Timeline Saturday 18 February 1950

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• 1950 – 2009 John Hughes (1950-2009) Died 6 August 2009, aged 59 Hughes was an American filmmaker who wrote and directed a series of defining 1980s teen comedies including The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Sixteen Candles, and later wrote Home Alone. His films shaped the era's popular image of American adolescence. He largely withdrew from public life in his later career.