# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-share-your-birthday-with-someone-famous/474930/61 "2008-11-30T05:29:35Z")
Brooke Shields and Clint Eastwood. “Go ahead… make my birthday.” ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-share-your-birthday-with-someone-famous/474930/62 "2008-11-30T05:36:44Z")
Dern database timed out. One more… John freakin’ Bonham. ---
**Author:** ![Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dread_pirate_jimbo/32/3897_2.png) [@Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dread_Pirate_Jimbo)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-share-your-birthday-with-someone-famous/474930/63 "2008-11-30T06:21:16Z")
> [@Terrifel](#): > > \ > Hmm… apparently I share [my birthday](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_21) with W.H. Auden, Kelsey Grammer, and the guy who played C-3PO. Great. Oh, and also Gary Lockwood… not too bad, I guess. Say… also Jennifer Love Hewitt! Hey! Me too! 🙂 You forgot Detroit Tiger Alan Trammell, writers Anais Nin and Chuck Palahnuik, and actors Alan Rickman, William Peterson and Tyne Daly. Sweet! ---
**Author:** ![Washoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecae2f/32.png) [@Washoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washoe)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-share-your-birthday-with-someone-famous/474930/64 "2008-11-30T06:29:34Z")
I not only share the same birthday with Lynette Fromme, we both went to the same junior high school. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-share-your-birthday-with-someone-famous/474930/65 "2008-11-30T06:40:47Z")
> [@Hokkaido\_Brit](#): > > Me too, \*\*Suburban Twin!\*\*I’m younger than the Queen Mother by quite a lot (and less dead) and a bit younger than Obama. How much is “a bit younger”? I was born in 1967…could we be ‘twins’? I have a cousin who was born on the same day as me…you aren’t her, are you? ---
**Author:** ![Not\_A\_Tame\_Lion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e36b37/32.png) [@Not\_A\_Tame\_Lion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Not_A_Tame_Lion)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-share-your-birthday-with-someone-famous/474930/66 "2008-11-30T07:39:33Z")
October 9. The big one for me–always, since I first learned about it–to share my birthday is John Lennon (1940). A fact that has always had a big influence on my life. Other interesting names on the list: # 1903 - Walter O’Malley, American baseball executive (d. 1979) # 1907 - Jacques Tati, French filmmaker (d. 1982) # 1937 - Brian Blessed, English actor # 1941 - Brian Lamb, Founder of C-SPAN # 1944 - John Entwistle, British musician (The Who) (d. 2002) # 1948 - Jackson Browne, American musician # 1952 - Sharon Osbourne, English music manager and wife of Ozzy Osbourne # 1953 - Tony Shalhoub, American actor # 1964 - Guillermo del Toro, Mexican film director # 1970 - Annika Sörenstam, Swedish golfer # 1980 - Henrik Zetterberg, Swedish ice hockey player # 1992 - Tyler James Williams, American actor (List from Wikipedia) Not a bad mix there. It’s a little disappointing, though, that no one deemed worthy of notice was born on the same date (10/9/68) as me. Maybe that says something about my life. ---
**Author:** ![torie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@torie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/torie)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-share-your-birthday-with-someone-famous/474930/67 "2008-11-30T07:55:40Z")
[I share my birthday](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_14) with LL Cool J, Faye Dunaway, Yukio Mishima, Zakk Wylde, Andy Rooney, Jason Bateman, Albert Schweitzer, and Dave Grohl [My son shares his birthday](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_15th) with Martin Luther King Jr, which is really cool. When it passed midnight and he wasn’t born yet, I was excited. His due date was on the 19th and I was hoping he’d get either the 15th or the 19th. That way he’d have MLK or Edgar Allen Poe to share a birthday with. My husband is a former boxer and he thinks it’s neat that he has Bernard Hopkins as a birthday buddy. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![GESancMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gesancman/32/2923_2.png) [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-share-your-birthday-with-someone-famous/474930/68 "2008-11-30T08:40:35Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > [BrainyHistory - Events Listing](http://www.brainyhistory.com/daysbirth/birth_june_12.html) Hmmph. I came in here to post mine, but you beat me to it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-share-your-birthday-with-someone-famous/474930/69 "2008-11-30T08:48:59Z")
