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    • Apr 18, 1955
    Noted scientist Albert Einstein dies of an abdominal aortic aneurysm at Princeton Medical Center in Plainsboro, New Jersey. He will be referenced 18 years later in the Jerry Reed country single "The Crude Oil Blues"
    Sep 15, 1963
    Brenda Lee checks in to Nashville's Saint Thomas Hospital with a stomach ailment
    Jul 16, 1965
    Retired songwriter Ted Snyder dies in Woodland Hills, California, following abdominal surgery. His compositions included "Who's Sorry Now?," a hit for western swing band Milton Brown & His Brownies as well as Connie Francis
    Apr 15, 1968
    Ernest "Pop" Stoneman, of The Stoneman Family, enters the Vanderbilt Medical Center. One week later, he has two-thirds of his stomach removed in surgery
    Apr 22, 1968
    Ernest "Pop" Stoneman, of The Stoneman Family, has two-thirds of his stomach, plus his gall bladder, removed at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville.
    May 16, 1968
    Ernest "Pop" Stoneman, of The Stoneman Family, has his second intestinal surgery in less than a month at Nashville's Vanderbilt Medical Center
    Oct 12, 1971
    Gene Vincent dies of a bleeding ulcer in Los Angeles. The rockabilly pioneer earned a pop and country hit with his 1956 recording of "Be-Bop-A-Lula"
    Jun 1, 1972
    "Hee Haw" star Junior Samples is hospitalized with stomach pains
    Mar 8, 1973
    Grateful Dead keyboard player Ron "Pigpen" McKernan dies of an abdominal hemorrhage at his apartment in Corte Madera, California. The Dead gets referenced in the 1996 Lonestar hit "No News"
    Jan 11, 1974
    Tammy Wynette has gall bladder surgery for the fifth time since April



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