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Posted: Wednesday, July 09, 2008

While You Were Entering This World, Who Was Departing?


The great title of this post comes from a link Reece sent to me in del.icio.us today.

The Death Report - Morbid Facts About Your Birthday is just that, morbid facts about the day you were born. I just tried to think of a way to tie in the childish delight of discovering say a mug with your very own name on and this site but I couldn't.

140,747 People

Here are morbid facts about the day I was born (8th December 1982):

People who died on December 08, 1982 (the exact day you were born)
  • Bram Behr, Surinamese journalist

Unusual Deaths in 1982
  • Vic morrow, actor, was decapitated by a helicopter blade during filming of twilight zone

  • Vladimir smirnov, an olympic champion fencer, died of brain damage nine days after his opponent's foil snapped during a match, penetrated his mask, pierced his eyeball and entered his brain.

People who died on December 08 (various years)

  • 2006 - José Uribe, Dominican baseball player

  • 2006 - Martha Tilton, American singer

  • 2005 - Georgiy Zhzhonov, Russian actor and author

  • 2004 - Dimebag Darrell (Darrell Abbott), American guitarist

  • 2003 - Rubén González, Cuban pianist (Buena Vista Social Club)

  • 2001 - Don Tennant, American advertising executive

  • 1999 - Péter Kuczka, Hungarian writer

  • 1996 - Howard Rollins, American actor

  • 1994 - Tom Jobim, Brazilian composer and arranger

  • 1992 - William Shawn, American magazine editor

  • 1991 - Buck Clayton, American jazz trumpet player

  • 1984 - Robert Jay Mathews, White Nationalist

  • 1984 - Luther Adler, American actor

  • 1983 - Slim Pickens, American actor

  • 1980 - John Lennon, English musician and peace activist

  • 1978 - Golda Meir, Russian-born Prime Minister of Israel

  • 1975 - Gary Thain, New Zealand bassist (Uriah Heep)

  • 1963 - Field Marshal Sarit Dhanarajata, Prime Minister of Thailand

  • 1958 - Tris Speaker, American baseball player

  • 1952 - Charles Lightoller, British second officer on the Titanic

  • 1938 - Friedrich Glauser, German-language Swiss writer

  • 1917 - Mendele Moykher Sforim, Russian writer

  • 1914 - Maximilian von Spee, German naval officer

  • 1907 - Oscar II of Sweden

  • 1894 - Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician

  • 1885 - William Henry Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family

  • 1864 - George Boole, British inventor of Boolean algebra

  • 1859 - Thomas de Quincey, British author

  • 1830 - Benjamin Constant, Swiss writer

  • 1779 - Nathan Alcock, English physician

  • 1768 - Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary

  • 1756 - William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington, British statesman and diplomat

  • 1746 - Charles Radclyffe, British politician

  • 1745 - Etienne Fourmont, French orientalist

  • 1744 - Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle duchess de Châteauroux, mistress of King Louis XV of France

  • 1722 - Liselotte von der Pfalz, Duchess of Orléans

  • 1709 - Thomas Corneille, French dramatist

  • 1695 - Barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville, French orientalist

  • 1691 - Richard Baxter, English clergyman

  • 1680 - Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester, English politician

  • 1649 - Noël Chabanel, French Jesuit missionary

  • 1643 - John Pym, English statesman

  • 1638 - Ivan Gundulic, Croatian poet

  • 1632 - Philippe van Lansberge, Flemish astronomer

  • 1626 - John Davies, English poet

  • 899 - Arnulf of Carinthia (b. 850)



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Posted by Nathan Kowald @ 9:01 PM

2 Comments:

At Thu Jul 10, 09:16:00 PM, Blogger griffo said...

This is pretty weird, but i've seen weirder stuff on the internet (like the celebrity death poll or whatever it is called)

Approximately 146,792 people died worldwide on June 29, 1990.

People who died on June 29, 1990 (the exact day you were born)

* Irving Wallace, American author and screenwriter

Unusual Deaths in 1990

* Joseph w. burrus, aged 32, an aspiring magician, decided to perform the "buried alive" illusion in a plastic box covered with cement. the cement crushed the box and he died of asphyxia.
* George allen, an american football coach, died a month after some of his players gave him a gatorade shower following a victory (as it is tradition in american football). some argue this resulted in pneumonia.

Natural disasters in 1990

* 1990 Iran earthquake
* 1990 Luzon earthquake

People who died on June 29 (various years)

* 2007 - Joel Siegel, American film critic
* 2006 - Lloyd Richards, American actor and director
* 2006 - Fabián Bielinsky, Argentinean film director
* 2006 - Randy Walker, American football coach
* 2004 - Bernard Babior, American biochemist
* 2003 - Katharine Hepburn, American actress
* 2002 - François Périer, French actor
* 2002 - Ole-Johan Dahl, Norwegian computer scientist
* 2002 - Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress
* 2000 - Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor
* 1999 - Allan Carr, American film producer
* 1995 - Lana Turner, American actress
* 1994 - Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor
* 1993 - Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican singer
* 1992 - Þórhallur B, Icelandic Skater
* 1992 - Mohammed Boudiaf, President of Algeria (assassinated)
* 1982 - Henry King, American film director
* 1982 - Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer
* 1979 - Lowell George, American country-rock singer (Little Feat)
* 1978 - Bob Crane, American actor
* 1977 - Magda Lupescu, consort of King Carol II of Romania
* 1973 - Germán Valdés, Mexican actor
* 1969 - Moise Tshombe, Congolese politician
* 1969 - Shorty Long, American singer
* 1967 - Primo Carnera, Italian boxer
* 1967 - Jayne Mansfield, American actress
* 1964 - Eric Dolphy, American jazz musician
* 1960 - Frank Patrick, professional ice hockey player and coach
* 1958 - Charles Spencelayh, English painter
* 1941 - Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist and composer
* 1940 - Paul Klee, Swiss artist
* 1935 - Jack O'Neill, baseball player
* 1934 - Zaro Aga, 157 years ago.(b.1777)
* 1933 - Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, American actor
* 1931 - Nérée Beauchemin, Quebec poet
* 1921 - Otto Seeck German classical historian
* 1919 - José Gregorio Hernández Venezuelan physician
* 1900 - Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician
* 1895 - Thomas Henry Huxley, English scientist
* 1875 - Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria
* 1873 - Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Bengali poet
* 1861 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet
* 1855 - John Gorrie, American scientist
* 1852 - Henry Clay, U.S. Senator
* 1764 - Ralph Allen, English businessman and politician
* 1744 - André Campra, French composer
* 1725 - Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician
* 1509 - Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England
* 1315 - Ramon Llull, Spanish philosopher
* 1252 - King Abel of Denmark
* 1059 - Bernard II, Duke of Saxony

 
At Fri Jul 11, 11:23:00 PM, Blogger Nathan Kowald said...

hehe :)

woah @ Joseph w. burrus's death, what a way to go.

 

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