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141,392 People.. died on my birthday
AspirinE wrote:Miranda > space,matter and time > *
Chet wrote:Approximately 146,786 people died worldwide on June 26, 1990.
Unusual Deaths in 1990
* Joseph w. burrus, aged 32, an aspiring magician, decided to perform the "buried alive" illusion in a plastic box covered with cement. the cement crushed the box and he died of asphyxia.
* George allen, an american football coach, died a month after some of his players gave him a gatorade shower following a victory (as it is tradition in american football). some argue this resulted in pneumonia.
Natural disasters in 1990
* 1990 Iran earthquake
* 1990 Luzon earthquake
People who died on June 26 (various years)
* 2007 - Liz Claiborne, Belgian-born American fashion designer
* 2005 - Richard Whiteley, British television game show host
* 2004 - Yash Johar, Indian film producer
* 2003 - Sir Dennis Thatcher MBE, husband of Margaret Thatcher
* 2003 - Strom Thurmond, U.S. Senator
* 2003 - Marc-Vivien Foé, Cameroon footballer
* 2002 - Jay Berwanger, American football player
* 2002 - Arnold Brown, the 11th General of The Salvation Army
* 2001 - Soccer (dog actor)
* 1997 - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Hawaiian singer
* 1996 - Veronica Guerin, Irish journalist
* 1994 - Jahanara Imam, Bangladeshi writer and political activist
* 1993 - Roy Campanella, Major League baseball player
* 1993 - William H. Riker, American political scientist
* 1992 - Herman Rohde, professional wrestler
* 1975 - St. Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish Catholic priest
* 1967 - Françoise Dorléac, French actress
* 1964 - Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect
* 1958 - Andrija Štampar, Croatian physician and United Nations diplomat
* 1958 - George Orton, Canadian athlete
* 1957 - Alfred Döblin, German writer
* 1956 - Clifford Brown, American jazz trumpeter
* 1947 - Richard Bedford Bennett, eleventh Prime Minister of Canada
* 1946 - Max Kögel, SS officer
* 1946 - Yosuke Matsuoka, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan
* 1943 - Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
* 1939 - Ford Madox Ford, English writer
* 1922 - Albert I, Prince of Monaco
* 1918 - Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet and Nobel Prize laureate
* 1878 - Mercedes of Orleans, queen of Spain
* 1836 - Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French composer (La Marseillaise)
* 1810 - Joseph Michel Montgolfier, inventor of the hot air balloon
* 1793 - Gilbert White, English ornithologist
* 1784 - Caesar Rodney, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence
* 1688 - Ralph Cudworth, English philosopher
* 1541 - Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru (murdered)
* 1291 - Eleanor of Provence, wife of Henry III of England
* 363 - Julian the Apostate, Roman Emperor (killed in battle) (b. 331)
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