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.
John Hawkins. Case. Details: John Hawkins was the recipient in a life insurance scam where he stole the identity of the man he himself had killed, a man named Melvin Eugene Hanson. The main person behind the scam was Dr. Richard Boggs, who claimed that Hanson had died accidentally on April 16, 1988.