The day I was born

People who died on July 16 (various years)
2006 - Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas
2006 - Bob Orton, Sr., American professional wrestler
2005 - Camillo Felgen, Luxembourgish singer, lyricist, and entertainer
2005 - Prince Gu of Korea
2005 - Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor
2004 - George Busbee, Governor of Georgia
2003 - Carol Shields, Canadian author
2003 - Celia Cruz, Cuban musician
2002 - John Cocke, American computer scientist
2001 - Terry Gordy, American professional wrestler
2001 - Maurice De Bevere, Belgian cartoonist
1999 - John F. Kennedy, Jr., American publisher
1999 - Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy, Jr.
1998 - John Henrik Clarke, American historian and scholar
1996 - Adolf von Thadden, German politician,
1996 - John Panozzo, American musician (Styx)
1995 - Stephen Spender, English poet
1995 - May Sarton, Belgian-born American poet
1994 - Marcel-Marie Desmarais, French Canadian priest, writer, preacher and broadcaster
1994 - Julian Schwinger, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1992 - Buck Buchanan, American football player
1991 - Frank Rizzo, American politician
1991 - Robert Motherwell, American painter
1990 - Sidney Torch, English composer, conductor and organist
1990 - Robert Blackburn, Irish educationist
1989 - Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor
1989 - John Dempsey, Governor of Connecticut
1982 - Patrick Dewaere, French actor
1981 - Harry Chapin, American musician
1979 - Alfred Deller, English countertenor
1976 - Carmelo Soria, Spanish diplomat assassinated in 1976 by the Chilean DINA
1960 - John P. Marquand, American novelist
1960 - Albert Kesselring, German field marshal
1953 - Hilaire Belloc, English writer
1949 - Vyacheslav Ivanov, Russian poet
1947 - Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish humanitarian (exact date of death uncertain)
1917 - Philipp Scharwenka, Polish-German composer
1916 - Ilya Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist, Nobel laureate
1915 - Ellen White, American co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
1896 - Edmond Goncourt, French writer and critic
1886 - Ned Buntline, American pulp novelist
1882 - Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States
1879 - Edward Deas Thomson, Australian politician
1831 - Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, Russian general
1796 - George Howard, British field marshal
1770 - Francis Cotes, English painter
1747 - Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Italian painter
1729 - Johann David Heinichen, German composer
1691 - François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, French war minister
1686 - John Pearson, English theologian
1664 - Andreas Gryphius, German writer
1647 - Masaniello, Neapolitan rebel
1630 - Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy
1594 - Thomas Kyd, author of The Spanish Tragedy
1557 - Anne of Cleves, fourth wife of Henry VIII of England
1546 - Anne Askew, English Protestant (burned at the stake)
1342 - King Charles I of Hungary
1324 - Emperor Go-Uda of Japan

I have an emperor, at least two royals, and two kennedys...Go Me lol

143,259 people died and the Crew of Space Shuttle Challenger

<<Figures that a guy would die of idiocy the year I was born...>>

Lok up <<darwinawards.com>>  There is no dearth of idiots.

Richard, Duke of York.  did he have a hunched back?

Ah, Mordechai and Esther.  Two very popular Jewish names that demonstrate how assimilated the Jews had become in Persia.

A slice of pie to the first person who can tell me what makes the Book of Esther unique among the books of the bible.

Ah, Mordechai and Esther.  Two very popular Jewish names that demonstrate how assimilated the Jews had become in Persia.

A slice of pie to the first person who can tell me what makes the Book of Esther unique among the books of the bible.

Mordecai supposedly wrote the original book. It was later extended by additional authors. Other than that I really don't have the time to research this. I read quite a bit of Jewish history over the course of six months in a class but I had never heard of this one. Maybe if I hadn't failed religion class in Catholic school all those years, I might know more about the bible now.