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Gwen Stefani and Tommy Lee!

Also: Wikipedia is a good place to find this!

― NUMBER 1 TERRY RILEY FAN (ex machina), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 23:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Joe McCarthy!

― Sym (shmuel), Thursday, 29 April 2004 00:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Steve Guttenberg!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 29 April 2004 00:20 (twenty-two years ago)

spike lee, holly hunter, and henrik ibsen ...

... MOTHERFUCKERS!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 29 April 2004 00:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Also Dave Chappelle, Marlee Matlin, Craig Kilborn, Cal Ripken and YASSER ARAFAT!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 29 April 2004 00:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Alex wins.

― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 29 April 2004 00:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Also Gerry Cooney and Orson Scott Card!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 29 April 2004 00:25 (twenty-two years ago)

1746 - Sir William Jones, linguist (d. 1794)
1803 - Prosper Mérimée, author (d. 1870)
1824 - Francis Turner Palgrave, British critic and poet (d. 1897)
1841 - Georges Clemenceau, French politician (d. 1929)
1856 - Kate Douglas Wiggin, American children's author (d. 1923)
1887 - Avery Brundage, Olympic Games president (d. 1975)
1901 - Ed Sullivan, TV show host (d. 1974)
1901 - William S. Paley, television pioneer (d. 1990)
1905 - Max Schmeling, boxer
1909 - Al Capp, cartoonist (d. 1979)
1915 - Ethel Rosenberg, spy (d. 1953)
1916 - Peter Finch, actor (d. 1977)
1924 - Marcello Mastroianni, actor (d. 1996)
1925 - Seymour Cray, computer scientist (d. 1996)
1926 - Jerry Clower, country music entertainer
1934 - Brigitte Bardot, actress
1935 - KoKo Taylor, blues singer
1937 - Rod Roddy, television announcer (d. 2003)
1937 - Alice Mahon, English politician and trade unionist
1938 - Ben E. King, singer, songwriter
1939 - Stuart Kauffman, biologist
1947 - Jeffrey Jones, actor
1950 - John Sayles, director, screenwriter
1952 - Sylvia Kristel, actress
1962 - Grant Fuhr, hockey goalie
1964 - Janeane Garofalo, actress, comedian
1968 - Naomi Watts, actress
1967 - Moon Unit Zappa, singer, actress
1967 - Mira Sorvino, actress
1968 - Mika Häkkinen, Finnish auto racing driver
1970 - Isabelle Brasseur, figure skating champion
1972 - Gwyneth Paltrow, actress
1987 - Hilary Duff, actress

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 29 April 2004 00:26 (twenty-two years ago)

no way ... surely SOME ilxor shares a b'day w/ adolf, joe stalin, or pol pot!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 29 April 2004 00:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Gerry Cooney vs Max Schmeling!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 29 April 2004 00:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm over a decade older than Hilary Duff. Now that's depressing.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 29 April 2004 00:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, but you are almost ten years older than Moon Unit Zappa!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 29 April 2004 00:30 (twenty-two years ago)

younger, you mean. And I likes the older women.

"so tell me, loverman, what was Jimmy Carter really like?"
"Hilary, babe, he was really something."

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 29 April 2004 00:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I share mine with Albert Einstein and Quincey Jones.

And uh... Billy Crystal :(

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 29 April 2004 00:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Pat Buchanan, kd lang, and Marie Antoinette.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 29 April 2004 00:33 (twenty-two years ago)

"so tell me, Sylvia, what was Richard Nixon really like?"
"Hstencil, babe, je ne regrette rien."

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 29 April 2004 00:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Mr. T, Notorious B.I.G., Jeffrey Dahmer and Judge Reinhold....

aka, 2 big badass black dudes, a cannibal and that guy jerking off in that 80s film.

― waxyjax (waxyjax), Thursday, 29 April 2004 00:37 (twenty-two years ago)

The JFK assassination was on November 22 which is my birthday.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 29 April 2004 00:39 (twenty-two years ago)

(we've already done this at least once)

Selected events that have occurred on my birthday...

1649 - King Charles I of England is beheaded.
1835 - Unsuccessful assassination attempt against President Andrew Jackson in the United States Capitol -- first assassination attempt against a President.
1913 - House of Lords rejects Irish Home Rule Bill.
1933 - Adolf Hitler sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.
1941 - Dick Cheney born
1948 - Indian pacifist and leader Mahatma Gandhi is murdered by a Hindu extremist.
1968 - Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive begins when Viet Cong forces launch series of a surprise attacks in South Vietnam.
1969 - The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records. The impromptu concert was broken up by the police.
1972 - Bloody Sunday: United Kingdom forces kill thirteen Roman Catholic civil rights marchers in Northern Ireland.
1989 - The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes.

ummmmm...

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 29 April 2004 00:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Rachel Leigh Cook was born the same day and year!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 29 April 2004 00:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I think Dick Cheney wins so far. He might even beat Pol Pot.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 29 April 2004 00:43 (twenty-two years ago)

1992 - Screw magazine superimposed a gunsight over a picture of Larry Flint

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 29 April 2004 00:45 (twenty-two years ago)

older than me (but also born on the same day) are Alicia Silverstone, Leiv Schrieber, Jon Secada, AFRIKA BAMBATAA, Andreas Vollenweider, Steven "Papa" Gyllenhall, Susan Sarandon, H. Rap Brown, Roy Blount Jr., Anne Rice, Jackie Collins and CHARLTON HESTON.

