Celebs who passed away in the year you were born
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Quite a few well known stars left us in 1988-the year I was born including
TV gardener Percy Thrower
Carry On Legend Kenneth Williams
And legendery Singer Roy Orbison who had only just made a sucessful return to the charts when it happened
Which celebs passed away in your year of birth
TV gardener Percy Thrower
Carry On Legend Kenneth Williams
And legendery Singer Roy Orbison who had only just made a sucessful return to the charts when it happened
Which celebs passed away in your year of birth
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Other deaths from my birth year inclde:
Frankie Howerd
Benny Hill
Francis Bacon
Marc Bolan
Jean Harlow, the blonde bombshell
George Gershwin, composer of Rhapsody in Blue
Oscar Wilde died in the year I was born.:)
Henry Fonda
Ingrid Bergman
John Belushi
Lester Bangs
Tennessee Williams
Sid James
Howard Hughes
Peter Lorre
US General Douglas McArthur
US singer Jim Reeves
Author Ian Flemming
Yes I was born in 1964. Now lets never talk of it again
1977 :eek:
Not the same year but I share my birthday with the date Buddy Holly died.
After scrolling through the long list of deaths for that year the only names I recognised were:
Will Geer (Grandpa Walton from The Waltons)
Keith Moon (drummer from The Who)
Nancy Spungen (girlfriend of and murdered by Sid Vicious from The Sex Pistols)
Marilyn Monroe
Nat King Cole
Stan Laurel
When I first googled my birth year it came up with James Blunt and I wondered WTF?? Then it dawned on me.
What Marc Bolan?
Neville Shute
Eddie Cochran
John D Rockefeller
Boris Pasternak
Paula Hitler (Adolf's sister)
Aneurin Bevan
Oscar Hammerstein II
Clark Gable
And loads of other people I've never heard of.
snap..