# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Pink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/71c47a/32.png) [@Pink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pink)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/41 "2001-01-12T05:11:54Z")
Richard Nixon, but nobody famous. ---
**Author:** ![Nacho4Sara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Nacho4Sara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nacho4Sara)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/42 "2001-01-12T05:31:58Z")
Plato, Alexander Pope, Henri Rousseau, and the cream of the crop, _Judge Reinhold_ (I love that guy!) were all born on May 21st. Sadly enough, Carlos from “The Flying Nun” died on my birthday, and at the eaxt moment I was being born, the NY Islanders beat Minn North Stars 4 games to 1 for Stanley Cup! Busy day. ---
**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, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/43 "2001-01-12T05:37:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by slackergirl \* > \*\*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) > \*\* Bob Mould? You rule! And, for what it’s worth, nobody really expects you to come up with umlauts, so Husker Du is perfectly acceptable. ---
**Author:** ![Dignan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@Dignan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dignan)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/44 "2001-01-12T05:55:20Z")
What a guy to share a B-Day with, huh? ---
**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, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/45 "2001-01-12T06:00:49Z")
HeHe I left that one in just for you. I didn’t attempt the umlauts - it just pasted that way. ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/46 "2001-01-12T06:13:47Z")
Rasta, you’re the same as my ex wife but I won’t hold it against you! As for me: Jan 19 Mohammed born (yeah that one) cool huh? ---
**Author:** ![Serendipity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Serendipity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serendipity)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/47 "2001-01-12T06:36:44Z")
February 21 Birthday Boys-and-Girls include… Charlotte Church (1986) Billy Baldwin (1963) Kelsey Grammar (1955) Alan Rickman (1946) Erma Bombeck (1927) Anaïs Nin (1903) ---
**Author:** ![hazel-rah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/73ab20/32.png) [@hazel-rah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hazel-rah)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/48 "2001-01-12T08:55:53Z")
Ian Curtis! ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/49 "2001-01-12T09:24:12Z")
I’m September 26, not too many that I have heard of - Moses Mendelssohn, Johnny Appleseed, T. S. Eliot, Marty Robbins, Winnie Mandela, Mary Beth Hurt, Linda Hamilton, and Olivia Newton John. ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/50 "2001-01-12T10:02:18Z")
August 28. **Nobody** that I’ve heard of except a couple assorted actors whose names sound vaguely familiar ☹ On the other hand, it’s the Festival of Hungry Ghosts in Hong Kong, which sounds pretty kewl, even if I have no clue what it means. It’s much cooler for my kids. Flodjunior shares a birthday with Abraham Lincoln _and_ Charles Darwin, and flod2k with Galileo (!!!) and Matt Groening! Flodjunior was also born on the same day (same year) that the Winter Olympics opened in Lillehammer, just a few hundred km away. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/51 "2001-01-12T10:47:31Z")
Yours truly, of course… Larry Flynt, publisher and pervert Keith Emerson, of Emerson, Lake and Palmer Rick Allen, of Def Leppard Lyle Lovett, country singer with funny hair style and… **Fernando Valenzuela**!!! Famous Los Angeles Dodger baseball hero!!! I’m so proud…:[sub]sniff[/sub]: ---
**Author:** ![Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chance_the_Gardener)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/52 "2001-01-12T12:14:37Z")
**T.S. Eliot** , who is coïncidentally my favorite poet. Godlike composer **George Gershwin**. Oatmeal god **Wilford Brimley**. Exercise guru **Jack LaLane**. Master jazzman **John Coltraine**. Post-disco pop singer **Olivia Newton John**. Jefferson Starship guitarist **Craig Chaquico**. Arch arboreal arranger **Johnny Appleseed**. What kind of sucks is that all sorts of cool people were born and all kinds of cool stuff actually happened on September 28, including the birth of the lovely Janeane Garafalo. Ah, well. I’m content with my date. ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/53 "2001-01-12T12:52:02Z")
April 5 1588 Thomas Hobbes, England, philosopher (Leviathan) 1725 Giacomo Casanova, Italian writer/philanderer/adventurer (uncertain) 1732 Jean-Honore Fragonard, France, painter 1900 Spencer Tracy, actor (Father’s Little Dividend, Adam’s Rib) 1905 Bill Raisch, one-armed actor (Fred Johnson-Fugitive 1908 Bette Davis, Lowell Mass, famous eyes (Of Human Bondage, Jezebel) 1908 Herbert von Karajan, Austria, Berlin Philharmonic conductor/Nazi 1909 Alberto Romero “Cubby” Broccoli, NYC, film producer (James Bond) 1916 Gregory Peck, La Jolla Calif, actor (To Kill a Mockingbird, MacArthur) 1917 Robert [Albert] Bloch, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Psycho) 1920 Arthur Halley, England, Canadian author (Hotel, Airport) 1923 Nguyen Van Thieu, South Vietnam president (1965-75) 1929 Nigel Hawthorne, actor (Tartuffe, Pope John Paul II) 1933 Frank Gorshin, Pittsburgh Pa, comedian/impersonator (Riddler-Batman) 1934 Stanley Turrentine, jazz saxophonist 1937 Colin Powell, Bronx NY, general/asst to president (Nat Sec Affairs) 1941 Eric Burdon, rocker (Animals-House of the Rising Sun) 1941 Michael Moriarity, Detroit, actor (Bang the Drum Slowly, Q, Stuff) 1942 Allan Clarke, rock vocalist (Hollies-Air That I Breathe) 1943 Max Gail, Mich, (Barney Miller, Whiz Kids, DC Cab, Normal People) **Wojo! Wooooo!** 1949 Judith Arlene Resnik, Akron Ohio, ast (STS 41D, 51L-Chal disaster) ☹ 1939 Lonnie White, vocalist (Smokey Robinson & Miracles-Shop Around) And you can’t say this site does not have a sense of humor… 2173 Harcourt Fenton “Harry” Mudd, New Amsterdam, Arcturus (Star Trek) ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/54 "2001-01-12T12:55:45Z")
That site sucks. It bothers to tell me I was born the same day as Erik XIV Wasa King of Sweden- 1560 to 1569 (Ooh how exciting) And Mary Todd Lincoln (Famous nut) but leaves off my favorite Joseph Conrad! The horror. The horror. ---
**Author:** ![Knighted\_Vorpal\_Sword](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ac91a4/32.png) [@Knighted\_Vorpal\_Sword](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knighted_Vorpal_Sword)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/55 "2001-01-12T14:02:12Z")
Without looking, I can tell you: the immortal George Herman “Babe” Ruth 🆒 Ronald Reagan Susan O’Conner (who grew up across the street from me) my great-aunt Pearl - I always felt a special bond with her because we shared birthdays. My daughter is named in her memory. ---
**Author:** ![kferr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/56 "2001-01-12T14:29:23Z")
April 22 1724 Immanuel Kant, Germany, philosopher (Critique of Pure Reason) 1870 Nikolai Lenin, [Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov], Bolshevik/USSR revolutionist 1904 J[ulius] Robert Oppenheimer, head of Manhattan (A-bomb) Project 1918 Robert Wadlow, Alton Ill, world’s tallest man (8’11.1") 1937 Jack Nicholson, NJ, actor (One Flew Over Cuckoo’s Nest, Shining) 1950 Peter Frampton, rock guitarist/vocalist (Frampton Comes Alive) ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/57 "2001-01-12T14:37:54Z")
Charles Schultz Tina Turner A guy from Indiana(State rep)same year even! ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/58 "2001-01-12T16:13:43Z")
Wow, I didnt think there were more than about 10 people in the entire span of history who shared a birthday with me. Boy was I wrong … **August 11** **Births** - _The edited list_ 1807 David R Atchison, pres of USA on March 3rd 1849 1890 Erich Wichman, painter/sculptor 1892 Hugh MacDiarmid, Scotland, writer (Scots Unbound) 1902 Lloyd Nolan, SF Calif, actor (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Peyton Place) 1913 Angus Wilson, England, writer (Mulberry Bush-1955) 1920 William Masselos, Niagara Falls NY, pianist/prof (Juiliard 1976) - **My birthplace as well** 1921 Alex Haley, US, writer (Autobiography of Malcolm X, Roots) 1924 Arlene Dahl, Minneapolis Minnesota, actress/TV panelist (Ambush) 1925 Mike Douglas, Chicago Ill, talk show host (Mike Douglas Show) 1926 Claus Von Bulow, accused of murdering his wife **"You have _no_ idea"** 1933 Jerry Falwell, US, TV evangelist (Moral Majority) 1942 Mike Huggs, drummer (Manfred Mann) 1943 James Kale, rocker (Guess Who) 1946 Marilyn Vos Savant, St Louis Mo, writer/world’s highest IQ (Guinness) **AAAAUUUUGGGGHHHH!!! Please, don’t tell Cecil** 1949 Eric Carmen, Cleveland Ohio, rocker (All by Myself) 1950 Erik Braun, rock guitarist (Iron Butterfly) 1950 Steve Wozniak, co-founder (Apple Computers) 1953 Hulk Hogan, [Terry Bollea], Ga, WWF heavyweight champion (1984-89) **I, myself, prefer Thunder-Lips** 1955 Joe Jackson, England, singer (Steppin’ Out) 1957 Richie Ramone, rocker (Ramones-Pet Semtary) ---
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January 20: Leadbelly 1888 George Burns 1896 DeForest Kelley 1920 Federico Fellini 1920 Buzz Aldrin 1930 My Mother 1931 Slim Whitman 1942 David Lynch 1946 Malcolm McLaren 1947 Paul Stanley 1952 Tia Carrere 1966 Sadly, Mahatma Gandhi, Johnny Weismuller, Barbara Stanwyck, and Audrey Hepburn all died January 20 (different years, of course.) ---
**Author:** ![sorrel554](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@sorrel554](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sorrel554)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/60 "2001-01-12T22:27:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by slackergirl \* > \*\*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) > \*\* **slackergirl** , you’re the first person I’ve met anywhere (online or IRL) that shares my birthday! 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573.md?page=4)