With death of Lauren Bacall, everyone mentioned in Madonna’s song Vogue is now dead

WITH Lauren Bacall’s passing at 89 this week, all 16 celebrities mentioned in one of the pop icon’s most beloved songs, Vogue, are now dead.

Hit song ... Madonna in the flip clip to her hit song, Vogue.

WITH Lauren Bacall’s passing at 89 this week, all 16 celebrities mentioned in one of the pop icon’s most beloved songs, Vogue, are now dead.

Glamour ... Lauren Bacall was the last surviving celebrity mentioned in Madonna’s song Vogue.

Released in March 1990, the song, a tribute to dance of the same name, mentions a list of 16 American icons — “ladies with an attitude” and “fellas that were in the mood” — including (in order): Greta Garbo, Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich, Joe DiMaggio, Marlon Brando, James Dean, Grace Kelly, Jean Harlow, Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rodgers, Rita Hayworth, Bacall, Katharine Hepburn, Lana Turner and Bette Davis.

While nearly half of the famous names mentioned had passed before the song came out — most notably Monroe, Dean and Harlow — nine have died in the proceeding 24 years.

Garbo, who died less than a month after the single’s release, was the first to fall prey to the curse of Vogue, the New York Post reports.

Bogie and Bacall ... Humphrey Bogart, left, and his wife, Lauren Bacall in 1955.

Originally published as With death of Lauren Bacall, everyone mentioned in Madonna’s song Vogue is now dead