People Who Snuffed It On My Birthday
I felt like I needed cheering up, as this year will be the last of my 20's. So I decided to find out who has had a worse time of it on April 15.
- Godwin, Earl of Wessex and father of the unfortunate King Harold, keeled over on April 15, 1053 - although this was before my birth, so technically isn't really my fault
- Jean-Paul Satre finally got to road-test his theories of existentialism in 1980
- Arthur 'Captain Mainwaring' Lowe had his pulse go MIA in 1982
- Tommy Cooper had the last laugh in 1984, and collapsed on stage, due to a heart attack
- Two USAF pilots (and presumably lots of Libyans) shuffled off this mortal coil in 1986's Operation El Dorado Canyon
- Kenneth Williams stopped messing about in 1988
- 1989 was a busy year- 96 died in the Hillsborough tragedy, and Tiananmen Square became a less pleasant place to be than Slough, following the death of Hu Yaobang who died on this special day
- Then-Sun Editor, Kelvin MacKenzie was very lucky not to get lynched himself, following allegations he made about the fans at Hillsborough in wannabe-Newspaper The Sun
- Greta Garbo assumed room temperature in 1990
- Pol Pot joined the Necrophiliac Singles Club in 1998
- In 2000, Zimbabwean farmer David Stevens was abducted by veterans of the Zimbabwean War of Self-Genocide, and shot - making him the first white farmer to be killed by Mugabe's thugs.
- In 2001, Joey Ramone cashed in his chips
- April 15 is also Tax Return day in the US, and is therefore doubtless responsible for several Americans having a message tied to their toes and being declared ineligible for the census