Gene Autry, perhaps the greatest singing cowboy of all time, 
was born on September 29, 1907, in Tioga, Texas.

While still a boy, Autry moved with his family to a ranch in
Oklahoma where he learned to play the guitar and sing.

The young Autry was quickly attracted to a new style of music
that was becoming popular at the time, which combined the
traditional cowboy music popular in Texas and Oklahoma and
the folk songs, ballads, and hymns of southern-style country
music. Known as country-western.

Sir Michael Gambon, who played Dumbledore in the
“Harry Potter” franchise, died Tuesday after suffering
from pneumonia .

Over his six-decade-long career,Gambon received
three Olivier Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards,
and four BAFTA Awards. In 1998, he was knighted by
Queen Elizabeth II for services to drama.

The Irish-English actor Sir Michael Gambon as
Denton Baxter in the great Kevin Costner
Revisionist Western film Open Range, 2003.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor David McCallum, who became a
teen heartthrob in the hit series "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." in
the 1960s and was the eccentric medical examiner in the
popular "NCIS" 40 years later, has died.

McCallum died Monday of natural causes surrounded by
family at New York Presbyterian Hospital.

The Misfits is a 1961 Contemporary Western film written by
Arthur Miller, directed by John Huston, and starring Clark
Gable, Marilyn Monroe, and Montgomery Clift (above). The
supporting cast includes Thelma Ritter and Eli Wallach.

  
The Misfits was the last completed film for both Clark Gable
and Marilyn Monroe. For Gable, the film was posthumously
released, while Monroe died in August 1962 after its release.

Screenwriter Arthur Asher Miller
(October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005)

Bronson joined the U.S.Army Air Forces in
1943 and fought in World War II.

”Death Wish” (1974)

Charles Bronson (Charles Dennis Buchinsky)
(November 3, 1921 – August 30, 2003)

Bronson died at age 81 on August 30, 2003, at Cedars-Sinai
Medical Center in Los Angeles.

Although pneumonia and Alzheimer’s disease have been
cited as his cause of death, neither appears on his death
certificate, which cites "respiratory failure", "metastatic
lung cancer", with, secondarily, "chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease" and "congestive cardiomyopathy"
as the causes of death.