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01 December 2005

Who do you share a birthday with? →[More:]

Today is all about Amberglow (happy birthday!), of course (and Woody & Bette), but most folks get a kick out of knowing who shares their Birthdays. So spill! The Husband was born on the same day and year as Brian Boytano. That's hard to top.

post by: rainbaby at: 14:19 | 56 comments

Abe Vigoda!

posted by warbaby 01 December | 14:23

My birthday is tomorrow, same as Britney Spears. Little scary.

posted by Specklet 01 December | 14:26

Vincent Price and Andre 3000.
Beat that.

posted by Capn 01 December | 14:26

and...
Steven Jobs (Computer engineer, entrepreneur)
Edward James Olmos (actor)
Joe Lieberman (scumbag Vichy politician)
James Farentino (actor)
Mark Lane (attorney, author, kook)
Admiral Chester Nimitz (Naval officer)
Enrico Caruso (opera singer)
Winslow Homer (artist)
Wilhelm Grimm (author)

Hah!

posted by warbaby 01 December | 14:27

Thomas Merton, suck it haters.

Happy last day of the year,Specklet.

posted by danostuporstar 01 December | 14:28

Happy Early Birthday Specklet!

James K. Polk
Warren G. Harding
Nelly

posted by rainbaby 01 December | 14:28

Dustin Hoffman and The Edge

posted by knave 01 December | 14:29

Elvis, David Bowie, Sarah Polley, and one of the Doors (forgot which one). I missed Nixon by one day.

posted by goatdog 01 December | 14:31

And Stephen Hawking and Shirley Bassey.

posted by goatdog 01 December | 14:33

Marquis de Lafayette, he was all up in the English faces in the revolutionary war; Jane Curtin, and Tim Henman the british tennis player.

And as I found out the day I moved to Baltimore and had a beer at the Camden pub -- on my 20th birthday in 1995 Cal Ripken Jr. broke Lou Gehrig's streak.

posted by gaspode 01 December | 14:34

and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italy, scholar/platonist

posted by warbaby 01 December | 14:38

My birthday is tomorrow

Mine's the day after. Looks like we got us a MeCha Celebrity Birthday Trifecta.

I share that day with Jean-Luc Goddard, Ozzy Osbourne, Daryl Hannah, Julianne Moore, Katarina Witt, Brendan Fraser & Terri Schaivo.

Whatta lineup.

posted by jonmc 01 December | 14:44

Maurice and Robin Gibb, of Bee Gees fame; American newsperson Diane Sawyer; the late Ladybird Johnson, wife of President Lyndon B. Johnson; and the late, lamented Gene Rayburn, gameshow host of the gods.

posted by bmarkey 01 December | 14:47

Bob Marley
Carmen Miranda
William S. Burroughs
Christopher Guest
H.R. Giger
Hank Aaron

posted by matildaben 01 December | 14:48

Charles de Gaulle

Strangely, I look a lot like him.

posted by cmonkey 01 December | 14:49

Pia Zadora, Audrey Hepburn and (god help me) George F. Will. Here's where I found this vital information out.

posted by mygothlaundry 01 December | 14:52

-Amelia Earhart
-Zelda Fitzgerald
-Bella Abzug
-Anna Paquin
-Jennifer Lopez
-Barry Bonds
-Lynda Carter
-Michael Richards
-Alexandre Dumas

We throw great parties!

And happy birthday in advance Speck!

posted by safetyfork 01 December | 14:53

Sharing is overrated.

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 01 December | 14:57

Kevin Bacon!

... and Nelson & John D. Rockefeller.

Well, a feller could dream.

posted by porpoise 01 December | 14:57

Jonathan Taylor Thomas. You know, the kid from Home Improvement.

posted by YouCanCallMeAl 01 December | 15:04

Swift. Twain. Churchill. Mamet. Clay Aiken.

posted by stilicho 01 December | 15:04

My birthday is in nineteen days. I share it with Peter Criss and Billy Bragg. I like it better this way so I can put a stamp on it, instead of having a load of superpeople to compete with.

posted by dame 01 December | 15:09

Mine's the day after. Looks like we got us a MeCha Celebrity Birthday Trifecta.

And wasn't stilicho's yesterday? A Quadfecta?

posted by Specklet 01 December | 15:11

James Dean. Also Nick Nolte.

And I missed Alice Cooper by one day.

posted by BoringPostcards 01 December | 15:14

This girl who I find really annoying but runs in the same circle as me so we've had to share birthday gatherings. She's nice enough but she just grates on my nerves, you know?

Oh, and Saddam Hussein.

posted by papercake 01 December | 15:16

Happy birthday tomorrow Specklet, and the day after jonmc. And jon, I owe you an e-mail. Not this weekend, but soon after, some musings on Price.

Among others:
Aaliyah
kate Moss
Sade
Ronnie Milsap
Dizzy Dean
Ethel Merman

posted by tr33hggr 01 December | 15:21

Edgar Renteria
Bruce Dickinson
Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer
Louis Leakey
David Duchovny
Mata Hari
Charlize Theron
Wayne Knight

posted by tetsuo 01 December | 15:29

Jean-Luc Goddard, Ozzy Osbourne, Daryl Hannah, Julianne Moore, Katarina Witt, Brendan Fraser & Terri Schaivo.

