What happened on the date of your birth?

[Condog]

Post the most interesting thing that happened on the date of your birth. (Besides you being born, of course.) It's easy, just wiki the date of your birth, and choose something from the list of Events, Births, Deaths, or Holidays and Observances

On 14th March, Albert Einstein was born.

EDIT :: If you were born on a well known date, like Christmas for example, please choose something a bit less known. ;)

[Starcross64]

On January the 11th John A. Macdonald, 1st Prime Minister of Canada, and Jean Chrétien, 20th Prime Minister of Canada, were born.

[notsteve]

st. patrick's day.

[29403]

Another Einstein related date...

On the 18 April, Albert Einstein died...

[Kablizzy]

I was born on Blizzday.

[jackass]

Here is a list of births on 24th September (my b'day)

15 - Vitellius, Roman Emperor (d. 69)
1301 - Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford, English soldier (d. 1372)
1501 - Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician (d. 1576)
1513 - Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, Queen of Sweden (d. 1535)
1534 - Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (d. 1581)
1564 - William Adams, British navigator (d. 1620)
1583 - Albrecht von Wallenstein, Austrian general (d. 1634)
1625 - Johan de Witt, Dutch politician (d. 1672)
1705 - Leopold Josef Graf Daun, Austrian field marshal (d. 1766)
1717 - Horace Walpole, British novelist and politician (d. 1797)
1725 - Sir Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (d. 1803)
1739 - Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin, Russian statesman (d. 1791)
1755 - John Marshall, 4th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1835)
1801 - Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Ukrainian scientist (d. 1862)
1802 - Adolphe d'Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist (d. 1868)
1817 - Ramón de Campoamor y Campoosorio, Spanish poet and philosopher (d. 1901)
1829 - Charles S. West, Texas jurist and politician (d. 1885)
1858 - Eugene Foss, 45th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1939)
1870 - Georges Claude, French chemist and inventor (d. 1960)
1871 - Lottie Dod, English athlete (d. 1960)
1878 - C. F. Ramuz, Swiss writer (d. 1947)
1884 - Gustave Garrigou, French cyclist (d. 1963)
1884 - Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (d. 1953)
1890 - Mike González, baseball player (d. 1977)
1890 - A. P. Herbert, British humorist, barrister, novelist (d. 1971)
1892 - Adélard Godbout, premier of Québec (d. 1956)
1894 - Tommy Armour, Anglo-American golfer (d. 1968)
1895 - André Frédéric Cournand, French Nobel Laureate (d. 1988)
1896 - F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist (d. 1940)
1898 - Howard Walter Florey, Nobel Laureate (d. 1968)
1899 - Sir William Dobell, Australian portrait artist (d. 1970)
1900 - Ham Fisher, American cartoonist (d. 1955)
1902 - Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian politician, religious figure, and political leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution (d. 1989)
1905 - Severo Ochoa, Nobel Laureate (d. 1993)
1909 - Gerard Ciołek, Polish architect (d. 1966)
1910 - Jean Servais, Belgian actor (d. 1976)
1911 - Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet premier (d. 1985)
1912 - Don Porter, American actor (d. 1997)
1914 - Sir John Kerr, 18th Governor-General of Australia (d. 1991)
1918 - Audra Lindley, American actress (d. 1997)
1919 - Dayton Allen, American actor and comedian (d. 2004)
1920 - Richard Bong, American ace fighter pilot and Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1945)
1921 - Jim McKay, American sportscaster (d. 2008)
1922 - Cornell MacNeil, American baritone
1923 - Louis Edmonds, American actor (d. 2001)
1923 - Fats Navarro, American jazz trumpet player (d. 1950)
1924 - Nina Bocharova, Soviet gymnast
1924 - Theresa Merritt, American actress (d. 1998)
1924 - Sheila MacRae, singer & actress
1925 - Autar Singh Paintal, Indian medical scientist (d. 2004)
1927 - Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (d. 1999)
1929 - Edward M. Lawson, Canadian politician
1930 - Józef Krupiński, Polish poet (d. 1998)
