Birthday Events

[Triple J]

You may use Wikipedia for this.
I thought this could be rather fun.

On your birthday, what famous stuff happened?
What celebrities or historical figures were born or died on your birthday?
This is just a fun way to know what dates some things happened.



I was born on May 20th
Same birthday as Tony Stewart(NASCAR driver if you aren't from America) and Cher.
Christopher Columbus Died.
And Gay and Lesbian Rights started.

Go.

[gordanthefree]

* 35 - Nerva, Roman Emperor (d. 98)
* 1342 - Julian of Norwich, English saint (d. 1416)
* 1431 - Vlad III the Impaler, Wallachian prince (d. 1476)
* 1491 - Teofilo Folengo, Italian poet (d. 1544)
* 1622 - King Charles X of Sweden (d. 1660)
* 1656 (N.S.) - Edmond Halley, British astronomer and mathematician (d. 1742)
* 1706 - Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German judge and philosopher (d. 1772)
* 1710 - Sarah Fielding, English writer (d. 1768)
* 1715 - Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Bevern, wife of Frederick II of Prussia (d. 1797)
* 1723 - John Byron, British naval officer (d. 1786)
* 1768 - Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom, (d. 1840)
* 1777 - Désirée Clary, queen of Sweden (d. 1860)
* 1836 - Milton Bradley, American game manufacturer (d. 1911)
* 1847 - Jean Casimir-Perier, French politician (d. 1907)
* 1847 - Bram Stoker, Irish novelist (d. 1912)
* 1848 - Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and logician (d. 1925)
* 1854 - Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (d. 1919)
* 1866 - Herbert Austin, English automobile pioneer (d. 1941)
* 1868 - Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician (d. 1942)
* 1869 - Zinaida Gippius, Russian woman-poet in exile in France (d. 1945)
* 1883 - Arnold Bax, English composer (d. 1953)
* 1884 - Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1922)
* 1885 - Hans Cloos, German geologist (d. 1951)
* 1885 - Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general (d. 1946)
* 1885 - Emil Fahrenkamp, German architect (d. 1966)
* 1893 - Clarence Williams, American composer (d. 1965)
* 1893 - Prajadhipok, Rama VII, king of Thailand (d. 1941)
* 1895 - Photios Kontoglou, Greek writer, painter and iconographer (d. 1965)
* 1896 - Bucky Harris, baseball player (d. 1977)
* 1897 - Dorothy Day, social activist (d. 1980)
* 1898 - Marie Prevost, Canadian actress (d. 1937)
* 1900 - Margaret Mitchell, American author (d. 1949)
* 1900 - Charlie Paddock, American athlete (d. 1943)
* 1904 - Cedric Belfrage English-born writer (d. 1990)
* 1908 - Martha Gellhorn, American writer (d. 1998)
* 1913 - June Havoc, American actress
* 1918 - Hermann Zapf, German designer
* 1919 - P. L. Deshpande, Indian author (d. 2000)
* 1920 - Esther Rolle, American actress (d. 1998)
* 1920 - Eugênio de Araújo Sales, Brazilian cardinal
* 1922 - Christiaan Barnard, South African heart surgeon (d. 2001)
* 1922 - Ademir Marques de Menezes, Brazilian footballer (d. 1996)
* 1923 - Jack Kilby, American electrical engineer, Nobel laureate (d. 2005)
* 1924 - Joe Flynn, American actor (d. 1974)
* 1927 - Ken Dodd, English comedian
* 1927 - Nguyen Khanh, Prime Minister of South Vietnam
* 1927 - Patti Page, American singer
* 1929 - António Castanheira Neves, Portuguese philosopher
* 1929 - Bobby Bowden, American football coach
* 1931 - Darla Hood, American actress (d. 1979)
* 1931 - Morley Safer, Canadian journalist
* 1933 - Peter Arundell, British racing driver
* 1935 - Alain Delon, French actor
* 1935 - Alfonso López Trujillo, Colombian Cardinal Bishop
* 1938 - Driss Basri, Moroccan Interior Minister (d. 2007)
* 1942 - Angel Cordero Jr., Puerto Rican jockey
* 1943 - Martin Peters, English footballer
* 1944 - Bonnie Bramlett, American singer (Delaney, Bonnie & Friends)
* 1945 - Don Murray, American musician (The Turtles)
* 1946 - Guus Hiddink, Dutch football coach
* 1946 - Roy Wood, English songwriter and musician (Electric Light Orchestra, The Move, Wizzard)
* 1947 - Minnie Riperton, American singer (d. 1979)
* 1949 - Bonnie Raitt, American singer
* 1950 - Mary Hart, American television personality
* 1951 - Alfredo Astiz, Argentine general
* 1952 - Jan Raas, Dutch cyclist
* 1952 - Christie Hefner, CEO of Playboy Enterprises
* 1952 - John Denny, American baseball player
* 1953 - Alfre Woodard, American actress
* 1954 - Michael D. Brown, U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency director
* 1954 - Kazuo Ishiguro, British author
* 1954 - Rickie Lee Jones, American singer
* 1954 - Jeanette McGruder, American musician (P Funk)
* 1956 - Richard Curtis, British screenwriter
* 1957 - Porl Thompson, British musician (The Cure)
* 1957 - Alan Curbishley, English football manager
* 1958 - Don Byron, American clarinetist
* 1960 - Oleg Menshikov, Russian actor
* 1960 - Michael Nyqvist, Swedish actor
* 1961 - Leif Garrett, American singer
* 1965 - Jeff Blauser, American baseball player
* 1965 - Craig Chester, American actor and screenwriter
* 1966 - Gordon Ramsay, British chef and reality television personality
* 1967 - Courtney Thorne-Smith, American actress
* 1967 - Henry Rodriguez, Dominican Republic baseball player
* 1968 - Parker Posey, American actress
* 1968 - Zara Whites, Dutch actress
* 1968 - Sergio Porrini, Italian footballer
* 1969 - Roxana Zal, American actress
* 1970 - Tom Anderson, co-founder of MySpace
* 1970 - José Francisco Porras, Costa Rican footballer
* 1970 - Diana King, Jamaican singer
* 1971 - Carlos Atanes, Spanish film director
* 1971 - Aaron Yates (Tech N9NE), American rapper
* 1972 - Gretchen Mol, American actress
* 1974 - Masashi Kishimoto, Japanese manga author
* 1974 - Seishi Kishimoto, Japanese manga author
* 1975 - Tara Reid, American actress
* 1975 - José Pinto, Spanish footballer
* 1976 - Brett Lee, Australian cricketer
* 1976 - Colin Strause, American director
* 1977 - Bucky Covington, American entertainer
* 1977 - Jully Black, Canadian R&B singer
* 1977 - Nick Punto, American baseball player
* 1978 - Ali Karimi, Iranian footballer
* 1978 - Júlio Sérgio Bertagnoli, Brazilian footballer
* 1978 - Tim de Cler, Dutch footballer
* 1978 - Maurice Evans, American basketball player
* 1978 - Spyros Gogolos, Greek footballer
* 1979 - Aaron Hughes, Northern Irish footballer
* 1981 - Joe Cole, English footballer
* 1982 - Mika Kallio, Finnish Grand Prix motorcycle racer
* 1983 - Kat Shoob, British television presenter
* 1983 - Blanka Vlašić, Croatian high jumper
* 1983 - Remko Pasveer, Dutch footballer
* 1984 - Nayanthara, Indian actress
* 1985 - Jack Osbourne, English television star
* 2003 - Lady Louise Windsor, British royal

