Who do you share your birthday with, and what else happened that day?

FrustratedPoet · August 13, 2003, 06:38

http://www.on-this-day.com/

Click the day and month of your birth from the calendar at the bottom. It'll tell you of any famous people who have shared your birthday, and big events that have happened on that day throughout history.

I was born on August 29th, 1981 and nothing else terribly newsworthy happened that day. However, I do share a birthday with Michael Jackson, Ingrid Bergman and Sir Richard Attenborough.

Also, according to Terminator 2 the nucleur apocalypse started on my 16th birthday (Aug29, 1997).

On my birthday in 1533 Atahualpa, the last Incan King of Peru, was murdered on orders from Spanish conqueror Francisco Pizarro. Also, in 1977 Lou Brock beat Ty Cobb's career stolen base record on my birthday.

Richelieu · August 13, 2003, 07:01

I was born on January 1st, 1965 and was predestined to roam Poly, as i share my birthday with this infamous person:

Christina B. Bump 1978.

I have no idea who she is.

BeBro · August 13, 2003, 07:07

October 12 - terrorist day

"2000 - In Aden, Yemen, the USS Cole, a U.S. Navy destroyer, experienced a large explosion while refueling. The explosion was the result of a terrorist attack using a small boat. 17 crewmembers were killed and at least 39 were injured."

"2002 - In Bali, Indonesia, over 180 people were killed and over 300 were injured when a bomb was detonated in a nightclub district."

On the positive side:

"1492 - Christopher Columbus, an Italian explorer, sighted Watling Island in the Bahamas. He believed that he had found Asia while attempting to find a Western ocean route to India."

1964 - The Soviet Union launched Voskhod 1 into orbit around the Earth. It was the first space flight to have a multi-person crew and the first flight to be performed without space suits."

Birthdays - noone special, except me

Worthingtons · August 13, 2003, 07:08

July 9th is Shared by Tom Hanks and Courtney Love amoung others. I cant find anyone born on the same DAY as me, but at 20 the 1983 posse have plenty of time to become famous

On my 14th ( i think) birthday Mike Tyson bit off somebody's ear.

Skanky Burns · August 13, 2003, 07:13

Well that confirms it - my birthday is boring. 24th June.

Richelieu · August 13, 2003, 07:14

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Originally posted by Skanky Burns
Well that confirms it - my birthday is boring. 24th June.

St-Jean Baptiste day. Go anywhere in Quebec on that day and you'll find a hell of a party.

Pave · August 13, 2003, 07:23

August 27th (on my birthday) was born:

Lyndon B. Johnson 1908
Paul "Pee-wee Herman" Reubens 1952
Glenn Matlock (Sex Pistols) 1956
Me

Music history:
1889 - Charles G. Conn received a patent for the metal clarinet.
1965 - Elvis Presley played host to the Beatles at his home in Bel-Air, CA.
1990 - Stevie Ray Vaughn and three members of Eric Clapton's band were killed in a helicopter crash in Wisconsin.

Misc. history:
1828 - Uruguay was formally proclaimed to be independent during preliminary talks between Brazil and Argentina.
1912 - The Edgar Rice Burroughs book "Tarzan of the Apes" was published for the first time.

1939 - Nazi Germany demanded the Polish corridor and Danzig.
1990 - 52 Americans reached Turkey after leaving Iraq. Three young American men were detained by the Iraqis.
1990 - The U.S. State Department ordered the expulsion of 36 Iraqi diplomats.
1999 - The final crew of the Russian space station Mir departed the station to return to Earth. Russia was forced to abandon Mir for financial reasons.

Q Classic · August 13, 2003, 07:48

http://www.scopesys.com/anyday/

22 february; george washington shares this same day, the brilliant man who believed correctly that parties are the death of democracy, who although wasn't at first a good general at all was a quick study, who was one of the founding fathers of this great nation.
thus it goes without saying that george washington carver shares that same day as well, the brilliant man who found so many different uses for products of peanuts. who knew? and without him, who would have known?
artistic souls include edna st vincent demillay, frederic chopin, as well as drew barrymore and jeri ryan.

goethe died that day, too.

it's all history to me.

rah · August 13, 2003, 08:19

Ming.

