# What famous people were born on your birthday? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 11, 2001, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573 "2001-01-11T19:41:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![King\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7bcc69/32.png) [@King\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/King_Rat)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/21 "2001-01-11T22:39:00Z")
Al Jolson Isadora Duncan John Wayne Tigger Miles Davis Stevie Nicks Hank Williams, Jr. Helena Bonham Carter (yummy) ---
**Author:** ![ladybug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@ladybug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladybug)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/22 "2001-01-11T22:42:42Z")
This is very, very bad … 1838 **John Wilkes Booth** , assassin of Abraham Lincoln 1955 **Mark David Chapman** , assassin of John Lennon Anyone out there wanna trade birthdays? I’ve got a May 10th here I’m trying to give away. At least **Fred Astaire** and **Homer Simpson** also have that birthday. ---
**Author:** ![Bubble\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c0e974/32.png) [@Bubble\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bubble_Girl)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/23 "2001-01-11T22:43:56Z")
1975 Brad Fischetti 1967 Harry Connick, Jr. (grrrrrrr…;)) 1962 Kristy McNichol 1943 Lola Falana 1942 Tom Dreesen 1940 Brian DePalma 1862 O. Henry ---
**Author:** ![fish\_in\_the\_sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ba0ec/32.png) [@fish\_in\_the\_sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fish_in_the_sky)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/24 "2001-01-11T23:10:15Z")
Born on June 22: 1898 Erich Maria Remarque 1928 Orson Bean 1936 Kris Kristofferson 1941 Ed Bradley 1947 Don Henley 1948 Todd Rundgren 1949 Meryl Streep 1954 Freddie Prinze Died on June 22: 1965 David O. Selznick 1969 Judy Garland 1987 Fred Astaire Special June 22 events: 1847 Doughnut created [homersimpson]Woo-hoo!![/homersimpson] 1979 Pro Football Researchers Association founded at Canton, Ohio (the only thing listed on my exact birthday. ummm, yeah, er something… :rolleyes: ) ---
**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/25 "2001-01-11T23:58:06Z")
**Born** 1656 Edmund Halley (yeah, the comet guy) 1824 General Joseph Horace Lewis (Confederate gen. civil war) 1844 Albert von Rothschild 1859 Charles Ebbets (of Ebbets Field fame) 1884 Bela Lugosi 1891 Fanny Brice 1897 Joseph Goebbels (well, the bad guys have to be born sometime ☹ ) 1922 Neal Hefti (musician, wrote the TV Batman theme) 1940 Connie Mack (the senator, not the baseball owner/manager) 1947 Richard Dreyfus 1948 Kate Jackson 1959 Jesse Barfield (former NY Yankee outfielder) 1967 Joley Fisher 1971 Winona Ryder **Died** 1618 Walter Raleigh (executed, no less) 1885 George McClellan (Union General, lost prez election to Lincoln in 1864) 1911 Joseph Pulitzer (of the prize) 1957 Louis B. Mayer (M of MGM) 1971 Duane Allman **Other events** 1904 NYC subways open 1929 Stock Market Crashes 1942 Branch Rickey named president of the Dodgers Zev Steinhardt ---
**Author:** ![OrcaChow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e47c2d/32.png) [@OrcaChow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OrcaChow)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/26 "2001-01-12T00:00:30Z")
April 16th: Charlie Chaplin Wilbur Wright Pigmeat Markham (Laugh-In’s “Here come de judge!”) Herbie Mann Kareem Abdul Jabbar And born on the very same day as me: Ellen Barkin ---
**Author:** ![Jet\_Jaguar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jet_jaguar/32/3562_2.png) [@Jet\_Jaguar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jet_Jaguar)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/27 "2001-01-12T00:21:21Z")
November 15: Anni-Frid Lyngsdtad (the brunette from ABBA) Sam Waterson Petula Clark Ed Asner Karin & Mirjam Von Breeschoteen (Playboy Playmates, Sept '89) Erwin Rommel Joseph Wapner (judge from “The People’s Court”) ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/28 "2001-01-12T00:21:22Z")
Luminaries (other than my humble self) born on 23 January: 1832 Edouard Manet 1898 Randolph Scott (great wester actor!) 1899 Humphrey Bogart (the misinformation that he was born on Xmas was started by the WB publicity dept–the same folks who claimed that Errol Flynn was born in Dublin in 1912) 1910 Django Reinhardt (jazz guitarist) 1919 Ernie Kovacs 1928 Jeanne Moreau 1933 Chita Rivera 9Broadway star) 1943 Gil Gerard (Buck Rogers) 1944 Rutger Hauer 1950 Patrick Simmons (Doobie Brothers) & Richard Dean Anderson (McGyver) 1955 Robin Zander (Cheap Trick) 1957 Princess Caroline of Monaco 1963 Akeem Olajuwon (if only he played for the Suns!) 1964 Mariska Hargitay (Law & Order: SVU) and that’s just the short list. 23 January, 1960: Piccard & Walsh descend to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in a bathyscape–10,900 ft!) ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/29 "2001-01-12T00:35:39Z")
President Clinton :rolleyes: Matthew Perry (Chandler from _Friends_ ---