[edit] Deaths

* 911 - Louis the Child, last Carolingian ruler of the East Franks (b. 893)
* 955 - Pope Agapetus II
* 1171 - Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut (b. 1108)
* 1195 - Conrad of Hohenstaufen
* 1226 - King Louis VIII of France (b. 1187)
* 1246 - Berenguela of Castile, wife of Alfonso IX of Castile (b. 1180)
* 1308 - Duns Scotus, Scottish philosopher
* 1517 - Francisco Cardinal Jiménez de Cisneros, Spanish statesman (b. 1436)
* 1527 - Jerome Emser, German theologian (b. 1477)
* 1599 - Francisco Guerrero, Spanish composer (b. 1528)
* 1600 - Natsuka Masaie, Japanese warlord (b. 1562)
* 1605 - Robert Catesby, English conspirator (b. 1573)
* 1658 - Witte Corneliszoon de With, Dutch naval officer (b. 1599)
* 1674 - John Milton, English poet (b. 1608)
* 1719 - Michel Rolle, French mathematician (b. 1652)
* 1817 - Andrea Appiani, Italian painter (b. 1754)
* 1830 - King Francis I of the Two Sicilies (b. 1777)
* 1887 - Doc Holliday, American gambler and gunfighter (b. 1851)
* 1890 - César Franck, Belgian composer and organist (b. 1822)
* 1905 - Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter (b. 1870)
* 1917 - Colin Blythe, English cricketer (b. 1879)
* 1921 - Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Slovak poet (b. 1849)
* 1934 - Carlos Chagas, Brazilian physician (b. 1879)
* 1944 - Walter Nowotny, Austrian/German fighter pilot (b. 1920)
* 1945 - August von Mackensen, German field marshal (b. 1849)
* 1949 - Cyriel Verschaeve, Belgian clergyman (b. 1874)
* 1953 - Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
* 1953 - John van Melle, South African author (b. 1887)
* 1959 - Frank Sherman Land, founder of DeMolay International (b. 1890)
* 1965 - Dorothy Kilgallen, American newspaper columnist (b. 1913)
* 1968 - Wendell Corey, American actor (b. 1914)
* 1970 - Huw Thomas Edwards, Welsh trade unionist and politician (b. 1892)
* 1974 - Ivory Joe Hunter, American R&B singer, pianist and songwriter (b. 1914)
* 1977 - Bucky Harris, baseball player (b. 1896)
* 1978 - Norman Rockwell, American illustrator (b. 1894)
* 1979 - Yvonne de Gaulle, wife of Charles de Gaulle (b. 1900)
* 1983 - Mordecai Kaplan, Rabbi, founded Reconstructionist Judaism (b. 1881)
* 1985 - Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourgish cyclist (b. 1899)
* 1986 - Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian politician (b. 1890)
* 1993 - Andrey Nikolayevich Tychonoff, Russian mathematician (b. 1906)
* 1994 - Michael O'Donoghue, American writer (b. 1940)
* 1998 - Jean Marais, French actor (b. 1913)
* 1999 - Lester Bowie, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1941)
* 1999 - Leon Štukelj, Slovenian gymnast (b. 1898)
* 2002 - Jon Elia, Pakistani scholar, poet and philosopher (b. 1931)
* 2003 - Bob Grant, English actor (b. 1932)
* 2003 - C. Z. Guest, American socialite (b. 1920)
* 2003 - Guy Speranza, American singer, original Riot frontman (b. 1956)
* 2005 - David Westheimer, American novelist (b. 1917)
* 2005 - Alekos Alexandrakis, Greek actor (b. 1928)
* 2006 - Basil Poledouris, American film score composer (b. 1945)
* 2007 - Dulce Saguisag, Filipino politician and former DSWD Secretary. (b. 1943)
* 2007 - Chad Varah founder of charity The Samaritans (b. 1911)


