According to Wikipedia who was born on your birthday?

[rameek]

These are the only people I recognized off hand...

# 1969 - Triple H, American professional wrestler
# 1975 - Shea Hillenbrand, baseball player
# 1975 - Alex Rodriguez, baseball player

[Trinadad]

Lol... January 22... and I don't recognize a single name... then again, my memory sucks. :duh:

Edit: Oh, I didn't see them all... but that's it. :/
1980 - Ben Moody, American guitarist (Evanescence)
1965 - Steven Adler, American drummer (Guns N' Roses)

[Jay]

1291 - Philippe de Vitry, French composer (d. 1361)
1345 - King Fernando I of Portugal (d. 1383)
1391 - King Duarte of Portugal (d. 1438)
1424 - King Wladislaus III of Poland (d. 1444)
1538 - Caesar Baronius, Italian cardinal and historian (d. 1607)
1599 - Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, English statesman and writer (d. 1680)
1620 - John Evelyn, English diarist (d. 1706)
1622 - Pierre Paul Puget, French artist (d. 1694)
1632 - (baptism) Johannes Vermeer, Flemish painter (d. 1675)
1636 - Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria (d. 1679)
1692 - Comte de Caylus, French archaelogist (d. 1765)
1705 - Pope Clement XIV (d. 1774)
1711 - Laura Bassi, Italian scholar (d. 1778)
1724 - Christopher Anstey, English writer (d. 1805)
1737 - James Lovell (delegate), American educator
1795 - John Keats, British poet (d. 1821)
1815 - Karl Weierstraß, German mathematician (d. 1897)
1831 - Paolo Mantegazza, Italian neurologist (d. 1910)
1835 - Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1917)
1860 - Juliette Low, American founder of the Girl Scouts
1875 - Eugene Meyer, American businessman and newspaper publisher (d. 1954)
1875 - Vallabhbhai Patel, Indian freedom fighter and statesman (d. 1950)
1887 - Chiang Kai-shek, Nationalist Chinese leader (d. 1975)
1892 - Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player (d. 1946)
1895 - Basil Liddell Hart, British military historian (d. 1970)
1896 - Ethel Waters, American singer and actress (d. 1977)
1912 - Dale Evans, American singer and actress (d. 2001)
1917 - Thomas Hill, Canadian actor
1918 - Ian Stevenson, American parapsychologist
1920 - Dick Francis, Welsh novelist
1920 - Helmut Newton, German photographer (d. 2004)
1920 - Fritz Walter, German footballer
1922 - Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress (d. 2005)
1922 - Illinois Jacquet, American saxophonist (d. 2004)
1922 - King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia
1925 - John Anthony Pople, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
1926 - Jimmy Saville, English entertainer
1927 - Lee Grant, American actress
1928 - Cleo Moore, American actress (d. 1973)
1929 - Eddie Charlton, Australian snooker player (d. 1994)
1930 - Michael Collins, astronaut
1931 - Dan Rather, American television journalist
1936 - Michael Landon, American actor (d. 1991)
1937 - Tom Paxton, American singer
1939 - Ron Rifkin, American actor
1943 - Paul Frampton, English physicist
1944 - Kinky Friedman, American musician and novelist
1945 - Brian Doyle-Murray, American comedian and actor
1946 - Stephen Rea, Northern Irish actor
1946 - Norman Lovett, British actor
1947 - Deidre Hall, American actress
1947 - Frank Shorter, American runner
1950 - John Candy, Canadian comedian and actor (d. 1994)
1950 - Jane Pauley, American news anchor
1953 - Michael J. Anderson, American actor
1958 - Jeannie Longo, French cyclist
1959 - Neal Stephenson, American author
1960 - Luis Fortuńo, Puerto Rico's delegate to Congress
1961 - Peter Jackson, New Zealand film director
1961 - Larry Mullen, Irish drummer (U2)
1961 - Alonzo Babers, American runner
1961 - Kate Campbell, American musician
1963 - Dunga, Brazilian footballer
1963 - Fred McGriff, baseball player
1963 - Rob Schneider, American actor
1963 - Johnny Marr, guitarist/songwriter (The Smiths)
1964 - Marco van Basten, Dutch football player
1965 - Annabella Lwin, British singer (Bow Wow Wow)
1966 - Adam Horovitz, American singer (Beastie Boys)
1968 - Antonio Davis, American basketball player
1968 - Vanilla Ice, American rapper
1970 - Linn Berggren, Swedish singer (Ace of Base)
1970 - Rogers Stevens, American guitarist (Blind Melon)
1971 - Alphonso Ford, American basketball player (d. 2004)
1971 - Ian Walker, English footballer
1972 - Shaun Bartlett, South African footballer
1972 - Adela, the most beautiful women on the Earth
1974 - Muzzy Izzet, Turkish footballer
1980 - Eddie Kaye Thomas, American actor
1981 - Irina Denezhkina, Russian writer
1981 - Frank Iero, American guitarist (My Chemical Romance)
1986 - Christie Hayes, Australian actress
2002 - (Jordan) Ezra Hanson, Son of Musician Taylor Hanson

Vanilla Ice was born on the same day as me... I feel dirty. :(

[Duke Luke of Juke]

February 19th

1473 - Nicolaus Copernicus, mathematician and astronomer (d. 1543)
1940 - Smokey Robinson, American musician
1948 - Tony Iommi, British musician (Black Sabbath)
1954 - Socrates, Brazilian footballer
1955 - Jeff Daniels, American actor
1957 - Falco, Austrian singer (d. 1998)
1963 - Seal, British singer
1966 - Justine Bateman, American actress
1967 - Benicio Del Toro, Puerto Rican actor
1983 - Mika Nakashima, Japanese singer and actress
1985 - Haylie Duff, American singer and actress

[jindojim]

Feb 12:
1809 - Charles Darwin, English naturalist
1809 - Abraham Lincoln
1955 - Arsenio Hall, American actor and talk show host


and apparently this guy died on my bday according to Wiki-_-
2005 - Poop Goblin, American actor (b. 1932)

[Wiss]

February 29th, was suprised that there were people I recognized in the list:
1468 - Pope Paul III (d. 1549) [If I was pope I'd make Leap Day a real holiday]
1944 - Dennis Farina, American actor
1972 - Antonio Sabato Jr., Italian-born actor
1976 - Ja Rule, American rapper and actor
1980 - Simon Gagné, Canadian hockey player

[gyoza]

Selected results:

1717 - Pope Pius VI
1822 - Louis Pasteur
1948 - Gerard Depardieu
1965 - Salman Khan
1971 - Duncan Ferguson (Big Dunc!)
1979 - David Dunn

December 27th by the way.

Oh, I think Satomi Ishihara was born 3 days before me... on the same year :D

[Firefly]

August 7th:

1958 - Bruce Dickinson, English singer
1960 - David Duchovny, American actor
1966 - Jimmy Wales, American founder of Wikipedia
1975 - Charlize Theron, South African actress

Deaths :(
2005 - Peter Jennings, Canadian-born news anchor

[The Divine Comedy]

July 6

Going for people I recognize...

1946 - Sylvester Stallone, American actor
1951 - Geoffrey Rush, Australian actor
1975 - 50 Cent, American rapper

and...

1946 - George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States :bang:

[Lateli]

August 8th.. Hm...


* 1079 - Emperor Horikawa of Japan (d. 1107)
* 1602 - Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (d. 1675)
* 1605 - Cćcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, colonial Governor of Maryland (d. 1675)
* 1646 - Godfrey Kneller, German-born painter (d. 1723)
* 1673 - John Ker, Scottish spy (d. 1726)
* 1693 - Laurent Belissen, French composer (d. 1762)
* 1694 - Francis Hutcheson, Irish philosopher (d. 1746)
* 1720 - Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish politician (d. 1796)
* 1814 - Esther Morris, suffragist and the first U. S. woman judge (d. 1902)
* 1839 - Nelson Miles, U.S. general (d. 1925)
* 1866 - Matthew Henson, Arctic explorer (d. 1955)
* 1875 - Artur da Silva Bernardes, President of Brazil (d. 1955)
* 1879 - Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1919)
* 1880 - Earle Page, eleventh Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1961)
* 1891 - Adolf Busch, German violinist (d. 1952)
* 1892 - Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish footballer (d. 1922)
* 1896 - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American author (d. 1953)
* 1901 - Ernest O. Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
* 1902 - Paul Dirac, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
* 1905 - André Jolivet, French composer (d. 1974)
* 1907 - Benny Carter, American musician and arranger (d. 2003)
* 1908 - Arthur Goldberg, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1980)
* 1910 - Sylvia Sidney, American actress (d. 1999)
* 1911 - Rosetta LeNoire, American actress (d. 2002)
* 1915 - James "Jumbo" Elliott, American track coach (d. 1981)
* 1919 - Dino De Laurentiis, Italian film producer
* 1920 - Leo Chiosso, Italian lyricist
* 1921 - William Asher, American film producer
* 1921 - John Herbert Chapman, British physicist
* 1921 - Webb Pierce, American singer (d. 1991)
* 1921 - Vulimiri Ramalingaswami, Indian medical scientist
* 1921 - Esther Williams, American actress and swimmer
* 1922 - Rory Calhoun, American actor (d. 1999)
* 1922 - Rudi Gernreich, Austrian-born fashion designer (d. 1985)
* 1925 - Alija Izetbegovic, President of Bosnia-Herzegovina (d. 2003)
* 1927 - Johnny Temple, baseball player (d. 1994)
* 1928 - Don Burrows, Australian jazz musician
* 1929 - Larisa Bogoraz, Soviet dissident (d. 2004)
* 1929 - Ronald Biggs, British criminal
* 1931 - Sir Roger Penrose, British physicist
* 1932 - Mel Tillis, American singer
* 1935 - Donald P. Bellisario, American television producer
* 1935 - John Laws, Australia radio personality
* 1936 - Keith Barron, English actor
* 1937 - Dustin Hoffman, American actor
* 1938 - Connie Stevens, American singer and actress
* 1939 - Alexander Watson, American ambassador and diplomat
* 1944 - Peter Weir, Australian film director
* 1944 - Uli Derickson, Czech-born flight attendant (d. 2005)
* 1944 - Brooke Bundy, American actress
* 1949 - Keith Carradine, American actor
* 1951 - Mamoru Oshii, Japanese film director
* 1952 -Jostein Gaarder, Norwegian author
* 1952 - Robin Quivers, American radio personality
* 1953 - Don Most American actor
* 1954 - Nigel Mansell, English race car driver
* 1955 - Herbert Prohaska, Austrian footballer
* 1956 - Branscombe Richmond, American actor
* 1958 - Deborah Norville, American reporter and television host
* 1961 - The Edge, Irish guitarist (U2)
* 1966 - Chris Eubank, English boxer
* 1973 - Scott Stapp, American singer (Creed)
* 1974 - Ulises De la Cruz, Ecuadoran footballer
* 1976 - J.C. Chasez, American singer (*NSYNC)
* 1976 - Drew Lachey, American singer
* 1978 - Louis Saha, French footballer
* 1979 - Richard Harwood, British cellist
* 1980 - Sabine Klaschka, German tennis player
* 1980 - Pat Noonan, American soccer player
* 1981 - Vanessa Amorosi, Australian singer and songwriter
* 1981 - Roger Federer, Swiss tennis player
* 1988 - Princess Beatrice of York
* 1989 - Sesil Karatantcheva, Bulgarian tennis player

[gyoza]

1946 - George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States

...coming from an ignorant outsider, is that Jr or Sr?

