Sir Creep 7,070 Posted September 4, 2015 In the ironic death anniversary category (please don't start another thread), Steve Irwin died this day 9 years ago aged 44. Interestingly that date coincides with the beginning of the exploitation of his children, daughter Bindi in particular. Odd. SC 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rockhopper penguin 2,265 Posted September 5, 2015 At age 36 Crazy Horse died this day on the end of a white man's bayonet, 138 years ago. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 8,591 Posted September 5, 2015 15 years ago today, West Indies opener Roy Fredericks died from cancer, aged 57. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted September 5, 2015 Albert Schweitzer - 50 years (9/4/1965) Irene Dunne - 25 years Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Magere Hein 1,400 Posted September 5, 2015 1997: The Witch of Calcutta, at 87. Should have been burned. 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rockhopper penguin 2,265 Posted September 6, 2015 Quarter century since Tom Fogerty's Bad Moon rose for the last time aged 48. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rockhopper penguin 2,265 Posted September 7, 2015 A J P Taylor became history, this day 25 years ago aged 84. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rockhopper penguin 2,265 Posted September 7, 2015 Just to be different, Keith Moon went beyond 27, and reached 31 before he stopped Fiddling About for good 37 years ago today. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted September 8, 2015 A J P Taylor became history, this day 25 years ago aged 84. Great but who in the hell was he? Oh sure I could look....Was he the world's greatest Orville Reddenbacher impersonator? SC 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Mad Hatter 1,092 Posted September 8, 2015 A J P Taylor became history, this day 25 years ago aged 84.Great but who in the hell was he? Oh sure I could look....Was he the world's greatest Orville Reddenbacher impersonator? SC how about you use Google to find out who he is instead of being a dumbass, dumbass 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted September 8, 2015 Sept 8: Nobel Prize in Death Anniversary: Hermann Staudinger - 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (discovered polymers) - d 1965 (50 years) Willard Libby - 1960 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (radiocarbon dating) - d 1980 (35 years) John Franklin Enders - 1954 Nobel Prize in Medicine (measles vaccine) - d 1985 (30 years) But most important, and someone who SHOULD have a Nobel Prize for advancing humanity, Percy Spencer (45 years) inventor of the microwave oven. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rockhopper penguin 2,265 Posted September 8, 2015 Jean Piaget (a Swiss developmental psychologist and philosopher known for his epistemological studies with children - for the benefit of Sir C), aged 84, reached the final stage of development 35 years ago. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted September 9, 2015 100 years ago Albert Spalding, who played a little pro baseball, then started up a sporting goods company to supply baseball etc for generations. 40 years ago actor John McGiver, who is quite memorable to me and hard to believe he's been gone since I was 12. SC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,515 Posted September 9, 2015 Lucio Battisi: best Italian musician of all time? Probably. Carked it this day in 1998: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phantom 2,532 Posted September 9, 2015 On the day that Elizabeth II becomes Britain's longest reigning monarch, William the Conqueror died in 1087 at the age of 59 Also a few other monarchs also died 1398 - James I of Cyprus 1438 - Edward - King of Portugal 1487 - Chenghua - Emperor of China 1513 - James IV of Scotland 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dr. Zorders 1,271 Posted September 9, 2015 39 years ago today, Mao Zedong released his little dead book aged 82. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rockhopper penguin 2,265 Posted September 9, 2015 Aged 72, John Wayne Glover (The Granny Killer) became his last victim 10 years ago today. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Unknown Man 584 Posted September 10, 2015 Richard Kiel, who played the steel-toothed Jaws in the James Bond film "The Spy Who Loved Me", died one year ago today aged 74. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 8,591 Posted September 10, 2015 Thirty years since Jock Stein suffered a fatal heart attack as his Scotland side played Wales in a world cup qualifier 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rockhopper penguin 2,265 Posted September 10, 2015 25 years ago today Samuel Kanyon Doe suffered the ultimate expression of the people's will, aged 39. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charon 4,943 Posted September 10, 2015 Thirty years since Jock Stein suffered a fatal heart attack as his Scotland side played Wales in a world cup qualifier The only time I ever drank in the Waterloo boozer in Edinburgh , think it was because they had a big screen, ie more than 25". We truly had thought that indeed he was immortal. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Unknown Man 584 Posted September 11, 2015 Children's author Roger Hargreaves, who was best known for the "Mr. Men" and "Little Miss" series, died 27 years ago today aged 53. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rockhopper penguin 2,265 Posted September 11, 2015 9/11 'nuff said. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,025 Posted September 11, 2015 30 years ago, Masako Natsume joined the 27 Club. Best known as Tripitaka from the series Monkey. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
themaninblack 2,112 Posted September 11, 2015 30 years ago, Masako Natsume joined the 27 Club. Best known as Tripitaka from the series Monkey. It was only years later that I found out that the character (whom I had a big crush on when I was 4) was a MALE character! I was never confused... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
