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In terms of fictional characters, "McLovin" is 41 (according to the fake ID).

Cyndi Lauper's mother Catrine has died.

Peter Sallis died on this day 5 years ago, aged 96. Sallis was initially a theatre actor- the peak of this was in 1968 from the first West End production of Cabaret, in which he played Herr Schultz. He also starred in episodes of Danger Man, The Avengers, and Doctor Who. In 1973, Sallis was cast as Norman "Cleggy" Clegg in Last of the Summer Wine. This character was the only one to appear in all 295 episodes of the show, and he delivered the last line of the series in its 2010 finale: "Did I lock the door"? In 1983, stop-motion animator Nick Park asked Sallis to voice the main character in a short film he was making, and Sallis accepted on the basis that Park donate £50 to his favorite charity. The film was released in 1989- it was called A Grand Day Out- the first Wallace and Gromit cartoon. Sallis would go on to voice the character until the 2010 miniseries Wallace and Gromit's World of Invention, and Ben Whitehead took over the role. The character's affinity for Wensleydale cheese caused sales of it to increase by 23% following the release of the only theatrical Wallace and Gromit film, Curse of the Were-Rabbit, in 2005. Sallis retired from acting in 2010 due to failing eyesight. In 2013, he made his first appearance on the DeathList, and would make a consecutive five appearances before his death.

Dana Carvey is 67.

15th President of the United States James Buchanan died on this day 154 years ago, aged 77. Initially a Federalist, Buchanan was elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1814. He served for two years, and in 1820, he was elected to the US House of Representatives, as one of three people concurrently representing Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district. In 1828, he joined the newly-founded Democratic Party, and left Congress in 1831 after serving five terms. Buchanan was appointed as the ambassador to Russia by Andrew Jackson in 1832, and served for a year. He was elected to the US Senate, serving until 1845, when he was appointed Secretary of State under James K. Polk. In 1853, Franklin Pierce appointed him as the Minister to the United Kingdom. He was elected President in 1856. Buchanan believed that slavery was a "states' rights" issue, and his presidency oversaw the Dred Scott v. Sanford case, which denied citizenship to African-Americans. In 1857, a financial crisis ensued, which saw increased unemployment in northern cities. He also successfully replaced Brigham Young as Governor of the Utah Territory after a Mormon militia killed a group of settlers headed for California. Buchanan did not seek re-election. In December of 1860, South Carolina declared secession from the United States, and seven states had seceded by the end of his presidency. Buchanan believed that secession was unconstitutional, but that it was also unconstitutional for him to stop them. His inaction during this time has caused Buchanan to be considered one of the worst American presidents (in some lists, THE worst) of all time. Buchanan is also the only president so far to have never been married, but he was engaged at one point to a woman named Anne Coleman. Rumors about them spread, and Coleman called off the engagement. She died soon after, and Buchanan wrote a letter to Anne's father (who forbade him from attending her funeral) saying that everything would be explained in a future letter- shortly before his death, he ordered his letters burned. It is also rumored that he may have been bisexual, and having relations with his housemate, (the future Vice President) William R. D. King.

Alanis Morissette is 48.

Petronius Maximus, Roman emperor, died on this day 1567 years ago, aged 58. Maximus became emperor a day after the assassination of Valentinian III- whom he possibly had ordered killed himself: it is theorized that it was either due to Valentinian either blocking his political advancement or raping his wife. In order to ascend to the throne, he immediately married Valentinian's widow, who was suspicious of him. Maximus cancelled the marriage of his stepdaughter Eudocia to Huneric, the prince of the Vandals, and instead married her with his son Palladius. Huneric's father, King Geiseric, was enraged by this, seeing this to be in violation of a peace treaty signed in 442 between him and Valentinian. Geiseric sailed for Rome with his army (he made an agreement with Pope Leo I not to kill any civilians or destroy any buildings). As the Vandals looted the gold and silver supply, Maximus decided to flee- he was met by an angry mob of Romans, and he was stoned to death, and his body was desecrated and thrown into the River Tiber. He had reigned for just under eleven weeks.

Clint Eastwood is 92. Quoth Joe DiMaggio's DeathList obit: "We still think Clint Eastwood has some life in him yet"... and here we are 23 years later.

Milton Bradley died on this day 111 years ago, aged 74. Bradley was originally a lithographer, but moved onto creating board games after his business failed (this was due to him making a lithograph of Abraham Lincoln, and people wanting their money back once he started growing his iconic beard as the lithograph was now outdated). In 1860, his first creation, The Checkered Game of Life, was released. The game had a strong sense of morality- the goal was to earn points by landing on morally just spaces, and it was played with a 6-sided top instead of dice (dice were a symbol of gambling back then). His company would update the game into the modern-day The Game of Life a century later. While he was the founder of the Milton Bradley Company, most of their most popular games were released long after his death- these include Candy Land (1949), Yahtzee (1956), Operation (1965), Twister (1966), Battleship (1967), and Simon (1978). His company was bought by Hasbro in 1984, who merged it with its former competitor Parker Brothers in 1998 to form Hasbro Games, ending it. Both Milton Bradley and Parker Brothers' brand names were phased out in 2009.

