May 13th

As it turns out, I share my birthday with all these people.

But first, on the day I was born...

Johnny Carson makes his last television appearance on Late Show with David Letterman.

Back to birthdays...

1024 – Hugh of Cluny, French saint (d. 1109)
1254 – Maria of Brabant, queen of France (d. 1321)
1588 – Ole Worm, Danish physician (d. 1654)
1638 – Richard Simon, French Biblical critic (d. 1712)
1655 – Pope Innocent XIII (d. 1724)
1699 – Marquis of Pombal, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1782)
1712 – Johann Hartwig Ernst, Count von Bernstorff, Danish statesman (d. 1772)
1717 – Queen Maria Theresa of Hungary and Bohemia, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1780)
1730 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1782) 1742 – Archduchess Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen (d. 1798)
1753 – Lazare Carnot, French general, politician, and mathematician (d. 1823) 1792 – Blessed Pope Pius IX (d. 1878) 1794 – Louis-Leopold Robert, French painter (d. 1835)
1795 – Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (d. 1875)
1822 – Francis of Assisi of Bourbon, King Consort of Spain (d. 1902)
1830 – Zebulon Baird Vance, three-time governor of North Carolina (d. 1894)
1840 – Alphonse Daudet, French novelist (d. 1897)
1842 – Arthur Sullivan, English composer (d. 1900)
1856 – Tom O'Rourke, American boxing manager (d. 1938)
1857 – Ronald Ross, English physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1932)
1882 – Georges Braque, French painter (d. 1963)
1883 – Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek doctor, inventor of the pap smear (d. 1962)
1894 – Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, 2nd President of Iceland (d. 1972) 1895 – Nandor Fodor, Hungarian-born psychologist and parapsychologist (d. 1964) 1898 – Justin/Giustino Tuveri, Italian World War I veteran (d. 2007)
1904 – Louis Duffus, South African cricketer (d. 1984)
1907 – Dame Daphne du Maurier, English author (d. 1989)
1911 – Robert Middleton, American film and television actor (d. 1977)
1912 – Gil Evans, Canadian musician (d. 1988)
1912 – Judah Nadich, American rabbi (d. 2007)
1913 – William R. Tolbert, Jr., President of Liberia (d. 1980) 1914 – Joe Louis, American boxer (d. 1981)
1918 – T. Balasaraswati, Indian Bharatanatyam dancer (d. 1984) 1920 – Gareth Morris, British flautist (d. 2007)
1922 – Michael Ainsworth, British cricketer (d. 1978)
1922 – Beatrice Arthur, American actress (d. 2009) 1922 – Otl Aicher, German graphic designer (d. 1991)
1923 – Red Garland, American hard bop jazz pianist (d.1984) 1924 – Harry Schwarz, South African anti-apartheid politician, lawyer and diplomat (d. 2010) 1924 – Theodore Mann, American theatre producer and director
1926 – Wallace Breem, British author (d. 1990)
1927 – Archie Scott-Brown, English race car driver (d. 1958) 1927 – Herbert Ross, American director (d. 2001)
1928 – Édouard Molinaro, French film actor, director and screenwriter
1928 – Enrique Bolaños, President of Nicaragua
1928 – Jim Shoulders, American rodeo cowboy (d. 2007)
1930 – Mike Gravel, American politician, former Senator from Alaska
1930 – José Jiménez Lozano, Spanish writer
1930 – Vernon Shaw, President of Dominica
1931 – Jim Jones, American businessman, and cult leader of the Peoples Temple (d. 1978) 1934 – Leon Wagner, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1935 – Dominic Cossa, American baritone
1937 – Roch Carrier, Canadian novelist
1937 – Roger Zelazny, American author (d. 1995)
1937 – Trevor Baylis, English inventor
1937 – Zohra Lampert, American actress
1938 – Laurent Beaudoin, French/Canadian businessman 1938 – Giuliano Amato, Italian politician
1939 – Harvey Keitel, American actor
1939 – Hildrun Claus, German athlete
1940 – Bruce Chatwin, British writer (d. 1989)
1941 – Senta Berger, Austrian actress
1941 – Joe Brown, British singer 1941 – Ritchie Valens, American singer (d. 1959)
1941 – Jody Conradt, American basketball coach
1942 – Roger Young, American television director
1943 – Kurt Trampedach, Danish artist
1943 – Mary Wells, American singer (d. 1992)
