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)–88 Stephen “Steve” Perry–71 Linda Blair–61 Diane Lane–55 Guy Ferry(“Fieri”)–52 Gabriel Macht–48 Paul Balthazar Getty–45 Nicholas Simmons–31 ; 1968 – “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In” premiered on NBC. ; 1973 – the Supreme Court handed down its Roe vs. Wade decision, which legalized abortion