CeeLo Green is 48.

Winfield Scott died on this day 156 years ago, aged 79. Scott joined the US Army in 1808, and his first war was the War of 1812- in which he fought on the Canadian front. He was promoted to brigadier general. Later, he would serve in several of the Indian Wars, including negotiating the treaty that ended the Black Hawk War of 1832. Scott was promoted to Commanding General of the Army in 1841, and soon found himself in the Mexican-American War, where he led American forces to victory by besieging Mexico City in 1847- this led to the acquisition of the modern states of California, Nevada, Utah, most of Arizona, and parts of Colorado and New Mexico. His final battle was the Battle of Bull Run in 1861, where, after a crushing defeat by Confederate forces (and also due to his poor health), he retired from service. Scott was also a politician. As an Anti-Jacksonian, he joined the Whig Party in the 1830s. He attempted to gain their presidential nomination in each election beginning in 1840, before successfully being nominated in 1852. At the time, the party was largely divided due to the issue of slavery (northern Whigs opposed it and southern Whigs supported it). Scott's landslide defeat to Franklin Pierce (who served under him in the Mexican-American War) caused the final collapse of the Whig Party, and its members joined the antislavery Republican Party or the nativist Know Nothing Party.

John Hinckley Jr., attempted assassin of Ronald Reagan, is 67. Whether this is a "happy" birthday depends on your view of Reagan. What's happened since then? He was released from psychiatric care in 2016, and is scheduled to be unconditionally released next month. Oh, and he joined social media in 2020. Profiles below:

Phil Hartman died on this day 24 years ago, aged 49. In 1975, Hartman began to attend comedy classes by the improv group The Groundlings, and became a member of the group in 1979. There, he met Paul Reubens, and together, they created the character of Pee-wee Herman. This led to an HBO show in 1981, and Tim Burton's directorial debut with Pee-wee's Big Adventure in 1985 (Hartman had considered quitting acting until he saw the film's success). In 1986, Hartman joined Saturday Night Live. One of the characters he created for the show was the Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer, and he did impressions of people such as Ronald Reagan, Frank Sinatra, and Bill Clinton. He left the show in 1994. Hartman also did voice acting during this time. In 1986, he voiced Mr. Wilson and Dennis' dog Ruff in the animated Dennis the Menace show in its first season, and also voiced background characters in The Smurfs. In 1991, he gained his biggest voice roles in The Simpsons. Beginning in season 2, he voiced the lawyer Lionel Hutz and the actor Troy McClure. Before his death, he was planned to have been the voice for Zapp Brannigan in Futurama. Unfortunately, Hartman's life had a tragic end. On May 27, 1998, Hartman and his wife Brynn got into a domestic argument, and he decided to go to bed. Around 3 AM the next morning, Brynn fatally shot Hartman in his sleep. After confessing to two of her friends (one friend promptly called the authorities after arriving at the house and seeing Hartman's body), Brynn locked herself in the bathroom and committed suicide with the same gun.

Gladys Knight is 78.

Jawaharlal Nehru died on this day 58 years ago, aged 74. Nehru attended Trinity College beginning in 1907, and started to become interested in Indian politics at the time. He returned to India in 1912, and in 1920, led a civil disobedience movement in what is now the state of Uttar Pradesh. Beginning in 1927, Nehru began to draft ideas for an Indian declaration of independence, and read out a pledge for independence on New Years' Eve in 1929. Following India's eventual independence in 1947, Nehru was appointed as Prime Minister, a position he would hold until his death. He oversaw religious conflicts between the Hindu nation and the Muslim East (now Bangladesh) and West Pakistans. In 1962, the Sino-Indian War occurred when Chinese troops invaded disputed territory (this was DURING the Cuban Missile Crisis, by the way), which saw an Indian defeat. Despite this loss, Nehru was still beloved by India, seen as a founding father, and his cremation the day after his death was attended by 1.5 million people.

Henry Kissinger is 99. "Once you've been to Cambodia, you'll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands". - Anthony Bourdain "Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger with the Nobel Peace Prize". - Tom Lehrer

RIP. As a member of Gen Z, this was my introduction to him:

Friz Freleng died on this day 27 years ago, aged 89. If you know about the history of animation, you should absolutely know who Freleng was. But for those who don't... Freleng was from Kansas City, and one of his friends growing up was Walt Disney. Disney moved to Hollywood in 1923, and Freleng eventually began working for him in 1927. He worked on the live-action/animation hybrid Alice Comedies and the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons. In 1933, Freleng joined Schlesinger Productions to work on cartoons there. In 1935, he directed I Haven't Got a Hat, which introduced the character of Porky Pig for the first time. He originally looked like this: Freleng would continue to create characters for the now-Warner Bros. Cartoons, including Yosemite Sam in 1945, Sylvester and Tweety in 1947, and Speedy Gonzales in 1955. Freleng, along with his supervisor David DePatie, would form their own studio, DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, in 1963. They animated the opening and closing titles of The Pink Panther. The character itself would soon become the mascot of the company, with The Pink Panther Show debuting in 1969. Freleng and DePatie sold the studio to Marvel Comics in 1980, and it would become Marvel Productions. Freleng retired from animation in 1986, and died in 1995. Following his death, Cartoon Network aired a tribute bumper.

