Burns started smoking cigars when he was 14.

On March 9, 1996, the legendary cigar-chomping performer
George Burns dies at his home in Beverly Hills, California,
just weeks after celebrating his 100th birthday.

George Burns is one of the few entertainers whose career
successfully spanned vaudeville, radio, film and television.

 
                                                             Zenith Console Floor Radio
                                                             Model 11S474, 1940s.

Burns and Allen’s radio show was inducted into the National Radio
Hall of Fame in 1994.

Burns is also a member of the Television Hall of Fame, where he
and Gracie Allen were inducted in 1988.

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show premiered on
CBS on October 12, 1950 and ran through 1958. 

1977

 
MIKE GRACIA

Art Carney as a young man in his school yearbook!

The sitcom originally aired from 1955 to 1956 on CBS.

Carney died at a care home in Chester, Connecticut, on November 9, 2003, five days after his 85th birthday.

Stephen Glenn Martin is a comedian, actor, writer, producer,
and musician.

He has won five Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award,
and was awarded an Honorary Academy Award in 2013.

1979

1987

Alan Wolf Arkin (March 26, 1934 – June 29, 2023)

Oscar winner Alan Arkin, whose background in improvisation 
with characters from the 1960s comedy “The Russians Are
Coming, the Russians Are Coming”, “Glengarry Glen Ross”
to “Little Miss Sunshine”, and “Argo,” died at his home in
Carlsbad, California Thursday at age 89. He had a history
of  heart problems.

1992

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin 
(16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977)

On April 16, 1889, future Hollywood legend Charlie Chaplin 
was born Charles Spencer Chaplin in London, England.

Chaplin, one of the most financially successful stars of early
Hollywood, was introduced to the stage when he was five.

The son of London music hall entertainers, young Chaplin
was watching a show starring his mother when her voice
cracked. He was quickly shuffled onto the stage to finish
the act.