John Glenn

John Hershel Glenn, Jr. (July 18, 1921 - December 8, 2016) was an aviator, enginee, astronau, United States Senator from Ohio. On February 20, 1962, he became the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times.

Death
In June 2014, Glenn underwent a successful heart valve replacement surgery at the Cleveland Clinic.

At the beginning of December 2016, Glenn was hospitalized at the James Cancer Hospital of OSU Wexner Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio. A family source said that he had been declining health, and that his condition was grave. His wife, Annie, and their children and grandchildren had joined him at the hospital.

Glenn died on December 8, 2016 at the OSU Wexner Medical Center. He was 95 years old. No cause of death has yet been disclosed. Glenn will be interred at Arlington National Cemetery after lying in state at the Ohio Statehouse and a memorial service at Mershon Auditorium at the Ohio State University.

On the morning following Glenn's death, his son, John Glenn III, a disc jockey at a radio station in San Francisco, California known as Magic 86.7, in which he goes by the name "John Glenn Junior", paid tribute to him during the Morning Magic program he hosts on weekday mornings.