(but did I have my fingers crossed at the time...?)
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Since everyone is off having a good time on the Lunatics thread or wherever, here are some famous people who died on this day in history:
180AD Marcus Aurelius, as played by Richard Harris
461 Saint Patrick
1853 Christian Doppler, of the Doppler Effect (not a band name... or is it?)
1891 Napolean Bonaparte, or Boney to his friends
1912 Lawrence Oates, British explorer and self-sacrificer
1956 Irene Joilot-Curie, French chemist and physicist, daughter of Marie Curie (the person, not the charity shop)
1961 Susanna Salter, 1st US female mayor
1993 Helen Hayes, actress and 1st female EGOT winner
1995 Ronnie Kray
1997 Jermaine Stewart, American singer (We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off...)
1999 Rod Hull, emu botherer
2010 Alex Chilton, singer and guitarist
2016 Paul Daniels, he liked that but not a lot
2023 Lance Reddick, actor