The day I was born

1292 - Pope Nicholas IV

1968 - Martin Luther King, Jr

[glow=red,2,300]ON MY BIRTHDAY[/glow]

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135,759 deaths

Unusual Deaths in 1976
Keith Relf, former singer for british rhythm and blues band The Yardbirds, died while practicing his electric guitar--he was electrocuted because the guitar was not properly grounded.

And in 2003, Johnny Cash.  :'(

140,300 for me.

Plus in 2002 Davey Boy Smith, English professional wrestler

141,933 for me

Unusual Deaths in 1984
Tommy cooper collapsed from a massive heart attack in front of millions of television viewers, midway through his act, on the popular itv variety show, live from her majesty's. at first the audience assumed he was joking.
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.
Natural disasters in 1984
Carolinas Tornado Outbreak
Late November 1984 Nor'easter
People who died on June 01 (various years)
2007 - Tony Thompson, Singer in R&B group Hi-Five
2007 - Arn Shein, American sports writer
2006 - Rocío Jurado, Spanish singer and actress
2005 - George Mikan, American basketball player
2004 - William Manchester, American writer
2003 - Johnny Hopp, baseball player
2002 - Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer
2001 - Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist
2001 - King Birendra of Nepal
2001 - Queen Aiswarya of Nepal
1999 - Christopher Sydney Cockerell, British engineer and inventor
1998 - Darwin Joston, American actor
1996 - Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, Fifth President of India
1994 - Frances Heflin, American actress
1991 - David Ruffin, American singer (The Temptations)
1987 - Rashid Karami, Lebanese statesman
1986 - Jo Gartner, Austrian racing driver (d. 1958)
1985 - Richard Greene, British actor
1983 - Prince Charles of Belgium
1981 - Carl Vinson, U.S. Congressman
1980 - Arthur Nielsen, American market analyst
1980 - Rube Marquard, baseball player
1979 - Werner Forssmann, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1973 - Mary Kornman, American actress
1971 - Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian
1969 - Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian ice skater
1968 - André Laurendeau, French Canadian writer, journalist and politician
1968 - Helen Keller, American humanitarian
1966 - Papa Jack Laine, American musician
1965 - Earl "Curly" Lambeau, American football coach
1962 - Adolf Eichmann, Nazi official
1960 - Paula Hitler, Adolf Hitler's final living sibling
1960 - Lester Patrick, Canadian hockey player
1959 - Sax Rohmer, English author
1954 - Martin Andersen Nexø, Danish writer
1948 - Sonny Boy Williamson I, American musician
1946 - Ion Antonescu, Prime Minister of Romania
1943 - Wilfrid B. Israel, Jewish activist
1943 - Leslie Howard, English actor
1941 - Hans Berger, German neuroscientist
1927 - J. B. Bury, Irish historian
1879 - Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial son of Emperor Napoleon III
1876 - Hristo Botev, Bulgarian revolutionary
1873 - Joseph Howe, Canadian politician
1872 - James Gordon Bennett, Sr., American newspaper publisher
1868 - James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States
1864 - Hong Xiuquan, Chinese rebel
1846 - Pope Gregory XVI
1841 - David Wilkie, Scottish artist
1826 - Jean Frédéric Oberlin, Alsatian pastor
1823 - Louis Nicolas Davout, French marshal
1815 - Louis Alexandre Berthier, French marshal
1795 - Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist
1769 - Edward Holyoke, President of Harvard University
1740 - Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian
1710 - David Mitchell, British admiral
1660 - Mary Dyer, English Quaker (martyred)
1639 - Melchior Franck, German composer
1625 - Honoré d'Urfé, French writer
1616 - Tokugawa Ieyasu
1571 - John Story, English Catholic
1434 - Wladislaus II of Poland
193 - Marcus Severus Didius Julianus, Roman Emperor (b. 133)
195 BC - Gaozu of Han of China

Unusual Deaths in 1973

P�ter v�lyi, finance minister of hungary fell into a blast furnace (some sources say a pit of molten iron) on a visit to a steelworks factory at miskolc.

Bruce lee, a martial arts actor, is thought to have died by a severe allergic reaction to equagesic. his brain had swollen about 13%. his autopsy was written as "death by misadventure."

People who died on November 20 (various years)
2006 - Zoia Ceauşescu, Romanian mathematician
2006 - Andre Waters, American football player
2006 - Robert Altman, American film director
2005 - Chris Whitley, American musician
2005 - James King, American singer
2005 - Sheldon Gardner, American psychologist
2005 - Manouchehr Atashi, Iranian poet
2004 - Jenny Ross, English musician (Section 25)
2004 - David Grierson, Canadian radio host
2003 - Loris Azzaro, French fashion designer
2003 - Kerem Yilmazer, Turkish actor
2003 - Jim Siedow, American actor
2003 - Roger Short, British Consulate General
2003 - Eugene Kleiner, American entrepreneur
2003 - David Dacko, first President of the Central African Republic
2003 - Robert Addie, British actor (cancer)
2000 - Kalle Päätalo, Finnish writer
2000 - Mike Muuss, American computer programmer
1999 - Amintore Fanfani, Italian politician and prime minister
1998 - Galina Starovoitova, Russian politician
1997 - Dick Littlefield, baseball player
1995 - Sergei Grinkov, Russian Olympic and World Figure Skating Champion
1994 - John Lucarotti, TV writer
1990- Dylan Francis Robert McGurk, Child prodigy
1983 - Marcel Dalio, French actor
1980 - John McEwen, eighteenth Prime Minister of Australia
1978 - Vasilisk Gnedov, Russian poet
1976 - Trofim Lysenko, Stalinist biologist
1975 - Francisco Franco, Head of State of Spain (1936-1975)
1957 - Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian-Lithuanian artist (d. 1875)
1954 - Clyde Vernon Cessna, aviation pioneer (Cessna)
1950 - Francesco Cilea, Italian composer
1945 - Francis William Aston, British chemist, Nobel laureate
1938 - Enzo Matsunaga, Japanese writer
1936 - Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, Founder of the Falange. Executed by firing squad.
1936 - Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchist
1934 - Willem de Sitter, Dutch scientist
1925 - Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom
1910 (N.S.) - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist
1908 - Georgy Voronoy, Russian mathematician
1894 - Anton Rubinstein, Russian pianist and composer
1856 - Farkas Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician
1778 - Francesco Cetti, Italian Jesuit scientist
1764 - Christian Goldbach, Prussian mathematician
1758 - Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish composer
1742 - Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat
1737 - Caroline of Ansbach, Queen of George II of Great Britain
1704 - Charles Plumier, French botanist
1695 - Zumbi, Brazilian runaway slave
1662 - Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands
1651 - Mikołaj Potocki, Polish soldier
1612 - John Harington, English writer
1591 - Christopher Hatton, English politician
1529 - Karl von Miltitz, papal nuncio
1518 - Pierre de La Rue, Flemish composer
1518 - Marmaduke Constable, English soldier
1437 - Thomas Langley, bishop of Durham, cardinal and lord chancellor
1316 - King John I of France (d. 1316)
870 - King Edmund of East Anglia

136,112 people died when James was born.

Also, on that date in 1965, Malcolm X died.


Oddly enough, if I'm getting the date right, Linda McCartney died on the Friday of KR's first event.