Happy birthday to me
It’s my birthday, and to honor the day I would like to list a selection of famous and accomplished people who were already dead at or before reaching my age (35).
- Alexander the Great (died at 33)
- Jeanne d’Arc (died at 19)
- Patsy Cline (died at 31
- Stephen Crane (died at 28)
- Jimi Hendrix (died at 27)
- Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov (died at 27)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (died at 35)
- Charlie Parker (died at 35)
- Ryoma Sakamoto (died at 32)
- Percy Shelley (died at 29)
- Hank Williams (died at 29)
I may not be famous or accomplished, but at least I’ve out-lived this bunch.
Other things of note happening today: Björk’s new recording Medulla goes on sale here in The States; Movable Type is scheduled to release version 3.1; and Apple has announced a new iMac with a G5 processor and a whole new case design. Maybe I’ll just have to get myself some presents.