The day I was born

on the day I was born Approximately 139,325 people died worldwide on February 27, 1981.

www.justsayhi.com/bb/death

141,482 died on 11.8.1983 including Mordecai Kaplan the Rabbi who founded Reconstructionist Judaism.

Oddly enough this picture came up when I googled "Mordecai"


Caption: Sir Iorweth & Sir Mordecai

Heheh!
144,822
aaand
Helmut Poppendick, the funniest name in the universe, also died on my b-day. He was a nazi!
when I googled "Helmut"

Isn't she that actress that kissed Keanu Reeves in the second Matrix movie?

That's a photo shoot I don't think I'd make it through with a straight face...

Justsayhi has some neat stuff; their geek quiz has got some really cute questions.
I can't believe I got 51%, I expected it to be much lower.

140,353,
Vic morrow, actor, was decapitated by a helicopter blade during filming of twilight zone
Vladimir smirnov, an olympic champion fencer, died of brain damage nine days after his opponent's foil snapped during a match, penetrated his mask, pierced his eyeball and entered his brain.

Jon-erik hexum, an american television actor, died after he shot himself in the head with a prop gun during a break in filming. hexum apparently did not realize that blanks use paper or plastic wadding to seal gun powder into the shell, and that this wadding is propelled out of the barrel of the gun with enough force to cause severe injury or death if the weapon is fired at point-blank range.

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