Sorry, Sua.
Sn-man: Nobody listed for Jan. 20! Thanks, though!
DAVEW: I had that in the back of my mind, along with the Kennedy-Lewis-Huxley triumvirate, the whole time I was doing my search. Of Jefferson and Adams, I was told that one of them wryly commented that day that at least the other had outlived him. Or he was sorry not to have outlived the other; something like that.
Tripler: Want to go on John Edwards with me? 
Adams’ close-to-last words (I’d look 'em up to make sure, but my books are all packed for my impending move) were “Jefferson lives!” unaware that Jefferson had died not long prior.
Odd that they both died on the 50th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, in which both were heavily involved.
Sure! I can see it now. . .
John Edwards: I see things, things in your past. . .
Tripler: Really? Like what?
JE: Do have relatives named ‘Larry’, ‘Curly’, and ‘Moe’?
Tripler
Strange thing is, yes, I really do.
I remember Freddie Prinze died about that time. If it wasn’t that exact day, it was within a couple weeks of it.
On January 19, 1977, actress Geraldine Brooks died at age 51.
Depending on the circumstances, (she died of a heart attack), they might have only been reporting her death on 1/20.
(The Scopes Systems Any Day in History site includes deaths as well as births and other incidents.)
From memory, about 150,000 people die daily (and about 380,000 babies are born, IIRC). That’s globally, in case this unknown noteworthy figure Rilchiam refers to was not American.
Where were you living in 1977? Was it local news or national?
Besides, that umpire dying was a big deal, if it was round about 1994, early in the season (in Cincinnati?), because he died on the field during a game.
Jomo, I know it wasn’t Freddie Prinze. Given the nature of his death, my mom would not have called it to my attention.
tomndebb: Well, I was sure it was a man’s name. But maybe not. And I wrote “died today”. But my concept of “today” may have been imperfect (I was not quite seven).
bup: North Jersey. But I was too young to know local news from national.
[tangent]Am I remembering TV news in the '70s correctly? I have the impression that back then, the anchor desk was part of a newsroom, with workers (and lighting equipment) visible behind the commentators (who were overwhelmingly white and male). And that some machine, a teletype, I think, would be clicking away while they faded in from or out to a commercial?[/tangent]
Oh. No, it was more recent than 1994.
Wonder why she never told me about who you just said!
By ‘round about 1994,’ I meant 1997, and by ‘early in the season,’ I meant Opening Day, and by ‘(in Cincinnati?),’ I meant Cincinatti.
John McSherry.
Maybe it was Al Green the news report had the wrong one?
Pascual Perez, hall of fame boxer
Perhaps it was a neighbor, or a local newscaster, or something like that?
I give up…
Thanks for all your help, though!
[nitpick]FTR, McSherry died April 1,1996.[/nitpick]
http://www.trincoll.edu/zines/tj/tj4.4.96/articles/mcsherry.html
R.I.P.
Don’t give up! I recommend that you head to the local library and ask the reference librarian to help you do a search of newspaper microfiche for that date. Start with the big local paper wherever you are. - Jill
OK, thank you.
I looked at the Social Security Death Index, and didn’t see anyone famous…Unless you count Henry James…but I don’t think it’s the same one…