And nothing else of importance has every happened on that day.

RAH

duke o' york · August 13, 2003, 08:33

I was born on the 11th of September and gave up on caring about who else was born on that day or what else happened following the highly-publicised events of a couple of years ago.
That was one birthday I shan't forget in a hurry.

Arrian · August 13, 2003, 10:22

December 18th, 1976.

Sharing my birthday (that I recognize):

Ty Cobb
Steven Spielberg
Betty Grable
Ray Liotta
Brad Pitt
Arantxa Sanchez Vicario
Christina Aguilera
Katie Holmes

Historical thingies:

- New Jersey became the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. (damn)
- Slavery was abolished in the United States with the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution being ratified.

- The Battle of Verdun ended after 10 months.
- Adolf Hitler signed a secret directive ordering preparations for a Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Operation "Barbarossa" was launched in June 1941.
- The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the wartime relocation of Japanese-Americans, but also stated that undeniably loyal Americans of Japanese ancestry could not be detained. (hrmph)

And little, little more.

Duke o' york - ugh. That sucks.

-Arrian

MrFun · August 13, 2003, 10:29

On the day I was born (August 29), something weird happened:

1977 - 3 people were arrested in Memphis after trying to steal Elvis' body. As a result his body was moved to Graceland.

Arrian · August 13, 2003, 10:30

Yup, that qualifies as genuinely odd.

-Arrian

CerberusIV · August 13, 2003, 10:32

27th August.

Krakatoa erupted that day in 1883.
First jet aircraft flew in 1939 (He 178 - subsequently destroyed when the British bombed Berlin and destroyed the Air Museum - jealousy presumably!)

and England defeated Zanzibar in a war which lasted 38 minutes. Thanks for the link Q Cubed, I didn't know this one so shall go and find out more.

Eli · August 13, 2003, 10:45

Feb 21

Of all the people the site lists that were born on the same day... I dont know anyone.

Events :
1916 - During World War I, the Battle of Verdun began in France.

1961 - Berlin was divided by a barbed wire fence to halt the flight of refugees. Two days later work on the Berlin Wall began.

1965 - Malcolm X was assassinated in New York City at the age of 39 by assassins identified as Black Muslims.

1973 - Israeli fighter planes shot down a Libyan Airlines jet over the Sinai Desert. More than 100 people were killed.

Immortal Wombat · August 13, 2003, 10:57

1756 - Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born.
1806 - Composer Juan Crisostomo Jacobo Antonio de Arriaga was born.
1823 - Composer Edouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo was born.
1901 - Composer Giuseppe Verdi was born.

1985 - I was born.

Guess what I'm going to be when I grow up...

Oh yeah, and it's now National Holocaust Memorial Day.

FrustratedPoet · August 13, 2003, 11:02

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Originally posted by MrFun
On the day I was born (August 29)

Whaleboy · August 13, 2003, 11:05

February 1
Birthdays

John Ford 1895
Victor Herbert 1859
Clark Gable 1901
Langston Hughes 1902
S.J. (Sidney) Perelman 1904
Renata Tebaldi 1922
Stuart Whitman 1928
Boris Yeltsin 1931
Bob Shane (The Kingston Trio) 1934
Garrett Morris 1937
Don Everly (The Everly Brothers) 1937
Ray Sawyer (Dr. Hook and The Medicine Show) 1937
Sherman Hemsley 1938
Joe Sample 1939
Del McCoury 1939
Terry Jones 1942
Dennis Farina 1944
Rick James 1952
Bill Mumy 1954
Mike Campbell (Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers) 1954
Exene Cervenka (X) 1956
Sherilynn Fenn 1965
Princess Stephanie (Monaco) 1965
Lisa Marie Presley 1968
Pauly Shore 1970
Big Boi (Outkast) 1975
Jarrett Lennon 1982

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Music History

1669 - Composer Miquel Lopez was born.

1877 - Composer Thomas Frederick Dunhill was born.

1896 - Puccini's opera La Bohème was first staged in Turin, Italy.

1907 - Composer Mozart Camargo Guarnieri was born.

