Happy death day to you…

There are a bunch of famous people who died on my birthday, apparently.

(That’s the 10th of December, for those of you who want to note it down.)

Luminaries include:

• Augusto Pinochet (2006; military dictator of Chile)
• Eugene J. McCarthy (2005; US Senator)
• Otis Redding (1967; singer)
• Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1938; founder of Republic of Turkey)
• Alfred Nobel (1896; inventor of dynamite and founder of nobel prize)

and my personal favourite:

• Karl Barth (1968; Swiss theologian)