Famous deaths on your birthday?

Here are some intresting historical events that strike me that occured on my bday.
1181 - Supernova seen in Cassiopia (i wish i was there to see it)
1578 - Battle of Alcazarquivir, Moroccans defeat Portuguese, 10,000 killed
1944 - Anne Frank arrested in Amsterdam by Nazis (opps)
1949 - NBL & NBAA merge into National Basketball Association (dear god why on my birthday?i hate basketball)
1967 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR (yes a nuke went off 2 times)
1970 - Jim Morrison arrested for drunkenness
1971 - US launches 1st satellite into lunar orbit from manned spacecraft
1977 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site (anybody see a pattern?)
1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1983 - France performs nuclear test (holy crap!)
1984 - Prince's "Purple Rain," album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 24 weeks (ugh that accutally happened on the day I was born)
1994 - Howard Stern drops out of NY gubernatorial race
1994 - Truck carrying millions of bees overturns on NY parkway (hahahahaha)






AND NOW BEHOLD TEH DEATHZ!!!11!1!1!
1060 - Henry I, King of France (1027..60), dies at 52
1204 - Boniface of Montferrat, margrave of Montferrat, murdered
1265 - Simon de Montfort, English earl of Leicester, dies in battle
1306 - V clav III, last Premysliden-king of Bohemia (1305-06), murdered
1430 - Philip of Saint-Pol, duke of Brabant/Limburg, dies at 26
1476 - Jacob van Armagnac-Pardiac, French duke of Nemours, beheaded
1526 - Juan Sebasti…n Cano, Spanish explorer, dies
1566 - Girolamo della Robbia, Italian sculptor (Majolica relief), dies
1578 - 2 Moroccan royalist, dies in battle
1578 - Sebastiaan, king of Portugal (1557-78), dies in battle at about 24
1584 - John van Hembyze, South Netherlands Calvinist, dies at 71
1598 - William Cecil 1st baron Burghley, English premier, dies at 77
1633 - George Abbott, English theologist/archbishop of Canterbury, dies at 60
1639 - Juan R Alarcon y Mendoza, Mexican/Spanish playwright, dies at 58
1666 - Johan Evertsen, ltalian admiral of Zeeland, lynched in Brielle
1708 - Vincenzo De Grandis, composer, dies at 77
1712 - Johann Jacob de Neufville, composer, dies at 27
1821 - William Floyd, US soldier/signer (Declar of Independence), dies at 86
1850 - Frantisek Tucek, composer, dies at 68
1856 - Johann Gottlieb Schneider, composer, dies at 59
1875 - Hans Christian Andersen, Danish fairy tale writer, dies at 70
1889 - Carl Ludwig Amand Mangold, composer, dies at 75
1891 - George Washington Williams, historian (History of Negro), dies at 41
1892 - Andrew & Abby Borden, axed to death in Mass (by Lizzie Borden?)
1904 - Arnold Krug, composer, dies at 54
1915 - Richard Kiepert, German cartographer (Africa), dies at 68
1919 - D[ave] W Gregory, cricketer (brother of Ned, uncle of Syd), dies
1920 - Vladimir Ivanovich Rebikov, composer, dies at 54
1922 - Enver Pasa, Turkish politician, dies at 40
1925 - Alfons Van de Perre, Flemish physician, dies
1927 - John Dillon, Irish nationalist/British Lower house leader, dies at 75
1930 - Siegfried Wagner, German opera composer, dies at 61
1931 - Daniel H Williams, doctor (pioneer in surgery), dies
1936 - Henry Schoenfeld, composer, dies at 78
1938 - L H Perquin, Dutch radio announcer, dies at 73
1938 - Pearl White, US actress/stunt woman (Perils of Pauline), dies at 49
1938 - Rudolf G Binding, German poet/writer, dies at 70
1940 - Vladimir Jabotinsky, founder of Revisionist Zionism, dies
1942 - Alberto Franchetti, composer, dies at 81
1967 - Peter Smith, cricketer (Essex leggie, 3 wickets for England), dies
1973 - Eddie Condon, jazz guitarist (Eddie Condon's Floor Show), dies at 68
1975 - John Baragrey, actor (Gamera), dies at 57
1977 - Emil Bloch, German philosopher (Principle Hope, Traces), dies at 92
1981 - Melvyn Douglas, [Hesselberg], actor (Woman's Face, Hud), dies at 80
1984 - Edmond Ryan, actor (Human Monster), dies at 79 of a heart attack
1984 - Mary Miles Minter, actress (Drums of Fate), die at 82 of heart failure
1984 - Walter Burke, actor (Jack the Giant Killer), dies at 75 of emphysema
1985 - Zbynek Vostrak, composer, dies at 65
1987 - Kenny Price, comedian (Midwestern Hayride, Hee Haw), dies at 56
1991 - Nikiforos Vrettakos, Greek poet (Hodyne), dies at 80
1992 - Frantisek Tomasek, archbishop of Prague/cardinal, dies at 93
1992 - Ralph Cooper, creator (Amateur Night at the Apollo), dies of cancer
1993 - Bernard Barrow, actor (Louie-Loving, Johnny-Ryan's Hope), dies
1993 - Kenny Drew, US/Danish jazz pianist (Moonlight Desert), dies at 64
1994 - Giovanni Spadolini, Italian historian/journalist, dies at 69
1994 - Richard Du Cann, lawyer QC, dies at 65
1994 - Sol Adler, economist Sinophile, dies at 85
1995 - Dick Bartell, baseball player, dies at 87
1995 - J Howard Smith Oil Tycoon, dies
1996 - Geoff Hamilton, gardner/journalist, dies at 59
1997 - Jeanne Calment, world's oldest person (Feb 21 1875), dies at 122

