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Total Records: 24 - Group: DATES / Category: 20TH CENTURY: 70S / Subcategory: DEATH DATES

#	Record Name	Source	Category	Subcategory
1970 - 54 years ago
1	April 13, 1970	THE PRETENDER 1996 TV Series	20th Century: 70s	Death Dates
	April 13, 1970 Miss Parker's mother dies.
3	April 14, 1970	THE PRETENDER 1996 TV Series	20th Century: 70s	Death Dates
	April 14, 1970 The day after Miss Parker's mother dies. Jarod gives Miss Parker several letters that her mother Catherine Parker wrote to her - one dated March 20, 1970, containing the passage: "You and I will put all of this behind us on April 14" - the day after she died.
1971 - 53 years ago
3	January 8, 1971	DARK 2017 TV Series	20th Century: 70s	Death Dates
	January 8, 1971 Date of death on Regina Tiedemann's headstone.
1972 - 52 years ago
3	May 19, 1972	SOMEWHERE IN TIME 1980 Film	20th Century: 70s	Death Dates
	May 19, 1972 Richard Collier's play Too Much Spring opens at Millfield College, attended by famous American theater actress Elise McKenna, who approaches Richard backstage after the show, gives him a gold pocket watch, tells him to come back to her, and then dies later that night.
3	June 17, 1972	THE TICK 2016 TV Series	20th Century: 70s	Death Dates
	June 17, 1972 J. Christian dies, aged 55 years, per headstone visible during the scene when Dot and Overkill are in the graveyard.
1973 - 51 years ago
3	March 15, 1973	BACK TO THE FUTURE PART II 1989 Film	20th Century: 70s	Death Dates
	March 15, 1973 Date of Death on Marty's father George Douglas McFly's headstone.
3	April 13, 1973	THE TICK 2016 TV Series	20th Century: 70s	Death Dates
	April 13, 1973 G. Harrowitz dies, age 82 years old - per headstone visible during The Tick's opening monologue.
3	December 19, 1973	A CHRISTMAS STORY CHRISTMAS 2022 Film	20th Century: 70s	Death Dates
	December 19, 1973 Ralphie's father - the Old Man - dies.
3	December 22, 1973	A CHRISTMAS STORY CHRISTMAS 2022 Film	20th Century: 70s	Death Dates
	December 22, 1973 M. Lewis dies - obituary in the paper that Ralphie reviews when preparing to write one for his father.
1974 - 50 years ago
3	January 11, 1974	PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE 1985 Film	20th Century: 70s	Death Dates
	January 11, 1974 Ghost trucker Large Marge dies in a car accident.
3	August 9, 1974	WATCHMEN 2019 TV Series	20th Century: 70s	Death Dates
	August 9, 1974 Nelson Gardner dies in a traffic accident in New York. He is decapitated after flying through the windshield, but his head is never found.
3	December 15, 1974	A CHRISTMAS STORY CHRISTMAS 2022 Film	20th Century: 70s	Death Dates
	December 15, 1974 E. Jefferson dies - obituary in the paper that Ralphie reviews when preparing to write one for his father.
1975 - 49 years ago
3	May 5, 1975	OZARK 2017 TV Series	20th Century: 70s	Death Dates
	May 5, 1975 After Buddy dies, Marty finds an award in his room: "The Federated Manufacturers Presents Veterans Support Award to Jimmy Small In recognition for fostering financial literacy among military personnel and veterans - May 5, 1975"
3	June 15, 1975	CREEPSHOW 1982 Film	20th Century: 70s	Death Dates
	June 15, 1975 Grantham family matriarch Great Aunt Bedelia murders her late father: the miserly and domineering Nathan Grantham who had accumulated the family's fortune through bootlegging, fraud, extortion and murder.
1977 - 47 years ago
3	August 16, 1977	WHITE NOISE 2022 Film	20th Century: 70s	Death Dates
	August 16, 1977 According to Murray Siskind, Professor Cotsakis was in Memphis when the King died, and apparently interviewed members of his entourage.
1978 - 46 years ago
3	October 31, 1978	HALLOWEEN KILLS 2021 Film	20th Century: 70s	Death Dates
	October 31, 1978 The night of Michael Myers' original rampage. Officer Hawkins accidentally shoots his fellow officer, and prevents Dr. Loomis from shooting Michael after he is apprehended.
3	October 31, 1978	HALLOWEEN 4: THE RETURN OF MICHAEL MYERS 1988 Film	20th Century: 70s	Death Dates
	October 31, 1978 Michael Myers attacks Laurie Strode and the residents of Haddonfield (events of the first 2 Halloween movies). Mentioned a couple of times - first by a security officer at Ridgemont, later by Rachel.
3	October 31, 1978	HALLOWEEN 1978 Film	20th Century: 70s	Death Dates
	October 31, 1978 Michael Myers returns home to Haddonfield, going on a murder rampage.
3	October 31, 1978	HALLOWEEN 2018 Film	20th Century: 70s	Death Dates
	October 31, 1978 Laurie Strode's first encounter with Michael Myers, surviving his murderous rampage. Referred to as the Babysitter Murders, which also happened to be the original name of the first movie.
3	October 31, 1978	HALLOWEEN ENDS 2022 Film	20th Century: 70s	Death Dates
	October 31, 1978 Michael's first murderous rampage (archive footage from the original movie), which Laurie Strode writes about in her book.
3	October 31, 1978	HALLOWEEN: RESURRECTION 2002 Film	20th Century: 70s	Death Dates
	October 31, 1978 Michael Myers kills three high school students. Also killed three nurses and a paramedic same night - mentioned by Grace Anderson Sanitarium patient Harold.
3	October 31, 1978	HALLOWEEN H20: TWENTY YEARS LATER 1998 Film	20th Century: 70s	Death Dates
	October 31, 1978 Michael Myers kills several people on Halloween, though babysitter Laurie Strode escapes.
1979 - 45 years ago
3	February 3, 1979	SUPER 8 2011 Film	20th Century: 70s	Death Dates
	February 3, 1979 Date of Death on Joe Lamb's mother Elizabeth's headstone.
3	April 17, 1979	LARS AND THE REAL GIRL 2007 Film	20th Century: 70s	Death Dates
	April 17, 1979 Lars and Gus' mother Elinor Lindstrom dies.

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