[CrazyAce86]

I got some interesting folks. I put just the ones I knew / heard of.

1854 - Arthur Rimbaud, French poet (d. 1891)
1859 - John Dewey, American philosopher (d. 1952)
1874 - Charles Ives, American composer (d. 1954)
1882 - Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-born actor (d. 1956)
1890 - Jelly Roll Morton, American composer (d. 1941)
1913 - Grandpa Jones, American banjo player and singer (d. 1998)
1931 - Mickey Mantle, baseball player (d. 1995)
1935 - Jerry Orbach, American actor (d. 2004)
1950 - Tom Petty, American musician
1958 - Viggo Mortensen, American actor
1958 - Scott Hall, American professional wrestler
1972 - Snoop Dogg, American rapper

And two Japanese ones who I have no clue who they are...

1983 - Takayuki Yamada, Japanese Actor
1988 - Risa Niigaki, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)

And I know it didn't say anything about deaths, but this happened just nine years before I was born and I'm a big fan...

1977 - Members of the American rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd killed in a plane crash:
Cassie Gaines (b. 1948)
Steve Gaines (b. 1949)
Ronnie Van Zant (b. 1948)

[gyoza]

Wow, CrazyAce, what's your birthday?

You got Ives!

Yamada Takayuki - young drama actor. If I were a girl I'd probably think he was really good looking.
Risa - One of the people in Marcus' recent 'vote one' thread. I voted for her. :D

[Vic_Rattlehead]

* 1166 - King John of England (d. 1216)
* 1943 - Tarja Halonen, President of Finland
* 1945 - Lemmy Kilmister, British singer, bassist (Motörhead)
* 1957 - Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan
* 1960 - Carol Vorderman, British television presenter
* 1971 - Ricky Martin, Puerto Rican singer
* 1974 - Ryan Seacrest, American television host (American Idol right?)

They're the ones I know of.

[Pretentious]

1903 - Eliot Ness, American lawman (d. 1957)
1933 - Jayne Mansfield, American actress (d. 1967)
1935 - Dudley Moore, English actor, musician, comedian, composer (d. 2002)
1946 - Tim Curry, British actor
1962 - Al Unser, Jr., American race car driver
1965 - Suge Knight, American record producer
1968 - Ashley Judd, American actress
1979 - Kate Hudson, American actress
1981 - Hayden Christensen, Canadian actor
1981 - Troy Polamalu, American football player
1987 - Maria Sharapova, Russian tennis player

Heh. Tim Curry, Eliot Ness and Jayne Mansfield. Not bad.

[rush]

1949 - Ric Flair, American professional wrestler

lolz

[Dresh]

July 20:

* 1304 - Francesco Petrarch, Italian poet (d. 1374)
* 1537 - Arnaud d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer (d. 1604)
* 1620 - Nikolaes Heinsius, Dutch scholar (d. 1681)
* 1659 - Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter (d. 1743)
* 1661 - Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, French founder of the colony of Louisiana (d. 1706)
* 1673 - John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, Scottish soldier and diplomat (d. 1747)
* 1754 - Destutt de Tracy, French philosopher (d. 1836)
* 1774 - Auguste Marmont, French marshal (d. 1852)
* 1797 - Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist (d. 1873)
* 1838 - Augustin Daly, American playwright (d. 1899)
* 1838 - George Otto Trevelyan, British statesman and biographer (d. 1928)
* 1847 - Max Liebermann, German artist (d. 1935)
* 1849 - Robert Anderson Van Wyck, Mayor of New York City (d. 1918)
* 1858 - Ivan Vucetic, Croatian anthropologist (d. 1925)
* 1864 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931)
* 1868 - Miron Cristea, first patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church (d. 1939)
* 1873 - Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian aviator (d. 1932)
* 1889 - John Reith, British broadcast executive (d. 1971)
* 1890 - Theda Bara, American actress (d. 1955)
* 1890 - King George II of Greece (d. 1947)
* 1895 - László Moholy-Nagy, Hungarian painter, photographer, and sculptor (d. 1946)
* 1897 - Tadeus Reichstein, Polish-born chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1996)
* 1901 - Heinie Manush, American baseball player (d. 1971)
* 1902 - Jimmy Kennedy, Irish composer (d. 1984)
* 1910 - Vilém Tauský, Czech conductor and composer (d. 2004)
* 1912 - Tom McDermott, American actor (d. 1996)
* 1918 - Cindy Walker, American singer
* 1919 - Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountain climber
* 1920 - Elliot Richardson, American politician (d. 1999)
* 1920 - Dick Lucas, American animator (d. 1997)
* 1923 - Stanisław Albinowski, Polish economist and journalist (d. 2005)
* 1924 - Thomas Berger, American novelist
* 1924 - Mort Garson, Canadian composer
* 1925 - Jacques Delors, French President of the European Commission
* 1926 - Lola Albright, American actress
* 1926 - Patricia Cutts, British actress (d. 1974)
* 1929 - Mike Ilitch, American businessman, sports executive, and philanthropist
* 1929 - Rajendra Kumar, Indian actor (d. 1999)
* 1930 - James Kenney, British actor (d. 1982)
* 1932 - Otto Schily, German politician
* 1933 - Chuck Daly, American basketball coach
* 1933 - Nelson Doubleday, American publisher and baseball executive
* 1933 - Cormac McCarthy, American author
* 1933 - Rex Williams, English snooker player
* 1934 - Uwe Johnson, German writer
* 1934 - Aliki Vougiouklaki, Greek actress
* 1936 - Barbara Mikulski, U.S. Senator from Maryland
* 1937 - Ken Ogata, Japanese actor
* 1938 - Dame Diana Rigg, British actress
* 1938 - Natalie Wood, American actress (d. 1981))
* 1939 - Judy Chicago, American artist
* 1940 - Tony Oliva, Cuban-born Major League Baseball player
* 1941 - Kurt Raab, German actor (d. 1988)
* 1942 - Pete Hamilton, American race car driver
* 1943 - Wendy Richard, British actress
* 1945 - Kim Carnes, American singer and songwriter
* 1945 - Larry Craig, U.S. Senator from Idaho
* 1946 - Randal Kleiser, American film director
* 1947 - Gerd Binnig, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
* 1947 - Carlos Santana, Mexican guitarist
* 1948 - Niki Haris, American dancer
* 1948 - Muse Watson, American actor
* 1950 - Tantoo Cardinal, Canadian actress
* 1950 - Naseeruddin Shah, Indian actor
* 1951 - Jeff Rawle, English actor
* 1953 - Marcia Hines, American-born Australian singer
* 1953 - Thomas Friedman, American journalist
* 1954 - Moira Harris, American actress
* 1956 - Paul Cook, English musician (The Sex Pistols)
* 1956 - Donna Dixon, American actress
* 1959 - Radney Foster, American singer
* 1963 - Frank Whaley, American actor
* 1963 - Amir Derakh, American guitarist (Orgy
* 1964 - Chris Cornell, American musician
* 1964 - Terri Irwin, American television personality
* 1964 - Kool G. Rap, American musician
* 1967 - Reed Diamond, American actor
* 1968 - Michael Park, American actor
* 1968 - Jimmy Carson, American NHL ice hockey player
* 1968 - Julian Rhind-Tutt, English actor
* 1969 - Josh Holloway, American actor
* 1971 - Charles Johnson, baseball player
* 1971 - Yasmine Pendavis, American actress
* 1971 - James Alunni, American firefighter and Purple Heart recipient
* 1973 - Peter Forsberg, Swedish-born hockey player
* 1973 - Haakon Magnus, Crown Prince of Norway
* 1973 - Claudio Reyna, American soccer player
* 1974 - Simon Rex, American actor
* 1974 - Bengie Molina, American baseball player
* 1975 - Erik Hagen, Norwegian footballer
* 1977 - Kiki Musampa, Congo footballer
* 1978 - Tamsyn Lewis, Australian athlete
* 1978 - Charlie Korsmo, American actor
* 1978 - Elliott Yamin, American Idol contestant
* 1980 - Gisele Bundchen, Brazilian model
* 1980 - Mike Kennerty, American guitarist (The All-American Rejects)
* 1981 - Thorsten Engelmann, German rower
* 1985 - John Francis Daley, American actor
* 1997 - Billi Bruno, American child actress


The only names I recognize are Carlos Santana and Paul Cook.

It's also the day Bruce Lee died in 1973.

[Jay]

1958 - Bruce Dickinson, English singer

OMG Bruce Dickinson was born on your birthday?! Awesome. :D

1975 - Charlize Theron, South African actress[/quote]

And... Charlize Theron... you just gained about 10000000000000000 bonus points. :D[/QUOTE]

[FOBulous]

April 25th

32 - Marcus Salvius Otho, Roman Emperor (d. 69)
1214 - King Louis IX of France (d. 1270)
1228 - Conrad IV of Germany (d. 1254)
1284 - King Edward II of England (d. 1327)
1287 - Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, de facto ruler of England (d. 1330)
1502 - Georg Major, German protestant theologian (d. 1574)
1545 - Yi Sun Shin, Korean admiral (d. 1598)
1599 - Oliver Cromwell, English statesman (d. 1658)
1608 - Gaston, Duke of Orléans, French politician (d. 1660)
1621 - Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, British soldier, statesman, and dramatist (d. 1679)
1694 - Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect (d. 1753)
1710 - James Ferguson, Scottish astronomer (d. 1776)
1725 - Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, British admiral (d. 1786)
1767 - Nicolas Oudinot, French marshal (d. 1847)
1770 - Georg Sverdrup, Norwegian philologist (d. 1850)
1849 - Felix Klein, German mathematician (d. 1925)
1874 - Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1937)
1900 - Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
1902 - Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist (d. 1964)
1903 - Andrey Nikolayevich Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (d. 1987)
1906 - William J. Brennan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1997)
1908 - Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (d. 1965)
1909 - William Pereira, American architect (d. 1985)
1911 - Jack Ruby, American assassin (d. 1967)
1914 - Ross Lockridge, Jr., American writer (d. 1948)
1917 - Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (d. 1996)
1918 - Gerard Henri de Vaucouleurs, French astronomer (d. 1995)
1921 - Karel Appel, Dutch painter
1923 - Albert King, American musician (d. 1992)
1925 - Sammy Drechsel, German journalist, film director, and cabaret performer (d. 1986)
1925 - Kay E. Kuter, American actor (d. 2003)
1927 - Albert Uderzo, French cartoonist
1930 - Paul Mazursky, American film director and writer
1932 - Meadlowlark Lemon, American basketball player
1933 - Jerry Leiber, American composer
1934 - Peter McParland, Northern Irish footballer
1940 - Al Pacino, American actor
1945 - Björn Ulvaeus, Swedish singer and songwriter (ABBA)
1946 - Talia Shire, American actress
1946 - Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Russian politician
1947 - Johann Cruyff, Dutch footballer
1949 - Vicente Pernía, Argentine footballer
1950 - Steve Ferrone, British drummer
1952 - Ketil Bjørnstad, Norwegian pianist
1952 - Vladislav Tretiak, Soviet Union Ice Hockey Goalie from 1972-1984
1960 - Bruce Redman, Australian Film Producer
1964 - Hank Azaria, American actor
1964 - Andy Bell, British singer and songwriter (band Erasure)
1964 - Wisit Sasanatieng, Thai film director
1965 - Eric Avery, American musician (Jane's Addiction)
1969 - Joe Buck, baseball and American football broadcaster
1969 - Gina Torres, American actress
1969 - Darren Woodson, American football player
1969 - Renée Zellweger, American actress
1970 - Jason Lee, American actor
1973 - Fredrik Larzon, Swedish drummer (Millencolin)
1976 - Tim Duncan, West Indian basketball player
1976 - Rainer Schuettler, German tennis player
1977 - Constantinos Christoforou, Cypriot singer
1989 - Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, 11th Panchen Lama
1996 - Allisyn Ashley Arm, American child actress

Not too exciting. My vote for most interesting is either Tim Duncan or Edward R. Murrow. Not counting myself that is...

