People Who Died On Their Birthday

                                       

This sounds almost impossible but I have taken some time to share personalities, who actually died on their birthdays. Perhaps they were honoured by nature, but it is very certain that they have what others don't. This maybe, is why we are writing about them now.

Ingrid Bergman

Born on 29th August, 1915
Died on 29th August, 1982; Aged 67 years

She’s a Swedish actress who went to America and appeared in many Hollywood films, including Casablanca (1942). She did not work In the US after she left her husband for the Italian film director Roberto Rossellini, and made many of her later films in Europe. She won Oscars for Gaslight (1944), Anastasia (1956) and Murder on the Orient Express (1974).

Betty Friedan

Born on 4th February, 1921
Died on 4th February, 2006; Aged 85 years.

A US writer and feminist, she began the National Organization for Women in 1966 and was its President until 1970. Her book The Feminine Mystique (1963) was an important influence on the women's liberation movement. Friedan late wrote The Second Stage (1981) and The Fountain of Age (1933).

Alfred Kazin

Born on 5th June, 1915

Died on 5th June, 1998; Aged 83 years.

He was an American writer and literary critic, many of whose writings depicted the immigrant experience in early twentieth century America. He’s written so many book in his time and in 1966, he was awarded the first Truman Capote Lifetime Achievement Award in Literary Criticism, which carries a cash reward of $100,000. The only other person to have won the award is George Steiner.

Lawrence Oates

Born on 17th March, 1880

Died on 17th March, 1912; Aged 32 years.

He was an English Calvary officer and an Antarctic explorer. As a soldier, in March 1901, he suffered a gunshot wound to his left thigh which shattered his let and left it an inch shorter than his right leg when it eventually healed. In that skirmish he was twice called upon to surrender, and replied “We came to fight, hot to surrender.” He was promoted to Lieutenant on 8 February 1902, and later promoted to Captain in 1906. During the Terra Nova Expedition, he was afflicted with gangrene and frostbite and died.

William Shakespeare

Born on 23rd April, 1564

Died on 23rd April, 1616; Aged 52 years.

Perhaps the greatest of them all, William was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and world’s pre-eminent dramatist. You can read more about him here. After his death, the epitaph carved into the stone slab covering his grave includes a curse against moving his bones, which was carefully avoided during the restoration of the church in 2008.

The curse read:

Good frend for lesvs sake forbeare,

To dig the dvst encloased heare.

Bleste be man spares thes stones,

And cvrst be he moves my bones.

Modern spelling

Good friend, for Jesus’ sake forbear,

To dig the dust enclosed here.

Blessed be the man that spars theses stones,

And cursed be he that moves my bones.