Tuesday, September 23, 2008

B-Day

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People who died on September 23, 1970 (the exact day you were born)

  • Bourvil, French actor and singer

Natural disasters in 1970

  • 1970 Bhola cyclone
  • 1970 Ancash earthquake

People who died on September 23 (various years)

  • 2006 - Etta Baker, US-American blues guitarist (b.1913)
  • 2006 - Sir Malcolm Arnold, English composer and professional trumpeter
  • 2005 - Roger Brierley, English actor
  • 2005 - Filiberto Ojeda, Puerto Rican revolutionary
  • 2004 - Billy Reay, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
  • 2004 - André Hazes, Dutch singer
  • 2003 - Yuri Senkevich, Russian TV anchorman
  • 2002 - Vernon Corea, Sri Lankan broadcaster
  • 2000 - Carl Rowan, US-American journalist
  • 2000 - Aurelio Rodríguez, Mexican Major League Baseball player
  • 1998 - Mary Frann, US-American actress
  • 1994 - Madeleine Renaud, French theater and film actress
  • 1994 - Robert Bloch, US-American author
  • 1994 - Jerry Barber, US-American golfer
  • 1992 - James Van Fleet, U.S. Army general
  • 1988 - Tibor Sekelj, Croatian explorer
  • 1987 - Bob Fosse, US-American dancer, choreographer, and actor
  • 1981 - Chief Dan George, Canadian actor
  • 1978 - Lyman Bostock, US-American baseball player (murdered)
  • 1974 - Cliff Arquette, US-American comedian and actor
  • 1973 - Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1971 - Billy Gilbert, US-American actor
  • 1971 - J. W. Alexander, US-American mathematician
  • 1968 - Francesco Forgione, "Padre Pio", Catholic saint
  • 1950 - Sam Barry, US-American basketball player and coach
  • 1944 - Jakob Schaffner, Swiss novelist
  • 1943 - Elinor Glyn, English author
  • 1939 - Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist
  • 1935 - the first two victims of the Cleveland Torso Murderer
  • 1929 - Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1917 - Werner Voss, German World War I pilot
  • 1900 - William Marsh Rice, US-American philanthropist and university founder
  • 1889 - Wilkie Collins, British author
  • 1877 - Urbain Le Verrier, French mathematician
  • 1873 - Jean Chacornac, French astronomer
  • 1871 - Louis-Joseph Papineau, French Canadian politician
  • 1870 - Prosper Mérimée, French author
  • 1850 - José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan hero
  • 1846 - John Ainsworth Horrocks, English-born explorer of South Australia
  • 1844 - Alexander von Benckendorff, Russian general and statesman
  • 1835 - Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer
  • 1789 - John Rogers, US-American Continental Congressman
  • 1773 - Johann Ernst Gunnerus, Norwegian bishop and botanist
  • 1764 - Robert Dodsley, English writer
  • 1738 - Herman Boerhaave, Dutch humanist and physician
  • 1728 - Christian Thomasius, German jurist
  • 1675 - Valentin Conrart, founder of the Académie Française
  • 1605 - Pontus de Tyard, French poet
  • 1573 - Azai Hisamasa, Japanese warlord
  • 1571 - John Jewel, English bishop
  • 1535 - Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, queen of Gustav I of Sweden
  • 1390 - John I, Duke of Lorraine
  • 1241 - Snorri Sturluson, Icelandic historian, poet, and politician
  • 79 - Pope Linus

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7 comments:

  1. happy birthday young man!

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  2. Happy Birthday!! Put some honorary jazz hands in the air for Bob Fosse (d. 1987) when you blow out your candles.

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  3. Happy Birthday Emaw!

    Today is also my ex work husband's birthday AND most important my Mom's!!!

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  4. Thanks for all the well wishes. Birthday was a smashing successs.

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  5. Belated birthday wishes. Believe it or not, I remember (from kindergarten) that you are a September birthday. Just had no clue which day. Hope it was good.

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