Give everyone a big kiss today! 
When I was 5, my parents took me to see the movie Beethoven (about the dog.) The next day, my father brought in this cassette player and played classical music on it, and told me Beethoven had composed it. I had never heard of the person Beethoven before and I was stunned that a dog could compose.
All together now…
Fun Fact: The Boston Tea Party took place on Beethoven’s third birthday!
The USPO made sure that the phase of the Moon shown in the upper right stamp was historically accurate. So now you know!
He would be 255 had he lived.
I bet he’d be cool to talk to. 
To quote the late Tom Stoppard: if Beethoven had died in an airplane crash at the age of 20, the history of music would have been completely different. As would the history of aviation.
I’ve always got to sing this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFjE1NnnAIQ
Beethoven was 12 on the day of the first recorded human flight, so that’s entirely possible:
Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier | First Flight, Hot Air Balloon, & Facts | Britannica
Assuming, of course, that someone was experimenting with heavier-than-air craft by the time he was 20.
What was Beethoven’s favorite birthday cake flavor?
Ba – na – na – na!
Beethoven composed a lot of music in his life, but he’s been decomposing ever since.
Roll On (and over), Beethoven!
I’m not your sweet baboo!