Notable deaths from 2012

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Kitty Wells

Kitty Wells, the long-reigning "Queen of Country Music" and the first woman to reach No. 1 on the country chart with her attitude-changing hit "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels," died on July 16 at 92.
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