Other WTF moments....

[Star Ranger4]

Well, we have ones for images, and news articles...
but not one for things like:

So, back on Friday Google obligingly put up their 'its your birthday' homepage.  And out of curiosity, I did some diging.

and found out that I share the same birthday as Sadam Hussein?!?!?  Well, Jessica Alba too, but the former was much more mind boggling.

So...  Who else?  Not just sort of birthday, but general WTF moments that dont have to do with images or news articles?
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children

[Ebony]

For a period in the 90s, my friends and I all helped our former sci-fi club at college set up the gaming for the annual convention. It was fun, we were happy to help out, and it meant that we could all hang out for a weekend like we did in college. One friend developed a system for a Paranoia LARP, and for about 3 or 4 years, the convention had one on Saturday night (AggieCon, at Texas A&M, if you're curious). As the game-runners, we were the various NPCs, including the Briefing Officer, Head of R&D (Doctor Ivan-B-MAD, in most of the scenarios... well known for his popular game show, "Wheel of Symbiote"),  the High Programmers, and of course, the voice of Friend Computer. In one particular game - "The Adventures of James-B-OND-007: License to Treason" - the various players were Troubleshooters sent to "assist" elite Troubleshooter James-B-OND (so elite that he had seven clones instead of the usual six) with his mission (i.e., serve as ablative armor for him). Instead of the aforementioned Ivan-B-MAD, the R&D Officer for the briefing was Q-U-EUE (naturally). I was given that role, so it fell to me to assign experimental equipment to each team of Troubleshooters.
One of the things that the LARP designer did was give each team a theme and a weird team name, generally some esoteric word beginning with a corresponding letter of the alphabet (i.e., Team 1 was Team Apoplexia, Team 2 was Team Butyraceous, Team 3 was Team Callipygous, and so forth). Each team in License to Treason had a nominal association with espionage: one team's names were all founders of espionage agencies, one team's were all famous spy writers, and so forth. As I was walking around the briefing room, handing out experimental gear of the appropriate espionage theme - exploding cufflinks, a laser pen, the Thermonuclear Hand Grenade (I think we always had the Thermonuclear Hand Grenade; it was sort of tradition) - I came to the last team. Many of this team were friends who lived near the college and were attending rather than staffing, but were also hanging out. I stopped at the table where they were seated, took the index card with the name of the experimental device in hand and looked at my friends. They were all on the team named for all the other movie and television spies. The one sitting nearest to me was playing "Smart-R-MAX." "Well, Troubleshooter Smart-R-MAX," I said... and then I looked down at the card and saw that I was holding the Experimental Pedal Communication Slipper (i.e., the Shoe Phone). "Clearly, this must be yours!"
Ebony the Black Dragon
http://ebony14.livejournal.com

"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."

[robkelk]

So...  Who else?  Not just sort of birthday, but general WTF moments that dont have to do with images or news articles?

According to Wikipedia, I share my birthday with Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Nelson Rockefeller ... and Kevin Bacon. (It's the day the Black Ships sailed into Tokyo Bay.)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Star Ranger4]

heh. definatly less than six degrees of separation there, Rob
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children

[DHBirr]

Not just the day, but in the same year:  A school bus in Kentucky hits a wrecker truck and plunges down an embankment into a rain-swollen river. The driver and 26 children die in what remains one of the worst school bus accidents in U.S. history.  Ouch.
Further oddball fact:  I have a cousin — a first cousin, to the best of my knowledge — whom I've never met but who was born on the same day of the same year as I.  I was most likely told her name at some point in my early life, but I don't remember it.  

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No, it ISN'T what it is!
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Big Brother is watching you.  And damn, you are so bloody BORING.

