Wilma Glodean Rudolph was born on June 23, 1940, in the St. Bethlehem section of Clarksville, Tenn., 45 miles north of Nashville, and grew up in Clarksville.
John Candy dies. The larger-than-life comedic star John Candy dies suddenly of a heart attack on this day in 1995, at the age of 43. At the time of his death, he was living near Durango, Mexico, while filming Wagons East, a Western comedy co-starring the comedian Richard Lewis.
Musician John Denver Dies in Experimental Plane Crash. PACIFIC GROVE, Calif. John Denver, the earnest country boy who soared to fame in the 1970s with sunny, folksy, just-this-side-of-corny songs like Rocky Mountain High, died when an experimental plane he recently purchased crashed into Monterey Bay during a test flight. He was 53.