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...

140,936  died on March 4, 1983.  And I was reading the list of people that died, one of them being one of the village people.  It also struck me the number of people that were executed on the day that I was born.  Including Louis Capone, a known gangster.  I wonder if theres a link between that and my path of forensics.

www.justsayhi.com/bb/death?dob=1985-06-03

Two Earthquakes, Two Storms, and a Two-Country Outbreak. And I'm a Gemini. OOOooo

140,890 Unusual Deaths in 1983
A diver on the byford dolphin oil exploration rig was violently dismembered and pulled through a narrowly opened hatch when the decompression chamber was accidentally opened, causing explosive decompression.
Sergei chalibashvili, a professional diver, died after a diving accident during world university games. when he attempted a three-and-a-half reverse somersault in the tuck position, he smashed his head on the board and was knocked unconscious. he died after being in a coma for a week.

143,853- Yeah thats a lot.

Fun deaths

1440 - Gilles de Rais, French serial killer
1633 - Horio Tadaharu, Japanese warlord
1866 - John Kinder Labatt, Irish-Canadian brewer (Labatt Brewing Company)-I channel his spirit
1965 - Sylvia Likens, American torture victim
2002 - Movsar Barayev, Chechen militant
2005 - Keith Parkinson, fantasy artist
While on the air giving a traffic report, the helicopter that jane dornacker was riding in stalled and crashed into the hudson river, killing her. this was the second helicopter crash she had been in that year. (personal comment-If at first you don't succeed try again)

www.justsayhi.com/bb/death?dob=1977-01-03

Approximately 136,004 people died worldwide on January 03, 1977.
Unusual Deaths in 1977
Tom pryce, a formula one driver, and a 19-year-old track marshal jansen van vuuren both died at the 1977 south african grand prix after van vuuren ran across the track beyond a blind brow to attend to another car which had caught fire and was struck by pryce's car at approximately 170mph. pryce was struck in the face by the marshal's fire extinguisher and was killed instantly.
People who died on January 03 (various years)
2007 - Earl Reibel, Canadian ice hockey forward Detroit Red Wings
2005 - Will Eisner, American comic book artist
2004 - Leon Wagner, American baseball player
2003 - Sid Gillman, American football coach
1967 - Jack Ruby, American killer of Lee Harvey Oswald
1437 - Catherine of Valois, wife of Henry V of England
1322 - King Philip V of France

145,598 deaths

2006 - Saddam Hussein, former Iraqi President (b. 1937) (executed)
1992 - Ling-Ling, panda given to the USA by China
1984 - Massa (gorilla), oldest gorilla on record
1460 - Richard, Duke of York, claimant to the English throne (killed in battle)

1292 - Pope Nicholas IV

1968 - Martin Luther King, Jr

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www.justsayhi.com/bb/death?dob=1976-09-12

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.

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. 

Research will not bring up this fact.  There are 39 books in the bible, with Christians adding another 27 in theirs.  Only one does not mention God.  Seems that there is another lesson about de[pendence in this book.  The book is charming, with lots of things left unsaid between the lines.  Ruth, another megillah. i.e., book written on one complete scroll (hence the Yiddish/English phrase "The whole megillah) is another favorite, as its literary style is wonderful.

Rabbi Cook, your name lives in your lessons which are retained.

March 30th 1952 for mine, and the same day 1988 for my son.
Natural disasters in 1952

    * Kamchatka earthquakes
    * 1952 San Juan earthquake

People who died on March 30 (various years)

    * 2006 - Red Hickey, American football coach
    * 2005 - Derrick Plourde, American drummer
    * 2005 - O. V. Vijayan, Indian author and cartoonist
    * 2005 - Fred Korematsu, American civil rights activist
    * 2005 - Milton Green, American athlete
    * 2005 - Robert Creeley, American poet
    * 2005 - Emil Dimitrov, Bulgarian singer
    * 2004 - Timi Yuro, American singer
    * 2004 - Michael King, New Zealand historian
    * 2004 - Hubert Gregg, British broadcaster
    * 2004 - Alistair Cooke, English-born journalist
    * 2003 - Valentin Pavlov, Prime Minister of the Soviet Union
    * 2003 - Michael Jeter, American actor
    * 2002 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen Mother of the United Kingdom
    * 1999 - Gary Morton, American film and television producer
    * 1992 - Manolis Andronikos, Greek archeologist, professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
    * 1988 - Edgar Faure, French politician
    * 1986 - James Cagney, American actor
    * 1985 - Harold Peary, American actor and singer (heart attack)
    * 1984 - Karl Rahner, German theologian
    * 1981 - DeWitt Wallace, American publisher
    * 1977 - Abdel Halim Hafez, Egyptian singer and actor
    * 1972 - Gabriel Heatter, American radio commentator
    * 1970 - Heinrich Brüning, Chancellor of Germany
    * 1968 - Bobby Driscoll, American actor
    * 1967 - Jean Toomer, American writer
    * 1966 - Maxfield Parrish, American artist
    * 1965 - Philip Showalter Hench, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    * 1959 - Daniil Andreev, Russian writer and mystic
    * 1950 - Léon Blum, French prime minister
    * 1949 - Friedrich Bergius, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
    * 1943 - Maciej Aleksy Dawidowski, Polish activist
    * 1943 - Jan Bytnar, Polish activist
    * 1936 - Conchita Supervía, Spanish opera singer
    * 1925 - Rudolf Steiner, Austrian philosopher
    * 1912 - Karl May, German author
    * 1896 - Charilaos Trikoupis, seven times prime-minister of Greece
    * 1886 - Joseph-Alfred Mousseau, French Canadian politician
    * 1879 - Thomas Couture, French painter and teacher
    * 1842 - Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, French painter
    * 1840 - Beau Brummell, English celebrity and dandy
    * 1804 - Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, Marshal of France
    * 1783 - William Hunter, Scottish anatomist
    * 1764 - Pietro Locatelli, Italian composer
    * 1707 - Vauban, French architect
    * 1662 - François le Métel de Boisrobert, French poet
    * 1587 - Ralph Sadler, English statesman
    * 1559 - Adam Ries, German mathematician
    * 1540 - Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg, German statesman and Archbishop of Salzburg
    * 1526 - Konrad Mutian, German humanist
    * 1486 - Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury