Birthdays & Passings (February 15th - February 21st) [1476]

Happy Birthday!
Cesar Romero (February 15, 1907)
Kevin McCarthy (February 15, 1914)
Mary Jane Croft (February 15, 1916)
Allan Arbus (February 15, 1918)
Keene Curtis (February 15, 1923)
Harvey Korman (February 15, 1927)
Rusty Hamer (February 15, 1947)
Edgar Bergen (February 16, 1903)
Hugh Beaumont (February 16, 1909)
Jeffrey Lynn (February 16, 1909)
Patty Andrews (February 16, 1918)
Sonny Bono (February 16, 1935)
Kathleen Freeman (February 17, 1919)
Mary Ann Mobley (February 17, 1937)
Adolphe Menjou (February 18, 1890)
Jack Palance (February 18, 1919)
Bill Cullen (February 18, 1920)
Allan Melvin (February 18, 1922)
Gale Gordon (February 20, 1906)
John Daly (February 20, 1914)
Whitney Blake (February 20, 1925)
Amanda Blake (February 20, 1929)
Rue McClanahan (February 20, 1934)
Larry Hovis (February 20, 1936)
Brion James (February 20, 1945)
Edward Albert (February 20, 1951) 

At Rest:
Wally Cox (February 15, 1973)
Ethel Merman (February 15, 1984)
Tommy Rettig (February 15, 1996)
McLean Stevenson (February 15, 1996)
Mary Grace Canfield (February 15, 2014)
Smiley Burnette (February 16, 1967)
Len Lesser (February 16, 2011)
Joseph Kearns (February 17, 1962)
Dan O'Herlihy (February 17, 2005)
Kathryn Grayson (February 17, 2010)
Noam Pitlik (February 18, 1999)
Madge Blake (February 19, 1969)
Janet Blair (February 19, 2007)
Clarence Nash (February 20, 1985)
Dick York (February 20, 1992)
Rosemary DeCamp (February 20, 2001)

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