# The Year of Death Game
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-of-death-game/742542
**Category:** Thread Games
**Created:** [January 9, 2016, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-of-death-game/742542 "2016-01-09T00:18:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2016, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-of-death-game/742542/621 "2016-12-04T17:15:16Z")
1839: Lady Hester Stanhope
A pioneer in modern archaeology.
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2016, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-of-death-game/742542/622 "2016-12-05T02:19:42Z")
1840: Niccolo Paganini, Italian composer and violinist
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### Author:  [@blue\_infinity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blue_infinity)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2016, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-of-death-game/742542/623 "2016-12-05T04:28:12Z")
1841: William Henry Harrison, US President (briefly)
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### Author:  [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2016, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-of-death-game/742542/624 "2016-12-05T04:51:11Z")
1842: Constanze Mozart, wife of Wolfgang Amadeus.
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2016, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-of-death-game/742542/625 "2016-12-05T13:19:44Z")
1843: Noah Webster
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2016, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-of-death-game/742542/626 "2016-12-05T15:05:56Z")
1844: Joseph Smith
Founder of the LDS Church.
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2016, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-of-death-game/742542/627 "2016-12-05T22:22:19Z")
1845: John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed)
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### Author:  [@blue\_infinity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blue_infinity)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2016, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-of-death-game/742542/628 "2016-12-06T09:24:58Z")
1846: Pope Gregory XVI
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2016, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-of-death-game/742542/629 "2016-12-06T11:23:19Z")
1847: Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, German pianist/composer
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2016, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-of-death-game/742542/630 "2016-12-06T14:57:53Z")
1848: John Quincy Adams
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### Author:  [@blue\_infinity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blue_infinity)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2016, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-of-death-game/742542/631 "2016-12-07T09:06:22Z")
1849: Edgar Allan Poe
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### Author:  [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2016, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-of-death-game/742542/632 "2016-12-07T09:21:12Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#):
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> 1905: Jules Verne
Sorry to break in like this, but this means my maternal grandmother(12/17/04) was born when Jules Verne was still alive. OMG
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2016, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-of-death-game/742542/633 "2016-12-07T12:10:21Z")
1850: William Wordsworth, poet
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2016, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-of-death-game/742542/634 "2016-12-08T06:20:01Z")
1851: Mary Shelley
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### Author:  [@blue\_infinity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blue_infinity)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2016, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-of-death-game/742542/635 "2016-12-08T11:58:04Z")
1852: Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2016, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-of-death-game/742542/636 "2016-12-17T11:02:28Z")
1853: William Beaumont, physiologist
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2016, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-of-death-game/742542/637 "2016-12-17T14:30:17Z")
1854: Samuel “Uncle Sam” Wilson
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2016, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-of-death-game/742542/638 "2016-12-18T08:27:53Z")
1855: Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2016, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-of-death-game/742542/639 "2016-12-18T15:27:23Z")
1856: Amedeo Avogadro
I’m not exactly sure what he did but based on all the talk about his “number” I’m assuming he won the lottery.
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### Author:  [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2016, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-year-of-death-game/742542/640 "2016-12-18T15:59:56Z")
> **[Avogadro constant](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avogadro_constant)**
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> The Avogadro constant, commonly denoted NA or L, is the ratio that relates the number of constituent particles (usually molecules, atoms, or ions) in a sample with the amount of substance in that sample. It is an SI defining constant with an exact value of 6.02214076×1023 reciprocal moles. It was named after the Italian scientist Amedeo Avogadro by Jean Perrin in 1909. It was popularized by Stanislao Cannizzaro who advocated Avogadro's work at the Karlsruhe Congress in 1860, four year The nume...
1857: Naturalist John Fleming and explorer David Thompson, who mapped nearly 2 million square miles of North America.
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