# 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:** 9\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-on-your-exact-birthday/544987/101 "2012-01-26T15:31:49Z")
[Bradley Whitford](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Whitford), [Julia Sweeney](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Sweeney), and [Kirsty MacColl](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsty_MacColl) ---
**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-on-your-exact-birthday/544987/102 "2012-01-27T06:46:21Z")
According to Wikipedia… Born on the same day/month/year: Ingrid Arndt-Brauer, German politician John Clark Gable, actor and son of Clark Gable Olsen, Danish footballer Slim Jim Phantom, American musician (Stray Cats) ; although, Mr. Phantom’s invidual WikiPage says he was born one day later. Some of the more famous people born on the same day and month: 43 BC – Ovid, Roman poet (d. 17 AD) 1639 – Ivan Mazepa, Hetman of Ukraine (d. 1709) {he’s included because my favorite operatic duet is from Chaikovskiy’s _Mazzepa_} 1811 – Napoleon II, Emperor of the French and King of Rome (d. 1832) 1820 – Anna Sewell, author of _Black Beauty_ 1828 – Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian writer (d. 1906) 1882 – René Coty, French President (d. 1962) 1904 – B. F. Skinner, American psychologist (d. 1990) 1906 – Ozzie Nelson, American bandleader and actor (d. 1975) 1907 – Ruby Muhammad, American matriarch of Black Islam (d. 2011) 1908 – Sir Michael Redgrave, English actor (d. 1985) 1911 – Alfonso García Robles, Mexican diplomat and Nobel laureate (d. 1991) 1917 – Vera Lynn, English actress and singer 1918 – Jack Barry, American TV host (d. 1984) 1918 – Marian McPartland, British jazz pianist 1920 – Pamela Harriman, British-American diplomat (d. 1997) 1921 – Sister Rosetta Tharpe, American singer (d. 1973) 1922 – Ray Goulding, American comedian (d. 1990) 1922 – Carl Reiner, American film director 1925 – John Ehrlichman, American political figure (d. 1999) 1928 – Fred Rogers, American TV host (d. 2003) 1929 – Germán Robles, Spanish actor {“Timoteo de Salamanca” in _Pasión_ (2007)} 1931 – Hal Linden, American actor 1939 – Brian Mulroney, former Prime Minister of Canada 1945 – Pat Riley, American basketball player and coach 1948 – John de Lancie, American actor {“Q” on _Star Trek:TNG_} 1948 – Bobby Orr, Canadian ice hockey player 1950 – William Hurt, American actor 1950 – Carl Palmer, English drummer (Emerson, Lake & Palmer) 1957 – Spike Lee, American film director 1957 – Theresa Russell, American actress {one of my favorite actresses} 1979 – Freema Agyeman, British actress {“Marth Jones” on _Doctor Who_} ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-on-your-exact-birthday/544987/103 "2012-01-27T10:12:50Z")
I don’t share my exact birthday with anyone famous, but Janet Jackson and Tori Spelling were born on my birthday in later years. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-on-your-exact-birthday/544987/104 "2012-01-27T11:22:56Z")
Alex Salmond, Scottish politician Hermann Tilke, German racing circuit architect I’ve never heard of them! But I have heard of our mod **twickster**! That’s why we sometimes call each other “twin” although we’ve never met!. And Denzel Washington is just three days older than us. Hands off, oh you of the jackboots, I saw him first! ---
**Author:** ![D-bear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@D-bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D-bear)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-on-your-exact-birthday/544987/105 "2012-01-30T05:46:16Z")
> [@Rushgeekgirl](#): > > I was born on the same day as the chick who wrote _Confessions of a Shopaholic_. > > I wanted to be a writer. She stole my life! I was born on the same day as the chick who became the Queen of England… I wanted to be a Queen! Liz stole MY life! ---
**Author:** ![Pops1963](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9de053/32.png) [@Pops1963](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pops1963)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-on-your-exact-birthday/544987/106 "2012-01-31T01:24:30Z")
A bunch of " former footballers" and same day but not year Dragnets Jack Webb. ---
**Author:** ![Fool\_in\_the\_Rain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8491ac/32.png) [@Fool\_in\_the\_Rain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fool_in_the_Rain)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-on-your-exact-birthday/544987/107 "2012-01-31T13:12:30Z")
Not my birthday but… I’m a huge Zeppelin fan, so when my daughter was born on Aug 20, it made an already awesome day a really cool day because it was Robert Plant’s birthday! 🙂 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![coremelt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@coremelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coremelt)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-on-your-exact-birthday/544987/108 "2012-01-31T15:17:42Z")
Wil Wheaton ---
**Author:** ![missinformation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@missinformation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missinformation)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2012, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-on-your-exact-birthday/544987/109 "2012-02-02T02:47:00Z")
Same day for me, not year… September 16 B. B. King Lauren Bacall Alexis Bledel Amy Poehler same exact day (9/16/70) Anthony Marshall, NFL safety (Chic Bears) Paul Shuey, Lima OH, pitcher (Cleveland Indians) Mark Schultz, American musician I did not replace anyone on the exact day I was born…Mary Travers (Peter Paul and Mary) died on my 39th. ☹ Stock market was bombed on my birthday in 1920, several devastating hurricanes hit on my birthday in many years…I clearly recall several years of not having power on my birthday and my mother telling me that I was so lucky “because everyone was lighting candles for my birthday!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-people-born-on-your-exact-birthday/544987.md?page=5)