It's pretty clear that people born on that day have a tendency to think their opinion and existence means a whole lot more than it actually does. I feel such a sense of belonging.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 29 April 2004 00:46 (twenty-two years ago)

B-b-b-b-but no one is more important than AFRIKA BAMBATTA!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 29 April 2004 00:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Peter Lorre, Colonel Tom Parker, Chris Isaak, and Jason Schwartzman.

― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Thursday, 29 April 2004 00:51 (twenty-two years ago)

and I do think "Planet Rock" whips "T-E Express"'s ass, so now we know why.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 29 April 2004 00:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, my birthday is the United Nations' Day in Support of Victims of Torture.

― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Thursday, 29 April 2004 00:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Alex in SF: August 24th? No?

― NUMBER 1 TERRY RILEY FAN (ex machina), Thursday, 29 April 2004 00:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 29 April 2004 00:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I was born on the same date (but in a different year) as Jude "I'm hot and you know it" Law, Ted "cranial rug" Danson, Marianne "um, what about rugs?" Faithfull, Jon "my daughter's into collecting vials of blood, you know" Voight, Mary Tyler "we're gonna make it after all" Moore, former L.A. mayor Tom Bradley, Pablo "apparently I was a famous cellist" Casals, Andrew "I was a president, too" Johnson, and Charles "yeah, as in the tire company" Goodyear. And apparently that day is officially "the fifth day of Christmas in Western Christianity", so hey, merry continued Christmas.

Distressing bit of news -- Rainer Maria Rilke passed away exactly 53 years before I was born. The lovely luna will be saddened.

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 29 April 2004 01:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Sir Francis Bacon
Sam Cooke
Steve Perry
Linda Blair
Michael Hutchence
(among others)

I wish I shared a birthday with the Guttenberg.

― BanjoMania (Brilhante), Thursday, 29 April 2004 01:11 (twenty-two years ago)

George Clinton!!!!

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Thursday, 29 April 2004 01:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Also Dave Chappelle, Marlee Matlin, Craig Kilborn, Cal Ripken and YASSER ARAFAT!
-- Alex in SF (clobberthesauru...), April 29th, 2004 6:20 PM.

Cal Ripken??

Lucky! Well, I like him.

I don't know anyone famouse with my birthday. Anyone born on Valentine's Day that's famous?

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 29 April 2004 01:44 (twenty-two years ago)

See Aja we just memorized all these. We didn't go to search engines and type in "Famous Birthdays". So we only know our own, sorry.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 29 April 2004 01:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Michelangelo Antonioni
Gene Autry
Miguel de Cervantes
Andrew Dice Clay
Erika Eleniak
Bryant Gumbel
Madeline Kahn
Jerry Lee Lewis
Joel Schumacher
Natasha Gregson Wagner (woo)
Lech Walesa
Admiral Lord Nelson

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 29 April 2004 01:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Iggy Pop. Robert Smith. Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. Catherine the Great.

(Doesn't this list sound like the punchline to a bad joke?)

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 29 April 2004 01:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Robert Plant. Isaac Hayes. KRS-One.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 29 April 2004 12:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Bob Geldof.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 29 April 2004 12:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Fergie
Emeril Legasse
Tito Jackson
Penny Marshall
Mario Puzo

― mcd (mcd), Thursday, 29 April 2004 12:39 (twenty-two years ago)

And I almost forgot:
Friedrich Nietzsche

― mcd (mcd), Thursday, 29 April 2004 12:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Boy George

― leigh (leigh), Thursday, 29 April 2004 12:41 (twenty-two years ago)

1804 - Ludwig Feuerbach, philosopher (d. 1872)
1866 - Beatrix Potter, author (d. 1943)
1874 - Ernst Cassirer, philosopher (d. 1945)
1887 - Marcel Duchamp, painter (d. 1968)
1902 - Karl Popper, philosopher of science (d. 1994)
1907 - Dolf Sternberger, publicist (d. 1989)
1909 - Malcolm Lowry, novelist (d. 1957)
1914 - Carmen Dragon, composer (d. 1984)
1915 - Frankie Yankovic, musician (d. 1998)
1922 - Jacques Piccard, undersea explorer
1927 - John Ashbery, poet
1929 - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, editor and wife of John F. Kennedy (d. 1994)
1934 - Jacques d'Amboise, dancer, choreographer
1936 - Garfield Sobers, cricketer
1937 - Peter Duchin, pianist, bandleader
1940 - Phil Proctor, comedian
1943 - Bill Bradley, basketball player, former United States Senator
1945 - Jim Davis, cartoonist
1958 - Terry Fox, cancer activist (d. 1981)
1962 - Rachel Sweet, singer
1965 - Lori Loughlin, actress
1977 - Manu Ginobili, Argentine NBA star

Duchamp - yay!
Jim Davis - bah!

― robster (robster), Thursday, 29 April 2004 12:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Chris Kirkpatrick
Eminem
Wyclef Jean

Hmmmmmm......

― smee (smee), Thursday, 29 April 2004 12:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Kurt Cobain was born on the very same day as me, in 1967.

