How many people died on your birthday?
Jun 25, 2013 21:57:04 GMT -5
Post by Jelly on Jun 25, 2013 21:57:04 GMT -5
I found this interesting little quiz thing and thought I'd share it. It's sad, but also interesting.
153,447 people died the day I was born.
See who died on your birthday? xD >> www.oneplusyou.com/bb/death
153,447 people died the day I was born.
People who died on October 23, 1998 (the exact day you were born)
Barnett Slepian, American physician
Unusual Deaths in 1998
Daniel v. jones was a former hotel maintenance worker in long beach, california who shot himself through the chin on the los angeles expressway on live television. his suicide was apparently caused by his resentment against his hmo for inadequately treating him when he was diagnosed with cancer and hiv.
Tom and eileen lonergan were stranded while scuba diving with a group of divers off australia's great barrier reef. the group's boat accidentally abandoned them due to an incorrect head count taken by the dive boat crew. the couple was left to fend for themselves in shark-infested waters. their bodies were never recovered. the incident is depicted in the film open water.
Natural disasters in 1998
Hurricane Mitch
New York State Labor Day Derechos
North American ice storm of 1998
October 1998 South Central Texas floods
1998 Papua New Guinea earthquake
1998 Yangtze River Floods
People who died on October 23 (various years)
2006 - Lebo Mathosa, South African entertainer
2005 - John Muth, American economist
2005 - Stella Obasanjo, Nigerian first lady
2004 - Robert Merrill, American baritone
2003 - Soong May-ling, wife of the President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek
2003 - Tony Capstick, English actor, comedian, and musician
2002 - Adolph Green, American lyricist and playwright
2001 - Ronald William Kirby, British artist
1997 - Bert Haanstra, Dutch filmmaker
1996 - Bob Grim, baseball player
1990 - Louis Althusser, French philosopher
1989 - Armida, Mexican-American stage, vaudeville and film actress
1986 - Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1984 - Oskar Werner, Austrian actor
1984 - James Petrillo, leader of the U.S. musicians union
1983 - Jessica Savitch, American journalist
1978 - Maybelle Carter, American guitarist and musical innovator
1959 - Gerda Lundequist, Swedish actress
1950 - Al Jolson, American singer and actor
1944 - Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1942 - Ralph Rainger, American composer
1939 - Zane Grey, American author
1921 - John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor
1915 - W. G. Grace, English cricketer
1910 - Chulalongkorn, King of Thailand
1885 - Charles S. West, Texas jurist and politician
1872 - Théophile Gautier, French writer
1869 - Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1774 - Michel Benoist, French Jesuit missionary and scientist
1764 - Emmanuel-Auguste de Cahideuc, Comte Dubois de la Motte, French naval officer
1730 - Anne Oldfield, English actress
1688 - Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, French philologist
1616 - Leonhard Hutter, German theologian
1581 - Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer
1550 - Tiedemann Giese, Polish Catholic bishop
1456 - Giovanni da Capistrano, Italian saint
930 - Daigo, Emperor of Japan (b. 885)
42 BC - Marcus Junius Brutus, Roman senator (b. 85 BC)
Barnett Slepian, American physician
Unusual Deaths in 1998
Daniel v. jones was a former hotel maintenance worker in long beach, california who shot himself through the chin on the los angeles expressway on live television. his suicide was apparently caused by his resentment against his hmo for inadequately treating him when he was diagnosed with cancer and hiv.
Tom and eileen lonergan were stranded while scuba diving with a group of divers off australia's great barrier reef. the group's boat accidentally abandoned them due to an incorrect head count taken by the dive boat crew. the couple was left to fend for themselves in shark-infested waters. their bodies were never recovered. the incident is depicted in the film open water.
Natural disasters in 1998
Hurricane Mitch
New York State Labor Day Derechos
North American ice storm of 1998
October 1998 South Central Texas floods
1998 Papua New Guinea earthquake
1998 Yangtze River Floods
People who died on October 23 (various years)
2006 - Lebo Mathosa, South African entertainer
2005 - John Muth, American economist
2005 - Stella Obasanjo, Nigerian first lady
2004 - Robert Merrill, American baritone
2003 - Soong May-ling, wife of the President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek
2003 - Tony Capstick, English actor, comedian, and musician
2002 - Adolph Green, American lyricist and playwright
2001 - Ronald William Kirby, British artist
1997 - Bert Haanstra, Dutch filmmaker
1996 - Bob Grim, baseball player
1990 - Louis Althusser, French philosopher
1989 - Armida, Mexican-American stage, vaudeville and film actress
1986 - Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1984 - Oskar Werner, Austrian actor
1984 - James Petrillo, leader of the U.S. musicians union
1983 - Jessica Savitch, American journalist
1978 - Maybelle Carter, American guitarist and musical innovator
1959 - Gerda Lundequist, Swedish actress
1950 - Al Jolson, American singer and actor
1944 - Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1942 - Ralph Rainger, American composer
1939 - Zane Grey, American author
1921 - John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor
1915 - W. G. Grace, English cricketer
1910 - Chulalongkorn, King of Thailand
1885 - Charles S. West, Texas jurist and politician
1872 - Théophile Gautier, French writer
1869 - Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1774 - Michel Benoist, French Jesuit missionary and scientist
1764 - Emmanuel-Auguste de Cahideuc, Comte Dubois de la Motte, French naval officer
1730 - Anne Oldfield, English actress
1688 - Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, French philologist
1616 - Leonhard Hutter, German theologian
1581 - Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer
1550 - Tiedemann Giese, Polish Catholic bishop
1456 - Giovanni da Capistrano, Italian saint
930 - Daigo, Emperor of Japan (b. 885)
42 BC - Marcus Junius Brutus, Roman senator (b. 85 BC)
See who died on your birthday? xD >> www.oneplusyou.com/bb/death
We did get a demo simulator-like thing, too