Dead Playboy Playmates of the Month

Sharry Konopski (December 2, 1967 – August 25, 2017) was an American model and actress. She was chosen as Playboy's Playmate of the Month in August 1987 and has appeared in numerous Playboy videos. She posed nude again for Playboy in the March 1997 issue. Sharry Konopski (born December 2, 1967 in Longview, Washington) is an American model and actress. She was chosen as Playboy's Playmate of the Month in August 1987 and has appeared in numerous Playboy videos. 1950s actress died when she was only 36 on Aug. 5, 1962, of an overdose of sedatives used for insomnia. Her housekeeper discovered her lying nude and face down on her bed at her home in Los Angeles, with the phone in her hand. She was already dead. Monroe, nicknamed the 'Blonde Bombshell,' was a leading lady in films.

This page lists every model featured as Playboy magazine's 'Playmate of the Month' who has died.

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Playmate of Month	Name	Died	Cause	Age
12/1953	Marilyn Monroe	8/5/1962	drug overdose (accidental/suicide/murdered?)	(36)
1/1954 6/1954	Margie Harrison	12/23/2006	(75)
2/1954 4/1954 4/1955	Marilyn Waltz	12/23/2006	not reported	(75)
9/1954	Jackie Rainbow	6/15/1988	unknown	(55)
1/1955	Bettie Page	12/11/2008	heart attack	(85)
2/1955	Jayne Mansfield	6/29/1967	auto accident	(34)
5/1955 2/1956	Marguerite Empey	8/19/2008	colon cancer	(76)
6/1955	Eve Meyer	3/27/1977	plane crash	(48)
7/1955 12/1955 10/1956	Janet Pilgrim	5/1/2017	(82)
3/1956	Marian Stafford	8/6/1984	not reported	(53)
7/1956	Alice Denham	1/27/2016	ovarian cancer	(83)
8/1956	Jonnie Nicely	2/6/2013	cancer	(76)
9/1956	Elsa Sorenson	4/18/2013	(79)
11/1956	Betty Blue	8/23/2000	heart failure	(69)
8/1957	Dolores Donlon	11/30/2012	(92)
10/1957	Colleen Farrington	10/12/2015	(79)
12/1957	Linda Vargas	status and whereabouts unknown
2/1958	Cheryl Kubert	4/25/1989	suicide?	(51)
7/1958	Linné Nanette Ahlstrand	1/18/1967	cancer	(30)
10/1958	Pat Sheehan	1/14/2006	heart attack and cancer	(74)
11/1958	Joan Staley	11/24/2019	heart failure	(79)
7/1959	Yvette Vickers	natural causes
9/1959	Marianne Gaba	5/3/2016	brain tumor	(76)
11/1960	Joni Mattis	9/4/1999	cancer	(60)
3/1961	Tonya Crews	8/7/1966	auto accident	(28)
9/1961 PMOY 1962	Christa Speck	3/22/2013	natural causes	(70)
10/1961	Jean Cannon	11/17/2005	cancer?	(64)
1/1962	Merle Pertile	11/28/1997	complications following heart surgery	(56)
10/1962	Laura Young	11/27/1999	cancer	(61)
12/1962 PMOY 1963	June Cochran	5/21/2004	not reported	(62)
8/1963	Phyllis Sherwood	4/16/2007	lung cancer	(69)
11/1963	Terre Tucker	12/16/1990	cancer	(46)
12/1963 PMOY 1964	Donna Michelle	4/9/2004	heart attack	(58)
2/1964	Nancy Jo Hooper	11/15/2012	(69)
4/1964	Ashlyn Martin	10/24/1991	suicide	(45)
4/1965	Sue Williams	status and whereabouts unknown
8/1965	Lannie Balcom	4/15/1991	unknown	(50)
10/1965 PMOY 1966	Allison Parks	6/21/2010	heart failure	(68)
1/1966	Judy Tyler	6/18/2013	complications from open heart surgery	(65)
12/1966	Susan Bernard	6/21/2019	apparently of a heart attack	(71)
3/1967	Fran Gerard	5/30/1985	unknown	(37)
8/1967	DeDe Lind	2/4/2020	(72)
1/1968 PMOY 1969	Connie Kreski	3/21/1995	lung cancer	(48)
2/1968	Nancy Harwood	5/13/2014	cancer	(65)
7/1968	Melodye Prentiss	3/3/2009	breathing problem caused by prescription meds	(64)
11/1968	Paige Young	4/7/1974	suicide by gunshot	(30)
12/1968	Cynthia Myers	11/3/2011	lung cancer	(61)
11/1969 PMOY 1970	Claudia Jennings	10/3/1979	auto accident	(29)
12/1969	Gloria Root	1/8/2006	cancer	(57)
7/1970	Carol Willis	11/24/1971	auto accident	(20)
10/1970	Madeleine Collinson	8/14/2014	(62)
2/1971	Willy Rey	8/13/1973	drug overdose (sleeping pills)	(23)
7/1974	Carol Vitale	7/23/2008	lupus and scleroderma	(61)
5/1975	Bridgett Rollins	2/12/2011	cancer	(54)
11/1975	Janet Lupo	11/13/2017	(67)
2/1977	Star Stowe	3/16/1997	strangled (murder)	(40)
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