Wednesday 15th of April 1908 (+) — Actress Lita Grey is born
Saturday 2nd of July 1932 (x) — Actress and sex symbol Jean Harlow marries Paul Bern
Two months later Bern shot himself through the head.
Tuesday 8th of December 1936 (+) — Actor David Carradine is born
Monday 16th of May 1938 (-) — Actor Jack Dougherty commits suicide carbon monoxide poisoning
Monday 25th of January 1943 (-) — Actor Spencer Charters commits suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning combined with sleeping tablets
Sunday 7th of November 1943 (-) — Actor Dwight Frye dies of a heart attack
Frye was returning by bus from a cinema with his son and died as the ambulance was taking him to hospital.
Friday 28th of December 1945 (-) — Naturalist writer Theodore Dreiser dies of unknown causes
Wednesday 19th of December 1945 (-) — Stunt actress Mary Wiggins commits suicide by a shot through the head
Tuesday 12th of March 1946 (+) — Actress and singer Liza Minnelli is born
Wednesday 1st of September 1948 (x) — Actor Robert Mitchum and actress Lila Leeds are arrested for possession of marijuana
After serving a week at the county jail Mitchum spent 43 days (from 16 February to 30 March 1949) at a Castaic California prison farm.
Wednesday 7th of August 1957 (-) — Actor Oliver Hardy dies of cerebral thrombosis
Wednesday 29th of May 1957 (-) — Film director James Whale commits suicide by drowning in his swimming pool
The future is just old age and illness and pain. Goodbye and thank you for all your love. I must have peace and this is the only way.
Wednesday 21st of January 1959 (-) — Film director Cecil Blount DeMille dies of heart failure
On the evening before DeMille's doctor paid him a visit at home and seeing how weak the director was advised that he go to the hospital at once. DeMille merely replied "No, I think I'll go to the morgue instead."
Monday 23rd of March 1964 (-) — Actor Peter Lorre dies of a stroke
Wednesday 8th of September 1965 (-) — Actress, singer and dancer Dorothy Dandridge dies of an accidental overdose of the tricyclic antidepressant Imipramine
The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office came to a different conclusion: “Miss Dandridge died of a rare embolism—blockage of the blood passages at the lungs and brain by tiny pieces of fat flaking off from bone marrow in a fractured right foot she sustained in a Hollywood gymnasium five days before she died.”
Monday 22nd of December 1969 (-) — Film director Josef von Sternberg dies of a heart attack
Monday 7th of August 1972 (-) — Actor and murderer Tom Neal dies of heart failure
Sunday 10th of December 1978 (-) — Cult film director Ed Wood dies of a heart attack
Monday 29th of December 1980 (-) — Musician Tim Hardin dies of a heroin overdose
Thursday 20th of March 1980 (-) — Victim of William Bonin aka The Freeway Killer Harry Turner is sodomised, beaten and strangled by William Bonin aka The Freeway Killer
Bonin was assisted by 17-year-old William Ray Pugh who bludgeoned and beat Turner about the head and body for several minutes.
Thursday 26th of April 1984 (-) — Musician and bandleader Count Basie dies of pancreatic cancer
Monday 11th of February 1985 (-) — Film director Henry Hathaway dies of a heart attack
Friday 22nd of May 1992 (x) — Television host Johnny Carson presents his last show on NBC
For the last time America heard "Heeeeeeere's Johnny!".
Thursday 30th of October 1997 (-) — Film director Samuel Fuller dies of natural causes
Wednesday 5th of June 2002 (-) — Musician Dee Dee Ramone dies of a heroin overdose
