145,830 People
Natural disasters in 1989
* Hurricane Hugo
* Loma Prieta earthquake
* 1989 Newcastle earthquake
People who died on April 16 (various years)
* 2007 - G. V. Loganathan, Hindu American professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
* 2007 - Liviu Librescu, American Jewish-Romanian professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics
* 2007 - Kevin Granata, American professor of Engineering
* 2007 - Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, American instructor of French
* See List of victims of the Virginia Tech massacre for the complete list 2007 - Seung-Hui Cho, Korean American murderer
* 2007 - Maria Lenk, Brazilian swimmer and first Brazilian woman to compete in the Olympic Games
* 2007 - Gaetan Duchesne, Canadian hockey player
* 2006 - Francisco Adam, Portuguese actor and model
* 2005 - Marla Ruzicka, American humanitarian worker and peace activist
* 2005 - Kay Walsh, British actress
* 2003 - Graham Stuart Thomas, English author and garden designer
* 2002 - Robert Urich, American actor
* 2002 - Ruth Fertel, American restaurateur
* 2001 - Alec Stock, English football manager
* 2001 - Michael Ritchie, American film director
* 1999 - Skip Spence, Canadian-born guitarist, singer and songwriter (Jefferson Airplane)
* 1998 - Alberto Calderón, Argentine mathematician
* 1998 - Fred Davis, English snooker player
* 1997 - Roland Topor, French illustrator
* 1997 - Doris Angleton, American socialite
* 1996 - Stavros Niarchos, Greek shipping tycoon
* 1995 - Iqbal Masih, Pakistani child slave labourer, activist
* 1994 - Ralph Ellison, American writer
* 1992 - Neville Brand, American actor
* 1991 - David Lean, British film director
* 1985 - Scott Brady, American actor
* 1978 - Lucius Clay, American general
* 1972 - Kawabata Yasunari, Japanese writer, Nobel Prize laureate
* 1970 - Richard Neutra, American architect
* 1968 - Edna Ferber, American author
* 1958 - Rosalind Franklin, British chemist
* 1947 - Rudolf Hoess, commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp
* 1946 - Arthur Chevrolet, Swiss-born race car driver and automobile designer
* 1938 - Steve Bloomer, English footballer
* 1930 - José Carlos Mariátegui, Peruvian journalist, political philosopher and activist
* 1928 - Henry Birks, Canadian businessman, founder of Henri Birks and Sons
* 1915 - Nelson W. Aldrich, American politician
* 1914 - George William Hill, American astronomer
* 1904 - Samuel Smiles, Scottish writer and reformer
* 1904 - Maximilian Kronberger, German poet
* 1888 - Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist
* 1879 - Bernadette Soubirous, French shepherd girl
* 1859 - Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian
* 1850 - Marie Tussaud, founder of the Madame Tussauds wax museum
* 1846 - Domenico Dragonetti, Italian composer
* 1828 - Francisco de Goya, Spanish painter
* 1788 - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French naturalist
* 1783 - Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer
* 1689 - Aphra Behn, English dramatist
* 1687 - George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman
* 1645 - Tobias Hume, English composer
* 1198 - Duke Frederick I of Austria
* 1118 - Adelaide del Vasto, wife of Roger II of Sicily
* 1113 - Sviatopolk II of Kiev, Russian prince
* 924 - Berengar of Friuli, King of Italy
* 744 - al-Walid II, Umayyad caliph
* 69 - Otho, Roman Emperor (b. 32)
YOU STILL WANT THAT B'DAY TREAT??? ;)
5 comments:
Supper cool!!!!!! =D
You couldn't have posted anything better than this!!
( What was I thinking back then? =O )
Lol
By the way I guess my birthday is better than yours!
[b]Approximately 148,975 people died worldwide on March 22 =D
very funny.....and m realy upset that u were born on that day ;)..but stil we want the TREAT!!!
funny...but i wan ur b'day treat;)..
n u could hav written all great people born on tat day..if ter ws ny;)
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