# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-famously-died-while-you-were-in-utero/751158/41 "2016-04-04T18:09:17Z")
JFK, CS Lewis and Aldous Huxley–all on the same day when Mommy was about 5 months along. I was born in March 1964. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-famously-died-while-you-were-in-utero/751158/42 "2016-04-04T18:29:55Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > Or did he? 🆒 I’d sure expect that in this case they checked **before** they put him in the box. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-famously-died-while-you-were-in-utero/751158/43 "2016-04-04T18:57:37Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > Hess died in 1987 😉 I mistyped the first name: and [Walter Rudolf Hess did die in August 1973](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973#Deaths). ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-famously-died-while-you-were-in-utero/751158/44 "2016-04-04T19:04:57Z")
Most famously was John F. Kennedy. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-famously-died-while-you-were-in-utero/751158/45 "2016-04-04T19:34:04Z")
[These folks](http://http://www.nndb.com/lists/477/000106159/), up until Sep 1 (there was a week around my birthday where no one famous died, apparently.) Of note, Laura Ingalls, Jack Ruby, Jayne Mansfield, Gus Grissom, and Dorothy Parker. ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-famously-died-while-you-were-in-utero/751158/46 "2016-04-04T19:42:04Z")
Oooh, what a cool thread idea! Me: en utero ca. July 1966 - March 1967: Lenny Bruce Walt Disney Margaret Sanger Apollo One astronauts ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-famously-died-while-you-were-in-utero/751158/47 "2016-04-04T19:42:28Z")
A lot of people I never heard of, but were apparently of some renown as composers, etc. The only name I really recognized was Harry Selfridge, founder of Selfridge’s in London, who died about five days before I was born. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-famously-died-while-you-were-in-utero/751158/48 "2016-04-04T19:48:15Z")
Not a whole lot of famous people for me. Notable being Stu Sutcliffe and Grandma Moses. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-famously-died-while-you-were-in-utero/751158/49 "2016-04-04T20:14:40Z")
John Steinbeck Helen Keller Robert F Kennedy Robert Leonard Howard McNear (Floyd the barber) ETA: Looks like I was conceived about three weeks after MLK Jr’s assassination. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-famously-died-while-you-were-in-utero/751158/50 "2016-04-04T20:44:45Z")
Born Mid June 1967, so: Walt Disney Jack Ruby Donald Campbell Robert Van De Graaff Gus Grissom Robert Oppenheimer Alice B. Toklas Edward Hopper Claude Rains Dorothy Parker Spencer Tracy ---
**Author:** ![SUZ\_MAC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e8cbc/32.png) [@SUZ\_MAC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SUZ_MAC)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-famously-died-while-you-were-in-utero/751158/51 "2016-04-04T20:46:50Z")
I have a pretty extensive list, but I’ll just name a few: George Reeves Billie Holiday Lou Costello Frank Lloyd Wright Buddy Holly ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-famously-died-while-you-were-in-utero/751158/52 "2016-04-04T21:16:41Z")
King George VI Curly Howard A whole bunch of central/eastern European composers whose names I don’t recognize And as near as I can tell, approximately 3,300 U.S. combat troops in the Korean War ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-famously-died-while-you-were-in-utero/751158/53 "2016-04-04T22:49:01Z")
Born 12/31/54, if I was concieved right at the end of March… Auguste Lumiere Alan Turing James Hilton Lionel Barrymore Colette Machine Gun Kelly Moroni Olsen Henri Matisse Enrico Fermi ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-famously-died-while-you-were-in-utero/751158/54 "2016-04-04T23:19:08Z")
I’m not going to look for everyone who died during the nine months I was in the womb, but I do know that Elliot Ness died on the same day that I was born, May 16, 1957. I don’t know if he died before the minute I came into the world on that day or after it, though. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-famously-died-while-you-were-in-utero/751158/55 "2016-04-04T23:24:28Z")
JFK. **And** Lee Harvey Oswald. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-famously-died-while-you-were-in-utero/751158/56 "2016-04-04T23:57:48Z")
Robert Ripley (Believe It Or Not) Charles Ponzi, of the eponymous financial swindle Victor Fleming, movie director Margaret Mitchell, novelist (died the day before my birthday) E L Thorndyke (psychologist) Frank Murphy (supreme court justice) A P Giannini (founder of Bank of America) Of all of these, I would like least to be linked with Robert Ripley. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-famously-died-while-you-were-in-utero/751158/57 "2016-04-05T01:22:06Z")
Aug 53-May 54: Jonathan Wainwright (Allied commander in the Philippines after MacArthur’s departure) Hugo Schmeisser (inventor of the StG 44 - but not of the MP 38 and MP 40, which are commonly called by his name) Hans Fritzsche (one of the three high-ranking Nazis who were acquitted at Nuremberg) Edwin Hubble (astronomer) Eugene O’Neill (playwright) Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (author) Sydney Greenstreet (actor) Heinz Guderian (general) ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-famously-died-while-you-were-in-utero/751158/58 "2016-04-05T01:29:38Z")
Died between July 1976 and April 1977: Alastair Sim Mao Tse-tung Anaïs Nin ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-famously-died-while-you-were-in-utero/751158/59 "2016-04-05T15:41:55Z")
Allan Dulles, former director of the CIA Boris Karloff, actor Dwight D. Eisenhower, former president of the U.S. Judy Garland, actress Brian Jones, musician, formerly of the Rolling Stones Sharon Tate, actress, and seven other murder victims of the Manson gang Rocky Marciano, boxer Ho Chi Minh, President of North Vietnam ---
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2016, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-famously-died-while-you-were-in-utero/751158/60 "2016-04-05T17:00:13Z")
An interesting question… I was born March of 1979… my list Norman Rockwell Keith Moon Mother Maybelle Carter Edgar Bergen Ed Wood Golda Meir Sid Vicious (and Nancy Spungen, though not at the same time) Nelson Rockefeller Conrad Hilton Ted Cassidy (Played Lurch on the Addams family) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-famously-died-while-you-were-in-utero/751158.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-famously-died-while-you-were-in-utero/751158.md?page=4)