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Postby KYYX4ever » Thu Dec 27, 2007 3:17 am

go here:
http://www.justsayhi.com/bb/death

here's my info:

[b]Approximately 129,140 people died worldwide on June 04, 1968.[/b]
[i]Natural disasters in 1968:[/i]
1968 Casiguran earthquake
People who died on June 04 (various years)
2007 - U.S Senator Craig L. Thomas (b.1933)
2007 - Jay Macpherson, Canadian poet who translated old Greek myths
2007 - Bill France Jr., NASCAR pioneer
2007 - Jim Clark, American sheriff and segregationist
2004 - Nino Manfredi, Italian actor
2004 - Steve Lacy, American saxophonist
2002 - Fernando Belaúnde Terry, Peruvian politician
2001 - John Hartford, American musician
2001 - Dipendra of Nepal
1997 - Ronnie Lane, British bass player
1994 - Massimo Troisi, Italian actor
1994 - Derek Leckenby, British guitarist (Herman's Hermits)
1989 - Dik Browne, American cartoonist
1973 - Murry Wilson, father of Brian Wilson, Dennis Wilson and Carl Wilson
1973 - Maurice René Fréchet, French mathematician
1971 - Georg Lukács, Hungarian philosopher
1970 - Sonny Tufts, American actor
1968 - Dorothy Gish, American actress
1964 - Samuil Marshak, Russian poet
1962 - Clem McCarthy, American sportscaster
1956 - Katherine MacDonald, American actress
1951 - Serge Koussevitsky, Russian conductor
1942 - Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi official
1941 - Wilhelm II of Germany, German emperor
1939 - Tommy Ladnier, American musician
1929 - Harry Frazee, Boston Red Sox owner from 1916-1923
1928 - Zhang Zuolin, Chinese warlord
1926 - Fred Spofforth, Australian cricketer
1922 - William Halse Rivers Rivers, English doctor
1875 - Eduard Mörike, German poet
1872 - Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Dutch politician
1830 - Antonio José de Sucre, Great Marshall of Ayacucho
1801 - Frederick Muhlenberg, American statesman
1798 - Giacomo Casanova, Italian womanizer and writer
1663 - William Juxon, Archbishop of Canterbury
1585 - Muretus, French humanist
1463 - Flavio Biondo, Italian humanist
1394 - Mary de Bohun, wife of Henry IV of England
1257 - Duke Przemysl I of Poland
1206 - Adèle of Champagne, wife of Louis VII of France
1135 - Emperor Huizong of China
1039 - Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor
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Postby deethelurker » Thu Dec 27, 2007 3:24 am

Here's mine:

[b]Approximately 138,393 people died worldwide on December 29, 1979.[/b]
[i]Natural disasters in 1979[/i]
* Windsor Locks, Connecticut Tornado

People who died on December 29 (various years)
* 2005 - Gerda Boyesen, Norwegian-born body psychotherapist
* 2004 - Ken Burkhart, American baseball player
* 2004 - Liddy Holloway, New Zealand actress
* 2004 - Julius Axelrod, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
* 2003 - Bob Monkhouse, English comedian and game show host
* 2003 - Dinsdale Landen, English actor (cancer)
* 2003 - Earl Hindman, American actor (lung cancer)
* 1999 - Leon Radzinowicz, British criminologist
* 1998 - Jean-Claude Forest, writer and illustrator of comics (Barbarella)
* 1996 - Mireille Hartuch, French singer and actress
* 1993 - Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Soviet Armenian actor
* 1988 - Mike Beuttler, British racing driver
* 1986 - Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
* 1981 - Miroslav Krleža, Croatian writer
* 1980 - Nadezhda Mandelstam, Russian writer
* 1980 - Tim Hardin, American musician
* 1967 - Paul Whiteman, American musician and conductor
* 1960 - Philippe Panneton, Quebec physician, diplomat and writer
* 1960 - Eden Phillpotts, British writer
* 1937 - Don Marquis, American author
* 1929 - Wilhelm Maybach, German automobile designer
* 1926 - Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian writer
* 1924 - Carl Spitteler, Swiss writer, Nobel Prize laureate
* 1916 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk
* 1897 - William James Linton, American wood engraver and political reformer.
* 1894 - Christina Rossetti, English poet
* 1891 - Leopold Kronecker, mathematician
* 1825 - Jacques-Louis David, French painter
* 1785 - Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian poet
* 1737 - Joseph Saurin, French mathematician
* 1731 - Brook Taylor, English mathematician
* 1689 - Thomas Sydenham, English physician
* 1661 - Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant, French poet
* 1634 - John Albert Vasa, Polish bishop
* 1563 - Sebastian Castellio, French theologian
* 1170 - Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury (assassinated)
* 721 - Empress Gemmei of Japan (b. 661)
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Postby WolverineSyr » Thu Dec 27, 2007 4:59 am

