13 musicians who died in plane crashes
Glenn Miller - 1944
Buddy Holly
The Big Bopper
Ritchie Valens - all together in 1959
Patsy Cline - 1963
Jim Reeves - 1964
Otis Redding - 1967
Ronnie van Zant
Steve Gaines
Cassie Gaines (all Lynryd Skynryd) - 1977
Rick Nelson - 1985
Stevie Ray Vaughan - 1990 (plus three members of Eric Clapton's entourage in a helicopter crash)
John Denver - 1997
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