
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Bo Derek
Bo Derek became a widow at age 42 after 22 years of marriage. Her husband, actor and director John Derek, died from cardiovascular disease in 1998 at 71 years old.
Courtney Love
Courtney Love became a widow at age 30. Her 2nd husband, Kurt Cobain, committed suicide in 1994, two years after they married. Love has not re-married since.
Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor became a widow at age 26. Her 3rd husband, Mike Todd, died in a plane crash a year after they married. Of Taylor's eight marriages, it was her only one that did not end in divorce.
Jackson Browne
Jackson Browne became a widower at age 28. His wife of just a few months, Phyllis Major, committed suicide in 1976. The couple had a son, Ethan, who was born in 1973.
Browne married his second wife, Lynne Sweeney, in 1982. Their son, Ryan, was born in 1982.
Joe Biden
Joe Biden became a widower at age 30. His wife of six years, Neilia Hunter, died in a car accident in 1972, along with the couple's one year-old daughter, Naomi. Their two sons, Beau and Hunter, survived the accident.
Biden married his second wife, Jill Jacobs, in 1975. They have one daughter, Ashley.
Katie Couric
Katie Couric became a widow at age 41. Her husband of 9 yearser husband, Jay Monahan, died from colon cancer in 1998. The couple had two children, Ellie and Carrie.
Lauren Bacall
Lauren Bacall became a widow at age 33. Her husband of 12 years, Humphrey Bogart, died from cancer in 1957 at age 57. The couple had two children, Stephen and Leslie Bogart.
Bacall was married to Jason Robards from 1961-1969. They had a son, Sam.
Martha Washington
Martha Washington was widowed at age 25. Her first husband, Daniel Parke Custis, died in 1757 when he was 46. The couple had four children together.
Martha married President George Washington in 1759. They raised her two surviving children, Patsy and John. They also raised two of John's children, Eleanor and George Washington Parke Custis.
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde became a widower at age 44. His wife of 14 years, Constance Lloyd, died after injuries associated with a fall down the stairs in 1898. At the time, the couple was estranged, and Wilde was in prison. After her death, Constance's relatives sought legal counsel to keep Wilde away from their sons, Cyril and Vyvyan.
Pierce Brosnan
Pierce Brosnan became a widower at age 38. His wife of 17 years, Cassandra Harris, died from ovarian cancer in 1991. Brosnan and Harris had one son together, and he adopted her two children from a previous marriage, Charlotte and Christopher, after their father died in 1986. Tragically, Charlotte Harris also died of ovarian cancer in 2013, when she was 41.
Brosnan married Keely Shaye Smith in 2001, and the couple has two son together.