The Year of Death Game

1731: Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe

Nitpicking but this Winston Churchill, while a Member of Parliament, was not a Prime Minister.

1732: Reigen, former Emperor of Japan

He abdicated the throne in 1687 and ended up outliving the son who succeeded him.

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Nitpicking but this Winston Churchill, while a Member of Parliament, was not a Prime Minister.
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:smack:My bad. I read MP as PM.

1733: Jacob August Franckenstein

German encyclopedia writer whose name might have inspired Shelley’s monster.

1734: Matthew Cushing, the first celebrity burglar

Avoid lewd Women, ever shun
Their Company, entangling Snares,
By them, poor Youths are oft undone,
The Truth of this Cushing declares.

1735: John Arbuthnot, author

1736: Daniel Fahrenheit, inventor of the mercury thermometer and the Fahrenheit temperature scale.

Though he died in 947 Celsius.

Well, 40 B.C. would’ve been the same in both systems. :slight_smile:

1737: Nakamikado, 114th emperor of Japan.

1738: John Richardson, pirate, cad

1739: Dick Turpin, English highwayman. The reason I remember him is probably mostly because of this TV-series: Dick Turpin (TV series) - Wikipedia

**Note, we are going to move forward to 1850 for this thread. **

1850: Edward Baker Lincoln, toddler son of Abraham Lincoln.

Next: 1851

1851: James Fenimore Cooper

1852: Henry Clay, American statesman and 3-time presidential candidate.

Known as “The Great Compromiser”

1853 - William R. King, vice-president under Franklin Pierce.

Died of tuberculosis after just 45 days in office.

1854: Georg Ohm

And the original namesake of King County, WA (Seattle area)
1855 Charlotte Bronte, author.

1856: Said bin Sultan, Sultan of Muscat and Oman, modern day Oman

1857: Agustina de Aragón, “the Spanish Joan of Arc”