Is that what you mean?

[Inseln]

Whoa, Gordon, I shouldn't think so, that's way too much... Try a bit less...

eg
~1976 - The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, was unveiled by NASA.
~1991 - Guns N' Roses much anticipated Use Your Illusion albums were finally released.

[gordanthefree]

AHHHH, ok sorry, I'll edit it.

EDIT: sorry I won't be editing that, siffing through all of that would be a nightmare, just delete that post if you can if you are a moderator.

[OoooF4LiFe]

I share a birthday with Sean Connery.

There's plenty more that happened, but thats amazing enough for me.

[Ziggy St. Valentine]

23rd March.
Apparently this year some hairy arabic bloke named Jesus rose from the dead on the same day as my birthday.

[Tweek]

June 24

1374 - A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.

1692 - Kingston, Jamaica is founded.

1880 - First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada, at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français.

1991 - Tweek is born.

1993 - Yale computer science professor Dr. David Gelernter loses the sight in one eye, the hearing in one ear, and part of his right hand after receiving a mailbomb from the Unabomber.

[Pig Fucker]

June 26

*1284 - According to legend, the Pied Piper lures 130 children of Hamelin away.

*1963 - John F. Kennedy speaks the famous words "Ich bin ein Berliner" on a visit to West Berlin.

*1974 - Derek Jeter, greatest American baseball player ever, is born

*1977 - The Yorkshire Ripper kills 16 year old shop assistant Jayne MacDonald in Leeds, changing public perception of the killer as she was the first victim who was not a prostitute.

*2003 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional in Lawrence v. Texas.


It's also International Day in Support of Torture Victims, International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, and Madagascar Independence Day.

[Crabstick]

I share a birthday with Sean Connery.

Fuck me, so do I. We also got Billy Ray Cyrus, Gene Simmons and Claudia Schiffer.

[paper dreams]

August 7th

The Northern Hemisphere is considered to be halfway through its summer and the Southern Hemisphere half way through its winter on this day.

1782 - George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.

1945 - President Harry Truman announces the bombing of Hiroshima with an atomic bomb while returning from the Potsdam Conference aboard the heavy cruiser USS Augusta (CA-31) in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

1958: Arthur Miller cleared of contempt

Births:
1960 - David Duchovny, American actor
1963 - Harold Perrineau Jr., American actor
1975 - Charlize Theron, South African actress

Deaths:
1957 - Oliver Hardy, American comedian and actor (b. 1892)

[natalie137]

May 19th

Anne Boleyn was beheaded on this day for adultery. I've know that for years

[MSB]

March 10

Others that share my birthday:
- 1940 Chuck Norris
- 1957 Osama bin Laden
- 1958 Sharon Stone
- 1983 Carrie Underwood

Deaths
- 1913 Harriet Tubman, abolitionist, conductor on Underground RR, dies in NY
- 1988 Andy Gibb, singer, dies of heart infection at 30

Famous Events:
- 1876 The first telephone call was made by Alexander Graham Bell.
- 1969 James Earl Ray pleads guilty in murder of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- 1975 "Rocky Horror Show" opens at Belasco Theater New York City for 45 performances

[redbayredneck]

Feb 6th

1819 - Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore.
1895 - Babe Ruth, American baseball player born (d. 1948)
1911 - Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United born (d. 2004)
1962 - Axl Rose, American singer born (Guns N' Roses)
1966 - Rick Astley, British singer born
International Day Against Female Genital Mutilation

[Urser]

January 22

1840 - British colonists reach New Zealand.
1901 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom dies.
1927 - First live radio commentary of a football match anywhere in the world with the Arsenal F.C. vs. the Sheffield United at Highbury.
1952 - The first Jet airliner, the de Havilland Comet, enters service for BOAC.
1957 - The New York City "Mad Bomber," George P. Metesky, was arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and was charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
1962 - The Organization of American States suspends Cuba's membership.
1973 - A chartered Boeing 707 explodes in flames upon landing at Kano Airport, Nigeria killing 176.
1984 - The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, was introduced during Super Bowl XVIII with its famous "1984" television commercial.
2008 - Heath Ledger, Australian actor dies.

