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re: What famous celebrity died the year you were born?

Posted on 2/7/20 at 7:12 pm to
Posted by MSG
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Posted on 2/7/20 at 7:12 pm to
Babe Ruth and Elvis died on my birthday. Aug 16th
This post was edited on 2/7/20 at 7:14 pm
Posted by blueridgeTiger
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Posted on 2/7/20 at 7:14 pm to
Posted by TheFonz
Somewhere in Louisiana
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Posted on 2/7/20 at 7:41 pm to
1979- John Wayne
This post was edited on 2/7/20 at 7:42 pm
Posted by gumbo2176
Member since May 2018
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Posted on 2/7/20 at 7:57 pm to
1952:

Curley Howard---- Three Stooges
George VI---- King of England
Maria Montessori----Educator
John Garfield----American Actor
Eva Peron----1st lady of Argentina
Hattie McDaniel---1st African/American to win an Oscar (Gone With The Wind)
Posted by lsuwontonwrap
Member since Aug 2012
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Posted on 2/7/20 at 8:04 pm to
Belushi was the big one. '82

Also, Ingrid Bergman, Grace Kelly, and Ward Cleaver.
Posted by chinese58
NELA. after 30 years in Dallas.
Member since Jun 2004
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Posted on 2/7/20 at 8:21 pm to
Didn't know where to look for that info. Googled, and found these names.

1959: George Marshall, William Halsey Jr., Cecil B Demille, Errol Flynn, Frank Lloyd Wright, George Reaves, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper

https://www.thefamouspeople.com/died-1959.php
Posted by LSU
Houston
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Posted on 2/7/20 at 8:26 pm to
Keith Moon
Norman Rockwell
Posted by Saint Alfonzo
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Posted on 2/7/20 at 8:29 pm to
Next question, what's your first pet's name?
Posted by Jalbow3
Trussville
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Posted on 2/7/20 at 8:36 pm to
Joe Louis
Natalie Wood
Bob Marley

Someone older would have to tell me who was more popular at the time.
Posted by mulletproof
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Posted on 2/7/20 at 8:43 pm to
Ha, your old..





















3 months younger than you.
Posted by ArchiTiger
Member since Jan 2004
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Posted on 2/7/20 at 8:45 pm to
Howard Hughes
Agatha Christie
Alvar Aalto - died on my birthday. (One architect died; one was born — he has had the more illustrious career haha)
This post was edited on 2/7/20 at 8:49 pm
Posted by moester75
Anne Arundel County, MD
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Posted on 2/7/20 at 9:03 pm to
I googled your quest out of curiosity and the name that most people would recognize is Jimmy Hoffa I guess.
Posted by Silent Death
Southwest Mississippi
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Posted on 2/7/20 at 9:03 pm to
Humphrey Bogart 1957
Posted by Jake88
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Posted on 2/7/20 at 9:09 pm to
M.C. Escher
Posted by OldTigahFot
Drinkin' with the rocket scientists
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Posted on 2/7/20 at 9:17 pm to
William Randolph Hearst
Shoeless Joe Jackson

1951

Posted by Peazey
Metry
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Posted on 2/7/20 at 9:56 pm to
Pistol Pete
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope
Cloud 8
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Posted on 2/7/20 at 10:10 pm to
Jim Thorpe-Athlete
Douglas Southall Freeman-Historian
Eugene O'Neill-Author
Dylan Thomas-Author
Django Reinhardt-Muscian
Hank Williams-Muscian
Arthur Dooley Wilson-actor/musician
Edwin Powell Hubble-astronomer
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg-spies
Karl R. Gerd von Rundstedt-Gen.
Jonathan M. Wainwright-Gen.
George Herbert Walker, Sr.-Banker
And a special bonus decedent,
Joseph Stalin-Communist dictator and mass murderer

This was fun.
Posted by Paige
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Posted on 2/7/20 at 10:11 pm to
Idk. I didn’t keep up with the news then
Posted by soccerfüt
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Posted on 2/7/20 at 10:15 pm to
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Well, there it is.
Posted by Duckhammer_77
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Member since Nov 2016
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Posted on 2/7/20 at 10:15 pm to
Elvis, within 8 days.
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