The Forgotten
 Join Date: Aug 2007 Gender
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Location: Between paradise and the abyss
Age: 20
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Re: How many people died on your B-day?
Approximately 145,054 people died worldwide on April 26, 1988.
Spoiler!
Natural disasters in 1988
1988 Spitak earthquake
Hurricane Gilbert
People who died on April 26 (various years)
2007 - Jack Valenti, American political advisor and film executive
2005 - Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan author
2005 - Maria Schell, Swiss-Austrian actress
2005 - Mason Adams, American actor
2004 - Hubert Selby Jr., American author
2003 - Peter Stone, American writer
2003 - Max Nicholson, Irish environmentalist
2003 - Rosemary Brown, Canadian politician
1999 - Jill Dando, British television presenter (b.1961)
1996 - Stirling Silliphant, American writer and producer
1991 - Richard Hatfield, Canadian politician
1991 - Emily McLaughlin, American actress
1991 - Carmine Coppola, American composer and conductor
1991 - Leo Arnaud, French-American composer
1989 - Lucille Ball, American actress and comedian
1987 - Shankar, Of Noted Bollywood Music Director Duo Shankar-Jaikishan
1987 - John Ernest Silkin, British politician
1986 - Bessie Love, American actress
1986 - Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter
1986 - Broderick Crawford, American actor (stroke)
1984 - Count Basie, American musician and composer
1981 - Jim Davis, American actor
1976 - Sid James, British comedian
1973 - Irene Ryan, American actress
1970 - Gypsy Rose Lee, American actress
1970 - Erik Bergman, Lutheran pastor
1969 - Morihei Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist and founder of aikido
1964 - E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet born Newfoundland
1957 - Gichin Funakoshi, Father of Japanese Shotokan Karatedo
1956 - Edward Arnold, American actor
1951 - Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist
1950 - G. Murray Hulbert, American politician
1945 - Sigmund Rascher, Nazi doctor
1945 - Pavlo Skoropadsky, Ukrainian politician and general
1944 - Violette Morris, French athlete
1940 - Carl Bosch, German chemist, Nobel laureate
1938 - Edmund Husserl, Austrian philosopher
1932 - William Lockwood, English cricketer
1920 - Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician
1910 - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian author, Nobel laureate
1892 - Sir Provo Wallis, British Admiral and naval hero
1881 - Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, German general
1865 - John Wilkes Booth, American actor and assassin (shot)
1789 - Count Petr Ivanovich Panin, Russian soldier
1784 - Nano Nagle, Irish convent founder
1716 - John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor of England
1489 - Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun
1478 - Giuliano di Piero de' Medici, ruler of Florence (assassinated)
1476 - Simonetta Vespucci, inspiration of Botticelli (b.1453)
1444 - Robert Campin, Flemish painter
1192 - Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan
A side note: On April 26, 1986 in Ukraine, a nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, creating the world's worst nuclear disaster. I know its not in the same year but still unlikely day to me. |