1997: Jimmy Stewart
1998: Frank Sinatra
1999 John F. Kennedy, Jr.
2000: Charles M. Schulz, creator of Peanuts Cartoon strips.
2001: Dale Earnhardt
2002: Milton Berle, Dudley Moore, and Billy Wilder - all on the same day.
2003: Michael P. Anderson, David M. Brown, Kalpana Chawla, Laurel Clark, Rick Husband, William McCool, Ilan Ramon (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster)
Same year: Fred Rogers, can’t forget about him.
2004: Susan Sontag
2005: James Doohan
2006: Gerald Ford
2007: Anna Nicole Smith
2008: Bobby Fischer
2009: Ricardo Montalban
Also known as KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!
Oh, yeah, also:
2009: Michael Jackson
2010: Ronnie James Dio
2011: Osama bin Laden
2012: Rodney King
2013: Roger Ebert
2014: Shirley Temple
2015: Wayne Rogers