Here's mine. The Tin Man died on my birthday....

People who died on June 06, 1962 (the exact day you were born)
Yves Klein, French artist

Natural disasters in 1962
Columbus Day Storm of 1962
North Sea flood of 1962

People who died on June 06 (various years)
2006 - Arnold Newman, American photographer
2006 - Hilton Ruiz, Puerto Rican-American jazz pianist
2006 - Billy Preston, American musician
2005 - Dana Elcar, American actor
2005 - Anne Bancroft, American actress
2003 - Dave Rowberry, British musician (The Animals)
2003 - Ken Grimwood, American writer
2002 - Robbin Crosby, American guitarist (Ratt)
2000 - Frédéric Dard, French writer
1999 - Anne Haddy, Australian actress
1996 - George Davis Snell, American geneticist, Nobel laureate
1994 - Barry Sullivan, American actor
1994 - Mark McManus, Scottish actor (Taggart)
1992 - Larry Riley, American actor
1991 - Stan Getz, American musician
1984 - A. Bertram Chandler, Australian author
1982 - Kenneth Rexroth, American poet
1981 - Carleton S. Coon, American anthropologist
1979 - Jack Haley, American actor
1976 - Victor Varconi, Hungarian actor
1976 - J. Paul Getty, American industrialist
1975 - Larry Blyden, American actor
1968 - Randolph Churchill, son of Winston Churchill
1968 - Robert F. Kennedy, United States Attorney General and Senator
1961 - Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist
1955 - Max Meldrum, Scottish-born Australian painter
1951 - Olive Tell, American actress
1948 - Louis Lumière, French movie pioneer
1946 - Gerhart Hauptmann, German dramatist, Nobel Prize laureate
1941 - Louis Chevrolet, American automotive pioneer
1935 - Julian Byng, British army officer
1934 - Julije Kempf, Croatian historian and writer
1922 - Lillian Russell, American actress
1916 - Yuan Shikai, Chinese military officer and politician
1891 - John A. Macdonald, 1st Prime Minister of Canada
1881 - Henri Vieuxtemps, Belgian composer
1878 - Robert Stirling, Scottish inventor
1865 - William Quantrill, American Confederate raider
1861 - Count Camillo Benso di Cavour, Prime Minister of Italy
1843 - Friedrich Hölderlin, German poet and dramatist
1840 - Marcellin Champagnat, French priest
1832 - Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher
1813 - Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, French architect
1799 - Patrick Henry, American revolutionary
1784 - Joan van der Capellen tot den Pol, Dutch politician
1740 - Alexander Spotswood, British governor of Virginia Colony
1730 - Alain Emmanuel de Coëtlogon, Marshal of France
1583 - Nakagawa Kiyohide, Japanese warlord
1563 - Ikeda Nagamasa, Japanese samurai commander
1548 - Juan de Castro, Portuguese explorer
1480 - Vecchietta, Italian artist and architect
1393 - Emperor Go-En'yu of Japan
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Postby Cadman68 » Thu Dec 27, 2007 5:06 am

Approximately 129,083 people died worldwide on May 09, 1968.

