Saturday, February 9, 2008

The Death Report

Update: Apparently, these cool trivia games are sponsored by a dating service, and the pre-made HTML they gave me only leads to their dating site. Soooo...copy and paste this address into your browser instead:

www.howmanyfiveyearscouldyoutakeinafight.com

Then scroll down to the bottom, where you can find the CORRECT links to all the fun quizzes that I posted on this site.

Sorry...DeLyn

More fun for February...

In this activity, you type in your birthday, and they tell you who died on the day you came into this world. Not that I am promoter of all things morbid, but as a creative person, I do enjoy all things odd.

I was born March 15th. Here is a list of people who died on that day. The only one I knew about was Julius Caesar.

2007 - Charles Harrelson, American hitman and father of Woody Harrelson
2007 - Bowie Kuhn, American commissioner of baseball
2006 - Red Storey, Canadian football player and hockey referee
2006 - George Rallis, Prime Minister of Greece
2005 - Shoji Nishio, Japanese martial artist
2005 - Bob Bellear, Australian judge
2004 - John Pople, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
2004 - Sir William Pickering, New Zealand-born space scientist
2003 - Dame Thora Hird, British actress
2001 - Ann Sothern, American actress
1998 - Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician and writer
1997 - Victor Vasarely, Hungarian painter
1997 - Gail Davis, American actress
1994 - Mai Zetterling, Swedish actress and director
1991 - Bud Freeman, American jazz musician
1990 - Tom Harmon, American football player and broadcaster
1990 - Farzad Bazoft, Iranian-born journalist (hanged)
1989 - Muhammad Jameel Didi, Maldivian poet
1988 - Dmitri Polyakov, Soviet double-agent
1983 - Rebecca West, English writer
1981 - René Clair, French film director
1977 - Hubert Aquin, Quebec novelist, political activist and editor
1977 - Antonino Rocca, Argentine professional wrestler
1975 - Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate
1972 - Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov, Russian painter
1970 - Tarjei Vesaas, Norwegian writer
1966 - Abe Saperstein, American basketball executive
1962 - Arthur Compton, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1959 - Lester Young, American musician
1957 - Ernst Nobs, Swiss Federal Councilor
1951 - John S. Paraskevopoulos, Greek-born astronomer
1941 - Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter
1937 - H. P. Lovecraft, American writer
1914 - Jalaleddin Ali Mir Abolfazl Angha, Sufi master
1898 - Henry Bessemer, English metallurgist
1891 - Joseph Bazalgette, English civil engineer
1891 - Théodore de Banville, French writer
1849 - Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Italian cardinal and linguist
1842 - Luigi Cherubini, Italian composer
1820 - Clemens Maria Hofbauer, patron saint of Vienna (b. 1751
1711 - Eusebio Kino, Italian Catholic missionary
1701 - Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer
1673 - Salvator Rosa, Italian painter and poet
1670 - John Davenport, Connecticut pioneer
1644 - Louise Juliana of Nassau, Regent of Bohemia (born 1576)
1575 - Annibale Padovano, Italian composer
1536 - Pargalı İbrahim Pasha, Grand Vizer under Suleiman the Magnificent
1416 - John, Duke of Berry, son of John II of France
1311 - Walter V of Brienne, Duke of Athens
1145 - Pope Lucius II
493 - Odoacer, King of Italy (murdered) (b. 435)
220 - Cao Cao, King of Wei (b. 155)
44 BC - Julius Caesar (b. 100 BC)

137,760 People



Who died on your birthday?

DeLyn

1 comment:

Nathalie said...

That is a bit creepy, don't you think!