Death Anniversary Thread

[Drewsky1211 4,739]

King Louis VII of France died on this day 843 years ago, aged 60.

- Louis was the son of King Louis VI, and became the heir apparent upon the death of his older brother Philip in 1131; afterwards he was made a junior king.

- Louis' father died in 1137, and he became the solo king. In that same year, he would marry Eleanor of Aquitaine- the two of them would participate in the Second Crusade from 1147, spending two years away from home. They would have two daughters together, but their marriage was annulled in 1152; Eleanor soon married the future king Henry II of England.

- Louis and Henry soon became rivals, and after having two more daughters with Constance of Castile, Henry would soon reconcile by betrothing his son Henry with Louis' daughter Margaret- the two were married in 1172.

- In 1165, Louis would finally get his male heir with his third wife Adela of Champagne- the future king Philip II, whom he crowned as junior king in 1179.

- Louis died after a 43-year reign; by the time of Philip's crowning, he was paralyzed- some historians believe this was caused by a stroke.

[The Ashes Urn 1,356]

American mechanical engineer and businessman William S. Harley died on this day 80 years ago, aged 62.

 

[diego 1,984]

Leonhard Euler was born in Basel (Switzerland) and died in Saint Petersburg 240 years ago. He made important discoveries in several areas of mathematics such as calculus and graph theory. He also introduced many of the terminologies of modern mathematics and mathematical notation, particularly mathematical analysis, as well as the concept of mathematical function. He is also recognized for his work in mechanics, fluid dynamics, optics, astronomy, and music theory.

 

[Hell 1,334]

American guitarist, songwriter, and singer Jimi Hendrix died on this day 53 years ago, aged 27. Although his mainstream career spanned only four years, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music, and one of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame describes him as "arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music."

 

[John "요한" Sulu 419]

On this day 1 year ago, American engineer Nick Holonyak, who created the first visible light-emitting diode (LED), passed away at the age of 93.

[Drewsky1211 4,739]

James Garfield died on this day 142 years ago, aged 49.

- Garfield's first job was on a canal boat, which ended after six weeks when he got malaria. Other careers Garfield got into before politics included teaching, law, and ministerial work.

- Garfield was a Civil War veteran, and rose through the Union army ranks to become a brigadier general. He would be elected to Congress in 1862, and left combat in December of 1863.

- During his time in the House of Representatives, Garfield advocated for Blacks receiving the right to vote, which president Andrew Johnson opposed. The two of them were once friends, but Garfield stopped considering him one, perceiving Johnson as an opium addict.

- Garfield was chosen to replace Ohio senator John Sherman after his resignation in 1880- however, Garfield was elected president, and never became a US senator.

- Garfield barely won the popular vote in the 1880 election- he got just under 2,000 more votes than the Democratic nominee, Winfield Hancock.

- One of the things Garfield managed to do was appoint Stanley Matthews (NOT the soccer player) to the Supreme Court as an Associate Justice.

- In July of 1881, Garfield would be shot by a man who believed he owed him a diplomatic position. For the last 79 days of his life, he was bedridden, while his doctors worsened his situation- they didn't wash their hands, and one punctured his liver. If modern medical practices were used, Garfield likely would have lived.

- One of Garfield's great-great-grandchildren is Richard Garfield, the creator of Magic: The Gathering. (He's not related to Andrew Garfield, however- Andrew's last name was anglicized from "Garfinkel".)

[The Ashes Urn 1,356]

American singer, songwriter, guitarist and pianist Gram Parsons died on this day 50 years ago, aged 26.

 

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Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis was born in and died in Paris 240 years ago at the age of 51. He is known mainly for the mechanical theorem that bears his name and for the Coriolis inertial force. It is one of the 72 names perpetuated on the Eiffel Tower.

 

 

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Its 19 years since the death of singer Skeeter Davis. Born Mary Frances Penick, she was nicknamed 'Skeeter' by her grandfather, after 'mosquito' as she had a lot of energy. Her maternal grandfather was murdered by his brother, causing her mother to attempt suicide several times, even attempting to jump from a window with Skeeter and her brother in her arms.

She was part of The Davis Sisters with schoolfriend Betty Jack Davis, until Davis was killed in a car crash after a radio appearance, and after recuperating, with Davis' younger sister Georgia, at the instigation of the Davis' mother.