― Daniel (dancity), Thursday, 29 April 2004 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

1778 - Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (d. 1837)
1798 - Sir Henry Lee Guinness, brewer
1801 - Vincenzo Bellini, composer (d. 1835)
1871 - Stephen Crane, writer (d. 1900)
1877 - Roger Quilter, composer (d. 1953)
1880 - Alfred Wegener, meteorologist, geophysicist (d. 1930)
1880 - Sholom Asch, writer (d. 1957)
1880 - Grantland Rice, sports writer (d. 1954)
1892 - Alexander Alekhine, chess player (d. 1946)
1902 - Eugen Jochum, conductor (d. 1987)
1923 - Gordon R. Dickson, science fiction author (d. 2001)
1923 - Victoria de los Angeles, soprano
1929 - Betsy Palmer, actress
1934 - William Mathias, composer (d. 1992)
1935 - Gary Player, golfer
1943 - Salvatore Adamo Belgian/Italian singer
1952 - Larry Flynt, magazine publisher
1957 - Lyle Lovett, singer
1962 - Anthony Kiedis, singer
1963 - Rick Allen, Def Leppard drummer
1967 - Sophie B. Hawkins, musician
1972 - Toni Collette, actress

sir henry lee guinness... fuck yes.
i am mostly indifferent about the rest.

― todd swiss (eliti), Thursday, 29 April 2004 16:29 (twenty-two years ago)

suck on this alex in sf:

GEORGE W. BUSH.

i was so sad on my birthday during that first year of his term.

also: sylvester stallone, frida khalo, nancy reagan, 50 CENT.

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Thursday, 29 April 2004 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Charles Bronson, Aria Giovanni, Roseanne Barr, Dennis Miller, and Adam Ant. Also, I share the same exact birthday (mm/dd/yy) with one of the guys from Slipknot. I am so proud.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 29 April 2004 16:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Brooke Shields & Clint Eastwood.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 April 2004 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)

37 - Nero, Roman emperor (d. 68)
130 - Lucius Verus, Roman emperor (d. 169)
1613 - La Rochefoucauld, writer (d. 1680)
1832 - Gustave Eiffel, civil engineer (d. 1923)
1852 - Antoine Henri Becquerel, physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics 1903 (d. 1908)
1859 - L. L. Zamenhof, initiator of Esperanto (d. 1917)
1861 - Charles Duryea, automobile pioneer (d. 1938)
1888 - Maxwell Anderson, writer (d. 1959)
1892 - J. Paul Getty, oil tycoon (d. 1976)
1910 - John Hammond, musician (d. 1987)
1912 - Ray Eames, American designer (d. 1988)
1912 - Stan Kenton, musician (d. 1979)
1916 - Buddy Cole, pianist (d. 1964)
1918 - Jeff Chandler, actor (d. 1961)
1922 - Alan Freed, disc jockey (d. 1965)
1923 - Freeman Dyson, physicist
1928 - Friedensreich Hundertwasser, painter and graphic artist (d. 2000)
1933 - Tim Conway, actor, comedian
1938 - Michael Bogdanov, film director and theatre manager
1942 - Dave Clark, musician ("Dave Clark Five")
1949 - Don Johnson, actor
1969 - Rick Law, illustrator, producer
1973 - Surya Bonaly, figure skater

Inordinately proud of the Nero and La Rochefoucauld connection.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 29 April 2004 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Lou Barlow - born 10 years to the day before me.

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Thursday, 29 April 2004 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Kim Clijsters (20)
Keenen Ivory Wayans (45)
Tim Berners-Lee (48)
Boz Scaggs (59)
Nancy Sinatra (63)
Joan Rivers (70)
Jerry Stiller (74)
Barbara Bush (78)
Robert Preston (85)
Frank Lloyd Wright (136)

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Thursday, 29 April 2004 16:59 (twenty-two years ago)

sarah michelle geller

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 29 April 2004 16:59 (twenty-two years ago)

On June 8 in history ..

