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Lady Bird Johnson

Buy from Amazon.com: Books, Diary, Poster, moreClaudia Alta "Lady Bird" Taylor Johnson (December 22, 1912 – July 11, 2007) was First Lady of the United States from 1963 to 1969, having been the wife of...

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Original Mr. Clean, House Peters Jr. dies 92

House Peters Jr., a TV actor who became the original Mr. Clean in Proctor & Gamble's commercials for household cleaners. House Peters, Jr. (January 12, 1916 – October 1, 2008) was an American actor...

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1940's heartthrob actor Van Johnson dies 92

Charles "Van" Johnson (August 25, 1916 - December 12, 2008) was an American film and television actor and dancer.He passed away on December 12, 2008 at an assisted living center in Nyack, NY. He was...

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Horton Foote, Academy winning Playwright & Screenwriter, Dies 92

 Horton Foote (March 14, 1916 - March 4, 2009) was an American playwright and screenwriter, perhaps best known for his screenplay for the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird, for which he received an...

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Legendary broadcasting icon Walter Cronkite Dies 92

Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. (November 4, 1916 - July 17, 2009) was an American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years (1962–81). During the heyday of CBS...

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Carl Ballantine - Magician, Comedian (McHale's Navy) Dies 92

Carl Ballantine (born Meyer Kessler; September 27, 1917 - November 3, 2009) was an American actor, magician and comedian. Billing himself as "The Great Ballantine," "The Amazing Ballantine" or...

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John Forsythe, 'Dynasty', 'Charlie's Angels', Dies 92

John Lincoln FreundBorn: January 29, 1918 Penns Grove, New Jersey, United StatesDied: April 2, 2010 (aged 92) Santa Ynez, CaliforniaJohn Forsythe an American  stage, television and film actor. Forsythe...

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Lena Horne, Singer Who Helped Integrate Hollywood, Dies 92

Breaking News - more information coming...  Lena Horne (June 30, 1917 - May 9, 2010), was an American singer, actress and dancer.Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of sixteen and...

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Robert Byrd, longest serving senator, dies 92

Robert Carlyle Byrd (born Cornelius Calvin Sale, Jr.; November 20, 1917 – June 28, 2010) was a United States Senator from West Virginia. A member of the Democratic Party, Byrd served as a Senator from...

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James Wall, Captain Kangaroo Costar, Mr. Baxter, Dies 92

Jimmy Wall (Born ? - October 27, 2010) was a regular on Captain Kangaroo from 1968 until 1978. Playing the kindly "Mr. Baxter," he added a sense of calm to the show when all others around him may have...

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Frances Bay, actress in 'Happy Gilmore,''Seinfeld,' dies at 92

Frances Bay (January 23, 1919 – September 15, 2011) was a U.S.-based Canadian character actress, best-known for playing quirky, elderly women on film and television. She began her acting career in her...

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Andy Rooney, '60 Minutes' commentator, dies 92

Andrew Aitken "Andy" Rooney (January 14, 1919 – November 4, 2011) was an American radio and television writer. He was most notable for his weekly broadcast "A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney", a part of...

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Doris Singleton, 'I Love Lucy' actress, dies 92

Doris Singleton (born Dorthea Singleton; September 28, 1919 – June 26, 2012) was an American actress, perhaps best remembered as Lucy Ricardo's frenemy, the stuck-up Carolyn Appleby, in I Love...

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Kitty Wells, first female country music pioneer, dies at 92

The Queen of Country Music.Kitty Wells (August 30, 1919 – July 16, 2012), born Ellen Muriel Deason, was an American country music singer. Her 1952 hit recording, "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk...

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Franny Beecher, Guitarist for Bill Haley & the Comets, Dies 92

Francis "Franny" Beecher (September 29, 1921 – February 24, 2014), also known as Frank Beecher, was the lead guitarist for Bill Haley & His Comets from 1954 to 1962, and is best remembered for his...

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