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A New Year’s Day death memorialized 72 years later: Hank ...

Death of Hank Williams

1953 death of an American singer

Entrance marker of the Oakwood Annex Cemetery in Montgomery, Alabama

DateJanuary 1, 1953; 72 years ago (1953-01-01)
LocationOak Hill, West Virginia
CauseInsufficiency of the right ventricle of the heart
BurialJanuary 4, 1953, at Oakwood Annex Cemetery in Montgomery, Alabama
InquestJanuary 1, 1953, in Oak Hill, West Virginia
CoronerIvan Malinin

Hiram "Hank" Williams died on January 1, 1953, at the age of 29.

Williams was an American singer-songwriter and musician regarded as one of the most significant country music artists of all time. Williams was born with a mild undiagnosed case of spina bifida occulta, a disorder of the spinal column, which gave him lifelong pain—a factor in his later abuse of alcohol and other drugs. In 1951, Williams fell during a hunting trip in Tennessee, reactivating his old back pains and causing him to be dependent on alcohol and prescripti Hank Williams: Remembering The Death of “The Hillbilly ...

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