Soupy Sales

(99 years old)

Born: January 8th, 1926

Place of birth: Franklinton, North Carolina, USA

Death: 2009-10-22

Born Milton Supman, Soupy Sales, was a comic with a gift for slapstick who attained cult-like popularity in the 1960s with a pie-throwing routine that became his trademark gag. Sales estimated that he had been hit with more than 20,000 pies in the face over the course of a long comedy career.