Those are the 'biggest' ones. The most notable one in my opinion is in bold. :hmm:

[P0K3M0N_MA5T3R]

1962 - Anthony Kiedis, American singer (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1963 - Rick Allen, British drummer (Def Leppard)
That's like it for November 1st, that's about the only interesting ones. My birthday sucks.

[History]

July 16th
Rather depressing if you ask me:
1945 - Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon at the Trinity site near Alamogordo, New Mexico.

1979 - Iraqi President Hasan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein.

1999 - John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette are killed in a plane crash off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. The Piper Saratoga aircraft was piloted by Kennedy.

2007 - An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 and aftershock of 6.6 occur off the Niigata coast, Japan, killing 8 people with at least 800 injured and damaging a nuclear power plant. See 2007 Chūetsu offshore earthquake.

On the bright side:
1955 - Original Disneyland park opens in Anaheim, California

[misc]

August 18th-

Since the dawn of time, only two vaguely interesting things have happened on this date, both in 1992-

-Kurt Cobains daughter was born
-The amusingly named Wang Laboratories was declared bankcrupt.

Oh there was something about womens suffrage somewhere as well.

[jewishjosh]

Absolutely nothing interesting happened on my birthday. Kofi Annan was born, Picasso died, and Kurt Cobain was found dead. That's about it.

Here's to hoping that my birth will bring honour to the list.

[Raxo]

January 15th

1892 - James Naismith publishes the rules for basketball.

1929 - Martin Luther King, Jr., American civil rights leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize is born (d. 1968)

1947 - The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short ("The Black Dahlia") is found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California.

1991 - The United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from occupied Kuwait expires, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm.

1991 - Also my the year I was born

2001 - Wikipedia, a free Wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.

The most notable in bold. Hooray for Wikipedia.

[Spiffy13]

October 18 - the only person I recognized was Lee Harvey Oswald, who I share the same birthday with :ahe:

[tjanator]

My birthday, April 26th, is much more dismal. D:
EVENTS:
--Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln's assassin, in Virginia. (1865)
--The German Gestapo (as in during the Holocaust) is established. (1933)
--NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon. (1962)
--57 people are killed by former Korean police officer Woo Bum-kon in a shooting spree in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea. (1982)
--A China Airlines Airbus A300-600R crashes at Nagoya Airport, Japan killing 264. (1994)<-- THE DAY I WAS LITERALLY BORN -.-'
BIRTHS:
The only one worth importance:
Jet Li, Chinese martial artist (1963)
DEATHS:
None worth mentioning...
HOLIDAYS:
Florida and Georgia, USA - Confederate Memorial Day.

USER WAS PUT IN TIMEOUT FOR THIS POST. (http://forums.explosm.net/eventlog.php)
Reason: Shitty thread necro.

[Grim]

2008: This. (http://forums.explosm.net/showthread.php?t=34194/)

[BKS]

Birthday
1926 - Fidel Castro
1899 - Alfred Hitchcock
1972 - Kevin Plank, American entrepreneur (Under Armour)

Deaths
1946 - H. G. Wells

Events
In Brazil, Friday 13 August (agosto) is considered to be especially filled with sorrow (desgosto).

International Lefthanders Day.

[KingInk]

Copy and paste (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_23#Births)

[tunacake]

September 13 is the 256th day of the year :aaa:

But seriously folks. Check this shit out:

1985 - Japan Super Mario Bros. released for the Nintendo Entertainment System.

[Hawke]

