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Dana Plato

Age: 34

actress who won childhood fame as Kimberly Drummond on the popular 1980s TV show Diff'rent Strokes. Her highly publicized run-ins with the law kept her name in the news for years after the show's 1986 cancellation.

Died: Moore, Oklahoma, May 8, 1999

John Pingel

M - R

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