1951:
Rush Limbaugh
Phil Collins
Kevin Keegan
Jane Seymour
Gordon Brown
Kurt Russell
Tommy Hilfiger
Steven Seagal
Tony Danza
Jackie Jackson
Joey Ramone
Robin Williams
Orson Scott Card
Michael Keaton
Dee Dee Ramone
Mark Hamill
Sting
Bob Geldof
Someone born in 1880 . . . possibly some kind of tortoise.
Most of the people on the Dope would probably qualify.
Ewan McGregor
Jada Pinkett Smith
Mark Wahlberg
Luke Wilson
Denise Richards
Tupac
Heather Graham
Sarah Silverman
Winona Ryder (wow!)
Ricky Martin
Selena
Gina Wild
Vince Vaughn
Shannen Doherty
Method Man
Peter Sarsgaard
This is one of the middle age angst questions. I’m more impressed that in half the time it took me to hit 50, which was no time at all, I’ll be 75. Anyway, the people twice my age all turn 100 this year, so there’s only so many left around. Knowing I don’t have another 50 orbits around the sun is oddly calming though. Not that I need any more excuses, but I can think of no reason not to slow down even more.
Time to kick back, relax and worry about the important stuff like who the bad guy on the next James Bond movie is going to be.
I will be 43 this year; my dad will be 86.
I suppose you’re right that there’s a certain amount of angst over the realization that there are likely fewer days in front of the horse than in the back of the cart – betrayed by the sad face I included after noting that most of the folks born in 1915 are dead.
But I also have something of a fascination with connecting to the past in ways like this. It’s easy to relate to a person of one’s own age, so this exercise provides a sort of tangible and empathetic link to people who (in many cases here) are either extremely old or long-gone.
I think about my grandfather a lot, who was born in 1890. Just two generations removed from me, he witnessed the rise of the automobile and air travel; the early days of film and the birth of television; and countless other technological, social, and political milestones. He was legally an adult when the Cubs last won the World Series. And he died before cell phones and personal computers, so it makes me wonder what things the next generations will see that I can’t even imagine.
So I dunno. I just like to think about stuff like this.
Due to a rather unfortunate series of circumstances I am.
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We’re close enough to the same age so I understand the attraction of the concept.
Consider that our grandparents not only saw the rise of the airplane and the landing on the moon, but also knew people and relatives who fought in the Civil War. My grandmother witnessed the US Army removing the last of the Indians from Cincinnati, Ohio which seems wild in the scope of history.
But while our grandparents got see the marvels of technological advances, we get to see the full effects of trashing the planet for those advances.
I’m still pissed that we don’t have a Moon-base or any robots. And where the hell is my flying car? That the future looks increasingly bleak certainly makes looking back at lot more fun. No doubt about it.
Same list for me. Woo hoo, 40! 
People born in 1885. Sigh.
Roger Mudd
Fats Domino
Ariel Sharon
Jim Lovell
Maya Angelou
James Garner
Shirley Temple
Burt Bacharach
Jack Kevorkian
Adam West
Noam Chomsky
Dick Van Patten
and…my mom.
Mine would be people born in 1917, of whom the most famous is probably President John F. Kennedy.
Some well-known people born in 1917 (well, I’ve heard of them at least) who are still alive:
Ernest Borgnine
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Googie Withers
Phyllis Diller
Joan Fontaine
I was born in 1959. Folks turning 52 back in '59 included:
Buster Crabbe
W. H. Auden
Katharine Hepburn
Daphne du Maurier
Laurence Olivier
John Wayne
Rachel Carson
Robert Heinlein
Barbara Stanwyck
All of them are dead, an outcome that does not yet describe everyone born in 1907.
I can beat that - just a few interesting folks from an earlier year… The first two I actually remember from early TV watching days.
William Frawley
John Hamilton (played Perry White)
Alvin York
Eubie Blake
Raoul Walsh
Chico Marx
Fatty Arbuckle
Marc Chagall
“Shoeless” Joe Jackson
Chiang Kai-shek
Boris Karloff
Conrad Hilton