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People Who Died on Their Birthdays

By Alex in Everything Else on Mar 10, 2009 at 2:58 pm


Our very own Stacy Conradt wrote a neat article over at mental_floss about 10 people who died on their birthdays (full circle!) Here’s one that particularly interesting:

Jean Felix Piccard. Name sound familiar? It’s because he and his twin brother Auguste Piccard were the inspirations for the name of Star Trek’s Jean-Luc Picard. Jean’s inventions have been used in building aircrafts, spacecrafts and balloons (that’s him with his wife in the picture). He died on his (and his brother’s) birthday on January 28, 1963 at the age of 79.

Link – via i met a possum


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  1. Dianne
    Mar 10th, 2009 at 6:31 pm

    What a perfect day to die! Looks great on a tombstone. I believe talk show host, Mike Douglas died on his birthday.

  2. James T. Kirk
    Mar 11th, 2009 at 1:40 pm

    ... Capt. Jean-Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6zuAZPJETk

  3. Stephen Rhodes
    Apr 27th, 2009 at 3:38 pm

    Having read an article on people who die on their birthday, I am interested to know if there is a name for this occurrence. My gran died on Wednesday 22nd April 2009 aged exactly 91!

  4. jay-jay
    May 16th, 2009 at 6:12 pm

    wow intresting

  5. Juanita
    May 24th, 2009 at 6:02 pm

    My Grandmother died on May 19, 2009, exactly 88 years after her birth. What does it mean to be born and to die on the same day. It definitely sounds like a full circle and a completed life; no loose ends.
    Goodbye Grandma, I love you

  6. Jackie
    May 30th, 2009 at 11:37 pm

    We lost our father yesterday May 29th 2009 on his 81st birthday....very sad, but I agree with the full circle thats very comforting to hear

  7. Blanca
    Jul 11th, 2009 at 11:06 pm

    My mother died on her 88th Birthday. I wonder what it means?

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