Which famous people died on your birthday?
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Which famous people died on your birthday?
As a companion piece to the 'celebrity twin' thread, which famous people died on your birthday. This might be a tougher ask, as Wikipedia lists about half as many deaths on my birthday as it does births (are half of all 'notable' people from history still alive? or are people more likely to add contemporary figures), and most people are probably more likely to know of people who were alive at the same time as then. Wikipedia lists nobody who died on my exact birthday, but those who died on the same day in another year include Nostradamus, Robert Peel (former prime minister and founder of the police force), actor Jimmy Stewart, motorcycle racing legend Joey Dunlop, and The Godfather author Mario Puzo. Who can beat that?
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Re: Which famous people died on your birthday?
Yep. Only one for me on this one - Silvana Armenulic (1939-1976), a 1970s Yugoslavian actress, killed in a road accident.Martin Smith wrote:This might be a tougher ask
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Re: Which famous people died on your birthday?
No-one died exactly on my birthday and the only person of note was Pope Gregory V in 999.
Just read Bobby Robson has died. He was born on my birthday with a gap of 55 years.
Just read Bobby Robson has died. He was born on my birthday with a gap of 55 years.
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Re: Which famous people died on your birthday?
No famous births or deaths on my birthday that I can find. Aneurin Bevan died three days earlier.
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Re: Which famous people died on your birthday?
Easy one for me to remember.
Princess Diana died on my birthday (31st August)
Princess Diana died on my birthday (31st August)
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Re: Which famous people died on your birthday?
A guy called World Stock Exchange died on my birthday.
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Re: Which famous people died on your birthday?
Probably the two most famous are:
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Alfred Hitchcock
but not in the right year,
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Alfred Hitchcock
but not in the right year,
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Re: Which famous people died on your birthday?
Some obscure celebrity called Jade Goody died on my 26th birthday.
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Re: Which famous people died on your birthday?
Possibly several members of the "Busby Babes" Manchester Utd football team (See Celebrity Twins post)
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Re: Which famous people died on your birthday?
Wolfgang Pauli, Roy Orbison, Anthony Trollope, Jefferson Davis.
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Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin I think
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Re: Which famous people died on your birthday?
The Dunblane shootings were on mine.
Re: Which famous people died on your birthday?
JFK was assassinated in the same month that I was born, when I was just 18 days old.
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Re: Which famous people died on your birthday?
The only person I've found is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Herbert_Ernst
- I see one of his ancestots was born in the same town as me.
- I see one of his ancestots was born in the same town as me.
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Re: Which famous people died on your birthday?
Brian Jones (Stones). Jim Morrison (Doors), Trigger the horse and a geezer called Gaylord Nelson (Not all on the same day.)
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