Lenny Kravitz is 58.

Wojciech Jaruzelski died on this day 8 years ago, aged 90. After Germany and the Soviet Union kicked off World War II by invading Poland, 16-year old Jaruzelski and his family fled to Lithuania, which was soon forcibly annexed into the USSR. The Russians deported the Jaruzelskis to Siberia (his father was sent to a gulag and died in 1942), and Wojciech was forced to clean the forests. During his labor, he suffered eye damage, causing him to wear his iconic sunglasses for the remainder of his life. He was able to return to Poland by joining the Soviet-controlled First Polish Army. In 1948, he joined the Polish United Workers' Party. He rose through the party ranks, and became the Minister of Defense in 1968. When the liberal Alexander Dubcek began loosening censorship in Czechoslovakia, Jaruzelski began an invasion of the country (along with the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, and Hungary). This saw a Warsaw Pact victory, and Dubcek was forced to resign. In 1981, Jaruzelski was appointed Chairman of the Council of Ministers. In December of that year, he declared martial law to strengthen his power against the Solidarity Party (led by Lech Walesa). This lasted until 1983. Thousands of political prisoners were taken, and most of them would not be released until 1986. In 1989, Jaruzelski restored the presidency, following Gorbachev's lead in the Soviet Union. He resigned on December 22, 1990, following the election in which Walesa won. Communist Poland was officially over. In 1998, Jaruzelski made his first appearance on the DeathList. He would appear again in 2000, and consecutively in 2012 and 2013. He was dropped for 2014- he died from complications of a stroke that year. He was the last survivor of the 1998 list- it was the first ever list extinction, having taken 16 years.

Frank Oz is 78. "Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering".

Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison died on this day 143 years ago, aged 73. Garrison began working for antislavery papers as a teen. In 1831, he founded his own newspaper, The Liberator. Garrison also championed for women's rights, and The Liberator became the leading publication for said movement in the 1840s. In 1854, Garrison infamously burned a copy of the US Constitution. The next year, his fellow abolitionist Frederick Douglass disassociated himself with him, as he viewed some points of the Constitution could be used to argue against slavery- they reconciled in 1873. The state of Georgia put a bounty on his head for this. After the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment in 1870, Garrison ceased publishing The Liberator, and left his positions in antislavery organizations- the issue was over. He would continue supporting African-American and female rights until his death from renal failure. While Garrison was indeed noble in the fight against slavery and the suffrage movement, he was also a rabid anti-Semite. He believed that the scattering of Jews out of Israel was a justified punishment for the crucifixion of Jesus, and called the pro-slavery sheriff Mordecai Noah a "Shylock" (after the main character of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, who was a Jewish stereotype) and claimed he was a direct descendent of the people who nailed Jesus to the cross.

Stanley Baxter, #35 on the list, is 96.

William Kidd, better known as Captain Kidd, died on this day 321 years ago, aged 47. Born in Scotland in 1654, Kidd settled in New York as a young adult. He soon became a seaman's apprentice on a privateer ship. In 1689 Kidd and several other crewmates mutinied and ousted their captain, and Kidd was either elected or appointed as the new captain. They headed to the colony of Nevis, and helped defend the island from the French (whom the English were at war with at the time). Kidd soon returned to New York, where he married a wealthy twice-widow (who was still in her 20s) and helped fund the construction of Trinity Church (which still stands in downtown Manhattan). In 1695, New York's colonial governor requested Kidd to go on a mission to attack known pirates (and enemy French ships)- he accepted, considering he would appear disloyal to the crown if he refused. In September of 1696, Kidd and his crew began their journey towards the waters surrounding southern Africa- a third of his crew died of cholera, his ship suffered from leakage, and he failed to find any pirates. This may have caused Kidd to go off the deep end. He began to abuse his power, citing his noble friends in England would vouch for him if he was reported. In 1698, Kidd seized an Indian fabric and gold ship, and when the news came to England, he was labelled a pirate and his capture was ordered. Kidd encountered the pirate Robert Culliford on Madagascar, and the majority of his crew abandoned him to work for Culliford. Kidd decided to return to New York, and he hid his ship on an island in the Caribbean, and hid or sold his stolen treasures along the way. New York's governor Richard Coote was in Boston at the time that he heard about Kidd's return, and lured him to the city promising to pardon him- this was a lie, as he believed that he would be implicated with the pirates if Kidd was allowed to stay free. Kidd was arrested on July 6, 1699, and was sent to England for trial in 1700. Kidd was sentenced to death. On execution day, Kidd needed to be hung twice- the first noose snapped, and Kidd survived the fall. Some called this divine intervention and believed that he should be released, but he was successfully hanged the second time. His corpse was hung over the River Thames until 1704 as a warning to other pirates.

Drew Carey is 64. (he's the one on the left... if you couldn't tell)