Natural disasters in 1968
1968 Casiguran earthquake

People who died on May 09 (various years)
2007 - Dwight Wilson, second-to-last Canadian WWI veteran
2005 - Nasrat Parsa, Afghani singer
2004 - Alan King, American comedian
2004 - Akhmad Kadyrov, Chechen president
2003 - Russell B. Long, U.S. Senator from Louisiana
2001 - James E. Myers, American songwriter (Rock Around the Clock) and producer
1998 - Alice Faye, American actress
1997 - Marco Ferreri, Italian film director
1994 - Elias Motsoaledi, South African freedom fighter
1993 - Jacques Dextraze, French Canadian military officer
1990 - James Chadwick,, Australian train conductor
1989 - Keith Whitley, American country music singer
1986 - Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese sherpa
1985 - Edmond O'Brien, American actor
1981 - Ralph Allen, English footballer
1979 - Cyrus Eaton, Canadian-American businessman and industrialist
1978 - Aldo Moro, Prime Minister of Italy
1977 - James Jones, American writer
1976 - Ulrike Meinhof, German revolutionist
1976 - Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author
1970 - Walter Reuther, American labor leader
1970 - Andrew Watson Myles, Canadian politician
1965 - Leopold Figl, Austrian politician
1957 - Ezio Pinza, Italian bass
1955 - Kate Booth, the oldest daughter of William and Catherine Booth
1950 - Esteban Terradas i Illa, Catalan mathematician, scientist, and engineer
1949 - Prince Louis II of Monaco
1938 - Thomas B. Thrige, Danish industrialist
1931 - Albert Abraham Michelson, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1918 - George Coþbuc, Romanian poet
1915 - François Faber, Luxembourgish cyclist
1914 - C.W. Post, American food manufacturer
1889 - William S. Harney, U.S. general
1861 - Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philosopher and writer
1805 - Friedrich Schiller, German poet and historian
1791 - Francis Hopkinson, American signer of the Declaration of Independence
1790 - William Clingan, American delegate to the Continental Congress
1789 - Jean Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, French artillery specialist
1760 - Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German religious and social reformer
1747 - John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, Scottish soldier and diplomat
1745 - Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Italian violinist and composer
1707 - Dieterich Buxtehude, German composer
1657 - William Bradford, Governor of Plymouth Colony
1446 - Mary of Enghien, Queen of Naples
1315 - Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy
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Postby glokstadt » Thu Dec 27, 2007 1:18 pm

Approximately 125,536 people died worldwide on December 03, 1963.

Natural disasters in 1963
1963 United Kingdom cold wave
New Year's Eve 1963 snowstorm

People who died on December 03 (various years)
2006 - Logan Whitehurst, American musician
2005 - Herb Moford, American baseball player
2004 - Shiing-Shen Chern, Chinese mathematician
2003 - David Hemmings, English actor
2002 - Glenn Quinn, Irish actor
2000 - Hoyt Curtin, American songwriter
2000 - Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet
1999 - Paul Brotherton, Worcester fireman.
1999 - Jerry Lucey, Worcester fireman.
1999 - Tom Spencer, Worcester fireman.
1999 - Joe McGuirk, Worcester fireman.
1999 - Jay Lyons, Worcester fireman.
1999 - Tim Jackson, Worcester fireman.
1999 - Jarl Wahlström, 12th General of The Salvation Army
1999 - Madeline Kahn, American actress
1999 - Scatman John, American singer
1996 - Georges Duby, French historian
1995 - Gerard John Schaefer, American serial killer
1994 - Elizabeth Glaser, AIDS activist
1993 - Lewis Thomas, American physician and essayist
1984 - Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin, Russian mathematician
1981 - Walter Knott, American farmer
1980 - Oswald Mosley, British politician
1979 - Dhyan Chand, Indian field hockey player
1973 - Emile Christian, American musician
1972 - Bill Johnson, American musician
1969 - Mathias Wieman, German actor
1967 - Harry Wismer, American original owner of the New York Jets
1955 - Cow Cow Davenport, American pianist
1949 - Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian-born American actress
1941 - Christian Sinding, Norwegian composer
1941 - Pavel Filonov, Russian painter
1934 - Charles James O'Donnell, Irish politician
1919 - Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French impressionist painter
1912 - Prudente José de Morais Barros, President of Brazil
1910 - Mary Baker Eddy, Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science
1902 - Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect
1894 - Robert Louis Stevenson, British writer
1892 - Afanasy Fet, Russian poet
1890 - Billy Midwinter, Australian cricketer
1888 - Carl Zeiss, German lens maker
1882 - Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury
1815 - John Carroll (priest), first Roman Catholic archbishop in the U.S.
1789 - Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter
1765 - Lord John Philip Sackville, British cricketer
1706 - Emilie Juliane of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, German countess and hymn writer
1610 - Honda Tadakatsu, Japanese general
1552 - St Francis Xavier, Jesuit missionary to the East
1533 - Vasili III, Grand Prince of Moscow
1265 - Odofredus, Italian jurist
1154 - Pope Anastasius IV
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Postby enzfan » Thu Dec 27, 2007 2:00 pm

I got Johhny Ramone and Jumbo the elephant. Not too bad.



