Who Died the Day you Were Born?

A little morbid, but just enter your birthday and it will tell you.

"On 24 march 1975 alex mitchell, a 50-year-old bricklayer from king's lynn literally died laughing while watching an episode of the goodies. according to his wife, who was a witness, mitchell was unable to stop laughing while watching a sketch in the episode "kung fu kapers" in which tim brooke-taylor, dressed as a kilted scotsman, used a set of bagpipes to defend himself from a psychopathic black pudding in a demonstration of the scottish martial art of "hoots-toot-ochaye." after twenty-five minutes of continuous laughter mitchell finally slumped on the sofa and expired from heart failure."

Well. That's different.
Good link, though.

And I just realised that's a random 1975 death, not a death on my bday.

Paul Tsongas is actually the only person's name I recognized who died on my birthday, so I guess it's not a popular day to die.

* Dick shawn, a comedian who starred in the 1968 movie the producers, died of a heart attack while portraying a politician. just before he died, he announced, "if elected, i will not lay down on the job,".

* R. budd dwyer, a republican politician, committed suicide during a televised press conference. facing a potential 55-year jail sentence for alleged involvement in a conspiracy, dwyer shot himself in the mouth with a revolver.

One went out like a big middle finger from a fire, the other made a funny that cost him his life. I like my birthday a lot more now.

*Vic morrow, actor, was decapitated by a helicopter blade during filming of twilight zone

*Vladimir smirnov, an olympic champion fencer, died of brain damage nine days after his opponent's foil snapped during a match, penetrated his mask, pierced his eyeball and entered his brain.

Creepy.

It doesn't actually tell you who died on your birthday though.... just how many.

Tom pryce, a formula one driver, and a 19-year-old track marshal jansen van vuuren both died at the 1977 south african grand prix after van vuuren ran across the track beyond a blind brow to attend to another car which had caught fire and was struck by pryce's car at approximately 170mph. pryce was struck in the face by the marshal's fire extinguisher and was killed instantly.

That's weird Hylian, you have the same birthday as my bf because I just looked at his birthday deaths and came up with the same as yours!

On 2008-01-14 01:17:58.477 HylianNinja wrote: * Dick shawn, a comedian who starred in the 1968 movie the producers, died of a heart attack while portraying a politician. just before he died, he announced, "if elected, i will not lay down on the job,". * R. budd dwyer, a republican politician, committed suicide during a televised press conference. facing a potential 55-year jail sentence for alleged involvement in a conspiracy, dwyer shot himself in the mouth with a revolver. One went out like a big middle finger from a fire, the other made a funny that cost him his life. I like my birthday a lot more now.

We share the same birthday.
Also, Horace Walpole died that day (although several hundred years earlier). He wrote some seriously f*cked up stories, even by today's standards.

Dwyer died on january the twenty second.

The first guy died on april the seventeenth.

If wikipedia is to be trusted, that is.

Neither of those are my birthday. Looking closer those are listed as 'Unusual Deaths of that year'

The site seems to be more about the number than the names and stories on the accuracy side of things, so I'm revising my earlier post with the number of people that died on my birthday. Which is 144,028

Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer

Bonaventure, Italian theologian and saint

Robert H. Brooks, founder of Hooters of America


Anton Chekhov, Russian writer


Well, 122,027 People died on the day I was born.

has anyone seen that video of the politician who pulls a revolver out of a envelope and shoots himself??

THAT HAPPENED ON THE DAY I WAS BORN!!!!

Sir Richard Stone (British economist, Nobel Prize laureate) died on my exact birthday. And Saint Nicholas died on my birthday in the year 343. There is A LOT of names I don't recognise from that list...

Oh, and 147,943 people died on the day I was born.

I can't figure out how to find any descriptions of how people died on my birthday. It just gave me a huge list of famous people I had never heard of.

Nobody died on the exact date and year I was born (at least, no famous people) but here were a few interesting ones from other years:

People who died on August 06 (various years)
2004 - Rick James, American musician
1991 - Shapour Bakhtiar, Former Iranian prime minister, assassinated in Paris
1978 - Pope Paul VI
1753 - Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (struck by lightning)
1660 - Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter
1623 - Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare's wife)
1458 - Pope Callixtus III

Approximately 136,476 people died worldwide on August 06, 1977.

Gene Roddenberry died on my birthday apparently
Perhaps I am his reincarnation?

Weird deaths in 1990:
George allen, an american football coach, died a month after some of his players gave him a gatorade shower following a victory (as it is tradition in american football). some argue this resulted in pneumonia.
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Joseph w. burrus, aged 32, an aspiring magician, decided to perform the "buried alive" illusion in a plastic box covered with cement. the cement crushed the box and he died of asphyxia.

Paulette Goddard, American actress, died on the exact day I was born.
(Along with 146,645 other people worldwide! )
Cool link.

I haven't heard of most of the people who died on my birthday. These three are pretty interesting though:

1937 - John D. Rockefeller, American entrepreneur
1934 - Bonnie Parker, American outlaw
1934 - Clyde Barrow, American outlaw

On 2008-01-15 03:54:30.483 yellowDog wrote: has anyone seen that video of the politician who pulls a revolver out of a envelope and shoots himself?? THAT HAPPENED ON THE DAY I WAS BORN!!!!

That would be Budd Dwyer.
Thousands of Philadelphia schoolchildren saw that press conference live on television because there was a huge snowstorm and tons of schools were closed.