People who died on your birthday

[Verarde]

Who died on your birthday?

A spin-off of this thread

August 9

Trajan, the Roman Emperor
Bernie Mac, comedian
Jerry Garcia, guitarist of the band Grateful Dead

A more interesting assortment than the people who were born on my birthday.

 

[Quackers]

Patrick Swazye.
Duke of Wellington.
John Harvard.

 

[Rashiminos]

Rod Serling
Franz Ferdinand

 

[NickyJ]

February 10

First recorded death: William IX, Duke of Aquitaine

Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola Sermattei della Genga (Pope Leo XII)
Joseph Lister
Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti (Pope Pius XI)
Syed Sadequain Ahmed Naqvi - Don't know beans about him, but it's a nice long name.

Last recorded death: Charles Wilson

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Tycho Brahe, Gene Roddenberry, Rosa Parks. Quite sad. Except Vidkun Quisling. Nobody cares about him.

 

[Skwink]

F Scott Fitzgerald died on my bday, and that's sorta cool because my last name is Fitzpatrick and that's a little close to Fitzgerald.

Also, everyone who died in the Lockerbie bombing.

 

[Joecoolyo]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_08

-Hulagu Khan
-Mary, Queen of Scots
-Tsar Peter I of Russia
-Enoch Powell
-Anna Nicole Smith

A bit more exciting compared to the births on my birthday.

 

[Synobun]

Didius Julianus was assassinated.
Tokugawa Ieyasu.
Hans Berger.
Paula Hitler >.>
Helen Keller.

The most prominent ones that I know of.

 

[MantaRevan]

Seneca the Younger
FDR
Phil Wrigley
Sugar Ray

 

[Kennigit]

Huh, voltaire died on my birthday.

But I really just remember it was the day joan of arc was burned.

 

[stormerne]

Augustus Caesar
Blaise Pascal
Groucho Marx

 

[Tahuti]

Aristotle
Arthur Cecil Pigou
Stanley Kubrick

 

[Kyriakos]

More to the point- if there could be one- might be who had actually died at the same day you were born, and before you were born

Anyway, Wiki is down so that they will make some point about free knowledge, so i cannot really post much.

 

[Boundless]

6th July

1189 - Henry II, King of England (1154-89), dies at 56
1535 - Thomas More, philosopher (Utopia), executed for treason at 57
1553 - Edward VI Tudor, King of England (1547-53), dies at 15
1962 - William [Harrison] Faulkner, US writer (Nobel 1949), dies at 64
1971 - Louis Armstrong, American jazz trumpeter and singer dies at 69 -

 

[CELTICEMPIRE]

Judith (French Empress)
Pope Leo IX
Benjamin Disraeli

and many others who I had never heard of.
http://www.brainyhistory.com/daysdeath/death_april_19.html

 

[kochman]

Who died on your birthday?

A spin-off of this thread

August 9

Trajan, the Roman Emperor
Bernie Mac, comedian
Jerry Garcia, guitarist of the band Grateful Dead

A more interesting assortment than the people who were born on my birthday.

RIP Jerry!

 

[Alexius08]

On that date that lives in infamy:

Cicero
Ferdinand de Lesseps
Rube Goldberg

 

[Save_Ferris]

Catharine of Aragon, Emperor Hirohito, and Nikola Telsa.

 

[W|M]

Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (Brother of Nicholas II), Henry Segrave (Held land and water speed records, died while attempting to set a new water speed record), Henry Middleton (2nd President of US Continental Congress), and Josef Skoda (founder of the Modern Medical School of Vienna)

Births on my birthday are a lot more interesting.

 

[Takhisis]

The Russian Czar and his family (at least according to our calendar).