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    • Apr 30, 1945
    With World War II coming to a perceptible end, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler commits suicide in Berlin with a shot to the head. Three years earlier, he was recognized in the title of Carson Robison's topical country hit "Mussolini's Letter To Hitler"
    Apr 20, 1949
    Phil Spector's father commits suicide. The message on his tombstone inspires his son to write "To Know Him Is To Love Him," a 1987 country hit for Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris
    Nov 17, 1951
    Eva Overstake Foley, the wife of Red Foley, commits suicide in Nashville after discovering her husband is having an affair with TV personality Sally Sweet
    Mar 21, 1953
    Mab Anderson, the second wife of playwright Maxwell Anderson, commits suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning in the family garage in New City, New York. He authored "September Song," which Willie Nelson will feature on his album "Stardust"
    Dec 24, 1954
    R&B singer Johnny Ace shoots himself backstage in a game of Russian roulette at the City Auditorium in Houston, Texas. Ace dies the next day. His hit "Pledging My Love" is covered as a country hit 30 years later by Emmylou Harris
    Dec 26, 1957
    Jimmie Osborne commits suicide with a .32-caliber pistol following a spat with his wife at his trailer home in Louisville, Kentucky. The singer/songwriter had three hits, the biggest coming with a topical single, "The Death Of Little Kathy Fiscus"
    Dec 23, 1958
    Gram Parsons' father, Cecil "Coon Dog" Connor, commits suicide with a .38 caliber pistol at his home in Waycross, Georgia
    Jul 2, 1961
    Acclaimed author Ernest Hemingway dies of a self-inflicted gun shot at his home in Ketchum, Idaho. He's namechecked 44 years later in the Brad Paisley hit "Alcohol" and again in Keith Urban's 2015 single "John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16"
    Oct 23, 1962
    Western-swing guitarist Leon Chappelear dies of a self-inflicted gunshot in Gladewater, Texas. He played on Jimmie Davis' 1940 classic "You Are My Sunshine"
    Oct 27, 1965
    Native American songwriter Peter La Farge commits suicide by slashing his wrists in a Greenwich Village bathtub. At the time, Johnny Cash has a country hit with the La Farge-penned "The Ballad Of Ira Hayes"



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