American actor, director, stand-up comedian, and musician (born 1977)

Dustin Diamond

Dustin Neil Diamond was an American actor and stand-up comedian. He is best known for portraying Samuel "Screech" Powers throughout the Saved by the Bell franchise, appearing from the first episodes of Good Morning, Miss Bliss (1988–89) through the subsequent spinoffs with The College Years (1993–94) and the last six seasons of The New Class (1994–2000); alongside Dennis Haskins, Diamond was the only person to appear in each of the first three Saved by the Bell shows. Following his run on Saved by the Bell, Diamond toured in stand-up comedy alongside appearances in film and reality television, most notably with the fifth season of Celebrity Fit Club in 2007.

Born

1977

January 7

Died

2021

Era

1970s

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Dustin, in brief

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2021 Died

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-49 The Senate of Rome says that Caesar will be declared a public enemy unless he disbands his army, prompting the tribunes who support him to flee to where Caesar is waiting in Ravenna.
1078 The people of Constantinople revolt, lynch the unpopular official Nikephoritzes and proclaim Nikephoros Botaneiates as emperor.
1325 Afonso IV becomes King of Portugal.
1558 French troops, led by Francis, Duke of Guise, take Calais, the last continental possession of England.

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The world in 1977

When Dustin arrived

april 11 London Transport's Silver Jubilee AEC Routemaster buses are launched.
april 21 Annie opens on Broadway.
april 22 Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic.
april 28 The Red Army Faction trial ends, with Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe found guilty of four counts of murder and more than 30 counts of attempted murder.

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Aloe Blacc 1979– American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, businessman and philanthropist Alvin Dark 1922–2014 American baseball player and manager (died 2014) Éric Gagné 1976– Canadian baseball player Israel Putnam 1718–1790 American general (died 1790) Joseph Whitty 1904–1923 Irish Republican died on hunger strike during the 1923 Irish Hunger Strikes (born 1904) Lamar Jackson 1997– American football player Lauren Cohan 1982– American-English actress Sandford Fleming 1827–1915 Scottish-Canadian engineer, created Universal Standard Time (died 1915) Tony Conigliaro 1945–1990 American baseball player (born 1945)

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Same-year contemporaries

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Adam Małysz 1977– Polish ski jumper and race car driver Ahman Green 1977– American football player Andruw Jones 1977– Curaçaoan baseball player Angela Goethals 1977– American actress Anne-Caroline Chausson 1977– French cyclist Averno 1977– Mexican wrestler Bartosz Brożek 1977– Polish philosopher and jurist Brock Lesnar 1977– American mixed martial artist and wrestler Danielle Harris 1977– American actress

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