The ‘sudden and unexpected’ death of Jurassic Park star Sam Neill has been attributed to pneumonia – the lung disease that kills some 25,000 people in Britain every year.
The passing of the 78-year-old may come as somewhat of a surprise to fans, given that he announced his remission from blood cancer in April and was ‘cancer-free’ when he died, according to his agent.
But Neill is not the first noteworthy figure to fall victim to pneumonia over the past few years.
It was named on the death certificate of both Val Kilmer and Diane Keaton last year, who died aged 65 and 79,
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