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Frank Sinatra Jr., the son of the legendary entertainer who had a long musical career of his own, died Wednesday, said manager Andrea Kauffman.

He was 72.

Kauffman said Sinatra died at a Daytona Beach, Florida, hospital. Singer Nancy Sinatra said on her Facebook page that her brother died of cardiac arrest.

"Sleep warm, Frankie..." she wrote.

Sinatra was on his "Sinatra Sings Sinatra" tour and was scheduled to perform at the Peabody Auditorium on Wednesday. An announcement on the venue's Facebook page said the singer had taken ill.

Sinatra followed his father's singing career path and was a 19-year-old on tour when he was kidnapped in 1963. After three days, two of the men collected a $240,000 ransom paid by his father, while the other abductor let the son free. Days later, that kidnapper confessed to his brother, who called the FBI.

Sinatra, whose voice and looks were very much like his father's, released about a half dozen albums.

Sinatra also did some acting, appearing in almost 20 shows, including Adam-12, the animated series "Family Guy," and playing himself in an episode of "The Sopranos."

"My lack of success does not trouble me at this stage in my life," he told the Guardian four years ago.

And he recently told the Daytona Beach News-Journal that he wasn't upset that his life as a singer was nowhere close to his famed father's career.

"I think in my generation, when I came along in the early '60s, the type of music that was in vogue in society in those days had moved on to another kind of music," Sinatra told the newspaper. "I was trying to sell antiques in a modern appliance store."

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Nancy Reagan, (born Anne Francis Robbins) one of the most high-profile and influential first ladies of the 20th century, has died, according to a spokeswoman with the Reagan Library. She was 94.

The cause of death was congestive heart failure, according to her rep Joanne Drake. "Mrs. Reagan will be buried at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, next to her husband, Ronald Wilson Reagan, who died on June 5, 2004," Drake wrote in a statement.

Nancy Reagan was born in New York City and when she was six her mother, Edith, a stage actress, married Dr. Loyal Davis, a neurosurgeon. The doctor adopted Nancy and she grew up in Chicago. She later attended Smith College in Massachusetts, where she majored in theater.

Reagan was an actress, known then as Nancy Davis, when she met Ronald Reagan in 1951, then an actor and president of the Screen Actors Guild, according to a White House bio.

While Ronald Reagan was governor of California from 1967 to 1975, Nancy worked with numerous charitable groups, and spent hours visiting veterans, the elderly, and the emotionally and physically handicapped.

When her husband became president of the Unite States, First Lady Reagan continued her interest in these groups continued, and arguably became best known for her "Just Say No" program fighting against drug abuse among youth.