Olympic sprinter Usain Bolt and I were born on the same day…
…awesome. 
Cary Elwes (from “The Princess Bride”) and I were born on the exact same day.
Righteous! The main dude. Way more significant than Phelps.
If you look at Richard Speck’s IMDB page (see my previous post) you’ll see that the PTB wanted to cheat that asshole from making it to his 50th birthday. Sweet justice!
Apparently, right around my birthday was a good time to be born if you wanted to be an entertainer in Asia or an athlete in England or Canada. Since I know nothing of sports or Japanese or Hong Kong cinema, the closest to my birthday who has a name that I’m familiar with is Christina Aguilera. Nobody is born on my actual birthday, however, except me.
The late Michael Hutchence from INXS was born the day before I was (or two days before, if you take the International Date Line into account).
IIRC Tom Cruise is just a few days older and a wee bit crazier than I am.
I went for closest, not biggest:
Barbara Ann Moore, Playmate of the Month for December 1992 and a FemBot from Austin Powers, was born on my birthday.
No actors, but I found two athletes that were born on the same day as me.
Eagles QB A.J. Feeley and Stanley Cup winning Goalie Jean-Sébastien Giguere.
I was born on the same day as John McEnroe.
Can’t get much closer than that.
I’m one day older than Gary Coleman. Doing a bit better than he is as well, I gather.
IIRC Tom Cruise is just a few days older and a wee bit crazier than I am.
Yes, also Pam Shriver (tennis), Andre Braugher (awesome), Joan Osborne (music), and Anthony Edwards (Goose).
Jeri Ryan: Jeri Ryan - IMDb
She and I will both be turning 41 this Sunday.
Matt Stairs, World Series hero for the '08 champion Phillies, is five days younger than me.
Molly Ringwald, former teen movie star, is just four days older than me.
Well, OK. I said “mass murderer” because I didn’t know what else to call him; I guess I should have said “cult leader.” It was David Koresh.
Angelina Jolie is two days older than me. Sigh.
Morgan Fairchild was born on February 3, 1950.
That’s my birthday, too.
All born a few days before me (from Wikipedia):
Michael Jordan
Larry The Cable Guy
Seal
Charles Barkley
Vijay Singh
From that IMDB site, I’ve only heard of one of the people born the same day as me - Paul O’Neill, the baseball player.
Thanks for the name. I’ve just had an idea for a spin-off thread since this one seems to have caught on.
We could collect the names of all the heinous 20th Century villains, killers, rapists, terrorists, pedophiles, anybody with a bad name, get their birthdays, and have a contest to find which Doper was closest to that person’s birthday. To make it even more fun we could all speculate as to which Doper was going to win in each case.
Think that might fly?
Well . . . what’s the prize?
Reeves Gabrels, whom I’ve seen playing with David Bowie, is two days younger than me. A much more famous, but much less hip, musician, Kenny G., is one day younger than that.
LaToya Jackson is three days older than me.
People born on my actual birthday, but not the same year, include Charlie Watts, Thomas Hardy, Sir Edward Elgar, the Marquis de Sade, and Jerry Mathers (as the Beaver).
JFK Jr. and Amy Grant share their birthdays with me.