 

A solo career saw Skeeter's biggest hit, reaching number 18 in the UK and number 2 on the Billboard hot 100, with The End of The World.

 

 

In 1988, she was diagnosed with breast cancer; following a mastectomy she was in remission for several years, until a recurrence in 1996. The disease finally killed her in 2004, aged 72.

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English professional footballer Jimmy Greaves died on this day 2 years ago, aged 81. He played as a forward. Regarded as one of the greatest strikers of all time and one of England's best ever players, he is England's fifth-highest international goalscorer with 44 goals, which includes an English record of six hat-tricks, and is Tottenham Hotspur's second-highest all-time top goalscorer. Greaves is the highest goalscorer in the history of English top-flight football with 357 goals. He finished as the First Division's top scorer in six seasons, more times than any other player and came third in the 1963 Ballon d'Or rankings. He is also a member of the English Football Hall of Fame.

 

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John Cunliffe died on this day 5 years ago, aged 85.

- When Cunliffe was a child, he would be bullied by his classmates for being tall.

- Cunliffe ended up becoming a librarian, elementary school teacher, and childrens' author, most known for his Farmer Barnes series of books.

- In 1981, Cunliffe would be commissioned by the BBC to create a show for kids- he started off basing the setting off of his home town, and from there, he created Postman Pat (and his black-and-white cat):

The show would have several incarnations that ran between 1981 and 2017, and a theatrically-released film made in 2014.

- Cunliffe had to give up the Postman Pat IP to the BBC, but would have full creative control over his next show- that being ITV's Rosie and Jim, which first aired in 1990. Cunliffe would star in the show as Fizzgog, the first owner of the puppets' houseboat, the Ragdoll, for the show's first two seasons.

- Among Cunliffe's last works was a 2010 childrens' e-book called Ghosts, released exclusively on Apple's App Store.

[The Ashes Urn 1,356]

American folk and rock singer-songwriter Jim Croce died on this day 50 years ago, aged 30.

 

[diego 1,984]

Jacob Grimm was born in Hanau, and died in Berlin 160 years ago at the age of 78, he is one of the famous Brothers Grimm, known for compiling tales, some of the most famous we know, such as Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella , Hansel and Gretel, Little Thumb, Rapunzel, among others

 

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Jewis Austrian Holocaust Survivor, Nazi hunter and writer Simon Wiesenthal died on this day 18 years ago, aged 96. He studied architecture and was living in Lwów at the outbreak of World War II. He survived the Janowska concentration camp, the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp, the Gross-Rosen concentration camp, a death march to Chemnitz, Buchenwald, and the Mauthausen concentration camp. He appeared in DeathList 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005.

 

[Drewsky1211 4,739]

King Edward II of England died on this day 696 years ago, aged 43.

- Edward was born at Caernarfon Castle in Wales, less than a year after his father Edward I conquered it. The senior Edward and his wife Eleanor likely went there to impose English power over the Welsh.

- Initially second in line to the throne upon birth, Edward became the heir to the throne when his 10-year old brother Alphonso died when he was four months old. Edward would act as regent to his father in 1297 when he fought against king Philip IV of France.

- Edward's reign, which began in 1307, is known for the Scottish War of Independence (which lasted his entire reign), the Ordinances of 1311 (in which parliament limited royal power), a famine which lasted from 1315 to 1317, a civil war which broke out in 1321, and the War of Saint-Sardos against France, beginning in 1324.

- Edward was known for his relationship with Piers Gaveston, whom he effectively left as regent in 1308 when he went to France to marry. Edward's detractors often claimed that the two were gay for each other, but considering both had regular sexual relationships with their wives, it was more likely just a bromance.

- Edward married 12-year old Isabella of France (when he was 24... yikes), and during the War of Saint-Sardos, her lands back home were seized by the English. This enraged her, and she cheated on him with Roger Mortimer, who invaded England in 1326. Edward was captured by Mortimer's troops, and was forced to abdicate in January of 1327 in favor of his son Edward III. Edward died in captivity- a rumor persists he was murdered via someone putting a burning fire iron up his butt, but historians usually dismiss this as propaganda invented by Mortimer's supporters.