1939 - Benny Goodman and his orchestra recorded "And the Angels Sing." Martha Tilton was the vocalist on the song.

1940 - Frank Sinatra sang "Too Romantic" and "The Sky Fell Down" in his first recording session with the Tommy Dorsey Band. Frank replaced Jack Leonard as lead singer with the band.

1956 - The Rock and Roll Ice Revue opened at the Roxy Theater in New York City.

1964 - The governor of Indiana declared that the song "Louie Louie" by the Kingsmen was pornographic. He requested that the state's radio stations not play the song.

1963 - Neil Young, at age 17, performed his first professional date at a country club in Winnipeg.

1969 - Joni Mitchell made her Carnegie Hall debut.

1975 - Lisa Marie Presley met her favorite singer, Elton John, for her seventh birthday. The event was arranged by Elvis Presley.

1976 - "Sonny and Cher" resumed on TV despite a real life divorce.

1977 - The film "Genesis in Concert" premiered in London.

1982 - "Bar-Kays Day" was declared in Memphis, TN.

1985 - Glenn Frey (Eagles) appeared on an episode of "Miami Vice" on NBC-TV.

1986 - Diana Ross and Arne Naess were married in Geneva.

1988 - The Cars disbanded.

1999 - The Lycos Web site began a new search service that offered easy access to a half-million high quality recordings that use MP3.

2000 - C.C. DeVille announced that he was leaving Poison. The band later convinced him to come back.

2002 - Kirk Hammett (Metallica) was the first recipient of the annual Hall of Fame Award in "Guitar World" magazine.

2002 - Winona Ryder was charged with four felony counts that stemmed from her shoplifting arrest on December 12, 2001. She was charged with theft, burglary, vandalism and possession of a controlled substance.

2002 - Nick Carter (Backstreet Boys) agreed to enter a counseling program and perform community service in order to get a charge of resisting/opposing a law enforcement officer without violence dropped. Carter had been arrested at a nightclub on January 2, 2002.

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Misc. History

1788 - Isaac Briggs and William Longstreet patented the steamboat.

1790 - The U.S. Supreme Court convened for the first time in New York City.

1793 - France declared war on Britain and Holland.

1793 - Ralph Hodgson patented oiled silk.

1861 - Texas voted to secede from the Union. hahahaha Sloww!!

1862 - "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," by Julia Ward Howe was first published in the "Atlantic Monthly."

1867 - In the U.S., bricklayers start working 8-hour days.

1884 - The first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary was published.

1893 - Thomas A. Edison completed work on the world's first motion picture studio in West Orange, NJ.

1896 - Puccini's opera "La Boheme" premiered in Turin.

1898 - The Travelers Insurance Company of Hartford, CT, issued the first automobile insurance policy. Dr. Truman Martin of Buffalo, NY, paid $11.25 for the policy, which gave him $5,000 in liability coverage.

1900 - Eastman Kodak Co. introduced the $1 Brownie box camera.

1913 - Grand Central Station opened in New York City, NY. It was the largest train station in the world.

1919 - The first Miss America was crowned in New York City.

1920 - The first armored car was introduced.

1920 - Canada's Royal North West Mounted Police changed their name to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The organization was commissioned in 1873.

1921 - Carmen Fasanella registered as a taxicab owner and driver in Princeton, New Jersey. Fasanella retired November 2, 1989 after 68 years and 243 days of service.

1929 - Weightlifter, Charles Rigoulet of France, achieved the first 400 pound 'clean and jerk' as he lifted 402-1/2 pounds.

1930 - The Times published its first crossword puzzle.

1946 - Norwegian statesman Trygve Lie was chosen to be the first secretary-general of the United Nations.

1951 - The first telecast of an atomic explosion took place.

1951 - The first X-ray moving picture process was demonstrated.

1953 - CBS-TV debuted "Private Secretary."

1954 - CBS-TV showed "The Secret Storm" for the first time.

1957 - P.H. Young became the first black pilot on a scheduled passenger airline.

1958 - The United Arab Republic was formed by a union of Egypt and Syria. It was broken 1961.

1960 - Four black college students began a sit-in protest at a lunch counter in Greensboro, NC. They had been refused service.

