1922 Alan Freed - Disc jockey who was said to have coined the term “Rock’n’Roll”. He was fired on air at WABC for alleged involvement in the payola scandal of the late 1950s

I wonder how that worked. Did someone announce he was being fired or did someone just fire him while the Mic was live and everyone heard it?



1962 Charles Laughton, age 63 – British actor (The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Mutiny on the Bounty, The Private Life of Henry VIII, Captain Kidd, Hobson’s Choice, Spartacus) He was married to Elsa Lanchester for 33 years, until his death. In the play, Alibi, in 1928, he became the first actor to portray detective Hercule Poirot

Can you imagine being married to The Bride of Frankenstein? Of course, early on she was very pretty and he never was much to look at.