Whitney Elizabeth Houston
(August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012)

Whitney Houston, one of the world’s top-selling singers
from the mid-1980s to late 1990s,was found dead in the
bathtub of her suite at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly
Hills, California on February 11, 2012.

Houston’s death was the result of accidental drowning;
heart disease and cocaine, which was found in her
system, were determined to be contributing factors.

Released November 26, 1996.

    
TIM MAGUIRE

country singer and songwriter Garth Brooks is
64 years old today.          
         
         
       

Rising American rock stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P.
“The Big Bopper” Richardson, along with the pilot, were killed
when their chartered Beechcraft Bonanza plane crashed in
Iowa a few minutes after takeoff from Mason City on a flight
headed for Moorhead, Minnesota. Investigators blamed the
crash on bad weather and pilot error.

Pictured above is a Beechcraft Bonanza similar to the one
chartered for the flight.  

Memorial at crash site, 2024.

Demond Wilson, best known for playing Lamont on the 1970s
sitcom “Sanford and Son,” died Friday from complications of
cancer at his home in Palm Springs, California.

In 1984 Wilson was ordained as a minister in the Church of
God in Christ and was an active Christian evangelist for
much of his adult life.

Sanford and Son (1972–1977) on NBC.

Stars Demond Wilson and Redd Foxx.

Catherine O’Hara (March 4, 1954 – January 30, 2026)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Catherine O’Hara, a gifted Canadian
comic actor and “SCTV” alum who starred as Macaulay
Culkin’s harried mother in two “Home Alone” movies and
created the dramatically ditzy character of Moira Rose in
the Emmy-winning comedy “Schitt’s Creek,” died Friday.

O’Hara died at her home in Los Angeles “following a brief
illness,” according to a statement from her agency, Creative
Artists Agency. Further details were not immediately available.
She was 71.

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