[CrazyAce86]

Wow, CrazyAce, what's your birthday?

You got Ives!

Yamada Takayuki - young drama actor. If I were a girl I'd probably think he was really good looking.
Risa - One of the people in Marcus' recent 'vote one' thread. I voted for her. :D

October 20

[Idlethought]

I'm only payin attention to the ones I recognize

* 1905 - George H. Hitchings, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1998)
* 1940 - Joseph L. Goldstein, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
* 1947 - James Woods, American actor and poker player
* 1963 - Conan O'Brien, American comedian
* 1976 - Melissa Joan Hart, American actress
* 1986 - Nicholas Hunt-Walker, King of the World, Greatest Human Being Alive

April 18th btw

[sirgimp]

February 18

* 1486 - Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Bengali saint, bhakti yoga developer
* 1516 - Queen Mary I of England (d. 1558)
* 1530 - Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1578)
* 1559 - Isaac Casaubon, French classical scholar (d. 1614)
* 1602 - Per Brahe (the younger), Swedish soldier and statesman (d. 1680)
* 1609 - Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English statesman and historian (d. 1674)
* 1635 - Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish statesman (d. 1680)
* 1642 - Marie Champmeslé, French actress (d. 1698)
* 1658 - Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French writer (d. 1743)
* 1745 - Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist (d. 1827)
* 1835 - César Cui, Lithuanian composer (d. 1918)
* 1838 - Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist and philosopher (d. 1916)
* 1846 - Wilson Barrett, English actor and playwright (d. 1904)
* 1848 - Louis Comfort Tiffany, American glass artist (d. 1933)
* 1849 - Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author (d. 1906)
* 1859 - Sholom Aleichem, Russian Yiddish humorist and author (d. 1916)
* 1871 - Harry Brearley, English inventor (d. 1948)
* 1883 - Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek writer (d. 1957)
* 1884 - Andrew Watson Myles, Canadian politician (d. 1970)
* 1890 - Edward Arnold, American actor (d. 1956)
* 1890 - Adolphe Menjou, American actor (d. 1963)
* 1892 - Wendell Willkie, U.S. Presidential candidate (d. 1944)
* 1896 - Andre Breton, French writer (d. 1966)
* 1898 - Enzo Ferrari, Italian race car driver and manufacturer (d. 1988)
* 1898 - Luis Muńoz Marín, Puerto Rican poet, journalist, and politician (d. 1980)
* 1901 - Reginald Sheffield, British actor (d. 1957)
* 1903 - Nikolai Podgorny, President of the Soviet Union (d. 1983)
* 1905 - Jan Gies, Dutch resistance fighter (d. 1993)
* 1906 - Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician (d. 1980)
* 1909 - Wallace Stegner, American writer (d. 1993)
* 1915 - Phyllis Calvert, British actress (d. 2002)
* 1919 - Jack Palance, American actor
* 1920 - Bill Cullen, American game show host (d. 1990)
* 1920 - Eric Gairy, Grenadan politician (d. 1997)
* 1922 - Helen Gurley Brown, American editor and publisher
* 1922 - Allan Melvin, American actor
* 1924 - Humberto Fernández Morán, Venezuelan scientist, inventor of diamond scalpel (d. 1999).
* 1925 - George Kennedy, American actor
* 1927 - John Warner, U.S. Senator
* 1929 - Len Deighton, British author
* 1930 - Gahan Wilson, American cartoonist
* 1931 - Johnny Hart, American cartoonist
* 1931 - Toni Morrison, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate
* 1931 - Bob St. Clair, American football player
* 1932 - Miloš Forman, Czech film director
* 1933 - Yoko Ono, Japanese-born singer, artist, and wife of John Lennon
* 1933 - Bobby Robson, English football manager
* 1933 - Mary Ure, Scottish actress (d. 1975)
* 1936 - Jean Auel, American writer
* 1938 - István Szabó, Hungarian film director
* 1943 - Graeme Garden, Scottish writer, comedian, and actor
* 1945 - Judy Rankin, American golfer
* 1947 - Dennis DeYoung, vocalist pianist/keyboardist of STYX
* 1947 - Princess Christina of the Netherlands
* 1947 - Carlos Lopes, Portuguese Olympic athlete
* 1948 - Sinéad Cusack, Irish actress
* 1949 - Gary Ridgway, American serial killer
* 1950 - John Hughes, American director, producer, and writer
* 1950 - Cybill Shepherd, American actress
* 1952 - Maurice Lucas, American basketball player
* 1952 - Juice Newton, American country singer
* 1953 - Robbie Bachman, Canadian drummer (Bachman-Turner Overdrive)
* 1954 - John Travolta, American actor
* 1956 - Ted Gärdestad, Swedish singer (d. 1997)
* 1957 - Marita Koch, German athlete
* 1957 - Vanna White, American game show presenter
* 1960 - Greta Scacchi, Australian actress
* 1962 - Julie Strain, American actress
* 1964 - Matt Dillon, American actor
* 1965 - Dr. Dre, American rapper and record producer
* 1967 - Roberto Baggio, Italian footballer
* 1968 - Molly Ringwald, American actress
* 1969 - Alexander Mogilny, Russian ice hockey player
* 1970 - Raine Maida, Canadian rock musician (Our Lady Peace)
* 1970 - Susan Egan, American musical actress
* 1973 - Claude Makelele, French footballer
* 1974 - Jamey Carroll, baseball player
* 1975 - Keith Gillespie, Northern Irish footballer
* 1975 - Gary Neville, English footballer (Manchester United)
* 1980 - Regina Spektor, Russian-born American singer-songwriter
* 1981 - Andrei Kirilenko, Russian basketball player
* 1981 - Buddy Nielsen, American singer (Senses Fail)
* 1981 - Ivan Sproule, Northern Irish footballer
* 1982 - Juelz Santana, American rapper
* 1983 - Jermaine Jenas, English footballer
* 1985 - Lee Boyd Malvo, American serial killer
* 1985 - Anton Ferdinand, English footballer
* 1988 - Rihanna, West Indian singer

[Jay]

* 1975 - Gary Neville, English footballer (Manchester United)

Oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my God <3333

[Frankey-eh]

so many people... on Jan 5.
none I know...

I just know Koike Teppei was born on Jan 5th :D

* 1209 - Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1272)
* 1548 - Francisco Suarez, Spanish Jesuit, philosopher/theologian (d. 1617)
* 1587 - Xu Xiake, Chinese writer and geographer (d. 1641)
* 1592 - Shah Jahan, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1666)
* 1614 - Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (d. 1662)
* 1717 - William Wildman Shute Barrington, British statesman (d. 1793)
* 1779 - Stephen Decatur, American naval officer (d. 1820)
* 1779 - Zebulon Pike, American explorer (d. 1813)
* 1846 - Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1926)
* 1855 - King Camp Gillette, American inventor (d. 1932)
* 1865 - Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (d. 1920)
* 1874 - Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
* 1876 - Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1967)
* 1880 - Nikolay Medtner, Russian composer (d. 1951)
* 1893 - Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru (d. 1952)
* 1900 - Yves Tanguy, French painter (d. 1955)
* 1902 - Stella Gibbons, English novelist (d. 1989)
* 1904 - Jeane Dixon, American astrologer (d. 1997)
* 1909 - Stephen Kleene, American mathematician (d. 1994)
* 1910 - Hugh Brannum, American actor (d. 1987)
* 1910 - Jack Lovelock, New Zealand athlete (d. 1949)
* 1913 - Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor (d. 2001)
* 1914 - George Reeves, American actor (d. 1959)
* 1915 - Arthur H. Robinson, Canadian-born cartographer (d. 2004)
* 1920 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (d. 1995)
* 1921 - Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (d. 1990)
* 1921 - Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
* 1923 - Sam Phillips, American country music producer (d. 2003)
* 1926 - Hosea Williams, American religious leader and civil rights activist (d. 2000)
* 1928 - Ali Bhutto, President of Pakistan (d. 1979)
* 1928 - Walter Mondale, U.S. Senator and Presidential candidate
* 1931 - Alvin Ailey, American choreographer (d. 1989)
* 1931 - Alfred Brendel, Austrian pianist
* 1931 - Robert Duvall, American actor and director
* 1932 - Umberto Eco, Italian philologist and writer
* 1932 - Chuck Noll, American football coach
* 1936 - Florence King, American humorist and writer
* 1938 - King Juan Carlos I of Spain
* 1938 - Jim Otto, American football player
* 1938 - Ngugi wa Thiongo, Kenyan writer
* 1940 - Michael O'Donoghue, American writer (d. 1994)
* 1941 - Miyazaki Hayao, Japanese animated film maker
* 1942 - Maurizio Pollini, Italian pianist
* 1942 - Charlie Rose, American talk show host
* 1946 - Diane Keaton, American actress
* 1948 - Ted Lange, American actor
* 1949 - George Brown, American drummer (Kool & The Gang)
* 1950 - Chris Stein, American guitarist (Blondie)
* 1950 - John Manley, Canadian politician
* 1950 - Ioan Petru Culianu, Romanian-born professor of divinity (d. 1991)
* 1950 - Charlie Richmond, Canadian entrepreneur and inventor
* 1953 - Pamela Sue Martin, American actress
* 1954 - Alex English, American basketball player
* 1956 - Chen Kenichi, Japanese-born chef
* 1960 - Phil Thornalley, English bass guitarist (The Cure)
* 1962 - Suzy Amis, American actress
* 1962 - Joe Monzo, American composer
* 1964 - Grant Young, American drummer (Soul Asylum)
* 1966 - Kate Schellenbach, American drummer (Luscious Jackson)
* 1967 - Joe Flanigan, American actor
* 1968 - Ricky Paull Goldin, American actor
* 1969 - Marilyn Manson, American singer
* 1969 - Paul McGillion, Vancouver based Scottish actor
* 1972 - Sakis Rouvas, Greek singer
* 1975 - Mike Grier, right winger for the Buffalo Sabres (NHL)
* 1975 - Bradley Cooper, American actor
* 1979 - Kyle Calder, left winger for the Chicago Blackhawks ( NHL)
* 1982 - Janica Kostelic, Croatian skier
* 1985 - Richard Butler, English footballer
* 1985 - Michael Cuccione, Canadian actor and singer (d. 2001)

