Born or died on your Birthday

[Linkavitch]

In this thread, if an important person was either born or died on your birthday, tell us! Mine are:
Beethoven. I can't remember if if my birthday is also his, or if he died on mine.
That chick who plays Eowyn in LotR. Naomi Watts?

Anyone else?

[Coplantor]

Let's see, I was born the 24th day of january. As for births go I have Hadrian, the roman emperor. Frederick II of Prusia, Neil Diamond and Jhon Belushi. From all of them, i only knew that Frederick II was born that day without having to check wikipedia.


as for deaths goes:

Caligula, Alfonso IV, and Winston Churchill.

I only posted the cool guys.

[Alleine]

I don't know any people who share mine, but I have a friend who shares his birthday with Hitler. We tease him endlessly about it.

[Amiria]

My grandfather on my mother's side died on my 13th birthday. He was nobody of historical importance ... well, but important for me and my existence.

Wikipedia is mighty helpful ...

I share my birthday with the following people (just some of those that I recognized while going through the list):

Emily Dickinson, Nelly Sachs, Kenneth Branagh, Brian Molko, Meg White

And these died on my birthday (just some of those that I recognized while going through the list):

Alfred Nobel, Otis Redding, Edward D. Wood Jr, Richard Pryor, Augusto Pinochet

[someonenonotyou]

Births
1288 - Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (d. 1336)
1472 - Bianca Maria Sforza, wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1510)
1523 - Blaise de Vigenère, French cryptographer (d. 1596)
1588 - Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (d. 1679)
1604 - Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1675)
1622 - Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician (d. 1703)
1649 - Elihu Yale, American benefactor of Yale University (d. 1721)
1692 - Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (d. 1730)
1732 - Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French artist (d. 1806)
1752 - Sébastien Érard, French musical instruments maker (d. 1831)
1784 - Louis Spohr, German violinist (d. 1859)
1816 - Samuel Freeman Miller, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1890)
1827 - Joseph Lister, English surgeon (d. 1912)
1832 - Jules Ferry, French statesman (d. 1893)
1837 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet (d. 1909)
1856 - Booker T. Washington, American educator (d. 1915)
1869 - Sergei Chaplygin, Russian physicist and engineer (d. 1942)
1869 - Albert Roussel, French composer (d. 1937)
1871 - Mirko Seljan, Croatian explorer (d. 1913?)
1872 - Samuel Cate Prescott, American food scientist and microbiologist (d. 1962)
1875 - Mistinguett, French vaudeville performer (d. 1956)
1893 - Clas Thunberg, Finnish speed skater (d. 1973)
1900 - Spencer Tracy, American actor (d. 1967)
1901 - Melvyn Douglas, American actor (d. 1981)
1906 - Lord Buckley, American monologist (d. 1960)
1908 - Bette Davis, American actress (d. 1989)
1908 - Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor (d. 1989)
1908 - Jagjivan Ram, Indian politician (d. 1986)
1909 - Albert R. Broccoli, American film producer (d. 1996)
1912 - John Le Mesurier, British actor (d. 1983)
1916 - Gregory Peck, American actor (d. 2003)
1917 - Robert Bloch, American author (d. 1994)
1920 - Arthur Hailey, American writer (d. 2004)
1920 - Rafique Zakaria, Indian author (d. 2005)
1922 - Tom Finney, English footballer
1922 - Christopher Hewett, British actor (d. 2001)
1922 - Gale Storm, American singer
1923 - Michael V. Gazzo, American actor (d. 1995)
1923 - Nguyen Van Thieu, President of South Vietnam (d. 2001)
1926 - Roger Corman, American film director
1928 - Tony Williams, American singer (The Platters) (d. 1992)
1929 - Hugo Claus, Belgian writer (d. 2008)
1929 - Ivar Giaever, Norwegian physicist, Nobel laureate
1929 - Nigel Hawthorne, British actor (d. 2001)
1929 - Joe Meek, English record producer
1932 - Billy Bland, American singer and songwriter
1933 - Larry Felser, American sports columnist
1933 - Frank Gorshin, American actor (d. 2005)
1934 - Roman Herzog, German politician
1934 - Stanley Turrentine, American jazz saxophonist (d. 2000)
1935 - Peter Grant, British music manager (d. 1995)
1936 - John Kelly, Irish republican politician (d. 2007)
1937 - Colin Powell, U.S. Secretary of State
1937 - Allan R. Thieme, American inventor
1939 - Ronald White, American singer and songwriter (d. 1995)
1939 - Crispian St. Peters, British singer
1941 - Michael Moriarty, American actor
1941 - Dave Swarbrick, British folk musician
1942 - Peter Greenaway, Welsh film director
1943 - Max Gail, American actor
1944 - Pedro Rossello, Puerto Rican politician
1945 - Tommy Smith, English footballer
1946 - Jane Asher, British actress
1947 - Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, President of the Philippines
1948 - Les Binks, British musician, former drummer for Judas Priest
1948 - Dave Holland, British musician (Judas Priest)
1949 - John Berg (actor), American actor (d. 2007)
1949 - Judith Resnik, American astronaut (d. 1986)
1950 - Agnetha Fältskog, Swedish singer (ABBA)
1950 - Miki Manojlović, Serbian actor
1951 - Dean Kamen, American inventor
1952 - Mitch Pileggi, American actor
1954 - Stan Ridgway, American musician (Wall of Voodoo)
1955 - Akira Toriyama, Japanese manga artist
1955 - Janice Long, English broadcaster
1955 - Charlotte de Turckheim, French actress
1956 - Diamond Dallas Page, American professional wrestler
1958 - Johan Kriek, South African born tennis player
1961 - Lisa Zane, American actress
1961 - Jim LeRoy, Airshow Pilot
1962 - Lana Clarkson, American actress (d. 2003)
1964 - Steve Beaton, English darts player
1964 - Christopher "Kid" Reid, American rapper (Kid 'n Play)
1964 - Princess Erika, French singer
1965 - Cris Carpenter, American baseball player
1966 - Mike McCready, American musician (Pearl Jam)
1967 - Gary Gait, Canadian lacrosse player
1968 - Paula Cole, American musician
1970 - Thea Gill, Canadian actress
1970 - Miho Hatori, Japanese singer and songwriter (Cibo Matto)
1971 - Dong Abay, Filipino musician, singer-songwriter
1972 - Krista Allen, American actress
1972 - Tom Coronel, Dutch racing driver
1972 - Pat Green, American singer and songwriter
1972 - Paul Okon, Australian former footballer
1973 - Tony Banks, American football player
1973 - Élodie Bouchez, French actress
1973 - Pharrell, American music producer (The Neptunes)
1974 - Sahaj Ticotin, American musician/producer (Ra)
1974 - Uhm Tae Woong, South Korean actor
1975 - John Hartson, Welsh footballer
1976 - Kim Collins, Nevisian sprinter
1976 - Ryan Drese, American baseball player
1976 - Ross Gload, American baseball player
1976 - Simone Inzaghi, Italian footballer
1976 - Fernando Morientes, Spanish footballer
1978 - Franziska van Almsick, German swimmer
1978 - Stephen Jackson, American basketball player
1979 - Timo Hildebrand, German footballer
1980 - Matt Bonner, American basketball player
1980 - Lee Jae Won, South Korean actor, singer, and rapper
1981 - Jorge de la Rosa, Mexican baseball player
1981 - Michael A. Monsoor, a United States Navy SEAL killed in Iraq and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.
1982 - Thomas Hitzlsperger, German footballer
1982 - Matt Pickens, American soccer player
1982 - Alexandre Prémat, French racing driver
1984 - Shin Min-a, South Korean model and actress
1990 - Haruma Miura, Japanese Actor

[someonenonotyou]

Deaths

582 - Eutychius, Patriarch of Constantinople (c. 512)
1168 - Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (b. 1104)
1419 - Vincent Ferrer, Spanish missionary and saint (b. 1350)
1605 - Adam Loftus, English Protestant archbishop in Ireland (c.1513)
1617 - Alonso Lobo, Spanish composer (b. 1555)
1673 - François Caron, French explorer (b. 1600)
1676 - John Winthrop, the Younger, American politician (b. 1606)
1693 - Anne, Duchess of Montpensier, French writer (b. 1627)
1695 - George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, English writer (b. 1633)
1697 - King Charles XI of Sweden (b. 1655)
1717 - Jean Jouvenet, French painter (b. 1647)
1735 - William Derham, English minister and writer (b. 1657)
1735 - Samuel Wesley, English poet (b. 1662)
1765 - Edward Young, English poet (b. 1683)
1794 - Georges Danton, French Revolutionary leader (b. 1759)
1794 - Camille Desmoulins, French journalist and politician (b. 1760)
1900 - Joseph Louis François Bertrand, French mathematician (b. 1822)
1923 - George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English financier (b. 1866)
1928 - Roy Kilner, English cricketer (b. 1890)
1941 - Sir Nigel Gresley, Steam locomotive engineer (b. 1876)
1943 - Aleš Hrdlička, Czech anthropologist (b. 1869)
1945 - Karl Otto Koch, German SS-officer (b. 1897)
1945 - Huldreich Georg Früh (b. 1903)
1946 - Vincent Youmans, American songwriter (b. 1898)
1952 - Charles Collett, GWR chief mechanical engineer (b. 1871)
1964 - General Douglas MacArthur, American general (b. 1880)
1967 - Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1890)
1967 - Mischa Elman, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1891)
1969 - Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian Nazi (b. 1903)
1969 - Shelby Storck, American television producer (b. 1917)
1970 - Alfred Henry Sturtevant, American geneticist (b. 1891)
1972 - Brian Donlevy, American actor (b. 1901)
1972 - Isabel Jewell, American actress (b. 1907)
1973 - John Coleman, Australian rules footballer (b. 1928)
1974 - A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter (b. 1882)
1975 - Chiang Kai-shek, 1st President of the Republic of China (b. 1887)
1976 - Howard Hughes, American aviator (b. 1905)
1976 - Wilder Penfield, Canadian surgeon (b. 1891)
1979 - Eugène Gabritschevsky, Russian biologist and artist (b. 1893)
1981 - Bob Hite, American singer (Canned Heat) (b. 1945)
1982 - Abe Fortas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1910)
1983 - Danny Rapp, American musician (Danny & the Juniors) (b. 1941)
1989 - María Cristina Gómez, Salvadoran Teacher (b. 1938)
1991 - John Tower, American politician (b. 1925)
1991 - Sonny Carter, American astronaut (b. 1947)
1992 - Molly Picon, American actress (b. 1898)
1992 - Sam Walton, American retailer (b. 1918)
1994 - Kurt Cobain, American musician (Nirvana) (b. 1967)
1997 - Allen Ginsberg, American poet (b. 1926)
1998 - Cozy Powell, British musician (b. 1947)
1999 - Paul David, French-Canadian cardiologist (b. 1919)
2000 - Lee Petty, American race car driver (b. 1914)
2001 - Brother Theodore, German comedian (b. 1906)
2002 - Layne Staley, American musician (Alice in Chains) (b. 1967)
2004 - Heiner Zieschang, German mathematician (b. 1936)
2004 - Sławomir Rawicz, Polish soldier (b. 1915)
2005 - Saul Bellow, Canadian born writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1915)
2005 - Dale Messick, American comic strip artist (b. 1906)
2005 - Debralee Scott, American actress (b. 1953)
2005 - John Sichel, British film and television director (b. 1937)
2006 - Gene Pitney, American singer (b. 1941)
2007 - Mark St. John, American musician (Kiss)(b. 1956)
2007 - Darryl Stingley, American football player (b. 1951)
2007 - Maria Gripe, Swedish writer (b. 1923)
2007 - Leela Majumdar, Bengali writer (b. 1908)
2007 - Poornachandra Tejaswi, Kannada writer (b. 1938)
2008 - Charlton Heston, American Actor (b. 1923)

[B-Man]

I was born on the Ides of March. My mom's birthday is John Lennon's date of death.