**Author:** ![fenrir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/43a26b/32.png) [@fenrir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fenrir)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/30 "2001-01-12T01:30:29Z")
Here’s a few for mine for Feb 17th. ``` 1844 A Montgomery Ward, founded mail-order business ``` 1867 William Cadbury, England, chocolate manufacturer 1919 Jock Mahoney, Chicago Ill, actor (Yancy Derringer, Day of Fury) 1919 Kathleen Freeman, Chicago Ill, actress (Beverly Hillbillies) 1925 Hal Holbrook, Cleveland, actor (All the President’s Men, Mark Twain) 1929 Yasser Arafat, PLO-leader 1936 Jim Brown, Ga, NFL fullback (Cleveland Browns)/actor (Dirty Dozen) 1942 Huey Newton, Black Panther leader 1959 Richard Karn, actor 1961 Michael “Air” Jordan, NBA guard/forward (Chicago Bulls) 1962 Lou Diamond Phillips, actor (La Bamba, Stand & Deliver) 1974 Jerry O’Connell, NYC, actor (Andrew Clements-My Secret Identity) 1974 Michael J O’Connell, actor (Andrew-My Secret Identity) ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/31 "2001-01-12T01:35:52Z")
Sulk. Nothing exciting. Well, on June 28th I get birthdays for Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Peter Paul Rubens (which I didn’t know). Deaths include Arch-Duke Franz-Ferdinand and Sophie in Sarajevo which I did know and wasn’t very cheerful about. But I’m glad that on 28th June 1820, the tomato was proven to be non-poisonous(?!) and confused that in 1938 “Queen Victoria ascends to British throne”. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/32 "2001-01-12T01:43:38Z")
Jewel and Drew Carey, I believe, share my birthday. ---
**Author:** ![Medievalist2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e19adc/32.png) [@Medievalist2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medievalist2)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/33 "2001-01-12T02:25:07Z")
February 4: Charles Lindbergh Dan Quayle Clint Black Oscar de la Hoya ---
**Author:** ![Eo\_Echo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ebca7d/32.png) [@Eo\_Echo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eo_Echo)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/34 "2001-01-12T02:35:39Z")
Ernest Hemingway Don Knotts Norman Jewison, movie director Cat Stevens Robin Williams Jon Lovitz Jim Martin, former Faith No More guitarist (the site didn’t know what year, but it was 1961) ---
**Author:** ![Lux\_Fiat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@Lux\_Fiat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lux_Fiat)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/35 "2001-01-12T02:56:30Z")
I share a birthday with Nat Turner, Gandhi, Cordell Hull, Groucho Marx, Avery Brooks, Sting, and Don McLean. Not bad. (We won’t mention Rex Reed and Tiffany.) ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/36 "2001-01-12T03:05:01Z")
-Thomas More - Ann Radcliffe -Charles Dickens -Frederick Douglass -Laura Ingalls Wilder -Alfred M Worden -Garth Brooks ---
**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/37 "2001-01-12T04:10:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Celyn \* > \*\*Sulk. Nothing exciting. Well, on June 28th I get birthdays for Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Peter Paul Rubens (which I didn’t know). Deaths include Arch-Duke Franz-Ferdinand and Sophie in Sarajevo which I did know and wasn’t very cheerful about. > > But I’m glad that on 28th June 1820, the tomato was proven to be non-poisonous(?!) and confused that in 1938 “Queen Victoria ascends to British throne”. \*\* Don’t worry **Celyn** , I’ll rescue you. On June 28th, the following people were born: John Cusack John Elway Mel Brooks Richard Rogers Rod Serling died on June 28th, and Archduke Franz Ferdinand was shot and killed on June 28th. Lastly, Harry and Bess Truman were married on June 28, 1919. Zev Steinhardt ---
**Author:** ![broccoli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@broccoli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/broccoli)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/38 "2001-01-12T04:23:31Z")
My birthday is a nineteenth centuary disaster day… Adolf Hitler has it, The incident at Waco, TX was on it, as well as the Columbine school massacre. 4/20/1977 - broccoli! (yes I was born at 4:20[pm], so all you potheads don’t need to ask) ---
**Author:** ![slackergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@slackergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slackergirl)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/39 "2001-01-12T04:39:59Z")
I’ve got a nice combo of the cool and the dorky… 42 -BC-Tiberius Claudius Nero, Roman emperor (14-37) 1758 Noah Webster, lexicographer (Webster’s Dictionary) 1854 Oscar Wilde, [Fingal O’Flahertie Wills], Dublin, (Pic of Dorian Gray) 1888 Eugene O’Neill, NYC, dramatist (Desire Under the Elms-Nobel 1936) 19-- Flea, rock bassist (Red Hot Chili Peppers-Blood Sugar Sex Magik) 1925 Angela Lansbury, London England, actress (Jessica-Murder She Wrote) 1946 Suzanne Somers, San Bruno Calif, actress (3’s Company, Step by Step) 1947 Bob Weir, guitarist (Grateful Dead-Uncle Joe’s Band) 1958 Tim Robbins, actor (Bull Durham, Cadillac Man) 1959 Gary Kemp, rocker (Spandau Ballet-True) 1960 Bob Mould, US singer/guitarist/songwriter (Hsker D) 1969 Wendy Wilson, singer (Wilson-Philips-Hold On) ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/40 "2001-01-12T04:45:08Z")
December 19, 1971 according to the imdb… Alyssa Milano - 1972 Tiffany Towers (star of the immortal classic “Booberella”) - 1971 Kristy Swanson (The original Buffy) - 1969 Mike Lookinland (Bobby Brady!) - 1960 Marianne Faithfull - 1945 Leonid Brezhnev - 1906 Now that sounds like a fun birthday party. This is too cool… –sublight. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573.md?page=3)