1944 – Armistead Maupin, American author
1945 – Sam Anderson, American actor
1945 – Magic Dick, American musician (The J. Geils Band) 1946 – Waneta Hoyt, American serial killer (d. 1998)
1947 – Edgar Burcksen, Dutch film editor
1949 – Zoë Wanamaker, English/American actress
1950 – Danny Kirwan, British musician (Fleetwood Mac)
1950 – Manning Marable, American academic and author 1950 – Stevie Wonder, American singer and musician 1950 – Bobby Valentine, American baseball manager 1951 – Sharon Sayles Belton, Mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota
1951 – Paul Thompson, British rock drummer (Roxy Music) 1951 – James Whale, English radio personality
1952 – John Kasich, U.S. Congressman from Ohio
1952 – Mary Walsh, Canadian comedian and actress
1954 – Johnny Logan, Irish singer and songwriter
1956 – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Indian founder of the Art of Living Foundation
1956 – Richard Madeley, English television presenter 1956 – Kirk Thornton, American voice actor
1957 – Alan Ball, American screenwriter, director, and producer
1957 – Koji Suzuki, Japanese writer
1957 – Andrea Klump, German Red Army Faction terrorist
1957 – Manuel "Mar" Araneta Roxas II, Philippine Senator 1958 – Frances Barber, British actress
1961 – Dennis Rodman, American basketball player and actor
1962 – Eduardo Palomo, Mexican actor (d. 2003)
1962 – Kathleen Jamie, Scottish poet
1962 – Sean McDonough, American sports newscaster 1962 – Paul McDermott, Australian comedian
1963 – Wally Masur, Australian tennis player
1964 – Stephen Colbert, American comedian and actor 1964 – Ronnie Coleman, American bodybuilder
1964 – Tom Verica, American actor
1965 – José Antonio Delgado, Venezuelan mountain climber (d. 2006)
1965 – Hikari Ota, Japanese comedian
1965 – Tasmin Little, English violinist
1965 – Lari White, American country music singer
1966 – Darius Rucker, American singer (Hootie & the Blowfish) 1966 – Alison Goldfrapp, English musician
1966 – Nikos Aliagas, Greek TV show host
1966 – Kamen Vodenicharov, Bulgarian entertainer
1967 – Chuck Schuldiner, American musician (Death, Control Denied) (d. 2001)
1967 – Melanie Thornton, American pop singer (La Bouche) (d. 2001)
1968 – Miguel Ángel Blanco, Spanish politician (d. 1997) 1968 – PMD, American rapper 1969 – Buckethead, American musician
1971 – Tom Nalen, American football player
1972 – Stefaan Maene, Belgian swimmer
1974 – Brian Geraghty, American actor
1975 – Cristian Bezzi, Italian rugby player
1976 – Mark Delaney, Welsh footballer
1976 – Trajan Langdon, American basketball player
1977 – Ilse DeLange, Dutch singer
1977 – Robby Hammock, American baseball player
1977 – Neil Hopkins, American actor
1977 – Samantha Morton, English actress
1978 – Mike Bibby, American basketball player
1978 – Ryan Bukvich, American baseball player
1978 – Steve Mildenhall, English footballer
1978 – Dilshan Vitharana, Sri Lankan cricketer
1978 – Barry Zito, American baseball player
1979 – Prince Carl Philip of Sweden
1979 – Michael Madden, American musician (Maroon 5) 1980 – Chris Barker, American bassist (Anti-Flag)
1980 – Waka Inoue, Japanese gravure idol and actress
1980 – Mau Marcelo, Filipino singer
1981 – Sunny Leone, Canadian/American pornographic actress
1981 – Rebecka Liljeberg, Swedish actress
1981 – Jimmy Wang Yang, American professional wrestler 1982 – Yoko Kumada, Japanese gravure idol
1982 – Oguchi Onyewu, American footballer
1983 – Grégory Lemarchal, French singer (d. 2007)
1983 – Yaya Touré, Ivorian footballer
1983 – Anita Görbicz, Hungarian handball player
1984 – Benny Dayal, Indian singer
1985 – Travis Zajac, Canadian ice hockey player
1985 – Jaroslav Halak, Montreal Canadiens goaltender
1986 – Giuliana Marino, German glamour model
1986 – Robert Pattinson, English actor, musician and model
1986 – Alexander Rybak, Norwegian Eurovision Song Contest winner
1986 – Scott Sutter, English footballer
1987 – Hunter Parrish, American actor
1987 – Carrie Prejean, American beauty pageant contestant
1988 – Casey Donovan, Australian singer
1993 – Romelu Lukaku, Belgian footballer
1993 – Debby Ryan, American actress.

