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.
By Carol Christian, Chron.com / Houston Chronicle. An East Texas retiree who went fishing with his brothers five days before he died of flesh-eating bacterial infection could have contracted the illness most anywhere, officials say. Travis L. Moore, 74, of Chester, died Feb. 21 in a Houston hospital, five days after an outing on Lake Conroe. According to the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences, which conducted an autopsy, the cause of death was necrotizing fasciitis, commonly referred to as flesh-eating infection.