# Fictional Birthdays **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-birthdays/1024786 **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **Created:** [November 11, 2025, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-birthdays/1024786 "2025-11-11T19:45:53Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 11
### Author: ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman) #### Post date: [November 12, 2025, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-birthdays/1024786/11 "2025-11-12T14:00:34Z")
55 years ago today, Tonya Harding was born in OR, while very much a real person, the OR Highway Division **EXPLODED A WHALE** to celebrate her birth…(or to try to get said dead whale off the beach) So I’ll ask, has anyone celebrated the birth of any of your fictional characters with [½ **ton** of dynamite](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/44-years-ago-today-oregon-gave-us-the-bird/704457)? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-birthdays/1024786)._