[Sock Full of Boiled Dimes]

1490 - Duke Albert of Prussia (d. 1568)
1578 - Everard Digby, English conspirator (d. 1606)
1611 - Pope Innocent XI (d. 1689)
1710 - William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician (d. 1782)
1718 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician (d. 1799)
1763 - Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist (d. 1829)
1827 - Pierre Cuypers, Dutch architect (d. 1921)
1845 - Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1916)
1891 - Richard Tauber, Austrian tenor (d. 1948)
1898 - Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-born painter (d. 1980)
1905 - Henry Fonda, American actor (d. 1982)
1906 - Margret Rey, author and illustrator (d. 1996)
1910 - Olga Berggolts, Russian poet (d. 1975)
1912 - Studs Terkel, American writer
1913 - Woody Herman, American musician and band leader (d. 1987)
1917 - Juan Rulfo, Mexican novelist (d. 1986)
1919 - Liberace, American pianist (d. 1987)
1923 - Merton Miller, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1927 - Nílton Santos, Brazilian football player
1928 - Billy Martin, baseball player and coach (d. 1989)
1929 - Adrienne Rich, American writer
1930 - Friedrich Gulda, Austrian pianist (d.2000)
1931 - Natwar Singh, Indian politician
1936 - Roy Hudd, British radio and television actor
1936 - Karl Lehmann, German Catholic cardinal
1944 - Billy Cobham, American virtuoso drummer
1945 - Nicky Chinn, songwriter (The Sweet, Suzi Quatro)
1946 - Robert Fripp, English guitarist
1950 - J. Georg Bednorz, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1953 - Pierce Brosnan, Irish actor
1955 - Olga Korbut, Russian gymnast
1955 - Jack Morris, baseball player
1955 - Hazel O'Connor, British singer
1955 - Debra Winger, American actress
1963 - Mercedes Echerer, Austrian actress and politician
1963 - Rosie Perez, American actress
1965 - Krist Novoselic, American bassist (Nirvana)
1966 - Janet Jackson, American singer
1996 - Scott Reeves, American actor and singer
1966 - Thurman Thomas, American football player
1969 - Tucker Carlson, American television commentator
1969 - Steve Lewis, American athlete
1970 - Gabriela Sabatini, Argentine tennis player
1970 - Danielle Spencer, Australian singer and actress
1971 - David Boreanaz, American actor
1973 - Tori Spelling, American actress
1974 - Laura Pausini, Italian pop singer
1977 - Jean-Sebastien Giguere, Canadian hockey player
1983 - Kyle Wellwood, Canadian hockey player
1985 - Anja Mittag, German footballer
1985 - Corey Perry, Canadian hockey player

[Kwiz]

August 22nd and.. whoa, awesome. Apparently I share the birthday of Ray Bradbury, gentleman who wrote Faranheit 451

[h2orowe]

1109 - King Afonso I of Portugal (d. 1185)
1336 - Albert, Count of Holland (d. 1404)
1435 - Sir Rodrin, French philosopher (d. 1474)
1404 - Philip I, Duke of Brabant (d. 1430)
1421 - Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (d. 1461)
1562 - Kato Kiyomasa, Japanese warlord and samurai (d. 1611)
1653 - Agostino Steffani, Italian diplomat and composer (d. 1728)
1658 - Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, Scottish privy councillor (d. 1703)
1799 - David Douglas, Scottish botanist, plant collector, explorer (d. 1834)
1839 - Francis Garnier, French explorer (d. 1873)
1844 - Thomas Eakins, American artist (d. 1916)
1848 - Arthur Balfour, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1930)
1867 - Max Dauthendey, German writer (d. 1918)
1870 - Maxfield Parrish, American illustrator (d. 1966)
1883 - Alfredo Casella, Italian composer (d. 1947)
1884 - Davidson Black, Canadian anthropologist (d. 1934)
1886 - Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Danish big-game hunter (d. 1946)
1894 - Walter Brennan, American actor (d. 1974)
1901 - Lila Lee, American actress (d. 1973)
1902 - Eric Hoffer, American philosopher (d. 1983)
1905 - Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
1906 - Johnny Hodges, American saxophonist (d. 1970)
1907 - Varlam Shalamov, Russian writer (d. 1982)
1908 - Bill Bowes, English cricketer (d. 1987)
1918 - Jane Frank (born Jane Babette Schenthal), American artist (d. 1986)
1920 - Rosalind Franklin, English scientist (d. 1958)
1923 - Estelle Getty, American actress
1928 - Keter Betts, American jazz bassist (d. 2005)
1929 - Somnath Chatterjee, Indian politician
1930 - Maureen Forrester, Canadian contralto
1935 - Barbara Harris, American actress
1937 - Colin Renfrew, English archeologist
1946 - Rita Marley, Jamaican-Cuban singer
1954 - Walter Payton, American football player (d. 1999)
1955 - Iman Abdulmajid, Somali model
1958 - Thurston Moore, Lead Guitarist and vocalist for the band Sonic Youth
1960 - Alain Robidoux, Canadian snooker player
1963 - Julian Hodgson, English chess player
1965 - Illeana Douglas, American actress
1967 - Matt LeBlanc, American actor
1967 - Chuck Paugh, American record company owner
1973 - Dani Filth, English singer (Cradle of Filth)
1973 - Kevin Phillips, English footballer
1977 - Kenny Thomas, American basketball player
1978 - Louise Brown, first test tube baby
1978 - Gerard Warren, American football player
1979 - Amy Adams, American singer
1982 - Brad Renfro, American actor
1985 - Nelson Angelo Piquet, Brazilian race car driver
1987 - Michael Welch, American actor





My name is Joey, and I share the same birthday as the character Joey from Friends >_>;

[gyoza]

My name is Joey, and I share the same birthday as the character Joey from Friends >_>;

And you couldn't be more different >_>

FOB got Cruyff, sweet.

[Dead Sexy Vocab]

1957 - Brad Bird, American animator (Director of The Incredibles)
1976 - Elephant Man, Jamaican musician
1977 - Ludacris, American rapper
1924 - Tom Landry, American football coach

September 11

[Klilynkun]

I already know who was born on my birthday... and i'm not proud of it so I wont say

[BushyDough]

March 31st

1536 - Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Japanese shogun <---Sweet!!
1596 - René Descartes, French mathematician <---Philosopher too I think
1928 - Gordie Howe, Canadian hockey player <---w00t!
1943 - Christopher Walken, American actor
1948 - Al Gore, Vice President of the United States
1955 - Angus Young, Scottish-born musician <---Another point for me!
1971 - Ewan McGregor, Scottish actor

[BushyDough]

I already know who was born on my birthday... and i'm not proud of it so I wont say

My guess....Hitler...right? :clap: go me! :clap:

[Klilynkun]

Nah... not that bad lol

[BushyDough]

Damn...i was so sure too :reading:

[Beowulf]

Complete List for July 18th (I'll Highlight the good ones):
* 1013 - Hermannus Contractus, learned monk (d. 1054)
* 1501 - Isabella of Burgundy, wife of Christian II of Denmark (d. 1526)
* 1504 - Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (d. 1575)
* 1552 - Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1612)
* 1634 - Johannes Camphuys, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1695)
* 1635 - Robert Hooke, English scientist (d. 1703)
* 1670 - Giovanni Bononcini, Italian composer (d. 1747)
* 1718 - Saverio Bettinelli, Italian writer (d. 1808)
* 1720 - Gilbert White, English ornithologist (d. 1793)
* 1797 - Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher (d. 1879)
* 1811 - William Makepeace Thackeray, English author (d. 1863)
* 1821 - Pauline Garcia-Viardot, French mezzo-soprano and composer (d. 1910)
* 1837 - Vasil Levski, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1873)
* 1845 - Tristan Corbičre, French poet (d. 1875)
* 1848 - William Gilbert Grace, English cricketer (d. 1915)
* 1853 - Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928)
* 1864 - Phillip Snowden, British politician (d. 1937)
* 1887 - Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian politician and traitor (d. 1945)
* 1890 - Frank Forde, fifteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1983)
* 1892 - Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian football player (d. 1969)
* 1894 - Isaac Babel, Ukrainian writer (d. 1940)
* 1900 - Nathalie Sarraute, French writer (d. 1999)
* 1902 - Jessamyn West, American writer (d. 1984)
* 1902 - Chill Wills, American actor (d. 1978)
* 1906 - S. I. Hayakawa, American semanticist and politician (d. 1992)
* 1906 - Clifford Odets, American writer (d. 1963)
* 1909 - Andrei Gromyko, Soviet diplomat and President (d. 1989)
* 1909 - Mohammed Daoud Khan, President of Afghanistan (d. 1978)
* 1911 - Hume Cronyn, Canadian actor (d. 2003)
* 1913 - Red Skelton, American actor and comedian (d. 1997)
* 1918 - Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
* 1921 - John Glenn, astronaut and politician
* 1922 - Thomas Kuhn, American philosopher (d. 1996)
* 1923 - Jerome H. Lemelson, American inventor (d. 1997)
* 1925 - Shirley Strickland, Australian athlete
* 1927 - Kurt Masur, Silesian-born conductor
* 1929 - Dick Button, American figure skater
* 1929 - Screamin' Jay Hawkins, American singer (d. 2000)
* 1930 - Burt Kwouk, English actor
* 1933 - Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet
* 1935 - Jayendra Saraswathi, Hindu religious leader
* 1937 - Roald Hoffman, Polish-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
* 1937 - Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (d. 2005)
* 1940 - James Brolin, American actor
* 1940 - Joe Torre, baseball player and manager
* 1941 - Martha Reeves, American singer
* 1947 - Steve Forbes, American entrepreneur and politician
* 1947 - Steven W. Mahoney, Canadian politician
* 1948 - Hartmut Michel, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
* 1950 - Sir Richard Branson, British entrepreneur
* 1950 - Jack Layton, Canadian politician
* 1951 - Elio Di Rupo, Belgian politician
* 1960 - Anne-Marie Johnson, American actress
* 1962 - Jack Irons, American drummer Red Hot Chili Peppers
* 1963 - Martín Torrijos Espino, President of Panama
* 1963 - Mike Greenwell, baseball player
* 1967 - Vin Diesel, American actor
* 1969 - Masanori Murakawa, Japanese professional wrestler
* 1975 - Torii Hunter, baseball player
* 1975 - Daron Malakian, American guitarist (System of a Down)
* 1978 - Ben Sheets, baseball player
* 1979 - Joey Mercury, Professional Wrestler
* 1980 - Kristen Bell, American actress
* 1982 - Priyanka Chopra, Indian actress and Miss World 2000
* 1983 - Kelly Doan, American beauty

That's right bitches, VIN DIESEL (http://www.4q.cc/index.php?pid=fact&person=vin) (refresh that page for endless fun!)

