Most famous person

[DTS]

Using Wikipedia Here Who is most famous person to pop his clogs on your birthday.

Calender is on the right hand side - Select your date.

I will start off with Bob Hope -

MtS to decide as I dont know whoose Napsters are already.

 

[Napster]

1849 - Edgar Allan Poe
1959 - Mario Lanza

or Clarence Birdseye - the founder of the frozen food industry
or Herbert Block- US cartoonist and inventor of the term Maccarthyism

I like Poe, myself

 

[DTS]

Quote[/b] (Napster @ Sep. 27 2006,16:25)]1849 - Edgar Allan Poe
1959 - Mario Lanza

or Clarence Birdseye - the founder of the frozen food industry
or Herbert Block- US cartoonist and inventor of the term Maccarthyism

I like Poe, myself

One you greddy git.

 

[Napster]

Quote[/b] (Dave the Shrimper @ Sep. 27 2006,16:27)]

Quote[/b] (Napster @ Sep. 27 2006,16:25)]1849 - Edgar Allan Poe
1959 - Mario Lanza

or Clarence Birdseye - the founder of the frozen food industry
or Herbert Block- US cartoonist and inventor of the term Maccarthyism

I like Poe, myself

One you greddy git.  

OK, Edgar Allan Poe

Creator of the modern horror story

 

[C C Csiders]

For me (august 27) it has to be Brian Epstein or Haile Selassie.

 

[overseas shrimper]

1982 - Princess Grace of Monaco, American actress (b. 1929)

 

[hexagon_sun]

My date of birth is a pretty poor day for celeb deaths (none in the actual year I was born). I'll go for;

2003 - Sam Phillips (had no idea he died so recently)

Honourable mentions;

579 - Pope Benedict I
1898 - Otto von Bismarck

 

[Davros]

i dont know who any of mine are, so this fella wins for 17th Dec...

942 - William Longsword


More interestingly, was also the day of the wright brothers first flight

 

[Smudger]

1937 - John D. Rockefeller, American entrepreneur (b. 1839)

Also Sam Snead 2002, Heinrich Himmler 1945 and the unforgettable Demchugdongrub (the Mongolian politician not the TV Presenter) 1966.

 

[mcrabb]

For me it's Louis XI of France...

More recently probably Charles Bronson...

 

[Napster]

Quote[/b] (dave @ Sep. 27 2006,16:36)]i dont know who any of mine are, so this fella wins for 17th Dec...

942 - William Longsword


More interestingly, was also the day of the wright brothers first flight

dave, i'm astounded - you don't know

1830 - Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan-born libertator, six nations (b. 1783)
1833 - Kaspar Hauser, German foundling (b. 1812)
1957 - Dorothy L. Sayers, British writer (b. 1893)
1999 - Grover Washington, Jr., American saxophonist (b. 1943)

Not to mention!

1987 - Linda Wong, Adult film actress (b. 1951)

 

[Hong Kong Blue]

Benjamin Franklin.

As one of the greatest men in history, I hope people are aware of him and don't class Linda McCartney or Dr Robert Atkins as the most famous person to have died on this date.

 

[The General]

1815 - Thomas Picton, British general (killed in battle)

 

[MK Shrimper]

Lenny Bruce, Arthur Lee.... in 1934 Hilter became supreme chancellor of Germany

but Jesse Owens won the 100M in the 1936 Berlin Olympics

 

[southend_utd_fan]

1894 - 22-year-old French Anarchist Emile Henry is executed by guillotine.

1904 - Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) founded in Paris.

 

[Jonny_Stokes]

John Candy. Farewell, fat lad.

 

[Stats]

7th Nov 1980 - Steve McQueen

Incidentally I share my birthday with John Barnes and Rio Ferdinand

 

[Alexis_SUFC]

No-one of any interest has died on the 8th August so I'm picking 1604 Horio Tadauji, just because he is a japanese warlord, and being a warlord sounds ok-ish

Danilo Blanusa died on the 8th August 1987, the day I was born.

Alexis

 

[Shrimpersarmy]

For those who always wondered why i was so sh!t at football please note i share a birthday with Dirk Kuyt, Stewart Downing and Dennis Rommedahl

 

[blues_r_best]

Quote[/b] (Shrimpersarmy @ Sep. 27 2006,18:10)]For those who always wondered why i was so sh!t at football please note i share a birthday with Dirk Kuyt, Stewart Downing and Dennis Rommedahl

 

t%$$&r.

Bernd Schuster and the legendary Dan Petrescu were born on the 22nd of December, along with Ralph Fiennes, Patricia Hewitt, Noel Edmonds, and the Gibb brothers.

As for Death, I have a choice of Samuel Beckett, Richard Dimbleby, George Eliot or Beatrix Potter.

And for Clash fans, Joe Strummer died on my B'day too.