celebrity birthday trivia poll

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[Poll #1619848]

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[firefly124.livejournal.com]

I've never sent a celebrity a birthday card, but I have participated in fannish fundraisers on the occasion of their birthday to their respective favorite charities.

[rm.livejournal.com]

And IMHO that makes sense and is classy.

[sykii.livejournal.com]

I know one. I read it in a teenybopper magazine when I was small, and I remembered it because it's the same day as mine.
That birthday? Will Wheaton's.

[rm.livejournal.com]

That's awesome, I had no idea.

And so funny.

[mamadar.livejournal.com]

I know offhand of three celebrities who share my birthday: Gwen Verdon, Charles Nelson Reilly, and Orlando Bloom. I'm pretty tickled by the first two. *g*

[lady-death.livejournal.com]

Haven't sent anyone a birthday card, but I have wished them 'Happy Birthday' in my journal, not that I expected them to ever read that.

[rm.livejournal.com]

The Internet really does change things. It occurs to me that, oh, there are all these random celebs I've occasionally Twittered with, I suppose I might say something in that environment, yeah. huh.

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

Do fictional characters count? It's hard not to know Ianto Jones' birthday in Torchwood fandom.

[rm.livejournal.com]

TRUXFAX.

I think that's a separate poll, or one tangetally linked to this (considering my feelings on fiction/non-fiction). I'll do it in a couple of days.

[karjack.livejournal.com]

I share a birthday with Harry Potter (and JK Rowling), so there's that.

[popfiend.livejournal.com]

I share my birthday with:
- Josh Brolin
- Aresenio Hall
- Joe Gariagiola
- Lorne Greene
- Charles Darwin
- Abraham Lincoln
- Christina Ricci

And that's the ones I know off the top of my head.

[count-to-seven.livejournal.com]

Elvis Presley and David Bowie don't count, everyone knows those.

I object to the fact that John Lennon is not among your list here.

[rm.livejournal.com]

He's not January 8 too, is he?

[maudelynn.livejournal.com]

it seems like i have always known that my birthday falls right around paul mccartney and john taylor's birthdays, always.

[verasteine.livejournal.com]

I ticked 'you or someone close shares a birthday' but it would be more accurate to say that I remembered the date because the date shared with a memorable date for me personally, which was not a birthday. But the reason for retention was the same -- familiar date already.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Yup, that works for me!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_lullabelle_/]

I don't think I know the birthdays of any of the celebs I'm currently interested. However, I can still tell you all of the Hanson brothers' and Spice Girls' bdays.

The number of fictional characters whose birthdays I know is something I really have no excuse for.

[dr-is-in.livejournal.com]

I know Burn's (for obvious reasons...and I've sent him a birthday card).

I know John Schneider's because I was obsessed with Dukes of Hazzard when I was a kid and my birthday is the same day (my 8 year old self was convinced this meant I was going to marry him some day). I think I sent him embarassing fanmail around that time.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Well, you and Burn are actually friends, so that's in the "I happen to know a famous person" thingy category.

[ladyaelfwynn.livejournal.com]

Celebs that share my b-day: Babe Ruth, Tom Brokaw, and Ronald Reagan.

Back when he was first president, I sent Reagan a b-day card. I said something along the lines of, "HBD, Mr. Pres. We share a birthday, isn't that cool?" I was 11 or so.

Other random celebrities b-day's I remember: J.K. Rowling and James Marsters.

It's just a thing. Little tidbits of useless info I've gathered that had managed to stick.

[amberite2112.livejournal.com]

not only do i share a birthday with john lithgow, we also have the same middle name. of course, he's a few years older than me.
i know few other celeb's b'days, like john lennon, the birthdays of the band rush. mostly, i know my 'birthday twins' - random folks i've met that share my birthday. there's at least a dozen at last count. a few of them are local celebrities where they live - musicians, poets, scholars. but nothing on the scale you're looking at, i think.

[shoiryu.livejournal.com]

I'm am RPF writer with a very, very large cast of people (it's got to be 50+ people at this point) that I'm "responsible" for (two person project) so that's why!

[rm.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's a lot to keep track of! I'm impressed.

[crowgirl13.livejournal.com]

I study astrology and sample charts in astrology books are generally of famous folks. And once people's astrological info gets crammed into my brain, it's there forever.

[puella-nerdii.livejournal.com]

The only celeb birthday I can remember with any consistency (other than Elvis's and Bowie's) is JK Rowling's. Granted, I can't remember when the heck my family members were born most of the time, so I am rather bad with birthdays in general.

[kdsorceress.livejournal.com]

I don't know David Bowie or Elvis's birthdays. D:

The only one I know for certain I know is Jack Kirby, and that's because we share a birthday --Aug 28th. Yay!

~Sor

[marcmagus]

I was afraid I was going to be the only one who didn't know those. I don't seem to retain dates without a lot of effort...

[luke-jaywalker.livejournal.com]

I don't know any celebrity birthdays; thus, the other questions don't apply.

Why don't I? Well, why should I *care* about the birthdays of people I don't personally know? (People I do know count as "friends", not "celebrities." Or "enemies", of course, but I haven't cared about their birthdays since learning that mailing dead rats brings angry USPS inspectors to your house.)

Come to think of it, I don't know any of my friends' birthdays either, not off the top of my head. Facebook tells me about that stuff.

[shadowvalkyrie.livejournal.com]

Or "enemies", of course, but I haven't cared about their birthdays since learning that mailing dead rats brings angry USPS inspectors to your house.

*laughs* Awesome!

[bethynyc.livejournal.com]

I remember Boy George's birthday, because it is the same as mine.

I have sent letters to actors, though not birthday cards. It was a long time ago, though.

[atrophying]

One of the famous people I share a birthday with is Bill Gates. Julia Roberts and Joaquin Phoenix were also born on 10/28. Interesting company, but that's about as far as I've ever gone with celebrity birthdays.

[marchek.livejournal.com]

I think I know the birthdays of more fictional people than celebrities.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

I certainly do. Granted, they're mostly fictional people of my own invention, but still...

[pocketmouse]

I know maybe two. And they were all ones I learned when I was about 13, and they just happen to have stuck around. I just really don't care. It's never been a thing for me, and I don't really understand the interest.

[shadowvalkyrie.livejournal.com]

None... I already find remembering my own birthday somewhat challenging, though. ";-]

[rufus.livejournal.com]

do "happy birthday!" tweets count as cards? because I did one of those this morning. though I have actually sent a celebrity a birthday card, too. (as part of a larger "being encouraging and supportive of you making a new record" care package. I don't know if that's better or worse, or if that they had specifically asked their fans to send them random crap is a mitigating factor.)

also my answer of "eh, it's a thing" doesn't really convey my feelings; I'm not proud, exactly, but I'm not embarrassed either. I think "wryly amused" is closer to it.

ETA: 1) I actually don't know Elvis or Bowie's birthday w/out looking it up and 2) I also have that characters birthday thing. Though by characters I really mean Harry Potter and Severus Snape. I used to know the Marauders birthdays', too, or at least Lupin and Black, but I've forgotten them now. Snape I still pause and mentally wish him a good year; Harry I don't care so much anymore.

[phonoirlex.livejournal.com]

Hermione's birthday is Sunday...Talk Like a Pirate Day.

And there's a song (http://www.tomsmithonline.com/freestuff/oddio/iT008_192.mp3).