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Worked as a bailiff in the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department while also working in the movies. One of his movies, "Paris After Midnight, " was actually busted in a vice raid in the mid-50s, which caused him professional embarrassment. He went on to work 20 years as an L.A. deputy marshall and eventually was appointed County Marshall in 1971. He was convicted of felony charges after his appointment, however, for "illegal use of deputy marshalls in political activities," and was given a six month sentence, but received probation due to poor health. He was fired in 1975.

Enrique Lucero was born on 9 October 1917 in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico. He was an actor, known for The Wild Bunch (1969), The Magnificent Seven (1960) and The Long Goodbye (1973). He was married to Margarita Escalante Gutiérrez. He died on 9 May 1989 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico.

Big, bald, and burly 6'1" professional wrestler and actor Tiger Joe Marsh was born Joseph Samuel Marusich to parents of Yugoslavian descent on August 25, 1911 in Chicago, Illinois. Marsh was born in a South Chicago neighborhood and eventually moved to the area around 24th Street and Wentworth Avenue. He attended St. Jerome's Grammar School and worked as an errand boy at a shoe store. Joe first became involved in wrestling in the late 1920's through a gym located on 31st Street between Princeton and Wentworth Avenues. A regular villain in early televised wrestling matches (he would enter the ring wearing a tiger suit), Marsh participated in fights in such venues as White City and the Rainbow Garden. After quitting wrestling in 1954 and in the wake of military service that was partly done at Florida's Gainesville Naval Station, Joe went on to act in a handful of movies and TV shows in which he was frequently cast as menacing thugs. Moreover, Marsh also acted in stage productions of various plays that include "Guys and Dolls" and "The Teahouse of the August Moon," in which he acted alongside Burgess Meredith. Joe spent his latter years living in the Bridgeport area on the South Side of Chicago. Marsh died at age 77 of heart failure at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, Illinois on May 9, 1989. He was survived by his brother Anthony.

Jessie Keith Whitley was born July 1, 1955, in Sandy Hook, Kentucky. Learning to play guitar at age 6, he appeared on Buddy Starcher's regional TV show at age 8 and formed a bluegrass band with his friend Ricky Skaggs a few years later. When they were 15, Skaggs and Whitley were asked to play a local show when Ralph Stanley's entourage was running late. When Stanley heard them, he hired them for his band. They stayed for two summers until Whitley went to work for Carl Jackson in 1972. By 1974, he was back with Stanley, this time singing lead vocals. By then, Whitley had already survived a car crash (at 120 mph) and driving a car off a cliff into a river.

In 1978 he joined J.D. Crowe and the New South but finally chased a career in country music, which had always been closer to his heart. RCA issued a single, "Turn Me to Love" in 1984 with Patty Loveless singing harmony. At that time, Whitley's excessive drinking made him unreliable, but it did give him a hardened, honky-tonk voice, and he then only needed the right song.

In 1986 he married rising star Lorrie Morgan and cracked the Top 20 for the first time with "Miami, My Amy." After three Top 10 singles ("Ten Feet Away," "Homecoming '63" and "Hard Livin'"), Whitley finally reached No. 1 in 1988 with "Don't Close Your Eyes." He continued his streak with "When You Say Nothing at All" and "I'm No Stranger to the Rain." But in the midst of his newfound success, he died from alcohol poisoning at his home on May 8, 1989.

Nevertheless, Whitley's music remained in the spotlight for several years beyond that. His next two singles reached No. 1, and a duet with Morgan peaked at No. 13 in 1990. "Brotherly Love," a duet with Earl Thomas Conley, reached No. 2 in 1991. Morgan organized Keith Whitley - A Tribute Album in 1994 which included several previously unreleased Whitley tracks. Released as an unlikely single, Alison Krauss & Union Station's version of "When You Say Nothing at All" surprisingly reached No. 3 on the country charts, introducing Krauss--and Whitley--to listeners who had only discovered country music in the early 1990s. The song has since become a wedding standard.

Pierre Danny was born on 4 July 1928 in Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France. He was an actor, known for Schulmeister, espion de l'empereur (1971). He died on 9 May 1989 in Clichy-la-Garenne, Hauts-de-Seine, France.

Heinz Moog was born on 28 June 1908 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He was an actor, known for 1. April 2000 (1952), Waldhaus (1987) and Und Jimmy ging zum Regenbogen (1971). He was married to Annette Geisen. He died on 9 May 1989 in Vienna, Austria.

Valerie Ward was born on 18 August 1920 in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Errol Flynn Theatre (1956), Dear Murderer (1947) and Precious Bane (1957). She was married to Sir Richard Llewellyn Barwick. She died on 9 May 1989 in Yorkshire, England, UK.

Sergey Ponomaryov was born on 2 April 1913 in Samara, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was an actor, known for Dubravka (1967), The Very Last Day (1973) and Trevozhnyye nochi v Samare (1970). He died on 9 May 1989 in Kuybyshev, RSFSR, USSR [now Samara, Russia].

Winston Hemsley was born on 21 May 1947 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He died on 9 May 1989 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.