Who died on Your Birthday?

[Thunderblaster]

Starting with moi, 25th April.

68 – Saint Mark, the first Pope of Alexandria and the founder of Christianity in Africa
1185 – Emperor Antoku of Japan (b. 1178)
1265 – Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester, English crusader
1295 – King Sancho IV of Castile
1472 – Leon Battista Alberti, Italian artist, poet, and philosopher (b. 1404)
1516 – John Yonge, English diplomat (b. 1467)
1566 – Diane de Poitiers, mistress of King Henry II of France (b. 1499)
1566 – Louise Labé, French poet
1595 – Torquato Tasso, Italian poet (b. 1544)
1605 – Naresuan, King of Siam (b. 1555)
1644 – Chongzhen Emperor, Emperor of China (b. 1611)
1660 – Henry Hammond, English churchman (b. 1605)
1690 – David Teniers the Younger, Flemish artist (b. 1610)
1740 – Shrimant Baji Rao Vishwanath Bhat, also known as Baji Rao I, a general and Peshwa (b. 1699)
1744 – Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer (b. 1701)
1770 – Jean-Antoine Nollet, French abbot and physicist (b. 1700)
1800 – William Cowper, English poet (b. 1731)
1840 – Siméon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician (b. 1781)
1878 – Anna Sewell, English author (b. 1820)
1891 – Nathaniel Woodard, English educationalist (b. 1811)
1892 – Henri Duveyrier, French explorer (b. 1840)
1906 – John Knowles Paine, American composer (b. 1839)
1911 – Emilio Salgari, Italian novelist (b. 1862)
1915 – Frederick William Seward, United States Assistant Secretary of State (b. 1830)
1919 – Augustus D. Juilliard, music patron (b. 1836)
1923 – Louis-Olivier Taillon, Quebec politician (b. 1840)
1928 – Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1878)
1937 – Michał Drzymała, Polish rebel (b. 1857)
1943 – Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Russian theatre director (b. 1858)
1944 – George Herriman, cartoonist (b. 1880)
1944 – Tony Mullane, Irish-born American baseball player (b. 1859)
1968 – John Tewksbury, American athlete (b. 1876)
1972 – George Sanders, British actor (b. 1906)
1973 – Olga Grey, Hungarian-born American silent actress (b. 1896)
1975 – Mike Brant, Israeli singer (b. 1947)
1976 – Carol Reed, British film producer and director (b. 1906)
1978 – Lee Kim Lai, Singaporean police officer (b. 1960)
1980 – Katia Mann, wife of German writer Thomas Mann (b. 1883)
1982 – John Cardinal Cody, American cardinal (b. 1907)
1988 – Valerie Solanas, American radical feminist (b. 1936)
1990 – Dexter Gordon, American saxophonist (b. 1923)
1992 – Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese singer-songwriter (b. 1965)
1995 – Art Fleming, American game show host (b. 1925)
1995 – Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer (b. 1911)
1996 – Saul Bass, American graphics designer (b. 1920)
1998 – Wright Morris, American writer (b. 1910)
1999 – Roger Troutman, American musician (b. 1951)
1999 – Larry Troutman, American musician (b. 1944)
1999 – Lord Killanin, Irish International Olympic Committee president (b. 1914)
2000 – David Merrick, American theatrical producer (b. 1911)
2000 – Lucien le Cam, French mathematician (b. 1924)
2001 – Michele Alboreto, Italian race car driver (b. 1956)
2002 – Indra Devi, yoga teacher (b. 1899)
2002 – Lisa Lopes, American rapper (TLC) (b. 1971)
2002 – Athanasios Papoulis, Greek-American engineer and applied mathematician (b. 1921)
2003 – Samson Kitur, Kenyan athlete (b. 1966)
2004 – Thom Gunn, British poet (b. 1929)
2005 – Swami Ranganathananda, Indian monk (b. 1908)
2006 – Jane Jacobs, American-born Canadian urbanist (b. 1916)
2007 – Alan Ball, English footballer (b. 1945)
2007 – Bobby "Boris" Pickett, American singer and songwriter (b. 1938)
2007 – Arthur Milton, English footballer and cricketer (b. 1928)
2008 – Humphrey Lyttelton, Jazz musician and broadcaster, (b. 1921)
2009 – Beatrice Arthur, American comedian, actress, and singer, (b. 1922)
2009 – John Marchi, American politician (b. 1921)

[HarpoJoyce]

Starting with moi, 25th April.

68 – Saint Mark, the first Pope of Alexandria and the founder of Christianity in Africa
1185 – Emperor Antoku of Japan (b. 1178)
.....

