since no post here, but doesn't mean this blog trash-can only :p
got it from babe_goth this is only for fun and here are:
142,102 People
and the facts :
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 August 17 (various years)
* 2007 - Eddie Griffin, American basketball player
* 2007 - Bill Deedes, British journalist and politician
* 2005 - John Bahcall, American astrophysicist
* 2004 - Gérard Souzay, French baritone
* 2004 - Thea Astley, Australian writer
* 1995 - Ted Whitten, Australian rules footballer
* 1995 - Howard Koch, American screenwriter
* 1994 - Jack Sharkey, American boxer
* 1993 - Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician
* 1992 - Al Parker, American adult film actor
* 1990 - Pearl Bailey, American singer and actress
* 1988 - Victoria Shaw, Australian-born American actress
* 1988 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States
* 1988 - Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, 6th President of Pakistan
* 1987 - Rudolf Hess, Nazi deputy
* 1983 - Ira Gershwin, American lyricist
* 1979 - Vivian Vance, American actress
* 1973 - Conrad Aiken, American author
* 1973 - Paul Williams, American singer (The Temptations)
* 1973 - Jean Barraqué, French composer
* 1971 - Wilhelm List, German field marshal
* 1970 - Rattana Pestonji, Thai filmmaker
* 1969 - Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel laureate
* 1962 - Peter Fechter trying to cross the Berlin Wall
* 1954 - Billy Murray, American recording artist
* 1940 - Billy Fiske, American aviator and Olympic athlete
* 1925 - Ioan Slavici, Transylvanian writer of Romanian origin
* 1920 - Ray Chapman, American baseball player
* 1918 - Moisei Uritsky, Russian revolutionary
* 1901 - Edmond Audran, French composer
* 1896 - Bridget Driscoll, world's first automobile fatality
* 1880 - Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist
* 1875 - Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist
* 1850 - Don José de San Martín, Argentine general
* 1834 - Husein Gradaščević, Bosnian rebel leader
* 1786 - King Frederick II of Prussia
* 1785 - Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of the Colony and the state of Connecticut
* 1768 (N. S.) - Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky, Russian poet
* 1723 - Joseph Bingham, English scholar
* 1720 - Anne Lefèvre, French scholar
* 1676 - Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen, German novelist
* 1673 - Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist
* 1657 - Robert Blake, British admiral
* 1510 - Edmund Dudley, English statesman
* 1304 - Emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan
* 1153 - Eustace IV of Boulogne, son of Stephen of England
