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“Goodbye” Davy Crockett Died – 6 March 1836

David “Davy” Crockett (August 17, 1786 – March 6, 1836) was a 19th-century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician. He is commonly referred to as “King of the Wild Frontier”. He served in the Texas Revolution, and died at the Battle...

“Goodbye” Rene Descartes – Died 11 February 1650

René Descartes (31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) was a French philosopher, mathematician, and writer who has been called the ‘Father of Modern Philosophy’. One of his most notable works is his Meditations on First Philosophy ...

“Goodbye” Wilhelm Rontgen – Died 10 February 1923

“Goodbye” Wilhelm Rontgen – Died 10 February 1923

  Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (27 March 1845 – 10 February 1923) was a German physicist, who, on 8 November 1895, produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as X-rays. This achievement earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics in...

“Goodbye” Jeanette MacDonald    Died 14 January 1965

“Goodbye” Jeanette MacDonald Died 14 January 1965

Jeanette Anna MacDonald (June 18, 1903 – January 14, 1965) was an American singer and actress best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier (Love Me Tonight, The Merry Widow) and Nelson Eddy (Naughty Marietta, Rose-Marie, and Maytime)....

Samuel Colt inventor

“Goodbye” Samuel Colt – Died 10 January 1862

  Samuel Colt (July 19, 1814 – January 10, 1862) was an American inventor and industrialist from Hartford, Connecticut, founder of Colt’s Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company (now known as Colt’s Manufacturing Company).  When he died in 1862,he was  one...

General Tom Thumb

“Hello” General Tom Thumb – Born 4 January 1838

  General Tom Thumb was the stage name of Charles Sherwood Stratton (January 4, 1838 – July 15, 1883), a short person who achieved great fame under circus pioneer P.T. Barnum. He was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut,  to parents who were of average height,...

“Goodbye”  Lord Haw Haw – Died 3 January 1946

“Goodbye” Lord Haw Haw – Died 3 January 1946

William Joyce (24 April 1906 – 3 January 1946), nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw, was an Irish-American fascist politician and Nazi propaganda broadcaster to the United Kingdom during the Second World War. He was well known for his broadcasts on the...