Famous people who DIED the exact day you were born

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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An astonishing number of famous folk died on my birthday, but I only pasted the names I know historically for one reason or another.

1952 - Jack Parsons, American rocket-fuel pioneer and renegade occultist (b. 1914)
1953 - Walter Niemann, composer, dies at 76
1961 - Jeff Chandler, [Ira Grossel], actor (Away all boats), dies at 40
1963 - John Whiting, British dramatist/actor (Devils), dies
1974 - Pamela Britton, actress (Blondie, My Favorite Martian), dies at 50
1979 - Lou Frizzel, actor (Dusty Rhoades-Bonanza), dies at 58
1981 - Richard O’Connor, British general (b. 1889)
1983 - Peter Mennin(i), US composer (Moby Dick), dies at 60
1984 - Chet Allen, actor (Jerry-Bonino, Slats-Troubleshooter), dies at 51
1984 - Swale, Kentucky Derby winner, collapses & dies
1986 - Kate Smith, singer (God Bless America), dies in Raleigh NC at 78
1987 - Dick Howser, mgr (NY Yankees & KC Royal), dies of brain cancer at 51
1989 - John Matusek, NFLer (Oak Raider)/actor, dies of a heart attack at 38
1989 - Stanley David Griggs, astronaut (STS 51-D), dies plane crash at 59
1995 - Claire Sterling, journalist, dies at 75
1996 - Thomas Kuhn, American philosopher of science (b. 1922)
2002 - Willie Davenport, American athlete (b. 1943)
2006 - Arthur Franz, American actor (b. 1920)
2008 - Cyd Charisse, American dancer and actress (b. 1922)
2009 - Darrell Powers, American World War II veteran of the United States 101st Airborne Division. (b. 1923)

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Which one died in the year of your birth, however?

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Wow, she was born in 1897.

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Clifton C Williams Jr, astronaut, dies at 35, in T-38 jet crash

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Just one, who I’d never heard of before today: Ferenc Joachim, a Hungarian painter.

Wow. C.S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley, too.

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You were born in 1926?

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Comedy character actor Stanley “Tiny” Sandford

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  • Peter Van Anrooy, conductor/composer (Piet Hein Rhapsodie), dies at 75
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I have. I used to hate Adorno until I read some of his writings and realized that I liked Adorno, I just hated Adorno scholars. But I digress.

Nobody of significance died on my day of birth although Jayne Mansfield had a Very Bad Day soon after.

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heh. that’ll teach me to read the op more closely.
by YEAR and not DATE, it’s a whole 'nother story.
never heard of either of these guys.

  • Bob Sweikert, American racing driver (b. 1926)
  • Paul Rostock, German doctor (b. 1892)
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The 2 names I found were Max Branch, age 75, a music/radio commentator and Max Tak, age 75, Dutch violinist/radio commentator.

I can conclude that August 7, 1967 was a bad day to be a 75 year old radio commentator named Max.

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Hall of Fame pitcher “Dazzy” Vance of the Brooklyn Robins died the day I was born (February 16, 1961)

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I’ve got Davey Claire, a shortstop for the Detroit Tigers . . . for three games in 1920, and Morgan Gurley Sanders, a Texas lawyer, legislator, and judge.

If famous for how they died counts, there’s also Susan Cadieux, who disappeared in London on her way to school, age 5. Her body was found days later and she had been sexually assaulted. Caused quite a stir in 1956.

Also, five young missionaries (one surnamed Saint) were killed in their first contact with a tribe in an Ecuadoran jungle. There was a documentary. Some of their widows and other family members persisted. Now there’s another documentary.

And Vinoo Mankad scored 231 v NZ. I’m assuming that’s a good thing.

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George Formby

[QUOTE-Wiki]
George Formby, OBE (26 May 1904 – 6 March 1961), born George Hoy Booth, was a British comedy actor, singer-songwriter, and comedian. He sang light, comical songs, accompanying himself on the banjo ukulele or banjolele. He was a major star of stage and screen in the 1930s and 1940s
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His talent did not reincarnate to me.

He is on several youtube videos, never seen him or heard the songs.

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Oscar Wilde, Zeppo Marx, Tiny Tim, and Evel Knievel

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Historyorb doesn’t seem very comprehensive. I tried March 1, 1987 (Kesha’s birthdate), but she’s not listed. It does say “Sammie Bush, Boyton Beach Florida, American R&B singer, ‘I Like It’” was born that day, though. Who the fuck is that?

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John L. Lewis, founder of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and President of the United Mine Workers.

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From this site: Died on October 4th

Glenn Gould (pianist) - The only one I’ve heard of before looking this up
Ahmed Hassan Al-Bakar - (President of Iraq; deposed in 1979)
Leroy Grumann (founded an aircraft company)

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Oskar Schindler - Oct. 9, 1974

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How does one search that?