August 5

• 2000 – Sir Alec Guiness, who starred in “Star Wars” and “Murder By Death,” passed away on at the age of 86.
• 1995 – Clarice Blackburn, who played “Mrs. Johnson” on the daytime nightmare soap opera “Dark Shadows,” passed away at the age of 74.
• 1991 – Oliver Drake who wrote the screenplay for the film “The Mummy’s Curse,” passed away at the age of 88.
• 1988 – Ralph Meeker, who played “Bernie Jenks” in the TV movie “The Night Stalker” and appeared in the TV movie “The Dead Don’t Die,” passed away at the age of 67.
• 1984 – Richard Burton who starred in “The Medusa Touch,” “Bluebeard” and “The Exorcist II: The heretic,” passed away at the age of 58.