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  • Jan 13, 1865
    Songwriter Stephen Foster dies at New York's Bellevue Hospital after a tragic fall. A pioneer in American popular music, he's honored with a Grammy-winning 2004 tribute album, "Beautiful Dreamer," featuring Raul Malo, John Prine and David Ball
    Aug 16, 1930
    Blind fiddler G.B. Grayson dies after an accident in which he was riding the sideboard of a car in Abingdon, Virginia. His "Ommie Wise" appears in the Country Music Foundation's ranking of the 500 greatest country singles
    Aug 15, 1935
    Comedian Will Rogers and renowned pilot Wiley Post die in a plane crash outside of Point Barrow, Alaska. Their souls live on in Tex Ritter's 1961 recitation "I Dreamed Of A Hill-billy Heaven"
    Apr 18, 1936
    Bandleader Milton Brown dies at Fort Worth's Methodist Hospital, five days after a car crash. He stood alongside Bob Wills as one of the founders of western swing
    Aug 6, 1938
    Jerry Lee Lewis loses his older brother, when Elmo Lewis Jr. is killed in an auto accident in Louisiana
    Oct 23, 1942
    Broadway and film composer Ralph Rainger dies in a mid-air collision near Palm Springs, California. The author of "Thanks For The Memory," he also co-wrote "Blue Hawaii," recorded by Willie Nelson for the 1992 movie "Honeymoon In Vegas"
    Apr 15, 1951
    Texas Playboys guitarist Junior Barnard dies at Fresno County General Hospital in California, after a car crash. He played on "Bob Wills Boogie," "Brain Cloudy Blues" and "White Cross On Okinawa," as well as Johnnie Lee Wills' "Milk Cow Blues"
    May 11, 1952
    Lucy Robertson, the eight-year-old daughter of Texas Jim Robertson, dies when she's hit by a car in a hit-and-run accident in Teaneck, New Jersey
    Jan 1, 1953
    Hank Williams is pronounced dead at Oak Hill General Hospital in Oak Hill, West Virginia, after passing away in the back seat of a Cadillac, en route to a show in Canton, Ohio. Many believe he died from a mix of alcohol and morphine. He will become one of the three inaugural members of the Country Music Hall of Fame
    Aug 2, 1953
    The Davis Sisters are involved in a head-on car accident in Cincinnati. Betty Jack Davis is killed, while Skeeter Davis survives. The driver of the other automobile later pleads guilty to manslaughter




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