(AP) -  J. M. "Jimmy" Van Eaton, a pioneering rock ‘n’ roll
drummer who played behind the likes of Jerry Lee Lewis
and Billy Lee Riley at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee,
died Friday (Feb. 9).

Van Eaton, a Memphis native who came to the famous record
label as a teenager, died at his home in Alabama after dealing
with health issues over the last year.

Toby Keith Covel (July 8, 1961 – February 5, 2024)

In June 2022, Keith announced that he had been diagnosed with
stomach cancer at the end of the prior year, having undergone chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery for the past six months.

Keith said that his battle with cancer had been "pretty debilitating"
in a December 2022 press release. Keith died in his sleep in
Oklahoma on February 5, 2024, at the age of 62.

Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004)

As the 40th president of the United States, the former movie star
was called the “Great Communicator” for his ability to get through
to ordinary Americans and give them hope and optimism for their
own future and that of their country.

But before his years of Hollywood stardom, and long before
Washington, Ronald Reagan was born on February 6, 1911,
in Tampico, a small town in northwestern Illinois.