* 35 - Nerva, Roman Emperor (d. 98)
* 1342 - Julian of Norwich, English saint (d. 1416)
* 1431 - Vlad III the Impaler, Wallachian prince (d. 1476)
* 1491 - Teofilo Folengo, Italian poet (d. 1544)
* 1622 - King Charles X of Sweden (d. 1660)
* 1656 (N.S.) - Edmond Halley, British astronomer and mathematician (d. 1742)
* 1706 - Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German judge and philosopher (d. 1772)
* 1710 - Sarah Fielding, English writer (d. 1768)
* 1715 - Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Bevern, wife of Frederick II of Prussia (d. 1797)
* 1723 - John Byron, British naval officer (d. 1786)
* 1768 - Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom, (d. 1840)
* 1777 - Désirée Clary, queen of Sweden (d. 1860)
* 1836 - Milton Bradley, American game manufacturer (d. 1911)
* 1847 - Jean Casimir-Perier, French politician (d. 1907)
* 1847 - Bram Stoker, Irish novelist (d. 1912)
* 1848 - Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and logician (d. 1925)
* 1854 - Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (d. 1919)
* 1866 - Herbert Austin, English automobile pioneer (d. 1941)
* 1868 - Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician (d. 1942)
* 1869 - Zinaida Gippius, Russian woman-poet in exile in France (d. 1945)
* 1883 - Arnold Bax, English composer (d. 1953)
* 1884 - Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1922)
* 1885 - Hans Cloos, German geologist (d. 1951)
* 1885 - Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general (d. 1946)
* 1885 - Emil Fahrenkamp, German architect (d. 1966)
* 1893 - Clarence Williams, American composer (d. 1965)
* 1893 - Prajadhipok, Rama VII, king of Thailand (d. 1941)
* 1895 - Photios Kontoglou, Greek writer, painter and iconographer (d. 1965)
* 1896 - Bucky Harris, baseball player (d. 1977)
* 1897 - Dorothy Day, social activist (d. 1980)
* 1898 - Marie Prevost, Canadian actress (d. 1937)
* 1900 - Margaret Mitchell, American author (d. 1949)
* 1900 - Charlie Paddock, American athlete (d. 1943)
* 1904 - Cedric Belfrage English-born writer (d. 1990)
* 1908 - Martha Gellhorn, American writer (d. 1998)
* 1913 - June Havoc, American actress
* 1918 - Hermann Zapf, German designer
* 1919 - P. L. Deshpande, Indian author (d. 2000)
* 1920 - Esther Rolle, American actress (d. 1998)
* 1920 - Eugênio de Araújo Sales, Brazilian cardinal
* 1922 - Christiaan Barnard, South African heart surgeon (d. 2001)
* 1922 - Ademir Marques de Menezes, Brazilian footballer (d. 1996)
* 1923 - Jack Kilby, American electrical engineer, Nobel laureate (d. 2005)
* 1924 - Joe Flynn, American actor (d. 1974)
* 1927 - Ken Dodd, English comedian
* 1927 - Nguyen Khanh, Prime Minister of South Vietnam
* 1927 - Patti Page, American singer
* 1929 - António Castanheira Neves, Portuguese philosopher
* 1929 - Bobby Bowden, American football coach
* 1931 - Darla Hood, American actress (d. 1979)
* 1931 - Morley Safer, Canadian journalist
* 1933 - Peter Arundell, British racing driver
* 1935 - Alain Delon, French actor
* 1935 - Alfonso López Trujillo, Colombian Cardinal Bishop
* 1938 - Driss Basri, Moroccan Interior Minister (d. 2007)
* 1942 - Angel Cordero Jr., Puerto Rican jockey
* 1943 - Martin Peters, English footballer
* 1944 - Bonnie Bramlett, American singer (Delaney, Bonnie & Friends)
* 1945 - Don Murray, American musician (The Turtles)
* 1946 - Guus Hiddink, Dutch football coach
* 1946 - Roy Wood, English songwriter and musician (Electric Light Orchestra, The Move, Wizzard)
* 1947 - Minnie Riperton, American singer (d. 1979)
* 1949 - Bonnie Raitt, American singer
* 1950 - Mary Hart, American television personality
* 1951 - Alfredo Astiz, Argentine general
* 1952 - Jan Raas, Dutch cyclist
* 1952 - Christie Hefner, CEO of Playboy Enterprises
* 1952 - John Denny, American baseball player
* 1953 - Alfre Woodard, American actress
* 1954 - Michael D. Brown, U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency director
* 1954 - Kazuo Ishiguro, British author
* 1954 - Rickie Lee Jones, American singer
* 1954 - Jeanette McGruder, American musician (P Funk)
* 1956 - Richard Curtis, British screenwriter
* 1957 - Porl Thompson, British musician (The Cure)
* 1957 - Alan Curbishley, English football manager
* 1958 - Don Byron, American clarinetist
* 1960 - Oleg Menshikov, Russian actor
* 1960 - Michael Nyqvist, Swedish actor
* 1961 - Leif Garrett, American singer
* 1965 - Jeff Blauser, American baseball player
* 1965 - Craig Chester, American actor and screenwriter
* 1966 - Gordon Ramsay, British chef and reality television personality
* 1967 - Courtney Thorne-Smith, American actress
* 1967 - Henry Rodriguez, Dominican Republic baseball player
* 1968 - Parker Posey, American actress
* 1968 - Zara Whites, Dutch actress
* 1968 - Sergio Porrini, Italian footballer
* 1969 - Roxana Zal, American actress
* 1970 - Tom Anderson, co-founder of MySpace
* 1970 - José Francisco Porras, Costa Rican footballer
* 1970 - Diana King, Jamaican singer
* 1971 - Carlos Atanes, Spanish film director
* 1971 - Aaron Yates (Tech N9NE), American rapper
* 1972 - Gretchen Mol, American actress
* 1974 - Masashi Kishimoto, Japanese manga author
* 1974 - Seishi Kishimoto, Japanese manga author
* 1975 - Tara Reid, American actress
* 1975 - José Pinto, Spanish footballer
* 1976 - Brett Lee, Australian cricketer
* 1976 - Colin Strause, American director
* 1977 - Bucky Covington, American entertainer
* 1977 - Jully Black, Canadian R&B singer
* 1977 - Nick Punto, American baseball player
* 1978 - Ali Karimi, Iranian footballer
* 1978 - Júlio Sérgio Bertagnoli, Brazilian footballer
* 1978 - Tim de Cler, Dutch footballer
* 1978 - Maurice Evans, American basketball player
* 1978 - Spyros Gogolos, Greek footballer
* 1979 - Aaron Hughes, Northern Irish footballer
* 1981 - Joe Cole, English footballer
* 1982 - Mika Kallio, Finnish Grand Prix motorcycle racer
* 1983 - Kat Shoob, British television presenter
* 1983 - Blanka Vlašić, Croatian high jumper
* 1983 - Remko Pasveer, Dutch footballer
* 1984 - Nayanthara, Indian actress
* 1985 - Jack Osbourne, English television star
* 2003 - Lady Louise Windsor, British royal

