ZeldaFreak Posted February 8, 2007 Posted February 8, 2007 [pedantic] It was Caligula who made his horse (named Ignatius) a consul. [/pedantic] We were told it was Nero, but he was the one that was hated by all in Rome for creating a massive palace,right?
Roostophe Posted February 8, 2007 Posted February 8, 2007 We were told it was Nero, but he was the one that was hated by all in Rome for creating a massive palace,right? Yeah, he was the hated one. That's right.
Rummy Posted February 8, 2007 Posted February 8, 2007 I just checked mine, expecting some crap people(one person who shares my actual birthday, like the day i was born, is that girl who's friends with lizzie maguire in the show, thinking she's all cool by only going by one name). Nadal though, that's kind of cool! Other than them and Suzi Quattro, I've never really heard of any of the others, I went all the way back to like 1925 though. 1924 - Torsten Wiesel, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate 1924 - Jimmy Rogers, American blues guitarist (d. 1997) 1925 - Tony Curtis, American actor 1926 - Allen Ginsberg, American poet (d. 1997) 1926 - Boots Randolph, American musician 1929 - Werner Arber, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate 1929 - Chuck Barris, American game show host 1930 - Marion Zimmer Bradley, American author (d. 1999) 1931 - John Norman, American author 1931 - Lindy Remigino, American athlete 1933 - Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, emir of Bahrain (d. 1999) 1934 - Rolland D. McCune, American theologian 1936 - Jim Gentile, Baseball player 1936 - Larry McMurtry, American author 1937 - Solomon P. Ortiz, American politician 1939 - Steve Dalkowski, baseball player 1939 - Ian Hunter, English musician 1942 - Curtis Mayfield, American musician (d. 1999) 1943 - Billy Cunningham, American basketball player 1944 - Edith McGuire, American runner 1946 - Eddie Holman, American singer 1946 - Michael Clarke American musician (d. 1993) 1950 - Melissa Mathison, American screenwriter 1950 - Deniece Williams, American singer 1950 - Suzi Quatro, American musician and actress 1952 - Billy Powell, American keyboardist 1954 - Dan Hill, Canadian singer and songwriter 1956 - Brad Nessler, American sports broadcaster 1957 - Horst-Ulrich Hänel, German field hockey player 1961 - Lawrence Lessig, American lawyer and author 1963 - Doro Pesch, German singer 1963 - Rudy Demotte, Belgian politician 1964 - Kerry King, American musician 1964 - James Purefoy, British actor 1965 - Mike Gordon, American musician 1966 - Wasim Akram, Pakistani cricketer 1967 - Anderson Cooper, American reporter 1968 - Jamie O'Neal, American singer 1968 - Samantha Sprackling, Nigerian singer 1969 - Takako Minekawa, Japanese musician 1970 - Esther Hart, Dutch singer 1970 - Julie Masse, French Canadian singer 1970 - Peter Tägtgren, Swedish musician (Hypocrisy) and producer 1971 - Carl Everett, American baseball player 1974 - Krayzie Bone, American rapper 1974 - Kelly Jones, Welsh singer (Stereophonics) 1975 - Jose Molina, Puerto Rican baseball player 1975 - Russel Hobbs, drummer for Gorillaz 1976 - Jamie McMurray, American NASCAR driver 1976 - Yuri Ruley, American drummer 1977 - Cris, Brazilian footballer 1977 - Az-Zahir Hakim, American football player 1977 - Travis Hafner, American baseball player 1981 - Danielle DiLorenzo, American Survivor contestant 1982 - Yelena Isinbayeva, Russian pole vaulter 1985 - Pretty Ricky, American singer 1986 - Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player 1987 - Lalaine, American actress and singer. 1987 - Masami Nagasawa, Japanese actress 1988 - Logan Kipp, Noble of Ladonia, Sweden. 2006 - Countess Leonore, Member of the Dutch Royal Family I also have an aunt with the same birthday as me, I still find it amusing when we see each other and wish happy birthdays.
Stocka Posted February 8, 2007 Posted February 8, 2007 1900 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, (Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother), Queen consort of George VI of the United Kingdom (d. 2002) 1977 - LuÃs Boa Morte, Portuguese footballer That's about all I know of mine
MoogleViper Posted February 8, 2007 Posted February 8, 2007 November 15th 1974 - Chad Kroeger, Canadian singer 1979 - Brett Lancaster, Australian cyclist Only ones I really know of. There was a Japanese model who was born in 1993. Wierd.
