Happy Dead Birthday to Famous People Who Were Born on October 27

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?

1682 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded.

1904 The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes the biggest in United States and one of the biggest in world.

1954 Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force

1962 Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down in Cuba by a Soviet-supplied SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile

1964 Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. The speech launched his political career and came to be known as "A Time for Choosing".

1988 Ronald Reagan decides to tear down the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow because of Soviet listening devices in the building structure.

1992 United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is brutally murdered by shipmate Terry M. Helvey for being gay, precipitating first military, then national, debate about gays in the military that resulted in the United States "Don't ask, don't tell" military policy.

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1728-1779 James Cook, British naval captain and explorer

1811-1875 Isaac Singer was an American inventor who made important improvements in the design of the sewing machine and was the founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Company

1811-1843 Stevens Thomson Mason, 1st Governor of Michigan

1838-1915 John Davis Long, 32nd Governor of Massachusetts

1854-1914 Sir William Smith, Scottish founder of the Boys' Brigade

1858-1919 Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

1873-1960 Emily Post, American etiquette author

1896-1997 Edith Brown, survivor of the Titanic

1915-1994 Harry Saltzman, American film producer

1923-1997 Roy Lichtenstein, American artist

1925-2011 Warren Christopher, American diplomat and 63rd United States Secretary of States

1926-1993 H.R. Haldeman, American political aide and 4th White House Chief of Staff

1940-2002 John Gotti, American crime boss

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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