[Klilynkun]

^ Vin Diesel isn't his real name so how do you know if that's his real birth date?

[Pretentious]

1943 - Christopher Walken, American actor

Damnit. You win.

[pangloss]

July 31st

1396 - Philip III, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1467)
1527 - Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, (d. 1576)
1803 - John Ericsson, Swedish inventor and engineer (d. 1889)
1921 - Whitney Young, American civil rights activist (d. 1971)
1944 - Geraldine Chaplin, American actress
1957 - Daniel Ash, Gothic Rock artist in such bands as Bauhaus, Tones on Tail and Love and Rockets
1958 - Bill Berry, American musician (R.E.M.)
1962 - Wesley Snipes, American actor
1964 - Jim Corr, Irish singer and musician (The Corrs)
1965 - J. K. Rowling, English novelist
1966 - Dean Cain, American actor
1967 - Minako Honda, Japanese singer and musical actress (d. 2005)
1974 - Emilia Fox, English actress
1979 - Jade Kwan, Hong Kong actress
1980 - Harry Potter, fictional protagonist of J.K. Rowling's series Harry Potter

[Klilynkun]

cool... Wesley Snipes

[Badfish]

Eva Longoria

And it is the day Julius Ceaser was killed.

[Klilynkun]

You Killed Julius Caesar With You Birth?!?!?!?!?!??!

[CanisKil]

1010 - Emperor Renzong of China (d. 1063)
1423 - Georg Purbach, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1461)
1623 - John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician (d. 1686)
1672 (O.S.) - Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia (d. 1725)
1718 - Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician (d. 1793)
1719 - Roger Newdigate, English politician (d. 1806)
1814 - Michael Bakunin, Russian anarchist (d. 1876)
1814 - Eugčne Charles Catalan, Belgian mathematician (d. 1894)
1858 - Siegfried Alkan, German composer (d. 1941)
1879 - Colin Blythe, English cricketer (d. 1917)
1882 - Wyndham Halswelle, Scottish runner (d. 1915)
1895 - Maurice Tate, English cricketer (d. 1956)
1896 - Howard Hawks, American film director (d. 1977)
1899 - Irving Thalberg, American film producer (d. 1936)
1901 - Cornelia Otis Skinner, American writer and actress (d. 1979)
1902 - Stepin Fetchit, American dancer and actor (d. 1985)
1908 - Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
1908 - Mel Blanc, American voice actor (d. 1989)
1908 - Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist (d. 1995)
1909 - Benny Goodman, American clarinetist and bandleader (d. 1986)
1910 - Inge Meysel, German actress (d. 2004)
1912 - Julius Axelrod, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2004)
1912 - Erich Bagge, German physicist
1912 - Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (d. 1980)
1918 - Guadalupe "Pita" Amor, Mexican poet (d. 2000)
1920 - Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (d. 1978)
1920 - Franklin Schaffner, American film director (d. 1989)
1922 - Hal Clement, American writer (d. 2003)
1926 - Christine Jorgensen, activist (d. 1989)
1927 - Clint Walker, American actor
1934 - Aleksei Leonov, cosmonaut
1936 - Keir Dullea, American actor
1939 - Michael J. Pollard, American actor
1943 - James Chaney, American civil rights activist [d. 1964]
1943 - Gale Sayers, American football player
1947 - Vashti Murphy McKenzie, one of the first female bishops
1951 - Stephen Tobolowsky, American actor
1951 - Zdravko Čolić, Bosnian singer
1953 - Colm Meaney, Irish actor
1955 - Topper Headon, British musician (The Clash)
1964 - Wynonna Judd, American singer
1964 - Tom Morello, American musician (Audioslave, Rage Against The Machine)
1966 - Stephen Malkmus, American musician (Pavement)
1972 - Manny Ramirez, Dominican-born Major League Baseball player
1973 - Leigh Francis, British comedian
1974 - Cee-Lo, African-American hip-hop, funk, soul and R&B musician
1980 - Steven Gerrard, English footballer
1981 - Devendra Banhart, American singer and songwriter

[CrazyAce86]

* 1967 - Joe Flanigan, American actor
* 1969 - Paul McGillion, Vancouver based Scottish actor


*SQUEE*

That's Joe Flanigan in my avatar! And wow, he's two years older than Paul? Huh.

Oh, they're Lt. Col. John Sheppard (Joe) and Dr. Carson Beckett (Paul) on Stargate: Atlantis.


And this is cool...


* 1969 - Marilyn Manson, American singer


Wonder why they didn't list him as Brian Warner. Then again, I guess not a lot would know who he was...

[Yachiru]

1503 - Christian III of Denmark and Norway (d. 1559)
1566 - Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain (d. 1633)
1604 - Tokugawa Iemitsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1651)
1626 - Giovanni Legrenzi, Italian composer (d. 1690)
1629 - Tsar Alexei I of Russia (d. 1676)
1643 - King Afonso VI of Portugal (d. 1683)
1644 - Heinrich Ignaz Biber, Bohemian composer (d. 1704)
1647 - Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer (d. 1719)
1686 - John Balguy, English philosopher (d. 1748)
1696 - Maurice Greene, English composer (d. 1755)
1720 - Konrad Ekhof, German actor (d. 1778)
1762 - King George IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1830)
1774 - Robert Southey, English poet and biographer (d. 1843)
1831 - Helena Blavatsky, Ukrainian-born author (d. 1891)
1856 - "Diamond Jim" Brady, American financier (d. 1917)
1859 - Katharine Lee Bates, American poet (d. 1929)
1866 - Jacinto Benavente, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1954)
1867 - Edith Hamilton, German classicist (d. 1963)
1876 - Mary Roberts Rinehart, American author (d. 1958)
1880 - Radclyffe Hall, British author (d. 1943)
1880 - Christy Mathewson, baseball player (d. 1925)
1881 - Cecil B. DeMille, American director (d. 1959)
1883 - Pauline Frederick, American actress (d. 1938)
1885 - Jean Cabannes, French physicist (d. 1959)
1886 - Sir Keith Murdoch, Australian journalist and newspaper owner (d. 1952)
1887 - Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961)
1892 - Alfred Lunt, American actor (d. 1977)
1902 - Mohammad Hatta, Vice President of Indonesia 1945-1956 (d. 1980)
1904 - Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia (d. 1918)
1906 - Harry Hopman, Australian-born tennis player and coach (d. 1985)
1906 - Tedd Pierce, American animator (d. 1972)
1907 - Joe Besser, American actor and comedian (d. 1988)
1911 - Cantinflas, Mexican actor (d. 1993)
1911 - Jane Wyatt, American actress
1919 - Vikram Sarabhai, Indian physicist (d. 1971)
1924 - Derek Shackleton, English cricketer
1924 - Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, leader of Pakistan (d. 1988)
1925 - Norris McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (d. 2004)
1925 - Ross McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (d. 1975)
1926 - John Derek, American actor (d. 1998)
1926 - Joe "Boogaloo" Jones, American R&B singer (d. 2005)
1927 - Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor
1927 - Porter Wagoner, American singer
1928 - Bob Buhl, baseball player (d. 2001)
1928 - Dan Curtis, film and television producer and director
1928 - Charles Blackman, Australian artist
1929 - Buck Owens, American singer
1930 - George Soros American businessman
1930 - Jacques Tits, French mathematician
1931 - William Goldman, American screenwriter
1932 - Somdej Phra Nangchao Sirikit Phra Boromarajininat HM Queen Sirikit of Thailand
1933 - Parnelli Jones, American race car driver
1939 - George Hamilton, American actor
1943 - Deborah Walley, American actress (d. 2001)
1945 - Ann M. Martin, American author
1949 - Mark Knopfler, British guitarist
1951 - Willie Horton, American murderer and rapist
1954 - Pat Metheny, American guitarist
1954 - Sam J. Jones, American actor
1956 - Bruce Greenwood, Canadian actor
1960 - Laurent Fignon, French cyclist
1962 - Miss Cleo, American psychic
1965 - Peter Krause, American actor
1967 - Regilio Tuur, Dutch boxer
1971 - Michael Ian Black, American comedian
1971 - Pete Sampras, American tennis player
1972 - Rebecca Gayheart, American actress
1973 - Richard Reid (shoe bomber)
1974 - Matt Clement, baseball pitcher
1976 - Antoine Walker, American basketball player
1976 - Mikko Viljami "Linde" Lindström, Finnish Guitarist
1977 - Plaxico Burress, American football player
1977 - Jesper Grřnkjćr, Danish soccer player
1980 - Dominique Swain, American actress
1980 - Matt Thiessen, Canadian-born singer (Reliant K)
1981 - Djibril Cisse, French footballer
1983 - Klaas Jan Huntelaar, Dutch soccer player

12 August

[Praetorian]

June 10

Notable Births:

1988 - Michael Schuuring,

Notable Deaths:

323 BC - Alexander the Great (b. 356 BC)

Woot.

[Stephy]

I feel lazy, but right away I already know Britney Spears (American Singer) shares the same birthday.

[Klilynkun]

You Killed Alexander The Great!?!?!?!?!

