Of all the people you share a birthday with...

[thefool_wa]

Who is your favorite?

Mine is Winston Churchill, born November 30, 1874. Exactly 100 years before me!

(does this count as a copycat thread?)

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. John Milton and Judi Dench

[thefool_wa]

2. Right on

isn't in Damme Judi Densche now?

My second fave is Mark Twain...

[Rabrrrrrr]

15. Um... I don't think so.

:shrug:

Mark Twain rocks!!

[thefool_wa]

19. She won an Oscar, that gives her title in the UK

They make you a Knight of the Realm (or something like that) and Men get the title Sir, women the title Damme.

I remember at this year's Oscars that's all they would call her, it got soooooooo irritating.

[Rabrrrrrr]

28. Ah, I see - you're just spelling things wrong.

Yes, it's Dame (not Damme) Judi Dench (not Densche).

She is in the order of the Companions of Honor (limited to 65 people), which she entered in 2005. It's an order for people with outstanding merit in the arts, literature, music, science, politics, industry, or religion.


And she is a Dame Commander in the Order of the British Empire, which is the second highest rank (below Knight or Dame Grand Cross), and is the lowest of the two ranks which allow the title "Sir" or "Dame" with a limit of 845 members. I don't think these are awarded automatically for getting an Oscar - I bet there are many in the British Empire who have Oscars and are not part of the Order; unless they get one of the three lesser ranking ones (David Gilmour is a rank 3, Commander of the British Empire).

Neither of these honors, however, requires a change in the spelling of a person's name. :P

[thefool_wa]

32. My bad

My spelling used to be so good, I hang my head in shame (though, honestly, I thought her name had an e).

Thaks for clearing that up. I know Alec Guiness was in there, Anthony Hopkins is in there, not sure who else (Paul McCartney?).

Thanks again for the info and the shaming of my spelling :P

[querelle]

42. Bette Davis

I'm a super bitch too. It's what I do best..........

Q

[Iniquitous Bunny]

3. Milos Forman and Toni Morrison

Least favorite? Vanna White :eyes:

[Bunny]

4. Charlemagne.

What a guy!

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

5. Kurt Cobain.

Incidentally, my birthdate is also the deathdate of my personal hero, the guy in my avatar & sigline.

[thefool_wa]

13. I knew you were too cool for words....

And I was basing that on merely your sharp wit and photogenics (is that a word?)

Now I find out you and Kurt share a BD! Too cool....

on edit: May the good Doctor rest in peace :(

[dorktv]

6. Helen Keller.

[NewWaveChick1981]

7. Dr. Benjamin Spock.

:hi:

[thefool_wa]

14. This guy

Was personally responsible for all of my childhood guilt over masturbation!

My mom had several of his books and they were where I went for advice when I started getting "urges".

I hate that guy....

(that was all probably waaaay TMI, huh?)

[NewWaveChick1981]

33. Sorry!

My mother used his books to raise me and my siblings. However, Mom apparently ignored the section on masturbation, because none of that ever came up, and there has never been any guilt on my part. :rofl: Sorry about that. :hug:

[thefool_wa]

35. Never came up in my house either

Which is why I went directly to the books.

I'm totally over it now, but for a couple of years I tortured myslef (figuratively) over his approach to it (basically that it is something that will happen but should be strongly discouraged and is not part of "normal" behavior).

[RevolutionaryActs]

8. Johnny Cash.

:7

[Sanity Claws]

9. Peggy Lee and Sally Ride

Two strong women who did things their way.
Least favorite -- don't have one.

[sakabatou]

10. Sergei Rachmaninoff

April 1, 1873

[tinfoil tiaras]

11. I don't know if i share a birthday w/ anyone, but

The whole Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat on the bus happened on my birthday. Woot! :D

[Throd]

12. Goya

The cool thing is that I discovered this fact long after I chose him as my favorite painter.

[crim son]

16. Ferdinand von Zeppelin!

Not so exciting: Steve Lawrence.

[catzies]

17. Fave women include Eleanor Smeal & Pat Schroeder, fave men include

Laurence Fishburne and Peter Bogdanovich I guess.

Am neutral about Delta Burke, Lisa Kudrow, Tom Green & Jaime Pressly.

Dislike hugely Arnold Schwarzenegger.

I have a celeb-heavy birthday. I share the exact birthdate with celeb chef Alton Brown who has a following but I've never seen him.

[thefool_wa]

21. ALTON BROWN!

Right on, he's my fave chef on Food.

Lots of Celebs that day, what's your DOB?

[catzies]

52. 7/30 -there's close to 50 celebs dead & alive with my birthday

I forgot Vivica A. Fox and Frank Stallone, Buddy Guy and Hilary Swank!

[Luna_Chick]

18. Michelangelo

N/T

[thefool_wa]

23. very cool (nt)

[HEyHEY]

20. William FUCKING Shatner!

[thefool_wa]

24. Cool if yer a trekkie!

Are you gonna catch the roast tonight?

