Morbid facts about your birthday

[tannybogus]

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

John McCain's Bday 8/29/1936

:evilgrin:

[sui generis]

1. yee haw

nobody died on my birthday.

Guess that means if I get famous one of two things won't happen

1. I die on my birthday
2. history remembers I died

apparently me being born was enough evil for that day :evilgrin:

[bunnies]

2. nobody?!

Sheesh. More people died on me (132,986) than John McCain! :cry:

[RNdaSilva]

14. Are you sure about that?

http://www.entireearth.com/Today-In-History.html

[sui generis]

16. double sure now!

"There are no deaths for November 6, 19xx in the archives."

Guess I got a good one! No dead famous people.

Prolly about a 129K non-famous people croaked that day. My mom no doubt croaked too but that's because I was born 30 days past due (like a bad bill), with hair and teeth, and she was pretty much at a loss for words. :P

[RNdaSilva]

19. Oops...

[RNdaSilva]

3. 102,144 for me.

Luciano Pavarotti died on my BD. No, not birth year.

My mother's birthday is August 4th, the same as Barack Obama...quite a few years difference though.

Ergo, don't forget Obama's BD, a week from today. Easy for me to remember.

Obama will be 47.

[RNdaSilva]

6. Pavarotti...for a little class here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uYrmYXsujI

[ccharles000]

4. ...

People who died on May 06, 1989 (the exact day you were born)
Earl Blaik, Former American football coach

Natural disasters in 1989
Hurricane Hugo
Loma Prieta earthquake
1989 Newcastle earthquake

People who died on May 06 (various years)
2007 - Đorđe Novković, Croatian songwriter
2007 - Enéas Carneiro, Brazilian politician
2006 - Lorne Saxberg, Canadian television journalist
2006 - Grant McLennan, co-founder of Australian band The Go-Betweens
2006 - Shigeru Kayano, Japanese Ainu activist
2006 - Lillian Asplund, last American RMS Titanic survivor
2004 - Barney Kessel, American jazz guitarist
2004 - Philip Kapleau, American Zen teacher
2003 - Art Houtteman, baseball player
2002 - Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician
2002 - Otis Blackwell, American pianist, singer and songwriter
1995 - Hilda Toledano
1995 - Noel Brotherston, Northern Irish footballer
1993 - Ann Todd, English actress
1992 - Marlene Dietrich, German actress
1991 - Wilfrid Hyde-White, English actor
1990 - Charles Farrell, American actor
1987 - William Casey, American Central Intelligence Agency director
1985 - Julie Vega, Filipino child actress and singer
1984 - Mary Cain, Mississippi newspaper editor and politician
1984 - Bonner Pink, Conservative Party politician
1983 - Kai Winding, American trombonist and jazz composer
1975 - József Mindszenty, Hungarian Catholic Cardinal
1973 - Ernest MacMillan, Canadian orchestra conductor and composer
1970 - Aleksandr Rodzyanko, Russian general
1967 - Zhou Zuoren, Chinese writer
1963 - Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-born physicist
1961 - Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher
1952 - Maria Montessori, Italian educator
1951 - Élie Cartan, French mathematician
1949 - Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
1939 - Konstantin Somov, Russian writer
1919 - L. Frank Baum, American writer
1910 - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom
1902 - Bret Harte, American author
1877 - Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet
1862 - Henry David Thoreau, American author and philosopher
1859 - Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist and explorer
1840 - Francisco de Paula Santander, Colombian president and independence leader
1757 - Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian field marshal
1757 - Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, British politician
1757 - Maximilian Ulysses Reichsgraf von Browne, Austrian field marshal
1708 - François de Laval, first bishop of New France
1638 - Cornelius Jansen, French bishop and religious reformer
1631 - Robert Bruce Cotton, English politician
1620 - Hayyim ben Joseph Vital, Palestinian-born Kabbalist
1596 - Giaches de Wert, Flemish composer
1502 - James Tyrrell, alleged murderer of the Princes in the Tower (executed)
680 - Muawiyah I, caliph (b. 602)

[TahitiNut]

5. Lady Be Good, a USAAF B-24 bomber lost its way and crash landed in the Libyan desert

Lady Be Good, a USAAF B-24 bomber lost its way and crash landed in the Libyan desert. Mummified remains of its crew, who struggled for a week without water, were not found until 1960.

Happy Birthday To Me! :party:

[RNdaSilva]

7. 4/4 ?

[TahitiNut]

8. 6/22/43 ... when dirt was new and God was a child.

:dunce:

[RNdaSilva]

9. Gotcha by a few years...

Ice Age was receding...thanks to global warming.

[Individualist]

13. I'm almost two months older than you.

:P

[TahitiNut]

15. So, you were one of those lucky kids in my class ...

... who got to celebrate their birthday DURING the school year, huh?

:P :P

[chemenger]

10. Curly died the day I was born

I've always wondered why I am such a stooge.

[RNdaSilva]

11. January 18, 1952

And way too young.

Reincarnation?

Resemblance?

[ProgressiveFool]

12. wow, I got quite a list of notables on my birthday, august 16th

Elvis Presley, Idi Amin and friggin Shamu!

[RushIsRot]

17. October 2

2005 - Nipsey Russell, American comedian

1998 - Gene Autry, American singer, actor, and entrepreneur

1985 - Rock Hudson, American actor

1968 - Marcel Duchamp, French artist

1803 - Samuel Adams, American revolutionary leader

Among others...

[Phoonzang]

18. Mount St. Helens blew on my exact birthday...also....

Mount Vesuvius blew in 79 BC wiping out Pompeii....I think these volcano eruptions are symbolic somehow... :)

Actually other horrible things happened on my birthday:
1349 - Six thousand Jews are killed in Mainz after being blamed for the bubonic plague.
1391 - Jews massacred in Palma de Mallorca.
1572 - Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre
1857 - The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in U.S. history.
1939 - The Nazi-Soviet Pact is signed between Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin.
1954 - The Communist Control Act goes into effect. The American Communist Party is outlawed.
2006 - The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term "planet" such that Pluto is considered a Dwarf Planet.