That's a couple of the interesting ones.

[Ego Slayer]

I share my birthday with Edgar Allan Poe, and Ink. :smallbiggrin:

No one (that I know of), interested died, though.

[Player_Zero]

So, what, are we just gonna' copy the wikipedia page about our birthday here or something? Sounds kinda' lame to me.

[ghost_warlock]

Births:
1483 - Raphael, Italian painter and architect (d. 1520)
1671 - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet (d. 1741)
1911 - Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979 - the same year I was born!)
1920 - Edmond H. Fischer, Swiss-American biochemist, Nobel laureate
1928 - James D. Watson, American geneticist, Nobel laureate
1937 - Merle Haggard, American musician
1949 - Horst Ludwig Störmer, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate
1976 - Candace Cameron, American actress ("DJ" on Full House)
1983-ish - Joshua Phifer, a guy I roomed with in college. :smalltongue:

Deaths:
1520 - Raphael, Italian painter and architect (b. 1483)
1528 - Albrecht Dürer, German artist (b. 1471)
1992 - Isaac Asimov, Russian-born author (b. 1920)

*looks at Wikipedia's Holidays and Observances section for his birthday*
:smalleek::smallfurious: *sputters a stream of curses while his girlfriend laughs at him*

[Castaras]

Gary Gygax died on my birthday, and Sir Patrick Moore was born on my birthday. Can't remember anyone else.

[Tom_Violence]

Yes, I was born on mine. Hopefully I won't die on it as well.

Wait... what are we doing here?

[Fawkes]

Will Smith and Mark Hamill share my birthday.

[Saint Nil]

Well, she might not be that important to you, but my great-great-grandma was buried on my birthday. The funeral was at my house. Even odder? My grandfather's great-great-grandma was buried on his birthday.

It might not fit this threads theme, but she was important to me.

[potatocubed]

I share a birthday with Uesugi Kenshin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uesugi_Kenshin). Unstoppable samurai warlords for the win, right? :smallbiggrin:

[Renegade Paladin]

*looks at Wikipedia's Holidays and Observances section for his birthday*
:smalleek::smallfurious: *sputters a stream of curses while his girlfriend laughs at him*
What, April 6? :smallamused: What's wrong with Tartan Day?

[Vagnarok]

Well, my wife and I have the same birthday! That's pretty cool. IceCube is another, along with Courtney Cox, Helen Hunt, and Mary Carey, the Floridonian pornstar that ran for California Governor!!!

[Maroon]

Dvorak was born and Strauss died on my date of birth. Apart from those, not much. Couple of kings, a few popes.

[Zar Peter]

Born: Andre Agassi and Uma Thurman. And Banjo1985 :smallbiggrin:

Died: Alfred Hitchcock

[Icewalker]

Born:

Oooh, Copernicus. Sweet.
No other names which I recognized, or who sounded particularly important.

Deaths:
A Tokugawa shogun...

Not too much that stands out. Huge lists of names, and I'm not too well-educated with regards to history, and I just skimmed them, but I didn't see anything interesting other than those.

Lets check out the events section...
Donner party was rescued. That's fun.
Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
World war 2 relocation of Japanese-Americans to internment camps :smallfrown:
Soviet Union's Mir space station launched.
Toshiba ends the format war!

[Flame of Anor]

My birthday: July 30.

Selected Births:

1511 - Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter, author and architect (d. 1574)
1549 - Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1609)
1751 - Maria Anna Mozart, Austrian musician (d. 1829)
1818 - Emily Brontë, English novelist (d. 1848)
1855 - Georg Wilhelm von Siemens, German industrialist (d. 1919)
1857 - Thorstein Veblen, American economist (d. 1929)
1863 - Henry Ford, American industrialist (d. 1947)
1872 - Princess Clémentine of Belgium (d. 1955)
1919 - Berniece Baker Miracle, half-sister of Marilyn Monroe
1922 - Henry W. Bloch, American co-founder of H&R Block
1926 - Christine McGuire, American singer (The McGuire Sisters)
1936 - Infanta Pilar of Spain
1939 - Peter Bogdanovich, American film director
1946 - Neil Bonnett, American race car driver (d. 1994)
1947 - Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-American actor/bodybuilder/governor
1960 - Richard Linklater, American filmmaker
1961 - Laurence Fishburne, American actor
1970 - Christopher Nolan, English film director
1974 - Hilary Swank, American actress
1990 - Flame of Anor, American nerd/genius/snarky bard
2002 - Prince Hridayendra of Nepal, Nepalese royal

Selected Deaths:

579 - Pope Benedict I
1540 - Thomas Abel, English priest (martyred)
1540 - Robert Barnes, English churchman (martyred) (b. 1495)
1550 - Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, English politician (b. 1505)
1683 - Maria Theresa of Spain, queen of Louis XIV of France (b. 1638)
1718 - William Penn, English founder of Pennsylvania (b. 1644)
1811 - Miguel Hidalgo, Mexican patriot and Independence leader (b. 1753)
1875 - George Pickett, American Confederate general (b. 1825)
1898 - Otto von Bismarck, 1st Chancellor of the German Empire (b. 1815)
1900 - Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1844)
1918 - Joyce Kilmer, American poet (b. 1886)
1998 - Buffalo Bob Smith, American television host (Howdy Doody) (b. 1917)
2007 - Ingmar Bergman, Swedish stage and film director (b. 1918)


Also on this date:

1729 - Baltimore founded
1864 - The Battle of the Crater
1932 - Premiere of Flowers and Trees, the first Technicolor cartoon
1954 - Elvis debuts
1971 - Apollo 15 lands on the moon
1975 - Jimmy Hoffa disappears
2003 - The last old-style VW Beetle is made

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

Born:
1733 - Betty Washington- sister of George Washington
No other names I recognise. Deaths, however...

* 451 - Theodorid, King of the Visigoths
* 840 - Louis the Pious, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (b. 778)#
# 1837 - William IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1765)
#
# 1947 - Bugsy Siegel, American crime figure (b. 1906)

On a completely unrelated note, a friend of mine was born on the opposite day of Christ: June 25th.

[blackfox]

I was born on my birthday! *hopes no one else has made the same lousy joke in this thread*

[The Extinguisher]

Damn you blackfox. You stole my joke.

Anyway, I share a birthday with Hugh Laurie and Jurrasic Park.

[Nerd-o-rama]

Snakes on a Plane opened on my birthday.

Good times.

[blackfox]

I'm pretty sure that at least one of the Harry Potter books was released on my birthday.

[de-trick]

