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.
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)
Here is something else; once again from Reece. Thanks Reece!
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