i ain't done no meme in a long while ~

[lookingland]

so here's some famous births and deaths on my birthday inspired by a meme from shegotsushi

births ~

* 1650 - Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian cartographer and encylopedist (d. 1718)
* 1888 - T. E. Lawrence, English writer and soldier (d. 1935)
* 1892 - Otto Messmer, American cartoonist (d. 1983)
* 1920 - Charles Bukowski, American poet (d. 1994)
* 1924 - Fess Parker, American actor
* 1931 - Eydie Gorme, American singer
* 1933 - Julie Newmar, American actress
* 1940 - Bruce Beresford, Australian film director
* 1946 - Lesley Ann Warren, American actress
* 1953 - Kathie Lee Gifford, French-born singer and actress
* 1954 - James Cameron, Canadian film director
* 1958 - Angela Bassett, American actress
* 1958 - Madonna, American singer and actress
* 1960 - Timothy Hutton, American actor

deaths ~

* 1327 - Roch, French saint
* 1419 - Wenceslaus, King of the Romans, King of Bohemia (b. 1361)
* 1661 - Thomas Fuller, English churchman and historian (b. 1608)
* 1733 - Matthew Tindal, English deist (b. 1657)
* 1899 - Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, German chemist (b. 1811)
* 1938 - Robert Johnson, American singer and guitarist (b. 1911)
* 1938 - Andrej Hlinka, Slovak politician and priest (b. 1864)
* 1948 - Babe Ruth, baseball player (b. 1895)
* 1949 - Margaret Mitchell, American novelist (b. 1900)
* 1956 - Bela Lugosi, Hungarian actor (b. 1882)
* 1977 - Elvis Presley, American singer and actor (b. 1935)
* 2003 - Idi Amin, Ugandan dictator (b. 1928)
* 2004 - Robert Quiroga, American boxer (b. 1969)
* 2005 - Frère Roger of Taizé, Swiss monk and mystic (b. 1915)

Frère Roger of Taizé's assassination is
the most recent death of a famous person
on my birthday.

Comments

[countrysoaper.livejournal.com]

Swiss monk and mystic? I can only imagine what he's saying to the girl in the picture:

"Do not have premarital sex. I know you're going to have premarital sex, anyway, but I'm telling you, don't have premarital sex."

[countrysoaper.livejournal.com]

Oooooo! Look at your journal now!