tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post5259372883325225717..comments2024-03-27T15:44:43.564-08:00Comments on What Do I Know?: Famous People Born in 1909Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10498066938213558757noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-29411306646670914032014-01-30T17:16:26.727-09:002014-01-30T17:16:26.727-09:00Maureen, thanks for leaving a note. I'm glad ...Maureen, thanks for leaving a note. I'm glad you found the list interesting. I think you meant your mom died in 1963, not 1993. I'm sorry she was taken so young, but she sounds like she was ahead of her time. Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10498066938213558757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-12795289756171686132014-01-27T12:22:44.745-09:002014-01-27T12:22:44.745-09:00Thanks for this list and I remember many of them. ...Thanks for this list and I remember many of them. My mother was born April 30, 1909 and she was a fascinating woman who accomplished much in her short life. She died at 54 in 1993..a week after JFK and his funeral was on our minds as Mom was put to rest. She was way ahead of her times and long active before the Women's fight for equality...and she fought hard in her own way as she had 5 daughters and expected them to go out into the world and claim their place in the society of the daylAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11924479643017405678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-6974387565760890872012-06-16T01:54:55.584-08:002012-06-16T01:54:55.584-08:00Good post and Smart Blog
Thanks for your good inf...Good post and Smart Blog <br />Thanks for your good information and i hope to subscribe and visit my blog <a href="http://www.ancient-egypt.info/" rel="nofollow"> Ancient Egyptian Art </a> and more <a href="http://www.ancient-egypt.info/2012/02/great-temple-of-isis-at-philae-egypt.html" rel="nofollow"> Temple of Isis at Philae </a> thanks again adminAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-62343420895018477312012-02-06T10:43:43.559-09:002012-02-06T10:43:43.559-09:00George Beverly Shea was born in 1909, and is still...George Beverly Shea was born in 1909, and is still alive at age 103Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-31901141175600231812009-03-13T02:55:00.000-08:002009-03-13T02:55:00.000-08:00Thanks for the great site. Great gand-dad turns 10...Thanks for the great site. Great gand-dad turns 100 16th March 2009 and now he can read 'who he beat in the race'. Hopefully he'll recall some of these people and get a smile from them.<BR/>Julie (Australia)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-38220193472277090132009-02-15T03:13:00.000-09:002009-02-15T03:13:00.000-09:00thanks. great post. my grandfather turned 100 th...thanks. great post. my grandfather turned 100 this month and i was curious about his "classmates."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-90326204465442921102009-02-06T07:33:00.000-09:002009-02-06T07:33:00.000-09:00really great! my daughter is to dress and a 100 ye...really great! my daughter is to dress and a 100 year old person to celebrate the one hundreth day of school. she said she did not want to dress like a granny so your website has helped me find an alternative. think outside the box and dress as someone who would be 100 this year. not sure it is what her teacher had in mind, but it will work within the parameters given...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-78560569633508644882009-01-10T04:25:00.000-09:002009-01-10T04:25:00.000-09:00This is wonderful as my Nana was born in 1909 and ...This is wonderful as my Nana was born in 1909 and will be 100 this year, I will share this with herAnna Farmeryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09277665948934923939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-41080163194034929042009-01-08T07:50:00.000-09:002009-01-08T07:50:00.000-09:00Well, these names aren't familiar to me, sorry.Well, these names aren't familiar to me, sorry.Ropihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17214991557644729165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-38583907581683545262009-01-07T17:26:00.000-09:002009-01-07T17:26:00.000-09:00My grandfather was a Hollywood publicist and knew ...My grandfather was a Hollywood publicist and knew Flynn and Gable-- he drank with them. I forget what is family story and what I've read about them both and have a hard time discerning what happened when and to whom so I will leave it at that.<BR/><BR/>That Lupe chick sounds loony. (Lune?) Part of her story reminds me of my brother's nutty ex wife, but she didn't kill herself. I couldn't help but laugh at her pathetic death. How many people would have loved to have had her problems! <BR/><BR/>"In 1944, Lupe, now known as "The Mexican Spitfire" due to a popular series of movies incorporating that name in which she starred from 1940 -1942, found herself pregnant by Harald Ramond, a dark, handsome French drifter and bit-part actor. She planned a wedding, and became distraught when he would not marry her. A devout Catholic, Lupe felt having a child out of wedlock would be humilitating, and abortion out of the question. Instead, she decided to kill herself--glamorously, of course.<BR/><BR/>At her elegant home in Beverly Hills, Casa Felicitas, she filled her 30-foot white bedroom with hundreds of fragrant gardenias and tuberoses. Dozens of lit candles flickered against the mirrored walls and white satin drapes as the gorgeously coiffed and manicured Lupe donned her favorite blue satin pajamas. Swallowing 75 illegal Seconals imported from Mexico and washing them down with brandy, Velez laid on her gigantic bed, framed by a silver, gold, and black rainbow-shaped headboard. There, she fell asleep to face blessed eternity.<BR/><BR/>During the night, however, her spicy dinner, combined with her final dessert, awoke the beauty. Violently ill, teetering to the washroom, she slipped on the tiles and plunged head first into her Egyptian Chartreuse Onyx Hush Flush Model DeLuxe Commode, broke her neck and drowned December 14, 1944.<BR/><BR/>Lupe's funeral in Mexico City attracted over four thousand mourners striving for a closer look at the star. Cemetery monuments were knocked over and several people were injured in an hysterical rush, including her sister Reyna who fainted and was trampled by the crowd. However, little Lupe was at peace."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-47464096321715928182009-01-07T15:52:00.000-09:002009-01-07T15:52:00.000-09:00It must be my age. I know so many of these folks--...It must be my age. I know so many of these folks--it is like a review of several decades of my life. I can never forget Senior Wenses and Victor Borge. Then there was Goldy Hawn playing Moonbeam McSwine in Al Capp's Little Abner in our highschool play. I had the honor of taking care of her pig when she was not on stage. The Goldwater-Johnson election was the year I graduated from high school. I worked for a UN agency in D.C. when UThant was Secretary General. And Rules for Radicals was our bible when I trained as a Vista volunteer in Alabama. I came across Wallace Stegner later in life when I majored in natural resources management. And who has studied management without reading at least one Peter Drucker book or article.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-88792890335028811102009-01-07T04:05:00.000-09:002009-01-07T04:05:00.000-09:00Thanks for the post. There will be a Saul Alinsky ...Thanks for the post. There will be a Saul Alinsky centennial birthday lunch celebration and program in Chicago on January 30, Alinsky's birth date. Anybody interested in attending should contact me.--Sandy Horwittsandy horwitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17237001183495514720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-20758571142004013962009-01-07T00:01:00.000-09:002009-01-07T00:01:00.000-09:00Awesome post! Flynn was the Tasmanian devil wasn't...Awesome post! Flynn was the Tasmanian devil wasn't he. He still looks beautiful to me after all these years. I think he would have been a great pal to hang out with, but only if you were prepared for trouble.:)))LDahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17063861840067555655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-52787222303397782862009-01-06T21:14:00.000-09:002009-01-06T21:14:00.000-09:00great post. loved the work of al capp. i'm glad ...great post. loved the work of al capp. i'm glad to be old enough to have enjoyed both "li'l abner" and "pogo". the politically- and social commentary-oriented daily cartoonists that followed, garry trudeau and berkeley breathed are great in their own right but really can't hold a candle to capp and walt kelly.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com