[LynnInDenver]

I share my birthday with my father-in-law, and a local club DJ.
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"You know how parents tell you everything's going to fine, but you know they're lying to make you feel better? Everything's going to be fine." - The Doctor

[Bob Schroeck]

And now for the first time, I'm interested... turns out I share my birthday with (among others) Robert Asprin, Gilda Radner, Lalla "Romana 2" Ward, Alice "Borg Queen" Krige, John Cusack, Mary Stewart Masterson, and Elon Musk.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[ECSNorway]

Well, just to join in the game, I apparently share a birthday with:

Tang Dynasty Emperor Tai Zong
John Hancock
Muzio Clementi
Saigou Takamori
John Browning
David Hilbert
Ernie Kovacs
Rutger Hauer
Richard Dean Anderson

On the day of my birth, Richard Nixon announced that a peace accord had been reached in Vietnam.
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Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.

[LilFluff]

Hmm, using Wikipedia I share a birthday with:
* Supernova SN 1054 being spotted
* The opening of West Point
* The Republic of Hawaii
* Radio Free Europe
* Shogun Ashikaga Yoshiakira
* Nathaniel Hawthorne
* Giuseppe Garibaldi
* Calvin Coolage
* Ulysses S Grant III
* Rube Goldberg
* Richard Garriott
* Michael Sweet (got excited for a moment, then realized no the Girlfriend AMV video was done by Matthew Sweet)
* Gackt
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Will the transhumanist future have catgirls? Does Japan still exist? Well, there is your answer.

[Black Aeronaut]

Whoah.

I was born September 28th... and apparently that's a really busy day in history, as I share the birthday with the following:

