Happy Dead Birthday to Famous People Who Were Born on October 19

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?

1512 Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology

1873 Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Rutgers Universities draft the first code of American football rules.

1973 President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes

1987 Black Monday - the Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%, 508 points.

2003 Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II

2005 Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity


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1680-1740 John Abernethy, Irish Protestant minister

1720-1772 John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist

1784-1857 John McLoughlin, Canadian fur trader and was the Chief Factor of the Columbia Fur District of the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Vancouver. He was later known as the "Father of Oregon"

1850-1935 Annie Smith Peck was an American mountaineer who promoted Pan-Americanism (peace between the Americas) and geographic education through her lectures, articles and books. She was fluent in Spanish, Portuguese and French

1885-1956 Charles Merrill, American investment banker and co-founder, with Edmund C. Lynch of Merrill Lynch & Company

1895-1999 Frank Durbin, last American veteran of the Battle of Verdun

1901-1996 Arleigh Burke was an admiral of the United States Navy who distinguished himself during World War II and the Korean War, and who served as Chief of Naval Operations during the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations.

1916-2009 Jean Dausset, French immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1922-2005 Jack Anderson, American journalist who won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting

1932- 1992 Robert Reed, American actor who played Mike Brady on The Brady Bunch

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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