Michael Bond (the creator of Paddington Bear), Robert Stack, Sophie Tucker, Stephen Hendry (snooker player) and Suggs from the band _Madness_ ---
**Author:** ![dbuzman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de0a6/32.png) [@dbuzman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbuzman)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-share-your-birthday-with-someone-famous/474930/70 "2008-11-30T10:22:34Z")
I googled my birthday, John Hancock (the Declaration of Independence guy), Kirstie Alley and Rob Zombie were the ones that popped out at me doing a quick scan of the list. Heck Rob Zombie was even born the same year. ---
**Author:** ![SpinyNorma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@SpinyNorma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpinyNorma)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-share-your-birthday-with-someone-famous/474930/71 "2008-11-30T12:19:58Z")
I have had what some say is an irrational hatred of Susan Lucci for many years. You can imagine my chagrin to find out she brought the torment to a whole 'nother level by having MY birthday (December 23). Of course, those same people who say my hatred of SL is irrational also insist that it’s the other way around since she’s older than me (Yeah, take THAT, Susan!) but how seriously can you take the opinion of anyone who doesn’t find Susan Lucci annoying as hell? ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-share-your-birthday-with-someone-famous/474930/72 "2008-11-30T12:40:19Z")
I prefer to think that Eric Clapton shares his birthday with me (The Cream always rises to the top). Also some nobody called Vincent Van Gogh. ---
**Author:** ![schnuckiputzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@schnuckiputzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schnuckiputzi)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-share-your-birthday-with-someone-famous/474930/73 "2008-12-01T01:03:57Z")
Sir Isaac Newton, Humphrey Bogart, and Jesus. ---
**Author:** ![Stauderhorse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Stauderhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stauderhorse)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-share-your-birthday-with-someone-famous/474930/74 "2008-12-01T02:36:55Z")
Vlad the Impaler/Dracula, Bram Stoker (funny that they share a birthday), Margaret Mitchell, Gordon Ramsay, and Tom Anderson (president of MySpace). ---
**Author:** ![Influential\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Influential\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Influential_Panda)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-share-your-birthday-with-someone-famous/474930/75 "2008-12-01T02:45:51Z")
Caligula. Also, Richard Gere. ---
**Author:** ![Gail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Gail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gail)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-share-your-birthday-with-someone-famous/474930/76 "2008-12-01T02:51:35Z")
Natalie Merchant, Cary Elwes, Hillary Clinton, Jaclyn Smith, and Bob Hoskins ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-share-your-birthday-with-someone-famous/474930/77 "2008-12-01T03:29:44Z")
Marie Antoinette James K. Polk George Boole Warren G. Harding Harlow Shapley Burt Lancaster Pat Buchanan (birthday _and_ alma mater… eurrrrgh) Shere Hite Carter Beauford (on the drums!) kd lang David Schwimmer “Fieldy” Arvizu (same date and year) _NELLY?!_ Those are just the ones I’ve heard of, anyway. Oh, and Daniel Boone, although he was born before the calendar jumped 15 days so back then it was Oct 22. ---
**Author:** ![Genericuser234](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5daacb/32.png) [@Genericuser234](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genericuser234)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-share-your-birthday-with-someone-famous/474930/78 "2008-12-01T03:31:08Z")
Iron Mike Tyson ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-share-your-birthday-with-someone-famous/474930/79 "2008-12-01T03:38:46Z")
> [@Gail](#): > > Natalie Merchant, Cary Elwes, Hillary Clinton, Jaclyn Smith, and Bob Hoskins Cary Elwes and I have the exact same birthday. One of us is much better looking than the other, though. 😉 Also, you forgot Dylan McDermott. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-share-your-birthday-with-someone-famous/474930/80 "2008-12-01T03:40:01Z")
Hillary Clinton and I share a birthday - not the same year, though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-share-your-birthday-with-someone-famous/474930.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-share-your-birthday-with-someone-famous/474930.md?page=5)