Which famous people were born on your birthday?

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FoBoT

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1649 - James Scott, duke of Monmouth, bastard son of English king Charles II

1926 - Hugh Hefner
1932 - Carl Perkins, Jackson Tn, singer/songwriter (Blue Suede Shoes)
1954 - Dennis Quaid
1990 - Marston Glenn Hefner, son of Hugh Hefner and Kimberley Conrad
 

SaturnX

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* 1686 - Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman (? 1747)
* 1768 - Samuel Slater, US industrialist (? 1835)
* 1810 - Otto Nicolai, composer (? 1849)
* 1812 - Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer (? 1910)
* 1882 - Angus Walters, schooner captain (? 1968)
* 1843 - Bertha von Suttner, novelist, pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Peace 1905 (? 1914)
* 1845 - Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (? 1914)
* 1851 - Charles Joseph Bonaparte, politician (? 1921)
* 1865 - Albéric Magnard, composer (? 1914)
* 1882 - Bobby Kerr, Canadian sprinter (? 1963)
* 1891 - Cole Porter, composer and lyricist (? 1964)
* 1900 - Fred Waring, bandleader, inventor (? 1984)
* 1916 - Robert McNamara, United States Secretary of Defense, former president of the World Bank
* 1916 - Les Paul, guitarist
* 1922 - John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American poet and aviator (? 1941)
* 1931 - Jackie Mason, comedian
* 1937 - Harald Rosenthal, biologist
* 1939 - Dick Vitale, sportscaster
* 1956 - Patricia Cornwall, author
* 1961 - Michael J. Fox, actor
* 1961 - Aaron Sorkin, director, producer, writer
* 1963 - Johnny Depp, actor
* 1964 - Gloria Reuben, actress
* 1975 - Andrew Symonds, cricketer
* 1977 - Peja Stojakovic, Serbian NBA star
* 1978 - Miroslav Klose, football player, National Team of Germany
* 1981 - Natalie Portman, actress

Micheal J. Fox, Natalie Portman, and Johnny Depp, heh.. that's actually pretty interesting

--Mark
 

habib89

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wow.. lots.. including:

09/09/1822 - Napoleon J K P Bonaparte, French prince/member National Convention
09/09/1941 - Otis Redding, Dawson Ga, rock bassist (Sitting on the Dock of the Bay)
09/09/1949 - Joe Theismann, NFL QB (Redskins)/sportscaster
09/09/1960 - Hugh Grant, London England (4 Weddings and a Funeral, 9 Months)
09/09/1966 - Adam Sandler, actor/comedian (Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, SNL)
09/09/1967 - Deion Sanders, NFL cornerback/wide reciever (Dallas Cowboys)
 

CraigRT

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May 2nd.

* Christine Baranski, 1952 (Actress)
* Catherine the Great (Russia), 1729
* Bing Crosby, 1904
* Larry Gatlin, 1948 (Musician)
* Lesley Gore, 1946
* Engelbert Humperdinck, 1936
* Bianca Jagger, 1945
* Benjamin Spock, 1903 (Physician, Writer)
 
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April 16 (1972 for me)

1660 - Hans Sloane, British collector and physician (d. 1753)
1755 - Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, painter (d. 1842)
1844 - Anatole France, narrator and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature 1921 (d. 1924)
1867 - Wilbur Wright, pioneer pilot (d. 1912)
1871 - John Millington Synge, playwright (d. 1909)
1886 - Ernst Thälmann, politician (d. 1944)
1889 - Charlie Chaplin, actor, writer and film producer (d. 1977)
1897 - Frederick William Winterbotham, code breaker (d. 1990)
1904 - Fifi D'Orsay, actress (d. 1983)
1918 - Spike Milligan, comedian (d. 2002)
1919 - Merce Cunningham, dancer, choreographer
1921 - Peter Ustinov, writer, actor and film director (d. 2004)
1922 - Kingsley Amis, author (d. 1995)
1924 - Henry Mancini, film and TV composer, "Moon River", Peter Gunn (d. 1994)
1927 - Joseph Ratzinger, cardinal
1930 - Herbie Mann, jazz flute player (d. 2003)
1935 - Sarah Kirsch, lyricist
1939 - Dusty Springfield, singer (d. 1999)
1940 - Queen Margaret II of Denmark
1946 - Bobby Vinton, singer
1953 - J. Neil Schulman, Science Fiction writer, Libertarian activist
1947 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, basketball star
1954 - James Cameron, director (Terminator, Titanic)
1956 - Lise-Marie Morerod, slalom skier
1962 - Ian MacKaye, musician
1965 - Martin Lawrence, actor, comedian, producer
1971 - Selena, singer (d. 1995)
 

LordPhoenix

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July 2nd....

