In 1997, Governor Don Sundquist proclaimed June 23 as Wilma Rudolph Day in Tennessee. Wilma died in her home in Nashville, Tennessee. She had been in and out of hospitals for several months after brain cancer was diagnosed.
George Harrison died on 29 November 2001 at 1.20pm. The cause of death was listed on his Los Angeles County death certificate as metastatic non-small cell lung cancer. His body was wrapped in a shawl and covered with holy oils. Twenty minutes after he passed away, staff from the Hollywood Forever Cemetery arrived to collect Harrison's body.
More News. George Michael, the soulful British heartthrob who became a star in the Eighties as half of Wham! before earning critical acclaim as a solo artist, died Sunday at his home in Goring in Oxfordshire, England. The cause of death was heart failure, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Michael was 53.