Showing posts with label Who died on your birthday?. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Who died on your birthday?. Show all posts

Monday, March 30, 2009

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