Musician Jose Feliciano, myself and my brother Nawdle.
Just out of interest, does anyone share birthdays with anybody famous? Even better, was anyone born on the very same day as anyone famous?
I share my birthday (September 10th) with golfer Arnold Palmer, baseball star Roger Maris, actress Fay Wray, actors Colin Firth and Ryan Phillippe, directors Robert "Sound of Music" Wise and Guy "Mr. Madonna" Ritchie, and musicians Joe Perry (of the RHCPs) Carol Decker (of T'Pau) and Siobhan Fahey (of Bananarama and Shakespears Sister).
As for my family, my big sister shares a birthday with Nelson Mandela and Paul Verhoeven (July 18th) and my little sister shares a birthday with Tim Russ (June 22nd). My father shares a birthday with Keanu Reeves, Salma Hayek, Lennox Lewis, and Jimmy Connors (September 2nd). And my mother shares a birthday with Stanley Kubrick, Nana Visitor, Kevin Spacey, Sandra Bullock, Jonty Rhodes (he's a cricketer) - plus was born on the same day as Mick Jagger: July 26th, 1943.
John Adams.
Joanna Lumley.
Hey Sven, you also share your birthday with 3 other famous people.
Musician Jose Feliciano, myself and my brother Nawdle.
June 11th: Richard Strauss, Jacques Cousteau, Gene Wilder, Vince Lombardi and Joe Montana. Nice well-rounded day. 
For me it's Rae Dawn Chong, Bernadette Peters, Mercedes Ruehl, Bubba Smith, Frank Bonner (Herb Tarlek on WKRP In Cincinnatti, Mario Andretti, Gavin MacLeod,, Charles Durning, screenplay author, Ben Hecht, Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones, Randy Jackson of Zebra ("Who's Behind the Door?"), Gilbert Gottfried (can't stand him either), Zero Mostel, Linus Pauling, Tommy Tune, and New York Rangers, Eric Lindros.
Here's a website to help you find out who shares your birthday: www.famousbirthdays.com
Boris Yeltsin and Pauly Shore. Why did I have to draw the short straw? 
Pauly Shore? I feel better about sharing a birthday with Gilbert Gottfried now. It really could have been worse.
March 14:
Albert Einstein, 1879
Les Brown (and his band of renown), 1912
Hank Ketcham (creator of Dennis the Menace), 1920
Frank Borman (astronaut), 1928
Qincy Jones, 1933
Michael Caine, 1933
Billy Crystal, 1947
...me...
Kirby Puckett (Baseball Hall of Fame), 1961
Taylor Hanson (?), 1983
MmmBop, Tom. Taylor Hanson is a member of that flash-in-the-pan teeny-pop music "sensation", Hanson.
Just for the record, my birthday (since I didn't identify it in my original post) is February 28th.
I knew that... I just didn't want to admit that I knew that.
Oh great, now I got to embarrass myself by revealing that I knew it. Shazbot!
Sven: Just out of interest, does anyone share birthdays with anybody famous? Even better, was anyone born on the very same day as anyone famous?
Luigi Novi: With only 365 days in a year, Sven, EVERYONE shares a birthday with LOTS of people famous.
Me, I share a birthday with Steve Guttenberg, Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley from the Harry Potter movies), Jennifer Lien (Kes from Star Trek Voyager), Craig Kilborn, Orson Scott Card, Joe Regalbuto (Frank Fontana from Murphy Brown), and E.G. Marshall.
The horror - Britney S.
Ooh. Feel better now, Tom?
Luigi: I know. I just wanted to know who had whom on their b-day. [Now that sounds naughty - everyone]
(December 23) Susan Lucci, Corey Haim, Jerry Koosman (NY Mets), & one of the guys from Sha Na Na, but I forget his name.
Butch and Nawdle: so does that make us three birthday brothers? [Now that really does sound very suggestive - everyone]
In addition to John Adams, who I mentioned above, I also share a birthday with the Fonz, himself -- Henry Winkler.
Bob Hoskins - some actor, right? The other famous people I don't know. 
But I know that the austrians were nice enough to make my birthday an official holiday!
(Just kidding, its really the day of liberation, AFAIK).
Hoskins played Eddie Valiant in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Others who share his birthday are Lisa Ryder (Bekka from Andromeda), Lauren Tewes from The Love Boat, actress Rita Wilson (Tom Hanks' wife), Pat Sajak, and Hillary Rodham Clinton.
ScottN: In addition to John Adams, who I mentioned above, I also share a birthday with the Fonz, himself -- Henry Winkler.
Luigi Novi: As well as Nia Long, J. Paul Boehmer (One from Drone(VOY) and Mestral from Carbon Creek(ENT)), and actor/comedian Kevin Pollack.
November 4:
Art Carney, Loretta Swit, Walter Cronkite, the late Will Rogers.
Also, when I was born, in the US the #1 hit single was "My Sharona" by The Knack, while the UK #1 was [shudders] "We Don't Talk Anymore" by Cliff Richard.
Truth to tell, Sven, I like both of those songs. I hate to think about what that says about me.
