Another “Fun” One
Brewergnome checked his birthday out the other day and I thought it was kind of fun. Here’s mine…
Unusual Deaths in 1975
- On 24 march 1975 alex mitchell, a 50-year-old bricklayer from king’s lynn literally died laughing while watching an episode of the goodies. according to his wife, who was a witness, mitchell was unable to stop laughing while watching a sketch in the episode “kung fu kapers” in which tim brooke-taylor, dressed as a kilted scotsman, used a set of bagpipes to defend himself from a psychopathic black pudding in a demonstration of the scottish martial art of “hoots-toot-ochaye.” after twenty-five minutes of continuous laughter mitchell finally slumped on the sofa and expired from heart failure.
Natural disasters in 1975
- Canton, Illinois Tornado of 1975
- Great Storm of 1975
- Omaha Tornado of 1975
People who died on January 23 (various years)
- 2007 - Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist and writer
- 2007 - E. Howard Hunt, American Watergate figure
- 2006 - Chris McKinstry, Canadian scientist
- 2006 - Ernie Baron, Philippine newscaster
- 2005 - Douglas Knight, American university president
- 2005 - Johnny Carson, American television host
- 2005 - Morys George Lyndhurst Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare, British politician
- 2004 - Helmut Newton, German-born photographer
- 2004 - Bob Keeshan, American actor
- 2003 - Nell Carter, American singer and actress
- 2002 - Robert Nozick, American philosopher
- 2002 - Paul Aars, American racecar driver
- 2002 - Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist
- 1999 - Prince Lincoln Thompson, Jamaican musician
- 1999 - Jay Pritzker, American businessman
- 1997 - Richard Berry, American composer and musician
- 1994 - Brian Redhead, English journalist and broadcaster
- 1994 - Nikolai Ogarkov, Soviet field marshal
- 1993 - Thomas A. Dorsey, American singer
- 1992 - Freddie Bartholomew, Irish actor
- 1990 - Allen Collins, American guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
- 1989 - Salvador Dalí, Catalan artist
- 1986 - Joseph Beuys, German artist
- 1983 - Fred Bakewell, English cricketer
- 1981 - Samuel Barber, American composer
- 1978 - Vic Ames, American singer (Ames Brothers)
- 1978 - Jack Oakie, American actor
- 1978 - Terry Kath, American musician (Chicago)
- 1977 - Toots Shor, New York restaurateur
- 1976 - Paul Robeson, American actor, singer, and social activist
- 1976 - Paul Dupuis, French Canadian film and television actor
- 1973 - Kid Ory, American jazz trombonist
- 1971 - Fritz Feigl, Austria-born chemist
- 1958 - Nikolaos Georgantas, Greek discus thrower (b. 1880 )
- 1956 - Alexander Korda, Hungarian/British film director
- 1944 - Viktor Gusev, Russian poet
- 1944 - Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter
- 1943 - Alexander Woollcott, American actor, author, and bon vivant
- 1939 - Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer
- 1937 - Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist
- 1937 - Marie Prevost, Canadian actress
- 1931 - Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina
- 1923 - Max Nordau, Austrian author, philosopher, and Zionist leader
- 1922 - Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor
- 1893 - Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
- 1883 - Gustave Doré, French artist, engraver, and illustrator
- 1875 - Charles Kingsley English writer
- 1866 - Thomas Love Peacock, English satirist
- 1837 - John Field, Irish composer
- 1833 - Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, British admiral
- 1820 - Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn
- 1812 - Robert Craufurd, British general
- 1806 - William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- 1805 - Claude Chappe, French telecommunications pioneer
- 1803 - Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer
- 1800 - Edward Rutledge, American statesman
- 1789 - John Cleland, English novelist
- 1789 - Frances Brooke, English writer
- 1785 - Matthew Stewart, Scottish mathematician
- 1744 - Giambattista Vico, Italian philosopher and historian
- 1622 - William Baffin, English explorer
- 1570 - James Stewart, Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland (assassinated)
- 1567 - Jiajing, Emperor of China
- 1549 - Johannes Honter, Transylvanian Saxon humanist and theologian
- 1548 - Bernardo Pisano, Italian composer
- 1199 - Yaqub, Almohad Caliph
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