The Most Heartbreaking Celebrity Deaths Of 2016

Patty Duke

Childhood actress, celebrity icon, and mental health advocate Patty Duke passed away at 69 on March 29 as a result of sepsis stemming from a ruptured intestine. Duke was best known as an Academy Award and Oscar-winning actress that played the role of Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker, identical cousins on The Patty Duke Show and several other films. However, she also dealt with bipolar disorder and a number of health issues throughout her long career in Hollywood.

She was also quite infamous as the face of adultery during that time with four marriages under her belt and became the talk of the town over the mysterious father of her son Austin. Regardless of the turbulent patterns that the actress lived her life around, she will be missed as one of the greats in Hollywood.