[edit] Deaths

* 911 - Louis the Child, last Carolingian ruler of the East Franks (b. 893)
* 955 - Pope Agapetus II
* 1171 - Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut (b. 1108)
* 1195 - Conrad of Hohenstaufen
* 1226 - King Louis VIII of France (b. 1187)
* 1246 - Berenguela of Castile, wife of Alfonso IX of Castile (b. 1180)
* 1308 - Duns Scotus, Scottish philosopher
* 1517 - Francisco Cardinal Jiménez de Cisneros, Spanish statesman (b. 1436)
* 1527 - Jerome Emser, German theologian (b. 1477)
* 1599 - Francisco Guerrero, Spanish composer (b. 1528)
* 1600 - Natsuka Masaie, Japanese warlord (b. 1562)
* 1605 - Robert Catesby, English conspirator (b. 1573)
* 1658 - Witte Corneliszoon de With, Dutch naval officer (b. 1599)
* 1674 - John Milton, English poet (b. 1608)
* 1719 - Michel Rolle, French mathematician (b. 1652)
* 1817 - Andrea Appiani, Italian painter (b. 1754)
* 1830 - King Francis I of the Two Sicilies (b. 1777)
* 1887 - Doc Holliday, American gambler and gunfighter (b. 1851)
* 1890 - César Franck, Belgian composer and organist (b. 1822)
* 1905 - Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter (b. 1870)
* 1917 - Colin Blythe, English cricketer (b. 1879)
* 1921 - Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Slovak poet (b. 1849)
* 1934 - Carlos Chagas, Brazilian physician (b. 1879)
* 1944 - Walter Nowotny, Austrian/German fighter pilot (b. 1920)
* 1945 - August von Mackensen, German field marshal (b. 1849)
* 1949 - Cyriel Verschaeve, Belgian clergyman (b. 1874)
* 1953 - Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
* 1953 - John van Melle, South African author (b. 1887)
* 1959 - Frank Sherman Land, founder of DeMolay International (b. 1890)
* 1965 - Dorothy Kilgallen, American newspaper columnist (b. 1913)
* 1968 - Wendell Corey, American actor (b. 1914)
* 1970 - Huw Thomas Edwards, Welsh trade unionist and politician (b. 1892)
* 1974 - Ivory Joe Hunter, American R&B singer, pianist and songwriter (b. 1914)
* 1977 - Bucky Harris, baseball player (b. 1896)
* 1978 - Norman Rockwell, American illustrator (b. 1894)
* 1979 - Yvonne de Gaulle, wife of Charles de Gaulle (b. 1900)
* 1983 - Mordecai Kaplan, Rabbi, founded Reconstructionist Judaism (b. 1881)
* 1985 - Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourgish cyclist (b. 1899)
* 1986 - Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian politician (b. 1890)
* 1993 - Andrey Nikolayevich Tychonoff, Russian mathematician (b. 1906)
* 1994 - Michael O'Donoghue, American writer (b. 1940)
* 1998 - Jean Marais, French actor (b. 1913)
* 1999 - Lester Bowie, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1941)
* 1999 - Leon Štukelj, Slovenian gymnast (b. 1898)
* 2002 - Jon Elia, Pakistani scholar, poet and philosopher (b. 1931)
* 2003 - Bob Grant, English actor (b. 1932)
* 2003 - C. Z. Guest, American socialite (b. 1920)
* 2003 - Guy Speranza, American singer, original Riot frontman (b. 1956)
* 2005 - David Westheimer, American novelist (b. 1917)
* 2005 - Alekos Alexandrakis, Greek actor (b. 1928)
* 2006 - Basil Poledouris, American film score composer (b. 1945)
* 2007 - Dulce Saguisag, Filipino politician and former DSWD Secretary. (b. 1943)
* 2007 - Chad Varah founder of charity The Samaritans (b. 1911)


Is that what you mean?

