Waylon Arnold Jennings (June 15, 1937 – February 13, 2002)

In 1958,Buddy Holly arranged Jennings’s first recording session
at Norman Petty’s recording studios in Clovis, New Mexico. The
following year, Holly hired Jennings to play electric bass for him
during his “Winter Dance Party Tour.”

Carlota Bradley

Brian Thomas

Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974)

Jiles Perry "J. P." Richardson, Jr. (October 24, 1930 – February 3, 1959)

While Richardson was a D.J. at KTRM radio in Beaumont, Texas, he saw some
college students doing a dance called The Bop, and that’s when he decided to 
call himself…”The Big Bopper”.

Ritchie Valens (Richard Steven Valenzuela) (May 13, 1941 – February 3, 1959)