Guest Jordan Posted February 8, 2007 Posted February 8, 2007 I win... YES. 1483 - Raphael, Italian painter and architect (d. 1520) 1937 - Billy Dee Williams, American actor 1938 - Paul Daniels, English magician 1975 - Zach Braff, American actor And if you don't know who Billy Dee is, i feel sorry for you...
fanman Posted February 8, 2007 Posted February 8, 2007 No-one. I'm UNIQUE Aside from about a few million people, notably: 1463 - Alessandro Achillini, Italian philosopher (d. 1512) 1469 - Guru Nanak Dev, founder of Sikhism (d. 1539) 1496 - Claude, Duke of Guise, French soldier (d. 1550) 1616 - Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (d. 1680) 1620 - Aelbert Cuyp, Dutch painter (d. 1691) 1632 - Sir Christopher Wren, English architect (d. 1723) 1656 - Nicolas de Largillière, French painter (d. 1746) 1660 - Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (d. 1723) 1677 - Stanislaus I Leszczyński, King of Poland (d. 1766) 1711 - Timothy Ruggles, American-born Tory politician (d. 1795) 1719 - Gottfried Achenwall, German statistician (d. 1772) 1759 - Chauncey Goodrich, U.S. Senator from Connecticut (d. 1815) 1784 - Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1865) 1808 - Karl Andree, German geographer (d. 1875) 1819 - The Báb, Persian founder of the Bábà Faith (d. 1850) 1819 - Carl Mikuli, Polish pianist (d. 1897) 1822 - Thomas Hughes, English novelist (d. 1896) 1832 - Constantin Lipsius, German architect (d. 1894) 1854 - Arthur Rimbaud, French poet (d. 1891) 1858 - John Burns, English politician (d. 1943) 1859 - John Dewey, American philosopher (d. 1952) 1874 - Charles Ives, American composer (d. 1954) 1882 - Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-born actor (d. 1956) 1889 - Margaret Dumont, American actress (d. 1965) 1890 - Jelly Roll Morton, American composer (d. 1941) 1891 - James Chadwick, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974) 1891 - Jomo Kenyatta, President of Kenya (d. 1978) 1893 - Charley Chase, American comedian (d. 1940) 1894 - Olive Thomas, American actress (d. 1920) 1895 - Rex Ingram, American actor (d. 1969) 1897 - Crown Prince Eun of Korea (d. 1970) 1900 - Wayne Morse, U.S. Senator from Oregon (d. 1974) 1904 - Anna Neagle, English actress (d. 1986) 1904 - Tommy Clement Douglas, Canadian politician (d. 1986) 1905 - Ellery Queen, pseudonym of two American writers (d. 1982) 1907 - Arlene Francis, American television personality (d. 2001) 1909 - Sugiyama Yasushi, Japanese painter (d. 1993) 1913 - Grandpa Jones, American banjo player and singer (d. 1998) 1914 - Fayard Nicholas, American dancer (d. 2006) 1917 - Jean-Pierre Melville, French director (d. 1973) 1918 - Robert Lochner, German journalist (d. 2003) 1922 - John Anderson, American actor (d. 1992) 1925 - Art Buchwald, American humorist (d. 2007) 1925 - Tom Dowd, American recording engineer (d. 2002) 1931 - Mickey Mantle, American baseball player (d. 1995) 1932 - Rosey Brown, American football player (d. 2004) 1932 - William Christopher, American actor (M*A*S*H) 1934 - Eddie Harris, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1996) 1934 - Michiko, empress of Japan 1935 - Jerry Orbach, American actor (d. 2004) 1937 - Juan Marichal, Dominican baseball player 1937 - Wanda Jackson, American rock and rockabilly singer 1938 - Iain MacMillan, Abbey Road Photographer (d. 2006) 1940 - Kathy Kirby, British singer 1940 - Robert Pinsky, American poet and Poet Laureate of the United States 1942 - Earl Hindman, American actor (d. 2003) 1942 - Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1944 - David Mancuso, American disc jockey 1946 - Elfriede Jelinek, Austrian writer, Nobel Prize laureate 1946 - Lucien Van Impe, Belgian cyclist 1949 - Valeri Borzov, Ukrainian athlete 1950 - Tom Petty, American musician 1951 - Claudio Ranieri, Italian football player and manager 1953 - Keith Hernandez, American baseball player 1953 - Bill Nunn, American actor 1954 - Steve Orich, Orchestrator 1955 - Aaron Pryor, American boxer 1955 - David Profumo, English novelist 1956 - Danny Boyle, English film director 1958 - Dave