Blacksheep Speaks

People who managed to expire on this date in history

If you have been reading my earlier entries, you know I don't particularly care for this entry, but I do it because when I don't, I hear about it from those of you who DO like it. You also know I have another blog dedicated to dead celebrities and ghost stories. I have been accused by those fondest of me of having a double standard. Well, yeah. And no. I do grave locations and a brief synopsis on that one, and I do ghost stories and purported haunted sites, the last two of which I see as fictional, whether others do or not. So, not the same:) Anyway, here's today's set of historic deaths.

1189 Rabbi Jacob of Orleans killed in anti Jewish riot in London England. 1658 James I king of England (1603-25), dies at 92. 1658 Oliver Cromwell the Lord Protector of England, dies at 59. 1962 e. e. cummings poet, dies at 67. 1969 Ho Chi Minh North Vietnamese president, dies. 1970 Vince Lombardi football coach, dies in Washington DC at 57. 1982 Michael Thomas actor (8 is Enough, Fame), dies at 55. 1984 Arthur Schwartz actor, dies after a stroke at 83. 1984 Duncan Renaldo actor (Cisco Kid), dies at 80. 1990 David Acer Florida dentist, dies of AIDs after infecting 5 patients. 1991 Frank Capra director (It's a Wonderful Life), dies at 94.