On my birthday, Cliff Richard's "Summer Holiday" was number 1 in the UK. On the U.S. charts, it depends on which one you go by. Billboard, however, I believe, listed "Hey Paula" by Paul and Paula as the #1 hit in the U.S.
Here's a couple of websites if anyone's interested in seeing what was the #1 song of the land on the day they were born: http://www.hart87.freeserve.co.uk/us1.html and
http://www.8ball.com/t40tunes/byyear.html
They latter site does not go as far as the former. And I'm afraid both are geared towards the U.S. charts. I don't have any sites bookmarked that covers the U.K.
According to 8ball, there was a 4-way tie for #1 on my birthdate.
The UK chart can be scanned at http://www.everyhit.com's date service (I'm not sure how accurate it is).
Interestingly, the #1 on the UK album chart on my birthday was Led Zeppelin's "In Through The Out Door."
Scott, IIRC, the 8ball site utilizes something like four charts for the first several years it lists. Then, for some reason, beginning in, I think, 1972, it lists only from only one chart. And I think that chart is Billboard's. I'm not sure what their rationalization is.
The decrepit senior citizen weighing in here: None of those sites go back far enough to reach my birth.
In the US it was "The Yellow Rose of Texas" by Mitch Miller.
In the UK it was "Rose Marie" by Slim Whitman.
Try this one Benn.
This Day in Music
Hey, Sven, Butch, thanks for the links. The sites have been bookmarked.
And I meant to say for TomM to try This Day in Music as well. It goes back to 1952 if that's far enough. I can't remember how much older than me you are.
Actors Luther Adler, Howard DaSilva, Audrey Hepburn
Singers Jackie Jackson (of Jackson 5 fame), Randy Travis
Surf rocker Dick Dale
Twilight Zone producer Buck Houghton
Pundit George F. Will
Newspaper hint columnist Heloise
Happy Birthday, Bob Hope!
So far as I know, I share my birthday (January 27) with very few. Michel Baryshnikov , who may or may not actually share my birthday, since the Russians don't really use our calendar. And Lewis Carroll. Mozart. And Donna Reed - as if!
On the other hand, so I understand, my birthday is famous as the day that the man they think was Jack the Ripper died. How's that for a special day?
Then again, the year my grandfather died, I asked my grandmother out to dinner on my birthday, but she couldn't go - it was the three month anniversary of his death. Bummer birthday memory, eh?
mei,
By the time Mozart was your age he had been dead for three years. (OK, but at least I steal good stuff.)
True. Tom Lehrer is good stuff.
Glenn Close, Bruce Willis, and Wyatt Earp.
Steve Winwood and the late George Carlin.
Oh yeah, and Jason Biggs, we are both from 5/12/78. He could be me, and I could be him! Whaddya think of that?
Then again, I don't want a life acting in substandard Hollywood dreck and drivel, like Jason seems to keep on doing. I don't want that!
And he probably would not want my life, either. But at least I have my health and a loving family, including a good 'ol big cat named Jack!
Bye for now!
Also, actress Malin Ackerman (Watchmen) and I have the same birthday as well.
November 4:
quote:
Art Carney, Loretta Swit, Walter Cronkite, the late Will Rogers.
Also - Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, Kathy Griffin, Markie Post, Matthew McConaughey and Jeff Probst. Although I'm older than every one of them, except Ms. Post. And, Chris Difford (of Squeeze) and I are the exact same age. Anyone want to have some "Black Coffee in Bed" with me to celebrate? 
"Tempted".
No. Markie Post is not allowed to be 62!!!!
Happy Birthday To Me.
Happy Birthday To Me.
Happy Birthday To Me-eee...
Happy Birhtday To me!
And also to Henry Winkler, the Fonz!!! We share a birthday!!!
Aeeeeee!!!!!! [gives thumbs up]
Well, a very Happy Birthday to you, and many more to come. Don't overdo the birthday cake 
It's 3 weeks late, but I stumbled upon The Chief Phil Farrand's birthday was three weeks ago, on November 5-- he's now the Big Six-Four!
Sorry about that, Chief!
And Happy Belated Birthday!!!
So this year, I spent my 60th birthday at Space Camp!
(yes, they have it for adults)
Did you drink lots of Tang?
I think you mentioned it before, Scott, but what did you see at Space Camp? I'm assuming one of the decommissioned Space Shuttles is there?
No Tang!!!
Not a decommissioned shuttle, but they have a structural test article. However it was being refurbished.
However -- and more important to me -- they do have one of the three extant Saturn Vs inside. Plus they have a vertical full size model of one. And they have Apollo 16's CM (Casper) and a Skylab mockup in the museum as well.
That's fantastic Scott, I got to see the Apollo 8 CM in Chicago last month.
I visit the ASTP capsule fairly often, it's in the California Science Center in downtown LA (right next to the LA Coliseum).
And now that the National Air and Space is reopened, I'll probably be visiting Apollo 11 annually whenever I visit TrekGrrl.
Oh I haven't been to the CA Science Center in a hot minute, not since they got the shuttle. And yeah, I expect to be in DC next year, going to try to get out to the Air and Space annex out at Dulles