His mother, Jean Bono, also survived him, and died on January 15, 2005 at the age of 90.

Among the notables who died either without a valid will or no will at all are Ross Alexander, Fatty Arbuckle, Anura Bandaranaike, Madhav Prasad Birla, Sonny Bono, George Brent, Lenny Bruce, Jacob A. Cantor, Kurt Cobain, Russ Columbo, Sam Cooke, James Dean, Sandy Dennis, John Denver, Divine, Duke Ellington, Cass Elliot, Chris Farley, Bobby Fischer, Redd Foxx, Mary Frann, James A. Garfield, Marvin Gaye, Ulysses S. Grant, Billie Holiday, Buddy Holly, Shemp Howard, Howard Hughes, Andrew Johnson, Florence Griffith-Joyner, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ernie Kovacs, Harry Langdon, Bruce Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Peter Lorre, Jayne Mansfield, Rocky Marciano, Karl Marx, Steve McNair, Sal Mineo, Carmen Miranda, Keith Moon, Rosa Parks, Pablo Picasso, Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, Tupac Shakur, Don Simpson, Anna Nicole Smith, William Desmond Taylor, Sharon Tate, Tiny Tim, Ritchie Valens, Hervé Villechaize, Barry White, and Jimmy Witherspoon.

On January 5, 1998, Bono died of injuries from hitting a tree while skiing at Heavenly Ski Resort in Lake Tahoe.

When Bono died, one-third of his interest passed to wife Mary Bono-Mack, and one-sixth interests were split amongst his children.

Punk band A released an ode to the location called I Love Lake Tahoe on their album ' A ' vs. Monkey Kong-the song notes that " that's where Sonny Bono died ".

* February 16 – Sonny Bono, singer, actor, United States Representative ( died 1998 )

Heavenly is notable as the resort where Congressman Sonny Bono died after hitting a tree on January 5, 1998.

Sonny Bono died in a skiing accident on January 5, 1998.

Bono introduced the song as being written for his late friend Michael Hutchence, but dedicated the performance to Amy Winehouse who had died hours earlier that day.

Philip Bono died on 23 May 1993 at the age of 72.

Bassist Tony Bono died in 2002 after suffering a heart attack, at the age of 38.

During a performance of " Sunday Bloody Sunday ", which appears on the film, Bono condemned the violence in a furious mid-song rant in which he yelled, " Fuck the revolution.

The FBI has generated files on numerous celebrities including Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, John Denver, John Lennon, Jane Fonda, Groucho Marx, Charlie Chaplin, MC5, Lou Costello, Sonny Bono, Bob Dylan, Michael Jackson, Mickey Mantle, and Gene Autry.

Musicians who are primarily known as singers or performers on another instrument who also have recorded and performed harmonica solos include Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Donovan, Taj Mahal, Mick Jagger and Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones, Huey Lewis of Huey Lewis and the News, John Mayall, Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac, Roger Daltrey of The Who, Steven Tyler of Aerosmith, Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin, Bono of U2, Rick Davies of Supertramp, and Richard " Magic Dick " Salwitz of The J. Geils Band.

This was during U2's Elevation Tour, and from that point on during shows Bono would introduce the song as a tune that was originally about a lovestruck hangover but that Joey turned it into a gospel song.

Bono began his music career working at Specialty Records where his song " Things You Do to Me " was recorded by Sam Cooke, and went on to work for the record producer Phil Spector in the early 1960s as a promotion man, percussionist and " gofer ".

In the 1997 film Men In Black, Bono is one of several oddball celebrities seen on a wall of video screens that monitor extraterrestrials living among us.

Although that bill was never voted on in the Senate, a similar Senate bill was passed after his death and named the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act in his memory.

Drawing on his long experience as a celebrity and entertainment producer, Bono ( according to Maraniss and Weisskopf ) recognized that Gingrich's status had changed from politician to celebrity, and that Gingrich was not making allowances for that change:

Bono remains the only member of Congress to have scored a # 1 pop single on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Bono married his first wife, Donna Rankin, on November 3, 1954.

In 1964 Bono married singer / entertainer Cher ; their daughter Chastity Bono ( now Chaz Bono ) was born on March 4, 1969.

Bono was named a godparent of Anthony Kiedis who would go on to become a musical artist with his band, Red Hot Chili Peppers.

The 2005 documentary film Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea ( narrated by John Waters ) features Bono and documented the lives of the inhabitants of Bombay Beach, Niland, and Salton City, as well as the ecological issues associated with the Sea.

