Meu aniversário está chegando e, em uma dessas surpresas que só a internet faz para você, encontrei um teste horroroso, mas irresistível: 142.150 pessoas morreram no dia em que eu nasci. Além dessa conta, eles ainda fazem uma coluna Caras dos que morreram no dia do seu aniversário. De todos, só conheço a Leni Riefenstahl, a cineasta do Hitler, que eu jurava estar viva – minha memória não é o meu forte.
Segue a lista e o link, para os curiosos:
Unusual Deaths in 1984
- Tommy cooper collapsed from a massive heart attack in front of millions of television viewers, midway through his act, on the popular itv variety show, live from her majesty’s. at first the audience assumed he was joking.
- Jon-erik hexum, an american television actor, died after he shot himself in the head with a prop gun during a break in filming. hexum apparently did not realize that blanks use paper or plastic wadding to seal gun powder into the shell, and that this wadding is propelled out of the barrel of the gun with enough force to cause severe injury or death if the weapon is fired at point-blank range.
Natural disasters in 1984
- Carolinas Tornado Outbreak
- Late November 1984 Nor’easter
People who died on September 08 (various years)
- 2007 – Ramón Cardemil, Chilean huaso
- 2006 – Erk Russell, American football coach
- 2006 – Frank Middlemass, actor
- 2006 – Peter Brock, Australian racecar driver and TV personality (rally accident)
- 2006 – Hilda Bernstein, English-born South African author, artist, and activist
- 2005 – Noel Cantwell, Irish cricketer and footballer
- 2004 – Frank Thomas, American animator
- 2003 – Leni Riefenstahl, German film director
- 2003 – Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian voice actress
- 2002 – Laurie Williams, West Indian cricketer
- 1999 – Moondog, American composer, musician and poet
- 1991 – Alex North, American composer
- 1985 – John Franklin Enders, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1983 – Antonin Magne, French cyclist
- 1981 – Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1981 – Roy Wilkins, American civil rights activist
- 1980 – Willard Libby, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1979 – Jean Seberg, American actress
- 1977 – Zero Mostel, American actor
- 1969 – Alexandra David-Néel, French explorer and writer
- 1969 – Bud Collyer, American television game show host
- 1965 – Hermann Staudinger, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1965 – Dorothy Dandridge, American actress
- 1949 – Richard Strauss, German composer
- 1948 – Thomas Mofolo, Lesotho writer
- 1943 – Julius Fucik, Czech journalist (executed)
- 1933 – King Faysal I of Iraq
- 1894 – Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician
- 1888 – Annie Chapman, widely believed to be the second victim of Jack the Ripper
- 1882 – Joseph Liouville, French mathematician
- 1853 – Frédéric Ozanam, founder of the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul
- 1811 – Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist
- 1784 – Ann Lee, American religious leader
- 1780 – Enoch Poor, American Continental Army general
- 1761 – Bernard Forest de Bélidor, French engineer
- 1755 – Ephraim Williams, American philanthropist
- 1739 – Yuri Troubetzkoy, Governor of Belgorod
- 1721 – Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor
- 1682 – Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer
- 1675 – Amalia of Solms-Braunfels, countess of Solms-Braunfels
- 1656 – Joseph Hall, English bishop and writer
- 1645 – Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish writer
- 1644 – Francis Quarles, English poet
- 1645 – John Coke, English politician
- 1637 – Robert Fludd, English mystic
- 1613 – Carlo Gesualdo, Italian composer
- 1603 – George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon, English politician
- 1539 – John Stokesley, English churchman
- 1425 – King Charles III of Navarre
- 1397 – Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester.
- 780 – Leo IV, Byzantine Emperor
- 701 – Pope Sergius I