People that share my birthday
1755 - Nicolas-Jacque Conte, inventor (modern pencil)
1900 - Elizabeth, Queen Mother Of England, King George VI's wife
1912 - Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat in WW II (saved 10,000s of Jews)
1929 - Yasser Arafat, leader (Palestine Liberation Organization)
1955 - Billy Bob Thornton, actor (Sling Blade)
1960 - Robbin Crosby, heavy metal rock guitarist/vocals (Ratt-Round & Round)
1962 - Wesley Snipes, Orlando Fla, actor (New Jack City, Passenger 57)
1962 - Paul Williams, rock guitarist (Flock of Seagulls)
1966 - Kensuke Sasaki, wrestler (WCW/NJPW/Calgary, Power Warrior) (yes power warrior :headbang:)
1969 - Max Cavalera, Brazilian rock vocalist/guitarist (Sepultura) (intresting)
1984 - Brandon Steele (lazy american metalhead pc gamer who contributes dick to society)
 
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    [*]0683 - Leo II, Pope (681-83), dies
    [*]1090 - Egbert II van Brunswick, Fries count, dies in battle
    [*]1570 - Antonio Paleario, Italian humanist, executed by inquisition at 67
    [*]1642 - Maria de' Medici, French queen-mother, dies at about 69
    [*]1778 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French writer/composer (Pygmalion), dies
    [*]1801 - Johann Nepomuk Went, composer, dies at 56
    [*]1809 - Joseph Quesne, composer, dies at 62
    [*]1816 - Dorothea Jordan, French actress/mistress (William IV), dies at 65
    [*]1862 - William Barksdale, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 40
    [*]1863 - Alonzo Hersford Cushing, US Union lt, dies in battle at about 22
    [*]1863 - Lewis Addison Armistead, Conf brig-gen Gettysburg/dies in battle at 46
    [*]1863 - Little Crow, [Ta-oya-te-duta], Santee Sioux indian chief, dies
    [*]1863 - Richard Brooke Garnett, US Confederate brig-gen, dies in battle at 45
    [*]1863 - Samuel Kosciuzko Zook, US Union general-major, dies in battle at 40
    [*]1873 - Josef Michal Ksawery Jan Poniatowski, composer, dies at 57
    [*]1891 - Stefano Golinelli, composer, dies at 72
    [*]1904 - Theodor Herzl, Austrian journalist/Zionist, dies
    [*]1908 - Joel Chandler Harris, created Uncle Remus, dies at 59
    [*]1910 - Julius Slabbe, Belgian writer, dies
    [*]1910 - Mordecai Sherwin, English cricket wicketkeeper (Aust 1886-88), dies
    [*]1916 - Henrietta "Hetty" Howland Robinson Green, (Witch of Wall Street), dies
    [*]1934 - Henry WAE, Prince of Netherlands/father of Queen Juliana, dies
    [*]1940 - George Shepstone, cricketer (2 Tests for S Africa 1896-99), dies
    [*]1948 - Adrien H Gerhard, Dutch SDAP-politician, dies at 90
    [*]1948 - Quintin McMillan, cricketer (13 Tests for South Africa), dies
    [*]1952 - Daniel Zamudio, composer, dies at 64
    [*]1952 - Henriette Bosmans, composer, dies
    [*]1957 - Richard Mohaupt, German composer (Bucolica), dies at 52
    [*]1960 - Alfred Henry Ackley, composer, dies at 73
    [*]1965 - Clarence Loomis, composer, dies at 75
    [*]1965 - Trigger, horse (Roy Rogers), dies at 25
    [*]1966 - Andre Gailhard, composer, dies at 81
