Human Cost of Cancer: Remember Notable People Lost in 2012 - Slideshow

Legendary hairdresser Vidal Sassoon, credited with creating the wash-and-wear “Bauhaus-inspired” wedge bob hair style, died May 9, 2012 at his Bel Air, Los Angeles home of leukemia. He was 84 years old.

Sassoon was said to have “changed the world with a pair of scissors.”