Richard Schaal (May 7, 1928 – November 4, 2014)

Actor and comedian Richard Schaal, a member of Chicago’s legendary
Second City improv group in the 1960s, died Tuesday, November 4, in
Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California. The cause was not disclosed.

Schaal was best known for his work in many classic sitcoms including
"The Mary Tyler Moore Show," "Rhoda," "The Bob Newhart Show,"
"Phyllis" and "Just My Luck."

Marcia A. Strassman (April 28, 1948 – October 25, 2014)

(AP) – Marcia Strassman, who played Gabe Kaplan’s wife, Julie,
on the 1970s sitcom "Welcome Back, Kotter," has died.

Strassman’s sister, Julie, confirmed her death to the Associated
Press.

Strassman died at her Sherman Oaks, California, home on Friday
after battling breast cancer for seven years.

Strassman had numerous roles on television and in film during her
five-decade career.

She played nurse Margie Cutler on the first season of "M.A.S.H."
before her breakout role in "Welcome Back, Kotter."

Marcia Strassman and Gabe Kaplan starred in "Welcome Back, Kotter”
on ABC television from September 1975 to June 1979.

Original air date on NBC television: October 2, 1956 to June 25, 1957

The first example of a videotape recording was broadcast by NBC television
when The Jonathan Winters Show was seen coast to coast on Tuesday,
October 23, 1956.

Maude Frickert was perhaps Winters most famous character

“Weird Al” Yankovic (Alfred Matthew Yankovic) 

Yankovic got started with the accordion after a door-to-door
salesman offered his parents a choice between accordion
lessons or guitar lessons.

Since his first-aired comedy song in 1976, he has sold more
than 12 million albums (as of 2007), recorded more than 150
parody and original songs. His works have earned him three
Grammy Awards and a further 11 nominations, four gold
records, and six platinum records.

1989

Carole Lombard (born Jane Alice Peters in Fort Wayne, Indiana)  
(October 6, 1908 – January 16, 1942)

Lombard was the highest-paid star in Hollywood in the late 1930s. She
made her film debut at age twelve in The Perfect Crime (1921). In October
1924, at the age of 16, she signed a contract with the Fox Film Corporation,
and got her first break the following year opposite Edmund Lowe in the
successful drama Marriage in Transit.

The successful career of Carole Lombard ended at age 33 when she died
in an airplane crash.