For August 10th
Births

1267 - King James II of Aragon (d. 1327)
1296 - John I, Count of Luxemburg (d. 1346)
1360 - Francesco Zabarella, Italian jurist (d. 1417)
1397 - Albert II of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1439)
1489 - Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer (d. 1553)
1520 - Madeleine of Valois, wife of James V of Scotland (d. 1537)
1560 - Hieronymus Praetorius, German composer (d. 1629)
1602 - Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (d. 1675)
1645 - Eusebio Kino, Italian Catholic missionary (d. 1711)
1737 - Anton Losenko, Russian painter (d. 1773)
1744 - Alexandrine-Jeanne d'Étiolles (nicknamed "Fanfan"), daughter of the courtesan Madame de Pompadour (d. 1754)
1810 - Camillo Benso, conte di Cavour, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia (d. 1861)
1814 - Henri Nestlé, Swiss industrialist (d. 1890)
1821 - Jay Cooke, American financier (d. 1905)
1823 - Hugh Stowell Brown, Manx preacher (d.1886)
1839 - Aleksandr Grigorievich Stoletov, Russian physicist (d. 1896)
1845 - Abai Kunanbaev, Kazakh poet (d. 1904)
1856 - William Willett, English inventor of Daylight Saving Time (d. 1915)
1860 - Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian musician (d. 1936)
1865 - Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer (d. 1936)
1869 - Laurence Binyon, British poet (d. 1943)
1874 - Herbert Clark Hoover, 31st President of the United States (d. 1964)
1874 - Bill Johnson, American musician (d. 1972)
1877 - Frank Marshall, American chess player (d. 1944)
1878 - Alfred Döblin, German writer (d. 1957)
1880 - Robert L. Thornton, American businessman, philanthropist, and Mayor of Dallas, Texas (d. 1964)
1884 - Panait Istrati, Romanian writer (d. 1935)
1889 - Charles Darrow, Inventor (d. 1967)
1890 - Angus L. MacDonald, Canadian politician (d. 1954)
1894 - Varahagiri Venkata Giri, Fourth President of India (d. 1980)
1895 - Hammy Love, Former Australian cricketer (d. 1969)
1897 - John Galbreath, American businessman (d. 1988)
1898 - Jack Haley, American actor (d. 1979)
1900 - Arthur Espie Porritt, New Zealand politician and athlete (d. 1994)
1902 - Norma Shearer, Canadian actress (d. 1983)
1902 - Curt Siodmak, German-born author (d. 2000)
1902 - Arne Tiselius, Swedish chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1971)
1903 - Ward Moore, American author (d. 1978)
1905 - Era Bell Thompson, American journalist (d. 1986)
1908 - Adelino ("Billy") Gonsalves, American soccer player (d. 1977)
1909 - Leo Fender, American luthier (d. 1991)
1911 - A. N. Sherwin-White, English historian (d. 1993)
1912 - Jorge Amado, Brazilian novelist (d. 2001)
1913 - Wolfgang Paul, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1993)
1913 - Noah Beery, Jr., American actor (d. 1994)
1914 - Jeff Corey, American actor (d. 2002)
1914 - Carlos Menditeguy, Argentine racing driver (d. 1973)
1919 - Sacha Vierny, French cinematographer (d. 2001)
1920 - Red Holzman, American head coach (d. 1998)
1923 - Rhonda Fleming, American actress
1923 - Fred Ridgway, Former England cricketer
1924 - Martha Hyer, American actress
1927 - Vernon Washington, American actor (d. 1988)
1928 - Jimmy Dean, American singer
1928 - Gus Mercurio, American-born Australian actor
1928 - Eddie Fisher, American singer
1933 - Doyle Brunson, American poker player
1933 - Rocky Colavito, American baseball player
1933 - Keith Duckworth, English mechanical engineer (Cosworth; d. 2005)
1937 - Anatoly Sobchak, Russian politician
1939 - Kate O'Mara, British actress
1940 - Bobby Hatfield, American singer (Righteous Brothers) (d. 2003)
1940 - Sid Waddell, Darts Commentator for the PDC
1942 - Betsey Johnson, American fashion designer
1943 - Ronnie Spector, American singer (Ronettes)
1943 - Louise Forestier, French Canadian singer, songwriter and actress
1943 - Jimmy Griffin, American guitarist (Bread) (d. 2005)
1943 - Michael Mantler, American trumpeter and composer
1943 - Shafqat Rana, Former Pakistani cricketer
1945 - Harriet Miers, White House counsel
1947 - Ian Anderson, Scottish musician (Jethro Tull)
1947 - Anwar Ibrahim, Former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia
1947 - Alan Ward, Former England cricketer
1948 - Patti Austin, American singer
1950 - Rémy Girard, Canadian actor
1952 - Daniel Hugh Kelly, American actor
1952 - Diane Venora, American actress
1953 - Mark Doty, American poet and prose writer
1956 - Fred Ottman, American wrestler
1956 - Charlie Peacock, American record producer, singer-songwriter
1958 - Jack Richards, Former England cricketer
1959 - Rosanna Arquette, American actress
1959 - Florent Vollant, Innu-Canadian musician (Kashtin)
1960 - Antonio Banderas, Spanish actor
1960 - Nicoletta Braschi, Italian actress
1960 - Todd David Hess, First USAF Member inducted into Army's Order of Military Medical Merit.
1960 - Kenny Perry, American golfer
1961 - Jon Farriss, Australian musician (INXS)
1963 - Andrew Sullivan, English-born journalist
1963 - Phoolan Devi, Indian bandit and revolutionary (d. 2001)
1964 - Aaron Hall, American songwriter
1965 - Claudia Christian, American actress
1965 - Mike E. Smith, American jockey
1965 - John Starks, American basketball player
1966 - Hansi Kürsch, German singer
1967 - Philippe Albert, Belgian former footballer
1967 - Riddick Bowe, American boxer
1967 - Mart Sander, Estonian singer and actor
1967 - Reinout Scholte, Former Dutch cricketer
1967 - Lorraine Pearson, former singer (Five Star) and author
1968 - Michael Bivins, American singer (New Edition & Bell Biv DeVoe)
1968 - Greg Hawgood, Canadian ice hockey player
1968 - Peter Docter, American film director
1969 - Emily Symons, Australian actress
1970 - Bret Hedican, American ice hockey player
1970 - Jeff Mangum, American musician
1970 - Steve Mautone, Australian footballer
1970 - Brendon Julian, Former Australian cricketer
1971 - Roy Keane, Irish footballer
1971 - Mario César Kindelán Mesa, Cuban boxer
1971 - Justin Theroux, American actor
1971 - Sal Fasano, American baseball player
1971 - Kevin Randleman, American mixed martial artist
1971 - Stephan Groth, Norwegian musician
1972 - Lawrence Dallaglio, English rugby union footballer
1972 - Angie Harmon, American model and actress
1972 - Christofer Johnsson, Swedish musician
1973 - Lisa Raymond, American tennis player
1973 - Javier Zanetti, Argentinian footballer
1974 - David Sommeil, French footballer
1974 - Luis Marín, Costa Rican footballer
1976 - Michael Depoli, American wrestler
1977 - Danny Griffin, Northern Irish footballer
1977 - Aaron Kamin, American musician (The Calling)
1977 - Matt Morgan, British comedian
1978 - Daniel Allsopp, Australian footballer
1978 - Chris Read, English cricketer
1978 - Claire Yiu, Hong Kong actress
1979 - Yannick Schroeder, French racing driver
1979 - Joanna Garcia, Cuban actress
1979 - Ted Geoghegan, American filmmaker and author
1979 - Dinusha Fernando, Sri Lankan cricketer
1980 - Kaysar Ridha, Iraqi-American reality TV contestant
1981 - Natsumi Abe, Japanese singer
1981 - Taufik Hidayat, Indonesian Badminton Player
1982 - Devon Aoki, American supermodel and actress
1983 - Alexander Perezhogin, Russian ice hockey player
1983 - Mathieu Roy, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 - Mariel Rodriguez, Filipino TV host
1985 - Roy O'Donovan, Irish footballer
1989 - Ben Sahar, Israeli footballer
1989 - Sam Gagner, Canadian ice hockey player
1992 - Ko Ah-seong, South Korean actress


Deaths

612 BC - Sinsharishkun, Assyrian king
258 - Saint Lawrence, martyr
1535 - Ippolito de' Medici, ruler of Florence (poisoned) (b. 1509)
1637 - Johann Gerhard, German Lutheran leader (b. 1582)
1653 - Maarten Tromp, Dutch admiral (b. 1598)
1655 - Alfonso de la Cueva, marqués de Bedmar, Spanish cardinal and diplomat (b. 1572)
1723 - Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1656)
1759 - King Ferdinand VI of Spain (b. 1713)
1784 - Allan Ramsay, Scottish painter (b. 1713)
1802 - Franz Aepinus, German scientist (b. 1724)
1806 - Michael Haydn, Austrian composer (b. 1737)
1839 - John St Aubyn, British fossil collector (b. 1758)
1862 - Shusaku Honinbo, Japanese Go player (b. 1829)
1875 - Karl Andree, German geographer (b. 1808)
1896 - Otto Lilienthal, German aviation pioneer (b. 1848)
1915 - Henry Moseley, English physicist (b. 1887)
1918 - Erich Lowenhardt, Germany flying ace of World War I (b. 1897)
1920 - Ádám Politzer, Austrian physician (b. 1835)
1928 - Rex Cherryman, American actor (b. 1897)
1929 - Pierre Fatou, French mathematician (b. 1878)
1932 - Rin Tin Tin, German shepherd dog (b. 1918)
1945 - Robert Goddard, American rocket scientist (b. 1882)
1948 - Kwan-Ichi Asakawa, Japanese historian(b. 1873)
1948 - Andrew Brown, Scottish football coach (b. 1870)
1948 - Montague Summers, English writer (b. 1880)
1958 - Frank Demaree, baseball player (b. 1910)
1963 - Estes Kefauver, American politician, United States Congressman & Senator from Tennessee (b. 1903)
1963 - Ernst Wetter, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1877)
1969 - Leno LaBianca, American businessman (murdered) (b. 1925)
1969 - Rosemary LaBianca, American housewife (murdered) (b. 1930)
1976 - Bert Oldfield, Former Australian cricketer (b. 1894)
1979 - Walter Gerlach, German physicist (b. 1889)
1979 - **** Foran, American actor (b. 1910)
1980 - Yahya Khan, President of Pakistan (b. 1917)
1993 - Øystein Aarseth, Norwegian musician (Mayhem) (b. 1968)
1997 - Conlon Nancarrow, American composer (b. 1912)
1997 - Jean-Claude Lauzon, Quebec film director (b. 1953)
1999 - Padma Bhushan Acharya Baldev Upadhyaya, Eminent Sanskrit Scholar in India (b. 1899)
2000 - Gilbert Parkhouse, Former England cricketer (b. 1925)
2001 - Lou Boudreau, American baseball player and manager (b. 1917)
2002 - Michael Houser, American guitarist (Widespread Panic) (b. 1962)
2002 - Kristen Nygaard, Norwegian computer scientist (b. 1926)
2003 - Carmita Jiménez, Puerto Rican singer
2007 - Henry Cabot Lodge Bohler, American member of Tuskegee Airmen and civil rights activist (b. 1925)
2007 - James E. Faust, Second Councilor of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (b. 1920)
2007 - Tony Wilson, British music personality and broadcaster (b. 1950)
2008 - Isaac Hayes, American musician and actor (b. 1942

[Shades of Gray]

Two people in my school. Three people I know.

April 26

[Haruki-kun]

Gary Gygax died on my birthday, and Sir Patrick Moore was born on my birthday. Can't remember anyone else.

What she said applies here as well... :smallfrown:

[pingcode20]

I was born on my birthday.

What? What do you mean, 'Egotistical'?:smallbiggrin:

[Trizap]

I have the same birthday as Garfield the cat :smallbiggrin:

[ArlEammon]

