# Famous people born on your exact birthday? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 29, 2010, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-on-your-exact-birthday/544987 "2010-06-29T21:52:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**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:** [July 1, 2010, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-on-your-exact-birthday/544987/81 "2010-07-01T18:11:16Z")
Robin Campbell, guitarist and singer (UB40) (b: December 25, 1954) Annie Lennox, singer (Eurythmics) (b: December 25, 1954) Annie-Xmas, unable to carry a tune. (b: December 25, 1954) ---
**Author:** ![Runestar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/74df32/32.png) [@Runestar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runestar)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-on-your-exact-birthday/544987/82 "2010-07-01T19:55:44Z")
Dan Marino and I were born on the same day, month, year. We’re exactly the same age. Not a famous person, but while growing up my best friend and I shared the same birthday. We were even born in the same hospital on the same floor on the same day. I was a couple of weeks overdue, and used to joke that I’d been waiting for him to finish. ---
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-on-your-exact-birthday/544987/83 "2010-07-01T21:08:32Z")
> [@Second\_Star\_to\_the\_Right](#): > > Beyonce Knowles Farrah Franklin. Also an Asian singer I’d never heard of before, the late [U;Nee](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U;Nee). It also so happens that Christopher Cross, James Brown, and Bing Crosby have the same month and day as me (but not year). No wonder I’m so musically inclined! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![akrako1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@akrako1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akrako1)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-on-your-exact-birthday/544987/84 "2010-07-01T21:12:28Z")
(OK not born the same year, but the same day) Hitler Tito Puente Sulu (George Takei) Carmen Electra Miranda Kerr Same exact day/year is only: Johnny “The Bull” Stamboli (but I’m not much of a wrestling fan) and being 4/20, other stuff is also celebrated on that day (other then the oil spill, Columbine, etc) ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-on-your-exact-birthday/544987/85 "2010-07-01T23:00:47Z")
> [@kittenblue](#): > > Oh, great. I get Dick Rambone, American porn star. > Please, let there be another list somewhere! With a name like that he had to go into porn. 😉 Mine: - Chris Elliott, actor/comedian (Get a Life, David Letterman Show) - Norm Johnson, NFL place kicker (Seattle Seahawk, Pitts Steelers) - Peter Winterbottom, British rugby player ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-on-your-exact-birthday/544987/86 "2010-07-01T23:21:34Z")
> [@Autolycus](#): > > I feel I’ve done pretty good for myself. In mostly chronological order: > > Thomas More > Charles Dickens > Bon Jovi > Emo Philips > Ashton Kutcher > And, most amazingly for me since I adore him, Eddie Izzard, who also shares my last name if you change the I to an E (and it’s the same root name anyway…yes I realize I’ve given away enough personal info on this site that a retarded chimp could find me, but I guess I’ll burn that bridge when it’s built.) **Auto** was born the year after me on the same day, so I’m claiming those, but marking off points for none being part of his birth year. In 1983, we have: Christian Klien, Austrian racing driver Teshome Getu, Ethiopian soccer player Georgios Gougoulias, Greek footballer Wikipedia has nothing listed for 1984, which is **Auto** ’s year. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-on-your-exact-birthday/544987/87 "2010-07-02T02:02:24Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > Were you born on a leap year? Yes I was, but not on February 29. After some further research, I did find two people. I did this by typing in my month and date of birth rather than my year of birth in Wikipedia. The two (neither of whom I’ve heard of) are Paul Thomson (drummer for Franz Ferdinand) and Matt Thornton (relief pitcher for the White Sox). ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-on-your-exact-birthday/544987/88 "2010-07-02T09:50:37Z")
Dwayne Gordon, linebacker for the Chargers and the Jets, and Reginald Arvizu, bassist for KoЯn. ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2010, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-on-your-exact-birthday/544987/89 "2010-07-02T11:13:17Z")
Same day: [ul] [li][Mary Hopkin](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_hopkin).[/li][/ul] Same date, not same year: [ul] [li][Golda Meir](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golda_Meir)[/li][li][Pete Seeger](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Seeger)[/li][li][James Brown](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_brown)[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2010, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-on-your-exact-birthday/544987/90 "2010-07-03T02:48:28Z")
[Mark “Jacko” Jackson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_%22Jacko%22_Jackson), Australian rules football player best known in the USA for a battery commercial. “Get Energizer – It’ll surprise ya – Oi!” ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2010, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-on-your-exact-birthday/544987/91 "2010-07-03T04:05:47Z")
