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popular name: Martha Raye

date_of_death: October 19, 1994 (aged 78)

age: 78

cause_of_death: Aspiration and Pneumonia

claim_to_fame: Show Business

best_know_for: Martha Raye, nicknamed The Big Mouth, was an American comedic actress and singer who performed in the stage, in the movies and later on television. While she might be best remembered for those annoying television commercials for Polident denture cleanser in the 1970s and 1980s, she actually had quite the remarkable career over her 5 decades in show business. In 1936, she was signed for comic roles by Paramount Pictures and her first feature film was Rhythm on the Range with Bing Crosby. Over the next 25 years she starred opposite such A-list comedians including Joe E. Brown, Bob Hope, W.C. Fields, Abbott and Costello, Charlie Chaplin and Jimmy Durante. She was a television star very early in its history. She starred in the short-lived (28 episodes) The Martha Raye Show (1954–1956), opposite retired middleweight boxer Rocky Graziano, who played her boyfriend. She went on and appeared in numerous T.V. series including Alice, Murder She Wrote, The Andy Williams Show and McMillan and Wife. During her last 5 years she suffered from difficult health issues including circulator issues (which resulted in the amputation both legs below the knee) and several strokes. Raye died at age 78 of aspiration and pneumonia.

popular name: John Candy

date_of_death: March 4, 1994

age: 43

cause_of_death: Heart attack

claim_to_fame: Show Business

best_know_for: John Candy was one of the most fantastic comedic actors of his generation and perhaps Canada's greatest export to the U.S. His well-known roles as the big-hearted Buck Russell in Uncle Buck and his role as Del Griffith - shower curtain ring salesman in Planes, Trains & Automobiles will live forever as cinematic comic genius long after his passing.

popular name: Heather O'Rourke

date_of_death: February 1, 1988

age: 12

cause_of_death: Congenital stenosis of the intestine causing septic shock

claim_to_fame: Show Business

best_know_for: Heather O’Rourke was the terrified youngster sucked into a spectral vacuum by supernatural spirits in the “Poltergeist” films and was featured in such television shows as Happy Days, Webster and Still the Beaver. She played the angelic Carol Ann Freeling in all three Poltergeist movies fondly remembered for her catch phrase, "They're baaaack." Heather had just completed filming on Poltergeist III when she complained of abdominal pain, was rushed to the hospital on died on the operating table from septic shock caused by intestinal stenosis.