Happy Birthday RIP David Llewelyn Wark “DW” Griffith(1875–1948) Samuel Cooke(1931–1964) Wilfred “Bill” Bixby III(1934–1993) John Hurt(1940–2017) Seymour Cassel(1935–2019) “Piper Laurie”(Rosetta Jacobs 1932–2023) ; Stephen “Steve” Perry–76 Linda Blair–66 Diane Lane–60 Guy Ferry(“Fieri”)–57 Gabriel Macht–53 Paul Balthazar Getty–50 Nicholas Tweed-Simmons–36 ; 1968 – “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In” premiered on NBC. ; 1973 – the Supreme Court handed down its Roe vs. Wade decision, which legalized abortion. In 2022 it was illegally reversed for political reasons.