Dan Tana — the professional soccer player turned restaurateur, whose Italian hot spot was beloved by Hollywood stars — has died at age 90. His namesake restaurant, Dan Tana’s, posted about his death on Facebook on Saturday, Aug. 16. His daughter Gabrielle said that he died from cancer at a hospital in Belgrade, Serbia, the New York Times reported.

Dan Tana, who opened the iconic West Hollywood celebrity hangout Dan Tana's restaurant in 1964 and ran it until selling in 2009, has died.

The onetime professional soccer player opened Dan Tana's restaurant in West Hollywood in 1964, and it soon became a favorite haunt of movie stars and moguls alike.