Born March 1934

He was also the first actor to play the Ronald McDonald character for McDonald’s.

He turned the struggling Miami Hurricanes into national champions.

He was country music’s first Black superstar.

Running back won the 1955 Heisman Trophy.

Helped create the Dance Theatre of Harlem…

One of the first African-American women to host her own TV show.

Eugene “Gene” Cernan, the former NASA astronaut who remains the last human being to date to set foot on the surface of the moon, died Monday, Jan. 16, 2017.

Nicholas Smith, an English actor who was the last-surviving original cast member of “Are You Being Served?” – a long-running British television sitcom – has died. He was 81. 

Actress Joan Hackett died of ovarian cancer 30 years ago today at just 49 years old, the same devastating disease as comedienne Gilda Radner, actress Jessica Tandy, singer Dinah Shore…