February, 1962
1961
July 2
Writer Ernest Hemingway shoots himself to death in Ketchum, Idaho, USA.
July 17
Ty Cobb, Detroit Tigers’ hall of fame baseball player, dies at age 75.
September 21
Earle Dickson, inventor (band-aid), dies at age 68.
1962
January 26
Charles “Lucky” Luciano, New York City, New York Mafia gangster, dies at age 65.
January 30
Two members of
You’re only a month older than me. JFK is the only one I know without looking. 
Apparently, the average is 268 days from conception to birth.
So, statistically speaking, Boris Karloff was already dead when I was concieved.
Here’s a sample of people who died while my mother was pregnatnt with me:
Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones.
Conrad Hilton Jr, hotel heir, socialite, and first husband of Elizabeth Taylor. (I get two different dates for his death, March 31 or Feb 6, so he may bave died before I was concieved.)
Do Hoak, noted third-baseman.
Walter Hagen, pro golfer.
Dwight Eisenhower, former US President and WWII general.
Frank Lawton, Engligh actor and husband of Evelyn Lane.
Gabby Hayes, actor of film, television, and radio.
Jeffrey Hunter, who played the Captain in the original pilot for Star Trek.
Judy Garland,
Leo Gotcey, actor and member of the Bowery Boys.
Rocky Marciano, former heavyweight chanmpion of the world.
Jack Kerouac, author of On The Road
Sharon Tate, actress unfortunately best known for having been killed by followers of Charles Manson.
Mob Boss Vito Genovese died on the day on which I was most likely concieved.
Kitty Genovese
Same here. I would add to Grissom - Edward White and Roger Chafee - the Apollo 1 crew that all died in a cockpit fire.
Do you mean Thomas Mann? The date of his death lines up with the others on your list.
Baseball great Tris Speaker died right around the time I was conceived, predeceasing Pauli by a week. Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů passed away two days before I was born. Looks like you beat me into the world by seven days or so.
Jack Ruby
James Bedford (assuming he wasn’t correct)
Gus Grissom
Edward White
Roger Chaffee
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Alice B. Toklas
Louis Armstrong, Jim Morrison and Duane Allman. I kill musicians.
A couple of people have “scored” Winston Churchill. I – born August 1948 – can claim a guy who was very much not WSC’s favourite person: Mohandas Gandhi.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Kurt Weill
Wichasa Wakhan
Jan Smuts
The ones I found interesting…
Che Guevara
Alice B. Toklas
Jayne Mansfield
René Magritte
Otis Redding
Langston Hughes
Jack Ruby
Carson McCullers
Brian Epstein
Spencer Tracy
Carl Sandburg
Dorothy Parker
Woody Guthrie
I missed one of my favorite actors, Errol Flynn, by a few months. He actually died in Vancouver so I ce pretty close!
Victor Fleming
Wallace Beery
Ropert L Ripley (Believe It or Not!)
Margaret Mitchell
Richard Strauss
And I’ll bet you just laid there and did nothing!
The only one I knew without looking it up is Ike Eisenhower. The one with the most noteworthy manner of death is probably Mary Jo Kopechne.
Made May 19, 1967 (only time my parents saw each other in a three-months period, unless y’all wanna call me a bastard and that’s unlikely unless biodad had a lot in common with dad), born March 13, 1968. The gynecologist couldn’t count. So, hi faithfool!
Claude Rains
Spencer Tracy (I’m feeling a bit graverobber right now, he’s been one of my favorite actors for decades and I never knew this)
Jayne Mansfield
Vivien Leigh
President Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco of Brazil
Brian Epstein
Ernesto Guevara
Emperor Puyi of China
Otis Redding
and a lot of people in Vietnam and other, less famous wars
Not requested but one I know by heart: born in that period.
My list is similar to Omar’s, except that I am older than Trigger’s corpse(?). To justify my post I will add Herbert Hoover and also the pair Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, of “In Cold Blood” infamy.
By the way, the Waldorf Towers (residential wing of the Waldorf-Astoria) lost three famous tenants in 1964: Douglas MacArthur (too early for my list), Hoover and Cole Porter.
I don’t know what any of this proves, except that I must not be the reincarnation of any of them, not even allowing for the pre-ensoulment first forty days of gestation. Also, that none of their deaths affected my mother enough to miscarry. She probably didn’t know Sam Cooke, though.
JFK
Mine isn’t that exciting…
Kurt Godel
John Cazale
Aldo Moro (assassinated Italian Prime Minister, and my parents were in Italy at the time)
Robert Menzies (Australia’s longest-serving Prime Minister)
Bob Crane (on my birthday)
Close to** stillownedbysetters**. I’ve got:
Einstein,
Carmen Miranda,
Thomas Mann,
James Dean, and
Dale Carnegie.
Not a very good band, I’m guessing. Also, 200 people killed by Hurricane Diane and hundreds of people killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco and Algeria.
Or he split himself up between a bunch of us.
Let’s see I was born tail end of 1986, in December.
People who died anywhere from March to December 1986. This excludes the Challenger crew as that happened in January, 11 months before I was born.
Desi Arnaz-I Love LucyLung cancer
Gia Carangi-Fashion model, AIDS, among first high profile women to die from the disease
Georgia O’Keeffe-Painter, died aged 98
Wallis Simpson-Duchess of Windsor, woman who King Edward abdicated the throne in 1937
Perry Ellis-Fashion designer, AIDS
Cary Grant-Actor, cerebral hemorrhage
Benny Goodman-Jazz musician, heart attack
Felix Mitchell-convicted drug dealer, stabbed to death in prison
Tony Spilotro-organized mobster, murdered
Roy Cohn-Lawyer, prosecution team for Rosenbergs, McCarty protégé, AIDS