Approximately 126,165 people died worldwide on September 15, 1964. Natural disasters in 1964
Good Friday Earthquake
People who died on September 15 (various years)
2007 - Brett Somers, Canadian-born American actress and Match Game panelist
2007 - Aldemaro Romero, Venezuelan musician
2007 - Colin McRae, Scottish rally driver
2006 - Rob Levin, Freenode IRC Network Founder
2006 - Pablo Santos, Mexican actor
2006 - Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and writer
2006 - Raymond Baxter, British television presenter
2005 - Sidney Luft, American film director
2004 - Walter Stewart, Canadian journalist
2004 - Johnny Ramone, American guitarist (The Ramones)
2003 - Josef Hirsal, Czech novelist
2003 - Jack Brymer, English clarinetist
2000 - Vincent Canby, American movie critic
1995 - Harry Calder, South African cricketer
1993 - Ethan Allen, American baseball player
1991 - John Hoyt, American actor
1989 - Robert Penn Warren, American writer
1987 - Steven Tuomi, murder victim of Jeffery Dahmer
1985 - Cootie Williams, American jazz trumpeter
1980 - Bill Evans, American jazz pianist
1978 - Robert Cliche, French Canadian politician and judge
1978 - Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer
1973 - Victor Jara, Chilean musician
1973 - Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden
1972 - Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury
1965 - Steve Brown, American musician
1945 - Anton Webern, Austrian composer
1945 - André Tardieu, Prime Minister of France
1930 - Milton Sills, American actor
1926 - Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate
1921 - Roman Ungern von Sternberg, Russian counter-revolutionary
1893 - Thomas Hawksley, English civil engineer
1885 - Jumbo, P. T. Barnum's circus elephant (hit by a train)
1883 - Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist
1864 - John Hanning Speke, British explorer
1859 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer
1842 - Pierre Baillot, French violinist and composer
1835 - Sarah Knox Taylor, wife of Jefferson Davis
1830 - William Huskisson, first rail fatality
1803 - Gian Francesco Albani, Italian Catholic cardinal
1794 - Abraham Clark, American signer of the Declaration of Independence
1750 - Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German composer
1712 - Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin, English politician
1707 - George Stepney, English poet and diplomat
1701 - Edmé Boursault, French writer
1700 - André Le Nôtre, French landscape architect
1649 - John Floyd, English Jesuit preacher
1643 - Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, Irish politician
1613 - Thomas Overbury, English writer
1596 - Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist (b. 1535 or 1540)
1500 - John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury
1352 - Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and religious leader
1231 - Louis I, Duke of Bavaria
866 - Robert the Strong, Margrave of Neustria
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Postby Max Murdoc » Thu Dec 27, 2007 9:51 pm

1930 - Milton Sills, American actor died? How did I miss this? Damn!
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Postby mhochuli » Fri Dec 28, 2007 12:15 am

March 29, 1961

Geez, I got Johnnie Cochran - infamous American lawyer

Unusual Deaths in 1961:
On march 23, soviet cosmonaut trainee valentin bondarenko died from shock after suffering third-degree burns over much of his body, due to a flash fire in the pure oxygen environment of a training simulator. this incident was not revealed outside of the soviet union until the 1980s.

