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Jane Carroll Dornacker (October 1, 1947 – October 22, 1986) was an American rock musician, comedian and traffic reporter.She gained fame as an associate songwriter for the San Francisco rock band The Tubes; she also led her own band, Leila and the Snakes.
Ellen Jane Froman (November 10, 1907 – April 22, 1980) was an American actress and singer. During her thirty-year career, she performed on stage, radio, and television despite chronic health problems due to injuries sustained in a 1943 plane crash. Her life story was told in the 1952 film With a Song in My Heart.
American pop singer Ricky Nelson died during the crash-landing of his band's aircraft on December 31, 1985. The plane, a Douglas DC-3, was brought down mid-flight outside De Kalb, Texas, by a fire that rapidly spread from a suspected faulty in-cabin heater. Nelson and six others—including several band members and his girlfriend—were killed ...
Pilot error; see John F. Kennedy Jr. plane crash: Tony Bettenhausen Jr. United States 2000 CART racing driver/owner Beechcraft Baron: Ann Milton Adams' farm, Harrison County, Kentucky, United States Airframe icing Carolyn Beug: United States 2001 Video producer and director music video American Airlines Flight 11
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The following is a list of notable performers of rock and roll music or rock music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters or in other closely related roles, who have died in the 1980s. The list gives their date, cause and location of death, and their age.
Turkish singer Zeki Müren died of a heart attack during a live performance on stage at TRT İzmir Television. Opera singer Richard Versalle died on stage at the Metropolitan Opera during the company's première performance of The Makropulos Case when he suffered a heart attack while standing on a sliding ladder attached to a file cabinet. He ...
Georgeanna Tillman, American singer and original member of the girl group the Marvelettes (b. 1944) January 7. Irene Beasley, American singer (b. 1904) Simonne Mathieu, French tennis champion (b. 1908) Larry Williams, American rhythm and blues and rock and roll singer, songwriter, and pianist (b. 1935) Sarah Selby, American actress (b.1905 ...