1394 - King James I of Scotland (d. 1437)
1452 - Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1531)
1538 - Giovanni Battista Guarini, Italian writer (Faithfull Shepherd)
1588 - Isaac Beeckman, Dutch scientist and philosopher (d. 1637)
1679 - Willem Maurits, Dutch count of Nassau/gov of Zeeuws-Flanders
1691 - Cornelis Pronk, Dutch portrait painter/cartoonist
1741 - Agatha "Aagje" Deken, Dutch writer (For the Elderly & Children)
1750 - Tipu Sultan, ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore (d. 1799)
1751 - George Shaw, English botanist and zoologist (d. 1813)
1764 - Louis-Sebastien Lebrun, composer
1765 - [Izaak J] Alexander Gogel, Dutch minister of Finance/patriot
1787 - Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, Phila, pioneer of educating the deaf
1794 - James Wolfe Ripley, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1870
1804 - Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi, German mathematician (d. 1851)
1805 - John E Feisser, theologist/founder 1st Dutch baptist church
1805 - William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist publisher (The Liberator)
1805 - Josef Skoda, Bohemian physician (d. 1881)
1813 - Errico Petrella, composer
1813 - Zachariah Chandler, US, merchant/politician (found Republican Party)
1815 - Ada Lovelace, English mathematician (d. 1852)
1820 - David Allen Russell, Army Bvt Major General (Union), died in 1864
1820 - Princess Elizabeth of Clarence (d. 1821)
1821 - Nekrassow, writer
1821 - Nikolai A Nekrasov, Russian poet (Russkije Zjenjshiny)
1822 - Thomas Casimer Devin, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1878
1822 - César Franck, Belgian composer and organist (d. 1890)
1823 - Wilhelm Kuhe, composer
1824 - George MacDonald, Scotland, sci-fi author (Princess & Curdie)
1827 - Eugene O'Keefe, Canadian businessman and brewer (d. 1913)
1830 - Emily Dickinson, Amherst Mass, poet (Collected Poems)
1831 - Alexander Conze, German archaeologist
1851 - Melvil[le Louis K] Dewey, created Dewey Decimal System for libraries
1855 - Marios Varvoglis, Greek Composer (d. 1967)
1868 - Louis Victor Saar, composer
1870 - Adolf Loos, Austria architect (building of houses)
1870 - Pierre Louijs, France, novelist/poet (Aphrodite, Woman & Puppet)
1870 - Rudolf W Canne, Fries playwright (Der de Wier Us)
1870 - T R McKibbin, cricketer (NSW & Aust off-spinner late 19th century)
1870 - Mary Bonaparte, pretender to the French imperial throne (d. 1947)
1872 - Johann Babtist Thaller, composer
1872 - Ludwig Klages, German philosopher (study of graves)
1878 - Rajaji, India's freedom fighter and the first Governor General of independent India (d.1972)
1880 - Fred Immler, German actor (d. 1965)
1882 - Otto Neurath, Aust/Brit philosopher (Foundation of Social Sciences)
1883 - Andrej J Vysjinski, Russian lawyer/foreign min/UN-ambassador
1884 - Zinaida Serebriakova, Russian-born painter (d. 1967)
1885 - Janos Hammerschlag, composer
1885 - Mario Varvoglis, composer
1886 - Victor McLaglen, England, actor (Informer, Acad Award-1935)
1886 - William Booth, cricketer (Yorks all-rounder, England before WW I)
1889 - Ray Collins, Sacramento CA, actor (Homecoming, Good Sam, Rose Marie)
1890 - George Merritt, London England, actor (I Monster, Q Planes)
1891 - Leonie "Nelly" Sachs, German/Swedish poet (O the Chimneys-Nobel 1966)
1891 - Nelly Sachs, writer
1893 - Walter Rein, composer
1894 - Earnest Haenchen, German new testament expert
1894 - Gertrud Kolmar, writer
1894 - Paul Dessau, composer
1897 - Karl H Waggerl, Austria writer (Power of Love)
1898 - Anton Mauve, Dutch painter
1898 - Yuri N Libedinski, Ukrainian writer (Birth of Hero) [NS]
1901 - F Fischer, German war criminal (Breda 4)
1903 - George J Lewis, Guadalajara Mexico, sacotr (Don-Zorro)
1903 - Una Merkel, Covington Ky, actress (42nd Street, Abraham Lincoln)
1903 - William Plomer, Transvaal, author (Paper Houses, I Speak of Africa)
1907 - Amedeo Nazzari, Cagliari Sardinia Italy, actor (Lure of Sila)
1907 - Michael Blankfort, US, writer/producer/director
1907 - Rumer Godden, England, author (Thursday's Children)
1907 - Lucien Laurent, French footballer (d. 2005)
1908 - Arnold A van Ruler, Dutch theologist
1908 - Olivier Messiaen, Avignon France, composer (L'Ame en Bourgeon)
1910 - Dennis Morgan, Prentice Wisc, actor (Dennis-21 Beacon Street)
1910 - Jill Summers, actress (Agatha Coronation Street)
1910 - John Hammond Sr, NYC, rock/jazz producer (I Can Tell, So Many Roads)
1911 - Chet Huntley, Cardwell Mont, newscaster (NBC Huntley-Brinkley Report)
1912 - Rien van Nunen, Dutch actor (Spuit Elf)
1912 - Philip A. Hart, U.S. Senator (d. 1976)
1913 - Morton Gould, Richmond Hill NY, prolific composer (Verdun)
1913 - Harry Locke, English actor (d. 1987)
1914 - Dorothy Lamour, [Mary Kaumeyer], New Orleans, actress (Road to Bali)
1917 - Sultan Yahya Petra, King of Malaysia (d. 1979)
1918 - Anne Gwynne, Waco TX, actress (Ride 'em Cowboy, House of Frankenstein)
1918 - Professor Longhair, king of New Orleans music
1918 - Anatoli Tarasov, Russian ice hockey coach (d. 1995)
1919 - Sven-Eric Emanuel Johanson, composer
1919 - Alexander Courage, American composer (d. 2008)
1920 - Ragnhild Hveger, Denmark, 200m swimmer (Olympic-silver-1936)
1920 - Clarice Lispector, Ukrainian-Brazilian writer (d. 1977)
1922 - Allen Dwight Sapp, composer
1923 - Abelardo Quinteros, composer
1923 - Harold Gould, Schenectady NY, actor (He & She, Martin-Rhoda, Big Bus)
1923 - Jorge Semprun, French writer (2nd mort de R Mercader, Z)
1925 - Carolyn Ashley Kizer, US writer (Yin, Pulitzer 1985)
1925 - Jean Byron, American actress (d. 2006)
1926 - Dag Schjelderup-Ebbe, composer
1926 - Eddie Jones, "Guitar Slim" rocker
1928 - John Colicos, Toronto, actor (Battlestar Galactica)
1929 - Dan Blocker, Texas, actor (Tiny-Cimarron City, Hoss-Bonanza)
1930 - Clayton K Yeutter, Nebraska, US trade rep/Republican Natl chairman
1933 - Grenville Alabaster, cricketer (NZ tourist to Aust 1973-74)
1933 - Mako, Japanese-born American actor (d. 2006)
1934 - Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 1994)
1935 - Terry Allcock, English footballer
1937 - Don Bies, Cottonwood ID, PGA golfer (1975 Sammy Davis Jr)
1937 - Don Sebesky, Perth Amboy NJ, orch leader (Jimmy Dean Show)
1938 - Yuri Temirkanov, Nalchik Russia, conductor (Kirov)
1939 - Barry Cunliffe, English university professor
1940 - William Fred Dempster, Berkeley Calif, crew member (Biosphere 2)
1941 - Fionnula Flanagan, Dublin Ireland, actress (Rich Man Poor Man)
1941 - Jeff Jones, cricketer (England left-arm pace bowler in 60's)
1941 - Peter Michael Goetz, actor (Jumping Jack Flash, King Kong Lives)
1941 - Tim Considine, Louisville Ky, actor (Mike-My 3 Sons)
1941 - Tommy Kirk, actor (Old Yeller)
1941 - Tommy Rettig, Jackson Heights NY, actor (Jeff's Collie-Lassie)
1941 - Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer and actor
1942 - Bear Bossu, [Berend F Gertenbach], actor/vocalist (Pub Chantant)
1943 - Chad Stuart, rock vocalist/guitarist (Chad & Jeremy)
1943 - Jessica Cleaves, rocker
1943 - Theodore Wilson, NYC, actor (That's My Mama, Sanford Arms)
1944 - Tisha Sterling, Hollywood Calif, actress (Coogan's Bluff)
1945 - Eric Boom, Dutch guitarist/producer
1946 - Chris Kefford, rocker
1946 - Gloria Loring, NYC, actress/singer (Days of our Life)
1946 - Walter "Clyde" Orange, Florida, rocker (Commodores-Too Hot to Trot)
1946 - Thomas Lux, American poet
1947 - Sinaida Woronin, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-gold/silver/2 bronze-1968)
1947 - Douglas Kenney, American humorist (d. 1980)
1947 - Rəsul Quliyev, Azerbaijani politician
1948 - Brendan Harkin, rocker
1948 - Ralph Tavares, rocker
1948 - Abu Abbas, founder of the Palestine Liberation Front (d. 2004)
1949 - Linda Galloway, LPGA golfer
1950 - Simon Owen, Wanganui NZ, Australasia golfer
1950 - Tom Towles, American actor
1951 - Frank Beard, US country rock drummer (ZZ Topp)
1951 - Johnny Rodriquez, US, actor (Nashville Girl, La Bamba Party)
1951 - Ellen Nikolaysen, Norwegian singer
1952 - Susan Hallock Dey, Ill, actress (1st Love, Partridge Family, LA Law)
1953 - Jack Scalia, actor/director (Amore, Deadly Desire, Donor, T-Force)
1954 - Jack Hues, English musician
1955 - Jacquelyn Mitchard, American novelist
1956 - Michael VerMeulen, journalist
1957 - Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor
1957 - Prem Rawat, known also as Guru Maharaj Ji and Maharaji, American Indian spiritual leader and speaker
1958 - John J York, Chicago Ill, actor (Mac Scorpio-General Hospital)
1958 - Paul Hardcastle, keyboardist (Don't Waste My Time, Just for Money)
1959 - Burke Moses, NYC, actor (Sean Baxter-As the World Turns)
1959 - Mark Aguirre, NBA forward (Detroit Pistons)
1960 - Kenneth Branagh, Belfast, actor/director (High Season, Dead Again)
1960 - Paul Assenmacher, Detroit MI, pitcher (Cleveland Indians)
1961 - Mark McKoy, Canadian track star (world record 50m indoor)
1961 - Nia Peeples, [Vernia], Hollywood, dancer/host (Fame, Party Machine)
1962 - John de Wolf, soccer player (Feyenoord)
1963 - Doug Henry, Sacramento CA, pitcher (NY Mets)
1963 - Gerald Sandel, soccer player (Sparta)
1963 - Michael Lofton, Montgomery Ala, fencer-sabre (Olympics-96)
1963 - Robin White, San Diego Cal, tennis player (US Open doubles 1988)
1964 - Luis Polonia, Santiago City Dom Rep, outfielder (NY Yanks, Orioles)
1964 - Bobby Flay, American celebrity chef and restaurateur
1965 - Jennifer Wyatt, Vancouver Canada, golfer (1992 Crestar-Farm Fresh)
1965 - J Mascis, American musician
1965 - Stephanie Morgenstern, Canadian actress
1966 - Eric Naposki, WLAF linebacker (Barcelona Dragons)
1966 - Norberto Martin, Santo Domingo Dom Rep, infielder (Chic White Sox)
1968 - Rob Davis, NFL guard (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1969 - Darren Berry, cricketer (Victorian wicket-keeper since 1989-90)
1969 - Nadim Khan, cricketer (brother of Moin Pakistani lefty spinner 1993)
1969 - Rob Blake, Simcoe Ont, NHL defenseman (Team Canada, LA Kings)
1969 - Todd Furdyk, CFL tackle (BC Lions)
1970 - Bryant Stith, NBA guard (Denver Nuggets)
1971 - Amanda Hardy, Altona Australia, badminton player (Olympics-96)
1971 - Carla Sacramento, Lisbon, 1.5k runner
1971 - Manjula Munasinghe, cricketer (Sri Lankan ODI pace bowler)
1971 - Brian Nichols, American spree killer
1972 - Marcos di Palma, Argentine racing driver
1972 - Brian Molko, Belgian-born singer and songwriter (Placebo)
1972 - Dimitri Tikovoi, French-born record producer
1973 - Bernard Holsey, defensive tackle (NY Giants)
1973 - Marcus Wall, CFL receiver (Montreal Alouettes)
1973 - Rusty LaRue, NBA guard (Chicago Bulls)
1974 - Meg White, American drummer (The White Stripes)
1975 - Josip Skoko, Australian footballer
1977 - Emmanuelle Chriqui, Canadian actress
1978 - Brandon Novak, American skateboarder
1978 - Summer Phoenix, American actress
1978 - Donna Williams, co-founder of Neopets
1979 - Matt Bentley, American professional wrestler
1980 - Sarah Chang, American violinist
1980 - Ledley King, English footballer
1980 - Massari, Lebanese-born Canadian singer
1981 - Fábio Rochemback, Brazilian footballer
1981 - Ryan Pini, Papua New Guinea swimmer
1981 - Taufik Batisah, Singaporean singer
1982 - Tim Deegan, Canadian MuchMusic VJ
1982 - Shilpa Anand, Indian film and television actress
1983 - Patrick Flueger, American actor
1983 - Habib Mohamed, Ghanaian footballer
1983 - Katrin Siska, Estonian singer
1983 - Zé Kalanga, Angolan footballer
1984 - Jayson Paul, American professional wrestler

[RandomLogic]

Without consulting Wikipedia... (born)

My Uncle.
My Grandpa.
Mickey Mouse.