0065 - Jews revolt against Rome, capturing fortress of Antonia in Jerusalem
0068 - Rome Senate accepts emperor Galba
0452 - Italy invaded by Attila the Hun
0536 - St Silverius begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0570 - Religion of Islam (submission) founded in Mecca
0793 - Vikings plunder St Cuthbert convent Lindisfarne
0979 - Louis V de Luie, crowned King of France
1551 - Pope Julius III excommunicates Duke Ottario Farnese of Parma
1624 - Earthquake strikes Peru
1632 - Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Sittard
1663 - Battle at Amegical: English & Portugese fleet beats Spanish
1694 - English troop landing at Brest attack (300 killed)
1761 - British fleet occupies Belle Britain
1783 - Laki Volcano in southern Iceland begins 8-month eruption
1786 - Commercially made ice cream 1st advertised (Mr Hall, NYC)
1815 - 39 German states unite under Act of Confederation
1824 - Washing machine patented by Noah Cushing of Quebec
1829 - 1st UK municipal swimming pool outside of London, opens in Liverpool
1834 - HMS Beagle sails from Port Famine to Cape Turn
1846 - Battle at Gwanga: British troops beat Bantu
1856 - Pitcairn Islanders arrive on Norfolk Island
1861 - People of Tennessee vote to succeed from Union
1861 - US Sanitary Commission is given executive approval
1862 - Valley Campaign-Battle of Cross Keys, Virginia
1865 - Tristanderl und Z*sholde, premieres
1869 - Ives W McGaffey of Chicago patents 1st vacuum cleaner (it sucks)
1872 - Congress endorses penny post card
1878 - 12th Belmont: L Hughes aboard Duke of Magenta wins in 2:43«
1882 - 16th Belmont: Jim McLaughlin aboard Forester wins in 2:43
1886 - 1st Civil Rights Act passes
1889 - Cable Cars begin service in LA
1889 - Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure "Boscombe Valley Mystery" (BG)
1892 - Homer A Plessy refuses to go to segregated RR car (Plessy v Ferguson)
1896 - 1st car is stolen
1900 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of 6 Napoleons" (BG)
1911 - Belgium govt of Schollaert falls
1914 - 34.7øF (1.5øC) in De Bilt, Netherlands
1915 - 92øF (33.3øC) in De Bilt, Netherlands
1915 - William Jennings Bryan quits as Secretary of State
1917 - Walt Disney graduates from Benton High School
1918 - Nova Aquila, brightest nova since Kepler's nova of 1604, discovered
1920 - Reds' Edd Roush falls asleep in center during long infield argument Heinie Groh goes to wake him, but ump ejects Roush for delay of game
1921 - Babe Ruth arrested for speeding, fined $100, & held in jail until 4 PM
1927 - Tony Lazzeri hits 3 HRs Yanks beat White Sox 12-11
1928 - 1st US-to-Australia flight lands (Sir Charles Kingford)
1929 - 61st Belmont: Mack Garner aboard Blue Larkspur wins in 2:32.8
1929 - Venezuelan rebel Rafael Urbina overthrows Fort Amsterdam, Curaýao kidnap governor Fruytier
1931 - Duke & Duchess of Kent wed
1931 - Suriname Work Committee under Louis Doedel forms in Paramaribo
1933 - A's Jimmie Foxx homers his 1st 3 at bats for 4 consecutive HRs
1935 - 39th US Golf Open: Sam Parks Jr shoots a 299 at Oakmont CC PA
1935 - 67th Belmont: Willie Saunders aboard Omaha wins in 2:30.6
1935 - Lou Gehrig collides with Carl Reynolds & leaves the game
1936 - 1st parking meters are invented
1937 - World's largest flower blooms in NY Botanical Garden, 12' calla lily
1939 - British king George VI visits US
1940 - 72nd Belmont: Fred A Smith aboard Bimelech wins in 2:29.6
1940 - Discovery of element 93, neptunium, announced
1940 - Last British troops leave Narvik Norway
1941 - English & French troop overthrow pro-German Syria
1942 - Bing Cosby records "Silent Night"
1944 - 1st SS-Pantser corps counter attacks at Normandy
1944 - Allies occupy Port-and-Bessin Normandy
1944 - Dutch Resistance fighter Frans Duwaer arrested
1944 - Gen Montgomery lands in Normandy, forms HQ in Chƒteau de Creully
1946 - "Lute Song" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 142 performances
1946 - Sukarno calls for anti colonial defiance in Indonesia
1948 - "Milton Berle Show" premieres on NBC TV
1948 - "Sally" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 36 performances
1948 - John Rudder becomes 1st negro commissioned officer in US marines
1949 - Siam changes name to Thailand
1950 - Boston Red Sox beat St Louis Browns 29-4 (win by record 25 runs)
1950 - Jean Duvieusart becomes Belgian premier
1950 - Test Cricket debut of Ramadhin & Valentine (8-104 1st inn) v England
1952 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Eastern Women's Golf Open
1953 - Cluster of 6 tornadoes touch down in Flint Michigan killing 113
1953 - Segregated lunch counters in DC forbidden by Supreme Court
1953 - Tornadoes kill 110 in Mich & Ohio
1955 - Dodgers option Tommy Lasorda to make room on roster for Sandy Koufax
1956 - Lim Yem Hock forms Singapore govt
1956 - WDAM TV channel 7 in Laurel-Hattiesburg, MS (NBC) begins broadcasting
1958 - 4th LPGA Championship won by Mickey Wright
1959 - 1st official "missile mail" lands (Jacksonville, Fla)
1959 - X-15 makes 1st unpowered flight, from a B-52 at 11,500 m
1960 - 1st date in James Clavell's novel "Nobel House"
1960 - Argentine government demands release of Adolf Eichmann
1961 - English prince Edward, Duke of Kent, weds Katharine Worsley
1961 - Test Cricket debut of William Morris Lawry, v Eng at Edgbaston, 57
1961 - Milwaukee sets record of 4 consecutive HRs (Eddie Mathews, Hank Aaron Joe Adcock & Frank Thomas)
1962 - Jim Beatty runs world record 2 mile (8:29.8)
1963 - "Mr President" closes at St James Theater NYC after 265 performances
1963 - 95th Belmont: Braulio Baeza aboard Chateaugay wins in 2:30.2
1963 - American Heart Assn is 1st agency to campaign against cigarettes
1965 - A's draft Rick Monday #1
1965 - US troops ordered to fight offensively in Vietnam
1965 - USSR launches Luna 6; missed Moon
1966 - NFL & AFL announce plans to become NFC & AFC in 1970
1967 - Israel attacks USS Liberty in Mediterranean, killing 34 US crewmen
1968 - 1st reduced-gravity golf game is played on the Moon
1968 - Bermuda adopts its constitution
