John Franklin Candy (October 31, 1950 – March 4, 1994)

The comedic star John Candy died suddenly of a heart attack
on March 4, 1994, at the age of 43. At the time of his death, he
was living near Durango, Mexico, while filming Wagons East,
a Western comedy co-starring the comedian Richard Lewis.

1987

Laurel and Hardy

Stan Laurel (Arthur Stanley Jefferson)
(16 June 1890 – 23 February 1965)

Laurel was an English comic actor, director and writer
who was one half of the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy.

He appeared with his comedy partner Oliver Hardy in
107 short films, feature films and cameo roles.

Betty (Marion Ludden) White 
(January 17, 1922 – December 31, 2021)

White was an actress and comedian, a pioneer of early
television with a career spanning almost seven decades.

Martin was a singer, actor and comedian. One of the most
popular entertainers of the mid-20th century, he was
nicknamed "The King of Cool."

Martin retired from public life in early 1995 and died of acute
respiratory failure resulting from emphysema at his Beverly
Hills home on Christmas Day, 1995, at the age of 78.

Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. and Frank Sinatra. (1961)

Richard (Dick) Wayne Van Dyke is 99 today.      
     
     
 

On December 13, 1925, Dick Van Dyke, the quintessential
“nice guy” actor who would become known for his work
in such movie classics as Mary Poppins (1964) and Chitty
Chitty Bang Bang (1968), as well as the popular 1960s CBS - 
TV sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961 – 1966), was born
in West Plains, Missouri.

Van Dyke, who was raised in Danville, Illinois, served in the
Army Air Force Special Services during World War II and in
the 1950s took various acting jobs and hosted a series of
TV game shows. In 1960, he starred on Broadway in Bye
Bye Birdie, a role which earned him a Tony Award.    
    
    
 Van Dyke was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in
1995 and the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1993, and has been
honored with the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement
Award in 2013, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2020, and
was recognized as a Disney Legend in 1998. 

(1993 – 2001)