John Belushi
Born January 24, 1949, the Saturday Night Live star died on March 5, 1982 — a decade before River Phoenix, and a mile up Sunset Boulevard, in the same way.
One of the most beloved comic actors of the 1970s and early ’80s, he was also a grim symbol of the consequences of addiction.
The Animal House (above) and Blues Brothers icon was 33 when he died of combined drug intoxication at the Chateau Marmont, after he was injected him with a speedball.
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