Shouldn't you let the Guinness Book of Records know how old you are?

[Wangball]

My Dad died on my 13th birthday

[Battery Rover]

November 16th

* 1272 – King Henry III of England (b. 1207)
* 1632 – King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (killed in battle) (b. 1594)
* 1724 – Jack Sheppard, English burglar (hanged) (b. 1702)
* 1950 – Bob Smith, American doctor, co-founder of the Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1879)
* 1960 – Clark Gable, American actor (b. 1901)
* 1981 – William Holden, American actor (b. 1918)
* 1982 – Arthur Askey, British comedian (b. 1900)
* 1982 – Lenny Murphy, Leader of Belfast's notorious Shankill Butchers (b. 1952)
* 1986 – Siobhán McKenna, Irish stage and screen actress, Gok (b. 1923)
* 1993 – Achille Zavatta, French clown (b. 1915)
* 1994 – Doris Speed, British actress (b. 1899)
* 2000 – DJ Screw, American hiphop DJ (b. 1971)
* 2004 – Margaret Hassan, Irish-born aid worker (b. 1945)
* 2005 – Henry Taube, Canadian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
* 2008 – Reg Varney, British actor (On The Buses) (b. 1916)

[stann]

Rather poorer crop for this one, probably as well! :)

Augustin-Jean Fresnel (he of the rings fame)
Billy The Kid
Adlai Stephenson
Paul Kruger (no harm!)

[Ringo]

http://www.oneplusyou.com/bb/death


1987 - Liberace, American musician
1983 - Karen Carpenter, American singer and musician (The Carpenters) (anorexia)
708 - Pope Sisinnius
211 - Septimius Severus, Emperor of Rome (b. 146)

odd mix:confused:

[Wolfie]

1999 - Alf Ramsey, English football manager
1992 - Francis Bacon, Anglo-Irish painter
1945 - Benito Mussolini, Italian fascist dictator
1936 - King Fuad I of Egypt
1926 - Zip the Pinhead, American freak show performer

What is it with 28th April and dictators?

Sadam Hussein's birthday and Mussolini's "Death-day". ;)

[holidaysong]

I just picked out the few I knew:

May 23rd

1999 - Owen Hart, professional wrestler
1945 - Heinrich Himmler, Nazi official
1934 - Bonnie Parker, American outlaw
1934 - Clyde Barrow, American outlaw

[L37Ultra]

