A dinner party on OUR birthdays, 3SEP:
Pierre Troisgros(famous French chef, he better at least bring dessert)
Kitty Carlisle-Hart(looking forward to great celebrity gossip from her)
Sarah Orne Jewett(one of my favorite authors. I suspect she’s very shy, so sitting her next to Kitty)
Japanese Emperor Go-Sanjo(with his entourage. Somebody’s got to clean up)
Charlie Sheen was an option, but what are the odds of him showing up at all?
A quick google search gives me Martin Luther, Tracy Morgan, and Sinbad. That would be an hilarious conversation. And then THE Mikhael Kalashnikov walks in.
Drinks for everybody!
For January 16, in reverse order of year of birth…
Garth Ennis - comic book writer.
John Carpenter - movie director.
Dian Fossey - anthropologist.
Buddy Lester - actor.
(2 alive, 2 dead…didn’t plan that…just…not many people I share a birthday with that are that interesting to me…)
September 9
Tom Wopat, good ol’ boy and fine singer (born the same year as me, too)
Mackenzie John, pipe major (I love the bagpipes)
Leon Edel, biographer, finest American biographer of the 20th century
Colonel Harland Sanders, restauranteur (KFC, America’s contribution to world cuisine)
February 23:
My friend Alex, who also shares the same year.
Andrew Wiggins, NBA basketball player.
Pope Paul II.
W.E.B. DuBois.
I like Wopat’s singing voice. Find “50 Checks”, sung by him.
Will do. Thanks for the recommendation, ekedolphin. Tom was a particularly good Frank Butler on Broadway in a revival of Annie Get Your Gun.
January 3rd
I went with the following group:
J.R.R. Tolkein - Most famous for authoring “The Lord of the Rings”.
Victor Borge - Pianist / Entertainer
Cicero - Roman Statesman / Philosopher
Lucretia Mott - Abolitionist, suffragist, religious reformer
I think that would make for some pretty fun conversation.
November 27
Bill Nye, Verity Lambert (first director of Doctor Who), Anders Celsius, Bruce Lee or Jimi Hendrix
Honestly, Anders Celsius is just there for the giggles of having the guy who made the Celsius scale there. I’m not really a fan of either Bruce Lee and Jimi Hendix, in that I haven’t seen/heard most of their stuff, but it’s be interesting having one of them.
Verity Lambert would be really cool to meet, just because I’m a nerd, and Bill Nye because come on why wouldn’t you have dinner with Bill Nye?
November 10
Well, Martin Luther, although I understand his chronic constipation would limit the food selection.
Jacques Couperin for dining music.
Eddie Irvine for good stories about Formula One racing.
The entire US Marine Corps, but they would have to bring their own beer. I can only do so much in the catering field. And I understand they do drink.
Can we include a ship? The Edmund Fitzgerald should have a last shot at a good time, as it would be sunk by morning.
July 29
I have a nice trifecta of silent era actresses:
Theda Bara - 1885
Clara Bow - 1905
Thelma Todd - 1905
The fourth slot is tough. Benito Mussolini would probably talk too much. Professor Irwin Corey would be funny. Geddy Lee would be cool.
Question for the OP: Are deceased guests zombies or time travelers?
Louis Antoine de Bougainville
Aleksandr Porfirievich Borodin
Roland Barthes
Anne Hathaway (definitely 
!)
And while I’ve looked at such lists several times over the years, it’s the first time that I realize that I share a birthday with Charles Manson :(.
Deceased guests are alive and well. You may even choose their age at which they attend the event.
And by the way, I also like that movingfinger is reaching out to the Edmund Fitzgerald. Nice gesture.
ETA: and language would not be an obstacle; all can communicate perfectly well by some sort of undefined wizardry.
mmm
May 27
Dinner could be scary with both Christopher Lee AND Vincent Price at the table.
We do but only a little. There’s no drinking problem. I drink, I get drunk, I fall down. No problem. We will drink beer, and we will bring the birthday cake too. Thanks for the invite!
Agree with Mean Mr. Mustard. Nice gesture.
Lyric line: The church bell chimed 'til it rang twenty-nine times for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald.
The sentiment is nice, but the ship wasn’t “born” on your birthday (it was launched on June 7, with its maiden voyage on September 24); November 10 is when it “died.”
All right.
But who’s gonna tell Edmund?
mmm
Ben Franklin
Muhammad Ali
Michelle Obama
Betty White
January 17
August 16
Timothy Hutton
Philippa Plantagenet, Countess of Ulster
Emile A H Seipgens, Dutch priest/beer brewer
Anna of Austria, queen of Poland
11/25
John Laroquette (for the snark factor), Christina Applegate (mmmmm), JFK Jr, and Jeffrey Hunter (the first Star Trek captain.