Invite 4 current or historical people to dinner, all of whom were born on your birthday

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Similar to this recent thread in which I asked Dopers to assemble a band made up of musicians born on their birthday.

You are hosting a small dinner party and may invite four guests. Each diner must have been born on your birthday.

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The invitees may be currently living or dead.

Mine are not terribly exciting. And seem to have Zero in common.

Save the date: March 15.

[ul]
[li]Mike Love (Beach Boys)[/li][li]Punch Imlach (legendary Canadian hockey coach)[/li][li]Andrew Jackson (7th president of the U.S.)[/li][li]Saint Nicholas (model for Sandy Claus)[/li][/ul]
Whatta ya got?
mmm

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Willie Nelson
Alice B. Toklas
Carl Gauss
Al Lewis

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Feb 2:

Christie Brinkley
James I
Duane “Dog” Chapman
Ayn Rand

I went with the most diverse people, to inspire the most interesting conversations, not necessarily the ones I like most.

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Apr. 26

Carol Burnett
Sal Maglie
A. E. van Vogt
Fanny Blankers-Koen

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Ernest Günther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1609) - I have absolutely no idea who he is or how important (or not) he was to history, I just want to introduce him to the other guests by his full title.
Dwight Eisenhower (1890) - 34th President.
Mochitsura Hashimoto (1909) - Japanese WW2 submarine commander. I just want to put him in a room with Ike.
Roger Moore (1927) - He’s not Sean Connery, but I’ll take any 007 I can get.

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Yeah right. You invited Christie Brinkley for the conversation.

Like I invited Willie Nelson to talk about football.

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Jan. 7:

Zora Neale Hurston (Harlem Renaissance author, and anthropologist)
Millard Fillmore (Zachary Taylor’s veep; took over when Taylor died; in running for “Most Obscure US President”)
Katie Couric (TV journalist and Sarah Palin-hater)
William Peter Blatty (wrote The Exorcist)

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Feb 21:

[ul]
[li]Andrés Segovia (guitar dude)[/li][li]Robert “Big Bob” Mugabe (politician)[/li][li]Nina Simone (songstress)[/li][li]Sam Peckinpah (Director)[/li][/ul]

Andrés can pick a tune for Nina to sing, hopefully diverting Mugabe’s attention away from Peckinpah’s attempts to pick a fight.

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Ice Cube
Neil Patrick Harris
Waylon Jennings
Courtney Cox

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Wait, did I say they have nothing in common?

Mike Love, when Saint Nicholas arrives fashionably late:

mmm

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March 13:

Inocencio XII
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (the tea dude)
Yonatan Netanyahu (brother of Benjamin)
Georges de la Tour

Hopefully between English and French we’ll be able to find a way to get everybody fed :slight_smile:
UNinvited:
L. Ron Hubbard

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Oskar Schindler
Saddam Huissein
Harper Lee
Terry Prachett

Ha!

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We’ll be an artsy group to be sure:

Salvador Dali, artist
Valentino, fashion designer
Irving Berlin, composer
Natasha Richardson, actress

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After thoroughly perusing the list of people born on my birthday, I think I’ll just call room service.

Besides, mmm, that website is deeply flawed. It doesn’t even list me, and I’m pretty damn sure I was born on my birthday.

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I was born on mine as well. Must be a conspiracy.

On a related note, do you know that more than 60% of all deaths occur within six months of that person’s birthday?

Regards,
Shodan

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September 21: [ul][li]H.G. Wells[/li][li]Stephen King[/li][li]Bill Murray[/li]Luke Wilson (only because we were also born in the same year)[/ul]

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Dec 1

Woody Allen
Bette Midler
Sarah Silverman

All show-biz types

Woody Allen was born twenty years before me and Bette Midler ten years before me*, while Sarah Silverman was born fifteen years after me.

We can all discuss how Rosa Parks was refused a seat on a bus the day I was born.

*They appeared together as a married couple in the 1991 movie Scenes from a Mall.

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June 12th:

George H. W. Bush
Anne Frank
Marv Albert
Jason Mewes

Chosen mainly so I could see what Jay would have to say to the other three.

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September 26

Actually a pretty stellar, if eclectic, line-up

George Gershwin, musician
T.S. Eliot, writer
Ivan Pavlov, scientist
Winsor McCay, comics artist (Little Nemo) and animator
I would, however, be tempted to invite the alternative line-up of:

Pope Paul VI
Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman), tree planter, environmentalist, and missionary
Martin Heidegger, philosopher
Albert Anastasia, Mafioso (boss of Murder Incorporated)

but I would be afraid that Anastasia would end up drilling the other three.

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Me too Cal, Dec 1st.

I’ll go with
Woody Allen
Bette Midler
Sara Silverman
too.

How could you leave out Richard Pryor?