1968 - Don Drysdale pitches a record 58th consecutive scoreless inning
1968 - Gary Puckett & Union Gap release "Lady Will Power"
1968 - James Earl Ray, alleged assassin of Martin Luther King Jr, captured
1968 - New colonial constitution for Bermuda adopted
1968 - Rolling Stones release "Jumpin' Jack Flash"
1969 - "Smothers Brothers comedy Hour," last airs on CBS-TV
1969 - 21st Emmy Awards: Get Smart, Don Adams & Susan St James
1969 - Brian Jones leaves The Rolling Stones
1969 - General Franco closes Spain's frontier with Gibraltar
1969 - KDNL TV channel 30 in Saint Louis, MO (IND) begins broadcasting
1969 - Mickey Mantle Day, 60,096 saw #7 retired (I was there-BTG)
1969 - Nixon says 25,000 US troops would leave Vietnam by end of August
1969 - Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor replaces Brian Jones
1969 - Susie Berning wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1970 - Players & management end labor dispute up min salary to $12,000
1971 - North Vietnam demands US end aid to South Vietnam
1971 - White Sox draft Danny Goodwin #1, he refuses to sign
1972 - Padres draft Dave Roberts #1, Indians draft Rick Manning #2
1972 - Test Cricket debut of Tony Greig, v Australia at Old Trafford (57/62)
1973 - Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco appointed premier of Spain
1974 - 106th Belmont: Miguel Rivera aboard Little Current wins in 2:29.2
1974 - Keyboardist Rick Wakeman quits rock group "Yes"
1974 - US & Saudi Arabia sign military-economic contract
1975 - 2 passenger trains collided near Munich Germany killing 35
1975 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Girl Talk Golf Classic
1975 - USSR launches Venera 9 for Venus landing
1976 - Houston Astros draft Floyd Bannister #1
1977 - Nolan Ryan notches his 4th career 19-strikeout game
1978 - 51st National Spelling Bee: Peg McCarthy wins spelling deification
1978 - Braves draft Bob Horner #1
1978 - Nevada jury rules Howard Hughes "Mormon Will" is a forgery
1979 - "The Source," 1st computer public information service, goes on-line
1979 - Mariners draft Al Chambers #1
1979 - Wings release "Back to the Egg" album
1980 - "It's So Nice to Be Civilized" closes at Martin Beck NYC after 8 perfs
1980 - 26th LPGA Championship won by Sally Little
1980 - 34th Tony Awards: Children of a Lesser God & Evita win
1980 - 50th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Virginia Ruzici (60 63)
1981 - 15th Music City News Country Awards: Mandrell Sisters
1981 - Seattle Mariners draft Mike Moore #1
1982 - 36th NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Phila 76ers, 4 games to 2
1982 - Brazilian B-727 flight crashes into mountain; 135 die
1982 - Emmy 9th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 3rd time
1982 - Reagan addresses joint session of British Parliament
1983 - "Trading Places," "Ghostbusters," & "Gremlins," premieres
1983 - Charlos Vieira begins 191 hr "nonstop" cycling in Leiria, Portugal
1983 - Marlies G”hr runs female European record 100m (10.81)
1985 - 117th Belmont: Eddie Maple aboard Creme Fraiche wins in 2:27
1985 - Pirates score 10 in top of 1st, but lose 15-11 to Phillies, as Steve becomes 1st Phillie to switch hit HRs in same game
1986 - "Big Deal" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 70 performances
1986 - 40th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Hous Rockets, 4 games to 2
1986 - 56th French Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Mikael Pernfors (63 62 64)
1986 - Alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim elected pres of Austria
1986 - Juli Inkster wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship
1986 - Longest 9 inning AL game (4h16m), Balt Orioles beat Yankees 18-9
1987 - 21st Music City News Country Awards: Randy Travis
1987 - Oliver North's secretary Fawn Hall tesifies at Iran-Contra hearing
1988 - Nippon Airways announces that painting eyeballs on Jets cut bird collisions by 20%
1989 - Pirates score 10 in 1st (their best inning since 1942), prompts Pirate Jim Rooker to say he would walk from Pitts to Phila if Pirates lost, Phillies beat them
15-11, Rooker walks at end of season broadcaster
1990 - "It's Garry Shandling's Show," last airs on Fox-TV
1990 - Phil Bradley hits 18th inside-the-park HR in Oriole history
1991 - "Our Country's Good" closes at Nederlander Theater NYC after 48 perfs
1991 - 123rd Belmont: Jerry Bailey aboard Hansel wins in 2:28
1991 - 61st French Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats A S Vicario (63 64)
1991 - College World Series: Louisiana State defeats Wichita State 6-3
1991 - Former NY Jet Mark Gastineau wins 1st pro boxing fight in 12 seconds
1991 - Victory parade held in Wash DC (Persian Gulf War)
1991 - Warren Schutte, is 1st non American to win NCAA Div 1 golf title
1992 - 26th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson & Garth Brooks
1992 - NY Yankee pitcher Steve Howe is banned from baseball for 7th time
1992 - Thomas Klestil succeeds Waldheim as president of Austria
1993 - Premier Marc Bazin of Haiti resigns
1994 - 7.8 earthquake strikes North Bolivia
1994 - Mass murderer Joe Rifkind sentenced to 27 years
1995 - "Buttons on Broadway" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 40 perfs
1996 - 128th Belmont: Rene Douglas aboard Editor's Note wins in 2:28.96
1996 - 66th French Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats A S Vicario (63, 67, 108)
1996 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1996 - Dean Jones takes career-best 5-112 for Derbyshire v Hampshire
1996 - Lloyd & Titchard complete 358 stand for 4th wkt Lancs v Essex
1996 - PBA National Championship Won by Butch Soper
1997 - "Young Man From Atlanta" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 85 perfs
1997 - 67th French Mens Tennis: Gustavo Kuerten beats S Bruguera (63 64 62)
1997 - BellSouth Senior Golf Classic at Opryland
1997 - Justin Leonard wins golf's Kemper Open at TPC at Avenel
1997 - Pat Hurst wins LPGA Oldsmobile Classic
2004 - Transit of Venus (between Earth & Sun) occurs