[Alarra]

Well, other than me (since I'm clearly the most important birth on that day..) Serpentine was also born on my birthday, as was Ulysses S. Grant, Drew Carey, Jewel, and Ken Jennings.

Hmm...deaths? Much more interesting...
Henry V
Ferdinando II de'Medici
Captain Kidd
Kit Carson
John D. Rockefeller
Heinrich Himmler

...... my birthday is World Turtle Day! I knew there was a reason that turtles were my animal! :smallbiggrin:

[ArlEammon]

Zechariah Chandler..... FOUNDER OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY!!!! ME!!!! YEAAAAAYYY!>>>!
1813 - Zachariah Chandler, US, merchant/politician (found Republican Party)

[Deathslayer7]

my dog and I share the same birthday. :smallbiggrin:

That's important to me. :smalltongue:

[Mauve Shirt]

Heehee, Ken Jennings.

On my birthday, February 22nd, we have Steve Irwin, Drew Barrymore and Charles VII of France.

Deaths, we have Amerigo Vespucci, Hugo Wolf, Andy Warhol, and.... no one else I recognize.

[MisterSaturnine]

Lenny Bruce died on my birthday. :smallfrown:

[Rettu Skcollob]

Hmm. The most interesting person I know who shares a birth date with me is Julius Caesar; Dictator.

I'll have to make a note to avoid crossing the Rubicon and people named Pompey or Brutus.

[Ethrael]

3 October= Clive Owen (that actor guy), Gwen Stefani and Sean William Scott. All born. Thanks wikipedia! :smallbiggrin:

[Coidzor]

Do states count? If so, Montana's birthday as a state is apparently November the 8th...

Otherwise... I've got Vlad the Impaler... and if that's not enough...

Edmund Halley, Milton Bradley (yeah, that guy), Bram Stoker (Vlad and Dracula's creator...), Hermann Rorschach (inventor of the Rorshach test), Tara Reid

.... 1970 - Tom Anderson, co-founder of MySpace (Oh god...:smalleek:)


As far as deaths... John Milton should do it.

Though one guy, Bucky Harris, managed to have both his day of birth and death day on the 8th. Baseball player, apparently.

[onasuma]

Born: Patrick Moore is my first choice here. More importantly however we have Haruki, whos a few years older, and Castaras who shares my birthday to within 12 hours (I was born right at midday)

Died: Gary Gygax. It was going pretty well til then...

[Thanatos 51-50]

The (late) Pope John Paul II and I share a birthday. Except hes dead now.

[Jenkins]

Off the top of my head Karl Marx and I share a birthday.

But just to be sure let's check the ol' wikipedia.

Births:
Michael Palin (1943)

Deaths:
Napoleon I (1821)

Thats pretty much it. But man, look at the events for may 5. I guess that kind of makes up for it. Also, international midwives day. Because midwives help people out. lol

[Alleine]

I checked and... No one interesting died or was born on my birthday :smallfrown:
There were only about two or three names I even recognized on the list mainly because they had something named after them, but their impact or notoriety isn't that huge.

[SilverSheriff]

Only naming people of note.(and Intelligence Quota of above 75, as such I choose not to mention any of those many unfortunate births, if you so choose to look up the 6th of July on Wikipedia you shall understand my bitter disappointment.)

Deaths:
Henry II of England.
Alexander II of Scotland.
Edward VI of England.

[Haven]

Tennyson apparently died on my -177th birthday.

Also, two nobel laureates were born on my birth date and three died.

Oh wow, apparently on my 21st this badass (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Lewis_(adventurer)) finished his muscle-powered trip around the world. That is awesome.

[banjo1985]

My grandmother died on my birthday this year.

I share my birthday with Uma Thurman and Andre Agassi too.

[Extra_Crispy]

Happy Birthday!
1868 Harvey Firestone, industrialist
1898 Irene Dunne, actress (Anna and the King of Siam, Love Affair)
1946 Uri Geller, psychic, clairvoyant
1946 John Spencer, actor("The West Wing", The Rock)
1946 **** Wolf, writer ("Law & Order", School Ties, "Hill Street Blues")
1949 Alan Parsons, musician from The Alan Parsons Project("What Goes Up")
1954 Michael Badalucco, actor (O Brother, Where Art Thou?, "The Practice")
1957 Joyce Hyser, actress ("LA Law")
1960 Mark Keyloun, actor (Sudden Impact)
1966 Chris Robinson, singer from The Black Crowes ("Hard to Handle")
1990 JoJo, singer ("Baby It's You")

Deaths:
1812 Sacagawea, Native American Explorer that guided The Lewis and Clark Expedition.
1968 John Steinbeck, author ("Grapes of Wrath")
1973 Bobby Darrin, singer ("Splish Splash", "Dream Lover")
2001 Foster Brooks, comedian

Events:
1989 US invades Panama.

[dish]

Hmm. The most interesting person I know who shares a birth date with me is Julius Caesar; Dictator.

I'll have to make a note to avoid crossing the Rubicon and people named Pompey or Brutus.

We probably share a birthday. Although Julius Caesar's date of birth is not known for certain. (And the calendars have been changed since then.)

[ForzaFiori]

births: Hideki Tojo, Bo Diddley, Jack Riley, Kerry Collins, Tiger Woods, LeBron James, Ryan Sheckler, and a bunch of other people I didn't recognize immediately, including several porn stars.

Deaths: Massa (oldest gorilla on record), Ling-Ling (the panda), Saddam Hussein. Also a pope in the 15th century.

[Haven]

births: Hideki Tojo, Bo Diddley, Jack Riley, Kerry Collins, Tiger Woods, LeBron James, Ryan Sheckler, and a bunch of other people I didn't recognize immediately, including several porn stars.

Deaths: Massa (oldest gorilla on record), Ling-Ling (the panda), Saddam Hussein. Also a pope in the 15th century.

I was a little bummed that no popes were born or died on my birthday. I'll have to fix this by becoming pope.

...I guess if I wanted to become pope, I should have started working on it a little earlier.

[wxdruid]

Born:
1961 - Enya, Irish singer and songwriter

Died:
1575 - Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1504)
2007 - Lloyd Alexander, author (b. 1924)

Interesting things...

1792 - The New York Stock Exchange is formed.
1849 - A fire threatens to burn St. Louis, Missouri to the ground.

I only listed the interesting ones, or names that I recognized.

[UnChosenOne]

Born:
1269 - Princess Eleanor of England (d. 1298)
1318 - Princess Eleanor of Woodstock (d. 1355)
1466 - Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (d. 1539)
1511 - Bartolomeo Ammanati, Italian architect and sculptor (d. 1592)
1517 - Emperor Ogimachi of Japan (d. 1593)
1552 - Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet (d. 1637)
1667 - Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshal (d. 1750)
1716 - Joseph-Marie Vien, French painter (d. 1809)
1757 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine leader (d. 1833)
1757 - Ignaz Pleyel, Austrian composer and piano manufacturer (d. 1831)
1812 - Ivan Goncharov, Russian author (d. 1891)
1815 - Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, German general (d. 1881)
1839 - William Henry Seward, Jr., Union Brigadier General in the American Civil War (d. 1920)
1845 - Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1922)
1854 - E.W. Scripps, American journalist and publisher (d. 1926)
1863 - George Essex Evans, Australian poet (d. 1909)
1868 - Miklós Horthy, Hungarian admiral and regent (d. 1957)
1870 - Edouard Le Roy, French philosopher and mathematician
1877 - James Montgomery Flagg, American illustrator (d. 1960)
1882 - Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgarian Communist leader (d. 1949)
1884 - Édouard Daladier, French politician (d. 1970)
1886 - Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist (d. 1978)
1891 - Mae Busch, Australian actress (d. 1946)
1895 - Blanche Sweet, American actress (d. 1986)
1895 - Manuela Fernández-Fojaco, Spanish supercentenarian
1901 - Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicolaievna Romanova of Russia (d. 1918)
1903 - Jeanette MacDonald, American actress and singer (d. 1965)
1903 - Raymond Radiguet, French author (d. 1923)
1904 - Keye Luke, Chinese-born actor (d. 1991)
1904 - Manuel Rosenthal, French conductor and composer (d. 2003)
1907 - Frithjof Schuon, Swiss metaphysician, poet, and painter (d. 1998)
1908 - Bud Collyer, American game show host (d. 1969)
1908 - Nedra Volz, American actress (d. 2003)
1908 - Stanley Knowles, Canadian politician (d. 1997)
1910 - E.G. Marshall, American actor (d. 1998)
1910 - Ray McKinley, jazz drummer and bandleader (d. 1995)
1910 - **** Foran, American actor (d. 1979)
1913 - Sammy Cahn, American composer (d. 1993)
1913 - Sylvia Field Porter, American economist and journalist (d. 1991)
1915 - Red Adair, American firefighter (d. 2004)
1916 - Julio César Turbay Ayala, Colombian politician (d. 2005)
1917 - Richard Boone, American actor (d. 1981)
1917 - Arthur Tremblay, Canadian politician (d. 1996)
1918 - Jerome Karle, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1918 - Franco Modigliani, Italian-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d.2003)
1920 - Ian Carmichael, English actor
1922 - Claude Helffer, French pianist (d. 2004)
1924 - George Mikan, American basketball player (d. 2005)
1927 - Paul Eddington, English actor (d. 1995)
1927 - Eva Bartok, Hungarian-born British actress
1928 - David T. Lykken, American scientist
1929 - Jürgen Habermas, German sociologist and philosopher
1931 - Fernando Henrique Cardoso, President of Brazil from 1995 to 2002
1932 - Dudley R. Herschbach, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1932 - Geoffrey Hill, English poet
1934 - Mitsuteru Yokoyama, Japanese manga artist (d. 2004)
1935 - Hugh McColl, American banker
1936 - Denny Hulme, New Zealand race car driver and one-time F1 world champion (d. 1992)
1937 - Wray Carlton, American football player
1937 - John D. Rockefeller IV, U.S. Senator
1937 - Vitali Zholobov, Soviet cosmonaut
1938 - Kevin Murray, Australian rules footballer
1939 - Lou Brock, American baseball player
1939 - Jean-Claude Germain, French Canadian author, journalist and historian
1940 - Michael Sheard, British actor (d. 2005)
1941 - Delia Smith, English cook and television presenter
1942 - Roger Ebert, American film reviewer
1942 - Sir Paul McCartney, English singer and songwriter (The Beatles)
1942 - Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (d. 2004)
1942 - Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa
1942 - Carl Radle, American bass guitarist (d. 1980)
1943 - Raffaella Carrà, Italian singer
1944 - Sandy Posey, American singer
1946 - Russell Ash, British author
1946 - Fabio Capello, Italian football coach
1946 - Bruiser Brody, professional wrestler (d. 1988)
1948 - Éva Marton, Hungarian operatic soprano
1949 - Chris Van Allsburg, American author and illustrator
1949 - Prince Lincoln Thompson, Jamaican musician (d. 1999)
1949 - Lech Kaczyński, Polish president, 2005-present
1949 - Jarosław Kaczyński, Polish prime minister, twin brother of Lech Kaczyński
1950 - Jackie Leven aka Sir Vincent Lone Scottish singer and songwriter
1952 - Isabella Rossellini, Italian actress
1952 - Carol Kane, American actress
1956 - Brian Benben, American actor
1957 - Miguel Ángel Lotina, Spanish football manager
1960 - Ralph Brown, British actor
1961 - Andrés Galarraga, baseball player
1961 - Alison Moyet, English pop singer
1963 - Bruce Smith, American football player
1962 - Mitsuharu Misawa, Japanese professional wrestler
1963 - Dizzy Reed, aka Darren Arthur Reed keyboardist for (former) Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver
1964 - Uday Hussein, Iraqi leader (d. 2003)
1965 - Kim Dickens, American actress and model
1966 - Kurt Browning, Canadian figure skater
1967 - Pasquale Bruno, Italian American entrepreneur
1969 - Pål Pot Pamparius, Norwegian musician (Turbonegro)
1969 - Vito LoGrasso, American professional wrestler
1969 - Christopher Largen, American author
1970 - Greg Yaitanes, American television and film director
1971 - Nathan Morris, American singer (Boyz II Men)
1971 - Jason McAteer, England-born Irish footballer
1972 - Michal Yannai, Israeli actress and model.
1973 - Alexandros Papadimitriou, Greek hammer thrower
1973 - Eddie Cibrian, American actor
1973 - Julie Depardieu, French actress
1974 - Vincenzo Montella, Italian footballer
1975 - Martin St. Louis, Canadian hockey player
1975 - Aleksandrs Koliņko, Latvian footballer
1975 - Marie Gillain, Belgian actress
1975 - Jemma Griffiths, Welsh singer-songwriter
1975 - Jamel Debbouze, French actor and producer
1976 - Alana de la Garza, American actress
1976 - Witte Wartena, Dutch artist
1976 - Blake Shelton, American Country Singer
1978 - Wang Liqin, Chinese table tennis player
1980 - Antonio Gates, American football player
1980 - Tara Platt, American actress
1980 - Ivana Wong, Hong Kong singer and songwriter
1980 - Craig Mottram, Australian middle distance runner
1981 - Teresa Cormack, New Zealand murder victim (d. 1987)
1981 - Ella (Jiahua) Chen, member of the Taiwanese girl-group S.H.E
1982 - Vadim Pruzhanov, keyboardist for the British group Dragonforce
1984 - Mateus, Angolan footballer
1984 - Janne Happonen, Finnish skijumper
1986 - Richard Gasquet, French tennis player
1989 - Renee Olstead, American singer and actress
1991 - Willa Holland, American actress
2006 - Countess Zaria of Orange-Nassau, Jonkvrouwe van Amsberg

