Gregg Toland

popular name: Danny Kaye

date_of_death: March 3, 1987

age: 76

cause_of_death: Complications of heart failure, internal bleeding, and hepatitis C

claim_to_fame: Show Business

best_know_for: Danny Kaye, the rubbery-faced, gibberish-spouting comedian, was one of the world’s most successful entertainers of the 1940s, ‘50s and ‘60s. Kaye’s silly patter, funny walks and air of innocence and likability propelled him from the Catskill borscht circuit to stardom on the Broadway stage, in New York and London nightclubs and then on to Hollywood, where he became known to countless millions around the world. Kaye starred in 23 films, notably Wonder Man (1945), The Kid from Brooklyn (1946), The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947), The Inspector General (1949), Hans Christian Andersen (1952), White Christmas (1954), and The Court Jester (1955). Upon his death, he was buried at Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York.

popular name: Jacques Chazot

date_of_death: July 12, 1993

age: 64

cause_of_death: Throat Cancer

claim_to_fame: Show Business

best_know_for: Mr. Chazot began his career in earnest as a star dancer at the Opera Comique in Paris from 1956 to 1963 and choreographed or produced many ballets. His wit made him a popular guest on television talk shows. He was also known for his satirical writing about Parisian high society, symbolized by a fictional young snob named Marie-Chantal. He was a perennial figure in that society, and he used to say, "People love me because when I enter a room I create the effect of a sudden shower of rainbow confetti." In short, Chazot was a professional dandy, his slender figure shown off to its best advantage in a Saint-Laurent purple velvet dinner jacket. He preferred the weightless nourishment of his butterfly mind to the stupefying richness of French haute cuisine. He had been known to enter famous restaurants and order a glass of water (but with a sprig of fresh mint) and a post-prandial cigar. Like Ronald Firbank, he could dine appreciatively on a single green pea. He was a close friend of the writer Francoise Sagan, whom he reportedly almost married in 1964, despite his avowed homosexuality, and was often seen in the company of people like Maria Callas, Princess Grace and Marie-Helene de Rothschild. Upon his death he was interred at Cimetirie de Monthyon in France.

popular name: Joan Crawford

date_of_death: May 10, 1977

age: 73

cause_of_death: Heart attack

claim_to_fame: Show Business

best_know_for: Ranked in the Top Ten list of greatest female stars of Classic Hollywood Cinema by the American Film Institute, Joan Crawford's brilliant career included memorable performances in Mildred Pierce (1944), Possessed (1947), Sudden Fear (1952) and, of course, opposite her arch nemesis Bettie Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Married four times, adopting five children and a lifetime of in the lights, she became a virtual recluse in her final years dying in her tony New York apartment. The following year her daughter Christina published the notorious tell-all book Mommy Dearest.