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Joan of Hochberg was born in Neuchâtel (present-day Switzerland) and died in Époisses, Côte-d'Or, France at the age of 58 480 years ago, she was suo jure Countess of Neuchâtel as successor to her father and Duchess of Longueville by her marriage to Louis I from Orleans-Longueville

Michel Brault was born in Montreal and died in Toronto 10 years ago at the age of 85. He was a camera operator, director and film producer from Quebec who worked on more than two hundred films.
He was one of the great producers of Canadian cinema in the 1960s.

 

[The Ashes Urn 1,356]

American actress Diana Sands died on this day 50 years ago, aged 39.

 

[Hell 1,334]

Chief Joseph died on this day 119 years ago, aged 64. He was a leader of the wal-lam-wat-kain band of Nez Perce, a Native American tribe of the interior Pacific Northwest region of the United States, in the latter half of the 19th century. He succeeded his father tuekakas (Chief Joseph the Elder) in the early 1870s.

 

[John "요한" Sulu 419]

On this day 8 years ago, American real estate entrepreneur Robert E. Simon, who founded Reston, Virginia, passed away at the age of 101.

[Drewsky1211 4,739]

Sultan Selim I died on this day 503 years ago, aged 49.

- Selim was the son of Sultan Bayezid II (then a prince) and his Greek concubine.

- When Selim was 16, he was made the governor of Trebizond in what is now northern Turkey. This was right on the border with Safavid Iran, and Selim would defeat the Iranians several times between 1507 and 1510 when their soldiers incurred on Ottoman lands.

- Selim led a coup against his father in 1512 after his brother Ahmed was named his heir, and would successfully oust him (Bayezid died of natural causes a month after his abdication).

- During his reign, Selim would secretly publish poetry under the pseudonym Mahlas Selimi.

- In 1514, Selim declared war against Iran to curtail the spread of Shia Islam (the Ottoman Empire was a majority Sunni Islam nation). He would manage to march to their capital of Tabriz, but did not conquer the Iranians, simply just flexing his military might as a warning to their shah, Ismail I- whom he described as a drunk.

- Selim would expand Ottoman territory by defeating and annexing Mamluk Egypt in 1517. Over the next few years, he planned a conquest of the Hafsids in Libya, Tunisia and Algeria, but died before this could happen. His cause of death is debated, with theories ranging from cancer to poisoning to the plague to an infected carbuncle. He was succeeded as sultan by his son Suleiman- later known by his epithet "the Magnificent".

- Selim's epithets include "the Resolute" due to his determination of expanding the Ottoman Empire, and "the Grim" as he was known for executing several of his viziers.

[YoungWillz 21,044]

Chas Hodges of Chas and Dave wasn't pleasing anyone with any more rabbit when he died aged 74 on my birthday this day 5 years ago.

 

[diego 1,984]

3 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

Chas Hodges of Chas and Dave wasn't pleasing anyone with any more rabbit when he died aged 74 on my birthday this day 5 years ago.

So today is your birthday,
Happy Birthday to you, may you be very happy and may your day be very wonderful

[The Ashes Urn 1,356]

Pakistani scholar, Urdu poet, paranormal investigator and psychoanalyst Rais Amrohvi died on this day 35 years ago, aged 74.

 

[diego 1,984]

Álvaro Mutis was born in Bogotá and died 10 years ago in Mexico City at the age of 90. He was a novelist, poet and essayist. Among the awards he received, the Cervantes Award stands out, considered the main award in the Spanish language, received in 2001 ; the 1997 Prince of Asturias Award, another important Spanish-language award; is the Médicis Prize in France

[Drewsky1211 4,739]

Urbain Le Verrier died on this day 146 years ago, aged 66.

- Le Verrier was initially interested in chemistry before becoming an astronomer, and would be the director of the Paris Observatory from 1854 to 1870, and from 1873 to his death in 1877.

- Le Verrier would study the orbits of comets, and was able to prove that some of their orbits were slightly altered after getting too close to Jupiter's gravitational field.

- Le Verrier's most famous discovery was being one of the co-discoverers of Neptune, and he was able to pinpoint its location by using mathematics to explain perturbations in Uranus' orbit. Neptune was found within one astronomical degree of Le Verrier's predicted location.

 

- Le Verrier would attempt to use the same mathematic formula to find a planet closer to the Sun than Mercury- it is now known that there are no planets closer, and Mercury's orbital aberrations were proven through the theory of general relativity.

- Le Verrier's tombstone features a large sphere featuring the Zodiac atop it: