Harry Belafonte died Tuesday, April 25, at the age of 96. He became known with "Matilda", "Day-O", "Island in the Sun", "Jamaica Farewell", "Try to Remember" or "Coconut Woman" He became the first black actor to play, in 1957, a love affair with a white actress in Robert Rossen's "An Island in The Sun" He raised $50,000, the equivalent of almost $500,000 today, to get Martin Luther King out of prison.