# 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:** 19\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/61 "2001-01-12T22:46:31Z")
Other people celebrating birthdays on February 22: 1732 George Washington, Virginia, 1st pres (1789-97) 1907 Robert Young, Chic Ill, actor (Father Knows Best, Marcus Welby MD) 1918 Robert Wadlow, Alton Ill, tallest known human (2.72 m, 8’ 11.1") 1932 Edward M “Ted” Kennedy, (Sen-D-Mass, 1962- ), (Don’t let him drive) 1932 Piper Laurie, Detroit Mich, actress (Days of Wine & Roses, Carrie) 1950 Julius Erving, ABA/NBA forward (Virg Squirers, NY Nets, Phila 76ers) 1958 Kyle MacLachlan, actor (Blue Velvet, Dune, Hidden) 1964 Gigi Fernandez, Puerto Rico, tennis player (1988 US Open Doubles) 1972 Michael Chang, US tennis star 1975 Drew Barrymore, LA Calif, actress (ET, Firestarter, Poison Ivy) ---
**Author:** ![rackensack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@rackensack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rackensack)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2001, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/62 "2001-01-13T03:36:07Z")
The ones I knew: [ul] [li]Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart[/li][li]Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)[/li][li]Bridget Fonda (same year – 1964)[/li][li]Troy Donohue[/li][li]William Randolph Hearst[/li][/ul] News to me (just the highlights – I cut over half the list): [ul] [li]1546 Joachim III Frederick, ruler (Brandenburg)[/li][li]1808 David F Strauss, Germany, theologist (Das Leben Jesus)[/li][li]1834 Dmitri Mendeleev, chemist (discovered periodic table of the elements)[/li][li]1850 Samuel Gompers, 1st president (American Federation of Labor)[/li][li]1859 Wilhelm II, Potsdam, German emperor (1888-1918)[/li][li]1872 Learned Hand, Albany NY, Chief judge (US Court of Appeals)[/li][li]1885 Jerome Kern, NYC, Broadway composer (Showboat, Roberta)[/li][li]1900 Hyman G Rickover, US Admiral (father of modern nuclear navy)[/li][li]1901 Art Rooney, NFL team owner (Pittsburgh Steelers)[/li][li]1910 Joan Bennett, US, actress (Little Women, Disraeli)[/li][li]1912 Lawrence Durrell, Indian/British writer (Private Country)[/li][li]1918 Elmore James, musician (Dust My Broom)[/li][li]1918 Skitch Henderson, Birmingham England, orch leader (Tonight Show)[/li][li]1919 David Seville, [Ross Bagdasarian], Fresno Calif, (Alvin & Chipmunks)[/li][li]1921 Donna Reed, Denison Iowa, (From Here to Eternity, Wonderful Life)[/li][li]1930 Bobby “Blue” Bland, blues singer (Call on the Drummer)[/li][li]1931 Mordecai Richler, author, Montr‚al (Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz)[/li][li]1934 Edithe Cresson, premier of Frace (1991- )[/li][li]1945 Nick Mason, rock drummer (Pink Floyd-The Wall, Money)[/li][li]1948 Mikhail Baryshnikov, Riga Latvia, ballet dancer (That’s Dancing)[/li][li]Seth Justman, rock vocalist/keyboardist (J Geils Band-Centerfold)[/li][li]1955 Mimi Rogers, Coral Gables Fla, actress (Paper Dolls, The Rousters)[/li][li]1957 Frank Miller, US, comicbook writer (Batman-The Dark Knight Returns)[/li][/ul] Only a couple of deaths that would be more or less widely recognized: John James Audobon, Giuseppe Verdi, and astronauts Grissom, White, and Chaffee in the Apollo I fire. Other events of note (also heavily edited): 1785 1st US state university chartered, Athens, Georgia 1880 Thomas Edison patents electric incandescent lamp 1888 National Geographic Society organizes 1894 1st college basketball game, U of Chicago beats Chicago YMCA 19-11 1908 Pasipha‰, a satellite of Jupiter, discovered by Melotte 1926 1st public demonstration of television, John L Baird, London 1926 US Senate agrees to join World Court 1927 Harlem Globetrotters play their 1st game 1945 Russia liberates Auschwitz Concentration Camp 1964 “Introducing the Beatles” album released in US 1967 Apollo 1 fire kills astronauts Grissom, White & Chaffee 1973 US & Vietnam sign cease-fire, ending longest US war & milt draft 1976 “Laverne & Shirley” spinoff from “Happy Days” premiers on ABC TV ---
**Author:** ![Nymysys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f6c823/32.png) [@Nymysys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nymysys)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2001, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/63 "2001-01-13T03:52:07Z")
August 6. Alfred Lord Tennyson Andy Warhol Lucille Ball Hiroshima Yeah, that pretty much sums me up. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2001, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/64 "2001-01-13T06:10:05Z")
