Jim Henson
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Andy Kaufman
Ronnie James Dio
And on the same day that I was born, Eliot Ness.
I got news for ya.
William Shakespeare. It was also his birthday.
And yes, that’s tomorrow for the both of us
Gary Cooper
Dan Blocker
Chet Baker (jazz trumpet)
Dr. Joyce Brothers
Really? And how did that affect you at the time?
Hans Christian Andersen
Jeanne Calment (the world’s oldest person)
Lorenzo Music (the voice of Garfield and Carlton the Doorman)
ETA: I just noticed the section in the OP saying that they’re asking for notable deaths that affected me personally…In that case, I’m not sure there have been any…
ValuJet 592 crashed killing everyone aboard. Watching the news of that on every TV at the restaurant made for an unhappy birthday dinner.
A bunch of folks, but the only one that I think stands out is
1999 Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor, dies at 85
He was Q in many, many of the James Bond movies.
“Oh, do grow up, 007!”
General George Armstrong Custer and his merry band of cavalry met their demise on my birthday.
Flora Disney, on the exact day, same year. She was Walt’s mom, and there have been surprisingly few others more famous than that.
The very same day I was born, my great-grandmother’s older sister died. Back during Prohibition she ran a speakeasy in her basement to make ends meet after her husband died.
Wow, you people must be REALLY old:
:dubious:
I might be a hundred and forty one. Y’all have never seen me, so you don’t know. 
Well, historically speaking, my birthday coincides with the dropping of the A-bomb on Hiroshima and the countless Japanese deaths that resulted from that. During my lifetime, the only notable person that died on my birthday was Rick James, bitch.
Reminding us all, that “cocaine is a helluva drug”.
Indeed.
Jim Croce on my 17th birthday. I was a fan, and it was a shock. That’s nothing compared to Mean Mr. Mustard’s birthday losses, though. Sorry, man.
Two that I recall noting … Robin Williams and Herb Brooks. Both unnatural deaths.
… although I do recall finding out about their deaths a day *after *my birthday.
Douglas Adams - I am a big fan, so that wasn’t nice.
The Kent State victims died on my actual day of birth. Four days later my dad was one of 100,000 people protesting the same war in my own home town (my mother was, obviously, a little more pre-occupied at the time) and while I can’t say the shootings really affected me personally, I’ve certainly always felt a bit of a connection to the victims.
No-one particularly significant to me has died on my birthday within my actual memory