Do you share your birthday with someone famous?

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.

samarm, that’s actually a great bar bet. Wikipedia calls it the 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.

James Dean: Feb 8th, 1931
Me: Feb 8th, 1981

Both junior college transfers to UCLA, as well.

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.

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.

Me, Saddam Hussein, Jay Leno and Harper Lee.

We’re a real fun bunch!

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 :smiley:

Juan Carlos I of Spain, Marilyn Manson, Hayao Miyazaki, Kyle Calder, January Jones and Rick Campanelli, to name but a few.

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.

Me too, **Suburban Twin!**I’m younger than the Queen Mother by quite a lot (and less dead) and a bit younger than Obama.

Only one I can think of off the top of my head is John Glenn.

(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…)

Morgan Fairchild and I share February 3, 1950 as our birthday.

I share a birthday with Amelia Earhart.

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)
Stephen Stills
Mel Gibson

I share a birthday (March 14) with Albert Einstein and Casey Jones.

Madonna and (drool) Timothy Hutton.

Douglas Adams!

And in another two years, I’ll make him proud. :smiley: As to other famous March to the 11th-ers, 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.

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.

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.