Johnny Cash

On September 12, 2003 Johnny Cash died at the age of 71.

What Happened?
While being hospitalized at Baptist Hospital in Nashville, Cash died of complications from diabetes around 2:00 am CT on September 12, 2003, aged 71—less than four months after his wife. He was buried next to her in Hendersonville Memory Gardens near his home in Hendersonville, Tennessee.

Cash wrote in his autobiography that he was diagnosed with Shy-Drager Syndrome (multiple system atrophy) during a trip to New York City in 1997.