# 419 - Valentinian III, Roman Emperor (d. 455)
# 1644 - Abraham a Santa Clara, court vicar (d. 1709)
# 1714 - Christoph Willibald Gluck, composer (d. 1787)
# 1724 - Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, poet (d. 1803)
# 1821 - Sir Charles Tupper, Father of Canadian Confederation, sixth Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1915)
# 1862 - William Henry Bragg, physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics 1915 (d. 1942)
# 1865 - Lily Braun, writer (d. 1916)
# 1877 - Hermann Hesse, writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1946 (d. 1962)
# 1884 - Alfons Maria Jakob, neurologist (d. 1931)
# 1900 - Tyrone Guthrie, actor, Artistic Director of Canada's Stratford Festival, (d. 1971)
# 1903 - Olav V, King of Norway (d. 1991)
# 1903 - Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the UK (d. 1995)
# 1906 - Hans Bethe, Nobel-winning nuclear physicist
# 1908 - Thurgood Marshall, US Supreme Court Justice (d. 1993)
# 1925 - Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of Congo (Leopoldville) (d. 1961)
# 1925 - Medgar Evers, civil rights activist (d. 1963)
# 1927 - Ruth Berghaus, choreographer/film director (d. 1996)
# 1929 - Imelda Marcos, former First Lady of the Philippines
# 1930 - Carlos Menem, former President of Argentina
# 1931 - Robert Ito, actor, ballet dancer
# 1932 - Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy's International (d. 2002)
# 1937 - Richard Petty, NASCAR driver
# 1942 - Vicente Fox, president of Mexico
# 1946 - Richard Axel, Nobel prize winning scientist
# 1947 - Larry David, co-creator of Seinfeld
# 1956 - Jerry Hall, actress/model, ex-wife of Mick Jagger
# 1959 - Mike Hallett, English snooker player
# 1964 - Jose Canseco, baseball player
# 1964 - Andrea Pia Yates, mother who drowned her five children
# 1970 - Yancy Butler, actress
# 1971 - Evelyn Lau, pop author
# 1974 - Matthew Reilly, Australian author
# 1976 - Tomas Vokoun, NHL hockey player
# 1981 - Alex Koroknay-Palicz, youth rights activist
# 1983 - Michelle Branch, popular musician
# 1986 - Lindsay Lohan, actress
 

Afrotech

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April 12th

Claire Danes
Vince Gill
David Cassidy
Tom Clancy
David Letterman
Tiny Tim
 

brtspears2

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Jan 12

John Hancock
Jack London (that author that wrote the Call of the Wild and other notable books that I didn't want to read in grade school)
Joe Frazier - the boxer
Kirstie Alley
Rush Limbaugh
Howard Stern
http://tinyurl.com/5wxnm - others
 

Chompman

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Nov 14

1980 ME :D
1975 Travis Barker (drummer)
1965 Jeannette Jurado (singer)
1954 Yanni (composer, music artist) <--- I am so sorry about that one :D
1951 Stephen Bishop (singer, songwriter, musician)
1948 Prince Charles (of Wales) (Charles Philip Arthur George Windsor Mountbatten) (heir to British throne)
1940 Freddie Garrity (singer)
1935 Don Stewart (actor)
1935 King Hussein of Jordan
1929 McLean Stevenson (actor)
1924 Phyllis Avery (actress)
1921 Brian (Robert) Keith (actor)
1920 Johnny Desmond (Giovanni DeSimone) (singer)
1919 Veronica Lake (actress)
1917 Howard Duff (actor)
1915 Martha Tilton (singer, actress)
1914 Rosemary DeCamp (actress)
1912 Barbara Hutton (heiress: F.W. Woolworth)
1910 Rosemary DeCamp (actress)
1909 Senator Joseph McCarthy (politician)
1904 Dick Powell (actor, producer, director)
1900 Aaron Copland (composer)
1889 Jawaharlal Nehru (India's 1st prime minister after its independence)
1840 Claude Monet (artist)
1765 Robert Fulton (builder of first profitable steamboat)

Also in 1945 on Nov 14th Bolivia is admitted to the United Nations so another reason to behold the power of that date :D
 

hdeck

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april 30

kirsten dunst
jeff timmons
carolyn dawn johnson
isiah thomas
carl xvi gustav, king of sweden
jill clayburgh
burt young
willie nelson
cloris leachmen
eva arden
 

Attrox

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Originally posted by: MetalMat
Originally posted by: Cerebus451
Originally posted by: MetalMat
December 5th:

Walt Disney
Martin Van Buren
Joe Namath
Little Richard

Nuff said

You left off Custer, Heisenberg, Strom Thurmond, Otto Preminger, Jim Plunkett

Hey, I kept the most important one though, Martin Van Buren. Best President ever........ ever.........

Are you a member of the Van Buren gang? :Q


:D
 

iwantanewcomputer

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Originally posted by: Chompman
Originally posted by: iwantanewcomputer
the future high emperor of the world...
<---------now off to play computer games

Bill gates was born on that day? :p

i actually meant me, and now you will be purged as soon as i am in control. now i recomend getting laid for the last time in your puny life before i make an example out of you