• 551 BC – Confucius, Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history. (d. 479 BC)
• 616 – Javanshir, King of Caucasian Albania (d. 680)
• 1494 – Agnolo Firenzuola, Italian poet and playwright (d. 1545)
• 1605 – Ismaël Bullialdus, French astronomer and mathematician (d. 1694)
• 1681 – Johann Mattheson, German composer, lexicographer, and diplomat (d. 1764)
• 1705 – Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (d. 1774)
• 1705 – Johann Peter Kellner, German organist and composer (d. 1772)
• 1735 – Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, English academic and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1811)
• 1746 – William Jones, English-Welsh philologist and scholar (d. 1794)
• 1765 – Frederick Christian II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (d. 1814)
• 1803 – Prosper Mérimée, French archaeologist, historian, and author (d. 1870)
• 1809 – Alvan Wentworth Chapman, American physician and botanist (d. 1899)
• 1819 – Narcís Monturiol, Spanish engineer and publisher (d. 1885)
• 1821 – Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American minister and politician (d. 1874)
• 1823 – Alexandre Cabanel, French painter and educator (d. 1889)
• 1824 – Francis Turner Palgrave, English poet and critic (d. 1897)
• 1836 – Thomas Crapper, English plumber, invented the ballcock (d. 1910)
• 1841 – Georges Clemenceau, French journalist, physician, and politician, 85th Prime Minister of France (d. 1929)
• 1844 – Robert Stout, Scottish-New Zealand lawyer and politician, 13th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1930)
• 1852 – Henri Moissan, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1907)
• 1852 – Isis Pogson, British astronomer and meteorologist (d. 1945)
• 1856 – Kate Douglas Wiggin, American author and educator (d. 1923)
• 1860 – Paul Ulrich Villard, French chemist and physicist (d. 1934)
• 1861 – Amélie of Orléans (d. 1951)
• 1867 – Hiranuma Kiichiro, Japanese lawyer and politician, 35th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1952)
• 1867 – James Edwin Campbell, American poet, editor, short story writer and educator (d. 1896)
• 1877 – Albert Young, American boxer and promoter (d. 1940)
• 1878 – Joseph Ruddy, American swimmer and water polo player (d. 1962)
• 1870 – Florent Schmitt, French composer and critic (d. 1958)
• 1881 – Pedro de Cordoba, American actor (d. 1950)
• 1882 – Mart Saar, Estonian organist and composer (d. 1963)
• 1885 – Emil Väre, Finnish wrestler, coach, and referee (d. 1974)
• 1887 – Avery Brundage, American businessman, 5th President of the International Olympic Committee (d. 1975)
• 1889 – Jack Fournier, American baseball player and coach (d. 1973)
• 1890 – Florence Violet McKenzie, Australian electrical engineer (d. 1982)
• 1892 – Elmer Rice, American playwright (d. 1967)
• 1893 – Giannis Skarimpas, Greek author, poet, and playwright (d. 1984)
• 1898 – Carl Clauberg, German physician (d. 1957)
• 1901 – William S. Paley, American broadcaster, founded CBS (d. 1990)
• 1901 – Ed Sullivan, American television host (d. 1974)
• 1903 – Haywood S. Hansell, American general (d. 1988)
• 1905 – Max Schmeling, German boxer (d. 2005)
• 1907 – Heikki Savolainen, Finnish gymnast and physician (d. 1997)
• 1907 – Bhagat Singh, Indian activist (d. 1931)
• 1909 – Al Capp, American author and illustrator (d. 1979)
• 1910 – Diosdado Macapagal, Filipino lawyer and politician, 9th President of the Philippines (d. 1997)
• 1910 – Wenceslao Vinzons, Filipino lawyer and politician (d. 1942)
• 1913 – Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss illustrator (d. 2007)
• 1913 – Alice Marble, American tennis player (d. 1990)
• 1914 – Maria Franziska von Trapp, Austrian-American refugee and singer (d. 2014)
• 1916 – Peter Finch, English-Australian actor (d. 1977)
• 1916 – Olga Lepeshinskaya, Ukrainian-Russian ballerina and educator (d. 2008)
• 1918 – Ángel Labruna, Argentinian footballer and manager (d. 1983)
• 1918 – Arnold Stang, American actor (d. 2009)
• 1919 – Doris Singleton, American actress (d. 2012)
• 1923 – Tuli Kupferberg, American singer, poet, and writer (d. 2010)
• 1923 – John Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch, Scottish captain and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Selkirkshire (d. 2007)
• 1923 – William Windom, American actor (d. 2012)
• 1924 – Rudolf Barshai, Russian-Swiss viola player and conductor (d. 2010)
• 1924 – Marcello Mastroianni, Italian-French actor and singer (d. 1996)
• 1925 – Seymour Cray, American computer scientist, founded the CRAY Computer Company (d. 1996)
• 1925 – Cromwell Everson, South African composer (d. 1991)
