Famous People Who Died on January 22nd

Dying is just like taxes in the respect that it is going to happen to you and me. Over history, we realize it doesn't matter who you are, you are going to face death. Famous people have no secret weapon against death. They are just like you and I. They will die. We will die. Death is a part of life. However, many of us look forward to eternal life in Heaven. After we all pass from this world, I hope to meet each one of you in a better place called Heaven.

We Live And We Die

Nobody Lives Forever

See You In Heaven

What Happened Today in History?

1673- Postal service between New York & Boston inaugurated

1905- Bloody Sunday: Russian demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops

1938- "Our Town," Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winner of small-town life in Grover's Corners, NH, premieres (NJ)

1941- 1st mass killing of Jews in Romania

1945 - Heavy US air raid on Okinawa

1946- US president sets up CIA, Central Intelligence Agency

Deaths

1736-1779 -Claudius Smith was an American Revolutionary War loyalist and Guerilla leader during the American Revolution

1726-1798 -Lewis Morris was a US farmer who signed Declaration of Independence as a delegate to the Continental Congress for New York

1813-1892 -Joseph Philo Bradley was a U.S. Supreme Court Justice; he was on the Electoral Commission that decided the disputed 1876 Presidential Election

1837-1921 -Captain George Streeter was an American riverboat captain and circus owner, he deceitfully stole 180 acres of Lake Michigan shoreline from the rightful owners

1872-1951 -Karl Nessler was the inventor of the perm

1890-1968 -Duke Kahanamoku was an Olympic 100m swimmer won three gold medals in the Olympics-3 gold-12, 20, 24), he was a Hawaiian swimmer

1922-1969 -Judy Garland was a singer/actress who was famous as Dorothy on the Wizard of Oz; Judy Garland dies at 48 of an unintentional overdose of barbiturates, Judy Garland won many awards including an Academy Award during her career as a star

1908-1973 -Lyndon B Johnson was the 36^th President of the United States, Lyndon B Johnson (known as LBJ) is one of four people who served in all four offices, United States Senator, Representative, Vice President and President

1940-1979 -Ali Hassan Salameh [Abu Hassan] was killed by a car bomb; he was believed to have helped mastermind massacre of 1972 Munich Olympics athletes, he was assassinated by Mossad in 1979

1994 -Irving B Kahn was the inventor of the teleprompter and a pioneer in Cable TV, the teleprompter is the invention that makes President Obama look good every time he says a speech.

1922-1994 -Telly Savalas was a famous actor (Kojak), dies of prostate cancer at 70

1890-1995 -Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy was the mother of President John F Kennedy and Senator Ted Kennedy; I never knew President John F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy were brothers.

1979-2008 -Heath Ledger was a famous Australian actor who dies of an overdose, Heath Ledger played in 19 films in his young career and Heath Ledger won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Heath Ledger died from the abuse of prescription drugs

This is series of famous people who died was inspired by Faye Farley who writes about famous people who were born on the same dates. Each day I will make a list of the famous people who died on the particular day with a link to her story about who was born on a particular day. Today's famous deaths will be linked to her September 27 story because she has not made it to October yet. Click here to check out Faye's writing

Sources

Historyorb.com

Wikipedia.com

Holidayinsights.com