† In Memory - SEPT 30: **1955 – James Dean, American actor (b. 1931) James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 – September 30, 1955) was an American actor. He is a cultural icon of teenage disillusionment, as expressed in the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause (1955), in which he starred as troubled teenager Jim Stark. The other two roles that defined his stardom were loner Cal Trask in East of Eden (1955) and surly ranch hand Jett Rink in Giant (1956). Deans enduring fame and popularity rest on his performances in only these three films, in two of which he is in the leading role. On September 30, 1955, At approximately 5:45pm, a black-and-white 1950 Ford Tudor coupe driven at high speed was headed east on Route 466 just west of the junction near Shandon. Its driver, 23-year-old Cal Poly student Donald Turnupseed, made a left turn onto Route 41 headed north, toward Fresno. As Turnupseeds Ford crossed over the center line, Dean, who was driving at a reported speed of 85 mph, apparently tried to steer the Spyder in a side stepping racing maneuver, but with insufficient time and space, the two cars crashed almost head-on. The Spyder flipped up into the air and landed back on its wheels in a gully, northwest of the junction. The sheer velocity of the impact sent the much-heavier Ford broad-sliding 39 feet down Route 466 in the westbound lane. Dean was severely injured from the crash with a broken neck and several internal and external injuries. Dean was pronounced dead on arrival at the Paso Robles War Memorial Hospital at 6:20pm.......... -->Ironically, Dean had appeared in an episode of Warner Brothers Presents a few weeks prior to his death. The segment concerned the subject of driver safety and Deans experience on the road. At the end of the segment, instead of saying the catch phrase The life you save may be your own, Dean ad-libbed the line The life you might save might be mine. After his fatal car accident, the segment was never aired. O:) youtube/watch?v=DSiu0z7VcnU **1977 – Mary Ford, American singer and guitarist (b. 1924) Mary Ford (July 7, 1924[1]–September 30, 1977), born Iris Colleen Summers, was an American vocalist and guitarist, comprising half of the husband-and-wife musical team Les Paul and Mary Ford. After eight weeks in a diabetic coma, Ford died of complications from diabetes in Arcadia, California at the age of 53........ O:) **1978 – Edgar Bergen, American actor and ventriloquist (b. 1903) Edgar John Bergen (February 16, 1903 – September 30, 1978) was an American actor, comedian and radio performer, best known for his proficiency in ventriloquism and his characters Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd. He is also the father of actress Candice Bergen. It was in mid-September 1978 that he announced that he was retiring after 48 years in show business and sending his monocled, top-hatted partner to the Smithsonian Institution. He opened at Caesars Palace Hotel Las Vegas on September 27, for a two week farewell to show business engagement. He died three days later in his sleep of kidney disease at age 75. ........................... O:) **2003 – Ronnie Dawson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1939) Ronald Monroe Ronnie Dawson (11 August 1939 — 30 September 2003) was an American rockabilly singer, guitarist and drummer, nicknamed The Blond Bomber. Although he achieved regional success in the 1950s, his popularity peaked internationally with tours in the 1980s and 1990s. He was born in Dallas, Texas; his father Pinkie Dawson was the leader of a western swing band, the Manhattan Merrymakers. Dawson [returned to] Texas, and worked as a session guitarist and drummer on Major Bill Smiths productions, including Bruce Channels Hey! Baby and Paul and Paulas Hey Paula. He continued to perform after developing throat cancer, but died in Dallas at the age of 64 in 2003....... O:)
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