[Anders]

January 17th

* 1463 - Friedrich III, Elector of Saxony (d. 1525)
* 1484 - George Spalatin, German reformer (d. 1545)
* 1501 - Leonhart Fuchs, German physician and botanist (d. 1566)
* 1504 - Pope Pius V (d. 1572)
* 1560 - Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist (d. 1624)
* 1600 - Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Spanish playwright (d. 1681)
* 1612 - Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English Civil War general (d. 1671)
* 1686 - Archibald Bower, Scottish historian (d. 1766)
* 1706 - Benjamin Franklin American writer, inventor, publisher, and ambassador (d. 1790)
* 1712 - John Stanley, English composer (d. 1786)
* 1719 - William Vernon, American merchant (d. 1806)
* 1761 - James Hall, Scottish geologist (d. 1832)
* 1763 - John Jacob Astor, American entrepreneur (d. 1848)
* 1789 - August Neander, German theologian (d. 1850)
* 1820 - Anne Brontë, British author (d. 1849)
* 1828 - Lewis A. Grant, American Civil War General (d. 1918)
* 1832 - Henry Martyn Baird, American historian and educationalist (d. 1906)
* 1851 - A. B. Frost, American illustrator (d. 1928)
* 1860 - Douglas Hyde, President of Ireland (d. 1949)
* 1863 - David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1945)
* 1867 - Carl Laemmle, German-born film executive (d. 1939)
* 1871 - David Earl Beatty British admiral (d. 1936)
* 1871 - Nicolae Iorga, Romanian writer (d. 1940)
* 1880 - Mack Sennett, Canadian film director and producer (d. 1960)
* 1881 - Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician (d. 1941)
* 1882 - Noah Beery, American actor (d. 1946)
* 1886 - Glenn L. Martin, American aviation pioneer (d. 1955)
* 1899 - Al Capone, American gangster (d. 1947)
* 1899 - Nevil Shute, English author (d. 1960)
* 1905 - Guillermo Stábile, Argentine footballer (d. 1966)
* 1911 - George Joseph Stigler, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
* 1914 - William Stafford, American poet and essayist (d. 1993)
* 1921 - Antonio Prohias, Cuban cartoonist (d. 1998)
* 1922 - Luis Echeverría Álvarez, President of Mexico
* 1922 - Nicholas Katzenbach, American politician
* 1922 - Betty White, American actress
* 1925 - Robert Cormier, American author (d. 2000)
* 1925 - Abdul Kardar, Pakistani cricketer
* 1926 - Newton N. Minow, American telecommunications lawyer and statesman
* 1926 - Moira Shearer, Scottish actress and dancer
* 1927 - Eartha Kitt, American actress and singer
* 1928 - Jean Barraqué, French composer (d. 1973)
* 1928 - Vidal Sassoon, English cosmetologist
* 1929 - Jacques Plante, Canadian hockey player (d. 1986)
* 1931 - James Earl Jones, American actor
* 1931 - L. Douglas Wilder, former Governor of Virginia
* 1931 - Don Zimmer, baseball coach
* 1933 - Dalida, French singer (d. 1987)
* 1933 - Ray Dolby, American inventor
* 1933 - Sadruddhin Aga Khan, French UN High Commissioner for Refugees (d. 2003)
* 1933 - Shari Lewis, American puppeteer (d. 1998)
* 1933 - Sheree North, American actress
* 1935 - Ruth Ann Minner, Governor of Delaware
* 1937 - Troy Donahue, American actor
* 1939 - Maury Povich, American talk show host
* 1940 - Kipchoge Keino, Kenyan runner
* 1942 - Muhammad Ali, American boxer
* 1942 - Cus D'Amato, boxing manager (d. 1985)
* 1942 - Ulf Hoelscher, German violinist
* 1942 - Nancy Parsons, American actress (d. 2001)
* 1943 - René Préval, President of Haiti
* 1944 - Françoise Hardy, French singer
* 1948 - Davíđ Oddsson, former Prime Minister of Iceland
* 1948 - Mick Taylor, British musician (The Rolling Stones)
* 1948 - Jim Ladd, American freeform (radio format) Disc Jockey (KLOS)
* 1949 - Andy Kaufman, American comedian (d. 1984)
* 1952 - Darrell Porter, American baseball player (d. 2002)
* 1952 - Ryuichi Sakamoto, Japanese musician, composer, producer, actor
* 1955 - Steve Earle, American musician
* 1956 - Paul Young, English musician
* 1957 - John Crawford, American musician (Berlin (band))
* 1959 - Susanna Hoffs, American musician (The Bangles)
* 1959 - Momoe Yamaguchi, Japanese singer and actress
* 1962 - Jim Carrey, Canadian actor and comedian
* 1964 - Andy Rourke, bass guitarist, The Smiths
* 1966 - Shabba Ranks, Jamaican singer
* 1968 - Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Dutch writer
* 1969 - Lukas Moodysson, Swedish film director
* 1969 - Naveen Andrews, British actor
* 1970 - Jeremy Roenick, American hockey player
* 1970 - Genndy Tartakovsky, Russian-born animator
* 1970 - James Wattana, Thai snooker player
* 1971 - Kid Rock, American singer
* 1971 - Youki Kudoh, Japanese actress
* 1972 - Ken Hirai, Japanese singer and songwriter
* 1974 - Yang Chen, Chinese footballer
* 1978 - Warren Feeney, Northern Irish footballer
* 1979 - Brad Miller, American actor, filmmaker, and musician
* 1980 - Zooey Deschanel, American actress
* 1981 - Scott Mechlowicz, American actor
* 1982 - Alex Varkatzas, American singer (Atreyu)
* 1982 - Dwyane Wade, American basketball player
* 1986 - Chloe Rose Lattanzi, Australian actress and singer
* 1986 - Alex English, Canadian NBA basketball player
* 1988 - Nikki Reed, American actress

[PinkRanger]

My birthday is March 26th. I picked out the names I recognized.

1874 - Robert Frost, American poet (d. 1963)
1911 - Tennessee Williams, American dramatist (d. 1983)
1914 - William Westmoreland, U.S. general (d. 2005)
1925 - James Moody, American jazz musician, composer, and actor
1930 - Sandra Day O'Connor, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
1940 - James Caan, American actor
1944 - Diana Ross, American singer (Supremes)
1948 - Steven Tyler, American musician (Aerosmith)
1949 - Vicki Lawrence, American actress and singer
1950 - Teddy Pendergrass, American singer
1950 - Martin Short, Canadian comedian
1950 - Ernest Thomas, American actor
1956 - Charly McClain, American singer
1957 - Leeza Gibbons, American television host
1968 - Kenny Chesney, American singer
1968 - James Iha, American musician (Smashing Pumpkins and A Perfect Circle)
1974 - Mike Peca, Canadian hockey player

[Klilynkun]

Ok Ok Ok... you guys talked me into it....

1619 - Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance (d. 1683)
1628 - John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701)
1632 - John Locke, English philosopher (d. 1704)
1725 - Charles Townshend, English politician (d. 1767)
1756 - Heinrich Graf von Bellegarde, Austrian field marshal and statesman (d. 1845)
1756 - Jan Śniadecki, Polish mathematician, philosopher and astronomer (d. 1830)
1777 - Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin, Russian Sinologist (d. 1852)
1780 - Jean Ingres, French painter (d. 1867)
1805 - Frederick Maurice, English theologian (d. 1872)
1809 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., American physician and writer (d. 1894)
1810 - Juan Bautista Alberdi, founding father of the Argentine Republic (d. 1884)
1843 - David B. Hill, Governor of New York (d. 1910)
1844 - Edward Carpenter, English Socialist poet (d. 1929
1862 - Andrew Fisher, fifth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1928)
1862 - Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1949)
1871 - Albert Lebrun, French politician (d. 1950)
1876 - Charles F. Kettering, American inventor (d. 1958)
1898 - Preston Sturges, American screenwriter (d. 1959)
1904 - Werner Forssmann, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1979)
1905 - Dhyan Chand, Indian hockey player (d. 1979)
1915 - Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress (d. 1982)
1916 - George Montgomery, American actor (d. 2000)
1917 - Isabel Sanford, American actress (d. 2004)
1920 - Charlie Parker, American jazz saxophonist and composer (d. 1955)
1923 - The Lord Attenborough, English film director
1924 - Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican songwriter (d. 2005)
1924 - Dinah Washington, American singer (d. 1963)
1933 - Arnold Koller, Swiss Federal Councilor
1936 - John McCain, American politician
1937 - James Florio, Governor of New Jersey
1938 - Elliott Gould, American actor
1938 - Robert Rubin, United States Secretary of the Treasury
1939 - William Friedkin, American film director
1939 - Joel Schumacher, American film director
1940 - Gary Gabelich, race car driver and land world speed record holder
1941 - Robin Leach, English television host
1946 - Bob Beamon, American jumper
1957 - Jerry Bailey, American thoroughbred racing jockey
1958 - Michael Jackson, American singer and songwriter
1958 - Lenny Henry, British comic
1959 - Ernesto Rodrigues, Portuguese composer
1959 - Akkineni Nagarjuna, Telugu film actor
1959 - Timothy Perry Shriver, American chairman of the Special Olympics
1961 - Carsten Fischer, German field hockey player
1962 - Rebecca De Mornay, American actress
1963 - Elizabeth Fraser, English singer (Cocteau Twins)
1969 - Me'Shell NdegéOcello, American singer
1969 - Joe Swail, Northern Irish snooker player
1970 - Jacco Eltingh, Dutch tennis player
1971 - Carla Gugino, American actress
1976 - Alex Saunders, Professional Baseball Prospect, Boston Red Sox
1976 - Stephen Carr, Irish footballer
1978 - Celestine Babayaro, Nigerian footballer
1979 - Chieu Luu, Canadian journalist
1980 - David Desrosiers, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
1981 - Lanny Barbie, Canadian porn star

[Frankey-eh]

Ok Ok Ok... you guys talked me into it....

1958 - Michael Jackson, American singer and songwriter


aww, is Michael Jackson that bad?
I mean, I agree, he LOOKS creepy...
and I know he has a strange interest in little boys.
but then... lots of people in japan have lolicon(?), so why does everyone hate him?

p.s. I used to confuse Michael Jackson with Michael Jordon.

[Dräco]

