# Do you share your birthday with someone famous? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 29, 2008, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-share-your-birthday-with-someone-famous/474930 "2008-11-29T15:41:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-share-your-birthday-with-someone-famous/474930/41 "2008-11-29T23:03:00Z")
a former co-worker born on Feb 29th, the odds of a such a birthday is about 1460 to 1. He is the only person I know with such a birthday. In that office of 8 people, 6 of us had birthdays within a 14 day range, and the other two were in December, 2 days apart. ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-share-your-birthday-with-someone-famous/474930/42 "2008-11-29T23:16:48Z")
**samarm** , that’s actually a great bar bet. Wikipedia calls it the [birthday paradox](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_paradox): namely, that in a room with 23 people, the odds are 50-50 that two of them share the same birthday (month and day, not year). With 57 people in the room, the odds go up to about 99% certain that two people share a birthday. And me, I was born November 17, 1971. No famous birthdays … not even any famous death days. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-share-your-birthday-with-someone-famous/474930/43 "2008-11-29T23:44:49Z")
James Dean: Feb 8th, 1931 Me: Feb 8th, 1981 Both junior college transfers to UCLA, as well. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-share-your-birthday-with-someone-famous/474930/44 "2008-11-29T23:45:32Z")
Neil Sedaka, L. Ron Hubbard, and the second wife of Millard Fillmore. As for non-famous people, I share my birthday with one of my older nieces, as well as one of my sister’s friends and the mother of another friend. ---
**Author:** ![Euthanasiast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Euthanasiast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euthanasiast)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-share-your-birthday-with-someone-famous/474930/45 "2008-11-29T23:59:35Z")
**Rebecca De Mornay** , **Tony MacAlpine** –guitarist, **Chris Hadfield** –RCAF/astronaut, STS 74, sk: 99, **Michael Jackson** , **John McCain** , **Ingrid Bergman** and **Henry V** , king of England. Pretty bad ass company. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-share-your-birthday-with-someone-famous/474930/46 "2008-11-30T00:06:03Z")
Me, Saddam Hussein, Jay Leno and Harper Lee. We’re a real fun bunch! ---
**Author:** ![Litoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9f8e36/32.png) [@Litoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Litoris)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-share-your-birthday-with-someone-famous/474930/47 "2008-11-30T00:39:47Z")
Chris Rock, Ashton Kutcher, Garth Brooks, Eddie Izzard, James Spader, Charles Dickens, and a whole bunch more whose names I didn’t recognise. ETA – and Drew Curtis 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Euryphaessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Euryphaessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euryphaessa)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-share-your-birthday-with-someone-famous/474930/48 "2008-11-30T00:41:54Z")
Juan Carlos I of Spain, Marilyn Manson, Hayao Miyazaki, Kyle Calder, January Jones and Rick Campanelli, to name but a few. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-share-your-birthday-with-someone-famous/474930/49 "2008-11-30T00:53:20Z")
I thought that the OP was referring to the very same day (i.e. date and year), in which case no, but I _was_ born the day Hosni Mubarak became president of Egypt. Actually, Wikipedia tells us that there was someone born on my birthdate: the mellifluously named Minnesota Twin, Boof Bonser. ---
**Author:** ![Hokkaido\_Brit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d26b3c/32.png) [@Hokkaido\_Brit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hokkaido_Brit)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-share-your-birthday-with-someone-famous/474930/50 "2008-11-30T01:22:31Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > Until recently, the most famous person to share my birthday was Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. I recently discovered that i also share my day with Barack Obama. Me too, \*\*Suburban Twin!\*\*I’m younger than the Queen Mother by quite a lot (and less dead) and a bit younger than Obama. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-share-your-birthday-with-someone-famous/474930/51 "2008-11-30T01:29:58Z")
Only one I can think of off the top of my head is John Glenn. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-share-your-birthday-with-someone-famous/474930/52 "2008-11-30T01:31:57Z")
(Favorites **bolded** July 1rst (1978): Tommy Dorsey, **Olivia de Haviland** , Estée Lauder, Leslie Caron, Sydney Pollack, Jamie Farr, Debbie Harry, Fred Schneider (of the B52s), Dan Aykroyd, Princess Di, Pamela Anderson, Missy Elliot, **Liv Tyler** , and (eeeewwww) David Duke (again: EEEEWWWWW!!!)\* (Then again, one of my uncles has the same birthday as Hitler, so I guess it’s not too bad. Still…) ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee7513/32.png) [@Mona\_Lott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lott)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-share-your-birthday-with-someone-famous/474930/53 "2008-11-30T03:04:43Z")
Morgan Fairchild and I share February 3, 1950 as our birthday. ---
**Author:** ![Giltathriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b38774/32.png) [@Giltathriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giltathriel)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-share-your-birthday-with-someone-famous/474930/54 "2008-11-30T03:14:30Z")
I share a birthday with Amelia Earhart. ---
**Author:** ![FallingLeaves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/54ee81/32.png) [@FallingLeaves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FallingLeaves)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-share-your-birthday-with-someone-famous/474930/55 "2008-11-30T03:33:53Z")
A few of the people I share a birthday (not year) with: Lucretia Mott J.R.R. Tolkien Victor Borge (remembering this gave me a reason to search out and watch [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF4qii8S3gw)) Stephen Stills Mel Gibson ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-share-your-birthday-with-someone-famous/474930/56 "2008-11-30T03:38:48Z")
I share a birthday ([March 14](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_14#Births)) with Albert Einstein and Casey Jones. ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-share-your-birthday-with-someone-famous/474930/57 "2008-11-30T04:32:56Z")
Madonna and (drool) Timothy Hutton. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-share-your-birthday-with-someone-famous/474930/58 "2008-11-30T04:36:37Z")
Douglas Adams! And in another two years, I’ll make him proud. 😃 As to other famous [March to the 11th-ers](http://www.famousbirthdays.net/march11.htm), my favorites are Thora Birch, Bobby McFerrin and (hehe) Lawrence Welk. I’m sure there’s others, but I can’t remember them from when IMDb shows them daily. ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-share-your-birthday-with-someone-famous/474930/59 "2008-11-30T04:51:18Z")
June 21: Martha Washington, American First Lady Jean-Paul Sartre, French Philosopher Ocie Lee “OC” Smith, U.S. jazz singer, Little Green Apples Lalo Schifrin, composer Bernie Kopell, actor, Love Boat, Get Smart, That Girl Ron Ely, actor, Tarzan Mariette Hartley, actress, Poloroid spokesperson Ray Davies, singer/guitarist, Kinks Meredith Baxter-Birney, actress, Family Ties, Bridget Loves Bernie Michael Gross, actor, Family Ties, FBI murders _(Just an aside: Meredith Baxter-Birney and Michael Gross, who were the husband and wife on Family Ties, were both born on the same day: 6/21/1947)_ Leo Sayers, singer, You Make Me Feel Like Dancing Nils Lofgren, guitarist, singer and songwriter, East Street Band Benazir Bhutto, 1st female leader of a Moslem nation, Pakistan Berkeley Breathed, Cartoonist Nicole Kidman, actress William of Wales, son of Prince Chuck and Lady Di Nice list. Impressed even me. ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-share-your-birthday-with-someone-famous/474930/60 "2008-11-30T05:29:26Z")
Martin Luther, Richard Burton, retired Formula One driver Eddie Irvine, composer Jacques Couperin and the United States Marine Corps. Also, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank on my birthday. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-share-your-birthday-with-someone-famous/474930.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-share-your-birthday-with-someone-famous/474930.md?page=4)