Cory Monteith, best known for his role on "Glee", was found dead in his 21st floor hotel room at Vancouver's Fairmont Pacific Rim on Saturday, July 13th. Matt Sayles / AP

Bruno Gerussi was a Canadian television actor best known for the lead role on CBC's The Beachcombers. On November 21, 1995, five years after CBC cancelled the long-running program, Gerissi died of a heart attack suffered in the Vancouver home of his companion, Supreme Court Judge Nancy Morrison. Images / Google

Burnaby-born actor Michael Cuccione was best known as Jason "QT" McKnight, a member of mock boy band 2gether. The group was featured in a made-for-TV movie and a successful MTV spinoff series. Cuccione was also a cancer survivor, having beaten Hodgkin's Lymphoma when he was nine, although the treatment left him with permanent lung and respiratory problems. He began to have breathing issues during the second season of 2gether, and after a minor car accident in Vancouver, he was hospitalized with pneumonia. He died of respiratory failure on January 13, 2001. Images / Google

Texas Guinan led quite a life. A popular vaudille actress in theatre and film, she became known as America's first movie cowgirl and earned the nickname the Queen of the West. (Whoopi Goldberg's character on Star Trek: TNG was even named after her.) She ran a speakeasy in New York during prohibition, and after being arrested several times and earning a reputation that got her banned from every European seaport, she closed out her career with a touring satire named "Too Hot For Paris". The show came through Western Canada in 1933, but Guinan never left. She contracted amoebic dysentery in Vancouver and died here on November 5, 1933. Images / Google

Andrew Koenig was a character actor best known for playing Mike Seaver's best friend Boner on "Growing Pains". In February 2010, he was reported missing by his friends and family after missing a flight from Vancouver back to his home in the US. A week later, he was found to have hung himself from a tree in Stanley Park. Images / Google

Born with spina bifida, Fred Burns was an outspoken disabled rights activist, as well as a comedian and occasional actor. (He had a minor role in 2003's "Stuck On You".) He died in his sleep on May 11, 2007, at the age of 49. He was on a cruise ship at the time, and the boat was passing through the Puget Sound. Images / Google

Vancouver actress Selina Hanuse was known to thousands of Canadians as Hannah Kenidi, the role she played on "North of 60". In January 2000, Selina was struck and killed by a car while crossing Nanaimo and 24th in Vancouver. Images / Google

Keith Kwan was a Hong Kong TV host turned actor, and one of the most popular and well-known bilingual actors of the 1980s. Kwan relocated to Vancouver in the early nineties, and in 1995, he died of health complications stemming from AIDS. Images / Google

Wilfried Knight was a successful actor, though you may not be familiar with his work. The actor and personal trainer was named "Hottest Porn Star of 2005". Knight, a French citizen, married his American husband, Jerry Enriquez in Vancouver in 2011. Unfortunately, the Defence of Marriage Act made it impossible for Enriques to sponsor Knight for spousal citizenship in America. They relocated to Vancouver, where Enriquez got a job at Lululemon. But late in 2012, Enriquez was fired. Five months later, Enriquez committed suicide in their home. Two weeks later, in March 2013, Knight did the same. Images / Google