Important ones to note:
(in my unprofessional opinion) (in order by birth date)

Ritchie Valens
Waneta Hoyt
Stevie Wonder
Stephen Colbert
Buckethead
Michael Madden

and unfortunately...Robert Pattinson...X(.

And for someone else I know...

51 – Titus Flavius Domitianus, Roman Emperor (d. 96)
1378 – David Stewart, Duke of Rothesay, heir to the throne of Scotland (d. 1402)
1561 – Anthony Babington, Leader of the Babington Plot (d. 1586)
1632 – Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microbiologist (d. 1723)
1675 – Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English soldier and politician (d. 1749) 1710 – Alban Butler, English Catholic priest and writer (d. 1773)
1763 – Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist (d. 1839)
1788 – Sarah Josepha Hale, American poet (d. 1879)
1804 – Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist (d. 1891) 1811 – Ferdinand Hiller, German composer (d. 1885) 1830 – Marianne North, English naturalist and flower painter (d. 1890)
1838 – Annie Edson Taylor, American Adventuress (d. 1921) 1854 – Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, Dutch chemist (d. 1907)
1855 – James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States (d. 1912)
1857 – Ned Williamson, American baseball player (d. 1894)
1868 – Alexandra David-Néel, French explorer and writer (d. 1969)
1872 – Peter O'Connor, Irish athlete (d. 1957)
1875 – Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter (d. 1958)
1882 – Dame Sybil Thorndike, British actress (d. 1976)
1885 – Rachel Katznelson-Shazar, Zionist political figure and wife of third President of Israel (d. 1975)
1887 – Octave Lapize, French cyclist (d. 1917)
1887 – Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, Queen of Spain (d. 1969)
1891 – Rafael Molina-Trujillo, President of the Dominican Republic (d. 1961)
1894 – Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, Bengali author (d. 1987)
1896 – Jack Warner, English actor (d. 1981)
1901 – Gilda Gray, Polish-born American actress and dancer (d. 1959)
1903 – Melvin Purvis, American FBI agent (d. 1960)
1904 – Moss Hart, American dramatist (d. 1961)
1905 – Fran Zwitter, Slovenian historian (d. 1988)
1906 – Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician (d. 1968)
1909 – Bill Carr, American athlete (d. 1966)
1911 – Sonny Terry, American blues musician (d. 1986)
1911 – Paul Grégoire, French Canadian archbishop of Montreal (d. 1993)
1913 – Tito Gobbi, Italian baritone (d. 1984)
1915 – Bob Kane, American cartoonist (d. 1998)
1915 – Roger Milliken, American millionaire
1915 – Marghanita Laski, British Journalist and Novelist (d. 1988) 1919 – Frank Piasecki, American aeronautical engineer (d. 2008)
1920 – Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, French mathematician (d. 1996)
1923 – Sir Robin Day OBE, British political broadcaster and commentator (d. 2000)
1923 – Denise Levertov, English-born poet (d. 1997) 1925 – Luciano Berio, Italian composer (d. 2003)
1925 – Bob Azzam, Egyptian singer (d. 2004)
1926 – Y. A. Tittle, American football player
1926 – Rafael Azcona, Spanish screenwriter (d. 2008)
1927 – Jean-Claude Pascal, French singer and actor (d. 1992)
1927 – Gilbert Bécaud, French composer and actor (d. 2001) 1929 – George Crumb, American composer
1929 – Yordan Radichkov, Bulgarian writer (d. 2004)
1929 – Hubert Aquin, French-Canadian novelist and activist (d. 1977)
1930 – J.P. Richardson, The Big Bopper, American singer (d. 1959)
1930 – Johan Galtung, Norwegian peace researcher 1930 – Sultan Ahmad Shah, King of Malaysia
1931 – Sofia Gubaidulina, Russian composer
1932 – Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
1932 – Robert Mundell, Canadian economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1933 – Norman Rush, American writer
1935 – Malcolm Bilson, American pianist and music professor
1936 – David Nelson, Actor/Television Personality 1936 – Bill Wyman, English musician (The Rolling Stones) 1937 – Santo Farina, American musician and composer (Santo & Johnny)
1939 – F. Murray Abraham, American actor
1940 – Martin Campbell, New Zealand film director
1941 – William H. Dobelle, American biomedical engineer 1943 – Bill Dundee, American professional wrestler
1944 – Ray Downs American author and musician
