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?
What Happened Today in History?
1823 Monroe Doctrine: US President James Monroe delivers a speech establishing American neutrality in future European conflicts, we all know how well that worked
1845 Manifest Destiny: US President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.
The Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.
1930 The Great Depression: US President Herbert Hoover goes before the United States Congress and asks for a 150 million dollars public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy.
1939 New York City’s La Guardia Airport opens.
1980 Four U.S. nuns and churchwomen, Ita Ford, Maura Clarke, Jean Donovan, and Dorothy Kazel, are murdered by a death squad in El Salvador
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1694-1771 William Shirley, Colonial Governor of Massachusetts
1738-1775 Richard Montgomery was an Irish-born soldier who first served in the British Army. He later became a brigadier-general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, sadly he is famous for leading the failed 1775 invasion of Canada
1754-1809 William Cooper, American judge and the founder of Cooperstown, New York
1760-1806 John Breckinridge was an American politician and 5th United States Attorney General
1863-1926 Charles Ringling, American circus owner of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus
1910-1991 Russell Lynes, American art historian, photographer, author and managing editor of Harper’s Magazine for twenty years
1914-2001 Ray Walston, American actor, he played the main character in My Favorite Martian which was a television sitcom in the 1960’s
1924-2010 Alexander Haig, American General & Civil servant, 7th Supreme Allied Commander Europe, 5th White House Chief of Staff and 59th United States Secretary of State, he won the Distinguished Service Cross, the Silver Star with oak leaf cluster, and the Purple Heart while serving in the Korean and Vietnam Wars
1946-1997 Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer
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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