The best I could do would be to invite three famous people born in January. JRR Tolkien, Robert E Howard and Elvis Presley. That would be an interesting dinner.
First off I will find where Happy Lendervedder is having dinner, to see Christie Brinkley. For the conversation, of course.
Save the date, June 15th:
Edvard Grieg, vintage 1843: composer
Ice Cube, vintage 1969, aka O’Shea Jackson: hip hop / rap / actor
Brett Butler, vintage 1957: former SF Giants center fielder
Helen Hunt, vintage 1963: actress
If I get to invite a fifth person then I invite Shagnasty, who is famous, right?
That was more interesting than I was expecting.
I already knew I shared a birthday with Tennessee Williams and Diana Ross, but I wasn’t aware of the many many other famous people.
My List:
1874 Robert Frost, American poet
1913 Paul Erdos, mathematician
1931 Leonard Nimoy, American actor
1985 Jonathan Groff, American stage actor
Maybe we can all write a paper together.
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September 21: [ul][li]H.G. Wells[/li][li]Stephen King[/li][li]Bill Murray[/li][li]Luke Wilson (only because we were also born in the same year)[/ul][/li][/QUOTE]
Also Sept. 21st, But I would switch it up slightly:
Stephen King
Ethan Coen
Louis Joliet
H.G. Wells
April 24:
Clement Freud
Cedric the Entertainer
Shirley MacLaine
Ernesto Buonaiuti (philosopher)
I considered Ethan Coen, but my main alternate was Leonard Cohen.
Mine would be:
Ray Bradbury
John Lee Hooker
Dorothy Parker
Giada De Laurentiis (for cooking tips).
March 24:
John Wesley Powell
Ub Iwerks
Steve McQueen
Bob Bakker
Backups, in case someone can’t make it:
Clyde Barrow
Bob Mackie
Alyson Hannigan
Peyton Manning
Bat Masterson, from the OK Corral
Bruno Hauptmann, Lindbergh kidnapper
Eugene Ionesco, avant-garde playwright
Harold Reynolds, baseball analyst/commentator
Not Rich Little, who would certainly make the party entertaining, but I met him and didn’t like him. He was born same day, same year.
April 3
Boss Tweed
Lyle Alzado
Sebastian Bach (Skid Row**)
Jane Goodall
Shemp Howard
Johnny Knoxville
Lawrence Welk
Antonin Scalia
I’m sure Knoxville would love to hear Shemp’s stooges stories. They were both in the same business of getting beat up on camera.
I sure would like to ask Antonin exactly what the hell happened the night he “died”.
Jonathon Swift
Mark Twain
Winston Churchill
Shirley Chisholm, First African American Congresswoman, candidate for President
Ridley Scott, Director
I had NO idea that my birthday was shared with so many folks. Ridley Scott doesn’t quite fit in with the others, but WTH - it’s my dinner.
The real issue is that I’d like to have dinner with each of them separately. Maybe we could make it a weekend retreat so we can have some quality time. (Not that kind - out of the gutters people)
ETA: I misread the OP and thought it was 5 guests. Oh well, Ridley will have to wait for another evening.
9 May:
Howard Carter
Mike Wallace
Ghostface Killah
Rosario Dawson
Another May 9 person here:
Dante Alighieri (if he was really born then – he’s listed on the website, but I’m dubious that this is anything other than a guess)
Belle Boyd
Lilian Baylis (I’d never actually heard of her before, but she sounds super interesting)
Daniel Berrigan
If Dante really wasn’t born on May 9th and / or a translator is not available, I’m going to pick J.M. Barrie as an alternate.
9/7
Margot Chapman, Hawaii, vocals (Starland Vocal Band-Afternoon Delight)
Love that song!
Julie Kavner, American actress and voice artist (Brenda-Rhoda, Marge-Simpsons), born in Los Angeles, California
I just relate to her
Garrison Keillor, humorist (Prairie Home Companion)
Nice story teller, I enjoy the stories
Daniel K. Inouye, politician (US Senator, 1963-2012), born in Honolulu, Hawaii (d. 2012)
I love Hawaii and I’d ask all sorts of questions about it!
Peter Lawford, actor (Mrs Miniver, Thin Man), born in London, England-
closest I’m going to get to a Kennedy
July 5:
Mary Walcott, American accuser at the Salem witch trials
Huey Lewis, musician
Phineus Taylor Barnum, circus promoter
Susan Wojcicki, (same year as me, even) CEO of YouTube
Could be interesting. Or not.
Oh really? There is more percentage within the month of their birthday than the year…
My fav poet! Leonard is so versatile, he’d have to be a great conversationalist
Crazy Horse and Tyra Banks (aka Really Crazy Horse) would be an interesting pair to invite, but I would be more interested to have Marissa Tomei there. Round it out with Tony Todd, I guess.
November 28. Assuming that we can all understand each other I’ll go with Jon Stewart, Japanese prince Hitachi Masahito (born 1935), father of anthropology Claude Levi-Strauss, and Manuel I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor from 1143-1180. I am somewhat tempted to replace one of those with Ernst Rohm, but I’m not sure who.
If these all have to be english speaking people, Jon Stewart, goalie Marc-Andre Fleury, actor Ed Harris, and Claude Levi-Strauss.
I certainly have a varied group from which to choose.
Richard Feynman
Louis Farrakhan
Mort Sahl
The fourth slot is tough to fill. Depending on my mood it might be
Phil Silvers (a great source of show biz anecdotes)
Mike Lupica (sportswriter)
Warren Littlefield (remember when NBC had good shows? That was him)
Stanley Elkin (I’ve even read some of his work, so I’d come prepared)
Martha Quinn (one of the original MTV VJ’s and a former major crush)
Martha Graham (choreographer)
Henry Morgenthau (FDR’s Secretary of the Treasury)
Eric Burdon (The Animals)