August 23:
* 686 - Charles Martel, grandfather of Charlemagne (d. 741)
* 1486 - Sigismund von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat and historian (d. 1566)
* 1524 - François Hotman, French lawyer and writer (d. 1590)
* 1623 - Stanisław Lubieniecki, Polish astronomer (d. 1675)
* 1724 - Abraham Yates, American Continental Congressman (d. 1796)
* 1741 - Jean-François de Galaup, count de La Pérouse, French explorer (d. 1788)
* 1754 - King Louis XVI of France (d. 1792)
* 1769 - Georges Cuvier, French biologist and statesman (d. 1832)
* 1783 - William Tierney Clark, English civil engineer (d. 1852)
* 1785 - Oliver Hazard Perry, U.S. naval officer (d.1819)
* 1805 - Anton von Schmerling, Austrian statesman (d. 1893)
* 1829 - Moritz Cantor, German mathematician (d.1920)
* 1847 - Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (d. 1927)
* 1849 - William Ernest Henley, British poet, critic, and editor (d. 1903)
* 1852 - Arnold Toynbee, English economist and social reformer (d.1883)
* 1854 - Moritz Moszkowski, Polish/German composer (d. 1925)
* 1864 - Eleftherios Venizalos, Prime Minister of Greece (d.1936)
* 1869 - Edgar Lee Masters, American author (d. 1950)
* 1875 - William Eccles, English radio pioneer (d. 1966)
* 1880 - Alexander Grin, Russian writer (d. 1932)
* 1883 - Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV, U.S. general (d. 1953)
* 1884 - Will Cuppy, American humorist (d. 1949)
* 1900 - Ernst Krenek, Austrian-born composer (d. 1991)
* 1901 - John Sherman Cooper, U.S. Senator from Kentucky (d. 1991)
* 1903 - William Primrose, Scottish violist (d. 1982)
* 1905 - Constant Lambert, British composer (d. 1951)
* 1911 - Birger Ruud, Norwegian athelete (d. 1998)
* 1912 - Gene Kelly, American dancer and actor (d. 1996)
* 1917 - Tex Williams, American singer (d. 1985)
* 1921 - Kenneth Arrow, American economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner
* 1922 - George Kell, baseball player
* 1923 - Edgar F. Codd, English computer scientist (d. 2003)
* 1924 - Ephraim Kishon, Israeli writer (d. 2005)
* 1924 - Robert Solow, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
* 1927 - Dick Bruna, Dutch illustrator
* 1929 - Vera Miles, American actress
* 1930 - Michel Rocard, Prime Minister of France
* 1931 - Hamilton O. Smith, American microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
* 1932 - Houari Boumedienne, President of Algeria (d. 1978)
* 1932 - Mark Russell, American comedian, musician, and political commentator
* 1933 - Robert Curl, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
* 1933 - Pete Wilson, Governor of California
* 1934 - Barbara Eden, American actress
* 1934 - Sonny Jurgensen, American football player
* 1936 - Henry Lee Lucas, American serial killer (d. 2001)
* 1943 - Nelson DeMille, American novelist
* 1947 - Keith Moon, English singer and drummer (The Who) (d. 1978)
* 1947 - David Robb, British actor
* 1949 - Shelley Long, American actress
* 1949 - Rick Springfield, Australian singer and actor
* 1951 - Akhmad Kadyrov, President of Chechnya (d. 2004)
* 1951 - Queen Noor of Jordan
* 1952 - Vicky Leandros, Greek singer
* 1953 - Bobby G, British singer (Bucks Fizz)
* 1956 - Andreas Floer, German mathematician (d. 1991)
* 1963 - Hans-Henning Fastrich, German field hockey player
* 1963 - Kenny Wallace, American race car driver
* 1965 - Roger Avary, Canadian-born screenwriter, director, and producer
* 1966 - Rik Smits, Dutch basketball player
* 1969 - Keith Tyson, English artist
* 1969 - Jeremy Schaap, American sportswriter
* 1970 - Jay Mohr, American actor and comedian
* 1970 - River Phoenix, American actor (d. 1993)
* 1974 - Ray Park, British actor
* 1974 - Shifty, American musician (Crazy Town)
* 1975 - Eliza Carthy, English singer and fiddler
* 1978 - Kobe Bryant, American basketball player
* 1978 - Julian Casablancas, American musician
* 1982 - Natalie Coughlin, American swimmer
* 1982 - YTCracker, American musician
* 1984 - Glen Johnson, English footballer
* 1988 - Niki Leinso, Croatian singer and songwriter

[Klilynkun]

aww, is Michael Jackson that bad?
I mean, I agree, he LOOKS creepy...
and I know he has a strange interest in little boys.
but then... lots of people in japan have lolicon(?), so why does everyone hate him?

p.s. I used to confuse Michael Jackson with Michael Jordon.

I don't hate him... he just freaks me out.

Japanese guys have interest in little GIRLS
but he has little BOYS

big difference (i think)


:eyepop:

[whispering]

Japanese guys have interest in little GIRLS
but he has little BOYS

big difference (i think)
What about Shotacon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotacon) :P

Anyway, July 26:

Births
1928 - Stanley Kubrick, American film director (d. 1999)
1942 - Vladimír Mečiar, Slovak president
1943 - Mick Jagger, English musician (The Rolling Stones)
1949 - Thaksin Shinawatra-Prime Minister of Thailand
1959 - Kevin Spacey, American actor
1964 - Sandra Bullock, American actress
1973 - Kate Beckinsale, British actress

Deaths
456 - Offa, King of Mercia
811 - Nicephorus I, Byzantine Emperor (killed in battle)
1380 - Emperor Komyo of Japan (b. 1322)
1471 - Pope Paul II (b. 1417)
1611 - Horio Yoshiharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1542)
1863 - Sam Houston, President of the Republic of Texas (b. 1793)
1867 - King Otto of Greece (b. 1815)

[Addicted]

Henry Clay, Beverly Cleary, Tom Clancy, David Letterman, Claire Danes, Hitomi Yoshizawa, and Brendon Urie share my birthday :D

[King Kong]

but then... lots of people in japan have lolicon(?), so why does everyone hate him?

So it makes it right then? If some Japanese pervents have fucked up tendencies, then it must be acceptable?

[Klilynkun]

What about Shotacon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotacon) :P

That is just......wrong :yuck:

[Frankey-eh]

So it makes it right then? If some Japanese pervents have fucked up tendencies, then it must be right?
no, but why is everyone making a huge deal over Michael Jackson ONLY though?

like, you actually KNOW this guy by name. and when everyone hears it, they all go "creepy!!" in Japan... you don't even KNOW the name of people with lollicon.

it's very strange to me.

---

to keep this thread on topic
Natsume Souseki (the guy who appears on thousand yen bills) also has a lunar birthday of Jan 5.

[Klilynkun]

any GUY that likes to touch little BOYS is....

ugh... i think i'm gonna throw up

:yuck:


don't get me wrong... touching little girls is wrong too :eyepop:

[King Kong]

no, but why is everyone making a huge deal over Michael Jackson ONLY though?

like, you actually KNOW this guy by name. and when everyone hears it, they all go "creepy!!" in Japan... you don't even KNOW the name of people with lollicon.

it's very strange to me.

Maybe because there aren't many Japanese celebrities who are into "lollicon".

[King Kong]

1988 - The Australian koala, the first platinum coin, is issued

On my birthday! woohooo!

[Jiant Flying Panda]

Im only putting down the people I recognize

October 27th:

1728 - James Cook, British naval captain and explorer
1858 - Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1894 - Oliver Leese, British general
1940 - John Gotti, American gangster (Woot woot)
1984 - Kelly Osbourne, English television personality

Wow, my birthday fucking sucks :(

[Frankey-eh]

Maybe because there aren't many Japanese celebrities who are into "lollicon".

so that's what it comes down to...
If that's the case...
being famous sucks huh?

---

since I feel guilty for derailing the thread...
another event on my birthday
George Washington got married :clap:

[Soli]

Ugh, I don't like that page. Underneath the birthdays are the deaths. :gloomy: Way too many...

[Blanche]

march 6th:

1475 - Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian painter (d. 1564)
1619 - Cyrano de Bergerac, French soldier, poet (d. 1655)
1841 - Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist (d. 1902)
1926 - Alan Greenspan, American economist
1972 - Shaquille O'Neal, American basketball player

[Citizen]

Sally Struthers, American actress

Dear God, no.

[Postmonger]

Gloria Swanson born on March 27, 1897

Richard Denning born on March 27, 1914

David Janssen born on March 27, 1931

Julian Glover born on March 27, 1935

Austin Pendleton born on March 27, 1940

Edgar Selge born on March 27, 1948

Tony Banks (I) born on March 27, 1950

Maria Schneider born on March 27, 1952

Adrian Rawlins born on March 27, 1958

Brian Tarantina born on March 27, 1959

Quentin Tarantino born on March 27, 1963

Xuxa born on March 27, 1963

Xuxa Meneghel born on March 27, 1963

Paula Trickey born on March 27, 1966

Talisa Soto born on March 27, 1967

Kevin Corrigan born on March 27, 1969

Pauley Perrette born on March 27, 1969

Elizabeth Mitchell born on March 27, 1970

Mariah Carey born on March 27, 1970

David Coulthard born on March 27, 1971

Nathan Fillion born on March 27, 1971

Agathe de La Fontaine born on March 27, 1972

Charlie Haas born on March 27, 1972

Jimmy Hasselbaink born on March 27, 1972

Alexandra Quinn born on March 27, 1973

Gaizka Mendieta born on March 27, 1973

Rui Jorge born on March 27, 1973

Fergie born on March 27, 1975

Angie Jakusz born on March 27, 1980

Cacau born on March 27, 1981

Brenda Song born on March 27, 1988

Taylor Atelian born on March 27, 1995

[Neon Pink Shoehorn]

1585 - Heinrich Schütz, German composer (d. 1672)
1835 - Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (d. 1921)
1852 - Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
1950 - Jody Williams, American teacher and aid worker, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1952 - Sharon Osbourne, English music manager and wife of Ozzy Osbourne
1970 - Annika Sörenstam, Swedish golfer
eh, those are the ones I recognize...

[Xan]

Nov 5th

1959 - Bryan Adams, Canadian musician
1971 - Jonny Greenwood, Guitarist (Radiohead)
1986 - BoA, Korean singer

just the ones i noticed :P

[gyoza]

1986 - BoA, Korean singer


Holy sweet fcuk, she's my age!

And rika, I used to get Michael Jackson and Jordan confused when I was a kid too :rofl:

[Janken]

Births

* 1328 - William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (d. 1397)
* 1560 - Wilhelm Fabry, German surgeon (d. 1634)
* 1612 - John Albert Vasa, Polish bishop (d. 1634)
* 1715 - Joseph-François Foulon, French politician (d. 1789)
* 1814 - Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist (d. 1896)
* 1852 - Antoni Gaudí, Catalan architect (d. 1926)
* 1858 - Georges Courteline, French dramatist (d. 1929)
* 1864 - Walther Nernst, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)
* 1865 - Robert Henri, American painter (d. 1929)
* 1884 - Henry Kahnweiler, German art promoter (d. 1979)
* 1887 - George Abbott, American playwright, screenwriter, producer, director, and actor (d. 1995)
* 1894 - Hermann Oberth, German physicist (d. 1989)
* 1900 - Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Viceroy of India (d. 1979)
* 1903 - George Orwell, (Eric Arthur Blair) British writer (d. 1950)
* 1907 - J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
* 1908 - Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher (d. 2000)
* 1911 - William Howard Stein, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1980)
* 1912 - William T. Cahill, Governor of New Jersey (d. 1996)
* 1913 - Cyril Fletcher, British comedian (d. 2005)
* 1921 - Celia Franca, Canadian ballet dancer
* 1923 - Nicholas Mosley, British writer
* 1924 - Sidney Lumet, American actor and director
* 1925 - June Lockhart, American actress
* 1926 - Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian writer (d. 1973)
* 1928 - Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
* 1929 - Eric Carle, American children's author
* 1930 - Mary Beth Peil, American opera singer and actress
* 1932 - Peter Blake, English artist
* 1933 - James Meredith, American civil rights activist
* 1933 - Álvaro Siza Vieira, Portuguese architect
* 1940 - A.J. Quinnell, English thriller and mystery writer (d. 2005)
* 1945 - Carly Simon, American singer
* 1956 - Boris Trajkovski, President of the Republic of Macedonia (d. 2004)
* 1957 - John Porcerelli, Former Professional Boxer, Preeminent Psychologist and Doctor
* 1963 - George Michael, English singer
* 1963 - Yann Martel, Canadian author
* 1963 - Doug Gilmour, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1966 - Dikembe Mutombo, Congan basketball player
* 1969 - Matt Gallant, U.S. television host
* 1970 - Lucy Benjamin, British actress
* 1970 - Erki Nool, Estonian decathlete, Olympian
* 1971 - Angela Kinsey, American actress
* 1971 - Neil Lennon, Northern Irish footballer
* 1972 - Carlos Delgado, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player
* 1974 - Karisma Kapoor, Indian actress
* 1975 - Linda Cardellini, American actress
* 1975 - Albert Costa, Spanish tennis player
* 1975 - Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player
* 1976 - José Cancela, Uruguayan footballer
* 1981 - Simon Ammann, Swiss ski jumper
* 1982 - Mikhail Youzhny, Russian tennis player
* 1983 - Nargis Farahmand, Afghan poet
* 1986 - Aya Matsuura, Japanese singer
* 1990 - Tyler Hosking, Baseball Player

[paul]

1953 - Hulk Hogan, American professional wrestler

the only one I recognized

[gyoza]

Deaths
* 1687 - Jean Baptiste Lully, Italian-born French composer (b. 1632)


This would have been a Darwin Award if they existed at the time. The guy was one of the pioneers in the art of conducting. Except at the time, they didn't wave sticks around yet. In order to coordinate his orchestra, Lully beat time on the floor with a huge rod. So during one performance he accidentally whacks himself in the foot with this bigass rod, it gets infected, and he dies of gangrene.

