Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr.
(December 31, 1943 – October 12, 1997)
Home video clip of John Denver’s last public performance, Oct 5 1997.
William Oliver Stone is 70 years old today.
As a teenager, Stone worked in the French Financial
Exchange. He then went into the Army and served in
Vietnam from June 1965 to 1968.His 1991 film JFK led
to Congress passing the Assassination Materials
Disclosure Act of 1992, which ended the secrecy
surrounding John F. Kennedy‘s assassination.
Buddy Holly (Charles Hardin Holley)
(September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959)
Buddy Holly won a talent contest when he was five years old for singing
"Have You Ever Gone Sailing (Down the River of Memories)." Rolling
Stone ranked him as the thirteenth "Greatest Artist of All Time."
The 8 .5-foot-tall bronze statue of the rock ‘n roll legend in Lubbock,
Texas.
Robert Anthony Plant is 68 today.
Plant quit his training as a chartered accountant and became
deeply involved in the England Midlands blues scene. After
Led Zeppelin broke up in 1980, he began working as a solo
artist. In 2007, he released a critically acclaimed duet album
with bluegrass singer Alison Krauss called Raising Sand.