# Who famously died while you were in utero? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 4, 2016, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-famously-died-while-you-were-in-utero/751158 "2016-04-04T09:41:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-famously-died-while-you-were-in-utero/751158/21 "2016-04-04T15:40:50Z")
> [@Lsura](#): > > Born in September '73, so deaths between December '72 and Sept '73: > > Harry S Truman > Lyndon Johnson > Pearl S. Buck > Bruce Lee > Eddie Rickenbacker > J.R.R. Tolkien Same time frame; I’ll add: Charles Atlas Alexander Onassis Edward G Robinson Lon Chaney Jr ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-famously-died-while-you-were-in-utero/751158/22 "2016-04-04T15:49:25Z")
Wolfgang Pauli Cecil B. DeMille “the music” Lou Costello Lester Young Frank Lloyd Wright John Foster Dulles Ethel Barrymore George Grosz Billie Holiday Blind Willie McTell Wanda Landowska ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-famously-died-while-you-were-in-utero/751158/23 "2016-04-04T16:15:57Z")
Born September 1951 Sinclair Lewis, author Ferdinand Porsche, automobile manufacturer Andre Gide, author Eddie Collins, baseball player Charles Dawes, US Vice President Fanny Brice, entertainer Henry Petain, leader of Vichy France WK Kellogg, breakfast food magnate William Randolph Hearst, publisher ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-famously-died-while-you-were-in-utero/751158/24 "2016-04-04T16:17:32Z")
Are you trying to figure out who people might be the reincarnation of? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-famously-died-while-you-were-in-utero/751158/25 "2016-04-04T16:19:38Z")
Albert Einstein – something I’ve been aware of for a long time. Although if I’m any sort of reincarnation of him, I’m obviously an extremely low-grade version. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-famously-died-while-you-were-in-utero/751158/26 "2016-04-04T16:29:32Z")
I was born in January 1954. Django Reinhardt Bill Tilden Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Hilaire Belloc Robert A. Taft Edwin Hubble Dylan Thomas Eugene O’Neill Rabbit Maranville Sydney Greenstreet ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-famously-died-while-you-were-in-utero/751158/27 "2016-04-04T16:34:01Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I apparently was born a few weeks before 74westy. > > Ty Cobb > Gary Cooper > Dag Hammarskjold > Ernest Hemingway > Carl Jung > Chico Marx Me three. Conceived 1/1/1961. You can add Erwin Schrödinger, who died 1/4/61 ---
**Author:** ![Paegan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/258eb7/32.png) [@Paegan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paegan)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-famously-died-while-you-were-in-utero/751158/28 "2016-04-04T16:47:12Z")
Crotalus and I were born around the same time: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg Hank Williams Edwin Hubble Jim Thorpe Joseph Stalin Eugene O’Neill Sergei Prokofiev ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-famously-died-while-you-were-in-utero/751158/29 "2016-04-04T16:53:52Z")
Montgomery Clift Clifton Webb Lenny Bruce Sayyid Qutb William Frawley ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-famously-died-while-you-were-in-utero/751158/30 "2016-04-04T16:58:07Z")
April 1953, so between August 52-April 53: Jim Thorpe Joseph Stalin George Santayana Chaim Weizmann Hank Williams Karl Gerd Von Rundstedt ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-famously-died-while-you-were-in-utero/751158/31 "2016-04-04T16:59:12Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Me three. Conceived 1/1/1961. > > You can add Erwin Schrödinger, who died 1/4/61 Or did he? 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-famously-died-while-you-were-in-utero/751158/32 "2016-04-04T16:59:58Z")
John Von Neumann Laura Ingalls Wilder Richard E Byrd Joseph McCarthy (my state’s senator, oh boy!) Oliver Hardy Louis B Mayer (died the day before I was born) ---
**Author:** ![UncaStuart](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncastuart/32/404_2.png) [@UncaStuart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncaStuart)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-famously-died-while-you-were-in-utero/751158/33 "2016-04-04T17:03:06Z")
Born November, 1947 so: Ettiore Bugatti Willa Cather Henry Ford Fiorello La Guardia Hugh Lofting (_Dr. Dolittle_) Bugsy Siegel Georg von Trapp ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-famously-died-while-you-were-in-utero/751158/34 "2016-04-04T17:07:35Z")
Tex Jones, who played nine games at first base for the 1911 Chicago White Sox, may have died the day I was conceived. ---
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-famously-died-while-you-were-in-utero/751158/35 "2016-04-04T17:12:52Z")
Che Guevara Otis Redding Woody Guthrie Martin Luther King Jr. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-famously-died-while-you-were-in-utero/751158/36 "2016-04-04T17:14:51Z")
My 6-months-pregnant mother was at the doctor’s office and he was listening to my heartbeat when the nurse came in and told them that JFK had been shot. She saw Lee Harvey Oswald shot on live television on the first day of her maternity leave (my dad made her stop working at that point because he believed, and still does, that women should not work during late pregnancy). ETA: On a lighter note, I was due on February 29, 1964. I solved that problem by not being born on that day. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-famously-died-while-you-were-in-utero/751158/37 "2016-04-04T17:19:30Z")
born late August 1957 Humphrey Bogart Oliver Hardy (he died two weeks before I was born) Laura Ingalls Wilder Eliot Ness (yes, the real cop) Jimmy Dorsey (bandleader and Older brother of Tommy Dorsey) Louis B. Mayer (studio head of MGM) died a few weeks after my birth, in October. change the year as needed > **[IMDb: Date of Death between 1957-01-01 and 1957-12-31 (Sorted by Popularity...](https://www.imdb.com/search/name/?death_date=1957)** > > IMDb's advanced search allows you to run extremely powerful queries over all people and titles in the database. Find exactly what you're looking for! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-famously-died-while-you-were-in-utero/751158/38 "2016-04-04T17:32:01Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > Gary Cooper > Clark Gable > Patrice Lumumba > Zog I of Albania > Muhammad V of Morocco > very deservingly (but too late), Rafael Trujillo > [@74westy](#): > > 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. > [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I apparently was born a few weeks before 74westy. > > Ty Cobb > Gary Cooper > Dag Hammarskjold > Ernest Hemingway > Carl Jung > Chico Marx > [@Procrustus](#): > > Me three. Conceived 1/1/1961. > > You can add Erwin Schrödinger, who died 1/4/61 From the slight differences in our generally overlapping lists, I deduce we were born in the following order: JRDelirious, Procrustus, Little Nemo, 74westy. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-famously-died-while-you-were-in-utero/751158/39 "2016-04-04T17:34:23Z")
I have a little overlap with **GESancMan** ; I was born in September 1971. In no particular order:[ul] [li]Jim Morrison[/li][li]Louis Armstrong[/li][li]Igor Stravinsky[/li][li]Coco Chanel[/li][li]Audie Murphy[/li][li]Nikita Khrushchev (just 10 days before I was born)[/li][li]Ogden Nash[/li][li]Philo T. Farnsworth[/li]J.C. Penney[/ul] ---
**Author:** ![GESancMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gesancman/32/2923_2.png) [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-famously-died-while-you-were-in-utero/751158/40 "2016-04-04T17:53:18Z")
> [@GESancMan](#): > > The names that jumped out at me, September 1970 - June 1971: > > Janis Joplin > Charles de Gaulle > Bill W. > Philo T. Farnsworth Somehow I missed Jimi Hendrix. I was born in the middle of June, and I was a couple of weeks overdue, so I was probably a little blob of cells on 9/18/70. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-famously-died-while-you-were-in-utero/751158.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-famously-died-while-you-were-in-utero/751158.md?page=3)