Al Jolson
Isadora Duncan
John Wayne
Tigger
Miles Davis
Stevie Nicks
Hank Williams, Jr.
Helena Bonham Carter (yummy)
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.
1975 Brad Fischetti
1967 Harry Connick, Jr. (grrrrrrr…;))
1962 Kristy McNichol
1943 Lola Falana
1942 Tom Dreesen
1940 Brian DePalma
1862 O. Henry
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: )
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
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
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”)
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!)
President Clinton :rolleyes:
Matthew Perry (Chandler from Friends
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)
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”.
Jewel and Drew Carey, I believe, share my birthday.
February 4:
Charles Lindbergh
Dan Quayle
Clint Black
Oscar de la Hoya
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)
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.)
-Thomas More
- Ann Radcliffe
-Charles Dickens
-Frederick Douglass
-Laura Ingalls Wilder
-Alfred M Worden
-Garth Brooks
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
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)
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 (Hsker D)
1969 Wendy Wilson, singer (Wilson-Philips-Hold On)
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.