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)–87 Seymour Cassel–84 Stephen “Steve” Perry–70 Linda Blair–60 Diane Lane–54 Guy Ferry(“Fieri”)–51 Gabriel Macht–47 Paul Balthazar Getty–44 Nicholas Simmons–30 ; 1968 – “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In” premiered on NBC. ; 1973 – the Supreme Court handed down its Roe vs. Wade decision, which legalized abortion