[HEyHEY]

26. That's tonight?

HEll YES I WILL

[thefool_wa]

30. Yep, tonight 10pm! (nt)

[scarlet_owl]

22. Janis Joplin, Edgar Allan Poe, and Dolly Parton.

We were all born on January 19th.

[greatauntoftriplets]

25. Garrison Keillor.

:D

And he's older than I am!

:bounce:

[lizziegrace]

34. How cool!

What date is your shared birthday?

Keillor's a treasure. :) (and we're pretty fond of you too!)

[thefool_wa]

36. Who is this guy?

I've honeestly never heard of him.

[lizziegrace]

40. Host of "A Pairie Home Companion" on NPR

www.prairiehome.org Musical guests you'd normally never hear and some stellar talent like Emmylou Harris and Mark Knofler. Also, Alison Krauss visits frequently.

He also wrote a wonderful book - Homegrown Democrat. He takes shots at the current administration on his radio show regularly and makes no apologies.

[lizziegrace]

44. His column, The Old Scout

http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/features/deskofgk/2005/old_scout/

[greatauntoftriplets]

48. It's August 7....two weeks ago tomorrow.

I listen to most of Prairie Home Companion Saturday nights when I am home. The first hour is during the local news.

:hi:

[lizziegrace]

49. You also share your birthday with another terrific person

my mother! Although she's older than both you and Garrison. :hi:

[greatauntoftriplets]

51. Yippee!!!!

:D

I also had an uncle born on that day.

:hi:

[HuskerDU]

27. The great Mojo Nixon shares my b-day.

Belated happies Mojo!

[NYdemocrat089]

29. September 6, 1888 - Joseph P. Kennedy

Father of JFK, RFK, and Ted.

[lizziegrace]

31. George Harrison - February 25, 1943

But it wouldn't be fair not to mention my twin sister, born 20 minutes after me. :)

[thefool_wa]

38. how sweet! (nt)

[lizziegrace]

41. I got lucky on that one!

Harrison's one of my favorites. :)

[SoyCat]

86. Just noticed we share the same date-25th Feb.

[lizziegrace]

88. Welcome to DU!

and welcome to the 2/25 birthday club. :)

[SoyCat]

92. Thank you for the welcome!

[miss_american_pie]

37. Paris Hilton

:hide:

Luc Robitaille maybe, Margaret Truman, Otto Stern, Aaron Montgomery Ward :D

[Kire]

39. Johnny Depp and Natalie Portman

Because they're hot.

[L A Woman]

43. Olivia Newton-John (September 26)

Give me a break - it's either her or Pope Paul VI or the blind girl from Little House on the Prairie! :-)

[5thGenDemocrat]

45. Damon Runyan or Buster Keaton, I suppose

October 4.
H Rap Brown, Susan Sarandon and Charlton Heston share a birthday with me, too.
I don't have the dislike for Chuck Heston that most here seem to have. When my mom was a young (just past high school) woman, she dated a cousin of his. Chuck spent a lot of time at St Helen, MI -- about 70 miles north of here and so she had occasion to meet him on a few times -- several years before he became famous. She said he was very smart (mom was a member of MENSA, so she'd know), very gentlemanly and "very, VERY handsome."
I also think it's ironic that Susan Sarandon and Charlton Heston share a birthday (to say nothing about Mr Brown). Politically, they'd seem to be on opposite sides of the fence -- but then, Mr Heston marched with Martin Luther King when that was a damned daring thing to do. I've always suspected his NRA shtick has a lot more to do with his believing in the Constitution and all its amendments (the 2nd, 14th and 15th specifically) than any particular inherent fascism. And good for him.
John
The first Republican to become President through fraud, Rutherford B Hayes, shares an October 4 birthday, too.

[RiffRandell]

46. Paul Newman. n/t

[bigwillq]

47. Chelsea Clinton

Feb. 27

[Danmel]

50. Muddy Waters

How cool is that?


My Dad shares his birthday with Albert Einstein!

[bumblebee1]

53. I share the same date although not the same year

Nancy Reagan
Sylvester Stallone
Della Reese
and, unfortunately, W.

Those are the ones I can think of.

[Withywindle]

66. And me!

:hi:

Cool people with our date: Beatrix Potter and Frida Kahlo.

[bumblebee1]

68. didn't know about those two ladies

[LadyoftheRabbits]

54. I really don't know of anyone...

Except ZombieNixon, and that's pretty cool :D

[ZombieNixon]

56. It's damn cool!

Yeah, I've noticed, we don't have many really famous people with a March 7th birthday...one more reason to do great things, huh? ;)

[LadyoftheRabbits]

57. Hell yes!

My philosophy ever since I realized I had a dull birthday. :P

[NV Whino]

55. Toscanini, but

not Bartok. Yuk.

[Neshanic]

58. Warren Beatty...he's a stud. I love his wife.

[xmas74]

59. Marlena Dietrich.

[sleepyhead]

60. Shel Silverstein.

Or William Faulkner. Other Sept 25 babies (not my favorites): Barbara Walters, Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones.

