Saint John's Health Center

Birth

• Patricia Kennedy Lawford, gave birth to her son Christopher Lawford on March 29, 1955.
• Choreographer Michael Rooney was born here March 30, 1962.^[3]
• Actress Mariska Hargitay was born here on January 23, 1964.
• Comedian Adam Friedland was born here on April 10, 1987.^[4]
• Lisa Marie Presley, gave birth to her eldest child Riley Keough in 1989.^[5]
• Actresses Katie Holmes,^[6] Bridget Moynahan^[7][8] and Brooke Shields^[9] gave birth.
• First Lady of California Maria Shriver gave birth and had a nursery ward named in her honor in 2004.^[10]

• Victoria Price, daughter of film star Vincent Price, was born there on April 27, 1962.

Died

• Vaudeville comedian Frank Fay - September 25, 1961.^[11]
• Songwriter Cole Porter on October 15, 1964 - kidney failure after surgery.^[12]
• Jazz singer Nat King Cole - lung cancer on February 15, 1965.^[13]
• Actor Lee Tracy - liver cancer on October 18, 1968.^[14]
• Actor Robert Taylor - lung cancer on June 8, 1969.^[15]
• Actor Charlie Ruggles - cancer on December 23, 1970.^[16][17]
• Actress Joi Lansing - breast cancer in 1972.
• Actress Irene Ryan - glioblastoma and arteriosclerotic heart disease on April 26, 1973, at age 70.^[18]
• Actress Mary Philips - April 22, 1975.
• Radio actor Ken Carpenter - October 16, 1984.^[19]
• Television personality Johnny Olson - October 12, 1985, from complications from a stroke.^[20]
• Astrologer Carroll Righter on April 30, 1988, of prostate cancer.^[21]
• Actress Bonita Granville (1923–1988) - October 11, 1988.^[22]
• Actor Ralph Bellamy - November 29, 1991, from a lung ailment.^[23]
• Cesar Romero - from complications of a blood clot on January 1, 1994.
• Walter Matthau - cardiac arrest on July 1, 2000
• Actor Les Tremayne - heart failure on December 19, 2003, at age 90.^[24]
• Comedian George Carlin - heart failure on June 22, 2008, at age 71.^[25]
• Animator Bill Melendez - September 2, 2008, at age 91.^[26]
• Actor Patrick McGoohan - January 13, 2009, at age 80.^[27]
• Actor Dom DeLuise - May 4, 2009, at age 75 due to kidney failure.^[28]
• Actress Farrah Fawcett - June 25, 2009, at age 62 of anal cancer.^[29]
• Actor Harve Presnell - June 30, 2009, at age 75.^[30]
• Director Blake Edwards - on December 15, 2010, at age 88 from complications from pneumonia.^[31]
• Television personality Dick Clark - April 18, 2012, at age 82 of a heart attack.^[32]
• Actress Karen Black - from ampullary cancer on August 8, 2013, at age 74.
• Actor Dick Van Patten - complications from diabetes - on June 23, 2015, at age 86.^[33]
• Rock guitarist Eddie Van Halen - cerebrovascular accident - on October 6, 2020, at age 65.^[34]
• Actress Diane Keaton, October 11, 2025
• Actress Catherine O'Hara, January 30, 2026, at age 71 from a pulmonary embolism.^[35]

Procedures and treatments

• Actor Richard Burton was treated in 1974 for alcoholism.^[36]
• Pianist Martha Argerich was treated after melanoma spread to her lungs. After she recovered, she gave a special concert benefiting the hospital.
• Playboy Playmate Melissa Holliday underwent electroconvulsive therapy in 1995.^[37]
• Former President Ronald Reagan was taken to St. John's in 2001 after falling and was determined to have a broken hip.^[38]
• Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger was treated for six broken ribs after a motorcycle accident,^[39] and received 15 stitches here after a skiing accident, both in 2006.^[40]
• Former First Lady of the United States Nancy Reagan was taken to St. John's after falling in her Bel Air home on February 17, 2008.^[41][42]