People who died on March 29 (various years):
2006 - Salvador Elizondo, Mexican writer
2005 - Miltos Sahtouris, Greek poet
2005 - Mitch Hedberg, American comedian
2005 - Johnnie Cochran, American lawyer
2003 - Carlo Urbani, Italian physician (SARS)
2002 - Rico Yan, Philippine Young Movie & TV Actor
2001 - John Lewis, American jazz pianist
2001 - Helge Ingstad, Norwegian explorer
1999 - Joe Williams, American singer
1996 - Frank Daniel, Czech-born writer, director, producer and teacher
1995 - Terry Moore, American baseball player
1995 - Baltimora, British singer
1994 - Bill Travers, British actor
1994 - Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-born playwright
1992 - Brenda, made the world a better place
1992 - Paul Henreid, Austrian actor
1991 - Lee Atwater, American political consultant
1989 - Bernard Blier, French actor
1986 - Harry Ritz, American actor and comedian
1985 - Luther Terry, Surgeon General of the United States
1982 - Nathan Twining, USAF general
1982 - Carl Orff, German composer
1980 - Mantovani, Italian-born conductor and arranger
1972 - Lord J. Arthur Rank, British movie theater owner
1971 - Dhirendranath Datta, Bangladeshi politician
1970 - Anna Louise Strong, American communist journalist
1959 - Barthelemy Boganda, first President of the Central African Republic
1957 - Joyce Cary, Irish author
1937 - Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer
1934 - Otto Hermann Kahn, German millionaire and benefactor
Edward Adrian Wilson, English physician and naturalist
Sir Robert Falcon Scott, English explorer
1912 - Members of the Scott Expedition to the South Pole: Henry Robinson Bowers
1906 - Slava Raskaj, Croatian painter
1888 - Charles-Valentin Alkan, French composer
1873 - Francesco Zantedeschi, Italian physicist
1855 - Henri Druey, Swiss Federal Councilor
1826 - Johann Heinrich Voß, German poet
1803 - Gottfried van Swieten, Dutch composer
1800 - Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French military engineer and writer
1792 - King Gustav III of Sweden (shot)
1788 - Charles Wesley, English Methodist hymnist
1772 - Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish philosopher and mathematician
1751 - Thomas Coram, English sea captain and philanthropist
1683 - Yaoya Oshichi, a young girl burned at the stake for arson in 17th Century Japan
1629 - Jacob de Gheyn II, Dutch artist
1628 - Tobias Matthew, Archbishop of York
1625 - Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, Spanish historian
1578 - Louis I, Cardinal of Guise, French cardinal
1578 - Arthur Champernowne, English admiral
1461 - Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician
1368 - Emperor Go-Murakami, Emperor of Japan
1058 - Pope Stephen IX
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Postby phillyidol » Fri Dec 28, 2007 3:51 am

Just a bunch of nobodies died on my birfday.




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Postby birdmadgirl » Fri Dec 28, 2007 4:37 am

Approximately 133,707 people died worldwide on February 19, 1974.

Unusual Deaths in 1974:
Christine chubbuck, an american television news reporter, committed suicide during a live broadcast on july 15. at 9:38 am, 8 minutes into her talk show, on wxlt-tv in sarasota, florida, she drew out a revolver and shot herself in the head.

Austrian formula one driver helmut koinigg died in a crash in the 1974 united states grand prix at the watkins glen grand prix race course in watkins glen, new york. on approaching a corner, a suspension failure sent koinigg's car crashing head-on into the outer armco barrier. the bottom rail gave way but the top rail did not. helmut koinigg was decapitated and died instantly, in what was only his second formula one race.

Natural disasters in 1974
1974 Brisbane flood
1974 Hunza earthquake
Cyclone Tracy

