the weird-ass list of famous people who share my birthday

Sylvia Plath
Kelly Osbourne
Vanessa Mae
Theodore Roosevelt
John Cleese
Scott Weiland
Dylan Thomas
Simon Le Bon
Roberto Benigni

I share a late August Leo b-day wif da following:

Robert Plant, Isaac Hayes, KRS-One, Macauley Culkin, Vincent Price, Connie Chung, and Fred God Damnit Why Must You Be So Hateable? Durst.

May 15:
Me
Nick Southall
Frank Baum (author of Wizard of Oz)
and Brian Eno
Obviously, we win.

You win? I don't see Phillip Michael Thomas there, pardna.

1017 Henry III Holy Roman emperor (1046-56)
1585 Cornelius Otto Jansen France, Roman Catholic reform leader
1810 Brig Gen Adley H Gladden La, killed at Shiloh
1818 Ivan Turgenev Russia, novelist/poet/playwright (Fathers & Sons)
1842 Anna Elizabeth Dickinson orator (Joan of Arc of the Civil War)
1846 Auguste Escoffier king of chefs & chef of kings
1896 Howard Hanson Wahoo Nebraska, composer/conductor (Nordic)
19-- Dennis Parker [Wade Nichols] actor/porno star (Edge of Night)
19-- Rose Alaio actor (Guiding Light)
1902 Elsa Lanchester Lewisham London, actress (Bride of Frankenstien)
1903 Evelyn Waugh London, author (Brideshead Revisited)
1907 Edith Head fashion designer (MGM)
1907 Lew Parker actor (Lou Marie-That Girl)
1910 Marie Dollinger Germany, dropped baton in 1936 Olympic sprint
1914 Dr Jonas Salk NYC, medical researcher, made polio a fear of the past
1926 Bowie Kuhn baseball commissioner (1969-1984)
1927 Cleo Laine Middlesex England, singer (Flesh to a Tiger)
1929 Dody Goodman Columbus Ohio, actress (Mary Hartman!, Max Duggan)
1929 Joan Plowright England, actress (Brimstone & Treacle)
1934 Jim Beatty track runner (1st sub 4 minute indoor mile)
1936 Charlie Daniels country music star (Devil Went Down to Georgia)
1937 Lenny Wilkins NBA player, coach (Seattle, Cleveland)
1939 Jane Alexander Mass, actress (The Betsy, Kramer vs Kramer)
1940 Gennadi M Strekalov cosmonaut (Soyuz T-3, T-8, T-11)
1944 Coluche France comedian/actor (My Best Friend's Girl)
1944 Dennis Franz Maywood Ill, actor (Norman Buntz-Hill Street Blues)
1945 Wayne Fontana Manchester England, rocker (Groovy Kind of Love)
1947 Tom Fitzsimmons SF Calif, actor (Franklin-The Paper Chase)
1948 Telma Hopkins Louisville, singer (Tony Orlando, Family Matters)
1949 Bruce Jenner US, decathalete (Olympic-gold-1976)
1952 Annie Potts Nashville TN, actress (Mary Jo-Designing Women)
1955 William Gates billionaire CEO (Microsoft)
1957 Stephen Morris rocker (New Order-Round & Round)
1959 Neville Henry rocker (Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways)
1959 Walther Bauersfeld 1919 inventor (1st modern projection planetarium)
1960 Mark Derwin Park Forest Ill, actor (AC Mallet-Guiding Light)
1962 Daphne Zuniga actress (Gross Anatomy, Fly II, Spaceballs)
1963 Veronica Gamba Buenos Aires Arg, playmate (November, 1983)
1965 Jami Gertz Chicago, actress (Less the Zero, Crossroads, Solarbabies)
1966 Lauren Holly actress (All My Children)
1974 Leaf Phoenix PR, actor (Russkies, Space Camp)

SARAH MICHELLE GELLER

Helmut Kohl.
Eddie Murphy.
Doris Day.
Melissa Etheridge.
Marlon Brando.
David Hyde Pierce.

On the day I was born Annie Hall won the Oscar - clearly an omen.

Rosamund Pike
Fann Wong
Tricky
Mike Patton
Alan Cumming
Bridget Fonda
Mohamed Al-Fayed
Mordecai Richler
Antonio Carlos Jobim
Donna Reed
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Lewis Carroll
Friedrich Wilhelm von Schelling
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

october 18 (only the ones who changed the world).

klaus kinski
keith jackson
chuck berry
mike ditka
martina navratilova
lee harvey oswald

Mine was January 27th for those who don't feel like looking it up.

I want Bryan's birthday!

Yeah. I'm gonna party it up with Mike Patton next year. We're gonna sit around, eat roast chicken, mashed potatoes and peas, and then mope.

It'd be fun to get Mike Patton and Alan Cumming in a room together.

I'm jealous of Bryan's too, but HE doesn't have Tubbs.

Although I'd rather see late-80s-spandex-wearing-long-haired-surfer-dude Mike Patton in a room with Alan Cumming than modern-day-short-haired-well-dressed-shitting-in-boxes-in-the-corner Mike Patton.

Alan Cumming...ROWR...he's playing Nightcrawler in X2! WTF!?!

I have Keith Richards, Kiefer Sutherland, Christina Aguilera, Brad Pitt, Mark McGwire, Steve Biko and Steven Spielberg amongst others. My party would RULE!

Oh, and Stone Cold Steve Austin. And Katie Holmes.

Hey! I have that same skirt!

July 9:

OJ Simpson
Jack White
Tom Hanks
Courtney Love
and me.

also July 9: Fred Savage, Kelly McGillis, and two of my old zine penpals

June 8th is uninspiring: Frank Lloyd Wright, Nancy Sinatra, uh Griffin Dunne. Not a stellar crop. Mohammed and Thomas Paine died. But...

1786 1st commercially-made ice cream sold
1953 Segregated lunch counters in DC forbidden by Supreme Court
1968 Rolling Stones release "Jumpin' Jack Flash"

So there are good things.

July 27: Allan Border. Also two appalling singers: Bobbie Gentry and Maureen McGovern.
Had I been born 2 hrs 21 minutes earlier I'd be able to claim Helen Mirren, Mick Jagger, Stanley Kubrick, George Bernard Shaw and Aldous Huxley...and also, alas, the Hon. John Winston Howard. Overall I think my timing was OK.