1930 - Angelo Muscat, Maltese actor (d. 1977)
1930 - John W. Young, American astronaut
1931 - Anthony Newley, British actor and singer (d. 1999)
1931 - Mike Parkes, British Formula One driver (d. 1977)
1932 - Dominique Michel, Canadian comedian
1934 - Tommy Anderson, Scottish footballer
1934 - John Brunner, British author (d. 1995)
1934 - Manfred Wörner, German politician and diplomat (d. 1994)
1935 - Sean McCann, Canadian actor
1936 - Jim Henson, American puppeteer (d. 1990)
1940 - Yves Navarre, French writer (d. 1994)
1941 - Linda McCartney, American singer (d. 1998)
1941 - John Mackey, football player
1942 - Ilkka "Danny" Lipsanen, Finnish singer
1942 - Gerry Marsden, English singer (Gerry and the Pacemakers)
1944 - Diana Körner, German actress
1945 - Lou Dobbs, American journalist
1946 - "Mean" Joe Greene, American football player
1946 - Lars Emil Johansen, Prime Minister of Greenland
1947 - Erik Hivju, Norwegian actor
1948 - Heinz Chur, German composer
1948 - Gordon Clapp, American actor
1948 - Phil Hartman, Canadian actor (d. 1998)
1950 - Alan Colmes, American talk show host
1950 - Mohinder Amarnath, Indian cricketer
1950 - Kristina Wayborn, Swedish actress
1951 - Douglas Kmiec, American legal scholar
1952 - Mark Sandman, American musician (d. 1999)
1955 - Riccardo Illy, Italian politician
1956 - Hubie Brooks, American baseball player
1957 - Tod Howarth, American rock musician
1958 - Kevin Sorbo, American actor
1959 - Steve Whitmire, American voice actor
1961 - Allen Bestwick, Nascar broadcaster
1961 - John Logan, American screenwriter
1962 - Jack Dee, British comedian
1962 - Rosamund Kwan, Hong Kong actress
1962 - Ally McCoist, Scottish footballer
1962 - Mike Phelan, English footballer
1962 - Nia Vardalos, Canadian actress
1964 - Rafael Palmeiro, Cuban-born baseball player
1965 - Sean McNabb, American bassist (Quiet Riot, Great White, Rough Cutt, House of Lords)
1966 - Stacy Galina, American actress
1966 - Bernard Gilkey, Baseball player
1966 - Michael J. Varhola, American author
1969 - Shawn "Clown" Crahan, American musician (Slipknot)
1969 - Shamim Sarif, English novelist and filmmaker
1969 - Donald DeGrate, Jr., American music producer
1969 - Goya Toledo, Spanish actress and model
1969 - Megan Ward, American actress
1971 - Michael S. Engel, American paleontologist and entomologist
1971 - Kevin Millar, American baseball player
1971 - Peter Salisbury, English drummer (The Verve)
1973 - Eddie George, American football player
1974 - John McDonald, American baseball player
1975 - Kyle Turley, football player
1975 - Mike Gallay, Canadian comedian and filmmaker
1976 - Carlos Almeida, Angolan basketball player
1976 - Stephanie McMahon-Levesque, American professional wrestler
1977 - Frank Fahrenhorst, German footballer
1978 - Wietse van Alten, Dutch archer
1978 - Tarek Saab, American TV show contestant
1979 - Justin Bruening, American actor
1979 - Fábio Aurélio, Brazilian footballer
1979 - Katja Kassin, German pornographic actress
1979 - Ross Mathews, American television personality and comedian
1980 - Daniele Bennati, Italian professional road racing cyclist
1980 - Dean Canto, Australian racing driver
1980 - Sabrine Maui, Filipino/American pornographic actress
1980 - Petri Pasanen, Finnish footballer
1980 - John Arne Riise, Norwegian footballer
1981 - Drew Gooden, American basketball player
1981 - Ryan Briscoe, Australian racing driver
1982 - Morgan Hamm, American gymnast
1982 - Paul Hamm, American gymnast
1982 - Jeff Karstens, American baseball player
1983 - Randy Foye, American basketball player
1984 - Szilvia Molnar, Swedish writer
1986 - Leah Dizon, American model and singer
1987 - Spencer Treat Clark, American actor
1987 - Matthew Connolly, English footballer
1988 - Karl Alzner, Canadian ice hockey player
1988 - Kyle Sullivan, American actor
1988 - Lisa Wang, American gymnast

[Riobe]

Well, the autumnal equinox is on September 22nd.
There are only 100 days away from the end of the year on this date.
In 1975, Sara Jane Moore tried to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but was foiled by Oliver Sipple.

Yeah, if only this was about what's special about your birthdate...