First off, Laughing my ass off ^

Secondly, I had to do this shit for a 9th grade English Project. This isn't a fun game. But the only cool thing found that happened was that Confucious was born on the same exact day as I was born on. Yes people, THE confucious.

[Connor989]

March 29,
1058 - Pope Stephen IX died
2004 - The Republic of Ireland becomes the first country in the world to ban smoking in all work places, including bars and restaurants.
1991 - Me
1985 - Maxim Lapierre, Canadian ice hockey forward
1985 - Mickey Pimentel, National Football League linebacker

[Echo]

November 10

I couldn't find much, but two Popes died on my birthdate, Pope Celestine IV and Pope Paul III. Thats kinda special, right?

[Ricette]

March 19
1863 - The SS Georgiana, said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, medicines and merchandise then valued at over $1,000,000. The wreck was discovered on the same day and month, exactly 102 years later by then teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence
1918 - The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time.
2008 - GRB 080319B: A cosmic burst that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye was briefly observed on this day.
1848 - Wyatt Earp, American policeman and gunfighter (d. 1929)
1955 - Bruce Willis, American actor
1987 - Me
Mojoday (Discordianism)

[Riddlebox]

September 22
Events

1692 - Last people hanged for witchcraft in the United States.

1862 - Slavery in the United States: A preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released.

1888 - The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published

1893 - The first American-built automobile, built by the Duryea Brothers, is displayed.

1941 - On Jewish New Year Day, German SS murder 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsya, Ukraine. Those were the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed. :wail:

1980 - Iraq invades Iran.

Births
-Michael Faraday, English scientist
-Paul Muni, Polish-born actor
-Arthur Lowe, British actor
-Tom Felton, English actor

Deaths
1253 - Dogen, Japanese Zen Buddhist
1774 - Pope Clement XIV (b. 1705)
1775 - Matthew Wright, executed for killing Pope Clement XIV :lol:
1828 - Shaka Zulu, Zulu leader

There were lots of other things that were interesting but those were the only ones I recognized.

[Shmuh]

JUne 9th, I share birthdays with Johnny Depp and Michael J. Fox. Woo.

[Frobes]

Nothing really important happened on Jan 23, event wise

Born:
1969 - Brendan Shanahan, Canadian ice hockey player
1953 - Robin Zander, American singer (Cheap Trick)
1737 - John Hancock, American statesman (d. 1793)
1979 - Larry Hughes, American basketball player

I put Shanahan and Hughes because I' ve heard of them.

Deaths:
1803 - Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (b. 1725)
1989 - Salvador Dalí, Catalan artist (b. 1904)
2005 - Johnny Carson, American television host (b. 1925)

[lobster bisque anyone?]

April 15

Fuckin Tax Day!
1865-Abe Lincoln dies
1492-Leonardo Da Vinci gets born
1912-Titanic Sinks
1990-Emma Watson is born
2001-Joey Ramone dies

[/.\]

July 4th :ahe:

Aside from the whole founding of the United States thing:

1827: Slavery abolished in New York
1872: Calvin Coolidge is born
1886: Statue of Liberty dedicated
1997: Pathfinder lands on Mars

Being born on a holiday sucks ass.

[Subways4life]

October 28th.

I share a birthday with Bill Gates! Does that mean I'll invent something better than a computer and make billions of dollars?

[The_Solipsist]

July 10th

Nikola Tesla shares my birthday, holy crap!

1997 - London, scientists report their DNA analysis findings from a Neandertal skeleton which support the out of Africa theory of human evolution placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.

48 BC - Battle of Dyrrhachium, Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia.

1796 - Carl Friedrich Gauss discovers that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most three triangular numbers.

1925 - Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher, is accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.

Not too shabby.

[Slutty McBangerton]

I have the same birthday as Quentin Tarantino, Mariah Carrey (ew), Fergie (ew), and a bunch of other people I've never heard of.

Apparantly it's National "Joe" day :indiff:

[allizdog]

I share my birthday with Monica Belluci :hmm:,Martina Hingis, and Tory Lane :dance: :heya:
Also Ehud Olmert :ahe:

The double murder of Jack the Ripper occurs on my birthday, and James Dean's car accident death as well.

Henry IV is proclaimed King of England. :cheerio:

Friederich Nietzsche declared September 30th, 1888 to be the "the day of salvation, on the first day of the Year One" :fmita:

[Benjaman]

March 20th:

Events:

Vernal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere
Autumnal equinox in the Southern Hemisphere
Date of the traditional Iranian holiday
Norouz
Great Fire of Boston, Massachusetts
US Senate makes peace treaty with Japan
John Lennon and Yoko ono get married



Births:

Napoleon II of France
Pretty much nobody else important


Deaths:

King Henry IV of England
Pretty much nobody else important

[Werty]

April 7th

Events
1827 - John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction match. He had invented it the previous year.
1906 - Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
1940 - Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
1945 - World War II: The Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, is sunk 200 miles north of Okinawa while en-route to a suicide mission in Operation Ten-Go.
1969 - The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1.

