Famous Dead Birthdays is just what it sounds like. Dead Birthdays are birthdays of famous people who have a birthday, but have already passed. For example, Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706 and he died on April 17, 1790. This means Benjamin Franklin’s Birthday is on January 17 th. If Benjamin Franklin was still alive in 2011, he would be 304 Yrs. Old. Famous Dead Birthdays is a type of trivia. How old would a dead famous person be (on their birthday) if they were still alive?
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1493 Christopher Columbus first sights the island now known as Puerto Rico
1865 Mark Twain’s short story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is published in the New York Saturday Press
1928 Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the third appearances of cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. This is also considered by the Disney corporation to be Mickey’s birthday.
1961 United States President John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam
1978 In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Temple cult to a mass murder-suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo J. Ryan is murdered by members of the Peoples Temple hours earlier.
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1861-1951 Dorothy Dix, American journalist who was the forerunner of today’s popular advice columnists, Dorothy Dix was America’s highest paid and most widely read female journalist at the time of her death. Her marriage advice was seen by 60 million people
1906-1988 Alec Issigonis, Greek-born British car designer of the Mini, launched by the British Motor Corporation
1908-2001 Imogene Coca, American actress and comedian
1909-1976 Johnny Mercer, American lyricist who wrote over 1500 songs
1919-2005 Jocelyn Brando, American actress who was the older sister of Marlon Brando
1919-2011 Georgia Carroll, American singer, fashion model, and actress
1923-1998 Alan Shepard, American astronaut, the first American in space
1929-1982 Joey Forman, American comedian and comic actor, NBC sitcom The Mickey Rooney Show: Hey, Mulligan, as Mickey’s best friend, Freddy.
1941-2003 David Hemmings, British actor
1945-2010 Wilma Mankiller, American tribal chief, first female chief of the Cherokee Nation
1959-1998 Karla Faye Tucker, first woman to be executed in the United States since 1984
Famous Dead Birthdays is just what it sounds like. Dead Birthdays are birthdays of famous people who have a birthday, but have already passed. For example, Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706 and he died on April 17, 1790. This means Benjamin Franklin’s Birthday is on January 17 th. If Benjamin Franklin was still alive in 2011, he would be 304 Yrs. Old. Famous Dead Birthdays is a type of trivia. How old would a dead famous person be (on their birthday) if they were still alive?
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