• 1925 – Martin David Kruskal, American physicist and mathematician (d. 2006)
• 1926 – Jerry Clower, American soldier, comedian, and author (d. 1998)
• 1928 – Koko Taylor, American singer (d. 2009)
• 1929 – Lata Mangeshkar, Indian playback singer and composer
• 1930 – Tommy Collins, American country music singer-songwriter (d. 2000)
• 1930 – Immanuel Wallerstein, American sociologist, author, and academic
• 1932 – Jeremy Isaacs, Scottish screenwriter and producer
• 1932 – Víctor Jara, Chilean singer-songwriter, poet, and director (d. 1973)
• 1933 – Joe Benton, English soldier and politician
• 1933 – Miguel Ortiz Berrocal, Spanish sculptor and educator (d. 2006)
• 1933 – Johnny "Country" Mathis, American singer-songwriter (d. 2011)
• 1934 – Brigitte Bardot, French actress
• 1935 – Bruce Crampton, Australian golfer
• 1935 – David Hannay, Baron Hannay of Chiswick, English diplomat, British Permanent Representative to the United Nations
• 1935 – Ronald Lacey, English actor (d. 1991)
• 1936 – Emmett Chapman, American guitarist, invented the Chapman Stick
• 1936 – Eddie Lumsden, Australian rugby league player
• 1937 – Alice Mahon, English trade union leader and politician
• 1938 – Ben E. King, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2015)
• 1939 – Stuart Kauffman, American biologist and academic
• 1941 – David Lewis, American philosopher and academic (d. 2001)
• 1941 – Edmund Stoiber, German lawyer and politician, Minister President of Bavaria
• 1942 – Pierre Clémenti, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1999)
• 1942 – Edward "Little Buster" Forehand, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2006)
• 1943 – Warren Lieberfarb, American businessman
• 1943 – George W. S. Trow, American novelist, playwright, and critic (d. 2006)
• 1943 – Nick St. Nicholas, German-Canadian bass player
• 1944 – Richie Karl, American golfer
• 1944 – Marcia Muller, American journalist and author
• 1945 – Marielle Goitschel, French skier
• 1945 – Manolis Rasoulis, Greek singer-songwriter and journalist (d. 2011)
• 1945 – Fusako Shigenobu, Japanese activist, founded the Japanese Red Army
• 1946 – Tom Bower, English journalist and author
• 1946 – Majid Khan, Indian-Pakistani cricketer
• 1947 – Bob Carr, Australian journalist and politician, 37th Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 1947 – Sheikh Hasina, Bangladeshi politician, 10th Prime Minister of Bangladesh
• 1947 – Jon Snow, English journalist and academic
• 1947 – Rhonda Hughes, American mathematician and academic
• 1949 – Jim Henshaw, Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1950 – Paul Burgess, English drummer
• 1950 – John Sayles, American novelist, director, and screenwriter
• 1952 – Christopher Buckley, American satirical novelist
• 1952 – Efthimis Kioumourtzoglou, Greek basketball player and coach
• 1952 – Sylvia Kristel, Dutch model and actress (d. 2012)
• 1952 – Andy Ward, English drummer
• 1953 – Otmar Hasler, Liechtensteiner educator and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Liechtenstein
• 1954 – Steve Largent, American football player and politician
• 1954 – George Lynch, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1954 – John Scott, English rugby player
• 1954 – Margot Wallström, Swedish politician and diplomat, 42nd Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs
• 1955 – Stéphane Dion, Canadian sociologist and politician, 15th Canadian Minister of the Environment
• 1955 – Kenny Kirkland, American pianist (d. 1998)
• 1956 – Martha Isabel Fandiño Pinilla, Colombian-Italian mathematician and author
• 1959 – Ron Fellows, Canadian race car driver
• 1960 – Tom Byrum, American golfer
• 1960 – Frank Hammerschlag, German footballer and manager
• 1960 – Gus Logie, Trinidadian cricketer
• 1960 – Kamlesh Patel, Baron Patel of Bradford, English politician
• 1960 – Socrates Villegas, Filipino archbishop
• 1961 – Helen Grant, English lawyer and politician, Minister for Sport and the Olympics
• 1961 – Gregory Jbara, American actor and singer
• 1961 – Quentin Kawananakoa, American lawyer and politician
• 1962 – Grant Fuhr, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1962 – Laurie Rinker, American golfer
• 1962 – Dietmar Schacht, German footballer and manager
• 1962 – Chuck Taylor, American journalist
• 1963 – Steve Blackman, American wrestler and martial artist
• 1963 – Érik Comas, French race car driver
• 1963 – Greg Weisman, American voice actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1964 – Claudio Borghi, Argentinian footballer and manager
• 1964 – Gregor Fisken, Scottish race car driver
• 1964 – Janeane Garofalo, American comedian, actress, and screenwriter
