Notable deaths on your birthday

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Anyone significant die on the anniversary of your birth? Could be a famous person, an infamous event where people died (9/11, mass shooting, etc), a relative whose death was a major blow to you/the family, etc.

I’m not talking about historic deaths-- like your birthday falls on the day Hitler or Joan of Arc died. I’m talking memorable deaths during your lifetime, that happened to fall on your birthday.

For me, it was former Detroit Tiger Dave Bergman. As a nine-year-old who became obsessed with the Tigers during their 1984 Championship season, I singled out first baseman Dave Bergman as my favorite. When my friends and I would “play Tigers” at the park, someone would be Trammell, someone would be Whitaker, someone would be Lance Parrish or Jack Morris, but I was always Bergy. Over the years, I collected his baseball cards (I probably have the largest Dave Bergman baseball card collection outside of the Bergman family), and my wife even got me a replica #14 Bergman Tigers jersey for Christmas a few years ago. All-in-all, a big fan of the guy.

Then, on my 40th birthday, he died. It was a major bummer for what was a somewhat significant birthday milestone for me. It’s like the universe was helping me to never forget the actual day my favorite baseball player died: Feb. 2, 2015.

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A little help for the millions out there wondering this very thing.

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Except, I’m more looking for deaths that stood out to you because they fell on your birthday, not just historic deaths that happened to be on your birthday sometime in the past.

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My grandma died on my 7th birthday. My aunt died on my brother’s birthday (I forget which…18 maybe?)

Weird.

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Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.

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Ron Goldman & Nicole Brown Simpson. It was a pretty big deal at the time. Though, they became celebrities because of it, does that count?

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The ultimate simulpost!

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Harry Truman and Reggie White

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Gul Mohammed, world’s shortest man (22.1"/56.16 cm)

His life was cut short.

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Stanley Kubrick, Divine, and Charles “this man has no fucking neck” Grey

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My mom, on my 30th birthday.

And her father died on the same date, 31 years before that.
mmm

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Sure! I’m not necessarily looking for celebrities, just deaths that you thought were significant that happened to to take place on the day you were celebrating your birth.

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Wow. I did not realize she was dead.

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None that I can think of on my birthday, but I do remember Jack Bruce dying the day before my birthday a few years back.

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It was in the local paper.
mmm

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I don’t live there.

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I got nuttin. I see that Castro died on my birthday, but if I noticed the co-occurrence at the time I had forgotten it by now, and I wasn’t exactly broken up over that anyway.

(ETA: I didn’t even remember that Shepard Book died the same day!)

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John Kennedy died on my Father’s birthday.
Marilyn Monroe died on my Mother’s birthday. So, that’s kind of interesting.

Elvis Presley died on my Brother’s birthday.
Osama bin Laden died on my birthday, except where he was it was the next day. Hitler missed me by one day, but I did get Joseph Goebbels.

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Herbert Hoover died the day I was born. The plane crash that took several members of Lynyrd Skynyrd happened on my 13th birthday.

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The most notable death on my birthday was a few years back: Lonesome George, the Pinta giant tortoise and rarest creature in the world who died aged about 100.