    [*]1966 - Cornelis "Kees" Boeke, theorist, dies at 81
    [*]1966 - Joseph Deems Taylor, composer, dies at 80
    [*]1967 - John Clark, actor (Last Day of the War), dies at 50
    [*]1969 - Brian Jones, guitarist (Rolling Stones), drowns to death at 25
    [*]1969 - Hermann Grabner, composer, dies at 83
    [*]1971 - Jim Morrison, rock singer (Doors), dies of heart failure at 27
    [*]1971 - Ricci Riano, entertainer, dies after long illness at 71
    [*]1972 - Mississippi Fred McDowell, jazz artist, dies at 68
    [*]1973 - Charles Ancerl, Czech conductor (Prague/Toronto), dies at 63
    [*]1974 - John C Ransom, US poet (World's Body), dies
    [*]1976 - Hans Bentz van den Berg, Dutch actor (Last Train), dies at 58
    [*]1977 - Hugh Le Caine, composer, dies at 63
    [*]1977 - Mohammed al-Zahaby, Egyptian minister, murdered
    [*]1978 - James Daly, actor (Medical Center), dies at 59
    [*]1981 - Ross Martin, actor (Mr Lucky, Wild Wild West), dies at 61
    [*]1982 - Henry King, US director (Song of Bernadette, Gunfighter), dies
    [*]1984 - Raoul Salan, French general/OAS leader (Algeria), dies at 85
    [*]1986 - Rudy Vallee, singer (Vagabond Dreams), dies at 84
    [*]1987 - Viola Dana, actress (Willow Tree, 40 Winks, Silent Lover), dies at 90
    [*]1988 - Gabriel Dell, actor (Dead End Kids), dies of leukemia at 68
    [*]1989 - Andrei Gromyko, Soviet diplomat, dies just short of his 80th birthday
    [*]1989 - Jim Backus, actor (Magoo, Gilligan's Island), dies at 76 of pneumonia
    [*]1990 - Ludi Claire Hugo, entertainer, dies at 70
    [*]1990 - Maurice Girodias, French publisher, dies at 71
    [*]1991 - Irina Nijinska, Russian/US dancer, dies at 77
    [*]1992 - Arline Bletcher, entertainer, dies of natural causes at 99
    [*]1992 - Marc Tannenbaum, rabbi (only Jew to attend Vatican II), dies at 66
    [*]1993 - "Curly" Joe DeRita, last of Three Stooges, dies of pneumonia at 83
    [*]1994 - Felix Kelly, artist, dies at 80
    [*]1994 - Harry Ebbeling, PC-corrector, dies at 54
    [*]1994 - Lewis A "Lew" Hoad, tennis star (Wimbledon 1953, 56), dies at 59
    [*]1994 - Pieter Hennipman, Dutch economist, dies at 85
    [*]1995 - Albert Hardy, photographer, dies at 82
    [*]1995 - Brad Lee Sexton, bass guitarist, dies at 47
    [*]1995 - Gil Wolman, situationist, dies at 65
    [*]1996 - Raaj Kumar, actor (Tiranga, Saudagar), dies at 68
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Come on, people, don't post such long lists, nobody will read them :p

Apparently, the day i was born Shakuntala Devi mentally multiplied 2 13-digit #s in 28 sec :rolleyes:
 
June 30th... not just the day Betty came about, but also:
1953 - 1st Corvette manufactured
1979 - Johnny Rotten & Joan Collins appear together on BBC's Juke Box Jury
1984 - Failed coup by cocaine growers in Bolivia *the exact birthday*
1987 - Emmy 14th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 8th time *baaahhhhhahahhaha! fuckin a! 8 times a loser!!! just thought I'd throw that in there....*

hmm... this was supposed to be a lot more interesting....
 
