Deaths from January 8, 2007. From Yahoo! Obituaries
Ken Nelson, 96
Country music producer, helped launch careers of Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, and establish the "Bakersfield Sound."
He was a co-founder of the Country Music Association and was in charge of Capitol Records' country music division for over 20 years. He produces almost 100 Number country songs.
One of his big ones was 1952's "The Wild Side of Life" by Hank Thompson.
Mr. Nelson was born January 19, 1911 in Caledonia, Minnesota and served in the army during WWII.
Dr. Pramod Karan Sethi, 80
Died in Jaipur, India. Invented the low-cost prosthetic foot that helped millions of people in developing and war-torn countries.
The Jaipur Foot, invented in 1968, was designed to be worn with or without shoes and was made of plastic pipes, wood, rubber, and strips of leather. Each one costs about $30.
He developed it with craftsman Ram Chandra, who still works at a Jaipur clinic that distributes the foot for free. Their has been a lot of controversy as to who the invention truly belongs to.
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