DECEMBER 25, 1995 – Singer/actor/comic/film producer DEAN MARTIN (b. June 7, 1917 in Steubenville, Ohio as Dino Paul Crocetti) died of acute respiratory failure resulting from emphysema at his Beverly Hills home at age 78 after having been diagnosed with lung cancer at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in September 1993. The lights of the Las Vegas Strip were […] More