On my birthday… 1387 Henry V, king of England (1413-22)/France (1416-19) 1809 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Cambridge, MA, physician/author (Old Ironsides) 1876 Charles F Kettering, Ohio, inventor (auto self-starter) 1904 Werner Forssman, German urologist (Nobel 1956) [Oh Boy! :rolleyes:] 1915 Ingrid Bergman, Sweden, actress (Casablanca, Cactus Flower) 1917 Isabel Sanford, NYC, actress (Louise-Jeffersons/All in the Family) 1920 Charlie “Bird” Parker, US jazz saxophonist 1923 Richard Attenborough, actor/director (Gandhi, Young Winston) 1924 Dinah Washington, Chicago, singer (What a Difference a Day Makes) 1936 John McCain, (Rep-R-Arizona, 1983-86) 1938 Peter Jennings, Canada, news anchor (ABC TV) 1941 Robin Leach, TV host (Life Styles of Rich & Famous) 1943 Richard Halligan, rocker (Blood Sweat & Tears) 1953 Rick Downey, rocker (Blue Oyster Cult) 1954 Chet Catallo, guitarist (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance) 1954 Julio Fernandez, jazz musician (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance) 1954 Michael P[aul] Kube-McDowell, US, sci-fi author (Enigma, Empery) 1958 Michael Jackson, Gary Indiana, singer (Thriller, Bad) 1959 Eddi Reader, rocker (Fairground Attraction-Find My Love) 1961 Tony Macalpine, heavy metal rocker (Solo-Edge of Insanity) 1962 Rebecca De Mornay, actress (And God Created Women) 1963 Greg Steele, rocker (Faster Pussycat-Wake Me When It’s Over) No one since then! Obviously I haven’t made the cut yet. :sniff: Passed On… 29 John the Baptist, beheaded 1982 Ingrid Bergman, academy award winning actress, dies on 67th birthday Important Events: [Hong Kong] Liberation Day (1945) 1968 Democratics nominate Hubert H Humphrey for president (Chicago) Gosh… I feel important now. ---
**Author:** ![Medievalist2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e19adc/32.png) [@Medievalist2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medievalist2)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2001, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/65 "2001-01-13T07:14:18Z")
February 4 Births: Tadeusz Kosciusko (Polish patriot) Ludwig Erhard (chancellor of Germany) Charles Lindbergh Eddie Foy Byron Nelson Rosa Parks Dan Quayle Betty Friedan Conrad Bain (from Different Strokes) Isabel Peron (Juan Peron’s second wife) Zenni Mandela (Nelson and Winnie Mandela’s daugher) Clint Black Oscar de la Hoya Deaths: Karen Carpenter Liberace Events: 1789 - George Washington elected President by Electoral College 1846 - beginning of Mormon migration from Missouri to Utah 1864 - 24th Amendment ratified 1865 - Robert E. Lee named commander in chief of Confederate Army 1932 - Japan invades Manchuria 1945 - meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin at Yalta ---
**Author:** ![shimmery](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@shimmery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shimmery)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2001, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/66 "2001-01-13T18:17:58Z")
April 3 - Jane Goodall, Marlon Brando, Helmut Kohl, Eddie Murphy, Alec Baldwin, William Marcy “Boss” Tweed and Jennie Garth(Kelly from 90210). also from [http://www.sikids.com/birthday/index.html](http://www.sikids.com/birthday/index.html) I found out Picabo Street is born on my birthday. ---
**Author:** ![yabob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yabob/32/2821_2.png) [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2001, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/67 "2001-01-13T19:48:15Z")
Hmmm. Long list - I knew about some of them (Ralph Waldo Emerson, Tom T Hall, Beverly Sills, Claude Akins, Mike Myers). Most of them I didn’t - Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, Igor Sikorsky, Bennet Cerf, Gene Tunney, David Lean, Theodore Roethke, Hal David, Miles Davis, Robert Ludlum, Sally Jesse Raphael, Frank Oz, Jesse Colter, Connie Selleca plus a raft of names I don’t recognize at first glance. They missed Edward George Bulwer-Lytton. Incidently, you can check out birthdates on [http://www.imdb.com](http://www.imdb.com) as well. You are sure to find a lot of obscure entertainers with your birthdate - gee, they missed Leslie Uggams and W. P. Kinsella. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2001, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/68 "2001-01-14T20:49:54Z")
Traci Lords ---
**Author:** ![Wanderlust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9fc29f/32.png) [@Wanderlust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wanderlust)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2001, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/69 "2001-01-14T21:45:13Z")
With names like Def Leopard on the list, I’m afraid to check! What if it’s all people I hate? Does that mean I’ll hate my own horoscope? Not worth the risk, to my thinking. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2001, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/70 "2001-01-14T23:13:31Z")
