Comments on: The Quick 10: 10 People Who Died on Their Birthdays

By: Steve Miller

Steve Miller — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:44:02 +0000

I’ve spent some time on this subject for my web site, and have a list here of people who died on, or within a week of, their birthdays:

http://www.born-today.com/Today/diedonbirthday.htm

By: Vishal Sathyan

Vishal Sathyan — Mon, 10 May 2010 12:12:44 +0000

Actress Ingrid Bergman(1915-1982)was another person.She was born on August 29th,1915 and died on August 29th,1982.

By: tasmanian devil

tasmanian devil — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:06:15 +0000

I was looking through the death notices in the paper last year and spotted one old lady who died two days before her hundredth birthday. Its a long innings but I still felt sorry for her.

By: John

John — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:51:40 +0000

Perhaps not as well-known, but certainly an important historical figure, John Harrison died March 24th, on his 83rd birthday. He was the inventor of the “marine chronometer”, the first seaworthy clock capable of keeping time accurately enough to measure longtitude while at sea.

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:29:00 +0000

Harry Houdini was born on March 24, 1874 in Hungary and died on October 31, 1926 in Detroit, MI.

By: Axes

Axes — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:43:00 +0000

Walter Diemer died one day after :)

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:42:00 +0000

YasujirÅ Ozu, amazing Japanese filmmaker, was born and died on December 12 (which also happens to be my birthday).

By: Steven

Steven — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:34:00 +0000

Levi P. Morton died on May 16 (which would have been his birthday) not May 15 as you have listed above.

By: Yelena

Yelena — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:29:00 +0000

You forgot Harry Houdini (not his real name by the way), who was born and died on Halloween. I don’t remember what year, but if I recall correctly, he died from appendicitis (apologize if I’ve mispelled it).

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:58:00 +0000

Paul Harvey didn’t die on his birthday, or anywhere close to it, really.

Born Sept. 4th, passed away Feb. 28th.

and now you know…the rest of the story.