14 Famous People Who Died on Their Birthday (Photos)

Plenty of well-known of us have died on their birthdays. Here’s 14 of essentially the most well-known of them.

Renowned Renaissance painter Raphael died April 6, 1520, his 37th birthday.

Early jazz saxophonist Sidney Bechet died of lung most cancers on May 14, 1959, his 62nd birthday.

Swede Risberg, an early 20th century baseball participant finest recognized for being one of many members of the 1919 Chicago White Sox staff accused of deliberately dropping the World Series in trade for funds from gamblers, died on his 81st birthday on Oct. 13, 1975. 

Country singer Mel Street died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on his 43rd birthday, on Oct. 21, 1978.

Ingrid Bergman, three-time Oscar winner and one of many greatest stars within the historical past of cinema, died of breast most cancers on Aug. 29, 1982, her 67th birthday.

Corrie Ten Boom, who alongside along with her household helped Jews escape the Holocaust when the Nazis invaded the Netherlands throughout World War II, died of a stroke on her 91st birthday on April 15, 1983.

Feminist activist Betty Friedan, who co-founded the National Organization for Women, died on her 85th birthday on Feb. 4, 2006.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., congressman and son of four-term U.S. president FDR, died on his 74th birthday on Aug. 17, 1988.

Mike Douglas, a Big Band-era singer, discovered a second profession because the genial host of a syndicated daytime speak present within the 1960s and ’70s that helped introduce stars like Barbra Streisand and Aretha Franklin. He died on August 11, 2006, precisely 81 years after he was born.

Big Band singer and actress Fran Warren died March 4, 2013, on her 87th birthday.