258 - Sixtus II, bishop of Rome (257-58), beheaded
258 - Saint Pope Sixtus II
523 - Hormisdas, Pope (514-23), dies
966 - Berengarius II, markgraaf of Ivrea/king of Italy (950-963)
1162 - Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona
1195 - Henry de Leeuw, duke of Saxon/Bayern, dies
1221 - Dominicus, Italian religious order founder (Dominicans)
1272 - Stefanus V, prince of Transylvania/king of Hungary (1270-72), dies
1414 - King Ladislas of Naples (b. 1377)
1458 - Callistus III, [Alfonso the Borja], Pope (1455-58), dies at 79
1458 - Pope Callixtus III (b. 1378)
1548 - Georg Rhau/Rhaw, German cantor/composer/music publisher, dies
1623 - Anne Hathaway, wife of William Shakespeare, dies
1628 - Johannes Junius, Mayor of Bamberg (b. 1573)
1637 - Ben Johnson, dramatist/playwright, dies at 65
1637 - Ben Jonson, English writer (b. 1572)
1645 - Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, English merchant (b. 1575)
1657 - Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Polish-Lithuanian noble
1660 - Diego Rodriguez de Silva Valezquez, Spanish (court)painter, dies at 61
1661 - Jacqueline-M-A the Sainte Madeleine Arnauld, French abbess, dies
1666 - Tsjerk H de Vries, fleet guardian, dies in Battle at 43
1679 - John Snell, English royalist (b. 1629)
1686 - Paul Hainlein, composer, dies at 60
1695 - François de Harlay de Champvallon, French Catholic archbishop (b. 1625)
1718 - Jacob F Muller, [Sjako/Jaco], Germ/Neth crowd leader, beheaded at 28
1727 - Francois Valentijn, vicar/writer, dies at 61
1746 - Christian VI, king of Denmark/Norway, dies
1753 - Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (struck by lightning) (b. 1711)
1759 - Eugene Aram, English philologist (b. 1704)
1775 - Heinrich Nikolaus Gerber, composer, dies at 72
1783 - Willem Bachiene, vicar/theologist/geography/astronomer, dies at 70
1784 - Karl Kohaut, composer, dies at 57
1794 - Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, British politician (b. 1714)
1799 - Joseph Friebert, composer, dies at 74
1815 - James A. Bayard (elder), United States Senator from Delaware (b. 1767)
1816 - Karl Frieberth, composer, dies at 80
1820 - Antonin Vranicky, composer, dies at 59
1820 - M A Elisa Bonaparte, Corsican monarch of Lucca, dies at 43, dies
1821 - Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni, composer, dies at 64
1828 - Konstantin von Benckendorff, Russian general and statesman
1848 - Nicola Vaccai, Italian composer, dies at 58
1850 - Edward Walsh, Irish poet (b. 1805)
1853 - Josif Josifovich Genishta, composer, dies at 57
1862 - Francisco Acuna de Figueroa, Uruguay national anthem, dies at 71
1866 - John Mason Neale, English divine, scholar and hymnwriter (b. 1818)
1881 - James White, co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (b. 1821)
1884 - Robert Spear Hudson, English businessman (b. 1812)
1886 - Wilhelm Scherer, German literature historian, dies at 45
1890 - John Hart or William Kemmler, US, 1st executed in electric chair (NY)
1893 - Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1811)
1895 - George Frederick Root, composer, dies at 74
1900 - Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist/socialist, dies at 74
1904 - Eduard Hanslick, Austrian music critic (b. 1825)
1914 - Ellen Wilson, 1st lady (1913-14), dies at 54
1920 - Stefan Bastyr, Polish aviator, first flight in independent Poland (b. 1890)
1924 - John Henry Roberts, composer, dies at 76
1928 - William Henry Grattan Flood, composer, dies at 68
1931 - Bix Beiderbecke, American musician (b. 1903)
1935 - Alexander Gustav Adolfovich Winkler, composer, dies at 70
1937 - Annie E F Horniman, England, theater owner (Abbey Theatre), dies at 76
1937 - Ferdinand CS Schiller, British philosopher (Mind!), dies at 72
1938 - Warner Oland, actor (Werewolf of London, Jazz Singer), dies at 57
1943 - Tom Garrett, cricketer (last survivor of 1st Test in 1877), dies
1945 - Hiram Johnson, American politician (b. 1866)
1945 - Prince Wu of Korea (b. 1912)
1946 - Tony Lazzeri, American baseball player (b. 1903)
1954 - Theo Van Reijn, sculptor/drawer/lithograph, dies at 70 [or 8/10]
[B]1959 - Preston Sturges, [Edmund Biden], US director/screenwriter, dies at 60
1961 - Jozef E Van Roey, Flemish cardinal/archbishop of Mechelen, dies at 87
1963 - Tom Keene, actor (Our Daily Bread), dies of cancer at 68
1964 - Cedric Hardwicke, actor (Capt Hook-Peter Pan), dies at 71
1965 - Aksel Sandemose, writer, dies
1965 - Everett Sloane, dies of apparent suicide with bartiturates at 55
1965 - Nancy Carroll, actress (Alice-Aldrich Family), dies at 60
1965 - Peter Ronnefeld, composer, dies at 30
1966 - Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, sci-fi author (Space Lords), dies at 53
1966 - Cordwainer Smith, American writer (b. 1913)
1968 - Ernest Burnelle, Belgian politician, dies at 60
1969 - Theodor Adorno, German philosopher/sociologist, dies at 65
1970 - Ingolf Dahl, German composer (Andante & Arioso), dies at 58
1973 - Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar, dictator Cuba (1940-58), dies at 72
1974 - Gene Ammons, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1925)
1976 - Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist, dies at 73
1978 - Edward Durrell Stone, US architect, dies at 76
1978 - Paul VI, [Giovanni Montini], Italian Pope (1963-78), dies at 80
1979 - Kurt Kasznar, actor (Cmdr Fitzhugh-Land of the Giants), dies at 65
1980 - Charles Urbanus, Dutch baseball player, dies at 66
1983 - Klaus Nomi, German singer (b. 1944)
1986 - Emilio Fernandez, director (La Choca, Flor Silvestre), dies at 82
1986 - Manfred Hausmann, writer, dies at 87
1986 - William J Schroeder, (longest-survivor with permanent artificial) heart, dies at 54, after 620 days with Jarvik VII man-made pump)
1987 - Ira C Eaker, commandant USAF in Europe (WW II), dies at 91
1987 - Sherwood Bailey, actor (Spud-Our Gang), dies
1988 - Anatoli S Levchenko, cosmonaut (TM-4), dies of brain tumor at 47
1988 - J Skelly Wright, US judge (anti-segregationist), dies at 77
1990 - Charles Arnt, actor (Double Exposure), dies of pancreatic cancer at 82
1990 - Gordon Metcalfe, actor (Monster in the Closet), dies of AIDS at 43
1990 - Jacques Soustelle, Fren ethnology/minister of Information, dies at 78
1990 - Mario De Andrade, founder (Movimiento Popular of Lib of Angola), dies
1990 - Robert Alex, shot to death by robber at 31
1991 - Harry Reasoner, newscaster (60 Minutes), dies at 68
1991 - Shapour Bakhtiar, premier Iran (1979), dies in Paris
1991 - Roland Michener, Canadian politician and governor general (b. 1900)
1993 - Milton "Milt" Thompson, US NASA-test pilot/chief-engineer, dies at 67
1994 - Domenico Modugno, Italian singer (Volare), dies at 66
1995 - Paul James Nunn, mountaineer, dies at 52
1995 - Youly Algaroff, ballet dancer, dies at 77
1996 - Buland Al Haidary, poet, dies at 69
1996 - Hernan Siles Zuazo, Pres of Bolivia (1956-60, 1982-85), dies at 82
1996 - Leonard John Coldwell, cricketer, dies at 63
1996 - Muhammad al-Badr, magnate of Northern Yemen (1962), dies
1996 - Ossie Raymond Clark, fashion designer, dies at 54
1996 - Richard Murphey Goodwin, economist, dies at 83
1998 - Andre Weil, French mathematician (b. 1906)
2001 - Jorge Amado de Faria, Brazilian writer (b. 1912)
2001 - Dorothy Tutin, English actress (b. 1930)
2001 - Wilhelm Mohnke, one of the original 120 members of the Nazi SS-Staff Guard (b. 1911)
2002 - Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (b. 1930)
2004 - Rick James, American musician (b. 1948)
2005 - Ibrahim Ferrer, Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club) (b. 1927)
2005 - Keter Betts, American jazz bassist (b. 1928)
2005 - Robin Cook, British politician (b. 1946)
2007 - Zsolt Daczi, Hungarian rock guitarist (Bikini, Omen, Carpathia Project Tirana Rockers, solo) (b. 1969)
2007 - Heinz Barth, German convicted war criminal (SS) (b. 1920)

