[align=center][b]Mine Was... [img]http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk288/Kawaii_NinaFaye/Oh.jpg[/img] People who died on January 19, 1998 (the exact day you were born) * Carl Perkins, American guitarist Unusual Deaths in 1998 * Daniel v. jones was a former hotel maintenance worker in long beach, california who shot himself through the chin on the los angeles expressway on live television. his suicide was apparently caused by his resentment against his hmo for inadequately treating him when he was diagnosed with cancer and hiv. * Tom and eileen lonergan were stranded while scuba diving with a group of divers off australia's great barrier reef. the group's boat accidentally abandoned them due to an incorrect head count taken by the dive boat crew. the couple was left to fend for themselves in shark-infested waters. their bodies were never recovered. the incident is depicted in the film open water. Natural disasters in 1998 * Hurricane Mitch * New York State Labor Day Derechos * North American ice storm of 1998 * October 1998 South Central Texas floods * 1998 Papua New Guinea earthquake * 1998 Yangtze River Floods People who died on January 19 (various years) * 2007 - Denny Doherty, Canadian singer (The Mamas and the Papas) * 2007 - Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor * 2007 - Murat Nasyrov, Russian singer and composer * 2007 - Scott "Bam Bam" Bigelow, American professional wrestler * 2006 - Anthony Franciosa, American actor * 2006 - Aoun Al-Sharif Qasim, Sudanese writer and Islamic scholar * 2006 - Wilson Pickett, soul singer * 2005 - K. Sello Duiker, South African novelist * 2005 - Bill Andersen, New Zealand communist and trade union leader * 2004 - David Hookes, Australian cricketer and coach * 2004 - Harry E. Claiborne, American judge (suicide) * 2003 - Françoise Giroud, French writer and journalist * 2001 - Dario Vittori, Argentinean actor * 2000 - Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-born actress * 2000 - Bettino Craxi, Prime Minister of Italy * 1999 - Ivan Francescato, Italian Rugby Union star * 1997 - Adriana Caselotti, American actress (b 1916) * 1997 - James Dickey, American writer * 1996 - Don Simpson, American film producer * 1991 - Marcel Chaput, Quebec politician * 1991 - John Russell, American actor * 1990 - Herbert Wehner, German politician * 1990 - Semprini, English musician * 1990 - Rajneesh, Indian religious leader * 1984 - Max Bentley, National Hockey League player * 1982 - Elis Regina, Brazilian singer * 1980 - William O. Douglas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice * 1975 - Thomas Hart Benton, American painter * 1973 - Max Adrian, Northern Irish actor * 1972 - Michael Rabin, American violinist * 1971 - Harry Shields, American musician * 1969 - Jan Palach, Czech student and political activist (suicide) * 1968 - Ray Harroun, American race car driver * 1964 - Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist * 1954 - Theodor Kaluza, German scientist * 1948 - Tony Garnier, French architect * 1939 - Cliff Heathcote, baseball player * 1929 - Liang Qichao, Chinese scholar * 1905 - Debendranath Tagore, Indian philosopher * 1878 - Henri Victor Regnault French physicist and chemist * 1874 - August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet * 1869 - Carl Reichenbach, German chemist and philosopher * 1865 - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French philosopher and anarchist * 1851 - Esteban Echeverría, Argentine writer * 1847 - Charles Bent, New Mexico pioneer (assassinated) * 1833 - Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold, French composer * 1785 - Jonathan Toup, English classical scholar and critic * 1766 - Giovanni Niccolo Servandoni, Italian-born French architect and painter * 1757 - Thomas Ruddiman, Scottish classical scholar * 1729 - William Congreve, English playwright * 1661 - Thomas Venner, Fifth Monarchist (executed) * 1576 - Hans Sachs, German Meistersinger * 1547 - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, English poet * 1526 - Isabella of Burgundy, wife of Christian II of Denmark * 639 - Dagobert I, King of the Franks [/b][/align]