Died:
1234 - Emperor Chukyo of Japan (b. 1218)
1291 - King Alfonso III of Aragon (b. 1265)
1464 - Roger van der Weyden, Flemish painter
1536 - Henry Fitzroy, (b. 1519) bastard son of Henry VIII
1588 - Robert Crowley, English printer and poet
1629 - Piet Hein, Dutch naval commander and folk hero (b. 1577)
1650 - Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer
1673 - Jeanne Mance, French Canadian settler (b. 1606)
1680 - Samuel Butler, English poet (b. 1612)
1704 - Tom Brown, English satirist (b. 1662)
1726 - Michel Richard Delalande, French organist and composer (b. 1657)
1742 - John Aislabie, English politician (b. 1670)
1749 - Ambrose Philips, English poet (b. 1674)
1772 - Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German judge and philosopher (b. 1706)
1772 - Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-born physician (b. 1700)
1788 - Adam Gib, Scottish religious leader (b. 1714)
1794 - François Nicolas Leonard Buzot, French Revolutionary leader (b. 1760)
1794 - James Murray, British military officer and administrator (b. 1721)
1815 - Thomas Picton, British general (killed in battle) (b. 1758)
1815 - Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, French general (b. 1766)
1835 - William Cobbett, English journalist and author (b. 1763)
1889 - Jacques Damala, Greek military officer and actor (b. 1855)
1902 - Samuel Butler, English writer (b. 1835)
1915 - Eufemio Zapata, brother to Mexican revolutionist Emiliano Zapata, killed by Sidronio Comancho
1916 - Max Immelmann, German flying ace (b. 1890)
1922 - Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer (b. 1851)
1928 - Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer (b. 1872)
1936 - Maxim Gorky, Russian author (b. 1868)
1937 - Gaston Doumergue, French statesman (b. 1863)
1947 - Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese admiral (b. 1898)
1959 - Ethel Barrymore, American actress (b. 1879)
1963 - Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican actor (b. 1912)
1967 - Beat Fehr, Swiss racing driver (b. 1942)
1967 - Giacomo Russo, Italian racing driver (b. 1937)
1971 - Thomas Gomez, American actor (b. 1905)
1971 - Paul Karrer, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)
1973 - Roger Delgado, British actor (b. 1918)
1974 - Georgy Zhukov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1896)
1974 - Júlio César de Mello e Souza, Brazilian writer (b. 1896)
1978 - Walter C. Alvarez, American physician (b. 1884)
1980 - André Leducq, French cyclist (b. 1904)
1980 - Terence Fisher, English film director (b. 1904)
1982 - John Cheever, American author (b. 1912)
1982 - Curd Jürgens, German actor (b. 1915)
1984 - Alan Berg, American radio talk show host
1985 - Paul Colin, French poster designer (b. 1892)
1986 - Frances Scott Fitzgerald, Daughter of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre. (b. 1921)
1989 - I. F. Stone, American journalist (b. 1907)
1992 - Mordecai Ardon, one of Israel's greatest painters (b. 1896)
1992 - Peter Allen, Australian singer and songwriter (b. 1944)
1997 - Lev Kopelev, Russian writer and dissident (b. 1912)
2000 - Nancy Marchand, American actress (b. 1928)
2002 - Jack Buck, American baseball announcer (b. 1924)
2003 - Larry Doby, American baseball player (b. 1923)
2005 - Syed Mushtaq Ali, Indian cricketer (b. 1914)
2005 - Manuel Sadosky, Argentine mathematician (b. 1914)
2006 - Vincent Sherman, American film director (b. 1906)
2007 - Bernard Manning, British comedian (b. 1930)
2007 - Georges Thurston, Canadian singer (b. 1951)
2008 - Jean Delannoy, French actor and director (b. 1908)
2008 - Tasha Tudor, American illustrator (b. 1915)
2008 - Miyuki Kanbe, Japanese actor (b. 1984)

Events:
618 - Coronation of the Chinese governor Li Yuan as Emperor Gaozu of Tang, the new Emperor of China, initiating three centuries of the Tang Dynasty's rule over China.
1178 - Five Canterbury monks see what was possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed. It is believed that the current oscillations of the moon's distance (on the order of metres) are a result of this collision.
1264 - The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this Irish legislature.
1429 - French forces under the leadership of Joan of Arc defeat the main English army under Sir John Fastolf at the Battle of Patay. This turns the tide of the Hundred Years' War.
1767 - Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.
1778 - American Revolutionary War: British troops abandon Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1812 - War of 1812: The U.S. Congress declares war on the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1815 - Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Waterloo leads to Napoleon Bonaparte abdicating the throne of France for the second and final time.
1858 - Charles Darwin receives a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace that includes nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin's own. This prompts Darwin to publish his theory.
1873 - Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
1887 - The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed.
1900 - Empress Dowager Longyu of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
1908 - Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive in Santos aboard the Kasato-Maru ship
1923 - Checker Taxi puts its first taxi on the streets.
1928 - Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she was a passenger; Wilmer Stutz was the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
1930 - Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Franklin Institute held.
1940 - Appeal of June 18 by Charles de Gaulle.
1940 - "Finest Hour" speech by Winston Churchill.
1945 - William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) is charged with treason.
1946 - Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, a Socialist calls for a Direct Action Day against the Portuguese in Goa. A road is named after this date in Panjim.
1953 - The Republic of Egypt is declared and the monarchy is abolished.
1953 - A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns near Tokyo, Japan killing 129.
1954 - Pierre Mendès-France becomes Prime Minister of France.
1959 - Governor of Louisiana Earl K. Long is committed to a state mental hospital; he responds by having the hospital's director fired and replaced with a crony who proceeds to proclaim him perfectly sane.
1965 - Vietnam War: The United States uses B-52 bombers to attack National Liberation Front guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam.
1972 - Staines air disaster - 118 killed as plane crashes 2 minutes after take off from London Heathrow Airport.
1979 - SALT II is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union.
1981 - The AIDS epidemic is formally recognized by medical professionals in San Francisco, California.
1983 - Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
1984 - A major clash between about 5,000 police and a similar number of miners takes place at Orgreave, South Yorkshire, during the 1984-1985 UK miners' strike
1996 - Ted Kaczynski, suspected of being the Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminal counts.
2001 - Protests occur in Manipur over the extension of the ceasefire between Naga insurgents and the government of India.
2006 - The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat is launched.


It's also Waterloo Day.

[Johnny Blade]

Born:
1921: Sophie Scholl (one of the few that actually opposed the Nazis)
1940: James L. Brooks (The Simpsons)

Died:
1805: Friedrich Schiller


Interesting stuff:

1873: the great crash
1945: Germany surrenders
1994: Mandela becomes president of South Africa

[Susil]

I don't know any people who share mine, but I have a friend who shares his birthday with Hitler. We tease him endlessly about it.

Mine is shared with Sadam Hussein. It makes you wonder about the validity of the horoscopes in the back of the paper....

(Well, was shared now I guess.)

[Jophes]

Awesome, so my birthday is March 29th:
Born:

1955 Marina Stiris from Star Trek (DeAnna Troi)
1968 Lucy Lawless from Xena and Hercules
1980 Prince Hamzah bin Al Hussein of Jordan

And no one really that interesting died on my birthday heh...

[TRM]

Share a birthday with Peter Sellers.

But, since you meant famous people, I also share a birthday with Midnight Son.

And my friend. There's an interesting story, but we discovered—after we'd known each other for six months—that we were the exact same age; it was quite the coincidence.

[onasuma]

Share a birthday with Peter Sellers.

But, since you meant famous people, I also share a birthday with Midnight Son.

Wait, Peter Sellers isnt famous? He was one of the biggest influences on my young impressionable mind.