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Thursday, 29 April 2004 17:02 (twenty-two years ago)

David Soul (Starsky. Or is it Hutch?)
Nancy Culp (Miss Hathaway on Beverly Hillbillies)
Jason Priestley

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Friday, 30 April 2004 03:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Franz Ferdinand (the archduke, not the band)
Steven Spielberg
Keith Richards
Brad Pitt
Ray Liotta
Steve Biko
Christina Aguilera
Betty Grable
DMX

Kirsty McColl and Chris Farley both died on my birthday.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 30 April 2004 06:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Holly Hunter, Spike Lee.

Gee.

― Autumn Alman Yak (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 30 April 2004 06:13 (twenty-two years ago)

1466 (assumed) - Erasmus of Rotterdam, Dutch writer and philospher
1728 - James Cook, British naval captain and explorer. (d. 1779)
1744 - Mary Moser, English painter and one of only two female founder members of the Royal Academy (d. 1819)
1782 - Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer
1811 - Isaac Singer, inventor of the sewing machine (d. 1875)
1811 - Stevens Thomson Mason, first governor of Michigan.
1858 - Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States (d. 1919)
1872 - Emily Post, etiquette authority (sometimes October 3, 1873 is given as her birthdate)
1912 - Conlon Nancarrow, composer
1914 - Dylan Thomas, British poet and writer (d. 1953)
1917 - Oliver Tambo, leader of the African National Congress
1918 - Teresa Wright, actress
1923 - Roy Lichtenstein, American artist
1924 - Ruby Dee, actress
1926 - H.R. Haldeman, Watergate scandal figure
1932 - Sylvia Plath, American poet (d. 1963)
1933 - Floyd Cramer, musician
1939 - John Cleese, British actor, comedian
1940 - John Gotti, American mobster (d. 2002)
1942 - Lee Greenwood, musician
1945 - Luís Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazilian President
1946 - Ivan Reitman, movie director, producer
1946 - Carrie Snodgress, actress
1947 - Terry Anderson, journalist, Middle Eastern hostage
1948 - Berni Wrightson, American artist
1950 - Fran Lebowitz, writer
1952 - Roberto Benigni, Italian actor
1953 - Peter Firth, actor
1958 - Simon Le Bon, musician
1966 - Matt Drudge, Internet personality
1967 - Scott Weiland, musician ("Stone Temple Pilots")
1972 - Maria Mutola, Mozambiquan athlete
1984 - Kelly Osbourne, American television personality

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Friday, 30 April 2004 06:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I got Debbie Gibson, Caligula, Van Morrison and Princess Diana died on my 21st birthday.

― hmmm (hmmm), Friday, 30 April 2004 07:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I got Condi Rice and McCarthy! Also Prince Charles, King Hussein, and Boutros-Boutros Ghali.
I was really jazzed about discovering I had the same birthdays as Loise Brooks, Astrid Lingren (who wrote Pippie Longstocking), and the guy who played I in Withnail and I.

― Sym (shmuel), Friday, 30 April 2004 08:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Someone should acknowledge the powerful evil of Gabbneb's birthday list. Also, it seems somehow significant that Bush and 50 Cent share a birthday.

― Sym (shmuel), Friday, 30 April 2004 08:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I was born on the same day as Donnie Wahlberg!

I have the same birthday as
Robert de Niro
Sean Penn
Belinda Carlisle
Thierry Henry
Kevin Rowland
Posdnous
David Koresh
Ted Hughes
George Melly
Mae West

I am the best, oh yes.

― holojames (holojames), Friday, 30 April 2004 09:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Natalie Imbruglia
Charles Lindbergh

(my birthday's a bit crap as far as famous people go)

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 30 April 2004 09:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Bill Gates. Shoot me.

― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Friday, 30 April 2004 09:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Julia Roberts. Strangle me.

― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Friday, 30 April 2004 09:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Robert Burns. Canonise me.

― Jesus H. Clapton, Friday, 30 April 2004 09:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Taye Diggs, Kate Bosworth, James Marshall off Twin Peaks, Tia Carrere, Phoenixxx Blaque (She's only got one film, but points for the name), Isaac Asimov, Cuba Gooding Jr.

And Tsui Hark, motherfuckerS!

Exactly the same age: The actress who played Lucy in the late-80s Narnia adaptations, and Dax Shepard, off Punk't, apparently.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 30 April 2004 11:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Also: Virginia Woolf (makes sense, dunnit, and no doubt that's not the only thing we'll end up having in common), Somerset Maugham (provider of quote on CoM header), Etta James and Alicia Keys. Oh dear as regards the latter two.

― Jesus H. Clapton, Friday, 30 April 2004 11:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Donald Trump. bonanza.

