# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![LunarPlexus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@LunarPlexus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LunarPlexus)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-died-the-exact-day-you-were-born/545119/41 "2010-07-01T18:31:43Z")
Pretty busy day - November 22, 1963: Aldous Huxley, English writer (Brave New World) (b. 1894) John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (b. 1917) (assassinated) C. S. Lewis, Irish-born British critic, novelist and Christian apologist (b. 1898) ---
**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, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-died-the-exact-day-you-were-born/545119/42 "2010-07-01T22:13:00Z")
> [@lunarplexus](#): > > pretty busy day - november 22, 1963: > > Aldous huxley, english writer (brave new world) (b. 1894) > john f. Kennedy, 35th president of the united states (b. 1917) (assassinated) > c. S. Lewis, irish-born british critic, novelist and christian apologist (b. 1898) ding! Ding! Ding! Wins the thread! ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-died-the-exact-day-you-were-born/545119/43 "2010-07-01T22:22:11Z")
All I get is a lousy philosopher I’ve never heard of: Theodor Adorno, German sociologist and philosopher Aug 6, 1969. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-died-the-exact-day-you-were-born/545119/44 "2010-07-01T22:44:21Z")
- Walther Funk, Nazi leader (b. 1890) - Willem Elsschot, [Alfons de Ridder], Flemish writer (Kas), died at 78 ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-died-the-exact-day-you-were-born/545119/45 "2010-07-01T23:05:52Z")
> [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](#): > > 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. Trivia: they honored the Rosenbergs request to not kill them on the Sabbath, or tried to; Julius died fast, but Ethel, in spite of being tiny, had to be zapped three times which delayed her death until just after sundown. ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-died-the-exact-day-you-were-born/545119/46 "2010-07-02T01:40:01Z")
Bobby Watson, star of _The Devil with Hitler_, _That Nazty Nuisance_, and _Moonlight and Pretzels_. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-died-the-exact-day-you-were-born/545119/47 "2010-07-02T01:51:00Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > What famous person died on the exact day you were born? (Different years don’t count.) Nobody important enough to get a mention on Wikipedia. I killed NOBODY! I win! ---
**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:** [July 2, 2010, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-died-the-exact-day-you-were-born/545119/48 "2010-07-02T01:55:09Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > And [The Death Report](http://www.oneplusyou.com/bb/death) Wow, 110,998 people died the day I was born . . . and not one of them was more famous than the guy I mentioned in the OP. And I have to admit, \*\*LunarPlexus \*\*wins the thread. Some of us are old enough to remember that day. ---
**Author:** ![Gleena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-died-the-exact-day-you-were-born/545119/49 "2010-07-02T02:30:48Z")
David Arthur Faraday, 17, and Betty Lou Jensen, 16: shot and killed on December 20, 1968. This is only important for who killed them- the Zodiac Killer. John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate, which is really interesting to know - I like Steinbeck. Someone I never heard of: Max Brod, composer, dies at 84, but he was apparently a friend of Kafka. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-died-the-exact-day-you-were-born/545119/50 "2010-07-02T04:08:43Z")
A bunch of folks died on my birthdayi but I think the two best known individuals are 1848 – Emily Brontë, English author (b. 1818) 1999 – Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor (b. 1914) (Q in the James Bond movies) ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-died-the-exact-day-you-were-born/545119/51 "2010-07-02T07:39:16Z")
> [@EvilTOJ](#): > > All I have on my birthday is Benjamin Britten, an english composer. Elizabeth Taylor got married for the 7th time. I guess it was the end of Larry Fortensky’s life, so it kinda counts. I guess a few folks would have birthdays on Elizabeth Taylor’s wedding days. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-died-the-exact-day-you-were-born/545119/52 "2010-07-02T08:28:44Z")
The only person listed is a Finnish speed skater named Clas Thunberg, who may have been famous in Finland, I guess. On my birthday but not the same year obviously, Benito Mussolini. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-died-the-exact-day-you-were-born/545119/53 "2010-07-02T09:10:19Z")
Sir James Chadwick, an English Nobel laureate in physics awarded for his discovery of the neutron. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-died-the-exact-day-you-were-born/545119/54 "2010-07-02T09:41:51Z")
Hugo Meyer-Welfing, a German tenor, and Marion Lloyd Vince, a fencer. Nobody more famous than that on the exact date. (I got Paul Frees and Hal Roach in later years.) ---
**Author:** ![Acid\_Lamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Acid\_Lamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acid_Lamp)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-died-the-exact-day-you-were-born/545119/55 "2010-07-02T13:57:38Z")
1980 - Erich Fromm, German/US psychoanalyst, dies at 79 1980 - Herman Griffith, cricketer (13 Tests for WI, 44 wickets), dies other years were way cooler. Ivan the terrible, Marcus Aurelius, loads of kings… ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-died-the-exact-day-you-were-born/545119/56 "2010-07-02T14:19:37Z")
Singer [Johnny Ace](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Ace), who I have heard of. There was also an annular solar eclipse on my day of birth. If I believed in astrology, that would explan so much. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-died-the-exact-day-you-were-born/545119/57 "2010-07-02T14:23:55Z")
The only one listed who died on the day I was born is **Victor Daniels, AKA Chief Thundercloud** , who played various Indians in various movies and TV shows, but not any of real note. His closest approach to fame was playing Tonto to Robert Livingston’s Lone Ranger in 1938 and 1939, well before Jay Silverheels ever took the role. > **[Chief Thundercloud](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Thundercloud)** > > Victor Daniels (April 12, 1899 – December 1, 1955), known professionally as Chief Thundercloud, was an American character actor in Westerns. He is noted for being the first actor to play the role of Tonto, the Lone Ranger's Native-American companion, on the screen. > Information available about Daniels is limited and vague. He repeatedly said he was born in the Oklahoma Territory. But his Social Security application lists his birth date as April 12, 1899, and his birthplace as Santa Cruz County... > **[Chief Thundercloud | Actor, Additional Crew](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0862086/)** > > Known for: The Prairie, Fighting Pioneers, Ride, Ranger, Ride ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-died-the-exact-day-you-were-born/545119/58 "2010-07-02T15:54:07Z")
Lembitu of Lehola, Estonian military leader, died on my birthday, fighting in battle against the Livonian Brothers of the Sword. [No, I’ve never heard of him either] ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-died-the-exact-day-you-were-born/545119/59 "2010-07-02T18:49:52Z")
Bing Crosby ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-died-the-exact-day-you-were-born/545119/60 "2010-07-02T19:04:49Z")
Apparently my birthday is special - both Wikipedia and the Death report have no reported deaths on the day of my birth between 1952 and 1976. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-died-the-exact-day-you-were-born/545119.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-who-died-the-exact-day-you-were-born/545119.md?page=4)