[skywalker]

Without looking at Wikipedia, I know I share a birthday with a crazy Roman emperor, and since someone already said Caligula, I'm going to go with Nero. Isn't he the guy who rode his horse across a bay on a pontoon bridge? That sounds right...

I know Princess Diana died on my 9th birthday. That was a not so great birthday...

Also, Jack the Ripper killed his first victim(or the first victim attributed to Jack died), I want to say 100 years to the day before I was born. But I'll check and see here in a sec.

EDIT: So it actually was Caligula. My mistake... Also born on my b-day(people I recognized): Itzhak Perlman, Van Morrison, Hideo Nomo(Baseball Player), Andrew Cunanan(the man who killed Versace), Padraig Harrington(Irish Golfer), Chris Tucker, Scott Niedermayer(Hockey Player), Andriy Medvedev(Tennis Player), Ian Crocker(Swam for USA at the Olympics), and Chris Duhon(American basketball player for Duke).

Some interesting deaths: I mentioned Diana, but also Henry V, and Rocky Marciano... Yeah, apparently my birthday is very popular for being born, not so much for dying... Altho Diana and Henry V is like a royal 1-2 :smallbiggrin:

[TRM]

Wait, Peter Sellers isnt famous? He was one of the biggest influences on my young impressionable mind.
It t'were a joke. He's famously famous.

[Faceist]

I have the same birthday as Ice-T and Kim Jong Il! And Sonny Bono! And um, apparently it's also the founding date of Hezbollah. Wikipedia's certainly informative.

Also, Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur (Iceland's first football club) was founded on my birthday in 1899. HELL YEAH!

[Athaniar]

Hmm, September 2.

Births:
Apparently, I share my birthday with, among others, Keanu Reeves, Lennox Lewis, and Salma Hayek. Not too bad, I guess.

Deaths:
Here we have a lot of people, a roman emperor, a hungarian saint, a japanese shogun, an ethiopian emperor, a swedish statesman, an Emperor Palpatine... eh, I mean Elector Palatine, a chinese emperor, the founder of the modern Olympic Games... What do we have in more modern times? Hm, Ho Chi Min is there, and Tolkien, then no more I can say recognize.

[Pauwel]

Interesting births on my birthday:

1377 - Jianwen Emperor of China (d. 1402)
1443 - Pope Julius II (d. 1513)
1901 - Walt Disney, American animated film producer (d. 1966)
1932 - Little Richard, American singer and pianist

Interesting deaths:

1791 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (b. 1756)

... and that's it, pretty much. =P

[Castaras]

It t'were a joke. He's famously famous.

I have never heard of him.

Ever. Who is he?

[onasuma]

Peter Sellers (http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sellers) a comedian of the goon show fame. It saddens me that such a good program has been all but forgotton by the british public when some of the 2 series run programs by pythons are still a common name in households across the uk.

EDIT: oh and also, he was the first man to appear on the cover of playboy magazine. The things a wiki tells you...

[tahu88810]

July 24. Born: Amelia Earhart, Zelda Fitzgerald John Aniston, Teagan Presley, Bindi Irwin

Deaths: Nobody of note.


I only put down people i found interesting.
Teagan presley is a porn star, by the way.:smallwink:

[Evil DM Mark3]

:eek:

I share my birthday with GORDON BROWN!

[Amiria]

Deaths: Nobody of note.

Eh, Peter Sellers died on that day. Awesome actor. Here in Germany he is best known for the Inspector Clouseau/Pink Panther movies, and of course for Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

[Evil DM Mark3]

Eh, Peter Sellers died on that day. Awesome actor. Here in Germany he is best known for the Inspector Clouseau/Pink Panther movies, and of course for Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

Also famous as one of the Goons. Marvellous voice actor. When he was absent the BBC had to get 8 people in to do his voices for The Goon Show.

[Matticus]

Births: Ian Fleming and Kylie Minogue!
And from much earlier, King George I of England and Pitt the Younger.

Deaths: Anne Bronte. That's pretty much all I recognise from the Wikipedia list...

Important Events: 585 BC - A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of the Eclipse, leading to a truce.
WWII: Belgium surrenders to Germany
1942 - World War II: in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazis in Czechoslovakia kill over 1800 people.
The British defeated the Argentines at the Battle of Goose Green...
And most recently, Nepal is formally declared a republic. Yay war and freedom!

[Archpaladin Zousha]

I claim September the second as my date of birth.

Which means I share a birthday with Keanu Reeves (for whatever that's worth :smallamused: ).

Unfortunately, my birthday also happens to be the day J.R.R. Tolkien passed away. :smallfrown:

[Player_Zero]

Wait, wait, wait, I've got one.

*I* was born on my birthday.

[Evil DM Mark3]

*I* was born on my birthday.

Someone allready did that joke.

[Solaris]

My grandfather on my mother's side died on my 13th birthday. He was nobody of historical importance ... well, but important for me and my existence.

Wikipedia is mighty helpful ...

I share my birthday with the following people (just some of those that I recognized while going through the list):

Emily Dickinson, Nelly Sachs, Kenneth Branagh, Brian Molko, Meg White

And these died on my birthday (just some of those that I recognized while going through the list):

Alfred Nobel, Otis Redding, Edward D. Wood Jr, Richard Pryor, Augusto Pinochet

Huh. So do I.

[Rettu Skcollob]

We probably share a birthday. Although Julius Caesar's date of birth is not known for certain. (And the calendars have been changed since then.)

Awesome.

Damn those Optimates!

[Paul H]

Hi

Apparently Courtney Cox was born seven years after me, on June 15th.

Far more importantly my birthday is also the anniversary of the signing of one of the world's most important Civil Rights documents.......






Magna Carta, June 15th 1215. (Habeas Corpus, plus right to trial by peers, etc).
No - I wasn't there, I just feel that old! :smalleek:

Probably explains why I'm so involved in my local community

Cheers
Paul H
Edit: 33 days after I was born the Magna Carta Memorial was unveiled at Runnymede. Paid for by about 9,000 US lawyers to acknowlege the importance Magna Carta played in US Constitution.

[Zakama]

I have the same birthday as Katie Couric and Nicholas Cage. (Jan 7)

[Lord Herman]

The only interesting person born on my birthday was Geronimo.

[Quirinus_Obsidian]

Well, this is a fitting thread for me since today is my B-Day.

--- Occurances ---


* Roman festivals - day 1 Dios dedicated to the sun god by emperor Licinius
* Latvia - Independence Day (1918)
* Morocco - Independence Day (1956)
* Oman - National holiday
* Venezuela - Feast of the Virgen de Chiquinquirá, also known as la Chinita, in the western state of Zulia
* Abhai of Hach
* Roman Catholic Saints - Dedication of the Basilicas of Saints Peter and Paul ; Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne ; also St Mawes, St Odo of Cluny, St Romanus of Antioch


--- Births ---


* 1522 - Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish general and statesman (d. 1568)
* 1630 - Eleanor Gonzaga, Empress of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1686)
* 1647 - Pierre Bayle, French philosopher (d. 1706)
* 1727 - Philibert Commerçon, French naturalist (d. 1773)
* 1772 - Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, German prince (d. 1806)
* 1774 - Wilhelmine of Prussia, queen of the Netherlands (d. 1837)
* 1785 - David Wilkie, British artist (d. 1841)
* 1787 - Louis-Jacques Daguerre, French inventor and photographer (d. 1851)
* 1804 - Alfonso Ferrero la Marmora, Italian general and statesman (d. 1878)
* 1810 - Asa Gray, American botanist (d. 1888)
* 1832 - Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Swedish explorer (d. 1901)
* 1836 - Sir William S. Gilbert, British dramatist (d. 1911)
* 1836 - Cesare Lombroso, Italian psychiatrist and founder of criminology (d. 1909)
* 1839 - August Kundt, German physicist (d. 1894)
* 1856 - Nicholas Nikolaevich, Grand Duke of Russia (d. 1929)
* 1861 - Dorothy Dix, pseudonym of US journalist Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer (d. 1951)
* 1874 - Clarence Day, American author (d. 1935)
* 1882 - Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian soprano (d. 1963)
* 1882 - Jacques Maritain, French philosopher (d. 1973)
* 1883 - Carl Vinson, U.S. Congressman (d. 1981)
* 1897 - Patrick Blackett, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
* 1898 - Joris Ivens, Dutch filmmaker (d. 1989)
* 1899 - Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-born conductor (d. 1985)
* 1901 - George Gallup, American statistician and opinion pollster (d. 1984)
* 1904 - Jean Paul Lemieux, Quebec painter (d. 1990)
* 1906 - Klaus Mann, German writer (d. 1949)
* 1906 - George Wald, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1997)
* 1906 - Alec Issigonis, Greek-British car designer (d. 1988)
* 1907 - Compay Segundo, Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club) (d. 2003)
* 1908 - Imogene Coca, American actress and comedian (d. 2001)
* 1909 - Johnny Mercer, American lyricist (d. 1976)
* 1911 - Attilio Bertolucci, Italian poet and writer (d. 2000)
* 1913 - Endre Rozsda, French surrealist painter (d. 1999)
* 1915 - Ken Burkhart, American baseball player and umpire (d. 2004)
* 1917 - Pedro Infante, Mexican actor and singer (d. 1957)
* 1918 - Tasker Watkins, Welsh World War II hero (d. 2007)
* 1919 - Jocelyn Brando, American actress (d. 2005)
* 1920 - Mustafa Khalil, Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 2008)
* 1922 - Luis Somoza Debayle, Nicaraguan president (d. 1967)
* 1922 - Al Dvorin, American Elvis Presley concert announcer (d. 2004)
* 1923 - Alan Shepard, American astronaut (d. 1998)
* 1923 - Ted Stevens, American politician
* 1924 - Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Scottish jurist (d. 2000)
* 1925 - Gene Mauch, American baseball manager (d. 2005)
* 1927 - Hank Ballard, American musician (d. 2003)
* 1928 - Otar Gordeli, Georgian composer
* 1932 - Nasif Estéfano, Argentine racing driver {d. 1973)
* 1934 - Vassilis Vassilikos, Greek writer and ambassador
* 1935 - Rudolf Bahro, German dissident (d. 1997)
* 1935 - Rodney Hall, Australian author
* 1936 - Don Cherry, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1995)
* 1936 - Ennio Cardinal Antonelli, Italian cardinal and President of the Pontifical Council for the Family
* 1939 - Margaret Atwood, Canadian writer
* 1939 - Brenda Vaccaro, American actress
* 1940 - Qaboos ibn Sa’id, Sultan of Oman
* 1941 - David Hemmings, British actor (d. 2003)
* 1942 - Linda Evans, American actress
* 1942 - Susan Sullivan, American actress
* 1943 - Leonardo Cardinal Sandri, Argentine Cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches
* 1944 - Wolfgang Joop, German artist and fashion designer
* 1945 - Wilma Mankiller, first female Chief of the Cherokee Nation
* 1946 - Alan Dean Foster, American author
* 1947 - Jameson Parker, American actor
* 1948 - Andrea Marcovicci, American singer and actress
* 1948 - Jack Tatum, American football player
* 1950 - Graham Parker, English singer
* 1950 - Rudy Sarzo, Cuban bass guitarist (Quiet Riot)
* 1950 - Eric Pierpoint, American actor
* 1951 - Justin Raimondo, American author
* 1952 - Delroy Lindo, British actor
* 1952 - Peter Beattie, Australian politician
* 1953 - Alan Moore, British comic book writer and novelist
* 1953 - Kevin Nealon, American comedian and actor
* 1954 - John Parr, British pop singer
* 1954 - Evan Gray, New Zealand cricketer
* 1955 - Carter Burwell, American composer
* 1956 - Noel Brotherston, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1995)
* 1956 - Warren Moon, American football player
* 1957 - Seán Mac Falls, Irish-born poet
* 1958 - Daniel Brailovsky, Argentine football manager
* 1958 - Oscar Nunez, Cuban American actor
* 1959 - Jimmy Quinn, Northern Irish footballer and football manager
* 1960 - Kim Wilde, British singer
* 1960 - Elizabeth Perkins, American actress
* 1962 - Kirk Hammett, American guitarist (Metallica)
* 1962 - Jamie Moyer, American baseball player
* 1963 - Dante Bichette, American baseball player
* 1963 - Peter Schmeichel, Danish footballer
* 1963 - Len Bias, American basketball player (d. 1986)
* 1966 - Jorge Camacho, Spanish poet
* 1967 - Jocelyn Lemieux, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1968 - Barry Hunter, Northern Irish footballer and manager
* 1968 - Romany Malco, American actor and music producer
* 1968 - Gary Sheffield, American baseball player
* 1968 - Owen Wilson, American actor
* 1969 - Sam Cassell, American basketball player
* 1969 - Duncan Sheik, American singer
* 1969 - Ahmed Helmi, Egyptian actor
* 1970 - Elizabeth Anne Allen, American actress
* 1970 - Mike Epps, American actor
* 1970 - Megyn Kelly, American television news anchor
* 1970 - Johan Liiva, Sweden vocalist (Arch Enemy)
* 1970 - Peta Wilson, Australian actress
* 1972 - Jessi Alexander, American country music singer/songwriter
* 1973 - Nic Pothas, South African/English wicket-keeper
* 1974 - Chloë Sevigny, American actress
* 1975 - David Ortiz, Dominican baseball player
* 1975 - Jason Williams, American basketball player
* 1975 - Anthony McPartlin, British actor and television presenter
* 1975 - Shawn Camp, American baseball player
* 1976 - Shagrath, Norwegian singer (Dimmu Borgir)
* 1976 - Mona Zaki, Egyptian Actress
* 1977 - Trent Barrett, Australian rugby league footballer
* 1977 - Fabolous, American rapper
* 1978 - Damien Johnson, Northern Irish footballer
* 1980 - Junichi Okada, Japanese singer (V6)
* 1980 - Dustin Kensrue, American Singer/Songwriter (Thrice)
* 1980 - François Duval, Belgian rally driver
* 1980 - Luke Chadwick, English footballer
* 1980 - Minori Chihara, Japanese voice actress/singer
* 1981 - Christina Vidal, American actress
* 1981 - Gian Magdangal, Filipino singer and actor
* 1983 - Jon Johansen, Norwegian software developer
* 1983 - Travis Buck, American baseball player
* 1984 - Johnny Christ, American musician (Avenged Sevenfold)
* 1984 - Ryohei Chiba, Japanese singer w-inds.
* 1985 - Christian Siriano, American fashion designer
* 1986 - Nic Sampson, New Zealand actor
* 1988 - Jeffrey Jordan, American college basketball player; son of Michael Jordan
* 1988 - Montanna Thompson, English actress
* 1992 - Nathan Kress, American actor