I was born on Blizzday.

Hahahahaha.

jackass77, that was totally taken from Wikipedia, just like mine.

[jackass]

Haha yup ... my most useful resource

[乳头的早餐谷物]

On the 30th of January, 1661, Oliver Cromwell was posthumously executed.

[Izzy]

November 16:

1938 - LSD is first synthesized by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland.
1945 - UNESCO is founded.

I found those interesting.

[t̷s͢uk̕a͡t͜ư]

Birthday of Catherine the Great, and one Alexander Bonnyman, Jr., who received a medal of honor:

For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty as Executive Officer of the Second Battalion Shore Party, Eighth Marines, Second Marine Division, during the assault against enemy Japanese-held Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands, from 20 to November 22, 1943. (Acting on his own initiative when assault troops were pinned down at the far end of Betio Pier by the overwhelming fire of Japanese shore batteries, First Lieutenant Bonnyman repeatedly defied the blasting fury of the enemy bombardment to organize and lead the besieged men over the long, open pier to the beach and then, voluntarily obtaining flame throwers and demolitions, organized his pioneer shore party into assault demolitions and directed the blowing of several hostile installations before the close of D-Day. Determined to effect an opening in the enemy's strongly organized defense line the following day, he voluntarily crawled approximately forty yards forward of our lines and placed demolitions in the entrance of a large Japanese emplacement as the initial move in his planned attack against the heavily garrisoned, bombproof installation which was stubbornly resisting despite the destruction early in the action of a large number of Japanese who had been inflicting heavy casualties on our forces and holding up our advance. Withdrawing only to replenish his ammunition, he led his men in a renewed assault, fearlessly exposing himself to the merciless slash of hostile fire as he stormed the formidable bastion, directed the placement of demolition charges in both entrances and sized the top of the bombproof position, flushing more than one hundred of the enemy who were instantly cut down and effecting the annihilation of approximately one hundred and fifty troops inside the emplacement. Assailed by additional Japanese after he had gained his objective, he made a heroic stand on the edge of the structure, defending his strategic position with indomitable determination in the face of the desperate charge and killing three of the enemy before he fell, mortally wounded. By his dauntless fighting spirit, unrelenting aggressiveness and forceful leadership throughout three days of unremitting, violent battle, First Lieutenant Bonnyman had inspired his men to heroic effort, enabling them to beat off the counterattack and break the back of hostile resistance in the sector for an immediate gain of four hundred yards with no further casualties to our forces in this zone. He gallantly gave his life for his country.

[a happy song]

10th of March

• 1629 - Charles I of England dissolves Parliament, starting the Eleven Years Tyranny in which there was no parliament.
  1876 - Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
  1982 - Syzygy: all 9 planets align on the same side of the Sun. See also Jupiter effect.
  2006 - The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.

[Al Capwnage]

March 24, 1934 - William Smith, American actor was born (lol, not Hancock or the guy from Men in Black, in fact I don't even know who this Will Smith is.)

March 24, Dyngus Day in Poland LOL!

Also I was born the same year as the first Jurassic Park Movie was released. Awesome.

My mom funny enough was born on March, 22, and my dad was born on March 20.

[wumbla]

may 6 1882-The United States Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act.
intresting
Chris Shiflett, Guitarist for Foo Fighters
SWEET

[LittleViking]

March 23

Events
1775 - American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his famous speech -"give me liberty or give me death" at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia.
1857 - Elisha Otis's first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway New York City.
1868 - The University of California is founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Act is signed into law.
1903 - The Wright Brothers apply for a patent on their invention of one of the first successful airplanes.
1919 - In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement.
1933 - The Reichstag passes the Enabling act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.
1989 - Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announce cold fusion at the University of Utah.
2001 - The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.

Birthdays
1645 - William Kidd, Pirate Legend From Scotland (d. 1701)
1749 - Pierre Simon de Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1827)
1887 - Prince Felix Yussupov, Russian assassin of Rasputin (d. 1967)
1910 - Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director (d. 1998)
1912 - Wernher von Braun, German-born physicist and engineer (d. 1977)
1933 - Philip Zimbardo, American psychologist, known for the Stanford prison experiment
1937 - Robert Gallo, American physician, co-discoverer of HIV
1957 - Amanda Plummer, American actress (chick who held up the diner in Pulp Fiction)
1968 - Damon Albarn, English musician (Blur and Gorillaz)
1976 - Keri Russell, American actress


AF's not going to post because he doesn't visit the forums, but he shares a birthday with Bruce Lee, Jimi Hendrix and Bill Nye.

