1987 - Comic Dick Shawn (The Producers, It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World) passes away onstage during his one-man show at the Mandeville Center on the University of California at San Diego campus. Unpredictable as a performer, the crowd sensed nothing unusual when he collapsed, falling forward on the stage. People laughed and cracked jokes for five minutes until a stagehand checked him and called for medical help. After CPR was initiated, the audience was asked to leave the auditorium, but most remained, still assuming that it was all part of Shawn's act. Many began leaving—still unsure of what they had witnessed—only after paramedics arrived. He was 63.