According to Wiki: 1948 – Ken Brown, Canadian ice hockey player ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2010, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-on-your-exact-birthday/544987/92 "2010-07-03T09:29:09Z")
Oh great. Nicole Scherzinger, American pop lead singer (Pussycat Dolls) I feel so priviledged. ---
**Author:** ![dhkendall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@dhkendall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dhkendall)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-on-your-exact-birthday/544987/93 "2010-07-05T03:47:12Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > July 29, 1954 - Flo Hyman, Inglewood Calif, volleyball player (Olympic-silver-1984). > > Oh well, I take consolation in the fact that, though we were not born in the same year, I share a July 29th birthday with Rasputin and Benito Mussolini. 😃 July 29, 1981 was the wedding date of Charles and Di, July 29, 2000 was the wedding date of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston, and also July 29, 2000 was the wedding date of dhkendall and the lovely and sexy Mrs. dhkendall. Guess which ones are still married? 😉 > [@swampbear](#): > > ETA: [Historyorb](http://www.historyorb.com/) is a fun place to look up stuff like this. Whee! Geek heaven for me! What I’m really looking for, though, is a reliable site that can tell me, for example (note _completely making up this data, don’t take this seriously, I’m talking to you Internet, I know how wrong Internet data gets started!_) that April 23 is National Peanut Butter Day or September 9 is Take your Goldfish to Work Day or something like that. I’ve found a few sites, but I greatly suspect most of their holidays (case in point, most look like my examples.) ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-on-your-exact-birthday/544987/94 "2012-01-26T08:21:41Z")
nm - wrong thread ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-on-your-exact-birthday/544987/95 "2012-01-26T14:17:54Z")
I know this is an old thread, but I looked up the info so I’m posting it, darnit. Born same day: Guitarist Dave Keuning of The Killers (pisses me off because “Human” was one of the most persistant earworms I ever had… and now it’s back!) I also found out that Kate Gosselin is only one year older (I thought she was in her 40s!) and Lady Gaga is exactly 10 years younger (I thought she was my age). From this we can conclude that I suck at guessing ages 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-on-your-exact-birthday/544987/96 "2012-01-26T14:21:33Z")
I used to think Russell Crowe, but now think I’m off a year. Still, Jackie Chan? Never knew! Good On You, wherever you are! ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Il_Palazzo)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-on-your-exact-birthday/544987/97 "2012-01-26T14:40:41Z")
According to Wikipedia, I share my birthday with Jessica Parker Kennedy, Canadian actress; Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian actress; Maria Ozawa, Japanese/French-Canadian pornstar; and David Silva, Spanish footballer Had I been born half an hour later, I would instead share it with Jéferson, Brazilian footballer; and Amanda Mynhardt, South African netballer. I’ve never heard of any of them. (If you weren’t worried about the year, I have the same birthday as Elvis Presley (of whom I’ve certainly heard) and missed sharing Richard Nixon’s birthday by half an hour.) ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-on-your-exact-birthday/544987/98 "2012-01-26T14:54:58Z")
Nobody I recognize, but apparently I was born on same day that Bing Crosby died. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-on-your-exact-birthday/544987/99 "2012-01-26T15:00:18Z")
[Stephanie Romanov](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_Romanov), model/actress (_Angel_) [Alexander Zarutsky](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Zarutsky), former Russian footballer [Albina Kamaletdinova](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albina_Kamaletdinova), 2008 Olympic archer from Tajikistan [Louise Currey](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Currey), Autralian heptathelete/javelin thrower in the '92, '96 and '00 Olympics [Steve McGavin](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_McGavin), former English footballer [Hilmir Snær Guðnason](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilmir_Sn%C3%A6r_Gu%C3%B0nason), Icelandic actor (_101 Reykjavík; Hafið_ (“The Sea” in English); _Blueprint_; _Guy X_ [Natasha Griggs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natasha_Griggs), Australian politician [Samuel Menetoali](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Manetoali), Solomon Islands Minister of Tourism and Culture [Annette Klug](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annette_Klug), 1988 Olympic fencer for Germany Plus of course some less well-known celebrities. ---
**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:** [January 26, 2012, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-on-your-exact-birthday/544987/100 "2012-01-26T15:15:33Z")
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