[ninja143]

January 19

Edgar Allen Poe was born 1807.
Robert E. Lee born in 1809
Ham the Chimp died on my birthday in 1983

[lookatthisisgoodatn]

In 1996 a few popular games were made for the PS1, which I think was also made then.

[GamingWolf]

October 9th.

-EVENTS-
768 - Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned Kings of The Franks.
1003 - Leif Erikson lands in L'Anse aux Meadows, Canada, becoming the first known European to reach North America.
1238 - James I of Aragon conquers Valencia and founds the Kingdom of Valencia.
1446 - The hangul alphabet is published in Korea.
1514 - Marriage of Louis XII of France and Mary Tudor.
1558 - Mérida is founded in Venezuela.
1582 - Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1595 - The Spanish army captures Cambrai.
1604 - Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way.
1635 - Founder of Rhode Island Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident after he speaks out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away Native American land.
1701 - The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
1760 - Seven Year's War: Russian forces occupy Berlin.
1771 - The Dutch merchant ship Vrouw Maria sinks near the coast of Finland.
1776 - Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California.
1799 - Sinking of HMS Lutine, with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000.
1804 - Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded.
1806 - Prussia declares war on France.
1812 - War of 1812: In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships: HMS Detroit and HMS Caledonia.
1820 - Guayaquil declares independence from Spain.
1824 - Slavery is abolished in Costa Rica.
1831 - Capo d'Istria is assassinated.
1835 - The Royal College, Colombo in Sri Lanka is established with the name Hillstreet Academy.
1837 - A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.
1845 - The eminent and controversial Anglican, John Henry Newman, is received into the Roman Catholic Church.
1854 - Crimean War: The siege of Sebastopol begins.
1861 - American Civil War: Battle of Santa Rosa Island - Union troops repel a Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Tom's Brook - Union cavalrymen in the Shenandoah Valley defeat Confederate forces at Tom's Brook, Virginia.
1871 - The Great Chicago Fire is brought under control.
1874 - General Postal Union is created as a result of the Treaty of Berne.
1888 - The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public.
1911 - An accidental bomb explosion in Hankou, Wuhan, China leads to the ultimate fall of the Qing Empire
1914 - World War I: Siege of Antwerp - Antwerp, Belgium falls to German troops.
1919 - Black Sox scandal: The Cincinnati Reds "win" the World Series.
1934 - Regicide at Marseille: The assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France.
1936 - Generators at Boulder Dam (later renamed to Hoover Dam) begin to generate electricity from the Colorado River and transmit it 266 miles to Los Angeles, California.
1940 - World War II: Battle of Britain - During a night-time air raid by the German Luftwaffe, St. Paul's Cathedral in the City of London, England is hit by a bomb.
1941 - A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.
1942 - Statute of Westminster 1931 formalises Australian autonomy.
1942 - The last day of the October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps forces withdraw back across the Matanikau River after destroying most of the Imperial Japanese Army's 4th Infantry Regiment.
1945 - Parade in NYC for Fleet Admiral Nimitz and 13 USN/USMC Medal of Honor recipients
1962 - Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.
1963 - In northeast Italy, over 2,000 people are killed when a large landslide behind the Vajont Dam causes a giant wave of water to overtop it.
1967 - A day after being captured, Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
1969 - In Chicago, the United States National Guard is called in for crowd control as demonstrations continue in connection with the trial of the "Chicago Eight" that began on September 24.
1970 - The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.
1981 - Abolition of capital punishment in France.
1983 - Rangoon bombing: attempted assassination of South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan during an official visit to Rangoon, Burma. Chun survives but the blast kills 17 of his entourage, including four cabinet ministers, and injures 17 others. Four Burmese officials also die in the blast.
1986 - The musical The Phantom of the Opera has its first performance at Her Majesty's Theatre in London.
1989 - An official news agency in the Soviet Union reports the landing of a UFO in Voronezh.
1989 - In Leipzig, East Germany, 70,000 protesters demand the legalisation of opposition groups and democratic reforms.
1991 - Ecuador becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1992 - A 13 kilogram (est.) fragment of the Peekskill meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York, destroying the family's 1980 Chevrolet Malibu
1995 - An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona.
1999 - The last flight of the SR-71.
2001 - Second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attack.
2006 - North Korea allegedly tests its first nuclear device.

