people who died the year you were born

Historically, politically, culturally, personally or otherwise notable people who died the year you were born.

Me:

Robert Frost

Patsy Cline

John F. Kennedy

Coco Chanel

Ogden Nash

Audie Murphy

Soyuz 11 cosmonauts

Jim Morrison

Nikita Krushchev

Gene Vincent

Duane Allman

More: http://www.historyorb.com/deaths/date/1971

Wrong place!

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy
Tallulah Bankhead
Albert Dekker
Bobby Driscoll
Yuri Gagarin
Dorothy Gish
Wes Montgomery

~1968~

I only remembered Eleanor:

Eleanor Roosevelt-two weeks before I was born

Marilyn Monroe

Lucky Luciano

Clara Blandick (Auntie Em)

John Maynard Keynes
Gertrude Stein
H.G. Wells
W.C. Fields
Hermann Goering
11 German war criminals who were hanged when I was 16 days old.

1946

I refined the search to within a week of my birth {mid-Dec. 1950) and chose these two:

Leslie Comrie


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Comrie

Leslie Comrie
Born 15 August 1893
Pukekohe, New Zealand
Died 11 December 1950
Nationality New Zealand
Fields astronomy

Leslie John Comrie (15 August 1893 – 11 December 1950) was an astronomer and a
pioneer in mechanical computation.

He was born in Pukekohe (south of Auckland), New Zealand, in 1893, and attended
Auckland University College from 1912 to 1916, graduating MA (University of New Zealand)
with Honours in Chemistry.<1> During World War I, despite severe deafness,
he saw action in France with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, and lost his left leg
in February 1918 to a British shell.<2> While convalescing he started using a
mechanical calculator and went on to modifying commercial calculators for specific projects.



Max Beckmann

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Beckmann

Max Beckmann

Max Beckmann Self-portrait with Horn, 1938-1940
Born February 12, 1884(1884-02-12)
Died December 28, 1950 (aged 66)
Nationality German
Field Painting, Sculpture, Drawing, Printmaking

Max Beckmann (February 12, 1884 – December 28, 1950) was a German painter, draftsman, printmaker,
sculptor, and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the
term and the movement.<1> In the 1920s, he was associated with the New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit),
an outgrowth of Expressionism that opposed its introverted emotionalism.


Hi Bertha!

:hug:

I was born mid-November of 1950. George Bernard Shaw and Eddie Cantor died in October of that year.

Didn't know that one

Others from 1970:

Frances Farmer
Jimi Hendrix
Janis Joplin

1970 was a bad year for music, huh? :(

Jack Ruby Langston Hughes Jayne Mansfield Che Guevara Jimmy Foxx John Coltrane Jack Ruby Woody Guthrie Clement Atlee Edward Hopper Apollo 1 astronauts

Robert Baden-Powell
James Joyce
Gutzon Borglum
Virginia Woolf
Lou Gehrig
Jelly Roll Morton
Louis Brandeis
Helen Morgan

four months before I was born. He was 93. I had a great-grandmother who lived to 96 (1965).

probably because they died the year I was born. :P

Of people I have heard of, there are three:
Chris Farley
Mother Theresa
Princess Di

Don't judge my young-ness!! My mommeh is on here too. She knows what I'm up to.

Man. Revealing that you're just a wee teenie-bopper in midst of an adult site is embarrassing.

And besides, I'm mature for my age.

Now that everyone knows: I expect help with my algebra homework!! (just kidding)

:P

"Man. Revealing that you're just a wee teenie-bopper in midst of an adult site is embarrassing."

ADULT SITE? Hey, there is no p*rn here! :rofl:

Such as bad words. But, you know, my dad's a truck driver with La Tourettes so I'm used to that. :D
His favorite is tuning to the conservative radio stations and yelling at them like they can hear him. . .

:rofl:

Now we've got members here BORN in that year?

Emma Goldman

Paul Klee

Neville Chamberlain

Walter Chrysler

Smedley Butler

F Scott Fitzgerald

Charlie Chaplin
Ronnie Van Zant, Cassie Gaines, Steve Gaines

Joan Crawford, Vladimir Nabikov, Anais Nin, Francis Powers, and Elvis Presley.

among others...

Adolf Eichmann (good riddance!)

William Faulkner

Georges Bataille

Hermann Hesse

Neils Bohr:

Danish Physicist and Nobel Laureate
Avid footballer
Hero to hundreds of European scientists of Jewish ancestry (he smuggled them out of the continent)

Yuri Gagarin
Bea Benaderet
Finlay Currie
Joan Tabor
Marion Lorne
Helen Keller
John Steinbeck
Martin Luther King Jr.
Robert Kennedy
and the scores of people who died during the the Vietnam war in 1968.

