# Famous people who DIED the exact day you were born **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 30, 2010, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-died-the-exact-day-you-were-born/545119 "2010-06-30T21:43:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-died-the-exact-day-you-were-born/545119/1 "2010-06-30T21:43:49Z")
The evil spawn of [this thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=569022) What famous person died on the exact day you were born? (Different years don’t count.) This one’s a lot tougher than the other thread. The only famous person to die on my date of birth was Walter Bradford Cannon, a neurologist and physiologist who was \*almost \*awarded several Nobel Prizes. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-died-the-exact-day-you-were-born/545119/2 "2010-06-30T21:53:55Z")
According to Wikipedia, the only famous person to die on my birthday was Bill Woodfull, Australian cricketer. Sorry, Bill Woodfull fans, I have no idea who he was. On the other hand, the Watts Riots in LA started on my birthday. That was a pretty big deal, so they tell me. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-died-the-exact-day-you-were-born/545119/3 "2010-06-30T21:54:36Z")
No one really famous died on my birth day, if Wikipedia is to be believed. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-died-the-exact-day-you-were-born/545119/4 "2010-06-30T22:01:28Z")
Jean Peugeot, French auto manufacturer. ---
**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-died-the-exact-day-you-were-born/545119/5 "2010-06-30T22:11:53Z")
Kid Elberfeld (aka “The Tabasco Kid”) who was a major baseball player, died January 13 1944, the day I was born. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-died-the-exact-day-you-were-born/545119/6 "2010-06-30T22:13:51Z")
Nobody I’ve ever heard of- a couple very minor show biz figures (“third guy from left” type actors and a screenwriter with 2 credits, neither of them classics or anything like.). Walt Disney died (and was by legend plopped it in the deep freeze) when I was a few days old and he’s the closest big name deathdate to my birthdate. ---
**Author:** ![ENugent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4af34b/32.png) [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-died-the-exact-day-you-were-born/545119/7 "2010-06-30T22:43:13Z")
Helen Keller. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-died-the-exact-day-you-were-born/545119/8 "2010-06-30T23:11:33Z")
Coen de Koning, Dutch speed skater. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-died-the-exact-day-you-were-born/545119/9 "2010-06-30T23:22:14Z")
Dang, too late for the edit window. I put this in the famous people who were born thread so I’ll it here also. [Historyorb](http://www.historyorb.com/) is a good place to look up stuff like this. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-died-the-exact-day-you-were-born/545119/10 "2010-06-30T23:29:09Z")
Wander J de Haas, Dut physicist (Einstein-De Haas effect), dies at 82 ---
**Author:** ![torie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@torie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/torie)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-died-the-exact-day-you-were-born/545119/11 "2010-07-01T00:17:24Z")
It didn’t happen on my exact birthday, but my mother, who is obsessed with plane crashes, was pacing her apartment in labor with me when [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Florida_Flight_90) happened. It distracted her until my father came home to take her to the hospital. Bright and early the next morning, my mother was holding me and watching the news coverage. She still mentions it often when my birthday comes around. It was part of the Legend Of My Birth I heard growing up, along with there being an unusual icestorm in Oklahoma and my father having to scrape ice off his car so he could see to get my mom to the hospital. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-died-the-exact-day-you-were-born/545119/12 "2010-07-01T00:28:06Z")
Wow. Both Alexander the Great _and_ Barbarossa died on my birth date. On a much more personal level, my father’s father actually _did_ die on the day I was born. I’ve often wondered how my father felt when he got the two messages that day: “Your father died early this morning”, and, hours later, “It’s a girl”. ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-died-the-exact-day-you-were-born/545119/13 "2010-07-01T00:44:54Z")
Mine’s easy, my birthday is Halloween so, Harry Houdini. ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-died-the-exact-day-you-were-born/545119/14 "2010-07-01T01:17:02Z")
For years I believed Bruce Lee died the day I was born. However, this was wrong, but I want this to be true so bad I’ll just say it is. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-died-the-exact-day-you-were-born/545119/15 "2010-07-01T01:53:30Z")
[Sir Robert Chapman, 1st Baronet](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Robert_Chapman,_1st_Baronet) That’s all I got. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-died-the-exact-day-you-were-born/545119/16 "2010-07-01T02:06:54Z")
The Rosenbergs were fried a few hours after I was born, just a few miles up the Hudson River, too, but a midnight intervened between the two events. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-died-the-exact-day-you-were-born/545119/17 "2010-07-01T02:23:22Z")
Four people died on my birthday. They weren’t really famous, but their death was: [Jeffrey Miller, Alison Krause, William Schroeder, Sandra Scheuer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings) ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-died-the-exact-day-you-were-born/545119/18 "2010-07-01T02:50:55Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > According to Wikipedia, the only famous person to die on my birthday was Bill Woodfull, Australian cricketer. Sorry, Bill Woodfull fans, I have no idea who he was. > > On the other hand, the Watts Riots in LA started on my birthday. That was a pretty big deal, so they tell me. Oddly enough, that’s my birthday as well. But you at least had an interesting year. Nobody in my year on Wikipedia. Pope Paul VI did have his funeral that day, though. How many people can say they were born during a _sede vacante_? Yeah, that’s all I got. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-died-the-exact-day-you-were-born/545119/19 "2010-07-01T02:55:30Z")
Writer [Carson McCullers](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carson_McCullers). ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-died-the-exact-day-you-were-born/545119/20 "2010-07-01T03:02:52Z")
[Ulrike Meinhof](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrike_Meinhof). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-died-the-exact-day-you-were-born/545119.md?page=2)