Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Halloween: Life and Death

People born on Halloween

King Fernando I of Portugal
King Duarte of Portugal
King Wladislaus III of Poland
Writer John Evelyn
Artist Pierre Pual Puget
Pope Clement XIV
Founding Father James Lovell
Poet John Keats
Nobel laureate Adolf von Baeyer
King Louis of Portugal
Founder of Girl Scouts, Juiette Low
President of China Chiang Kai-shek
Singer and actress Ethel Waters
3rd wife of Roy Rogers, Dale Evans aka Frances Octavia Smith
Photographer Helmut Newton
King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia
Nobel laureate John Pople
Astronaut Michael Collins
Actor Michael Landon
Singer Tom Paxton
Actor Brian Doyle-Murray
Actress Deidre Hall
Drummer Bob Siebenberg
Comedian John Candy
Anchorwoman Jane Pauley
Director Peter Jackson
Actor Dermot Mulroney
Actor Rob Schneider
Rapper Adam Horovitz
Rapper Vanilla Ice
Singer Linn Berggren
Guitarist Roger Stevens
Guitarist Frank Lero


People who died on Halloween

Emperor John VIII Palaeologus
Grand Duke Cosimo III de’ Medici
General Joseph Hooker
Founder of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, Charles Taze Russell
Magician Harry Houdini
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
Nobel laureate Robert Mulliken
Author Joseph Campbell
Actor River Phenix
Actress Rosalind Cash

2 comments:

Ronald Day said...

There was no "Jehovah's Witnesses" religion until after Charles Taze Russell died. Russell did not believe in such an organization, nor did he believe in the teachings of that organization. It was Joseph Rutherford who, after Russell died, through deceit and legal trickery gained control of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, and used that legal entity to form his new organization, which he later dubbed "Jehovah's Witnesses".

Christian love,
Ronald

JR Van said...

Thank you for that information. I had read that his orginization had split up into two differnt groups after his death, but the information I had said that both groups saw him as the founder of their group. Going on that information I listed him as the founder of the Jehovah's Witnesses, being the most widely reconized of the two groups. But in the future I will make sure to only note him of the founder of his Bible society and writings.