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#3641 · April 15, 2025, 6:54 am
RIP OTD 1988. Popular comedy actor and raconteur, Kenneth Williams, died (aged 62). He appeared in 26 of the 31 Carry On films. He also starred in the BBC radio comedies, Hancock’s Half-Hour and Round The Horne and he was a regular on the BBC radio panel game, Just a Minute.
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#3642 · April 15, 2025, 6:55 am
RIP OTD in 1990, film actress (Anna Christie, Mata Hari, Grand Hotel, Anna Karenina, Camille, Ninotchka) Greta Garbo died in New York City; pneumonia and renal failure, aged 84. Cremated remains interred at Skogskyrkogården Cemetery, south of Stockholm https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/04/15/day-in-history-15-april-abraham-lincoln/
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#3643 · April 15, 2025, 6:56 am
RIP OTD in 2018, actor (Full Metal Jacket, Mississippi Burning, Seven) U.S. Marine drill instructor, staff sergeant, honorary gunnery sergeant, R. Lee Ermey died in Santa Monica, California; pneumonia, aged 73. Arlington National Cemetery https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/04/15/day-in-history-15-april-abraham-lincoln/
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#3644 · April 15, 2025, 2:06 pm
RIP OTD in 2020 actor (First Blood, Gorky Park, Silverado, Cocoon, F/X, Presumed Innocent, Tommy Boy, Romeo + Juliet, Knight of Cups), Brian Dennehy died of cardiac arrest due to sepsis in New Haven, Connecticut aged 81. Cremation thefinalfootprint.com/2025/04/15/day
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#3645 · April 16, 2025, 7:17 am
RIP OTD in 1991, film director (The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, A Passage to India), producer, screenwriter and editor David Lean died In Limehouse, London at the age of 83. Cremation https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/04/16/day-in-history-16-april-edna-ferber/
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#3646 · April 16, 2025, 7:18 am
RIP OTD in 2002, actor (Jake Spoon in Lonesome Dove, Magnum Force) Robert Urich died at Los Robles Hospital, Thousand Oaks CA; synovial sarcoma, aged 55. Cremated remains interred at his family’s vacation home, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/04/16/day-in-history-16-april-edna-ferber/
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#3647 · April 17, 2025, 2:04 pm
RIP OTD in 2013 singer, actress (Every Sunday, Three Smart Girls, One Hundred Men and a Girl, Christmas Holiday, Lady on a Train), Deanna Durbin died in Paris aged 91. Cremation thefinalfootprint.com/2025/04/17/day
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#3648 · April 18, 2025, 1:51 pm
RIP OTD in 2012, radio/tv personality, tv producer, actor, cultural icon, Dick Clark died from a heart attack in Santa Monica, California. Cremated remains scattered in the Pacific aged 82 ‘’It's got a good beat and you can dance to it." thefinalfootprint.com/2025/04/18/day
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#3649 · April 19, 2025, 1:58 pm
RIP OTD 1992. Frankie Howerd died (aged 75). He was best known for his seemingly off-the-cuff but carefully scripted comedy monologues which were littered with double entendres, audience put downs, and catchphrases such as “Oooh, no missus” and “Titter ye not”.
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#3650 · April 20, 2025, 1:06 pm
RIP OTD in 1991 director (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Two Mules for Sister Sara, The Beguiled, Dirty Harry, Escape from Alcatraz, The Shootist), Don Siegel died; cancer in Nipomo, California, aged 78. Cayucos-Morro Bay District Cemetery, Cayucos CA thefinalfootprint.com/2025/04/20/day
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#3651 · April 20, 2025, 1:08 pm
RIP OTD in 1992 actor (The Benny Hill Show), comedian, singer, writer, Benny Hill died at his home, Teddington, Greater London, in his armchair in front of the TV, from a heart attack, aged 68. Hollybrook Cemetery, Bassett, Southampton thefinalfootprint.com/2025/04/20/day
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#3652 · April 20, 2025, 1:11 pm
RIP OTD 20 April 2016. Hugely popular comedy writer and star live performer Victoria Wood died of cancer (aged 62). She was best known for her BBC sketch Acorn Antiques and the BBC comedy series, Dinnerladies. She won 5 BAFTA awards. Her most famous song was the hilarious Let’s Do It.
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#3653 · April 21, 2025, 6:27 am
RIP OTD in 1924 Italian actress, one of the greatest of her time, notably in the plays of Gabriele d'Annunzio and Henrik Ibsen, Eleonora Duse died of pneumonia in Pittsburgh in Suite 524 of the Hotel Schenley, aged 65. Sant' Anna, Asalo, Italy https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/04/21/day-in-history-21-april-mark-twain/
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#3654 · April 22, 2025, 1:52 pm
RIP OTD in 2006 actress (The Paradine Case, The Third Man, Senso, Il Grido, Eyes Without a Face, Oedipus Rex, Lisa and the Devil, La Luna, Suspiria) Alida Valli died at home in Rome aged 84. Cimitero Comunale Monumentale Campo Verano, Rome thefinalfootprint.com/?p=2059
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#3655 · April 22, 2025, 1:55 pm
RIP OTD 2023. Barry Humphries died (aged 89). He was best known for writing and playing his on-stage and TV alter egos: Dame Edna Everage, a gaudily dressed, acid-tongued, internationally famous “Housewife Superstar” and inebriated diplomat Sir Les Patterson.
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#3656 · April 23, 2025, 6:54 am
RIP OTD in 1986, theatre/film director (Laura, Exodus, The Man with the Golden Arm, Anatomy of a Murder, Advise & Consent), Otto Preminger died in his Upper East Side Manhattan home; lung cancer, aged 80. Cremated remains at Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/04/23/day-in-history-23-april-shakespeare/
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#3657 · April 23, 2025, 6:55 am
RIP OTD in 1990, actress (Modern Times, The Great Dictator, So Proudly We Hail!) Paulette Goddard died from heart failure and emphysema in Ronco sopra Ascona, Switzerland, aged 79. Ronco Village Cemetery https://thefinalfootprint.com/2025/04/23/day-in-history-23-april-shakespeare/
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#3658 · April 23, 2025, 7:09 am
RIP OTD 1975. Actor William Hartnell died (aged 67). He appeared in over 75 British films, but is probably best remembered today as the First Doctor in BBC Television’s Doctor Who series, which he played from 1963 to 1966.
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#3659 · April 23, 2025, 7:10 am
RIP OTD v2005. The popular actor, John Mills died (aged 97). He appeared in over 120 films including: Ice Cold in Alex, Dunkirk, The Way to the Stars, This Happy Breed, and The Family Way. He won only one Oscar as Best Supporting Actor in Ryan’s Daughter.
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#3660 · April 23, 2025, 7:12 am
RIP OTD 2011. Comedy writer John Sullivan died (aged 64). He wrote the situation comedies Only Fools and Horses, Citizen Smith, Dear John and Just Good Friends. His most popular series was Only Fools and Horses, which won the BAFTA award for Best Comedy Series 3 times.
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