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2004 Former President George H. W. Bush celebrates his 80th birthday by skydiving
1997 George Petrie, actor (Honeymooners), dies on 85th birthday 1996 William Mitchell Byers, musician, dies on 79th birthday 1996 Gene Mitchell, museum director, dies on 70th birthday 1995 Victor Collin Matthews, businessman, dies on 76th birthday 1995 Actor Charlie Sheen (30th birthday) marries Donna Peele (25) 1993 Nan Grey, actress (Invisible Man Returns), dies on 75th birthday 1993 Prince celebrated his birthday by changing his name to a symbol 1991 Richard Speck, mass murderer, dies a day before his 50th birthday 1989 Andrei Gromyko, Soviet diplomat, dies just short of his 80th birthday 1988 Franklin D. Roosevelt,, Jr., Representative-D-New York 1949 - 1955, dies on 74th birthday 1988 4 Billion tv-viewers watch Mandela's 70th Birthday Tribute 1986 Richard Manuel, rock pianist/vocalist (Band), dies on 41st birthday 1985 Madonna weds Sean Penn on her 27th birthday 1984 Donald Ducks 50th birthday celebrated at Disneyland 1984 William "Count" Basie, jazz piano great, dies on 80th birthday 1984 Nate Nelson, R&B-singer (Flamingos-I'll Be Home), dies on 52 birthday 1983 George Cukor, director (My Fair Lady), dies on 84th birthday 1982 Dorothy James, composer, dies on 81st birthday 1982 Larry Breeding, actor (Who's Watching the Kids), dies on 36th birthday 1982 Ingrid Bergman, actress (Anastasia, Gaslight), dies on 67th birthday 1979 President Carter proposes Martin Luther King's birthday be a holiday 1978 French TV announced a rating of "0" for a program about an Armenian's woman's 40th birthday, (comp: Napoleanic drama-67%, Knockout-33%) 1977 Gertrude Astor, actress (Ship of Wanted Men), dies on 90th birthday 1974 James Morrison, actor (Don't, Black Beauty), dies on his 86th birthday 1974 Otto Kruger, actor (Lux Video Theater), dies on 89th birthday 1973 John Banner, actor (Schultz-Hogan's Heroes), dies on 62nd birthday 1973 Rudolf Kubin, composer, dies a day after 64th birthday 1972 "Crazy" Joe Gallo, mobster, killed at his 43rd birthday party 1970 Jani Christou, composer, dies on 44th birthday 1969 Giovanni Martinelli, Italian opera singer (New York Met), dies on 84th birthday 1967 Langston Hughes, poet/translator (Weary Blues), dies on 65th birthday 1966 Richard Farina, rocker, dies on his birthday in a motorcycle accident 1965 Dick Wessel, dies of heart attack on 52nd birthday 1964 Queen Elizabeth orders Beatles to her birthday party, they attend 1963 Jean Felix Piccard, swiss explorer, dies on his 79th birthday 1962 Clare Grogan, rocker, Altered Images-Happy Birthday 1961 U.S. government issues a stamp honoring 100th birthday of James Naismith 1961 John Joseph Becker, composer, dies a day before 75th birthday 1960 Pamelyn Ferdin, actress, Happy Birthday Wanda June, Tool Box Murders 1959 Lester Vail, actor (Dance Fools Dance), dies on 59th birthday 1959 Raffaele d' Alessandro, composer, dies on 48th birthday 1958 Harry Redman, composer, dies on 89th birthday 1958 Karl Erb, German tenor, dies on 81st birthday 1958 Premiere of Harold Pinter's "Birthday Party," in London 1951 Roy Campanella named NL MVP on his 30th birthday 1946 Patty Smith Hill, songwriter (Happy Birthday To You), dies at 78 1945 Henry van Goudoever, Dutch lawyer/judge, dies on his 69th birthday 1945 Carlo Felice Boghen, composer, dies a day before 76th birthday 1944 Antoine Mariotte, composer, dies on 69th birthday 1942 Edna May Oliver, dies on 59th birthday 1942 Anne Frank gets her diary as a birthday present, Amsterdam 1934 William Monroe Trotter, African, dies on 62nd birthday in Boston 1932 Anna Dickinson, dies just a week shy of her 90th birthday 1930 Gregory Corso, beat poet, Happy Birthday of Death, Long Live Man 1924 "Happy Birthday To You" published by Claydon Sunny 1922 Cornelis A Pekelharing, Dutch histologist, dies on 74th birthday 1919 Charles Harford Lloyd, composer, dies on 70th birthday 1916 Mildred J Hill, composer/musician (Happy Birthday To You), dies at 56 1915 Francesco Fanciulli, composer, dies on 62nd birthday 1913 Jose Marraco y Ferrer, composer, dies on 78th birthday 1900 Helen Hayes, Washington D.C., actress, Caesar and Cleopatra, Happy Birthday 1893 John Murray Corse, U.S. general (Union), dies on his 58th birthday 1893 Abner Doubleday, credit with inventing baseball, dies on 74th birthday 1888 Henri Herz, composer, dies at a day before 85th birthday 1882 Eugene L Simonis, Belgian sculptor, dies on 72nd birthday 1880 George Eliot, Victorian novelist (Adam Bede), dies on 61st birthday 1880 Theodore Roosevelt marries Alice Hathaway Lee, on his 22nd birthday 1868 Patty Smith Hill, author and songwriter, Happy Birthday To You 1859 Mildred J. Hill, composer/musician, Happy Birthday To You 1819 Oliver Hazard Perry, naval hero, dies on 34th birthday 1809 Franz Joseph Haydn, composer, dies on 77th birthday 1807 John Muhlenberg, Lutheran pastor, dies on his 61st birthday 1796 George Wilhelm Gruber, composer, dies on 67th birthday 1783 Friedrich Wilhelm Reidt, composer, dies on 73rd birthday 1753 George Berkeley, philosopher/bishop (Cloyne), dies on 68th birthday 1742 Evaristo EF dall' Abaco, Italian cellist/composer, dies on 67th birthday 1739 Benedetto Marcello, composer, dies on 53rd birthday 1687 Johannes Hevelius, astronomer (star cataloger), dies on 76th birthday 1642 Frans Francken, the Younger, Flemish painter, dies on 61st birthday 1520 Raphael [Sanzio], artist (Sistine Madonna), dies on his 37th birthday 1503 Elizabeth of York, Consort of King Henry VII, dies on 38th birthday |
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