American Decades
Deaths
Morey Amsterdam, 83, vaudeville performer, composer, and actor best known as Buddy Sorrell on The Dick Van Dyke Show, 28 October 1996.
Robert Angus, 74, producer of The Adventures of Ozzie and
Harriet and The Mary Tyler Moore Show, 5 February 1996. Harry S. Ashmore, 81, 1958 Pulitzer Prize-winner for his editorials during the school integration crisis at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, 20 January 1998.
Gene Autry, 91, actor, the original singing cowboy, and composer of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," 2 October 1998.
Keyes Beech, 76, foreign correspondent who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1951 for his coverage of the Korean War, 15 February 1990.
Bob Bell, 75, TV's Bozo the Clown for twenty-five years, 8 December 1997.
Erma Bombeck, 69, humorist and housewife-turned-columnist, 22 April 1996.
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