# Celebrity's you share a birthday with **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 25, 2016, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebritys-you-share-a-birthday-with/766819 "2016-09-25T14:32:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebritys-you-share-a-birthday-with/766819/21 "2016-09-26T01:34:34Z")
Luther Burbank Maurice Ravel Michael Eisner Ernie Isley Townes Van Zandt Franco Harris Lynn Swann Bryan Cranston Rik Mayall Joe Carter Bret Easton Ellis Rachel Weisz ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebritys-you-share-a-birthday-with/766819/22 "2016-09-26T01:37:20Z")
Born the same day as me: [Sable Starr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sable_Starr) [Željko Ivanek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BDeljko_Ivanek) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebritys-you-share-a-birthday-with/766819/23 "2016-09-26T01:45:27Z")
I play a DeathPool game on another board, and this year I picked people that share my birthday. There’s a lot of others, but here’s what I went with: Hugh McElhenny Anthony Hopkins Avram Hershko Sarah Miles Alex Ferguson Andy Summers Ben Kingsley Diane von Furstenberg Pius Ncube Tim Matheson Burton Cummings Rene Robert Viktor Mikhailovich Afanasieyv 1)NFL player 2)“Well hello Clarice!” Arguably the best male English speaking actor 3)Israeli biochemist, Nobel laureate 4)She gave an inspired performance in Ryan’s Daughter (1970) and appeared in The Servant. 5)Football manager who led Manchester United from 1986 to 2013, won the European cup twice, and became a knight in 1999. 6)Singer and guitarist with The Police and also has recorded more than ten solo albums. 7)He won a Best Actor Academy Award for his role in Gandhi in 1983. 8)International fashion designer, best known for her women’s wear and accessory lines. 9)Zimbabwean civil rights advocate, Roman Catholic archbishop 10)Actor who appeared in Animal House and provided voices for characters in TV’s Johnny Quest. 11)Canadian lead singer of The Guess Who, credited with songs like “American Woman” and “These Eyes.” 12)NHL player 13)Russian cosmonaut My two alternates were the following. Not only do they share my birthday of December 31st, but they were also both born in 1954, as I was! Hermann Tilke German engineer and auto racer Alexander Salmond Scottish politician, current First Minister of Scotland ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebritys-you-share-a-birthday-with/766819/24 "2016-09-26T01:51:51Z")
Trying to ignore the apostrophe disaster in the title… **nnnggghhh** John Lennon Guillermo del Toro Scott Bakula Chris O’Dowd The women in the list I am unfamiliar with. That’s a shame. Also, it’s only a couple of weeks away. October 9th. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebritys-you-share-a-birthday-with/766819/25 "2016-09-26T03:18:45Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > Almost no one of consequence, to my very mild dismay. The usual mix of writers and minor actors and not much more. Me, too. A couple of sports figures, and one Senator that I don’t like very much. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebritys-you-share-a-birthday-with/766819/26 "2016-09-26T03:32:06Z")
Millard Fillmore, the guy who got to be president after Zachary Taylor died the least ceremonial presidential death. Fillmore may be the most forgettable president ever. David “sunglasses” Caruso Katie “eats Sarah Palin as an hors d’oeuvre” Couric Zora Neale “so cool she’s on the list 3 times” Hurston Gerald “My Family and Other Animals” Durrell Dustin “I know I know him from somewhere” Diamond Charles “The Addams Family” Addams ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebritys-you-share-a-birthday-with/766819/27 "2016-09-26T04:22:52Z")
Czar Nicholas II of Russia Duane “Dobie Gillis” Hickman The Pope (no, the \*real \*pope, JP-II) ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebritys-you-share-a-birthday-with/766819/28 "2016-09-26T04:59:34Z")
Tim Lincecum, SF Giants! One of the eight ‘core eight’ (as I call them) players who played on all three World Series teams. He’s not listed in the OP’s link. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebritys-you-share-a-birthday-with/766819/29 "2016-09-26T05:02:28Z")
For varying values of celebrity: Jonathan Swift Oliver Winchester Mark Twain Winston Churchill Gordon Parks Shirley Chisholm Allan Sherman Richard Crenna Robert Guillaume Dick Clark G. Gordon Liddy Bob Moore Abbie Hoffman Ridley Scott Terrence Malick Roger Glover Mandy Patinkin Billy Idol John Ashton Bo Jackson Ben Stiller Clay Aiken Elisha Cuthbert ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebritys-you-share-a-birthday-with/766819/30 "2016-09-26T12:44:25Z")
