Tim Maguire

James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 – September 30, 1955)

Jayne Mansfield (born Vera Jayne Palmer; April 19, 1933 – June 29, 1967)

Actress, singer, and sex symbol Jayne Mansfield had numerous Hollywood
credits including “The Girl Can’t Help It” (1956), and “The Wayward Bus”
(1957).

As a child, Mansfield was a talented pianist and violinist who would often
give impromptu concerts in her family’s driveway.

Mansfield was only 34 when she died of head injuries received in an automobile
accident while on her way to an early-morning TV interview in New Orleans. 

John Belmont

John Joseph Travolta is 61 years old today.

Ross Simpson

Ricky Lee Skaggs is 60 today

After playing a show in Norfolk, Virginia on March 21, 1956, the
Perkins Brothers Band headed to New York City for a March 24
appearance on NBC-TV’s Perry Como Show when shortly before
sunrise on March 22  their car hit the back of a pickup truck and
went into a ditch with water about a foot deep, and Perkins was
lying face down in the water. Drummer Holland rolled Perkins over,
saving him from drowning.

Perkins had suffered three fractured vertebrae in his neck, a severe
concussion, a broken collar bone, and lacerations all over his body
in the crash. Perkins remained unconscious for an entire day. The
driver of the pickup truck, Thomas Phillips, a 40-year old farmer,
died. Carl’s brother Jay had a fractured neck along with severe
internal injuries, later dying from these complications.

Carl Perkins finally appeared on The Perry Como Show on Saturday
May 26th 1956