Happy 33rd, Jon Newland

Jon is one of my best friends who turned 33 today.  Here is the list of those who died at the age of 33. You are the same age as those people.

Besides those people,

• Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, American, wife of JFK Jr., plane crash, 1999
• Big Moe, American, rapper, heart attack, 2007
• Big Mello, American, rapper, car accident, 2002
• Andrés Bonifacio, Filipino, revolutionary leader, execution, 1897
• Leigh Bowery, Australian, conceptual artist, AIDS, 1994
• Catherine of Siena, Italian, Catholic saint, not known, 1380
• Marcel Cerdan, French, boxer, plane crash, 1949
• Charlotte Coleman, British, actress, asthma attack, 2001
• William Kingdon Clifford, British, mathematician (inventor of Clifford Algebra) and philosopher, tuberculosis, 1879
• Roger Cotes, English, mathematician, fever, 1716
• Laurie Cunningham, English, footballer, car accident, 1989
• Steve Currie, British, bassist (T. Rex), car crash, 1981
• Paul Laurence Dunbar, American, poet, tuberculosis, 1906
• Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach, German, mathematician, unknown, 1834
• Althea Flynt, American, pornographer's wife, drowned due to heroin overdose, 1987
• Blind Boy Fuller, American, blues singer and guitarist, bladder infection, 1941
• Sanjay Gandhi, Indian, politician, member of Nehru-Gandhi family, aircraft crash, 1980
• Gary Holton, English, Musician, actor, depression induced heroin and alcohol overdose, 1985
• Kay Kendall, English, actress, myeloid leukaemia, 1959
• Valery Kharlamov, Russian, ice hockey player, car accident, 1981
• Darryl Kile, American, Major League Baseball pitcher, coronary heart disease, 2002
• Al Killian, American, jazz trumpeter, murdered by landlord, 1950
• Mary Faustina Kowalska, Polish, nun and mystic, possibly tuberculosis, 1938
• Carole Lombard, American, actress, wife of Clark Gable, aircraft crash, 1942
• Hideto Matsumoto, Japanese, musician, hanged, possibly accidental, 1998
• Frank Melrose, American, jazz and blues pianist, probably fight, made to look like car accident, 1941
• Unity Mitford, British, fascist, meningitis, 1948
• Eva Perón, Argentinian, actress, wife of President Juan Perón, cancer, 1952
• Harry Nelson Pillsbury, American, chess player, syphilis, 1906
• Pimp C, American, rapper, Accidental codeine overdose in conjunction with sleep apnea, 2007
• Moana Pozzi, Italian, porn actress, liver cancer, 1994
• Roland Ratzenberger, Austrian, Formula 1 racing driver, crash during race qualifying, 1994
• Keith Relf, British, singer / harmonica player (The Yardbirds), accidentally electric shock while playing his electric guitar, 1976
• Richard II of England, English, king, who was deposed and imprisoned by his cousin, Henry IV, probably homicide or starvation, 1400
• David Rocastle, English, footballer, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, 2001
• Alma Rubens, American, actress, pneumonia, 1931
• Lev Schnirelmann, Soviet, mathematician, suicide, 1938
• Dutch Schultz, American, gangster, gunshot, 1935
• Bon Scott, Australian, hard-rock singer (AC/DC), Acute alcoholic poisoning. Death by misadventure., 1980
• Derrick Thomas, American, American football linebacker (Kansas City Chiefs), car accident, 2000
• Wolfgang von Trips, German, Formula One driver, car crash, 1961
• Theo Van Gogh, Dutch, art dealer, syphilis, 1891
• Ray Vitte, American, actor, shot by police while resisting arrest, 1983
• John Wilmot, English, Restoration poet, syphilis and alcoholism, 1680
• Robin Hyde, New Zealand, novelist, poet, journalist, benzedrine suicide, 1939

 I am glad you are still around and being a good friend, pal.   I appreciate poop out of you.