Birthdays & Passings (February 8th - February 14th) [1475]

Happy Birthday!
Burt Mustin (February 8, 1884)
Lana Turner (February 8, 1921)
Audrey Meadows (February 8, 1922)
Jack Lemmon (February 8, 1925)
Alejandro Rey (February 8, 1930)
Gary Coleman (February 8, 1968)
Ronald Colman (February 9, 1891)
Gypsy Rose Lee (February 9, 1911)
Kathryn Grayson (February 9, 1922)
Jimmy Durante (February 10, 1893)
Lon Chaney, Jr. (February 10, 1906)
Eva Gabor (February 11, 1919)
Kim Stanley (February 11, 1925)
Leslie Nielsen (February 11, 1926)
Joseph Kearns (February 12, 1907)
Lorne Greene (February 12, 1915)
Forrest Tucker (February 12, 1919)
William Dozier (February 13, 1908)
Tennessee Ernie Ford (February 13, 1919)
Dorothy McGuire (February 13, 1928)
Jack Benny (February 14, 1894)
Thelma Ritter (February 14, 1905)
Edward Platt (February 14, 1916)
Lois Maxwell (February 14, 1927)
Brian Kelly (February 14, 1931)
Gregory Hines (February 14, 1946)

At Rest:
Harriet E. MacGibbon (February 8, 1987)
Julius Schwartz (February 8, 2004)
Sophie Tucker (February 9, 1966)
David Wayne (February 9, 1995)
Jim Varney (February 10, 2000)
Shirley Temple Black (February 10, 2014)
Lee J. Cobb (February 11, 1976)
George O'Hanlon (February 11, 1989)
Sorrell Booke (February 11, 1994)
William Conrad (February 11, 1994)
Don Porter (February 11, 1997)
Caroline McWilliams (February 11, 2010)
Nicholas Colasanto (February 12, 1985)
Brian Kelly (February 12, 2005)
David Groh (February 12, 2008)
Betty Garrett (February 12, 2011)
David Janssen (February 13, 1980)
Martin Balsam (February 13, 1996)
Sid Caesar (February 13, 2014)
Ralph Waite (February 13, 2014)

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