Happy Birthday RIP David Llewelyn Wark “DW” Griffith(1875–1948) Samuel Cooke(1931–1964) Wilfred “Bill” Bixby III(1934–1993) John Hurt(1940–2017) ; “Piper Laurie”(Rosetta Jacobs)–86 Seymour Cassel–83 Stephen “Steve” Perry–69 Linda Blair–59 Diane Lane–53 Guy Ferry–(“Fieri”)50 Gabriel Macht–46 Paul Balthazar Getty–43 Nicholas Simmons–29 ; 1968 – “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In” premiered on NBC. ; 1973 – the Supreme Court handed down its Roe vs. Wade decision, which legalized abortion