Photo of J. P. Richardson, better known as en:The Big Bopper. Richardson, along with Richie Valens, Buddy Holly and their pilot, died in a plane crash in Iowa on February 3, 1959.
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before 3 February 1959
date QS:P,+1959-02-03T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1959-02-03T00:00:00Z/11
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