Died Today (December 25th): Dean Martin (1917–1995)

Dean Martin (1917–1995)

Born: June 7, 1917 in Steubenville, Ohio, USA
Died: December 25, 1995 (age 78) in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA

Married to:
Catherine Hawn (25 April 1973 – 24 February 1976) (divorced) (1 child)
Jeanne Martin (1 September 1949 – 29 March 1973) (divorced) (3 children)
Elizabeth Anne McDonald (2 October 1941 – 23 March 1949) (divorced) (4 children)

Someone else, would have laid around, feeling sorry for himself, for a year. But Duke, he just doesn’t know, how to be sick … he’s recuperating the hard way. He’s two loud speaking guys in one. Me, when people see me, they sometimes say, ‘Oh, there goes Perry Como.’ But there’s only one ‘John Wayne’, and nobody makes any mistakes about that. – On The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)

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