THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD

On this date in 1995, Francis Albert Sinatra died at the age of 82. Music critic Stephen Holden wrote that 'Ol' Blue Eyes' "was the first modern pop superstar." He won eleven Grammy Awards in all. As a dramatic actor, he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in From Here to Eternity and he was nominated for best actor in The Man with the Golden Arm. Sinatra was given the Kennedy Center Honors, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal .

Frank Sinatra was married four times and had three children. He was often rumored associated with the Mafia. His name will ever be associated with Las Vegas. The night after he died, 'the lights that never go out' on the Vegas strip, were dimmed in his honor. He was buried in a blue suit with a flask of Jack Daniel's in one pocket and a note from his daughter in the other that said, "Sleep warm, Pappa - look for me." The title of one of his all-time hits is engraved in his tombstone: "The Best Is Yet to Come".