Births
1860 - Will Keith Kellogg, American cereal manufacturer
1897 - Erich Loewenhardt, German flying ace of World War I
1954 - Jackie Chan, Chinese actor, action choreographer, film director, producer, martial artist, comedian, screenwriter, singer and stunt performer.
1964 - Russell Crowe, New Zealand actor

[Roxi]

April 20th

I know Hitler was born on that day, the Columbine shootings happened, and there's the whole "National Pot Smoking Day" thing.

I also found out
1916 - Chicago Cubs played their first game at Weeghman Park (currently Wrigley Field), defeating the Cincinnati Reds 7-6 in 11 innings

So, y'know, go Cubs!

Bram Stoker died too.

[Tastychainsaws]

May 4th.

Edward, the prince of Whales was killed. Interesting since I slightly descend from there.

Al Capone goes to jail.

1970 - Vietnam War: Kent State shootings: the Ohio National Guard, sent to Kent State University after disturbances in the city of Kent the weekend before, open fire killing four students and wounding nine others. The students were protesting the United States' invasion of Cambodia.

1945 - World War II: The surrender of the North Germany Army to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.

[Cristo]

June 2nd

Events

# 455 - The Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks.

# 1098 - First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city. The second siege would later start on June 7.

# 1692 - Bridget Bishop is the first person to go to trial in the Salem witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts, is found guilty, and would go on to be hanged on June 10.

# 1800 - The first smallpox vaccination in North America, at Trinity, Newfoundland.

# 1925 - Because of a lineup shakeup by Miller Huggins, Wally Pipp is replaced by Lou Gehrig at first base for the New York Yankees, beginning a streak of 2,130 consecutive games played, topped only by Cal Ripken, Jr. in 1995. Exactly 16 years to the day, in 1941, Gehrig passes away from Amyotropic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

# 1975 - French sex workers occupied a Lyon church in protest against excessive fines and taxes, as well as a lack of police action against violence, thereby sparking the birth of the modern sex worker rights movement.

# 1992 - Denmark rejects the Maastricht Treaty by a thin margin in a national referendum.

# 1999 - The Bhutan Broadcasting Service brings television transmissions to the Kingdom for the first time.

Births

1941 - Charlie Watts, English musician (The Rolling Stones)

1946 - Peter Sutcliffe, English murderer

1972 - Wentworth Miller, American actor

1976 - Queen 'Masenate Mohato Seeiso, Queen consort of Lesotho

1982 - Jewel Staite, Canadian actress

[UncleDuck2]

February 28th

Events:

1. 1854 - The Republican Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin. (I'm shivering and ashamed at the same time)

2. 1939 - The erroneous word "Dord" is discovered in the Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition, prompting an investigation.

3. 1958 – A school bus in Floyd County, Kentucky hits a wrecker truck and plunges down an embankment into the rain-swollen Levisa Fork River. The driver and 26 children die in what remains the worst school bus accident in U.S. history.

4. 1986 - Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden, is assassinated in Stockholm. (This is my actual birth date)

5. 1991 - The first Gulf War ends. (Allright!!!! Hoping for the second one as well)

Births:

1945 - Bubba Smith, American football player and actor

1957 - John Turturro, American actor (He's awesome, I just love that man!)

1961 - Eric Bachelart, Belgian racing driver (Have to support my country ;))

1969 - Butch Leitzinger, American race car driver

1970 - Daniel Handler, American writer, better known as Lemony Snicket

1976 - Ali Larter, American actress and model

1989 - Zhang Liyin, Chinese R&B singer

[gizzalove]

January 3ed Mel Gibsons birthday and Hitlers fathers death. Oh also 1977 - Apple Computer is incorporated.

[Haggis McSpud]

Woo, September the 18th is the same day as the Anti - Corn Law League and the Irish Home Rule Act are established - interesting because I learnt about them in History this year! It's also the day Jimi Hendrix died and Chili's independence day. I'm so happy I could pee.

[madcaster]

may 22

1906 – The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine".

1960 – An earthquake measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, now known as the Great Chilean Earthquake, hits southern Chile. It is the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.

1980 – Namco releases the highly influential video game Pacman. :lol:

I only posted some good stuff

[PoonCyclone]

October 9th

1981 - the abolition of capital punishment in France.
1989 - An official news agency in the Soviet Union reports a UFO landing in Voronezh.
1992 - a 13 kilogram part of a meteorite lands in someones driveway in Peekskill, New York, destroying their 1980 Chev Malibu.

I've also got the same birthday as Sharon Osbourne.