― Nellie (nellskies), Friday, 30 April 2004 13:13 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

I Am A Viking! (the norwegian bloke from World's Strongest Man has the same identical birthday as me, year as well).

the exact same day is also the day when the episode of Star Trek with the evil goatee-bearded Spock first aired.

and Rainy.

― koogs, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

Mine are:

Woodrow Wilson
Maggie Smith
Denzel Washington
Sienna Miller
Nigel Kennedy
Stan Lee

― ENBB, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

Vincent Price
Connie Chung
Macauley Culkin
Fred Durst

― nickalicious, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

Wikipedia is a good place to find this!

INDEED! I mean, holy shit, I had no idea about any of these!:

1890 - H. P. Lovecraft, American writer (d. 1937)
1901 - Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
1941 - Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia (d. 2006)
1949 - Phil Lynott, Irish musician (d. 1986) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1952 - John Hiatt, American musician
1954 - Al Roker, American television broadcaster
1966 - Dimebag Darrell, American guitarist (Pantera and Damageplan) (d. 2004)
1971 - Jonathan Ke Quan, Vietnamese American actor [born KE HU QUAN - aka "DATA" in Goonies!]

Phil Lynott in particular makes me very happy!

― nickalicious, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

Mos Def! same year and everything! we are twinz. . .

― Ms Misery, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

Followed Nick's lead to Wiki and discovered that I also share my birthday with Alex Chilton - yay! Who knew?

― ENBB, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

OMG i share a birthday w/ KRISTEN BELL AKA VERONICA MARS score

― elmo argonaut, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

shortlist:

* 1906 - Clifford Odets, American writer (d. 1963)
* 1913 - Red Skelton, American actor and comedian (d. 1997)
* 1918 - Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
* 1921 - John Glenn, Mercury Seven astronaut and United States Senator from Ohio
* 1922 - Thomas Kuhn, American philosopher (d. 1996)
* 1929 - Screamin' Jay Hawkins, American singer (d. 2000)
* 1937 - Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (d. 2005)
* 1938 - Paul Verhoeven, Dutch film director
* 1947 - Steve Forbes, American entrepreneur and politician
* 1950 - Sir Richard Branson, British entrepreneur
* 1967 - Vin Diesel, American actor
* 1980 - Kristen Bell, American actress

― elmo argonaut, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

i showed my dad the wiki link for his birthday and HE ADDED HIMSELF rofl

― elmo argonaut, Monday, 19 March 2007 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

wait does your dad have a wiki page or did he just...

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Monday, 19 March 2007 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

Sylvester Stallone
Nancy Reagan
G.W. Bush.

Thanks mom.

― luna, Monday, 19 March 2007 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

Bono and Sid Vicious. :/

― jessie monster, Monday, 19 March 2007 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

oh yeah and the MOTHER-FUCKING BUDDHA.

― jessie monster, Monday, 19 March 2007 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

William Faulkner
Dmitri Shostakovich
Barbara Walters
Mark Hamill

― molly mummenschanz, Monday, 19 March 2007 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

Jon Bon Jovi

― Hard like armour, Monday, 19 March 2007 23:24 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, you and my daughter share a birthday then!

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 02:17 (nineteen years ago)

Bram Stoker, Esther Rolle, Morley Safer, Don Byron, Parker Posey, Gordon Ramsey.

― Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 04:07 (nineteen years ago)

Did she have a good one the other week then? :)

― Hard like armour, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 04:08 (nineteen years ago)

# 1706 - Benjamin Franklin American statesman (d. 1790)
# 1899 - Al Capone, American gangster (d. 1947)
# 1927 - Eartha Kitt, American actress and singer
# 1931 - James Earl Jones, American actor
# 1939 - Maury Povich, American talk show host
# 1942 - Muhammad Ali, American boxer
# 1944 - Françoise Hardy, French singer
# 1949 - Mick Taylor, British musician (The Rolling Stones)
# 1949 - Andy Kaufman, American comedian (d. 1984)
# 1952 - Ryuichi Sakamoto, Japanese musician
# 1955 - Steve Earle, American musician
# 1956 - Paul Young, English musician
# 1959 - Susanna Hoffs, American musician
# 1962 - Jim Carrey, Canadian actor and comedian
# 1964 - Andy Rourke, English bass guitarist (The Smiths)
# 1969 - Lukas Moodysson, Swedish film director
# 1969 - Naveen Andrews, British actor
# 1970 - Genndy Tartakovsky, Russian-born animator
# 1971 - Kid Rock, American singer
# 1980 - Zooey Deschanel, American actress

Genndy Tartakovsky is totally my hero.

― Roz, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 09:14 (nineteen years ago)

Robert Burns

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

gwyneth paltrow. ew.

― gem, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 09:32 (nineteen years ago)

Oh I forgot: Joaquin Phoenix! ROWR!

― nathalie, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 09:35 (nineteen years ago)

Terry Gilliam!

