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GARY COOPER WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1901

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Gary Cooper
(Frank James Cooper) (May 7, 1901 – May 13, 1961)

Cooper’s career spanned from 1925 until shortly before his death, and
comprised more than one hundred films. Cooper received five Academy
Award
nominations for Best Actor, winning twice for Sergeant York (1941)
and High Noon (1952). He also received an Honorary Award in 1961 from
the Academy. The American Film Institute named Cooper among the their
100 Years…100 Stars
, ranking 11th among males.

 

 

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WESTERN ICON BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1859

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                     William H. Bonney
 
(William Henry McCarty, Jr.) 

                          (November 23, 1859 – July 14, 1881) 

Bonney became a frontier outlaw in the American Old West. According to legend,
he killed 21 men, but it is generally believed that he killed between four and nine

men. He himself was shot dead at age twenty-one by legendary sheriff Pat Garrett.


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GUNFIGHTER DIED ON THIS DAY IN 1887

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John Henry "Doc" Holliday
(August 14, 1851 – November 8, 1887)

Holliday was a gambler, gunfighter, and dentist of the Old West who is 
remembered for his friendship with Wyatt Earp and his involvement in
the famous Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

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