• 1964 – Paul Jewell, English footballer and manager
• 1964 – Martinš Roze, Latvian lawyer and politician (d. 2012)
• 1966 – Scott Adams, American football player (d. 2013)
• 1966 – Puri Jagannadh, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1967 – Mira Sorvino, American actress
• 1967 – Moon Zappa, American actress and author
• 1968 – Francois Botha, South African boxer and mixed martial artist
• 1968 – Mika Häkkinen, Finnish race car driver
• 1968 – Trish Keenan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2011)
• 1968 – Rob Moroso, American race car driver (d. 1990)
• 1968 – Naomi Watts, English-Australian actress and producer
• 1969 – Marcel Dost, Dutch decathlete
• 1969 – Ben Greenman, American journalist and author
• 1969 – Piper Kerman, American author and memoirist
• 1969 – Éric Lapointe, Canadian singer-songwriter and keyboard player
• 1969 – Sascha Maassen, German race car driver
• 1969 – Angus Robertson, Scottish politician
• 1969 – Nico Vaesen, Belgian footballer
• 1970 – Kimiko Date-Krumm, Japanese tennis player
• 1970 – Mike DeJean, American baseball player
• 1970 – Gualter Salles, Brazilian race car driver
• 1971 – Joseph Arthur, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1971 – George Eustice, English lawyer and politician
• 1971 – Braam van Straaten, South African rugby player
• 1971 – Alan Wright, English footballer and manager
• 1972 – Dita Von Teese, American model and dancer
• 1973 – Brian Rafalski, American ice hockey player
• 1974 – Marco Di Loreto, Italian footballer and manager
• 1974 – Mariya Kiselyova, Russian swimmer
• 1974 – Joonas Kolkka, Finnish footballer and coach
• 1974 – Shane Webcke, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1975 – Stuart Clark, Australian cricketer and manager
• 1975 – Isamu Jordan, American journalist and academic (d. 2013)
• 1975 – Lenny Krayzelburg, Soviet-born American swimmer
• 1976 – Fedor Emelianenko, Russian mixed martial artist and politician
• 1977 – Ireneusz Marcinkowski, Polish footballer
• 1977 – Pak Se-ri, South Korean golfer
• 1977 – Young Jeezy, American rapper
• 1978 – Ben Edmondson, Australian cricketer
• 1979 – Bam Margera, American skateboarder, actor, and stuntman
• 1979 – Taki Tsan, American-Greek rapper and producer
• 1980 – Marlon Parmer, American basketball player
• 1981 – Greg Anderson, American pianist and composer
• 1981 – José Calderón, Spanish basketball player
• 1981 – Jorge Guagua, Ecuadorian footballer
• 1981 – Iracema Trevisan, Brazilian bass player
• 1982 – Aleksandr Anyukov, Russian footballer
• 1982 – Abhinav Bindra, Indian target shooter
• 1982 – Ray Emery, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1982 – Ranbir Kapoor, Indian actor and director
• 1982 – Nolwenn Leroy, French singer-songwriter and actress
• 1982 – Emeka Okafor, American basketball player
• 1982 – Dustin Penner, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1982 – Aivar Rehemaa, Estonian skier
• 1982 – Anderson Varejão, Brazilian basketball player
• 1982 – St. Vincent, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1983 – Stefan Moore, English footballer
• 1983 – John Schwalger, New Zealand rugby player
• 1984 – Jenny Omnichord, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1984 – Luke Pomersbach, Australian cricketer
• 1984 – Naim Terbunja, Kosovan-Swedish boxer
• 1984 – Melody Thornton, American singer-songwriter and dancer
• 1984 – Mathieu Valbuena, French footballer
• 1984 – Ryan Zimmerman, American baseball player
• 1985 – Shindong, South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer
• 1985 – Alina Ibragimova, Russian-English violinist
• 1986 – Andrés Guardado, Mexican footballer
• 1986 – Meskerem Legesse, Ethiopian runner (d. 2013)
• 1986 – Dominic Waters, American basketball player
• 1987 – Pierre Becken, German footballer
• 1987 – Gary Deegan, Irish footballer
• 1987 – Hilary Duff, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1987 – Chloë Hanslip, English violinist
• 1987 – Viktoria Leks, Estonian high jumper
• 1988 – Marin Cilic, Croatian tennis player
• 1988 – Esmée Denters, Dutch singer-songwriter
• 1988 – Aleks Vrteski, Australian footballer
• 1989 – Çagla Büyükakçay, Turkish tennis player
• 1989 – Darius Johnson-Odom, American basketball player
• 1989 – Mark Randall, English footballer
• 1990 – Phoenix Battye, Australian rugby player
• 1992 – Khem Birch, Canadian professional basketball player
• 1992 – Adam Thompson, English-Northern Irish footballer
• 1992 – Koko Tsurumi, Japanese gymnast
• 1993 – Jodie Williams, English sprinter
• 1995 – Jason Williams, English footballer

A VERY busy day.