Betsy Palmer (Patricia Betsy Hrunek)
(November 1, 1926 – May 29, 2015)

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Betsy Palmer, the veteran character actress who
achieved lasting fame as the murderous camp cook in the 1980 horror
film "Friday the 13th," has died.
 

According to her manager, Palmer died Friday of natural causes at a
hospice care center in Connecticut. She had also appeared in films,
on Broadway and in TV shows such as the CBS game show “I’ve Got a
Secret” where she was a regular panelist.

Camille Bohannon

Marilyn at age 5

Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jeane Mortenson) (June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962)

Mel Blanc at KGW radio in Portland, Oregon

Melvin Jerome "Mel" Blanc (Blank) (May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989)

Nicknamed The Man with a Thousand Voices, Mel Blanc brought life to lovable
cartoon characters such as Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird and Daffy Duck
as a voice actor. He changed the spelling of his last name after a rude comment
made by his high school teacher. Blanc began his radio career at the age of 19
when in 1927 he debuted as a voice actor on the KGW program The Hoot Owls
in Portland, Oregon.

Sandy Kozel

Leslie Townes "Bob" Hope (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003)

Hope won an amateur talent contest for his Charlie Chaplin
impersonation in 1915. In 1997, the U.S. Congress declared
him the "first and only honorary veteran of the U.S. armed
forces."

 
James Francis "Jim" Thorpe (May 28, 1887 – March 28, 1953)

Thorpe was a Native American star of football, baseball, and the Olympics in the
1910’s and 1920’s. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1963
and the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951.

In a poll of sports fans conducted by ABC Sports, Thorpe was voted the Greatest
Athlete of the Twentieth Century out of 15 other athletes including Muhammad Ali,
Babe Ruth, Jesse Owens, Wayne Gretzky, Jack Nicklaus, and Michael Jordan.