DOLLY PARTON - 68 (A Living LEGEND. How much money has she made on I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU.. .doesn't matter )
Jodie Sweetin - 32 (Stephanie on "Full House". She ruined her marriage because of her addiction to METH. Her addiction was so bad that her former "Full House" castmates held an intervention for her.)
Coral Smith - 35 (Reality tard from MTV's "The Real World: Back to New York" and about 600 subsequent "Real World / Road Rules Challenges".)
Frank Caliendo - 40 (comedian from "Mad TV" who now has his own show, "Frank TV". He also does predictions for the NFL games on "Fox NFL Sunday".)
Drea de Matteo - 42 (Rexy "Sopranos" star who was also Joey's sister on the cancelled "Joey" and most recently on Desperate Housewives)
John Wozniak - 43 (Marcy Playground singer. Remember "Sex and Candy"?)
Shawn Wayans - 45 ("Scary Movie", "White Chicks" and "Little Man" )
Martin Bashir - 51 (The sneaky agressive rat jerk journalist who did the famous "Living With Michael Jackson" special during which Michael declared, among other things, that he had, quote, "slept in a bed with many children.")
PAUL MCCRANE - 53 (He was Dr. Romano on "ER" . . . until he was killed off by a helicopter that crashed on top of him. Paul McCrane was ALSO the clown-haired, gay redhead Montgomery MacNeil in "FAME".)
Paul Rodriguez - 59 (Comedic Latino. .)
Katey Sagal - 61 (Peg Bundy on "Married With Children" . . . the voice of the sexy cyclops, Leela, on "Futurama" and John's Ritter's SEXY widow on "8 Simple Rules". She also played Locke's girlfriend, Helen, in his flashback episodes on "Lost".)
Desi Arnaz, Jr. - 61 (As a baby, he appeared on the cover of the very first issue of "TV Guide", in April of 1953, with his mother, LUCILLE BALL. Lucy gave birth to Desi Jr. on the same day that her TV character gave birth to her TV son, "Little Ricky" Ricardo on "I Love Lucy".)
SHELLEY FABARES - 70 (Sexy "Coach" minx. She also sang the 1962 smash hit "Johnny Angel"!!!)
Phil Everly - 75 (The Everly Brothers.)
Tippi Hedren - 84 ("The Birds". Melanie Griffith's mother.)
JEAN STAPLETON - woulda been 91 (Edith Bunker on "All in the Family".)
Robert Palmer - Would have been 64 - (1949 - 2003)
Janis Joplin - (1943 - 1970) (DON'T TAKE DRUGS KIDS!!!)
Nicholas Colasanto - (1924 - 1985) ( was Coach on "Cheers". If only he'd lived a few more years, the world might never have had to deal with Woody Harrelson. Imagine that?)
Edgar Allan Poe - (1809 - 1849)
Robert E. Lee - (1807 - 1870)
1825 - Ezra Daggett and his nephew Thomas Kensett got a patent for their process of storing food in TIN CANS.
1840 - ANTARCTICA was discovered by Charles Wilkes.
1953 - LUCY gave birth to DESI ARNAZ, JR., during a regularly scheduled episode of "I LOVE LUCY". The scriptwriters had gambled that LUCILLE BALL would have a boy, and wrote the script accordingly.
(--Two-thirds of the country's television viewers watched that episode.)
1955 - A presidential news conference was filmed for TV for the first time, with the permission of PRESIDENT DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER.
1993 - FLEETWOOD MAC reunited to perform at BILL CLINTON'S inauguration. Clinton had used "Don't Stop" as the theme for his campaign . . . and also as his inner mantra when women told him they weren't interested in his sexual advances. (???)
1994 - The Animals, The Band, Duane Eddy, The Grateful Dead, Elton John, John Lennon, Bob Marley and Rod Stewart were inducted into the ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME.
1998 - Rockabilly pioneer CARL PERKINS died in Nashville from complications following a recent series of strokes. Perkins' songwriting and guitar work influenced ELVIS PRESLEY and THE BEATLES, to name just two. (--He wrote and recorded "BLUE SUEDE SHOES" in 1956, and his version sold two million copies before Elvis' version became a hit.)
2000 - I think BECK said it best for all of us, when he sang these profound words of wisdom: "Freaks flock together . . . and make all the lesbians scream."
2006 - Soul singer WILSON PICKETT . . . of "Mustang Sally" fame . . . died of a heart attack at the age of 64.
2006 - (Underground rapper) SAIGON was STABBED IN THE TEMPLE with a broken bottle during an attempted robbery. So he HAILED A CAB to go
