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Rex Harrison

Rex Harrison (March 5, 1908 – June 2, 1990) was an English actor of stage and screen. Harrison began his career on the stage in 1924. He served in the Royal Air Force during World War II, reaching the rank of flight lieutenant. He won his first Tony Award for his performance as Henry VIII in the play Anne of the Thousand Days in 1949. He won his second Tony for the role of Professor Henry Higgins in the stage production of My Fair Lady in 1957. He reprised the role for the 1964 film version, which earned him both a Golden Globe Award and Academy Award for Best Actor.

He continued working in stage productions until shortly before his death from pancreatic cancer in June 1990 at the age of 82.

20th Century Highlights

• August 11, 1946: Anna and the King of Siam, with Harrison playing the King
• May 25, 1947: The Ghost and Mrs Muir
• March 15, 1956 (US): Broadway debut of My Fair Lady

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• July 31, 1963: Cleopatra with Harrison as Julius Caesar
• January 1, 1965: film version of My Fair Lady
• December 12, 1967: Doctor Dolittle

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Jeff Healey

Jeff Healey (March 25, 1966 – March 2, 2008) was a Canadian jazz and blues-rock vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter who attained musical and personal popularity, particularly in the 1980s and 1990s. When he was almost one year old, Healey lost his sight to retinoblastoma, a rare cancer of the eyes. His eyes had to be surgically removed, and he was given ocular prostheses. Healey began playing guitar when he was three, developing his unique style of playing the instrument flat on his lap.

20th Century Highlights

November 12, 1988: See The Light by the Jeff Healey Band; UK #58, Silver

May 29, 1990: Hell To Pay by the Jeff Healey Band; UK #18, Silver

1992: Feel This by the Jeff Healey Band; UK #72

June 13, 1995: Cover To Cover by the Jeff Healey Band; UK #50

John Holmes

John Holmes (August 8, 1944 – March 13, 1988) was one of the most prolific male pornographic film actors of all time, with documented credit for at least 537 films.

Holmes was best known for his exceptionally large penis, which was heavily promoted as the longest, thickest and hardest in the porn industry, although no documented measurement of Holmes' actual penis length, girth or tumescence has ever been confirmed. Near the end of his life, Holmes attained notoriety for his reputed involvement in the Wonderland murders of July 1981 and eventually for his death from complications caused by AIDS.