# Emperor Norton was buried January 10, 1880 **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 7, 2014, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emperor-norton-was-buried-january-10-1880/678112 "2014-01-07T04:42:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2014, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emperor-norton-was-buried-january-10-1880/678112/1 "2014-01-07T04:42:53Z")
Is anyone planning to visit his grave on the upcoming anniversary? I bought a top hat for the occassion. I haven’t looked up a map, yet, but he’s in the Woodlawn Cemetery, in Colma. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2014, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emperor-norton-was-buried-january-10-1880/678112/2 "2014-01-07T06:34:30Z")
I’m not planning to visit, but thanks for the reminder. Emperor Norton is one of my favourite characters from history, and I’ll gladly raise a glass to him on the 10th. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2014, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emperor-norton-was-buried-january-10-1880/678112/3 "2014-01-07T13:35:35Z")
A friend of mine mentioned this the other day and he will celebrate. He is a “Clamper” ([ECV)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_Clampus_Vitus). I had no idea what that was and he explained it. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2014, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emperor-norton-was-buried-january-10-1880/678112/4 "2014-01-07T18:42:56Z")
I didn’t realize there was something important about a 134th anniversary. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2014, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emperor-norton-was-buried-january-10-1880/678112/5 "2014-01-07T19:07:55Z")
This one isn’t any more important than any other. This is just the first time that I’ve decided to make the trek. Thanks for the link to the Clampers. I hadn’t heard of them. As an aside, I read the Sandman issue with the good Emperor in it and wondered if Gaiman was using poetic license when he said that there was a total eclipse of the sun during the funeral. So I looked it up. He was. It was actually the next day. But it’s accurate that the totality was visible in San Francisco. ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2014, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emperor-norton-was-buried-january-10-1880/678112/6 "2014-01-07T21:01:55Z")
He died January 8, Elvis was born January 8. Fyi… ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2014, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emperor-norton-was-buried-january-10-1880/678112/7 "2014-01-07T22:26:55Z")
So we can raise a glass in memory tomorrow, too. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2014, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/emperor-norton-was-buried-january-10-1880/678112/8 "2014-01-07T22:31:05Z")
> [@Lukeinva](#): > > He died January 8, Elvis was born January 8. Fyi… Oooo. Also Soupy Sales, Stephen Hawking, and Kim Jong-un. According to wikipedia. Nixon and I missed it by one day, but in opposite directions.