Short answers, pulled from the story.
William Clark Gable arrived in the world on the 1st of February 1901, inside a small house in Cadiz, Ohio. His father worked as an oil-well driller while his mother practiced Catholicism before she died when he was ten months old.
Josephine Dillon became his acting coach and later his wife when they married on the 13th of December 1924, in California. She paid to fix his teeth and style his hair while guiding him through body control exercises that improved his posture and lowered his naturally high-pitched voice.
Gable joined the United States Army Air Forces on the 12th of August 1942 following Carole Lombard's death and completion of Somewhere I'll Find You. He flew five combat missions between May 4 and the 23rd of September 1943 as an observer-gunner in B-17 Flying Fortresses and earned the Air Medal and Distinguished Flying Cross for these efforts.
On the 16th of January 1942, Lombard boarded Transcontinental and Western Air Flight 3 carrying her mother and press agent Otto Winkler. Her Douglas DC-3 airliner crashed into Potosi Mountain near Las Vegas Nevada killing all twenty-two passengers aboard including fifteen servicemen en route to training.
He died the 16th of November 1960 from second heart attack caused by infection after suffering first attack six days earlier at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center. His last film The Misfits released posthumously in 1961 with script written by Arthur Miller and directed by John Huston.