People who died on February 19 (various years)
2007 - Celia Franca, founder of National Ballet of Canada
2007 - Janet Blair, American actress
2003 - Johnny PayCheck, American singer
2001 - Charles Trenet, French singer
2001 - Stanley Kramer, American director
2001 - Priscilla Davis, American socialite
2000 - Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian artist
1999 - Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr, Iraqi Shiite leader (assassinated)
1998 - Grandpa Jones, American entertainer
1998 - John Acheson, British actor
1997 - Leo Rosten, American Yiddish writer and humorist
1997 - Deng Xiaoping, Chinese Communist leader and revolutionary
1996 - Charles O. Finley, American sports entrepreneur
1994 - Derek Jarman, British film director
1988 - André Frédéric Cournand, French-born physician, Nobel laureate
1986 - Adolfo Celi, Italian actor
1983 - Alice White, American film actress
1980 - Bon Scott, Australian musician and singer for the band AC/DC
1977 - Anthony Crosland, British politician
1977 - Mike González, Cuban baseball player
1975 - Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian composer
1973 - Kostas Negrepontis, Greek footballer
1973 - Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist
1972 - Tedd Pierce, American animator
1972 - John Grierson, Scottish documentary filmmaker
1969 - Madge Blake, American actress
1968 - Georg Hackenschmidt, Estonian professional wrestler
1962 - Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek doctor, inventor of the Pap smear
1957 - Maurice Garin, French cyclist
1952 - Knut Hamsun, Norwegian author, Nobel laureate
1951 - André Gide, French writer, Nobel laureate
1942 - Frank Abbandando, American gangster (executed)
1936 - Charles Harding Firth, British historian
1936 - Max Schreck, German actor
1936 - Billy Mitchell, American general and military aviation pioneer
1927 - Robert Fuchs, Austrian composer
1916 - Ernst Mach, Austrian-Czech physicist and philosopher
1897 - Karl Weierstraß, German mathematician
1887 - Multatuli, Dutch writer
1873 - Vasil Levski, Bulgarian revolutionary
1837 - Georg Büchner, German playwright
1806 - Elizabeth Carter, English writer
1799 - Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor
1789 - Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and President of Delaware
1716 - Dorthe Engelbrechtsdatter, Norwegian poet
1709 - Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Japanese shogun
1672 - Charles Chauncy, English-born president of Harvard College
1670 - King Frederick III of Denmark
1663 - Adam Adami, German bishop and diplomat
1653 - Luigi de Rossi, Italian composer
1622 - Sir Henry Savile, English educator
1620 - Roemer Visscher, Dutch writer
1602 - Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercoeur, French soldier
1605 - Orazio Vecchi, Italian composer
1589 - Saint Philothei, Orthodox martyr and Patron of Athens
1553 - Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician
1133 - Irene Ducaena, wife of Alexius I Comnenus
197 - Clodius Albinus, Roman governor of Britain
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Postby bowiestation » Sat Jan 05, 2008 7:41 am

nevermind..my internet is crapping out on me
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Postby club80 » Sat Jan 05, 2008 11:06 am

[quote][i]Originally posted by phillyidol[/i]
<br>Just a bunch of nobodies died on my birfday.




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We can always hope that Rocky the squirrel goes down on your birthday next year!



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Postby club80 » Sat Jan 05, 2008 11:14 am

Approximately 124,704 people died worldwide on November 18, 1962.

Natural disasters in 1962:
Columbus Day Storm of 1962 AND North Sea flood of 1962 (I get two!)

People who died on November 18 (various years)
2004 - Cy Coleman, American composer, songwriter and pianist
2003 - Michael Kamen, American composer
2002 - James Coburn, American actor
1999 - Paul Bowles, American novelist
1994 - Cab Calloway, American bandleader
1991 - Gustáv Husák, President of Czechoslovakia
1987 - Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (cancer)
1986 - Gia Carangi, American model (AIDS)
1984 - Mary Hamman, American writer and editor, modern living editor LIFE and eidtor in chief Bride & Home
1982 - Duk Koo Kim, Korean boxer
1980 - Conn Smythe, NHL coach 1927-1931
1979 - Freddie Fitzsimmons, baseball player
1978 - Leo Ryan, U.S. Congressman
1978 - Jim Jones, American cult leader (suicide)
1977 - Kurt Schuschnigg, Austrian politician
1976 - Man Ray, American artist
1972 - Danny Whitten, American musician and songwriter
1969 - Ted Heath, British musician and bandleader
1969 - Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., American politician
1965 - Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States
1952 - Paul Eluard, French poet
1941 - Émile Nelligan, Quebec poet
1941 - Chris Watson, third Prime Minister of Australia
1941 - Walther Nernst, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1922 - Marcel Proust, French novelist
1889 - William Allingham, Irish author
1886 - Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States
1814 - William Jessop, British civil engineer
1797 - Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder and merchant
1785 - Louis Philip I, Duke of Orléans, French soldier and writer
1724 - Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Portuguese naturalist
1590 - George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, English statesman
1559 - Cuthbert Tunstall, English churchman
1305 - John II, Duke of Brittany
1154 - Adélaide de Maurienne, wife of Louis VI of France

A few interesting people died on my birthday (but none more significant to me than my father who actually did die on my birthday four years ago. Talk about the worst birthday EVER)

I did, also, notice that an unusually high number of French people died on my birthday and, oddly enough, none while engaging in war.




