James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 – September 30, 1955)

1955

Howard Hesseman (February 27, 1940 – January 29, 2022) 

Hesseman played DJ John "Dr. Johnny Fever" Caravella on
WKRP in Cincinnati, Captain Pete Lassard in Police Academy
2: Their First Assignment, Sam Royer on One Day at a Time,
and schoolteacher Charlie Moore on Head of the Class. He 
died Saturday from complications of colon surgery in Los
Angeles, California. Hesseman was born in Lebanon, Oregon.

Pep was a brand of whole-wheat breakfast cereal produced by
the Kellogg Company, and introduced in 1923, which became
the first to be fortified with vitamins B and D in 1938. Pep was
a long-running rival to Wheaties, and also the sponsor of Mutual
Radio‘s The Adventures of Superman radio series. One of Pep’s advertising slogans was "the Sunshine cereal".

Pep ad featuring Our Gang (1928).

(1951 – 2022)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Louie Anderson, whose four-decade career
as a comedian and actor included his unlikely, Emmy-winning
performance as mom to twin adult sons in the TV series “Baskets,”
died Friday in a hospital in Las Vegas of complications from a form
of blood cancer. He was 68.

Sidney L. Poitier ( February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022)

In 1964, Sidney Poitier won the Academy Award for Best Actor becoming
the first Black male and Bahamian actor to win the award.

He also received two further Academy Award nominations, ten
Golden Globes nominations, two Primetime Emmy Awards
nominations, six BAFTA nominations, eight Laurel nominations,
and one Screen Actors Guild Awards nomination. Poitier was
one of the last surviving major stars from the Golden Age of
Hollywood cinema, and after the death of Kirk Douglas in 2020,
was the oldest living and earliest surviving male Academy Award
winner

The star’s death was confirmed to Fox News on Friday by the
Bahamian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Office.

Sidney Poitier was awarded the 1964 Academy Award for
Best Actor for his role in the movie Lilies of the Field.