| − | '''Jerome Lester Horwitz''' (October 22, 1903 – January 18, 1952), better known as '''Curly Howard''', was a [[Jewish]] American [[writer]], [[actor]] and comedian. His works had an [[existential]] bent to them, often making fun of inane and commonplace situations. He often performed with musician [[Louis Feinberg|Larry Fine]] and his brother [[Moses Horwitz|Moe Howard]], as the [[Three Stooges]]. Horwitz, whose performing career was ended when he suffered a stroke on the set of the Three Stooges short ''Half-Wits Holiday'' on May 6, 1946 and suffered several more strokes in later years as his health declined, died in the Los Angeles suburb of San Gabriel, California from a cerebral hemorrhage on January 18, 1952 at age 48.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0397219/ Biography]</ref> | + | '''Jerome Lester Horwitz''' (October 22, 1903 – January 18, 1952), better known as '''Curly Howard''', was a [[Jewish]] American [[writer]], [[actor]] and comedian. His works had an [[existential]] bent to them, often making fun of inane and commonplace situations. He often performed with musician [[Larry Fine]] and his brother [[Moe Howard]], as the [[Three Stooges]]. Howard, whose performing career was ended when he suffered a stroke on the set of the Three Stooges short ''Half-Wits Holiday'' on May 6, 1946 and suffered several more strokes in later years as his health declined, died in the Los Angeles suburb of San Gabriel, California from a cerebral hemorrhage on January 18, 1952 at age 48.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0397219/ Biography]</ref> |