[Mr A]

Mahatma Ghandi, Ferdinand Porsche.

[superfrank]

Only picked out the ones I heard of:

Terry Schiavo
Selena
O'Kelly Isley
Jesse Owens
Isaac Newton
Anne Frank

[corkboy360]

I see dead people

[OwlsFan]

I see dead people

Is that you're secret?

[corkboy360]

Is that you're secret?
Right!

[Wolfie]

I see dead people

Say hello to Stephen Ireland's Granny's.

[awec]

2006 - Gerry Studds, Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts
2006 - Jared Anderson, American death metal bassist
2006 - Freddy Fender, American musician
2003 - Patrick Dalzel-Job, English soldier and inspiration for James Bond
2002 - Norbert Schultze, American composer and songwriter (Lili Marleen)
1999 - Julius Nyerere, Tanzanian politician
1998 - Frankie Yankovic, American musician
1998 - Cleveland Amory, American writer and animal rights activist
1997 - Harold Robbins, American novelist
1990 - Leonard Bernstein, American composer and conductor
1986 - Keenan Wynn, American actor
1985 - Emil Gilels, Ukrainian pianist
1984 - Martin Ryle, English radio astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics
1983 - Willard Price, Canadian author and naturalist
1977 - Bing Crosby, American singer and actor
1976 - Dame Edith Evans, English actress
1973 - Edmund A. Chester, American broadcaster and journalist
1967 - Marcel Aymé, French novelist and playwright
1961 - Harriet Shaw Weaver, English political activist
1961 - Paul Ramadier, French politician
1960 - Abram Ioffe, Russian physicist
1959 - Errol Flynn, Australian actor
1958 - Douglas Mawson, Australian Antarctic explorer
1944 - Erwin Rommel, German field marshall
1911 - John Marshall Harlan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
1831 - Jean-Louis Pons, French astronomer
1758 - Francis Edward James Keith, Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal
1711 - Tewoflos, Emperor of Ethiopia
1703 - Thomas Hansen Kingo, Danish poet
1669 - Antonio Cesti, Italian composer
1660 - Thomas Harrison, English Puritan soldier
1637 - Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet
1619 - Samuel Daniel, English poet
1610 - Amago Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai and warlord
1568 - Jacques Arcadelt, Flemish composer
1565 - Thomas Chaloner, English statesman and poet
1552 - Oswald Myconius, Swiss Protestant reformer
1318 - Edward Bruce, High King of Ireland
1256 - Kujo Yoritsugu, Japanese shogun
1092 - Nizam al-Mulk, Persian vizier
1066 - Harold Godwinson, King of England

Most notable being Bing Crosby.

