Although former Beatles guitarist George Harrison was stabbed multiple times by a deranged fan in 1999, he did not meet the same fate as bandmate John Lennon. Harrison, who fought off the attacker with his wife, survived the attack. He could not, however, survive his fight with a different kind of attacker -- cancer. After years of smoking, Harrison discovered that he had throat cancer in 1998 and underwent radiation therapy. Then, early in 2001, he checked into the Mayo Clinic to have surgery on a cancerous lung, and only a few months later was treated in a Swiss clinic for a brain tumor. This last bout with cancer, which had metastasized to the brain from his lung, proved to be his undoing, and the beloved Beatle finally passed away at a friend's house on November 29, 2001. He was 58 years old. Harrison's credits with The Beatles include the songs "Here Comes the Sun," "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," and "Something," the last of which was once described by Frank Sinatra as the greatest love song of all time.