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BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1930

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

DJ, singer, and songwriter Richardson died in a plane crash in
Iowa, along with Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and pilot Roger
Peterson
.

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                                                                                       Nancy Lyons

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Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby, Jr. (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977)

(Crosby’s last portrait taken backstage at the London Palladium, 1977)

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Ed Danahue

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