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2007 Johnny Hart, cartoonist, creator, comic strips, 'The Wizard of Id', 'B.C.', strips each appeared in over 1,000 newspapers, dies of a stroke while at the drawing table, at age 76
1998 Grandpa Jones, country comic/banjo wizard, 'Hee Haw', dies at 84 1990 David Rappaport, 3'11' actor (Wizard, LA Law), shoots himself at 38 1987 Ray Bolger, actor/dancer (Wizard of Oz), dies at 83 1985 Margaret Hamilton, actress (Wizard of Oz), dies 1979 Jack Haley, actor (Wizard of Oz), dies of cancer at 79 1971 Joan Kenmore, actress, Wizard of Oz 1969 Judy Garland, actress (Wizard of Oz, Easter Parade), dies at 47 1969 Judy Garland, singer and actress (Wizard of Oz), dies at 48 of an overdose 1967 Bert Lahr, Irving Lahrheim, U.S. comic (Wizard of Oz), dies at 72 1956 "Wizard of Oz" 1st televised (CBS-TV) 1951 David Rappaport, born in London, England, 3'11" actor, Wizard, Time Bandits 1949 Frank Morgan, actor (Annie Get Your Gun, Wizard of Oz), dies at 59 1949 Victor Fleming, director (Wizard of Oz, Gone With Wind), dies at 65 1939 "Wizard of Oz" opens at Loew's Capitol Theater in NY 1939 "Wizard of Oz" premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theater, Hollywood 1938 Margaret Hamilton's costume catches fire in filming of "Wizard of Oz" 1937 Andrew J[efferson V] Offutt, U.S., sci-fi author, Undying Wizard 1931 Johnny Hart, born in Endicott, New York, cartoonist, creator, comic strips, 'The Wizard of Id', 'B.C.', strips each appeared in over 1,000 newspapers 1923 Roy Dotrice, Guernsey Channel Island, actor, Wizard 1922 Judy Garland, born in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, actress and singer, Wizard of Oz 1919 Frank Lyman Baum, author (Wizard of Oz), dies at 62 1917 Don Herbert, born in Waconia, Minnesota, scientist/TV host, Watch Mr. Wizard 1912 A[lfred] E[lton] van Vogt, Canada, sci-fi author, Wizard of Linn 1904 Ray Bolger, Dorchester Massachusetts, actor/dancer, Wizard of Oz 1903 "Wizard of Oz," premieres in New York City 1902 Margaret Hamilton, born in Ohio, wicked witch of the west, Wizard of Oz 1884 Paul Charles Morphy, U.S. lawyer/chess wizard, dies at 47 1883 Victor Fleming, born in Pasadena, California, director, Wizard of Oz, Gone With Wind 1869 Charley Grapewin, Xenia, Ohio, actor, Wizard of Oz, Libeled Lady |
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