Finlay, Northern Irish professional wrestler 1958 - Lynn Flewelling, American fantasy author 1958 - Viggo Mortensen, American actor 1958 - Dave Krieg, American football player 1958 - Ivo Pogorelic, Croatian pianist 1958 - Scott Hall, American professional wrestler 1960 - Konstantin Aseev, Russian chess player (d. 2004) 1961 - Ian Rush, Welsh footballer 1961 - Michie Tomizawa, Japanese voice actress 1963 - Julie Payette, Canadian astronaut 1965 - Mikhail Shtalenkov, Russian ice hockey player 1965 - William Zabka, American actor 1966 - Allan Donald, South African cricketer 1966 - Stefan Raab, German entertainer 1966 - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Al-Qaeda leader (d. 2006) 1967 - Luck Mervil, Québécois actor and singer 1969 - Juan González, Puerto Rican baseball player 1969 - Laurie Daley, Australian rugby league footballer 1970 - Chavo Guerrero, Jr., American professional wrestler 1970 - Michelle Malkin, American political commentator and author 1971 - Dannii Minogue, Australian singer 1971 - Snoop Dogg, American rapper 1976 - Tom Wisniewski, American guitarist (MxPx) 1977 - Matt Jansen, English footballer 1978 - Virender Sehwag, Indian cricketer 1979 - John Krasinski, American actor 1981 - Willis McGahee, American football player 1983 - Alex Nackman, musician 1983 - Takayuki Yamada, Japanese actor 1983 - Luis Saritama, Ecuadorian footballer 1984 - Florent Sinama-Pongolle, French footballer 1984 - Andrew Trimble Northern Irish Rugby Player for Irish rugby team 1985 - Jennifer Nicole Freeman, American actress 1985 - James Sutton, British racing driver 1985 - Jennifer Freeman, American actress 1988 - Risa Niigaki, Japanese singer Acording to your fake birthday on your profile page. Hitler perhaps?
Tellyn Posted February 8, 2007 Posted February 8, 2007 I win...YES. 1483 - Raphael, Italian painter and architect (d. 1520) 1937 - Billy Dee Williams, American actor 1938 - Paul Daniels, English magician 1975 - Zach Braff, American actor And if you don't know who Billy Dee is, i feel sorry for you... Lando Calrissian.
Dante Posted February 8, 2007 Posted February 8, 2007 1506 - Saint Francis Xavier, Spanish founder of the Society of Jesus (d. 1552) 1539 - Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter and drawer, (d. 1584) 1613 - Gerhard Douw, Dutch painter (d. 1675) 1644 - François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi, French soldier (d. 1730) 1648 - John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet (d. 1721) 1652 - Pope Clement XII (d. 1740) 1718 - Hugh Blair, Scottish preacher and man of letters (d. 1800) 1727 - Michel Adanson, French botanist (d. 1806) 1763 - Domenico Dragonetti, Italian composer 1770 - William Wordsworth, English poet (d. 1850) 1772 - Charles Fourier, French philosopher (d. 1837) 1803 - Flora Tristan, French feminist and socialist philosopher (d. 1844) 1803 - James Curtiss, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1859) 1848 - Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1930) 1860 - Will Keith Kellogg, American cereal manufacturer (d. 1951) 1867 - Holger Pedersen, Danish linguist (d. 1953) 1870 - Gustav Landauer, German anarchist and revolutionary (d. 1919) 1873 - John McGraw, baseball player and manager (d. 1934) 1883 - Gino Severini, Italian painter (d. 1966) 1886 - Ed Lafitte, baseball player (d. 1971) 1889 - Gabriela Mistral, Chilean writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957) 1890 - Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist and writer (d. 1998) 1891 - Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish inventor (d. 1958) 1893 - Allen Dulles, American Central Intelligence Agency director (d. 1969) 1897 - Walter Winchell, American broadcaster and journalist (d. 1972) 1899 - Robert Casadesus, French pianist (d. 1972) 1908 - Percy Faith, Canadian composer and musician (d. 1976) 1909 - Robert Charroux, French writer (d. 1978) 1915 - Billie Holiday, American singer (d. 1959) 1915 - Henry Kuttner, American writer (d. 1958) 1918 - Bobby Doerr, baseball player 1919 - Edoardo Mangiarotti, Italian fencer 1920 - Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player 1922 - Mongo Santamaria, Cuban musician (d. 2003) 1924 - Johannes Mario Simmel, Austrian writer 1927 - Babatunde Olatunji, Nigerian drummer (d. 2003) 1928 - James Garner, American actor 1928 - Alan J. Pakula, American producer and director (d. 1998) 1928 - James White, Northern Irish science fiction writer (d. 1999) 1929 - Bob Denard, French soldier 1930 - Andrew Sachs, British actor 1931 - Donald Barthelme, American author 1933 - Wayne Rogers, American actor 1934 - Ian Richardson, British actor 1935 - Bobby Bare, American musician 1936 - Jean-Pierre Changeux, French neuroscientist 1938 - Jerry Brown, American politician 1938 - Freddie Hubbard, American jazz trumpeter 1939 - Francis Ford Coppola, American film director 1939 - Sir David Frost, English broadcaster and television host 1944 - Julia Phillips, American film producer and writer (d. 2002) 1944 - Gerhard Schröder, Chancellor of Germany 1945 - Joël Robuchon, French chef 1945 - Magnús Þór Jónsson (Megas), Icelandic vocalist, songwriter and writer 1945 - Werner Schroeter, German film director 1946 - Colette Besson, French runner 1949 - John Oates, American musician (Hall and Oates) 1951 - Janis Ian, American singer and songwriter 1954 - Jackie Chan, Hong Kong actor 1954 - Tony Dorsett, American football player 1955 - Werner Stocker, German actor (d. 1993) 1956 - Charles Carreon, American lawyer and author 1956 - Christopher Darden, American O.J. Simpson prosecutor 1957 - Kim Kap-su, South Korean actor 1961 - Pascal Olmeta, French footballer 1962 - Hugh O'Connor, American actor (d. 1995) 1962 - Alain Robert, French rock and urban climber 1963 - Jaime de Marichalar, duke of Lugo, Spanish royalty 1964 - Russell Crowe, New Zealand actor 1965 - Bill Bellamy, American actor and comedian 1965 - Alison Lapper, British artist 1966 - Gary Wilkinson, English snooker player 1967 - Artemis Gounaki, Greek and German composer, writer and musicproducer 1969 - Ricky Watters, American football player 1970 - Leif Ove Andsnes, Norwegian pianist 1971 - Guillaume Depardieu, French actor 1971 - Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, American actress 1971 - Rob Steele, American author 1973 - Carole Montillet, French skier 1973 - Ève Salvail, Canadian model 1975 - Tiki Barber, American football player 1975 - Ronde Barber, American football player 1975 - Ronnie Belliard, baseball player 1977 - Silvana Arias, Peruvian actress 1979 - Tony Malone, British designer and activist 1979 - Adrián Beltré, Professional Baseball player 1982 - Sonjay Dutt, Indian professional wrestler 1986 - Choi Si Won, Korean singer/actor 1987 - Danny Almonte, Overage Little League player Deaths 30- Jesus according to the Bible 858 - Pope Benedict III
Slaggis Posted February 8, 2007 Posted February 8, 2007 - E. B. White -John Quincy Adams -Yul Brynner - Lil ' Kim (lol) JULY 11
antster1983 Posted February 8, 2007 Posted February 8, 2007 May 13th for me... 1842 - Arthur Sullivan (composer, one half of Gilbert & Sullivan, authors of such classic British operas such as The Mikado and HMS Pinafore) 1907 - Daphne du Maurier (author, wrote a lot about Cornwall) 1914 - Joe Louis (boxer, 1936 world heavyweight champion) 1937 - Trevor Baylis (inventor of the wind-up radio) 1939 - Harvey Keitel (actor, Taxi Driver, Reservoir Dogs, The Piano etc.) 1949 - Zoë Wanamaker (actress, My Family, Harry Potter & the Philosopher's Stone etc.) 1950 - Stevie Wonder (singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist) 1951 - Paul Thompson (drummer with Roxy Music) 1954 - Johnny Logan (winner of the 1980 and 1987 Eurovision Song Contests) 1956 - Richard Madeley (husband - or son - of Judy Finnegan :wink:) 1961 - Dennis Rodman (basketball player) 1964 - Stephen Colbert (satirical humorist) 1968 - Alison Goldfrapp (singer with Goldfrapp) 1976 - Mark Delaney (Aston Villa and Wales footballer) 1983 - ME! ME! ME! Oh, and Natalie Cassidy (Sonia from EastEnders) --- Also on this day in 1981, Pope John Paul II was shot.
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