On April 7, 1970, the legendary actor John Wayne (above) won his first—and only—acting Academy Award, for his star turn in the
director Henry Hathaway’s Western True Grit.

                                         (1907–1979)

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George Segal (February 13, 1934 – March 23, 2021)

(FoxNews) – Celebrities far and wide took to Twitter on Tuesday
to honor late Hollywood icon George Segal following news of
his death due to complications from bypass surgery.

Segal appeared regularly on ABC’s “The Goldbergs“ and was
nominated for an Oscar in 1967 for his supporting performance
in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?“

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Rush Hudson Limbaugh III (January 12, 1951 – February 17, 2021)

Limbaugh, a cigar and former cigarette smoker was diagnosed
with advanced lung cancer on January 20, 2020.

On February 4, 2020, the day after he announced that he had
advanced lung cancer, Limbaugh was a guest of President
Donald Trump at the 2020 State of the Union Address, where
he was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom
(above).

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Armando Anthony “Chick” Corea
(June 12, 1941 – February 9, 2021)

Chick Corea, iconic jazz keyboardist and winner of 23 Grammy
awards, died at his Florida home from a rare form of Cancer.

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The Carol Burnett Show is a variety/sketch comedy television
show starring Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence,
and Lyle Waggoner. In 1975, frequent guest star Tim Conway
became a regular after Waggoner left the series.

The show originally ran on CBS-TV from September 11, 1967,
to March 29, 1978, for 279 episodes, and with nine episodes
in the fall of 1991. 
 
The series won 25 primetime Emmy Awards. In 2013, TV Guide
ranked The Carol Burnett Show number 17 on its list of the 60
Greatest Shows of All Time, and in 2007 it was included on the
list of Time‘s 100 Best TV Shows of All Time.

Carol will be 88 April 26.

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