RIP Wee Jum 1,559 Posted January 4, 2013 I was born on May 2. Famous people who died on my birthday are :- Leonardo da Vinci - artist J. Edgar Hoover - 1st director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Justin Fashanu - openly gay footballer Kevin Lloyd - The Bill actor Oliver Reed - drinker and actor Ted Rogers - comedian and presenter Osama bin Laden - bad man Anybody else got anyone better ? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Death Impends 8,023 Posted January 4, 2013 The great Mark Twain died on my birthday, April 21st Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,589 Posted January 4, 2013 Mississippi John Hurt, James Thurber and The Fabulous Moolah. All the lads, basically. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Handrejka 1,905 Posted January 4, 2013 Burt Lancaster died on my 18th birthday, more recently there was Colonel Gaddafi. Peter Dudley who was of the first celeb deaths I remember also died on birthday, so died Isobel Barnett and the Lynard Skynnard crash happened on my 1st birthday. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RIP Wee Jum 1,559 Posted January 4, 2013 On my 20th birthday Tony Blair got elected Prime Minister Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lady Grendel 139 Posted January 4, 2013 Luciano Pavarotti died on my 40th birthday, sadly no points for me as I hadn't started entering a team into DDP then despite having been a DL member for 2 1/2 years. Nothing much happens on September 6th, very few notable deaths or births, although Diana, Princess of Wales's funeral was held on my 30th and everything shut down for the day, I had to party the night before instead . Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charon 4,943 Posted January 4, 2013 Lillie Langtry. Jean Renoir and James Bulger. Diverse aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,512 Posted January 4, 2013 Roy Rogers died on my 12th birthday. I actually knew who he was, as one of my books had a big picture of him and Trigger. Not the most exciting anecdote, I know. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charon 4,943 Posted January 4, 2013 Fuck me, upon checking Wiki for my birthday I see it is also ''Red Hand Day'' which as anyone who knows me or has read 'Teddy Bears Picnic' thread will understand..........amuses me (I am not the atypical these days 'red hand is bad' folks, symbol of many a thing inc the McNeils of Barra ) 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 8,654 Posted January 4, 2013 Not very many people I've heard of have died on my birthday, Robert Moog and Benigno Aquino being the two most famous. I was however born on the 20th anniversary of Trotsky's death. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
themaninblack 2,112 Posted January 4, 2013 Bill Bixby and Quentin Crisp are the only really notable deaths on my birthday (21st November). Curiously there's never been a DDP hit on that date either... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charon 4,943 Posted January 4, 2013 Bill Bixby and Quentin Crisp are the only really notable deaths on my birthday (21st November). Curiously there's never been a DDP hit on that date either... How many DDP hits have there been out of interest? Is this like ''if 30 odd folk are in the same room it is even money 2 will have the same birthday'' type thing? (may be well out on odds but you know what I mean) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CarolAnn 926 Posted January 5, 2013 Sacagawea Moss Hart John Steinbeck Roy Disney Bobby Darin Carl Sagan Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pretty In Pink 1 Posted January 5, 2013 Irving Berlin Dorothy Lamour Marcel Marceau Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Octopus of Odstock 2,206 Posted January 5, 2013 Historically (and in my lifetime, but I was far too young to remember); Dixie Dean Jackie Coogan In more recent years, the most notable would have to be Peter Osgood, in 2006. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Magere Hein 1,400 Posted January 5, 2013 Marcel Marceau Nice birthday present. regards, Hein Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Death Impends 8,023 Posted January 5, 2013 On the topic of those I was aware of (which is admittedly a shorter timeframe) the most notable are Juan Antonio Samaranch and Charles Colson. And speaking of Colson, I was born just one day before Richard Nixon died. My parents kept the newspaper from my date of birth I believe and it had a headline among the lines of "Nixon very sick". Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
torbrexbones 717 Posted January 5, 2013 Hermann Wilhelm Goering (suicide) Leo G Carroll Michael Balcon Moshe Dayan William Holden Art Blakey Dan Wheldon Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Dead Cow 620 Posted January 5, 2013 Now i come to think about it, the only famous people who have died on my birthday are Etta James Audrey Hepburn Matt Busby and Kahn Abdul Ghaffar Kahn All the others I have never even heard of Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lard Bazaar 3,800 Posted January 5, 2013 Marc Bolan. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rotten Ali 600 Posted January 5, 2013 Himmler is my match-up. But other than one of the worst nazis ever hardly anyone else of note. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Unknown Man 589 Posted January 5, 2013 The famous people who died on my Birthday, September 18th are: Frank Morgan Jimi Hendrix Bob Hayes Russ Meyer Irving Kristol Steve Sabol Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MightyMoose 10 Posted January 6, 2013 Lisa Lopes & Ginger Rogers are 2 of mine, as is this: 1981 Dixie, a mouse who lived 6 years, dies! But then I share my birthday with Al Pacino amongst others so I think that's a bit cooler! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charon 4,943 Posted January 6, 2013 Himmler is my match-up. But other than one of the worst nazis ever hardly anyone else of note. I thought he was rather a good Nazi , If he was bad at 'Nazi-ing' he would never have got such a good gig... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites