Born on March 17, 1995

He refused to attend his twin brother's funeral because prison officials wouldn't let him wear his favorite suit. Ronnie Kray died in Broadmoor psychiatric hospital after thirty years locked away, having spent just seven years ruling London's East End with Reggie. The Krays' nightclub empire mixed with celebrities like Frank Sinatra and politicians while they ran protection rackets, but Ronnie's murder of George Cornell in the Blind Beggar pub — witnessed by dozens who all claimed they'd seen nothing — finally brought them down in 1969. The twins couldn't finish each other's sentences anymore. Their story spawned eight films, countless books, and a bizarre nostalgia for "gentlemen criminals" who actually tortured rivals with pliers and nailed them to floors.

He played piano on Muddy Waters' first recording session in 1947, but Albert Luandrew—Sunnyland Slim—never chased fame the way his protégés did. While Waters and Howlin' Wolf became legends, Slim stayed in Chicago's South Side clubs, backing every blues musician who walked through the door. For five decades. He'd arrived from Mississippi in 1942 with twelve dollars and a reputation for never forgetting a song once he heard it. When he died at 89, musicians discovered he'd recorded over 150 albums, most under other people's names. The man who taught Chicago how to electrify the Delta blues spent his life making everyone else sound better.

The guy who played Willie Lopez in *Ghost* — the mugger Patrick Swayze's character chases into traffic before dying — died of AIDS-related complications at 43. Rick Aviles grew up in the Bronx, started doing stand-up at Catch a Rising Star, and became one of the first Latino comedians to break into mainstream Hollywood. He'd just finished filming *The Shawshank Redemption* and *Waterworld* when he got sick. His *Ghost* character became so memorably menacing that Aviles struggled to land non-villain roles afterward. The actor who helped create one of cinema's most profitable supernatural thrillers — $505 million worldwide — died broke in a Los Angeles hospital. His Willie Lopez still terrifies people every time the subway scene plays, but Aviles never got to see how thoroughly he'd haunted pop culture.