Your random tidbit of the day.

[l337moomoo]

* 1185 - King Afonso II of Portugal (d. 1223)
* 1484 - Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian philosopher (d. 1558)
* 1500 - Alexander Ales, Scottish theologian (d. 1565)
* 1516 - Georg Fabricius, German poet, historian, and archaeologist (d. 1571)
* 1564 - William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright [uncertain] (d. 1616)
* 1598 - Maarten Tromp, Dutch admiral (d. 1653)
* 1628 - Johann van Waveren Hudde, Dutch mathematician (d. 1704)
* 1676 - King Frederick I of Sweden (d. 1751)
* 1720 - Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi (d. 1797)
* 1725 - Saint Gerard Majella, Catholic saint (d. 1755)
* 1775 - William Turner, English ornithologist (d. 1851)
* 1791 - James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States (d. 1868)
* 1792 - John Thomas Romney Robinson, Irish astronomer and physicist (d. 1882)
* 1805 - Johann Karl Friedrich Rosenkranz, German philosopher (d. 1879)
* 1813 - Stephen A. Douglas, U.S. Senator from Illinois and Presidential candidate (d. 1861)
* 1823 - Abd-ul-Mejid, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1861)
* 1858 - Max Planck, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947)
* 1861 - Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, British general (d. 1936)
* 1867 - Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger, Danish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1928)
* 1876 - Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German historian (d. 1925)
* 1880 - Michel Fokine, Russian choreographer and dancer (d. 1942)
* 1882 - Albert Coates, British composer (d. 1953)
* 1889 - Karel Doorman, Dutch admiral (d. 1942)
* 1893 - Frank Borzage, American film director (d. 1952)
* 1893 - Allen Dulles, American Central Intelligence Agency director (d. 1969)
* 1895 - Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand writer (d. 1982)
* 1897 - Lucius Clay, American general (d. 1978)
* 1897 - Lester B. Pearson, fourteenth Prime Minister of Canada, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1972)
* 1899 - Dame Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand author (d. 1982)
* 1899 - Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner (d. 1979)
* 1900 - Joseph Green, Polish-born actor and director (d. 1996)
* 1901 - E.B. Ford, British ecological geneticist (d. 1988)
* 1902 - Halldór Laxness, Icelandic writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
* 1904 - Duncan Renaldo, Spanish-American actor (d. 1985)
* 1907 - Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (d. 1975)
* 1910 - Simone Simon, French actress (d. 2005)
* 1918 - Maurice Druon, French author
* 1921 - Warren Spahn, baseball player (d. 2003)
* 1923 - Dolph Briscoe, Governor of Texas
* 1923 - Avram Davidson, American writer (d. 1993)
* 1928 - Shirley Temple, American actress and politician
* 1932 - Jim Fixx, American athlete and writer (d. 1984)
* 1932 - Halston, American fashion designer (d. 1990)
* 1932 - Estelle Harris, American actress
* 1935 - Bunky Green, American musician
* 1935 - Ray Peterson, American singer (d. 2005)
* 1936 - Roy Orbison, American singer and musician (d. 1988)
* 1939 - Lee Majors, American actor
* 1941 - Jacqueline Boyer, French singer
* 1941 - Paavo Lipponen, Prime Minister of Finland
* 1942 - Sandra Dee, American actress (d. 2005)
* 1943 - Tony Esposito, Canadian hockey player
* 1943 - Frans Koppelaar, Dutch painter
* 1943 - Hervé Villechaize, French actor (d. 1993)
* 1947 - Bernadette Devlin, Irish politician
* 1948 - Pascal Quignard, French author
* 1949 - Joyce DeWitt, American actress
* 1954 - Michael Moore, American filmmaker
* 1955 - Judy Davis, Australian actress
* 1955 - Tony Miles, English chess player (d. 2001)
* 1958 - Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, music composer, art director and allsherjargođi (chief gođi) of the Íslenska Ásatrúarfélagiđ (Icelandic Ásatrú Association)
* 1958 - Tove Jensen, Swedish porn actress
* 1958 - Ryan Walter, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1960 - Valerie Bertinelli, American actress
* 1960 - Steve Clark, English guitarist (Def Leppard) (d. 1991)
* 1961 - George Lopez, American actor and comedian
* 1967 - Melina Kanakaredes, American actress
* 1968 - Timothy McVeigh, American terrorist (d. 2001)
* 1972 - Patricia Manterola, Mexican singer
* 1974 - Carlos Dengler, American musician, Interpol
* 1975 - Jón Ţór Birgisson, Icelandic musician and singer
* 1977 - John Cena, American professional wrestler and rapper
* 1977 - Andruw Jones, American baseball player
* 1979 - Jaime King, American actress
* 1979 - Lauri Ylönen, Finnish singer
* 1983 - Daniela Hantuchová, Slovakian tennis player
* 1986 - Sven Kramer, Dutch speedskater and olympic medal winner
* 1989 - Nicole Vaidišová, Czech tennis player

[Kuhool]

the first one's sick
1962 - Anthony Kiedis, American singer (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1969 - Tie Domi, Hockey Player

in catholicism my birthday is
Catholicism - Holy Day of Obligation, All Saints Day

however in mexico, the tone is a bit different on this day
Mexico - The Day of the Dead

[Dead Sexy Vocab]

Tie Domi... I wanna see him matched up to Mr Bertuzzi.

[Josh]

2 BC - Jesus of Nazareth born in Bethlehem of Judea. (Luke 2:1-7)
1321 - John of Artois, Count of Eu, French soldier (d. 1387)
1328 - Joan of Kent, wife of Edward, the Black Prince (d. 1385)
1388 - Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, second son of Henry IV of England (d. 1421)
1511 - Michael Servetus, Spanish humanist (d. 1553)
1547 - Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author (d. 1616)
1548 - William V, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1626)
1561 - Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish mathematician (d. 1615)
1636 - Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1715)
1639 - Lord William Russell, English politician (d. 1683)
1640 - Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor (d. 1720)
1678 - Adrien-Maurice, 3rd duc de Noailles, French soldier (d. 1766)
1691 - Richard Challoner, English Catholic prelate (d. 1781)
1703 - François Boucher, French painter (d. 1770)
1725 - Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, British general and statesman (d. 1774)
1758 - Horatio Nelson, British admiral (d. 1805)
1786 - Guadalupe Victoria, first President of Mexico (d. 1843)
1810 - Elizabeth Gaskell, British novelist (d. 1865)
1843 - Mikhail Skobelev, Russian general (d. 1882)
1864 - Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish writer and philosopher (d. 1936)
1895 - J.B. Rhine, American parapsychologist (d. 1980).
1901 - Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1954)
1901 - Lanza del Vasto, Italian philosopher, poet, and activist (d. 1981)
1904 - Greer Garson, British actress (d. 1996)
1907 - Gene Autry, American actor, singer, and businessman (d. 1998)
1908 - Eddie Tolan, American athlete (d. 1967)
1912 - Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director
1913 - Trevor Howard, English actor (d. 1988)
1913 - Stanley Kramer, American film director (d. 2001)
1920 - Peter D. Mitchell, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1931 - James Watson Cronin, American nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1931 - Anita Ekberg, Swedish actress
1934 - Lance Gibbs, West Indian cricketer
1935 - Jerry Lee Lewis, American musician
1936 - Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of Italy
1938 - Wim Kok, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
1939 - Larry Linville, American actor (d. 2000)
1940 - Nicola Di Bari, Italian singer
1941 - Fred West, British serial killer
1942 - Madeline Kahn, American actress (d. 1999)
1942 - Bill Nelson, U.S. Senator from Florida
1942 - Ian McShane, British actor
1942 - Jean-Luc Ponty, French jazz violinist
1943 - Lech Wałęsa, President of Poland, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1948 - Bryant Gumbel, American television personality
1951 - Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile
1951 - Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (d. 1977)
1951 - Maureen Caird, Australian hurdler
1951 - Mike Enriquez, Philippine broadcaster
1952 - Max Sandlin, American politician
1956 - Sebastian Coe, British athlete
1957 - Andrew Dice Clay, American comedian and actor
1960 - Jennifer Rush, American singer
1961 - Stephanie Miller, American comedian and liberal talk show host
1962 - Roger Bart, American actor
1963 - Dave Andreychuk, Canadian hockey player
1964 - Les Claypool, American bassist (Primus)
1966 - Jill Whelan, American actress
1970 - Emily Lloyd, British actress
1972 - Robert Webb, British actor, comidian, and writer.
1976 - Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian football player
1976 - Darren Byfield, English football player
1977 - Debelah Morgan, R&B coloratura soprano.
1978 - Kurt Nilsen, Norwegian singer
1979 - Beau Zimmer, telejournalist
1981 - Siarhei Rutenka, Belarusian handball player
1982 - Ariana Jollee, American porn actress and director
1986 - Thomas Rendle, British chess player and FIDE Master

Did you see that first one? *cough* Jesus of Nazareth.

[Dead Sexy Vocab]

HOLY CHRIST!

*bows*

[Josh]

61 BC - Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph, for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday.
48 BC - Ptolemy XIII of Egypt had Pompey murdered and his head cut off on his 58th birthday. Pompey's head and ring were kept for Julius Caesar.
855 - Pope Benedict III becomes pope.
1364 - Battle of Auray: English forces defeat French at Brittany; end of the Breton War of Succession
1789 - The U.S. War Department first establishes regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
1864 - American Civil War: The Battle of Chaffin's Farm is fought.
1918 - The Hindenburg Line is broken by Allied forces during World War I.
1938 - Britain, France, Nazi Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
1939 - Poland is invaded by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

Since Im a bizzatch for history I figured I'd just add these in too. Pompey was murdered on my birthday... yay!