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.
Heart Disease. A sudden onset of nausea and chest pain misdiagnosed as a heart attack ended with the death of actor John Ritter on Sept. 11, 2003. Heart disease was the culprit: The 54-year-old sitcom star had actually suffered an aortic dissection: a tear in the wall of the largest blood vessel in the body, the aorta.