― C J, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 09:35 (nineteen years ago)

Those who also celebrated my birthday yesterday, included:

1434 - Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1443)
1813 - David Livingstone, Scottish missionary and explorer (d. 1873)
1848 - Wyatt Earp, American policeman and gunfighter (d. 1929)
1905 - Albert Speer, Nazi official (d. 1981)
1921 - Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedy magician (d. 1984)
1928 - Patrick McGoohan, American-born actor
1933 - Philip Roth, American author
1936 - Ursula Andress, Swiss actress
1944 - Sirhan Sirhan, Palestinian-born assassin
1946 - Bigas Luna, Spanish film director
1946 - Ruth Pointer, American singer (Pointer Sisters)
1947 - Glenn Close, American actress
1947 - Marinho Peres, Brazilian football player
1953 - Ricky Wilson, American musician (The B-52's) (d. 1985)
1955 - Bruce Willis, American actor
1971 - Nadja Auermann, German supermodel
1976 - Alessandro Nesta, Italian footballer
1979 - Ivan Ljubičić, Croatian tennis player

― DavidM, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 09:37 (nineteen years ago)

Koko who was a signing gorilla apparantly...

And Geraldo Rivera...it just get's better and better...

And of course Ron "Born on the Forth of July" Kovic...

And Garibadi - ok, cool.

― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 09:46 (nineteen years ago)

this made me feel less awful about my birthday having previously only known i shared it with garry shandling and howie mandel:

1427 - Zhengtong, Emperor of China (d. 1464)
1803 - Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist (d. 1853)
1832 - Louisa May Alcott, American novelist (d. 1888)
1895 - Busby Berkeley, American film director and choreographer (d. 1976)
1898 - C. S. Lewis, Irish writer (d. 1963)
1918 - Madeleine L'Engle, American author
1927 - Vin Scully, American baseball announcer
1932 - Jacques Chirac, 5th President of the Fifth (French) Republic
1933 - John Mayall, British blues musician
1939 - Gene Okerlund, American wrestling interviewer
1939 - Meco, American record producer
1940 - Denny Doherty, Canadian singer (The Mamas and the Papas) (d. 2007)
1940 - Chuck Mangione, American musician
1949 - Jerry Lawler, American wrestler
1949 - Garry Shandling, American comedian
1951 - Barry Goudreau, American musician (Boston)
1953 - Alex Grey, American artist
1954 - Joel Coen, American film director, producer, and writer
1955 - Howie Mandel, Canadian actor
1956 - Leo Laporte, American television personality
1958 - Michael Dempsey, American musician (The Cure)
1961 - Tom Sizemore, American actor
1962 - Andy LaRocque Swedish musician (King Diamond)
1964 - Don Cheadle, American actor
1965 - Ellen Cleghorne, American comedian
1968 - Jonathan Knight, American singer (New Kids on the Block)
1969 - Pierre van Hooijdonk, Dutch footballer (heh, "Hooijdonk")
1973 - Ryan "The Welsh Wizard" Giggs, Welsh footballer
1982 - Ashley Force, American race car driver
1982 - Krystal Steal, American pornographic actress

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 09:55 (nineteen years ago)

Gordon Ramsay and Jack Osbourne

― Ste, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 10:59 (nineteen years ago)

Hahahahahah I have the same birthday as THE PENGUIN:

1907 - Burgess Meredith, American actor (d. 1997)

Also, Frank Bruno, Paul Scholes (aaaargh), Willie Carson, Lisa Bonet, Maggie Gyllenhaaaaaaaaal and Catherine Willows from CSI. Clark Gable died, as did Arthur Askey. Ay-thang-yew.

― peteR, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 11:15 (nineteen years ago)

Imagine that as a joint birthday party!

― C J, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 11:17 (nineteen years ago)

Rita Hayworth
Montgomery Clift
Ernie Els
Eminem

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 11:20 (nineteen years ago)

Joe Meek, Colin Powel, Jane Asher, Pharrell Williams, Booker T Washinton, Spencer Tracey, Bette Davis, Gregory Peck.

― Anna, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

Geri Halliwell
Elliott Smith
Andy Warhol

Also on my birthday - the bombing of Hiroshima and the Ramones play their final concert :(

― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 11:41 (nineteen years ago)

(Also on mine: St Patrick returns to Ireland, Kurt Cobain dies, the Rosenburgs sentenced to death.)

― Anna, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

St Patrick returns to Ireland

teh date of that is certain? hmmmmm *gives teh anna 1 x sceptical look*

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

Check his ferry ticket!

― C J, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

ENBB we have b-day in common. catholic feast of the holy innocents. yay us! but you left out

Guy Debord
Manuel Puig
Nichelle Nichols aka the lovely Lt Uhuru of Star Trek
Edgar Winter
Alex Chilton

― m coleman, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

George H. W. Bush
Anne Frank
Bun E. Carlos

Incidentally, that's also the trio I would choose "if I could pick three people from history to have dinner with."

― Ben Boyerrr, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

lola montez, gene pitney, michael jordan, paris hilton

― unfished business, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

paul mccartney! red adair! fabio capello! roger ebert! thabo mbeki! isabella rosselini! alison moyet! uday hussein!

― haitch, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

Oh wow....Johnny Appleseed, Heidegger, George Gershwin, TS Eliot!

And Olivia Newton-John and Linda Hamilton. Huh.

― franny glass, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

To name a few,

Lucille Ball
Andy Warhol
Jim McGreevey
Kevin Mitnick
Elliott Smith
M. Night Shyamalan
Ginger Spice
Soleil Moon Frye
Adrianne Curry
JonBenet Ramsey

― Stevie D, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

lol Stevie D is my birthday buddy!

― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

Holy Innocents, eh? I never knew despite surviving a catholic education. ;-) You're right, I missed out most of those but I did return to add Chilton as I was pretty excied to discover that one. I've only met one other person with my birthday. Now I "know" two!

― ENBB, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

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