The fact that Daryl Hannah and Terri Schaivo share a birthday seems inappropriate. You shouldn't serve fish with vegetables.

posted by jonmc 01 December | 15:34

Muhammad Ali, Bill Gates, Bruce Jenner, Randy Newman, Francis Bacon, Evelyn Waugh, and Francisco de Borgia.

posted by Smart Dalek 01 December | 15:34

Oy, jon, oy.

posted by Specklet 01 December | 15:41

Verne Troyer(Mini-Me)
Don Novello(SNL father Sarduci)
JD Salinger(Author)
Xavier Cugat(Latin Band leader)
J Edgar Hoover(FBI Head)
Betsy Ross(Designed US Flag)
Paul Revere(US Patriot)
E. M. Forster(Author)
Barry Goldwater(Politician)
Morgan Fisher (keyboards, Mott The Hopple)
Joseph Saddler (Grand master Flash)
Thomas Bangaltier(keyboards, Daft Punk)

posted by arse_hat 01 December | 15:46

Alexander Nevski and Peter the Great; Mel Blanc and Stepin Fetchit; Jerry Springer and July 1982 Playmate of the Month Lynda Wiesmeier; and Manny fuckin' Ramirez, yeah!

posted by Hugh Janus 01 December | 15:59

Dick Van Dyke Diagnosis Murder rocks

posted by flopsy 01 December | 16:16

Pope John Paul II and Rick Wakeman.

posted by tommasz 01 December | 16:21

They just called him that for the sake of the FCC, flopsy; his real name is Penis van Lesbian.

posted by Hugh Janus 01 December | 16:28

Lucy Lawless
Jennifer Capriati
Elle Macphereson
Sam Walton (heh)
Pearl Bailey
Cy Young
John Tyler

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 01 December | 16:42

My father-in-law and a bunch of crap celebrities. Also my wife's brother's girlfriend's sister.

posted by nomis 01 December | 16:47

Rutherford B. Hayes
Damon Runyon
Buster Keaton
Charlton Heston
Alvin Toffler
Anne Rice
Susan Sarandon
Alicia Silverstone
Rachael Leigh Cook
Sputnik

posted by rumple 01 December | 16:54

I am exactly one year older than country-music superstar (and fellow native Oklahoman) Garth Brooks.

I haven't sold nearly as many records as he has, but I still have all my hair.

posted by yhbc 01 December | 16:54

This is just a sneaky way of finding our real identities, isn't it?

posted by orthogonality 01 December | 16:57

Happy birthday Amberglow, and happy early birthdays to Specklet and jonmc!

I share my birthday with:
Three other people in my high school graduating class
The United Nations
Kevin Kline
Moss Hart
Bill Wyman
F. Murray Abraham
Kenny Holmes (same year)
Corey Dillon
B.D. Wong
Monica (the singer)
Ron Gardenhire
Rep. Mary Bono
Ian Baker-Finch
Caprice Bourret
and uh, Scott Peterson.

posted by sisterhavana 01 December | 17:54

Sinbad. Suck it, porpoises!

posted by eamondaly 01 December | 17:57

Leonard Nimoy
Diana Ross
Erica Jong
Paloma Picasso
James Caan
Robert Frost
Tennessee Williams
Sandra Day O'Connor
Bob Woodward
Leeza Gibbons
Keira Knightley
-and-
Easter (1967)

posted by go dog go 01 December | 18:08

Oh, man, Penis van Lesbian would be a great sock puppet name.

posted by matildaben 01 December | 18:11

: >

I also share with:
Mary Martin
David Doyle
Woody Allen
Lou Rawls
Richard Pryor
Bette Midler
Gilbert O'Sullivan
Treat Williams

posted by amberglow 01 December | 18:26

(altho Woody, Richard, Bette and Lucy from Dallas are the best ones)

posted by amberglow 01 December | 18:27

Tim Allen, Basil Rathbone, and the Olsen Twins.

posted by Eideteker 01 December | 18:36

Sir Francis Bacon
Jim Jarmusch
DJ Jazzy Jeff
Diane Lane
Chone Figgins

posted by panoptican 01 December | 19:25

Hitler.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 01 December | 19:53

Britney Spears.

posted by bunnyfire 01 December | 21:47

Lyndon Johnson and Pee Wee Herman

posted by briank 01 December | 22:20

the late Pope John Paul II
Perry Como
and Tina Fey

posted by ramix 02 December | 00:46

Woody Guthrie and, uh, MetaFilter

posted by bdave 02 December | 08:33

Tom Waits
Harry Chapin
Ellen Burstyn
Louis Prima
Eli Wallach

posted by moonbird 02 December | 08:48

Johann Sebastian Bach, with whom i also share initials

posted by Schyler523 02 December | 11:06

Vincent Price and Andre 3000.
Beat that

Osama Bin Laden.
seriously.

now beat that, my friends

posted by matteo 02 December | 12:51

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