Tammy Wynette

Age: 55

Summary: country music singer and songwriter considered as one of the greatest stars of country music who will best be remembered for her No. 1 hit Stand By Your Man during which she recorded over 50 albums and sold more than 30 million recordings in her 25-year career, whose numerous awards include three Country Music Association awards and two Grammy awards, but whose personal life was as turbulent as her songs were passionate, riddled with stormy marriages and health problems, and whose other hits include D-I-V-O-R-C-E and Justified and Ancient which she sang with the British dance group KLF.

Cause of Death: Blood clot

Born: May 5, 1942

Died: April 6, 1998

Location: Nashville, Tennessee