Jeff Conaway

Age: 60

Summary: actor who starred on the TV sitcom Taxi from 1978 to 1981, played Kenickie in the 1978 movie musical Grease, and publicly battled drug and alcohol addiction on Celebrity Rehab, who had repeated back surgeries for an injury and blamed his cocaine use and painkiller abuse in part on his lingering back problem, who had failed to seek medical aid, instead trying to treat himself with painkillers and cold medicine.

Cause of Death: Pneumonia and sepsis caused by a bacterial infection

Born: October 5, 1950

Died: May 27, 2011

Location: Los Angeles, California