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Sharing birthdays with famous people

1767: Karl Von Humboldt, German explorer
1949: Lindsay Wagner, US film and television actress
1949: Meryl Streep, American film actress

Had some pretty hefty events on 22nd June also

1910: First passengers carried on the Zeppelin airship
1940: French sign armistice with Germans at Compiegne
1941: Battle of Britain - the RAF shoots down 26 Nazi planes during the day
1978: Pluto's moon, Charon, discovered by James Christy
1980: USSR begins removing troops from Afghanistan
1990: Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin officially removed
 
You say that, but we've never had any sort of joint birthday party. I normally have to settle for a few beers with my mate Carl (Jan 28th).

Celebrities eh?

I've had plenty of joint birthday parties, but it just makes me ill now .. oh hang on :unsure:

Birthdays are made for beer and mates, i can't stand the mass family birthday party thingy that i'm sure you've all attended at one time or another
 
Famous People born on September 16th:

1923 Lee Kuan Yew (leader of Singapore)

1924 Lauren Bacall (actress)

1925 B.B. King (singer)

1927 Peter Falk (actor - Columbo)

1956 Mickey Rourke (actor)

1956 David Copperfield (magician)

1984 Katie Melua (singer, songwriter)
 
1767: Karl Von Humboldt, German explorer
1949: Lindsay Wagner, US film and television actress
1949: Meryl Streep, American film actress

Had some pretty hefty events on 22nd June also

1910: First passengers carried on the Zeppelin airship
1940: French sign armistice with Germans at Compiegne
1941: Battle of Britain - the RAF shoots down 26 Nazi planes during the day
1978: Pluto's moon, Charon, discovered by James Christy
1980: USSR begins removing troops from Afghanistan
1990: Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin officially removed

Yep! Evertyone remembers exactly what they were doing when Christy discovered Pluto's moon don't they?
 
1941: Battle of Britain - the RAF shoots down 26 Nazi planes during the day

Thats not too shabby Al

I have a couple of pretty newsworthy events ...

1914 Austria's Archduke Francis Ferdinand is assassinated at Sarajevo, Serbia.
1919 Germany signs the Treaty of Versailles under protest
 
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along with Niels Bohr, Putin, Simon Cowell, Desmond Tutu, that bloke from Radiohead, and Maria Whitaker, the following were born on the same day as me:

Terry Gerin (Rhyno from wrestling?)
Monika Hilmerová (famous Slovakian actress)
Stephen Manwaring - born in Dartford, he appeared in the British Gas ads with Ricky Tomlinson, currently filming Sitcom pilot "All about Aaron".

erm, that's it.
 
Leonardo Di Vinci I know, I am sure there are others too

As far as major events go, not so good:

The Hillsborough disaster
Titanic sank
1st Maccy D's opened
Abraham Lincoln died
 
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