1944 – Viktor Prokopenko, Ukrainian footballer and coach (d. 2007)
1945 – Anthony Christian, English artist
1945 – Gérald Larose, Quebec labour union executive
1945 – Alan Titus, American baritone
1945 – Duncan Lunan, Scottish astronomer and writer
1946 – Jerry Edmonton, Canadian drummer (Steppenwolf) (d. 1993)
1947 – Kevin Kline, American actor
1948 – Paul and Barry Ryan, British composers-singers
1948 – Kweisi Mfume, American politician and activist
1949 – Robert Pickton, Canadian serial killer
1950 – Steven Greenberg, American composer (Lipps Inc.) 1950 – Rawly Eastwick, American baseball player
1950 – Miroslav Sládek, Czech politician
1954 – Brad Sherman, American politician
1954 – Malcolm Turnbull, Australian politician
1954 – Thomas J. Mulcair, Quebec politician
1954 – Mike Rounds, American politician, current governor of South Dakota
1954 – Jozef Ráž, Slovak musician
1955 – Katherine Knight, Australian murderess
1956 – Dale Maharidge, American author
1956 – Jeff Merkley, American politician
1957 – Ron Gardenhire, German-born American baseball manager
1957 – John Kassir, American actor and comedian
1959 – Anthony Waller, Lebanese film director
1960 – Ian Baker-Finch, Australian golfer
1960 – B.D. Wong, American actor
1960 – Jaime Garzón, Colombian journalist and comedian (d. 1999)
1960 – Joachim "Jo" Winkelhock, German race car driver
1960 – Dennis Anderson, American monster truck driver (Grave Digger)
1961 – Mary Bono, American politician
1961 – Bruce L. Castor, Jr. American politician
1961 – Dave Meltzer, American wrestling journalist
1962 – Dave Blaney, American race car driver
1962 – Jay Novacek, American football player
1963 – John Hendrie, Scottish footballer
1965 – Kyriakos Velopoulos, Greek politician
1966 – Roman Abramovich, Russian oil magnate
1967 – Jacqueline McKenzie, Australian actress
1968 – Robert Wilonsky, American journalist
1969 – Adela Noriega, Mexican actress
1970 – Rob Leslie-Carter, British engineer and project manager
1971 – Dervla Kirwan, Irish actress
1971 – Caprice Bourret, American model and actress 1972 – Kim Ji-soo, South Korean actress
1972 – Scott Peterson, American murderer
1972 – Pat Williams, American football player
1973 – Levi Leipheimer, American cyclist
1973 – Madlib, American musician and rapper
1973 – Jackie McNamara, Scottish footballer
1973 – Jeff Wilson, New Zealand rugby player and cricketer
1974 – Wilton Guerrero, Dominican baseball player
1974 – Corey Dillon, American football player
1974 – Jamal Mayers, Canadian ice hockey player
1975 – Juan Pablo Ángel, Colombian footballer
1976 – Matteo Mazzantini, Italian rugby player
1976 – Joakim Nätterqvist, Swedish actor
1976 – Mallika Sherawat, Indian actress
1976 – Petar Stoychev, Bulgarian swimmer
1977 – Iván Kaviedes, Ecuadoran footballer
1978 – Carlos Edwards, Trinidadian footballer
1978 – Justin Lee Brannan, American musician
1978 – James Hopes, Australian one-day cricketer
1979 – Ben Gillies, Australian musician (Silverchair)
1980 – Monica, American singer and actress
1980 – Matthew Amoah, Ghanaian footballer
1980 – Zac Posen, American fashion designer
1980 – Casey Wilson, American comic actress (Saturday Night Live)
1981 – Sebastián Bueno, Argentine footballer
1981 – Mallika Sherawat, Indian actress
1981 – Tila Tequila, American model
1982 – Mohamed Fairuz Fauzy, Malaysian racing driver
1982 – Macay McBride, American baseball player
1983 – Brian Vickers, American race car driver
1983 – Adrienne Bailon, American actress and singer 1983 – VV Brown, English singer
1984 – Kaela Kimura, Japanese model and singer
1984 – Felicia Chin, Singaporean actress
1985 – Wayne Rooney, English footballer
1986 – Aubrey Graham, Canadian actor and rapper
1986 – John Ruddy, English footballer
1987 – Charlie White, American ice dancer
1987 – Anthony Vanden Borre, Belgian footballer
1987 – Lincoln Lewis, Australian actor
1989 – Shenae Grimes, Canadian actress
1989 – Eliza Taylor-Cotter, Australian actress
1994 – Krystal Jung, American-born Korean singer

Important ones:
(also in order by date)
(please don't become a serial killer/murderer)

Bill Wyman
Jerry Edmonton
Robert Pickton
Katherine Knight
Scott Peterson

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Feel free to pick out other important ones.

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