A number of notable musicians sent flowers, including: George Thorogood, Tom Petty, and Jerry Lee Lewis.

Among the few popular new stars during this period were Judy Holliday and the comedy team phenom of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.

By the middle of the decade, some of the 1950s generation of American comedians, such as Jerry Lewis, went into decline, while Peter Sellers found success with international audiences in his first American film The Pink Panther.

Then one day, his wife received a telephone call from Patti Palmer, first wife of Jerry Lewis.

Jerry Lee Lewis,

* 1946 – At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team.

Jerry Lewis ( born March 16, 1926 ) is an American comedian, actor, singer, film producer, screenwriter and film director.

He used the professional name Joey Lewis, but soon changed it to Jerry Lewis to avoid confusion with comedian Joe E. Lewis and heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis.

Attesting the team's popularity, DC Comics published the best-selling The Adventures of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis comic books from 1952 to 1957, after which DC featured Lewis solo in The Adventures of Jerry Lewis until 1971.

It inspired the Filmation cartoons production company to make a 1970 series called Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down, with Jerry as the one reality-based character alongside other fictitious one, including fictionalized Lewis relatives.

He eventually released his own album titled, Jerry Lewis Just Sings.

On television, Lewis starred in three different programs called The Jerry Lewis Show.

Lewis and his popular movie characters were animated in the Filmation cartoon series, Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down.

Chris Sarandon ( born July 24, 1942 ) is an American actor who is best known for playing Prince Humperdinck in the film The Princess Bride, the vampire Jerry Dandridge in Fright Night and Detective Mike Norris in the first entry of the Child's Play series, and providing the speaking voice of Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas.

* Jerry Rook ( born 1943 ), American former professional basketball player

The Italian American DeLaria was born in Belleville, Illinois, the daughter of Jerry, a homemaker, and Robert DeLaria, a jazz pianist and social worker.

Jerry Lee Lewis ( born September 29, 1935 ) is an American rock and roll and country music singer-songwriter and pianist.

Jerry Herman ( born July 10, 1931 ) is an American composer and lyricist, known for his work in Broadway musical theater.

* Jerry Wayne Tolbert, Poet & Humorist, born in Uniontown in 1945

* Jerry D. Thompson, historian of the American Southwest, was born in Springerville but reared in western New Mexico.

* Jerry Rook ( born 1943 ) – two-time All-American basketball player at Arkansas State University, was born in Turrell.

ABC News Reporter Christen Craig as well as sports figures Jerry Sloan ( former basketball player and head coach for the Chicago Bulls and former head coach of the Utah Jazz ) and Carl Mauck ( former center for the Houston Oilers and NFL coach ) were also born there.

* Jerry E. Hinshaw, Arkansas politician and businessman, was born in Sheridan in 1917.

* Jerry Kramer, National Football League player and author, was born here in 1936.

* Jerry Only ( born 1959 ), bass player and vocalist for The Misfits.

* Jerry Casale ( born 1933 ), former Major League Baseball starting pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, Los Angeles Angels and Detroit Tigers.

* Maniac Magee: Author Jerry Spinelli based the fictional town of Two Mills on Norristown, where he was born.

* Jerry Brudos-Oregon serial killer was born in Webster.

* Jerry Haymes ( Haynes ) ( born August 30, 1940 )-Country / Rock-A-Billy singer / musician.

Jerry Yang (; born November 6, 1968 ) is a Taiwanese-born American internet entrepreneur, the co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo!

* Jerry Douglas ( born 1955 ), American country music and bluegrass musician

Neal Adams ( born June 15, 1941 ) is an American comic book and commercial artist known for helping to create some of the definitive modern imagery of the DC Comics characters Superman, Batman, and Green Arrow ; as the co-founder of the graphic design studio Continuity Associates ; and as a creators-rights advocate who helped secure a pension and recognition for Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.

Jerral Wayne " Jerry " Jones Sr. ( born October 13, 1942 ) is an American businessman.

Jerry, Jr ( born September 27, 1969 ) is a graduate of Georgetown University who earned his law degree from Southern Methodist University, is the Cowboys ' chief sales and marketing officer / vice president.

Edmund Gerald " Jerry " Brown, Jr. ( born April 7, 1938 ) is an American politician who has previously served and is currently serving as the Governor of California.

* 1926 – Jerry Lewis, American comedian

* November 11 – Jerry Ross, American lyricist and composer ( b. 1926 )

* Jerry Ross ( composer ) ( 1926 – 1955 ), Jerold, American lyricist and composer

Jerry Ross ( né Jerold Rosenberg March 9, 1926 – November 11, 1955 ) was an American lyricist and composer whose works with Richard Adler for the musical theater include The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees, winners of Tony Awards in 1955 and 1956 respectively in both the " Best Musical " and " Best Composer and Lyricist " categories.

* 1926 Jerry Muskrat at Home

Howard Gerald " Jerry " Clower ( September 28, 1926, Liberty, Mississippi – August 24, 1998 ) was a popular country comedian best known for his stories of the rural South.

* 1926: The Outsider ( Jerry Sidon )