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    [*]1276 - Innocent V, [Pierre the Tarantaise], Pope (1276), dies at about 36
    [*]1527 - Machiavelli, writer, dies
    [*]1535 - John Fisher, English bishop (1504-35)/cardinal, beheaded at about 65
    [*]1735 - Pirro Conte d' Albergati Capacelli, composer, dies at 71
    [*]1741 - Joseph-Hector Fiocco, composer, dies at 38
    [*]1745 - Hubert Renotte, composer, dies at 41
    [*]1754 - Nicholas Siret, composer, dies at 91
    [*]1777 - Josef Christian, German sculptor, dies at 71
    [*]1803 - Wilhelm Heinse, writer, dies
    [*]1843 - Gabriele Prota, composer, dies at 88
    [*]1874 - Howard Staunton, world chess champion, designer of chess pieces, dies
    [*]1885 - Mahdi, [Muhammad Ahmed], Sudanese music reviewer, dies
    [*]1897 - Ralph Abercromby, British meteorologist, dies at about 54
    [*]1898 - Anton Kerner Ritter von Marilaun, Austria botanist, dies at 66
    [*]1903 - George White, black resident of Delaware, lynched
    [*]1906 - Fritz Schaudinn, German animal scholar: examined amoebasis, dies at 34
    [*]1909 - Detlev [Freiherr Friedrich A von] Liliencron, German poet, dies at 65
    [*]1910 - Marie, Princess of Wied/Orange Nassau, dies
    [*]1922 - Henry H Wilson, Field Marshal, murdered in London
    [*]1925 - Felix Klein, German mathematician (Riemannsche Fl„chen), dies at 76
    [*]1926 - Hermann Suter, composer, dies at 56
    [*]1928 - George Siegmann, actor (Birth of Nation, Queen of Sheba), dies at 46
    [*]1930 - Karl von Amira, German historian, dies at 82
    [*]1937 - Jean-Joseph Rab‚arivelo, Hungarian poet, commits suicide at 36
    [*]1940 - M A Noble, cricketer (giant of NSW/Australian cricket), dies
    [*]1940 - Vladimir K”ppen, Russ/German/Aust meteorologist, dies at 93
    [*]1945 - Isamu Tsjo, Japanese chief-staff 32nd Army, commits harakiri
    [*]1945 - Mitsuri Ushijima, Jap lt-gen/commandant 32nd Army, commits harakiri
    [*]1950 - Julio Fonseca, composer, dies at 65
    [*]1954 - Don Hollenbeck, newscaster (CBS Weekend News), dies at 49
    [*]1955 - Sadashiv Garpatrao Shinde, cricketer (7 Tests for India), dies at 31
    [*]1955 - Wyllis Cooper, TV narrator (Volume One), dies at 56
    [*]1961 - Betty Elder, actress (Annie Get Your Gun), dies
    [*]1964 - Havank, [HF van der Kallen], detective writer (Shade), dies at 60
    [*]1965 - Adriaan F Dussenbroek, Dutch doctor/co-founder (UNA), dies at 72
    [*]1965 - David O Selznick, producer (Gone With the Wind), dies at 63
    [*]1966 - Roger Blunt, cricketer (9 Tests for NZ, 330 runs, 12 wickets), dies
    [*]1967 - Adrian Grigor'yevich Shaposhnikov, composer, dies at 79
    [*]1969 - Judy Garland, actress (Wizard of Oz, Easter Parade), dies at 47
    [*]1973 - Jacques Leon Wolfe, composer, dies at 77
    [*]1974 - Darius Milhaud, French composer (Le boeuf sur le toŒt), dies at 81
    [*]1979 - Emory Parnell, St Paul Minn, actor (Life of Riley), dies at 85
    [*]1979 - Julius Sommer, dies of heart failure, buried in Dayton Ohio
    [*]1981 - Lola Lane, actress (Zanzibar, Mystery Ship, Big Fight), dies
    [*]1982 - Alan Webb, actor (King Lear, Challenge to Lassie), dies at 75
    [*]1984 - Joseph Losey, director (Go-Between, M, Concrete Jungle), dies at 75
    [*]1987 - Fred Astaire, actor/dancer (Royal Wedding, Let's Dance), dies at 88
    [*]1988 - Bramwell Fletcher, actor (Mummy, Raffles, Svengali), dies at 84
    [*]1988 - Dennis Day, actor/tenor (Jack Benny Show), dies of ALS at 71
    [*]1988 - Ross Ford, actor (Reform School Girl, Jungle Patrol), dies
    [*]1989 - Bengt Viktor Johansson, composer, dies at 74
    [*]1989 - Lee Calhoun, hurdler (Olympics-gold-56, 60), dies at 66
    [*]1991 - Cameron Miller, actor (Portrait of Claire), dies at 82
    [*]1991 - Kevin O'Connor, actor (Bogie), dies of cancer at 56
    [*]1992 - Chuck Mitchell, actor (Penitentiary), dies
    [*]1992 - Frederic I Rinaldo, writer (Abbott & Costello meet Frankenstein), dies
    [*]1992 - M F K Fisher, cook book author, dies of Parkinson Disease at 83
    [*]1993 - Hannah Troy, fashion designer (petite), dies of heart attack at 93
    [*]1993 - M'hammed Boukhozba, Algerian sociologist, murdered at 52
    [*]1993 - Pat Nixon, 1st lady (1969-75), dies of lung cancer at 81
    [*]1994 - Jack Davies, screenwriter, dies at 80
    [*]1995 - Georges Yves Marie Congar, Dominican theologian cardinal, dies at 91
    [*]1996 - James Leander "Leo" Nichols, honorary consul, dies at 65
    [*]1996 - Ray Lindwall, cricketer (228 wkts 61 Tests for Australia), dies at 74
    [*]1996 - Salah Abou Seif, film director, dies at 81
    [*]1996 - Tertius Metcalf, businessman, dies at 63
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