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 Amos, along with Gerald Flurry, founded the Philadelphia Church of God in 1989. Four years later John Amos was said to have died of a stroke.. How true is this? Did his death affect how Flurry twisted information about who really wrote Malachi's Message?