Dec. 11 Born Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton (1926) David Gates (Bread) (1940) Brenda Lee (born Brenda Mae Tarpley) (1944) Jermaine LaJuane Jackson (1954)
R.I.P. 1964 Sam Cooke (33 years old, shot by the manager of the Hacienda Motel in Los Angeles, C <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California>A, later ruled a justifiable homicide).
