July 16

On this day in 1981, Harry Chapin was killed at age 38 

from a cardiac arrest while driving on a New York expressway

  

On this day in 1966, Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker and Eric Clapton formed Cream

Today in 2012, Jon Lord (Deep Purple) died at age 71

On this day in 2012, country music singer Kitty Wells 

died from complications of a stroke. She was 92.

Stewart Copeland, drummer for the Police was born today in 1952