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No. 1, Kurt Cobain
Earnings: $50 million
Occupation: musician
Died: April 5, 1994
Age: 27
Cause of death: suicide

No. 2, Elvis Presley
Earnings: $42 million
Occupation: musician
Died: Aug. 16, 1977
Age: 42
Cause of death: heart attack

No. 3, Charles M. Schulz
Earnings: $35 million
Occupation: cartoonist
Died: Feb. 12, 2000
Age: 77
Cause of death: cancer

No. 4, John Lennon
Earnings: $24 million
Occupation: musician
Died: Dec. 8, 1980
Age: 40
Cause of death: murder

No. 5, Albert Einstein
Earnings: $20 million
Occupation: scientist
Died: April 18, 1955
Age: 76
Cause of death: natural causes

No. 6, Andy Warhol
Earnings: $19 million
Occupation: artist
Died: Feb 22, 1987
Age: 58
Cause of death: complications of a gallbladder operation

No. 7, Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel)
Earnings: $10 million
Occupation: author
Died: Sept. 24, 1991
Age: 87
Cause of death: natural causes

No. 8, Ray Charles
Earnings: $10 million
Occupation: musician
Died: June 10, 2004
Age: 73
Cause of death: liver disease

No. 9, Marilyn Monroe
Earnings: $8 million
Occupation: actress
Died: Aug. 5, 1962
Age: 36
Cause of death: overdose of sleeping pills

No. 10, Johnny Cash
Earnings: $8 million
Occupation: musician
Died: Sept. 12, 2003
Age: 71
Cause of death: complications of diabetes

No. 11, J.R.R. Tolkien
Earnings: $7 million
Occupation: author
Died: Sept. 2, 1973
Age: 81
Cause of death: bleeding ulcer

No. 12, George Harrison
Earnings: $7 million
Occupation: musician
Died: Nov. 29, 2001
Age: 58
Cause of death: cancer

No. 13, Bob Marley
Earnings: $7 million
Occupation: musician
Died: May 11, 1981
Age: 36
Cause of death: cancer

Is that in a year or since they died, Hairy?

Dunno, lemme find out.

EDIT: Here is the info you asked for.

Thanks to a partial sale of his song catalog, Kurt Cobain has vaulted atop Forbes' annual Top-Earning Dead Celebrities list.