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!
All I get is a lousy philosopher I’ve never heard of: Theodor Adorno, German sociologist and philosopher Aug 6, 1969.
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.
Bobby Watson, star of The Devil with Hitler, That Nazty Nuisance, and Moonlight and Pretzels.
Nobody important enough to get a mention on Wikipedia.
I killed NOBODY! I win!
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.
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.
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)
I guess a few folks would have birthdays on Elizabeth Taylor’s wedding days.
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.
Sir James Chadwick, an English Nobel laureate in physics awarded for his discovery of the neutron.
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.)
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…
Singer 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.
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.
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]
Bing Crosby
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.