'Notebook' Star Gena Rowlands Dead at 94

Gena Rowlands, who famously played Allie in "The Notebook," is dead ... TMZ has learned. The retired actress died Wednesday afternoon at her home in Indian Wells, CA ... where she was surrounded by family, including her husband, Robert, and her daughter Alexandra Cassavetes. We're told her son, director Nick Cassavetes, had also been at the home frequently this week. While there's no official cause of death yet,…