I knew about Elijah Wood and Alan Alda already. I see from the link that also, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Paul Krugman, and Jackson Pollack and Artur Rubenstein. Several others I have never heard of. Regards, Shodan PS - “I bet I know your star sign. Is it Aries?” “Nope.” “Leo?” “Nope.” “Aquarius?” “Yes.” “I knew it!” ---
**Author:** ![Tapiotar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3be4f8/32.png) [@Tapiotar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapiotar)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebritys-you-share-a-birthday-with/766819/31 "2016-09-26T12:54:12Z")
Maury Chaykin, Peggy Fleming, Charlotte Corday… More interesting than the celebrities, most of them unknown to me, is an event that took place on my birthday – 1054 – Siward, Earl of Northumbria invades Scotland and defeats Macbeth, King of Scotland, somewhere north of the Firth of Forth. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebritys-you-share-a-birthday-with/766819/32 "2016-09-26T13:28:02Z")
I was born on the same day as Annie Lenox, and the same date as Anwar Sadat, Humphrey Bogart, Rod Serling, Isaac Newton and some other people. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebritys-you-share-a-birthday-with/766819/33 "2016-09-26T13:59:25Z")
I already knew about Susan Sarandon; I used to work with her (recently deceased) brother and I’d always make a crack about him sending us birthday cards. Armand Assante - ROWWWWR! Christoph Waltz- double ROWWWWR!! Anne Rice Alicia Silverstone Charlton Heston - he’s PEOPLE!!! Buster Keaton Jackie Collins Rutherford B. hayes A couple of young actresses that I’ve heard of but have no idea what they’ve been in And last and most certainly least, some Nazi dude. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebritys-you-share-a-birthday-with/766819/34 "2016-09-26T14:22:39Z")
May 23 Rosemary Clooney Joan Crawford Douglas Fairbanks Marvin Hagler AND! Linden Ashby Dude, Linden Ashby was the best Johnny Cage. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebritys-you-share-a-birthday-with/766819/35 "2016-09-26T15:20:22Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > And last and most certainly least, some Nazi dude. Don’t tell me, let me guess: 20 April? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebritys-you-share-a-birthday-with/766819/36 "2016-09-26T15:23:50Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > I was born on the same day as Annie Lenox, and the same date as Anwar Sadat, Humphrey Bogart, Rod Serling,\*\* Isaac Newton\*\* and some other people. Aha, 25 December? ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebritys-you-share-a-birthday-with/766819/37 "2016-09-26T15:37:29Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Don’t tell me, let me guess: 20 April? :dubious: No, it’s not _der fuhrer_ but one of his nastier minions - Ernst Kaltenbrunner. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebritys-you-share-a-birthday-with/766819/38 "2016-09-26T15:44:19Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > No, it’s not _der fuhrer_ but one of his nastier minions - Ernst Kaltenbrunner. Oy, vay! I read _ **Fatherland** _! :eek: It’s fun trying to guess the date from the names given. Another one I know for sure is 16 June for Stan Laurel. My favorite old girlfriend had the same birthday. ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebritys-you-share-a-birthday-with/766819/39 "2016-09-26T15:51:10Z")
Nathan Fillion Quantin Tarantino Mariah Carey Fergie Michael York ---
**Author:** ![Reluctant\_A](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@Reluctant\_A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reluctant_A)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebritys-you-share-a-birthday-with/766819/40 "2016-09-26T16:24:26Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > 7 January. > > Notables: > > Israel Putnam > > Millard Fillmore > > Alan Napier > > Butterfly McQueen > > Charles Addams > > Vincent Gardenia > > Erin Grey > > David Caruso > > Katie Couric > > Rand Paul > > Nick Cage > > [Famous Birthdays on January 7 - On This Day](http://www.onthisday.com/birthdays/january/7) Thank you so much for that second link, because the one in the OP is totally worthless. Of the people I share a birthday with, I’d only heard of, like, three of them, and the eight that are a much bigger deal to me didn’t even make the first list: John Brown (Abolitionist) Candace Bergen (Actress) Calvin Murphy (Basketball player) Billy Joel (Entertainer) Doug Christie (Basketball player) Tamia (Entertainer) Maggie Dixon (Basketball coach) Rosario Dawson (Actress) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebritys-you-share-a-birthday-with/766819.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebritys-you-share-a-birthday-with/766819.md?page=3)