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.
You might have read that Hemingway died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, but hereditary hemochromatosisâalso known as HHC, iron overload, bronze diabetes and Celtic Curseâwas undoubtedly the underlying cause of his death.