-BIRTHS-
1201 - Robert de Sorbon, French theologian and founder of the Sorbonne (d. 1274)
1221 - Salimbene di Adam, Italian chronicler
1261 - King Dinis of Portugal (d. 1325)
1328 - King Peter I of Cyprus (d. 1369)
1581 - Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician (d. 1638)
1585 - Heinrich Schütz, German composer (d. 1672)
1586 - Archduke Leopold V of Austria (d. 1632)
1704 - Ján Andrej Segner, Slovak and German mathematician, physicist, and physician (d. 1777)
1757 - King Charles X of France (d. 1836)
1796 - Joseph Bonomi the Younger, English Egyptologist (d. 1878)
1835 - Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (d. 1921)
1840 - Simeon Solomon, British artist (d. 1905)
1852 - Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
1859 - Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer (d. 1935)
1871 - George Gauthier, Bishop of Montreal and rector of the Université de Montréal (d. 1940)
1871 - Didak Buntić, Croatian monk and scholar.
1873 - Karl Schwarzschild, German physicist and astronomer (d. 1916)
1873 - Charles Walgreen, American entrepreneur (d. 1939)
1873 - Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist (d. 1944)
1874 - Nicholas Roerich, Russian painter (d. 1947)
1879 - Max von Laue, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960)
1886 - Rube Marquard, American baseball player (d. 1980)
1888 - Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician (d. 1938)
1890 - Aimee Semple McPherson, American evangelist (d. 1944)
1892 - Ivo Andrić, Serbian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
1892 - Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (d. 1941)
1893 - Mário de Andrade, Brazilian writer and photographer (d. 1945)
1900 - Alastair Sim, Scottish actor (d. 1976)
1902 - Freddie Young, British cinematographer (d. 1998)
1903 - Walter O'Malley, American baseball executive (d. 1979)
1906 - Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese poet and politician (d. 2001)
1907 - Quintin Hogg, British politician (d. 2001)
1907 - Jacques Tati, French filmmaker (d. 1982)
1908 - Harry Hooton, Australian poet (d. 1961)
1908 - Lee Wiley, American jazz singer (d. 1975)
1909 - Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 2000)
1911 - Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (d. 2006)
1915 - Clifford M. Hardin, United States Secretary of Agriculture
1918 - E. Howard Hunt, American Watergate figure (d. 2007)
1918 - Lila Kedrova, Russian-born actress (d. 2000)
1920 - Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (d. 1976)
1921 - Michel Boisrond, French film director (d. 2002)
1922 - Léon Dion, Quebec political scientist (d. 1997)
1923 - Fyvush Finkel, American actor
1925 - Johnny Stompanato, American organized crime figure (d. 1958)
1926 - Danièle Delorme, French actress
1928 - Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer
1931 - Tony Booth, British actor and father of Cherie Blair
1933 - Peter Mansfield, British physicist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
1934 - Jill Ker Conway, Australian-American author
1935 - Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, member of the British Royal Family
1937 - Brian Blessed, English actor
1938 - Heinz Fischer, Austrian politician
1940 - John Lennon, British musician and songwriter (The Beatles) (d. 1980)
1940 - Joe Pepitone, American baseball player
1941 - Trent Lott, American politician
1941 - Brian Lamb, Founder of C-SPAN
1941 - Chucho Valdés, Cuban musician
1943 - Mike Peters, American cartoonist
1943 - Douglas Kirby, Research scientist
1944 - John Entwistle, British musician (The Who) (d. 2002)
1944 - Nona Hendryx, American singer (LaBelle)
1945 - Taiguara, Brazilian musician (d. 1996)
1946 - Tansu Çiller, Prime Minister of Turkey
1947 - France Gall, French singer
1947 - William E. McAnulty, Jr., American lawyer (d. 2007)
1947 - Tony Zappone, American broadcaster, journalist, author, photographer
1948 - Jackson Browne, American musician
1950 - Jody Williams, American teacher and aid worker, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1950 - Brian Downing, former baseball player
1952 - Sharon Osbourne, English music manager and wife of Ozzy Osbourne
1953 - Tony Shalhoub, American actor
1954 - Scott Bakula, American actor
1954 - James Fearnley, English musician (The Pogues)
1954 - Anne-Marie Goumba, African politician
1954 - John O'Hurley, American actor and game show host
1957 - Don Garber, American sports commissioner
1958 - Michael Pare, American actor
1958 - Al Jourgensen, American musician (Ministry)
1960 - Kenny Garrett, American jazz saxophonist
1961 - Julian Bailey, British racing driver
1962 - Jorge Burruchaga, Argentinian footballer
1964 - Guillermo del Toro, Mexican film director
1966 - Christopher Östlund, Swedish publisher and entrepreneur
1966 - David Cameron, British politician
1967 - Eddie Guerrero, American professional wrestler (d. 2005)
1969 - P.J. Harvey, English musician
1970 - Kenny Anderson, American basketball player
1970 - Park Sang-min, South Korean actor
1970 - Savannah, American pornographic actress (d. 1994)
1970 - Annika Sörenstam, Swedish golfer
1970 - Jason Butler Harner, American actor
1971 - Simon Atlee, British photographer (d. 2004)
1971 - Michael Manna, American professional wrestler
1972 - Sarah Vandenbergh, Australian actor
1973 - Terry Balsamo, American guitarist (Evanescence)
1973 - Steve Burns, American actor and musician
1973 - Erin Daniels, American actress
1973 - Fabio Lione, Italian musician (Rhapsody)
1973 - Carlos Pavón, Honduran footballer
1974 - Kieren Hutchison, New Zealand actor
1975 - Sean Lennon, American musician & son of ex-Beatle John Lennon
1975 - Mark Viduka, Australian footballer
1976 - Nick Swardson American actor
1977 - Brian Roberts, American baseball player
1978 - Nicky Byrne, Irish musician (Westlife)
1978 - Juan Dixon, American basketball player
1978 - Randy Spelling, American actor
1979 - Gonzalo Sorondo, Uruguayan footballer
1979 - Brandon Routh, American actor
1979 - Alex Greenwald, American musician(Phantom Planet), actor, model
1979 - Todd Kelly, Australian racing driver
1980 - Ibrahim Fazeel, Maldivian footballer
1980 - Henrik Zetterberg, Swedish ice hockey player
1981 - Peter Hill, British Music Photographer
1981 - Zachery Ty Bryan, American actor
1981 - Darius Miles, American basketball player
1982 - António Mendonça, Angolan footballer
1982 - Shi Jun, Chinese footballer
1983 - Jang Mi-Ran, South Korean weightlifter
1983 - Andreas Zuber, Austrian racing driver
1983 - Stephen Gionta, American ice hockey player
1984 - Ghetto, British musician
1986 - Laure Manaudou, French swimmer
1987 - Bill Walker, American basketball player
1992 - Tyler James Williams, American actor
1994 - Jodelle Ferland, Canadian actress

