Pavarotti.  Dead at 71 from cancer of the pancreas.  He gave his last operatic performance at the New York Metropolitan on March 13, 2004 for which he received a 12-minute standing ovation for his role as the painter Mario Cavaradossi in Giacomo Puccini's Tosca.  In February 2006, at the opening ceremony for the Winter Olympics in Turin, he brought the house down with his trademark Nessun Dorma aria.  Soon after he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer - - and had a tumor removed from his pancreas in New York in July, 2006, followed by five cycles of chemotherapy.  Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest cancers -- patients diagnosed with the disease normally die soon after.  The average survival length is 12 - 19 months.  Cancer of the pancreas is met with the shortest median survival time out of all cancer types. It is rare that anyone survives pancreatic cancer.  These are the terrible facts that he faced when diagnosed with this killer.  Pavarotti lived approximately 14 months after diagnoses.  Here is Nessun Dorma.