The Encyclopedia of Dead Rock Stars by Jeremy Simmonds and other artists whom have since pasted. Download a list of deaths in America since 1900 here: https://anomale.rf.gd/us-homicide.htm or https://anomale.rf.gd/us-suicide.htm
A passenger in a car travelling the wrong way on a San Mateo County freeway, was killed at 1.50 am when the vehicle collided with opposing traffic.
Robin Roberts born November 23, 1940, died December 22, 1967
Labels: Dead Rock Stars
His condition an open secret for some time, Smith died of spinal meningitis two days before his thirty first birthday as The Manhattans began to fade from the spotlight.
George Smith born December 18, 1939, died December 16, 1970
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Early in the afternoon, the Beechcraft took to the skies with eight on board. Just three miles south of Madison’s Municipal Airport the plane began to lose power, and pulled up to circle and make another approach. Then, tragedy, at 3.28 pm, the craft went into a tailspin and plummeted into the icy depths of Lake Monoma, where it broke apart. With all on board exposed to the freezing water, it was sadly only a matter of time before they perished from the impact, drowning or hypothermia.
Otis Redding born September 9, 1941, died December 10, 1967
Labels: Dead Rock Stars
Eddie Sulik never made the meeting that would probably have changed his life. The night before the conference in New York City, Sulik was killed in an automobile crash near his home in Connecticut.
Eddie Sulik born October 2, 1929, died December 9, 1965
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Washington’s rapacious drinking hardly helping matters, she recorded seven failed marriages over the years and hid an obsession with weight loss that caused her to consume dietary tablets in frightening quantities. Adding a bizarre spate of mercury injections into the mix, inevitably this combined mania finished her off.
Dinah Washington born August 29, 1924, died December 5, 1963
Labels: Dead Rock Stars
A triumphant performance at Michigan’s 1969 Ann Arbor Blues Festival proved to be his critical zenith. Then, complaining of heartburn, the mercurial musician collapsed one morning in Chicago, never to recover.
Magic Sam born February 14, 1937, died December 1, 1969
Labels: Dead Rock Stars
The manageress now reportedly escaped his clutches and reached for the pistol she kept on her TV set for such eventualities. Firing three times at close range, she hit him between two ribs, the fatal bullet passing through his heart and both lungs. Cooke’s final words were, 'Lady! You shot me!'
Sam Cooke born January 22, 1931, died December 1, 1964
Labels: Dead Rock Stars
‘Once you’re dead you’re made for life - you have to die before they think you’re worth anything’ Jimi Hendrix
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