-DEATHS-
1047 - Pope Clement II (b. 1005)
1253 - Robert Grosseteste, English statesman and bishop
1273 - Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany
1390 - King John I of Castile (b. 1358)
1555 - Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (b. 1493)
1562 - Gabriele Falloppio, Italian anatomist and early advocate for the use of condoms. (b. 1523)
1569 - Vladimir of Staritsa, Russian prince (b. 1533)
1597 - Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shogun (b. 1537)
1691 - William Sacheverell, English statesman (b. 1638)
1709 - Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, English mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1640)
1729 - Richard Blackmore, English physician and writer (b. 1654)
1793 - Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary (b. 1718)
1797 - Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi (b. 1720)
1806 - Benjamin Banneker, American astronomer (b. 1731)
1831 - John Capodistria, Governor of Greece (b. 1776)
1873 - George Ormerod, English historian and antiquarian (b. 1785)
1924 - Valery Bryusov, Russian writer and critic (b. 1873)
1934 - King Alexander I of Yugoslavia (assassinated) (b. 1888)
1934 - Louis Barthou, Prime Minister of France (assassinated) (b. 1862)
1940 - Wilfred Grenfell, English medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador (b. 1865).
1941 - Helen Morgan, American singer and actress (b. 1900)
1943 - Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
1950 - George Hainsworth, National Hockey League goaltender (b. 1895)
1955 - Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Austrian Catholic archbishop (b. 1875)
1956 - Marie Doro, American actress (b. 1882)
1958 - Pope Pius XII Eugenio Pacelli, (b. 1876)
1962 - Milan Vidmar, Slovenian electrical engineer and chess player (b. 1885)
1967 - Che Guevara, Argentine revolutionary and guerilla leader (executed) (b. 1928)
1967 - Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
1967 - André Maurois, French author (b. 1885)
1968 - Pierre Mulele, Congolese revolutionary (b. 1929)
1972 - Miriam Hopkins, American actress (b. 1902)
1974 - Oskar Schindler, German businessman (b. 1908)
1976 - Walter Warlimont, German General WWII (b. 1894)
1978 - Jacques Brel, Belgian singer and actor (b. 1929)
1985 - Emílio Garrastazu Médici, president of Brazil (b. 1905)
1987 - Guru Gopinath, Indian classical dancer (b. 1908)
1987 - Clare Boothe Luce, American diplomat (b. 1903)
1987 - William Parry Murphy, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1892)
1988 - Felix Wankel German inventor of the Wankel engine
1989 - Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (b. 1940)
1995 - Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1903))
1996 - Walter Kerr, American theater critic (b. 1913)
1999 - Milt Jackson, American jazz vibraphonist (b. 1923)
1999 - Akhtar Hameed Khan, pioneer of Microcredit in developing countries (b. 1914)
2000 - David Dukes, American actor (b. 1945)
2000 - Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1918)
2001 - Dagmar, American television personality (b. 1921)
2001 - Herbert Ross, American film director and producer (b. 1927)
2002 - Charles Guggenheim, American film director/producer (b. 1924)
2002 - Aileen Wournos, American serial killer sentenced to death (b. 1956)
2005 - Louis Nye, American comedian and actor (b. 1913)
2006 - Paul Hunter, English professional snooker player (b. 1978)
2006 - Raymond Noorda, American co-founder and long time CEO of Novell (b. 1924)
2007 - Enrico Banducci, American nightclub owner (b. 1922)
2008 - Gidget Gein, American musician (b.1969)

-HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES-
Nepal - Vijayadashami: celebrating the victory of good over evil.
RC Saints - Saint Denis, Saint Ghislain, Saint John Leonardi and Saint Louis Bertrand, patron saint of Colombia.
South Korea - Hangul Day: celebrating the invention of hangul, the native Korean phonetic alphabet.
Uganda - Independence Day (from Britain, 1962)
Leif Erikson Day - in United States, Iceland and Norway: celebrating the first European landing in North America
Ecuador - Guayaquil's Independence Day (from Spain 1820) (Dia de la independencia de Guayaquil)
Romania - Romanian Holocaust Remembrance Day
French Republican Calendar - Sarrasin (Buckwheat) Day, eighteenth day in the Month of Vendémiaire

Did I win?

[t̷s͢uk̕a͡t͜ư]

BY ALL MEANS FEEL FREE TO POST THE ENTIRETY OF THE WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE LIKE AN ASSHOLE.

Christ on a stick, people, is it really that difficult to choose some highlights?

[otters]

Saddam Hussein's birthday, April 28.

Beat that.

[lookatthisisgoodatn]

As Krusty the Klown said: "'Saddam Hussein'? They should call him 'So Damn Insane!'"
But seriously, I don't really know of anything good happening on Jan 26.
And I'm too lazy to check Wikipedia.

[Al Capwnage]

As Krusty the Klown said: "'Saddam Hussein'? They should call him 'So Damn Insane!'"
But seriously, I don't really know of anything good happening on Jan 26.
And I'm too lazy to check Wikipedia.

...Yet here you are posting something on a thread which asks you to post something on your birthday...

More highlights so I don't seem hypocritical by that statement...

1765 - American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain passes the Quartering Act that requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops.

1837 - Canada gives African men the right to vote. (Good for them, shame on us.)

[Brocerius]

My favourite is The Mutiny on the Bounty. That happened on my birthday.

Saddam Hussain shares that, too.

*doffs cap at Incluye*

[unoriginal name]

Actual day of my birth.

[George]

April the 3rd!

Events:
1043 - Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England.
1860 - The first successful United States Pony Express run from Saint Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California begins.
1922 - Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech.
2007 - Conventional-Train World Speed Record: a French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets an official new world speed record.

Births:
1367 - King Henry IV of England (d. 1413)
1961 - Eddie Murphy, American actor and comedian
1978 - Tommy Haas, German tennis player
1984 - Maxi López, Argentine footballer