Who Died?

The quiz is "Who Died On Your Birthday?" Since I was feeling a bit morbid about my birthday, I had to find out.

128,988 People

People who died on March 27, 1968 (the exact day you were born)

• Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut

Natural disasters in 1968

• 1968 Casiguran earthquake

People who died on March 27 (various years)

• 2007 - Paul Lauterbur, American chemist, Nobel laureate
• 2006 - Lyn Nofziger, American journalist and political advisor to Ronald Reagan
• 2006 - Ruari McLean, British typographer
• 2006 - Stanisław Lem, Polish writer
• 2006 - Dan Curtis, American television producer and director
• 2005 - Grant Johannesen, American concert pianist
• 2005 - Bob Casey, American baseball announcer
• 2005 - Wilfred Bigelow, Canadian heart surgeon
• 2004 - Adán Sánchez, Mexican-American singer
• 2003 - Paul Zindel, American writer
• 2003 - Ricardo Munguia, Salvadoran aid worker
• 2003 - Daniel Ceccaldi, French actor
• 2002 - Billy Wilder, American director
• 2002 - Dudley Moore, British actor
• 2002 - Milton Berle, American actor and comedian
• 2000 - Ian Dury, English musician
• 1998 - Ferry Porsche, Austrian automobile manufacturer
• 1998 - David McClelland, American psychologist
• 1993 - Paul László, Hungarian interior designer and architect
• 1993 - Clifford Jordan, American saxophonist and bandleader
• 1992 - Easley Blackwood, American bridge player
• 1991 - Aldo Ray, American actor
• 1991 - Ralph Bates, British actor
• 1989 - Jack Starrett, American actor and film director
• 1989 - May Allison, American actress
• 1981 - Mao Dun, Chinese writer
• 1977 - Diana Hyland, American actress
• 1977 - A. P. Hamann, American politician
• 1972 - M.C. Escher, Dutch artist
• 1972 - Sharkey Bonano, American musician
• 1967 - Jim Thompson, American designer (disappeared)
• 1967 - Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1940 - Michael Joseph Savage, Prime Minister of New Zealand
• 1931 - Arnold Bennett, British novelist
• 1927 - Joe Start, American baseball player
• 1926 - Georges Vézina, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1924 - Walter Parratt, English composer
• 1923 - Sir James Dewar, Scottish chemist
• 1918 - Henry Adams, American historian
• 1910 - Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, American scientist; son of Louis Agassiz
• 1898 - Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian Muslim intellectual
• 1889 - John Bright, English statesman
• 1878 - Sir George Gilbert Scott, English architect
• 1875 - Edgar Quinet, French historian
• 1873 - Amedée Simon Dominique Thierry, French journalist and historian
• 1865 - Petrus Hoffman Peerlkamp, Dutch scholar
• 1864 - Jean-Jacques Ampère, French scholar
• 1850 - Wilhelm Beer, German astronomer
• 1849 - Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford
• 1843 - Karl Salomo Zachariae von Lingenthal, German jurist
• 1836 - James Fannin, Texas revolutionary
• 1827 - François Alexandre Frédéric, French social reformer
• 1809 - Joseph-Marie Vien, French painter
• 1770 - Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian artist
• 1757 - Johann Stamitz, Czech-born composer
• 1697 - Simon Bradstreet, English colonial magistrate
• 1635 - Robert Naunton, English politician
• 1625 - King James I of England and Ireland, James VI of Scotland
• 1572 - Girolamo Maggi, Italian Renaissance man (b. abt. 1523)
• 1555 - William Hunter, Protestant martyr
• 1482 - Mary of Burgundy, daughter of Charles the Bold; wife of Maximilian I
• 1462 - Vasili II of Russia, Grand Prince of Moscow
• 1378 - Pope Gregory XI
• 1350 - King Alfonso XI of Castile
• 1191 - Pope Clement III
• 973 - Herman, Duke of Saxony