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March 5, 1960 was an important day in my life... and quite a few other folks lives, too, it appears.
Amazing stat to think about. ;-D
Soooo...Anyone important, and famous, die on my Birthday in the last 48 years? In the centuries before I entered the world?
Here's a list from the above website, and my favorites.
Unusual Deaths in 1960
- Baritone leonard warren collapsed on the stage of the new york metropolitan opera of a major stroke during a performance of la forza del destino. according to legend, the last line he sang was "morir? tremenda cosa." ("to die? a tremendous thing.") however, witnesses say he was just past that aria and his actual last line was "gioia, o gioia!" (joy, oh joy!)
- In the nedelin disaster, over 100 soviet missile technicians and officials died when a switch was turned on unintentionally igniting the rocket, including red army marshal nedelin who was seated in a deck chair just 40 meters away overseeing launch preparations. the events were filmed by automatic cameras.
People who died on March 05 (various years)
1953 and 1963 were particularly good, and interesting, years. ;-D
- 2006 - Richard Kuklinski, American Mafia hit man
- 2004 - Walt Gorney, American actor
- 2000 - Lolo Ferrari, French actress
- 1999 - Richard Kiley, American actor
- 1997 - Samm Sinclair Baker, American diet author
- 1996 - Whit Bissell, American actor
- 1995 - Gregg Hansford, Australian motorcycle and touring car racer
- 1995 - Vivian Stanshall, English musician (Bonzo Dog Band)
- 1993 - Cyril Collard, French author and filmmaker
- 1990 - Gary Merrill, American film actor
- 1988 - Alberto Olmedo, Argentine comedian
- 1984 - William Powell, American actor
- 1984 - Tito Gobbi, Italian baritone
- 1982 - John Belushi, American actor
- 1981 - Yip Harburg, American lyricist
- 1980 - Winifred Wagner, German opera producer
- 1980 - Jay Silverheels, Canadian actor
- 1977 - Jansen Van Vuuren, Dutch volunteer safety marshall at the 1977 South African Grand Prix
- 1977 - Tom Pryce, Welsh Formula One driver
- 1974 - Sol Hurok, Russian-born impresario
- 1974 - Billy De Wolfe, American actor
- 1967 - Georges Vanier, Governor General of Canada
- 1966 - Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet
- 1965 - Pepper Martin, American baseball player
- 1965 - Chen Cheng, Chinese politician
- 1963 - Hawkshaw Hawkins, American singer
- 1963 - Cowboy Copas, American singer
- 1963 - Patsy Cline, American singer
- 1955 - Antanas Merkys, President of Lithuania
- 1953 - Herman J. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter
- 1953 - Joseph Stalin, Georgian leader of the Soviet Union
- 1953 - Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer
- 1947 - Alfredo Casella, Italian composer
- 1945 - Lena Baker, American murderer
- 1944 - Max Jacob, French poet and writer
- 1940 - Cai Yuanpei, Chinese educator
- 1931 - Fr. Arthur Tooth SSC, Anglican Clergyman prosecuted and imprisoned for ritualist activities
- 1927 - Franz Mertens, German mathematician
- 1926 - Clément Ader, French aviation pioneer
- 1925 - Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician
- 1907 - Friedrich Blass, German classical scholar
- 1903 - George Francis Robert Henderson, British soldier
- 1895 - Henry Rawlinson, British soldier and scholar
- 1895 - Nikolai Leskov, Russian writer
- 1893 - Hippolyte Taine, French historian (b. 1828
- 1876 - Marie d'Agoult, German-born writer
- 1849 - David Scott, Scottish painter
- 1829 - John Adams, last surviving HMS Bounty mutineer
- 1827 - Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist
- 1827 - Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician
- 1815 - Franz Mesmer, Austrian developer of hypnotism
- 1778 - Thomas Arne, English composer
- 1726 - Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, English politician
- 1695 - Henry Wharton, English writer
- 1622 - Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma
- 1611 - Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese warlord and samurai
- 1592 - Michael Coxcie, Flemish painter
- 1539 - Nuno da Cunha, Portuguese governor in India
- 1534 - Antonio da Correggio, Italian painter
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