The TV actor is best known for starring as lovable outlaw Hannibal Heyes/Joshua Smith on the hit Western Alias Smitn and Jones, and for his tragic suicide in 1971 at the age of just 31.

Though his career was cut short by death, the country music singer attained success both during his lifetime and posthumously.

Considered one of the greatest rappers of all time, the onetime drug dealer skyrocketed to fame in the mid-1990s but was murdered in a drive-by shooting in 1997 at the age of 24.

The Irish-born musician and singer-songwriter achieved worldwide fame as lead singer of the Cranberries but waged lifelong personal struggles and died in 2018 from drowning due to alcohol intoxication at the age of 46.

The wrestling promoter was the driving force behind the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), twice serving as its president.

Based on the DC Comics character, the Batman live-action television series has been called arguably the biggest TV phenomenon of the 1960s.

Fun facts about NFL football's "G.O.A.T."

The health guru and magazine publisher pioneered the organic food movement. 


Editor's Note: J.I. Rodale was present at the Dick Cavett Show taping on June 7, 1971 (not June 8, which was the day he died).

Fun facts about Christopher Columbus's October 12, 1492 discovery of the Americas.

Fast facts about music icons Bing Crosby and Duke Ellington, one of the former's many collaborators.