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Oliver Hardy
(same as Babe Hardy, Oliver N. Hardy, O.N. Hardy, Cupid Hardy)

Born 18 January 1892 in Harlem, Georgia, USA, as Oliver Norvell Hardy.
Died 7 August 1957. in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, of a cerebral thrombosis.

Married Madelyn Saloshin, 7 November 1913; divorced, 17 November 1920.
Married actress Myrtle Reeves, 24 November 1921; divorced, 23 February 1937.
Married script supervisor Virginia Lucille Jones, 7 March 1940; until Oliver’s death, 7 August 1957.

References: Website-IMDb.