1968 - During the Vietnam War, South Vietnamese National Police Chief Brig. Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan executed a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to the head. The scene was captured in a news photograph.

1976 - "Sonny and Cher" resumed on TV despite a real life divorce.

1979 - Patty Hearst was released from prison after serving 22 months of a seven-year sentence for bank robbery. Her sentence had been commuted by U.S. President Carter.

1979 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was welcomed in Tehran as he ended nearly 15 years of exile.

1985 - Ben Joseph Elijah was born to Jo and Matthew, the world entered an era of light.

1987 - Terry Williams won the largest slot machine payoff, at the time, when won $4.9 million after getting four lucky 7s on a machine in Reno, NV.

1991 - A USAir jetliner crashed atop a commuter plane at Los Angeles International Airport. 35 people were killed.

1994 - Jeff Gillooly plead guilty in Portland, OR, for his role in the attack on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan. Gillooly, Tonya Harding's ex-husband, struck a plea bargain under which he confessed to racketeering charges in exchange for testimony implicating Harding.

1996 - Visa and Mastercard announced security measures that would make it safe to shop on the Internet.

1998 - Stuart Whitman received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

1999 - Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky gave a deposition that was videotaped for senators weighing impeachment charges against U.S. President Clinton.

2001 - Three Scottish judges found Abdel Basset al-Mergrahi guilty of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which killed 270 people. The court said that Megrahi was a member of the Libyan intelligence service. Al-Amin Khalifa, who had been co-accused, was acquitted and freed.

2003 - NASA's space shuttle Columbia exploded while re-entering the Earth's atmosphere. All seven astronauts on board were killed.

hmmm I guess that means I'm important!!

Sorry I cant be bothered to edit it down... besides it conveys an impression of my sheer greatness!

Alex · August 13, 2003, 11:10

October 31st:

I share my birthday with Jan Vermeer, John Keats, Johnny Marr and John Candy (lots of Johns)

On the other hand, Vanilla Ice was born on this day

Important things that happened:

1517 - Martin Luther posted the 95 Theses on the door of the Wittenberg Palace Church.

1922 - Benito Mussolini became prime minister of Italy.

1940 - The British air victory in the Battle of Britain prevented Germany from invading Britain.

And a really weird one, I don't know why it is even mentioned:

1993 - The play "Wonderful Tennessee" closed after only 9 performances.

FrustratedPoet · August 13, 2003, 11:10

Quote:

Originally posted by Eli
Feb 21
Of all the people the site lists that were born on the same day... I dont know anyone.

I know a few of them. If you're interested.....

Alan Rickman 1946 - British Movie Actor (the terrorist leader in Die Hard, Sheriff of Nottingham in that Kevin Costner Robin Hood movie and Severus Snape in the Harry Potter movies, amongst other stuff...)

Kelsey Grammer 1955 - Actor who plays Dr. Frasier Crane in Cheers and Frasier.

Alan Trammell 1958 - Famous Baseball player with the Detroit Tigers. Now their manager.

William Baldwin 1963 - Brother of Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin, but with even less talent.

Charlotte Church 1979 - Welsh singer, sold more than 10 million albums worldwide

Jennifer Love Hewitt 1979 - An american actress of some sort I believe. Probably been in some lame films I haven't seen.

Imran Siddiqui · August 13, 2003, 11:10

May 30, 1980.

B-Days
1672 - Peter I of Russia
1943 - Gale Sayers
1972 - Trey Parker (YES

)

Music History
1968 - The Beatles began recording the "White Album."
1978 - Led Zeppelin began recording "In Through the Out Door."

History
1431 - Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in Rouen, France, at the age of 19.
1814 - The First Treaty of Paris was declared, which returned France to its 1792 borders.
1868 - Memorial Day was observed for the first time in the U.S.
1889 - The brassiere was invented. (WOOO

)
1913 - The First Balkan War ended.
1958 - Unidentified soldiers killed in World War II and the Korean conflicts were buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
1989 - The "Goddess of Democracy" statue (33 feet height) was erected in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.

Stefu · August 13, 2003, 11:15

I'm a Feb 29th baby. I'm sure someone has an amusing joke about that that I've neeeeever heard before.