While singing " Where the Streets Have No Name ," Bono replaced the lyrics ' take shelter from the poison rain ' to ' dance in the Louisiana rain ' and ' high on a desert plain ' with ' where there's no sorrow or pain '.

This was because the United States Congress passed both the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, which enacts copyright term extension during the same week and used the same method using voice vote to make it less likely that the news media would report on the bills.

Bono went on to discuss the process of coming out to oneself and to others in two books.

Bono is the only child of Cher and Sonny Bono of the pop duo Sonny & Cher, stars of a TV variety show on which the young child often appeared.

The band featured Bono on vocals, acoustic guitar, and percussion.

" In the same book, Bono reported that Cher, who was both a gay icon and ally to LGBT communities, was quite uncomfortable with the news at first, and " went ballistic " before coming to terms with it: " By August 1996, one year after I came out publicly, my mother had progressed so far that she agreed to ' come out ' herself on the cover of The Advocate as the proud mother of a lesbian daughter.

Salvatore Phillip " Sonny " Bono (; February 16, 1935 – January 5, 1998 ) was an American recording artist, record producer, actor, and politician whose career spanned over three decades.

* January 5 – Sonny Bono, American singer, actor, and politician ( b. 1935 )

* January 1 – Assuming that the copyright laws are not changed further, all works published in 1923 enter the public domain in the U. S., the first works to do so since the passage of the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.

* On the afternoon of January 5, 1998, the Heavenly Ski Resort was the scene of the death of musician and politician Sonny Bono.

After the Verona trial sentence, a Fascist firing squad, at a shooting range in Verona on 11 January 1944, executed Ciano and others ( including Emilio De Bono and Giovanni Marinelli ) who had voted for Mussolini's ousting.

Demonstrations are repeatedly held in Davos ( see Anti-WEF protests in Switzerland, January 2003 ) to protest against the meeting of " fat cats in the snow ", as rock singer Bono tongue-in-cheek termed it.

Philip Bono ( 13 January 1921 – 23 May 1993 ) was a Douglas Aircraft Company engineer.

Philip Bono was born in Brooklyn, New York on 13 January 1921.

# Bono & Gavin Friday-" In The Name Of The Father " ( 5: 42 )

Bono, Stevie Wonder, Brian Wilson, Billie Joe Armstrong, Alicia Keys, Steven Tyler, and Slash performed " Across the Universe " in a tribute to The Beatles with Slash playing guitar and Tyler playing maracas and multi performed by The Black Eyed Peas, Gwen Stefani, Maroon 5, The lonely boys and Franz Ferdinand.

# " Bang Bang " ( Sonny Bono ) – 5: 20

Vizard studied Law and Philosophy at the University of Melbourne ; he practiced as a lawyer and was a partner in a City Law firm ; he has written for and produced various Logie and AFI award winning television show-from Fast Forward to Kangaroo Palace ; he has hosted his own 5 night a week national Tonight Show, Tonight Live With Steve Vizard for which he was three times nominated for and won a Gold Logie in 1991 ; he has interviewed over two thousand major names, from Audrey Hepburn, Oliver Stone, Mel Gibson, Robin Williams, Sir Bob Geldof, Peter Allen, Patrick Swayze, Bob Hope, Sir Peter Ustinov, Shirley MacLaine, Michael Parkinson, Spike Milligan, Edward de Bono, Robert Ludlum, Sir Harry Secombe, and Prime Ministers and politicians ; he founded one of Australia ’ s largest independent Production houses, Artist Services, which was subsequently sold to Granada ; he has been the President of the National Gallery of Victoria and the Chairman of the Victorian Major Events Company, securing events such as the World Cycling Champioships and the World Gymnastics Championships ; he has appeared on the cover of Time and Rolling Stone ; he was an elected representative to the 1999 Constitutional Convention ; he was Father of the Year in 2001 ; he was embroiled in three highly publicised legal proceedings, involving the theft of moneys by his former accountant from the Vizard Companies, and Vizard's civil penalty in 2005 for breaching directors duties ; he has broadcast on the Austereo, Fairfax and Macquarie Radio Networks and in 2011 was nominated for best Talkback Presenter in Australia ; he was Chairman of the World Swimming Championships ; and he has written several books ranging on topics ranging from humour to Australia's population policy.

# Annie Ross and the Low Note Quintet -" Conversation on a Barstool " ( 5: 46 ) ( Bono / The Edge )

On February 1, 2006, Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist Norm Clarke reported that Hunt would marry entertainer Dennis Bono ; the wedding took place on March 5, 2006.