I was born on exactly the same day as Usain Bolt. I'd like to think he looks at my life and sees how it puts his achievements into some sort of perspective

Does your FPO know that you're broadcasting her age all over the web?

11/9/65

11/9 also shared by DH Lawrence, Arvo Part and John Martyn....

And some newsworthy event in NY city in 2001...

Herman Scherchner. Oh yes.

Shared with

Jane Leary, Sydney Australia, golfer (1992 Australian Amateur Champ)
Pirmin Zurbriggen, Swiss alpine skier (Olympic-gold-1988)
Tracie Ruiz-Conforto, Hawaii, sync swimmer (Oly-2 gold/silver-84, 88)

Beat that! You can't, can you? Can you, eh?

Other first of Octoberites include Dame Julie Andrews and Jimmy Carter. And the late Walter Matthau.

Howie Epstein (Tom Pety & The Heartbreakers)
Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam
Brian Talbot (ex-Ipswich & Arsenal midfielder)

but not the same year. Unaware of anyone important/recognisable for 1970

Not only me, but also Burlesque artiste and former squeeze of Marilyn Manson, Dita von Tesse. We both used to share the day with Gwyneth Paltrow, until her wikipedia page was updated and now she is a day older.

NEEDS to be the SAME DAY OF BIRTH..
Cappaccino?

ain't we? Need address for party though.

Well, ol '53, you also share 11 January with:

Jashon Connery - Shun of Shon 1963;
Mary J Blige 1971;
Emile Heskey 1978.

Me? 11 April:
Whispering Bob Harris 1946;
Guy Verhofstadt - very famous Belgian? 1953

On the 2nd day in April (for we are the lucky ones...)

Shared with notable luminaries Sir Alec Guinness, Teddy Sheringham, Linford Christie, Emmylou Harris, Marvin Gaye, Serge Gainsbourg, Hans Christian Andersen and Thomas Jefferson.

I like to see myself as a combination of all of them... or not.

Me.

Oh, and the saxophone player out of Haircut One Hundred.

Harry 'Loads 'a Money' Enfield - very same day.

It's my birthday today. Me and Shirley Bassey.

3rd September Eric Bell, Al Jardine, Charlie Sheen,Vera Duckworth from Corrie, the day ww2 started and its mentioned in the song War!

The FPO was born on the same day as Minnie Driver though according to Wikipedia.

Famous by association?

Robert Redford and I share a birthday (and look similar (ref. Uncle Wheaty's FPO, 2010, Oxford)

Me and Annabella Sciorra.

Whom I'd never heard of till just now but is an American actress who has been in loads of good stuff (Soprano's, Bullets Over Broadway)

On the same date but different years we have:

Fatty Arbuckle (friends of mine will be tickled by the irony)
Harry Houdini
Alan Sugar
Steve McQueen
Sharon Corr
and my favourite, Willow out of Buffy!

It's got to be the actual day of birth...NOT The Birthday!!

Michael McCary, American singer (Boyz II Men)
Seyhan Kurt, French-Turkish poet, writer
Paul van Dyk, German DJ

All born, like me, on 16th December 1971.

Along with

# 1970 – Olaf Kölzig, South African–born ice hockey player
# 1970 – Huang Xiaomin, Chinese swimmer

Neither of whom I've heard of. Nor, I suspect, have they heard of me.

The pick of the litter from different years:-

* 1483 – Raphael, Italian painter and architect (d. 1520)
* 1664 – Arvid Horn, Swedish statesman (d. 1742) (no idea - like the name, though)
* 1671 – Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet (d. 1741)
* 1890 – Anthony Fokker, Dutch designer of aircraft (d. 1939)
* 1926 – Gil Kane, Latvian-born cartoonist (d. 2000)
* 1926 – Ian Paisley, Northern Irish politician
* 1929 – André Previn, German-born composer and conductor
* 1934 – Guy Peellaert, Belgian visual artist (d. 2008)
* 1937 – Merle Haggard, American musician
* 1937 – Billy Dee Williams, American actor
* 1938 – Paul Daniels, English magician
* 1947 – John Ratzenberger, American actor
* 1952 – Marilu Henner, American actress
* 1961 – Rory Bremner, English comedian and impressionist
* 1965 – Frank Black, American singer/songwriter
* 1967 – Jonathan Firth, British actor
* 1978 – Myleene Klass, British singer

I'm writing to Myleene to see if she would like a joint birthday party.

Who plays the guitar with Linkin' Park.

Not sure if I should be proud of that.

(01/12/77 btw)

with Paul Biedermann; a German swimmer.

I'm not sure who's the more famous, as I doubt many people have heard of him; and you've all heard of me.

Me & Mary Chapin Carpenter, about an hour apart...

No-one (else) of note that year, but besides Noddy Holder (1946), Simon Callow (1949) and Ice Cube (1969), I find I'm exactly a year younger than Gary Lightbody from Snow Patrol, and 8 years older than Nadine from Girls Aloud.

My actual birthday (29/9/62) had nobody too prominent born on it - I was born a year too soon to share by birth date with the mighty Les Claypool. A shame because I got a bass guitar for xmas...

As an aspiring politician though, 29th Sept looks a like a good birthday to have: Wim Kok, Lech Walesa, Mohammed Khatami, Rhodri Morgan, Michelle Bachelet and Silvio Berlusconi were all born on 29th Sept and all got to lead a country.

Also the birthday of my favourite film director (Antonioni), Cervantes, Nelson, Caravaggio, Jerry Lee Lewis and the notorious Fred West.

Not a bad collection, but I keep quiet about Berlusconi.

No-one, nobody, apart from me (and my twin brother).

but Queen Latifah was born 5 yrs before me, and Luc Besson, Wilson Pickett and John Updike further back.

by Rodgers & Hammerstein had its theatrical release which introduced the brand spanking new 70mm cinema projection system on the day I was born.

Michelle Phillips
Angelina Jolie
Bruce Dern
Noah Wyle
Russell Brand
Bob Champion
Bradley Walsh
Freddie Fender
Dr Ruth Westheimer
Philip Olivier
Lou Macari
Bill Treacher
Rosalind Russell

and I have the delight in knowing that 62 years before me, Richard Nixon first appeared.

Norman Mailer
Lloyd Cole
Justin Trousersnake
Mario Lanza
Minnie Driver
That bald bloke that used to knock about with Howard Jones

Edward Elgar, Johnny Weismuller and Charlie Watts. Oh and the Marquis de Sade. Mmwahahahah!

The prat in the hat-Jamiroquai.

Also the same day but different year, Tiger Woods. I know.

EDIT:*Just found out Jocky Wilson so all is not lost*

Star of Best of Buttman 3, Caught from Behind 9 and Camp Beaverlake.

17 July 1964: a dark day in the annals of history.

Saddam Hussein, Mica Paris and Lauren Laverne... April 28th.

6 March 1971, shared with Servais Knaven, a dutch professional bicyclist.

So my bithday is now either 6 March 1970 - Betty Boo or 7 March 1971 Rachel Weisz, take your pick.

Same day but completely wrong year include Kiri De Kanawa, Kiki Dee, Dave Gilmour, Rob Reiner and Michaelangelo

1st of Feb. Bill Mumy or Boris Yeltsin.Astrology really does suck don't It.I've never been in Babylon 5 or as drunk as Boris.Aquarian traits,my arse.

...but the day I was born the Pope issued Humanae Vitae, his encyclical saying what a bad thing birth control was. No coincidence, surely?

(Mike Monroe : Hanoi Rocks) and this conforms with the original post details : same day in same year