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Postby New Wave Dave » Sat Jan 05, 2008 11:42 am

Purty interesting. Two Presidents and two Popes among other notables...

2006 - Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States

2004 - Reggie White, American football player

2002 - Herb Ritts, American photographer

1999 - Curtis Mayfield, American musician

1996 - JonBenét Ramsey, American murder victim

1985 - Diane Fossey, American gorilla specialist

1974 - Jack Benny, American comedian

1972 - Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States

418 - Pope Zosimus

268 - Pope Dionysius

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Postby wherewereuin82 » Sat Jan 05, 2008 1:29 pm

I got Davey Crockett, Jim Bowie, Nelson Eddy, Pearl S Buck, Ayn Rand, Bryan Fogarty (what a waste). Kirby Puckett? WTF? I didn't even know he was dead. I also seem to have an inordinant amount of professional wrestlers (well 2) compared to everyone else.


People who died on March 06, 1964 (the exact day you were born)
King Paul of Greece

Natural disasters in 1964
Good Friday Earthquake

People who died on March 06 (various years)
2007 - Ernest Gallo, American winemaker
2007 - Allen Coage (aka "Bad News Brown"), American professional wrestler and judoka
2007 - Jean Baudrillard, French cultural theorist, philosopher, political commentator and photographer
2006 - Dana Reeve, American actress, wife of Christopher Reeve
2006 - Kirby Puckett, American baseball player
2006 - King Floyd, American musician
2005 - Teresa Wright, American actress
2005 - Danny Gardella, American baseball player
2005 - Tommy Vance, British radio disc jockey
2005 - Hans Bethe, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
2004 - Ray Fernandez, American professional wrestler
2004 - Frances Dee, American actress
2003 - John Sanford, American author
2002 - Bryan Fogarty, Canadian ice hockey player
2001 - Kim Walker, American actress
2000 - John Colicos, Canadian actor
1999 - Dennis Viollet, former footballer
1999 - Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, emir of Bahrain
1998 - Frank Barrett, American baseball player
1997 - Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica
1997 - Cheddi Jagan, President of Guyana
1994 - Melina Mercouri, Greek actress, political activist, and politician
1986 - Georgia O'Keeffe, American artist
1985 - Henry Wilcoxon, Dominican actor
1982 - Ayn Rand, Russian-American author
1981 - George Geary, English cricketer
1976 - Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom, American boxer and actor
1973 - Pearl S. Buck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate
1971 - Thurston Dart, English harpsichordist and conductor
1970 - William Hopper, American actor
1969 - Nadya Rusheva, Russian painter
1967 - Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer
1967 - Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor
1967 - John Haden Badley, English author and educator
1965 - Margaret Dumont, American actress
1961 - George Formby, British comedian and singer
1952 - Jürgen Stroop, Nazi SS-leader (executed)
1951 - Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ukrainian politician and statesman
1951 - Ivor Novello, Welsh actor, musician, and composer
1950 - Albert Lebrun, President of France
1948 - Ross Lockridge, Jr., American novelist
1941 - Gutzon Borglum, Danish sculptor
1939 - Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician
1935 - Fridolf Rhudin Swedish actor and comedian
1933 - Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago
1932 - John Philip Sousa, American band leader, conductor, and composer
1905 - John Henninger Reagan, American Confederate politician
1900 - Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and industrialist
1899 - Victoria Kaiulani, Hawaiian princess
1895 - Camilla Collett, Norwegian writer and feminist
1888 - Louisa May Alcott, American novelist
1866 - William Whewell, English scientist, philosopher, and historian of science
1860 - Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer
1854 - Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, British soldier and politician
1842 - Constanze Mozart, wife of W.A. Mozart
1836 - Jim Bowie, American pioneer and soldier
1836 - William B. Travis, American lawyer and soldier
1836 - Davy Crockett, American frontiersman
1796 - Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer
1764 - Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of England
1758 - Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington, English politician
1754 - Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1627 - Krzysztof Zbaraski, Polish statesman
1531 - Pedrarias Dávila, Spanish conquistador
1490 - Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver
1252 - Saint Rose of Viterbo, Italian saint
766 - Chrodegang of Metz, a Frankish bishop of Metz




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