Frank James (Gary) Cooper (May 7, 1901 – May 13, 1961) 

Cooper’s career spanned from 1925 until shortly before his death in
1961, with more than one hundred films to his credit. He received five
 Academy Award nominations for Best Actor, winning twice for Sergeant
York and High Noon. He also received an Honorary Award in 1961 from
the Academy.

The American Film Institute’s 100 Years…100 Stars ranked cooper at 
#11 among males from the Classical Hollywood cinema period. In 2003,
his performances as Will Kane in High Noon (1952), Lou Gehrig in The
Pride of the Yankees (1942), and Alvin York in Sergeant York (1941) 
made the AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Heroes and Villains list, all of them
as heroes.

Gary Cooper in Sergeant York

Cooper in High Noon

Johnny first performed before a national audience as a
Mouseketeer on The Mickey Mouse Club, ABC-TV

Chuck Connors and Johnny Crawford in The Rifleman, on
ABC 1958 to 1963.

Since 1992, Johnny Crawford has led a California-based vintage dance orchestra (above) for special events. His band has been sponsored by the Playboy Jazz
Festival, and has been the repeated choice for 15 annual Art Directors Guild
Awards at the Beverly Hilton. A remastered version of the orchestra’s highly
rated first album, "Sweepin’ the Clouds Away," was officially released on
September 30, 2011. Johnny turned 66 on March 26.

Johnny Crawford’s recording career produced five Top 40 hits,
including the single "Cindy’s Birthday," which peaked at #8 on
Billboard’s Top 40 in 1962.

           
             Johannes Brahms ( May 7, 1833 – April 3, 1897)

Brahms was a German composer and pianist, and one of the leading
musicians of the Romantic period. He is best known for his lullaby (1868).

The style of Brahms’s works was a starting point and an inspiration for a 
generation of composers.

                
                   George Lindsey (December 17, 1928 – May 6, 2012)

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – George Lindsey, who spent nearly 30 years as the grinning Goober on "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Hee Haw," has died. He was 83.

A press release from Marshall-Donnelly-Combs Funeral Home in Nashville said Lindsay died early Sunday morning after a brief illness. Funeral arrangements were still being made.

Lindsey was the beanie-wearing Goober on "The Andy Griffith Show" from 1964 to
1968 and its successor, "Mayberry RFD," from 1968 to 1971. He played the same
jovial character — a service station attendant — on "Hee Haw" from 1971 until it
went out of production in 1993.