Death Anniversary Thread

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American actor Robert Drivas died on this day 35 years ago, aged 50.

 

 

 

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Lillian Hellman, American playwright, wrote a series of powerful, realistic plays that made her one of America's major dramatists, and motion-picture screenwriter, died of cardiac arrest in a hospital near her summer home on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts in the United States in North America on this date in 1984.
She was 79 years old.

 

 

Some of her best known plays were "The Children's Hour", "The Little Foxes" and "Toys in the Attic".
Among the many honors she received were a Gold Medal from the Academy of Arts and Letters and two New York Drama Critics Circle Awards.
Lillian Hellman was buried under a large pine tree on a gentle rise at one end of the Abel's Hill Cemetery in Chilmark, Dukes County, Massachusetts.

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American saxophonist Joe Henderson died on this day 20 years ago, aged 64.

 

 

 

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30 years since Michael Landon went up the Highway to Heaven.

 

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Walter Matthau, American actor who was known for his deep voice and razor-sharp comic timing, died of a heart attack in Los Angeles on this date in 2000.
He was 79 years old.
Best remembered by the public for his many roles opposite Jack Lemmon.

Walter Matthau won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for "The Fortune Cookie" (1966).

 

 

On Broadway, Matthau received two Tony Awards for Best Actor for "A Shot in the Dark" and "The Odd Couple". He also won a Golden Globe Award and two British Academy Film Awards.
Walter Matthau was interred at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Westwood, California not far from his longtime friend Jack Lemmon who died less than one year later.

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American educator Alice Mary Robertson died on this day 90 years ago, aged 77.

 

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Ernest Hemingway, American novelist, short-story writer and journalist shot himself in the head with a double-barreled shotgun on this date in 1961.
He was 61 years old.
Hemingway's grandfather, father, brother, sister and granddaughter all killed themselves.
Many of his literary works are considered classics of American literature.

 

 

Hemingway was renowned for novels like "The Sun Also Rises" (1926), "A Farewell to Arms" (1929), "To Have and Have Not" (1937), "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (1940) or "The Old Man and the Sea" (1952).
He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and the Nobel Prize in 1954.
Ernest Hemingway was buried in Idaho. You can find his final resting place in the Ketchum Cemetery.

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American comedian Jan Murray died on this day 15 years ago, aged 89.

 

 

 

 

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One of the most known early Bollywood stars with old Dilip, Raj Kapoor died on this day in 1988.

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This Saturday is the 50th anniversary of Jim Morrison's death.

 

 

Rest in peace... The Lizard King.

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Andy Griffith, one of the most beloved actors in American television, died in Roanoke Island after having a heart attack on this date in 2012.
He was 86 years old.
His long-running TV comedy series "The Andy Griffith Show" established him as a television icon.
He is also very known for his portrayal of a defense attorney in the dramatic series "Matlock".

 

 

Born on the same date as Marilyn Monroe.
Griffith had battled other health issues for years, including coronary artery disease, hypertension and hyperlipidemia.
Andy Griffith's burial took place less than five hours after his death, in the Griffith family cemetery at his coastal home on Manteo, Roanoke Island, in Dare County, North Carolina.

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American actor Ross Martin died on this day 40 years ago, aged 61.

 

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Barry White, long-time soul singer who made himself an attraction in the 70's with his romantic songs who suffered from hypertension and chronic high blood pressure, was hospitalized for kidney failure. White was undergoing dialysis treatment, but the combination of illnesses proved too much and he died at a West Hollywood hospital on this date in 2003.
He was 58 years old.

 

 

During the course of his long career in the music business, White earned an astounding 106 gold albums, 41 of which also attained platinum status, 20 gold platinum singles and 10 platinum singles, his musical talent had earned him more than one hundred million dollars in worldwide record sales.
Barry White's body was cremated and his ashes were scattered.

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American children's writer Dorothy Aldis died on this day 55 years ago, aged 70.

 

 

 

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Max Klinger, German engraver, creative symbolist painter and prolific sculptor, died in Naumburg, Burgenlandkreis, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany on this date in 1920.
He was 63 years old.
An admirer of the etchings of Menzel and Goya.
His work had a deep influence on Giorgio de Chirico, Salvador Dali, Max Ernst or Edvard Munch.

 

 

Symbolist prints and paintings by Max Klinger can be seen in the best art museums around the world.
For his efforts, Klinger received a number of awards and honours. He was made a Knight of the Pour le Merite order, elected a full member of the Munich Academy and an honorary member of the Stockholm Academy.
Max Klinger was buried in the garden of his home.

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N!xau got to find out how crazy the gods are in person today in 2003.

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American poet Howard Nemerov died on this day 30 years ago, aged 71.

 

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Louis Armstrong, one of the greatest musicians in jazz history who recorded hit songs for five decades, passed away in his sleep at his home in the Corona section of Queens, New York on this date in 1971.
Death was attributed to a heart attack.
He was 69 years old.
Eleven of his recordings have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

 

 

Armstrong was buried in Flushing Cemetery in Queens, New York, just a few miles away from his home in Corona.
His grave is simple, engraved with nothing more than his name, Louis Armstrong and the nickname "Satchmo" in quotes.
Louis Armstrong was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990.

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American actress Kasey Rogers died on this day 15 years ago, aged 80.

 

 

 

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Arthur Conan Doyle, writer best known for the creation of the detective Sherlock Holmes, was found clutching his chest in his house in Crowborough, East Sussex, England on this date in 1930.
Death was attributed to a heart attack.
He was 71 years old.
Conan Doyle wrote 60 stories featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes and his loyal assistant Watson.

 

 

Holmes was his most celebrated creation, a fact that was more irritating than pleasing to Doyle.
In addition, Conan Doyle wrote a number of other novels, including "The Lost World".
Arthur Conan Doyle was originally buried in a vertical position just beside his garden hut, when the house was sold he and his wife were reinterred to Minstead church of All Saints in the New Forest, Hampshire.

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American singer Fred Neil died on this day 20 years ago, aged 65.

 

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Fi Munro died a year ago. 

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June Allyson, American film, stage and television actress whose perky wholesomeness made her "the perfect girlfriend" in a series of MGM musicals during the 40's and "the perfect wife" during the 50's, died at her home in Ojai, California of pulmonary respiratory failure and acute bronchitis after a long illness on this date in 2006.
She was 88 years old.

 

 

After her film career ended, Allyson became one of the first top film stars to have her own weekly television show, "The Dupont Show with June Allyson".
As a good friend of President Reagan and the First Lady, June was appointed by President Reagan to the Federal Council On Aging in 1988.
June Allyson's body was cremated and her ashes were scattered.

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Betty Ford, First Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977, died on this day 10 years ago, aged 93.

 

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Rod Steiger, the intense actor known for his brilliant performances in such films as "Waterloo", "Doctor Zhivago", "On the Waterfront" (the taxi scene between Steiger and Brando became part of cinema history) or "The Pawnbroker" and devoted practitioner of method acting, died at a Los Angeles-area hospital of pneumonia and kidney failure on this date in 2002.
He was 77 years old.

 

 

Steiger won an Oscar as best actor for his role as the unrelenting police chief of a small Southern town in "In the Heat of the Night", one Golden Globe Award and two BAFTA Awards.
He also liked to play strong characters like Al Capone, Napoleon Bonaparte, WC Fields and Mussolini.
Rod Steiger was interred at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Hollywood Hills, California.