Within a month before and after my birthday:
Derek Jeter
David Mitchell
Franka Potente
Josh Radnor
Hilary Swank
Michael Shannon
Natasha Henstridge
Amy Adams
Misha Collins
So… a bunch of Oscar nominees, a sitcom star, a brilliant British comedian, an angel and a modern baseball legend. Not bad.
Thanks, you did the research for me: I’m 4/6/65.
Like GESancMan I was born in 1971, but near the end of the year (9/21). I share a birthday with Alfonso Ribeiro (best known as Carlton in The Fresh Prince of Bel Air).
Other famous folks my age include:
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[li]Snoop Dogg[/li][li]David Tennant[/li][li]Jared Leto[/li][li]Idina Menzal[/li][li]Missy Elliott[/li][li]Jada Pinkett Smith[/li][li]Ricky Martin[/li][li]Justin Trudeau[/li][li]Amy Poehler[/li][li]Martin Freeman[/li][li]Mary J. Blige[/li][li]Jeremy Renner[/li][li]Ewan McGregor[/li][li]Johnny Knoxville[/li][li]Winona Ryder[/li][li]Nathan Fillion[/li][li]Kid Rock[/li][li]Shawn Wayans[/li][/ul]
Top results I can find:
Ryan Gosling
Jake Gyllenhaal
Elijah Wood
Channing Tatum
Nick Cannon
Kristen Bell
Laura Prepon
Christina Ricci
Michelle Williams
I was born on the exact same day as Halle Berry. And I have to admit, she looks almost as good as I do.
Within four months: [ul]Jeri Ryan[li]Daniel Craig[]Lisa Loeb[]Megan Follows[]Céline Dion[]Cindy Robinson*[]Patricia Arquette[]Anthony Michael Hall[]Ashley Judd[]William deVry[]Aidan Gillen[]Traci Lords[]Erik Palladino[]Tony Hawk[]Scott Schwartz[]Kyle Eastwood[]Timothy Olyphant[]Chris Roberts*[]Jeff Bagwell[]Kylie Minogue[]Gary Payton[]Marc Wasserman[]Terry Crews[]Gillian Anderson[]Bernie Williams[]Ricki Lake[]Will Smith[]Jim Caviezel[/ul][/li]
*famous for video games.
I’m a day younger than Janet Jackson.
I recently discovered that my mom and George Lucas were born on the same day, 75 miles apart …
Same year
Kate Moss
Christian Bale
Robbie Williams
Eva Mendes
Alyson Hannigan
Penélope Cruz
Andrea Corr
Alanis Morissette
Hilary Swank
Amy Adams
Jimmy Fallon
Ryan Adams
Leonardo DiCaprio
LEDS
Meg White
Giovanni Ribisi
Beginning of the following year
Thomas Bangalter
Danica McKellar
Bradley Cooper
Matteo Renzi
Preity Zinta
Natalie Imbruglia
Drew Barrymore
I’m right on the other (younger) side of fjs1fs and kenobi 65 …
Notable names three months younger/older than me:
Trent Reznor
John C. Reilly
Todd Bridges
Brooke Shields
Cam Neely
Elizabeth Hurley
Slash
Jeremy Pivens
J. K. Rowling
Sam Mendes
Shania Twain
Charlie Sheen
Moby
Scottie Pippen
Chris Penn (deceased)
Steve Coogan
… and now I’m depressed again. Not only have all these people accomplished orders of magnitude above what I have, but they did it so long ago they’re all over the hill.
Like Tom Lehrer said *“It’s people like that who make you realize how little you’ve accomplished. Why, when Mozart was my age, he’d been dead for three years!”
*
Or in my case, they’re buried on the hill.
We’re talking mid-November 1947 here. From a week before or after me:
Joe Mantegna
P.J. O’Rourke
Joe Walsh
John Larroquette
Go a few weeks more in either direction and I’ve got:
Hillary Clinton
Richard Dreyfuss
Johnny Bench
Gregg Allman