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who has an airport named after them that died in a plane crash
An Oklahoma City airport is named for Will Rogers, where millions of passengers each year board their flights at an airport named for the victim of a fatal plane crash.
was will rogers famous
William Penn Adair Rogers was an American stage and film actor, vaudeville performer, cowboy, humorist, newspaper columnist, and social commentator from Oklahoma.

Question: how did the actor die
Self-contained rewrite: how did will rogers die