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)
Never play leapfrog with a unicorn!!
My Dad died on my 13th birthday
You show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser - Vince Lombardi
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)
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!)
more bass
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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
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".
Quoting years at random since 1975
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
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[by] Van Reijn, sculptor/drawer/lithograph, dies at 70 [or 8/10]
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)
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Mahatma Ghandi, Ferdinand Porsche.
#NeverStopNotGivingUp
Only picked out the ones I heard of:
Terry Schiavo
Selena
O'Kelly Isley
Jesse Owens
Isaac Newton
Anne Frank
Extratime.ie
Yo te quiero, mi querida. Sin tus besos, yo soy nada.
Abri o portão de ouro, da maquina do tempo.
Mi mamá me hizo guapo, listo y antimadridista.
I see dead people
- 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
I missed Rommel!!
He was an oul cretin aswell I suppose.
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