[Zomby Woof]

61. Howlin' Wolf

My favorite blues singer.

And Dan Fouts, my favorite QB of all time.

[jobycom]

63. Nice. nt

[Cush]

62. Bea Arthur (May 13)

:evilgrin:

[jobycom]

64. James Madison and Jerry Jeff Walker. nt

[Fox Mulder]

65. I don't know.

Some famous people born on my birthday include:

-Muhammed
-Shakespeare (he was baptized on my birthday. When he was born is unknown as far as I know...)
-Thomas Reid, the philosopher
-von Buch, German geologist who first defined the Jurassic time period
-John James Audubon
-I.M. Pei
-Carol Burnett
-Jet Li
-Kevin James

[Godhumor]

67. River Phoenix

Loved sharing that birthday right up until the OD.

God, he was a talented young actor.

[Dora]

69. My husband!

Dear Abby is in a distant second place on my favorite "co-birthday" list.

[siouxsiecreamcheese]

70. F.D.R. & Christian Bale

Nice...:thumbsup:

[BlueStater]

71. The late Christopher Reeve

Also, Mr. Luke Skywalker himself (not to mention the voice of the Joker in the Batman cartoons), Mark Hamill.

[Blue_In_AK]

72. Truman Capote

[One Voice]

73. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Jan 15, 1929

:bounce: Woo-hoo!

[MorningGlow]

74. Taye Diggs

Yum! Local boy, too.

And for the literary set, Isaac Asimov.

Pickins are slim on January 2... :shrug:

[fight4my3sons]

75. Bob Dylan

[TommyO]

76. President William Clinton

August 19th, born eighteen years before I made my appearance on the stage of life.

[Arger68]

77. Benjamin Franklin

[pdx_prog]

78. Paul McCartney!

[akwapez]

82. hey...me too. and my mom

[kwassa]

79. Tammy Wynette, Tyrone Power, and Karl Marx

[Katina]

80. Robbie Robertson!!

I love The Band!!!

[Robeson]

96. Nice one...

...:thumbsup:

[catbert836]

81. Adolfo Pérez Esquivel (November 26)

Argentine architect, sculptor and activist against the Free Trade Area of the Americas. Winner of the 1980 Nobel Peace Prize.



"We must apply our humble efforts to the construction of a more just and humane world. And I want to declare emphatically: Such a world is possible. To create this new society, we must present outstretched and friendly hands, without hatred and rancor, even as we show great determination and never waver in the defense of truth and justice. Because we know that we cannot sow seeds with clenched fists. To sow we must open our hands."

Although it was a tough choice betweeen him and Tina Turner ;-)

[Spirochete]

83. Mine s the day after yours

and I share a birthday with a lot of people, but I'd say Richard Pryor is my favorite. I actually remembered to send him a happy birthday e-mail my last birthday. He died about a week later.

[dpbrown]

84. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Just 210 years older than me!

[SoyCat]

85. Either Renoir or George Harrison

[Rising Phoenix]

87. Liv Tyler and Guy Smilely from Sesame Street....

who do you think is cooler?

[Karenina]

89. My dearest, death-defying Unka Artie

(Buchwald)

[dback]

90. Jane Fonda, Phil Donahue, Samuel Jackson, Frank Zappa & Andy Dick

Talk about a free thinker/liberal party!! Also throw in Ray Romano, Jack Noseworthy, Keifer Sutherland, and--alas--Joseph Stalin.

[yellowdogintexas]

91. Theodore Roosevelt!!!!!

also Fran Leibowitz.

[Shine]

93. My first cousin, who is exactly two years older than me.

:) and I always remind her of that, too. :evilgrin:

[u4ic]

94. Elvis Costello

perhaps Leonard Bernstein...

[BrotherBuzz]

95. It's a toss-up between Samuel Clements and

Churchill for me. My Great-great grandmother was employed by the Churchill family so I am emotionally drawn toward Winnie, but Mark Twain's California connection is a strong pull, too. Both were unique in their own ways and I'm proud to share my birthday with them.

[amitten]

97. Kim Catrall. n/t

[Robeson]

98. Sarah McLachlan.

[NMMNG]

99. None

No exciting people share my birthday. :shrug:

[NYC Liberal]

100. Harriet Miers and Herbert Hoover!

:evilgrin:

OK, I do share a birthday with them but they ain't my favorites. ;) I suppose Antonio Banderas. I don't really have that many famous people sharing my birthday!

[unpossibles]

101. (December 16) there are a few

Ludwig van Beethoven
Wassily Kandinski
Noel Coward
Margaret Mead
Arthur C. Clarke
Philip K. Dick
Bill Hicks


also the Convention Parliament and the Boston Tea Party.

so we have some strange, forward thinking types - in general a lot of actors, artists, musicians, and writers. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_16


....And the Pokémon seizure episode.

[martymar64]

102. Marvin Gaye

And when I get that feelin' . . .