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Apr 12, 1945
President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies of a stroke in Warm Springs, Georgia. After guiding the government through the Depression, he's remembered in the 1989 Alabama hit "Song Of The South"
Sep 20, 1948
Lena Miller, the mother of vaudevillian performer Emmett Miller, dies in her Macon, Georgia, home, two weeks after suffering a stroke. Referred to as the singer with a "clarinet voice," Emmett Miller was a major influence on Jimmie Rodgers
Feb 28, 1959
Playwright Maxwell Anderson dies in Stamford, Connecticut, two days after suffering a stroke. Anderson co-wrote "September Song," which becomes a country hit for Willie Nelson 20 years later
Mar 13, 1962
Piano player Mancel Tierney dies in Big Spring, Texas, following a stroke. A dozen years earlier, he was a member of Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys when the band recorded the western-swing landmark "Faded Love"
Mar 6, 1967
Actor Nelson Eddy dies of a stroke in Miami Beach, Florida. He and co-star Jeanette MacDonald first recorded "Indian Love Call" and the title song for the 1936 movie "Rose Marie." Both songs became country hits for Slim Whitman in the 1950s
Oct 8, 1968
Former Grand Ole Opry general manager Harry Stone dies at Millers Hospital-Clinic in Nashville following a stroke
Jul 20, 1969
R&B singer Roy Hamilton dies in New Rochelle, New York, after a stroke. He recorded an early version of "Unchained Melody," which will become a country hit for LeAnn Rimes and for Elvis Presley. Hamilton also cut "You Can Have Her," covered by Waylon Jennings
Jul 13, 1970
Pop songwriter L. Wolfe Gilbert dies following a stroke in Los Angeles just two years after Billy Walker revived his 1920s hit "Ramona" in country music
Mar 28, 1974
Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup dies in Nassawadox, Virginia, following a stroke. The blues singer/songwriter wrote the Elvis Presley recordings "That's All Right, Mama" and "My Baby Left Me"
Oct 3, 1974
Doyle Blackwood, a founding member of gospel music's Blackwood Brothers, dies of a stroke at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis. The group's 1954 release "His Hand In Mine" is cited among country's 500 greatest singles in the Country Music Foundation's "Heartaches By The Number"
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