Wikipedia is good for a great many things, one of which is finding out what kind of stuff happened on your birthday. It's always interesting to find that you share a birthday with famous people, or that you were born on the same day as a strange world event. I share my birthday with a particularly eclectic list of famous people, including Engelbert Humperdinck (but not the one you're thinking of), Rocky Marciano, Al Green (but again, not the one you're thinking of), Dr. Phil (sadly, the one you're thinking of), Gloria Estefan, Tim Hardaway, Mohammed Atta (Wikipedia helpfully points out that he died in 2001), Clinton Portis, and Johann Pachelbel (may his Canon in D forever haunt his eternal sleep).
Who was born on your birthday?
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So my top three favorite people who share my birthday (Dec. 27):
Johannes Kepler - Described planetary motion
Louis Pasteur - One of the pillars of Microbiology
Sarah Vowell - Fellow geek and author
September 28...
Confucius, Chinese philosopher (just in case)
Nicolas Flamel, French alchemist (I knew that from Harry Potter!)
Kate Douglas Wiggin, which is of special interest to me because she lived for a time in BUXTON, MAINE... in fact, I think she either lived in or donated to the Salmon Falls Public Library, where Mom used to work!
And, um... Hilary Duff. Heh.
Engelbert Humperdinck is on mine too
Bing Crosby, Dr. Spock, Catherine the Great, Lou Gramm, Versace and none other than Steve James whose claim to fame is being an English snooker player.
You didn't mention Conway Twitty or Boxcar Willie. And my Engelbert Humperdinck is the one you're thinking of!
June 15...
Mario Cuomo - Governor of NY
Mike Holmgren - Football coach
James Belushi - Actor
Courteney Cox - Actress
Ice Cube - Rapper
Neil Patrick Harris - Actor
Ah, I think I've got some of the best ones:
The King (That's Elvis, kids)
David Bowie (That's that weird English guy, kids)
Stephen Hawking
Graham Chapman (of Monty Python)
And a footballer from nearly every country.
And the deaths (slightly more tragic; none less awesome):
Archangelo Corelli
Marco Polo
Galileo Galilei
Eli Whitney
Iwao Takamoto (The man who created the character Scooby Doo and directed the original Charlotte's Web).
Curtis Mayfield, Allen Ginsberg, and Jefferson Davis.
So that's a civil rights songwriter and the first and only president of the Confederate States of America with a beat poet shoved in between. Nice...
Tracey ;)
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