Famous People with YOUR Birthday

<p>Okay…here’s a slingshot off something jym mentioned in the Vick thread. Name the famous (or infamous) people with whom you share a birthday. I predict some pretty weird combinations…starting with mine…</p>

<p>The famous people with whom I share a birthday:</p>

<p>Franklin D. Roosevelt (cool)
Vanessa Redgrave (also cool)
Christian Bale (hot!)
Gene Hackman</p>

<p>and </p>

<p>Dick Cheney (say WHAT?)</p>

<p>None of mine are Christian Bale hot, but I do have a cool:
Adam Sandler
Hugh Grant
Michael Keaton
Billy Preston
Otis Redding (cool!)</p>

<p>Jimmy Carter
Julie Andrews
Walter Matthau</p>

<p>Mary McLeod Bethune (my shero!)
David Brinkley
Arthur Ashe
Saul Bellow
Arlo Guthrie
Jessica Simpson
Marcel Proust
John Calvin</p>

<p>and (not famous, but still important to me) my husband!</p>

<p>awww…that’s very nifty that you share a birthday with your husband nsm. :)</p>

<p>Michael Jordan (it’s why his jersey number was 23, don’tcha know :slight_smile: )
Dakota Fanning
Peter Fonda
W.E.B. DuBois
George Frederic Handel (cool!)</p>

<p>1777 - Tsar Alexander I of Russia
1805 - Joseph Smith, Jr., Founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
1918 - Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor of Germany
1918 - Jos</p>

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<p>Do you share the same anniversary, too?</p>

<p>Wikipedia will give you an extraordinarily long list, if anyone’s curious. </p>

<p>For myself, my favorite “birthday buddy” is Bill Gates. :)</p>

<p>1970 Chris O’Donnell (actor)
1963 Harriet Wheeler (singer)
1961 Greg LeMond (bicyclist)
1956 Chris Isaak (actor, singer)
1940 Billy Davis, Jr. (singer)
1936 Hal Greer (Basketball)
1922 Eleanor Parker (actress)
1904 Peter Lorre (actor)
1892 Pearl S. Buck (author)
1891 Sidney Howard (playwright)
1819 Abner Doubleday (baseball founder)
1892 Pearl S. Buck (author)
Alanis Morissette
Lord Kelvin was born on June 26, 1824
Gedde Watanabe born on June 26, 1955
Chris Isaak born on June 26, 1956
Patty Smyth born on June 26, 1957
Chris O’Donnell born on June 26, 1970 </p>

<p>Matt Letscher born on June 26, 1970 </p>

<p>Sean Hayes born on June 26, 1970 </p>

<p>Max Biaggi born on June 26, 1971 </p>

<p>Garou born on June 26, 1972 </p>

<p>Gretchen Wilson born on June 26, 1973 </p>

<p>Parry Shen born on June 26, 1973 </p>

<p>Rebecca Budig born on June 26, 1973 </p>

<p>Bryan Chan born on June 26, 1974 </p>

<p>Derek Jeter born on June 26, 1974 </p>

<p>Jason Kendall born on June 26, 1974
Mark McKinney born on June 26, 1959 </p>

<p>Chad Pennington born on June 26, 1976 </p>

<p>Jorge Poza born on June 26, 1977 </p>

<p>Michael Thomas Dunn born on June 26, 1977 </p>

<p>Miguel Angel Angulo born on June 26, 1977 </p>

<p>Juan Riquelme born on June 26, 1978 </p>

<p>Andrew O’Brien born on June 26, 1979 </p>

<p>Jason Schwartzman born on June 26, 1980 </p>

<p>Michael Vick born on June 26, 1980 </p>

<p>Paolo Cannavaro born on June 26, 1981 </p>

<p>Fernando Navarro born on June 26, 1982 </p>

<p>Liliane Ferrarezi born on June 26, 1988</p>

<p>Sept. 13: Ben Savage, Stella McCartney, Fiona Apple, Jean Smart, Nell Carter, Jacqueline Bisset, Bela Karolyi, David Clayton-Thomas, Mel Torme, Roald Dahl.</p>

<p>Also Nintendo!</p>

<p>I have always known that I share a birthday with:</p>

<p>Elvis Presley</p>

<p>…because it comes up every year in the news on my birthday, Jan. 8. </p>

<p>I didn’t know about the following (or others):</p>

<p>Frank Doubleday
Carl Rogers
Butterfly McQueen
Soupy Sales
Bob Eubanks
David Bowie
R. Kelly
Stephen Hawking</p>

<p>Oh, and I guess the date is shared with the start of the Watergate Trial too.</p>

<p>And (cough) Bush signed into legislation the No Child Left Behind Act.</p>

<p>Hank Aaron, and my 3rd grade classmate, Brett Anderson, a person completely unknown outside of his family and friends. Hah. His mother was always nice to me and sent me B-Day cards in college.</p>

<p>The only one that I can think of from the top of my head is Pharrell Williams from the Neptunes (Star Trak!–lol).</p>

<p>fun thread!</p>

<p>for me:
Perry Como
Pope John Paul II
Brooks Robinson
Reggie Jackson
George Strait
Jack Johnson
Vince Young</p>

<p>But the event I remember the most was on my birthday in 1980 when Mt. Saint Helens blew up and school was cancelled for about 2 weeks ;)</p>

<p>The following folks are lucky enough to share my birthday :)</p>

<p>Jude Law
Bryan “Dexter” Holland
Ed Autry
Ted Danson
Marianne Faithfull
John Voight
Mary Tyler Moore
Billy Mitchell
Andrew Johnson
Charles Goodyear</p>

<p>May 12th-I missed sharing with my youngest by 1-1/2 hours, but I wasn’t going to prolong labor just to share a cake!</p>

<p>Florence Nightingale
Katharine Hepburn
Yogi Berra
Burt Bacharach
Tom Snyder
George Carlin
Steve Winwood
Ving Rhames
Emilio Estevez
Stephen Baldwin
Tony Hawk
Kim Fields
Jason Biggs</p>

<p>Soozie-My S#2 also shares your Jan 8th birthday. He was recently at a conference in Memphis and felt called to visit Graceland!</p>

<p>Other near-fools born on April 2:
Hans Christian Andersen
Alec Guinness
Emile Zola
Rodney King
Camille Paglia</p>

<p>July 7
Mahler
Chagall
Heinlein
Satchel Paige
Pierre Cardin
Ringo Starr
Yul Brynner</p>

<p>pretty good company, I guess</p>

<p>Emily Dickinson
Dewey, as in the Decimal system (that’s as close as I get to Christian Bale hot, I suppose)
Susan Dey
Kenneth Branagh
One of the white stripes
Olivia from Cosby Show</p>