John Denver

birth

Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. was born on December 31, 1943, in Roswell, New Mexico, to Erma Louise (née Swope; 1922–2010) and Captain Henry John “Dutch” Deutschendorf Sr. (1920–1982), a United States Army Air Forces pilot stationed at Roswell Army Air Field.

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death

Denver died on the afternoon of October 12, 1997, when his light homebuilt aircraft, a Rutan Long-EZ with registration number N555JD, crashed into Monterey Bay near Pacific Grove, California, while making a series of touch-and-go landings at the nearby Monterey Peninsula Airport. He was the plane’s only occupant. The official cause of death was multiple blunt force trauma resulting from the crash.

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random

Stephen Mather Wilderness (wilderness.net) The United States Congress designated the Stephen Mather Wilderness in 1988 and it now has a total of 638,173 acres. \ All of this Wilderness is located in Washington and is managed by the National Park Service.

song

Take Me Home, Country Roads

tags

Wikidata

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105460

Wikimedia

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:John_Denver

Wikipedia

John Denver (Wikipedia) Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. (December 31, 1943 – October 12, 1997), known professionally as John Denver, was an American singer and songwriter. He was one of the most popular acoustic artists of the 1970s and one of the bestselling artists in that decade. AllMusic has called Denver “among the most beloved entertainers of his era”.