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1907 – 1979John Wayne (1907-1979)Died 11 June 1979, aged 72American actor John Wayne, star of dozens of Western and war films including Stagecoach and True Grit, died of stomach cancer in Los Angeles. He had won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1970 and remained one of Hollywood's most enduring symbols of American masculinity. He died on 11 June 1979.