Happy Dead Birthday to Famous People Who Were Born on December 1

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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?

1864 In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation

1885 First serving of the soft drink Dr Pepper at a drug store in Waco, Texas (United States).

1913 The Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line.

1955 American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to the Montgomery Bus Boycott

1958 The Our Lady of the Angels School fire in Chicago, Illinois, kills 92 children and three nuns.

1960 Paul McCartney and Pete Best are arrested then deported from Hamburg, Germany, after accusations of attempted arson.

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1761-1850 Marie Tussaud, French creator of wax sculptures (Madame Tussauds)

1847-1920 Julia Ann Moore, American poet who wrote notoriously bad poetry

1886-1975 Rex Stout, American author and creator of Nero Wolfe and A Family Affair

1912-1986 Minoru Yamasaki was a Japanese-American architect, best known for his design of the twin towers of the World Trade Center, buildings 1 and 2

1913-1990 Mary Martin, American actor and singer and mother of Larry Hagman who played J.R. Ewing on Dallas

1931-2007 Jim Nesbitt, singer "Please Mr. Kennedy"

1933-2006 Lou Rawls, American singer

1940-2005 Richard Pryor, American comic and actor

1949-1993 Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord

1976-1998 Matthew Shepard, American openly-gay murder victim


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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  • Jack Wellman12/1/2011

    Lou Rawls stands out to me on this list Leroy.

  • Michele Starkey12/1/2011

    Thanks, cheers :)

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