Fanny Brice as Baby Snooks

Fanny Brice (Fania Borach) (October 29, 1891 – May 29, 1951)

Brice was a popular and influential model, comedian, singer, theater
and film actress, who made many stage, radio and film appearances
and is known as the creator and star of the top-rated radio comedy
series, The Baby Snooks Show that began on CBS September 17,
1944.

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.

 
                                                                      Carlota Bradley

Patrick Leonard Sajdak is 68 years old today.

In 1968, Sajak joined the U.S. Army, and was sent to Vietnam,
where he served as a disk jockey on Armed Forces Radio. He
also worked as a radio newsman for a Chicago station and
was a weekend substitute weatherman on television.

"Wheel of Fortune" TV (Syndication) hosts Vanna White and Pat Sajak

“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

A teenaged Sarah

Sarah Rosine Barnhardt (October 22, 1844 – March 26, 1923)

Bernhardt was a French stage and early film actress, and was referred
to as "the most famous actress the world has ever known." She made
her fame on the stages of France in the 1870s and was soon in demand
in Europe and the United States. Sarah Barnhardt developed a reputation
as a serious dramatic actress, earning the nickname "The Divine Sarah."

1899

1917