--- Deaths ---

* 1154 - Adélaide de Maurienne, wife of Louis VI of France (b. 1092)
* 1305 - John II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1239)
* 1559 - Cuthbert Tunstall, English churchman (b. 1474)
* 1590 - George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, English statesman (b. 1528)
* 1724 - Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Portuguese naturalist (b. 1685)
* 1785 - Louis Philip I, Duke of Orléans, French soldier and writer (b. 1725)
* 1797 - Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder and merchant (b. 1719)
* 1814 - William Jessop, British civil engineer (b. 1745)
* 1852 - Rose Philippine Duchesne Catholic nun and French saint (b. 1769)
* 1886 - Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (b. 1829)
* 1889 - William Allingham, Irish author
* 1922 - Marcel Proust, French novelist (b. 1871)
* 1941 - Walther Nernst, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
* 1941 - Chris Watson, third Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1867)
* 1941 - Émile Nelligan, Quebec poet (b. 1879)
* 1952 - Paul Eluard, French poet (b. 1895)
* 1962 - Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
* 1965 - Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States (b. 1888)
* 1969 - Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., American politician (b. 1888)
* 1969 - Ted Heath, British musician and bandleader (b. 1902)
* 1972 - Danny Whitten, American musician and songwriter (b. 1943)
* 1976 - Man Ray, American artist (b. 1890)
* 1977 - Kurt Schuschnigg, Austrian politician (b. 1897)
* 1977 - Victor Francen, Belgian actor (b. 1888)
* 1978 - Jim Jones, American cult leader (suicide) (b. 1931)
* 1978 - Leo Ryan, U.S. Congressman (b. 1925)
* 1979 - Freddie Fitzsimmons, baseball player (b. 1901)
* 1980 - Conn Smythe, NHL coach 1927-1931 (b. 1895)
* 1982 - Duk Koo Kim, Korean boxer (b. 1959)
* 1984 - Mary Hamman, American writer and editor (b. 1907)
* 1986 - Gia Carangi, American model (AIDS) (b. 1960)
* 1987 - Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (cancer) (b. 1934)
* 1991 - Gustáv Husák, President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1913)
* 1994 - Cab Calloway, American bandleader (b. 1907)
* 1994 - Peter Ledger, Austrailian artist (b. 1945)
* 1999 - Paul Bowles, American novelist (b. 1910)
* 1999 - Doug Sahm, American musician (b. 1941)
* 2002 - James Coburn, American actor (b. 1928)
* 2003 - Michael Kamen, American composer (b. 1948)
* 2004 - Cy Coleman, American composer, songwriter and pianist (b. 1929)
* 2005 - Harold J. Stone, American actor (b. 1911)

[SensFan]

Most notable person born on my birthday was John Lennon, with a minor note for Female Golfer Annika Sörenstam.

[Allysian]

Cool Queen Victoria was born on my birthday (May 24) Oh my God! So was H.B Reese, inventor of Reese's! Cool, the first King David of Scotland died on my birthday. That's about all the cool people. But wow, Reese's!

[rubakhin]

Al Qaeda was formed on the exact day I was born.

Nobody too interesting was born ... deaths ... uh ... Leonidas, king of Sparta. I'm sure that would mean something to me if I were just slightly more of a nerd. Edith Wharton (boy did I hate Ethan Frome). Jackson Pollock.

Apparently it's also the feast day of Saint Attracta. That would make a great drag name.

[Tirian]

Without checking Wikipedia, I know that I share my birthday with Dolly Parton, Louis Armstrong, the late Queen Mother of England, and Barack Obama. Don't recall any celebrity deaths, except that my birthday is the anniversary of Lizzie Borden killing her family.

And this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXn2QVipK2o) is Peter Sellers. My goodness, what *are* they teaching in the schools these days?

ETA: and this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZBA0SKmQy8) is Leonidas.

[KerfuffleMach2]

March 21

Births
# 1962 Rosie O'Donell (actress, comedian, talk show host)
# 1962 Matthew Broderick (actor)
# 1960 Ayrton Senna da Silva (race car driver)
# 1958 Gary Oldman (actor)
# 1946 Timothy Dalton (actor)
# 1945 Rosie Stone (musician)
# 1929 James Coco (actor)
# 1925 Peter Brook (director)
# 1923 Mort Lindsey (bandleader)
# 1918 Sir Charles Thompson (musician, composer)
# 1905 Phyllis McGinley (poet)
# 1869 Florenz Ziegfeld (producer)
# 1839 Modest Mussorgsky (composer)
# 1685 Johann Sebastian Bach (composer)

Deaths
* 2007 - Sven O. Høiby, the father of Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway
* 2005 - Bobby Short, American singer
* 2005 - Barney Martin, American actor
* 2004 - Ludmilla Tchérina, French ballet dancer and actress
* 2003 - Umar Wirahadikusumah, Fourth Vice President of Indonesia
* 2002 - Herman Talmadge, American politician
* 2001 - Anthony Steel, English actor
* 2001 - Norma MacMillan, Canadian voice actress
* 2001 - Chung Ju-young, Korean industrialist
* 1999 - Ernie Wise, British comedian
* 1998 - Galina Ulanova, Russian prima ballerina assoluta
* 1997 - W. V. Awdry, English children's writer
* 1994 - Lili Damita, French actress
* 1994 - Dack Rambo, American actor
* 1994 - Macdonald Carey, American actor
* 1992 - Natalie Sleeth, American composer
* 1992 - John Ireland, Canadian film actor and director
* 1991 - Leo Fender, American guitar manufacturer
* 1987 - Robert Preston, American actor
* 1987 - Dean Paul Martin, American musician
* 1985 - Sir Michael Redgrave, English actor
* 1984 - Shauna Grant, American actress (suicide)
* 1980 - Peter Stoner, American mathematician, astronomer and Christian apologist
* 1975 - Joe Medwick, baseball player
* 1958 - Cyril M. Kornbluth, American writer
* 1951 - Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor
* 1936 - Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer
* 1934 - Franz Schreker, Austrian composer
* 1915 - Frederick Winslow Taylor, American inventor
* 1910 - Nadar, French photographer
* 1884 - Ezra Abbot, American bible scholar
* 1881 - Samuel Courtauld, American-born textile magnate
* 1850 - Miguel Pedrorena, American settler
* 1843 - Guadalupe Victoria, first President of Mexico
* 1843 - Robert Southey, English poet
* 1804 - Louis-Antoine-Henri de Bourbon-Condé, duc d'Enghien (executed)
* 1801 - Andrea Luchesi, Italian composer
* 1795 - Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist
* 1772 - Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, French cartographer
* 1762 - Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer
* 1751 - Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher
* 1734 - Robert Wodrow, Scottish historian
* 1729 - John Law, Scottish economist
* 1676 - Henri Sauval, French historian
* 1656 - James Ussher, Irish Anglican archbishop
* 1617 - Pocahontas, Native American, daughter of Powhatan (b. c. 1595)
* 1556 - Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury (burned at the stake)
* 1487 - Nicholas of Flue, Swiss hermit and saint
* 1306 - Robert II, Duke of Burgundy
* 1181 - Taira Kiyomori, Japanese Feudal general
* 1076 - Robert I, Duke of Burgundy