October 14th, by the way

[stann]

Most notable being Bing Crosby.

And not Errol Flynn. Or Leonard Bernstein. Or Martin Ryle. Or Rommel.
Or Harold, the English king killed at the Battle of Hastings.

:p

Gah! An embarrassment of riches you have there! :D

[awec]

I missed Rommel!!

He was an oul cretin aswell I suppose. :D

[John83]

Rather poorer crop for this one, probably as well! :)

Augustin-Jean Fresnel (he of the rings fame)
Billy The Kid
Adlai Stephenson
Paul Kruger (no harm!)
Fresnel is a pretty major name in optics.


I missed Rommel!!

He was an oul cretin aswell I suppose. :D
Cretin?

[stann]

Augustin-Jean Fresnel (he of the rings fame)
Fresnel is a pretty major name in optics.

Am aware of that alright, as I was kind of trying to hint at with the rings remark.
Thought maybe that a few people might remember the experiment from school (Was it secondary school we did that? So long ago now :o :D).

[John83]

Am aware of that alright, as I was kind of trying to hint at with the rings remark.
Thought maybe that a few people might remember the experiment from school (Was it secondary school we did that? So long ago now :o :D).
There's a neat story about him. He invented one of the approximate theories of how light moves. Another French scientist, Poisson, takes a look at the maths, and shows that it predicts that there should be a point of light in the centre of the shadow of a circle. The way I've heard it, Poisson announces publically, sneering at Fresnel's work - the prediction sounds somewhat unlikely. Then another guy, Argo, did the experiment and showed that the prediction was right. The experiment became known as Poisson's spot, which I'm sure was mortifying for Poisson.

[awec]

Fresnel is a pretty major name in optics.


Cretin?
Cretin a northern word?

God, when I move down there people are never going to understand me. :o

It basically means he was an oul arse hole aswell.

[Rory H]

There's a neat story about him. He invented one of the approximate theories of how light moves. Another French scientist, Poisson, takes a look at the maths, and shows that it predicts that there should be a point of light in the centre of the shadow of a circle. The way I've heard it, Poisson announces publically, sneering at Fresnel's work - the prediction sounds somewhat unlikely. Then another guy, Argo, did the experiment and showed that the prediction was right. The experiment became known as Poisson's spot, which I'm sure was mortifying for Poisson.

That is neat.

[Rovers1]

which I'm sure was mortifying for Poisson.

Id say he was ragin!

Thanks for sheding some light on that John!!

[John83]

Cretin a northern word?

God, when I move down there people are never going to understand me. :o

It basically means he was an oul arse hole aswell.
It's actually an old medical word, describing someone with a condition that included abnormally low intelligence. Like many such words (e.g. spastic, retard) it's been appropriated by the public as an insult and become unpolitical in medical circles.

Hmm, wasn't worth typing all that out really: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretinism

Anyway, Rommel was held in fairly high regard - not a member of the Nazi party, brilliant tactician, (circumstantially) involved in the plot to kill Hitler. Churchill even saw fit to sing his praises in Parliment, "We have a very daring and skillful opponet against us. And may I say across the havoc of war, a great general." That said, there's some recent stuff come out that suggests he wasn't the nice guy he's often depicted as - mainly accusations of treating prisoners differently based on race, and similar stuff.

Regardless, I think you can see how I was a bit confused that you'd describe him as stupid. Perhaps cretin is used a littled differently in northern slang though.

[Réiteoir]

4 quite interesting ones on mine:

1949 – Richard Strauss, German composer (b. 1864)
1977 – Zero Mostel, American actor (b. 1915)
2003 – Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (b. 1902)
2005 – Noel Cantwell, Irish cricketer and footballer (b. 1932)

[osarusan]

The person who gave me socks as a present.

[stann]

There's a neat story about him. He invented one of the approximate theories of how light moves. Another French scientist, Poisson, takes a look at the maths, and shows that it predicts that there should be a point of light in the centre of the shadow of a circle. The way I've heard it, Poisson announces publically, sneering at Fresnel's work - the prediction sounds somewhat unlikely. Then another guy, Argo, did the experiment and showed that the prediction was right. The experiment became known as Poisson's spot, which I'm sure was mortifying for Poisson.

That is a good story, hadn't heard that before, cheers John! Put me (partially :o) in mind of a slightly similar one but I can't for the life of me remember the protagonists at the minute.
One thing that constantly leaps out at you from reading science history is how much these people HATED each other! :D