 Clayton had stopped for cash at an ATM to take his wife to dinner when he was targeted. Gavin was executed shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Gavin's own handwritten request for a stay of execution. I'm Lisa Dwyer. Comedian and actor Bob Newhart has died at the age of 94. Newhart's publicist says he died Thursday in Los Angeles after a series of short illnesses. Newhart was one of the most popular TV stars of the 1970s and 80s.