In 2014, Rolling Stones' saxophone player Bobby Keys, who also performed on recordings with John Lennon and Eric Clapton, died after a lengthy illness at his home in Franklin, Tenn. He was 70.

Today in History for Dec. 2: In 1552, St. Francis Xavier, the founder of the Jesuits, died while on a missionary journey to China. In 1804, Napoleon crowned himself Emperor of the French. In 1805, the ...