# Do you share your birthday with someone famous?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-share-your-birthday-with-someone-famous/474930>\
**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")\
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**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-share-your-birthday-with-someone-famous/474930/121 "2008-12-16T23:20:32Z")

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> [@brewha](#):
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> I missed the edit windo - but apparently you and I share the same birthday and year.
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> How close are we? I was born at 6:33PM CST.

3:30 PM GMT - which makes 9:30 AM CST if I’m not completely off mark.

Still mighty cool! You’re my first ever birthday-buddy 🙂

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**Author:** ![Julius\_Henry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8797f3/32.png) [@Julius\_Henry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Julius_Henry)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-share-your-birthday-with-someone-famous/474930/122 "2008-12-17T00:34:49Z")

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Not too many years ago on my birthday, I saw a picture of Matt Lauer in the newpaper with the caption “Still young _looking_, anyway.” You guessed it, we were both born the same year.

But if any Doper would like to make me feel better by treating me to dinner on my next birthday along with other famous people who will also be celebrating their birthdays that day, may I recommend Tracy Ullman, Eliza Dushku, and Kristin Kreuk. But not Sean Hannity, please.

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**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-share-your-birthday-with-someone-famous/474930/123 "2008-12-17T01:11:58Z")

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> [@Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](#):
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> Hey! Me too! 🙂
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> You forgot Detroit Tiger Alan Trammell, writers Anais Nin and Chuck Palahnuik, and actors Alan Rickman, William Peterson and Tyne Daly. Sweet!

True. Still, it is hard to deny that Feb. 21 is a bit on the lean side re: noted personalities, my sprit sibling-in-natal-commemoration. The two of us need to get busy and assassinate somebody or invent antigravity or something.

Even the “notable events” seem to follow a generally depressing trend. 1916: The Battle of Verdun. 1918: The Carolina Parakeet becomes extinct. 1948: NASCAR is incorporated.

1804: “The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing…” What the hell does that even mean? So earlier steam locomotives weren’t self-propelling? What, were they drawn by teams of reindeer or something? Doesn’t the definition of “locomotive” intrinsically require that it be self-propelling? Only on Feb. 21 could such a poorly defined event occur.

1893: Thomas Edison patents a “Stop device.” Just a generalized device that makes things stop, I guess. I envision a great big cartoon mallet with the word “STOP” printed on the head.

1971: The Convention on Psychotropic Substances. Predictably, it turns out that this event was almost infinitely less cool than its name implies.

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