1932 Failed coup attempt by fascist Lapua Movement in Finland

1960 1st Playboy Club, featuring bunnies, opens in Chicago

Whaleboy · August 13, 2003, 11:18

Am I the only aquarius here??

Arrian · August 13, 2003, 11:18

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Jennifer Love Hewitt 1979 - An american actress of some sort I believe. Probably been in some lame films I haven't seen.

"actress" should probably go in quotes. She's pretty damn bad. But she's also pretty damn hot. She also fancies herself to be a singer, and has albums out there. I've never heard them.

-Arrian

Proteus_MST · August 13, 2003, 11:23

Let me see, according to this anyday-Link Q-Cubed posted:

People who were born this day (I post only a few out of the large List

):
1404 Constantine XI Dragases last Byzantine Emperor
1773 William Henry Harrison Virginia, (Whigs) 9th President (March 4-April 4, 1841)
1775 Farkas/Wolfgang Bolyai Hungary, mathematician (parallel axiom)
1865 Erich von Drygalski German Federal Republic, geographer/glaciologist/Antarctic explorer
1871 Howard T Ricketts US pathologist (studied typhus fever)
1885 Alban Maria Johannes Berg Vienna Austria, a Lulu of a composer!
1891 Ronald Colman England, 1947 Academy Award actor (Tale of 2 Cities)
and a lot of Sportsmen from the NFL and NBA as well as some Golfers

Who died this day?
1555 John Hooper deprived Bishop of Gloucester, burnt for heresy
1567 Henry Stuart earl of Darnley/Consort of Mary Queen of Scots, murdered
1881 Feodor M Dostoevski Russian novelist (Crime & Punishment), dies at 59
1948 Karl Valentin German comic/writer, dies at 65
1981 Bill Haley vocalist (Rock Around Clock), dies of heart attack at 55
1984 Yuri Andropov General Secretary of Soviet Communist Party (1982-84), dies at 69
2002 Princess Margaret sister of Queen Elizabeth II of England, dies from a stroke at 71

What happened this day?
1554 Battle at London Sir Thomas Wyatt defeated
1674 English re-conquer New York from Netherlands
1904 Japan declares war on Russia
1943 Japanese evacuate Guadalcanal, epic battle ends
1953 "The Adventures of Superman" TV series premieres in syndication
1963 1st flight of Boeing 727 jet
1969 World's largest airplane, Boeing 747, makes 1st commercial flight
1990 Galileo flies by Venus
1994 Israeli minister Shimon Perez signs accord with PLO's Arafat

FrustratedPoet · August 13, 2003, 11:32

Yeah, Q Cubed's link is better than mine. Everyone should use his.

Immortal Wombat · August 13, 2003, 11:43

Quote:

Originally posted by elijah
Am I the only aquarius here??

No. I'm 5 days older than you

Proteus_MST · August 13, 2003, 11:48

Quote:

Originally posted by elijah
Am I the only aquarius here??

Obviously not,

February 9th, therefore also Aquarius (and btw. I wouldn´t like to be of any other Zodiac sign

)

Dry · August 13, 2003, 11:55

May 23, 1961

Douglas Fairbanks 1883
Anatoly Karpov 1951
Karen Duffy 1961 (same day, same year)
Noel Gallagher (Oasis) 1968

Otherwise, it is the 'capture' day:

1430 - Joan of Arc was captured by Burgundians. She was then sold to the English.
1901 - American forces captured Filipino rebel leader Emilio Aguinaldo.
1926 - The French captured the Moroccan Rif capital.
1934 - In Bienville Parish, LA, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were ambushed and killed by Texas Rangers. The bank robbers were riding in a stolen Ford Deluxe.
1960 - Israel announced the capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina.

Japher · August 13, 2003, 12:53

Nov. 12th

Grace Kelly 1929
Jack Oakie 1930
Charles Manson 1934
:b oh, yeah baby, now that's a trio

David Schwimmer 1966

great, I share my day with Monkey boy.

Tonya Harding 1970

Beat me!

Japher 1974

nothing really happened on this day in the year of my birth... except Christ returning to earth!!!!