If it’ll keep until November 1st, I’ll have yours.
I did. Bring it on Nigerian scammers.
And you realize that a lot of Dopers list their birthdays in their user profiles, right? It’s not dangerous information on its own.
Right, and I’ve revealed mine here too. But I’m just sayin’. . .Oh, nevermind.
Well, I was going to say that some dude named Jesus was born in the general vicinity of my birthday, but apparently the 24th was the date of the Eggnog Riot and, more awesomely, the WWI Christmas Truce. I must start smuggling in whiskey for eggnog to celebrate my b’day. 
Ronald Reagan had surgery for hemorrhoids on the exact day I was born. No big deal, guys. Calm down. Yes, you can get my autograph.
Happy birthday! BTW, which MSG?
My birth date? The bicentennial of the U.S.’ declaration of independence (notice the non-capitalization).
We’re not worthy.
But not the same year, right?
On my birthday:
- Emperor Caligula was assassinated (41)
- Gold was discovered in Sutter’s Mill, CA, triggering the California Gold Rush (1848)
- The first Boy Scout troop was organized (1908)
- The first Macintosh computer goes on sale (1984)
Those are all more-or-less historic I guess.
Thanks! And, the former Gilmore’s Garden, 26th & Madison, in 1879.
Jesus and I share a birthdate.
Singer Annie Lennox and I share the same birthday.
I meant which chronologically (there were at least 4 MSGs)
And my great grandmother.
I was born on August 12. My birthday falls during a major meteor shower - I enjoy telling people that the heavens themselves wept fire at my birth. And then I laugh maniacally. The Soviets also detonated their first thermonuclear weapon fifty years to the day before I was born; on that same day, two Greek islands were hit by a magnitude 7.3 earthquake. The Battle of Bogside - a particularly bloody 3-day riot in Northern Island - started on August 12, 1969. A year before I was born, the Mexican debt crisis kicked off.
There is a non-zero possibility that I may, in fact, be the Antichrist. And I’m totally okay with that. 
ETA: Oh, and Manhattan was blacked-out on the day of my damned birth itself: FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1983 - The New York Times
I share a birthday with William Shakespeare AND Miguel De Cervantes
Shakespeare died on my birthday too. Which is kinda funny when you think about it.
I also fancy myself a writer, must be an April thing
19 December
1732
Benjamin Franklin began publishing Poor Richard’s Almanac.
1776
Thomas Paine published his first American Crisis essay, in which he wrote, “These are the times that try men’s souls.”
1843
Charles Dickens published “A Christmas Carol.”
1946
War broke out in Indochina when Ho Chi Minh attacked the French.
1972
Apollo 17 splashed down in the Pacific, ending the Apollo program of manned lunar landings.
1984
Britain and China signed an accord returning Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty on July 1, 1997.
1998
President Bill Clinton impeached on two counts by the House of Representatives.
2003
Muammar al-Qaddafi of Libya announced that his country would discontinue development of weapons of mass destruction.
There was a total eclipse of the sun on the day I was born. That probably accounts for a lot…
Not unless you were born into a timewarp, and neither of them wrote sci-fi. 
I presume you were born April 23. That’s the date both of their deaths are observed. Cervantes was born in September 1547 and Shakespeare in 1562. April 23 is believed to be the date of both Shakespeare’s birth and his death. Cervantes’ death is marked on April 23, but he actually died April 22 and was buried the next day. For whatever reason people gravitated to celebrating his death on April 23, maybe because of the Shakesepeare connection. But there’s another complication: in 1616 Spain was on the Gregorian calendar and England was on the Julian, so they didn’t really die on the same day. Cervants had been muerte for 10 days when Shakespeare shuffled off this mortal coil. April 23 is International Day of the Book because UNESCO realized that the real writers’ creed is “facts should never get in the way of a good story.”
You also share a birthday with Shirley Temple. Definitely.
Nikita Khrushchev pounded the desk with his shoe the day I was born.