Who famously died while you were in utero?

In My Humble Opinion
1

I was *in utero *for the first nine months of 1945. During that time the following people died:

Anne Frank
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler & Eva Braun
Joseph Goebbels
Robert H. Goddard

And a whole lot of people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

2

Lenny Bruce, who made his last joke when I was in utero.
Russell Crouse, probably missed me by a few days, but there’s a slim chance.
Walt Disney, who died just three weeks before I was born.
Bobby Fuller, who died under mysterious circumstances.
Margaret Sanger was still alive when I was conceived, but didn’t make it to my birth.
I may or may not have been a tiny blastocyst when** Evelyn Waugh** died.
Clifton Webb, who was born in Indianapolis.
Charles Whitman who was shot down in a clock tower in Texas while I was in utero.

And a lot of people in Vietnam.

3

I was born in February of 1958.

In November 1957, Aro was executed in Papua, New Guinea.

[QUOTE=Wikipedia]
Aro (known only by that name) was the last person executed in Papua New Guinea.[1]

In 1957, while Papua New Guinea was an Australian territory, Aro, then a young man, walked into a hospital “carrying a baby and a blood-stained axe” and stated that he had killed his two wives.[1]

He was convicted of willful murder, sentenced to death, and executed by hanging in November 1957.[1]

There were no further executions. The death penalty was abolished in 1970, five years before Papua New Guinea’s independence from Australia. It was reintroduced in 1991, but never applied.[1]
[/QUOTE]

Oddly, I have no recollection of this historic event.

4

Born in September '73, so deaths between December '72 and Sept '73:

Harry S Truman
Lyndon Johnson
Pearl S. Buck
Bruce Lee
Eddie Rickenbacker
Rudolph Hess
J.R.R. Tolkien

5

Elvis Presley died on August 16, 1977. I was born on August 21, 1977.

6

Clarence Darrow, Thomas Wolfe, and 47 people on a train on a washed out bridge in southeastern Montana. And anybody who died of fright from the panic over Orson Welles’ radio drama “War of the Worlds”.

7

Hess died in 1987 :wink:

8

Sir Winston Churchill.

Knew that without having to look it up.

9

Let’s see… J. Edgar Hoover is probably the most famous, dying about halfway through my gestation.

Other than him, there was Dan Blocker (“Hoss” on Bonanza), the Israeli athletes murdered in Munich, King Talal of Jordan, King Frederick IX of Denmark, and Walter Winchell (the gossip columnist).

(I was born in September 1972, so I was in utero for the first 3/4 of 1972, more or less)

10

Best. Alibi. Ever.

11

The names that jumped out at me, September 1970 - June 1971:

Janis Joplin
Charles de Gaulle
Bill W.
Philo T. Farnsworth

12

Gary Cooper
Clark Gable
Patrice Lumumba
Zog I of Albania
Muhammad V of Morocco
very deservingly (but too late), Rafael Trujillo

13

I was born October 14, 1977.

Joan Crawford - May 10
Wernher von Braun - June 16
Groucho Marx - August 19
Bing Crosby - October 14

14

Cole Porter
Sam Cooke
Winston Churchill
Nat King Cole
Malcom X
Trigger (Roy Roger’s horse)

15

Jimmie Lunceford
Fiorello LaGuardia
Raoul Wallenberg (officially, but I believe there is more than a lot of doubt about really happened to him)
Max Planck
Baroness Orczy (who wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel)
Ernst Lubitsch
Sergei Eisenstein
Richard Tauber
Jan Masaryk
Zelda Fitzgerald

16

I was just a few cells when Valentin Bondarenko burned to death in a 15-day endurance experiment in a low pressure altitude chamber.
Gary Cooper
Carl Jung
Ernest Hemingway
Ty Cobb
Dag Hammarskjöld
Chico Marx
James Thurber
14 Americans and 176 Cubans the Bay of Pigs.
Wolfgang von Trips and 14 spectators at the Italian Grand Prix.

17

Nov. 1970, which means these people kicked it while I was in the womb:

Jimi Hendrix
Janis Joplin
Charles de Gaulle
Vince Lombardi
John Scopes
Famed filmmaker Abraham Zapruder
Gypsy Rose Lee
Erle Stanley Gardner
E.M. Forster

18

I apparently was born a few weeks before 74westy.

Ty Cobb
Gary Cooper
Dag Hammarskjold
Ernest Hemingway
Carl Jung
Chico Marx

19

Born March 1978:

Vladimir Nabokov
Elvis Presley
Groucho Marx
Bing Crosby
Hubert Humphrey

Actor John Cazale died on my birthday. I am the reincarnation of Fredo Corleone!

20

Those who shuffled off this mortal coil whilst I was baking in the maternal oven:

Albert Einstein
James Dean
Cy Young
Charlie “Bird” Parker
James Mann
Dale Carnegie
James Agee