Since I’ve already begun to open my soul to everybody here in the “What Holiday Were You Born On” thread by admitting that I was born on St. Jean Baptiste day, I’m going to chime in here with the following, the second in a series of shocking revelations: **St. Jean Baptiste was born on my birthday.** I knew you’d be stunned. ---
**Author:** ![gooti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/eb8c5e/32.png) [@gooti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gooti)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2001, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/71 "2001-01-14T23:43:11Z")
Off the top of my head I can think of Angie Dickenson and Johnny Mathis (yay, me…). However, 18 years before I was born, James Dean was killed on the same date (Sept. 30). That’s the most interesting one I can remember…I guess I’ll go check out that site now. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2001, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/72 "2001-01-14T23:44:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eutychus55 \* > \*\*I didn’t check the site, but I only know of one, and that’s enough for me. > > October 9th - John Lennon \*\* Well by golly gee, we share a birthday Euty! And yeah, John Lennon is the only one I know of too. Though in TimeCop, with Jean Claude Van Damme, they time travel to my 25th birthday. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_Who](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c2a13f/32.png) [@The\_Man\_Who](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_Who)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2001, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/73 "2001-01-15T01:44:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by broccoli! \* > \*\*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) > > \*\* You get Mr. Rogers too, If I’m not mistaken. Cordially, Myron M. Meyer The Man Who ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2001, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/74 "2001-01-15T01:56:03Z")
Shakespeare, Shirley Temple Black, and the great Lee Majors ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2001, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/75 "2001-01-15T06:22:40Z")
The odd thing about those who share my birthday (October 13) is the amount of pride they seem to take in it. Chris Carter, of X-Files fame, named his company Ten Thirteen Productions. Sammy Hagar recently released an album entitled _TenThirteen_. It must just be a cool day for a birthday. Paul Simon and Margaret Thatcher also share the date. Dr. J ---
**Author:** ![fnord1966](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ad7895/32.png) [@fnord1966](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fnord1966)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2001, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/76 "2001-01-15T07:23:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kferr \* > \*\*April 22 > 1724 Immanuel Kant, Germany, philosopher (Critique of Pure Reason) > \*\* Immanuel Kant was a real pissant, who was very rarely stable, Heidegger,Heidegger was a bozy beggar who could think you under the table. Oh no, Monty Python off the top of my head, I need to get a life. ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2001, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/77 "2001-01-15T17:31:09Z")
[ul] [li]Joaquin Phoenix[/li][li]Andy Richter[/li][li]Daphne Zuniga[/li][li]Julia Roberts[/li][li]Lauren Holly[/li][li]Jamie Gertz[/li][li]Annie Potts[/li][li]Bill Gates[/li][li]Bruce Jenner[/li][li]Charlie Daniels[/li][li]Michael Crichton[/li][li]Dennis Franz[/li][li]Telma Hopkins[/li][li]Rick Rockwell :rolleyes:[/li][li]Jane Alexander[/li][li]Joan Plowright[/li][li]Edith Head[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![slackergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@slackergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slackergirl)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2001, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/78 "2001-01-15T17:34:52Z")
D Marie, that’s pretty funny, I know of only one other person. I guess the middle of October is reserved for the coolest people. ---
**Author:** ![Phobos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Phobos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phobos)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2001, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573/79 "2001-01-15T22:43:44Z")
**Jennifer Anniston** (Friends) and I were born on the same day and year. _I thought I recognized her from somewhere…_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famous-people-were-born-on-your-birthday/49573.md?page=3)