I have often heard my mother tell of where she and I were when JFK was killed.

L. Ron Hubbard
Olof Palme
Georgia O'Keeffe
Simone de Beauvoir
Tenzing Norgay
Wallis Simpson, wife of King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom
Benny Goodman
Jorge Luis Borges
Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

John D. Rockefeller III
Hubert Humphrey
On my birthday: Jan Willem van Otterloo (composer)
Pope John Paul I
Edgar Bergen
Norman Rockwell
Margaret Mead
George Moscone
Harvey Milk
Golda Meir
Harry Winston

And a bunch of other people whose names I didn't recognize at a brief glance.

Couldn't find anybody who died on my birthday though.
Golda Meier was two days after.

Fanny Brice,Harry Heilman ( baseball hall of famer), Marshall Petain (infamously, of Vichy France).......Charles Dawes was from my hometown ( Coolidge's VP) and the town's historical society was the old Dawes mansion on Lake Michigan. He also wrote the music of the song ,It's All in the Game.

1965

:( Although you missed Trigger. :)

and now I can see why it made you so sad. "The smartest horse in the movies".

Also, Winston Churchill, Malcolm X, Adlai Stevenson, and Spike Jones, who all may be more significant than old Archie Graham, but not nearly as literarily immortalized. :)

Oh yeah, and Trigger. Yes, that Trigger. :cry:

Humphrey Bogart, actor (Casablanca, Caine Mutiny), dies at 57

Aug 16th - Irving Langmuir, American chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1881)

Aug 3rd - "Black Jack" Bouvier, father of Jacqueline Kennedy, dies of cancer

Jul 17th - John Coltrane, rocker, dies of cancer at 30

Jul 8th - William Cadbury, chocolate maker, dies at 89

Jun 7th - Elizabeth S Kingsley, double-Crostic puzzle creator, dies

May 22nd - Langston Hughes, poet laureate, dies

Oct 24th - Christian Dior, French designer (New Look), dies at 52 in Italy

Oct 25th - Umberto "Albert" Anastasia, US gangster (Murder Inc), dies at 55

Nov 4th - Shoghi Effendi, Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1897)

May 2nd - Joseph McCarthy, commie hunting senator (R-Wisc), dies at 47

May 8th - Johannes C B "Jan" Sluyters, Dutch painter, dies at 75

May 16th - Eliot Ness, American federal agent (b. 1903)

Jun 12th - James F "Jimmy" Dorsey, US orchestra leader, dies at 53

Jul 3rd - Dolf Luque, baseball player (b. 1890)

Carl Switzer, actor (Alfalfa-Our Gang)
Cecil B de Mille
Big Bopper
Buddy Holly
Richie Valens
William J "Wild Bill" Donovan
Nap Lajorie
Frank Lloyd Wright
John Foster Dulles
Ethel Barrymore
Billie Holiday
Errol Flynn
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Max Baer

Alfred Hitchcock
John Lennon
Mae West
Jesse Owens
Jean-Paul Sartre
Otto Frank
Harland "Colonel" Sanders

"John!!" I remember Hitchcock passing and I think Mae West but John overruled everything that year.

Mel Ott

Ernest Heinkel

Blasted year!

EDIT: Oh, and Michel Foucault

Yes, I know, I'm really really old.

Stephen Boyd
Groucho Marx
Bing Crosby
Charlie Chaplin

died on the day I was born :cry:

Explains why I'm such a stooge. :crazy:

King George VI
Gertrude Lawrence

Gawd, I feel old. But at least I'm still alive and kicking.

Ira Hayes
Alexander Fleming (ushered in the golden age of seafaring)
Oscar Mayer (yeah, that one)
Albert Einstein
Cordell Hull
Honus Wagner

Guess how old I am.
;-)

Maurice Chevalier
Padraic Colum
King Frederik IX of Denmark
Mahalia Jackson
MC Escher
Adam Clayton Powell,Jr
George Sanders
J Edgar Hoover
Walter Winchell
Edward,Duke of Windsor (former King Edward VIII)
Prince William of Gloucester (grandson of King George V)
Max Fleischer
S.R. Ranganathan
Louis Leakey
Jackie Robinson
Igor Sikorsky
Charles Atlas
Harry Truman
Roberto Clemente

As did Anais Nin, Gummo and Groucho Marx, Joan Crawford, Wernher von Braun, Bing Crosby, and 3 members of Lynyrd Skynyrd.