Happy birthday Ken

[skullturfq]

A puzzle: What do the following people have in common?

Robert Burns
Bobby Darin
Vincent van Gogh
Mitch Hedberg
Michael Hutchence
Christa McAuliffe
Jason Mizell, aka Jam Master Jay

[naurae29]

A puzzle: What do the following people have in common?

Robert Burns
Bobby Darin
Vincent van Gogh
Mitch Hedberg
Michael Hutchence
Christa McAuliffe
Jason Mizell, aka Jam Master Jay

well, this may be the most morbid birthday greeting ever.

[skullturfq]

Well, I could have posted a worse list. Something like

Charlotte Bronte
Harry Chapin
Roberto Clemente
George Gershwin
Florence Griffith Joyner
John F. Kennedy Jr
Sam Kinison

[naurae29]

yes. that would be worse.

[TheConfessor]

And this would be even verse:

Bronte (Charlotte) and Chapin (Harry)
Took a ride on Charon's ferry,
John-John, Flo-Jo, and Clemente
Died at one-point-nine times twenty.

Kinison was much too loud
At thirty-eight he joined the crowd,
The younger of the Gershwin Brothers
Had the same fate as the others.

It's true, these losses have been great
It's risky being thirty-eight,
May all our worries be assuaged
When Ken gets to Jack Benny's age.

Happy Birthday, Ken!

[gwynn1984]

I remember watching Ken's Jeopardy run and thinking, "not only is this guy amazing at this game, but he's YOUNGER than I am".

I just turned 38 - two days before Ken .

Happy Birthday, young man.

[skullturfq]

It's actually my 38th birthday today.

I followed Ken's 2004 Jeopardy run with great interest, and then I was pleasantly surprised to see, when Ken got his own Wikipedia page, that he and I are almost exact contemporaries.

I think the actress Fairuza Balk and the singer Skye Edwards were both born in late May of 1974 as well.

[gwynn1984]

Wow - very strange (though I'm sure someone on here could probably figure out that the odds of 3 of us being born within 3 days of each other are not that great ).


Yes, Fairuza Balk is my birthday twin (born on the exact day as me) and Alaskan songstress Jewel is Ken's birthday twin.


My wife has both Rey Mysterio, Jr. and Damien Echols. Anyone else have a famous birthday twin?

[skullturfq]

This is the most famous person I'm aware of who was born on exactly the same day and year as I was. He's probably not really all that famous. (Sorry, Dash). As a bonus, he kind of sort of looks a little bit like me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash_Mihok

I'm sure some of you have more prominent identical celebrity birthmates.

[marpocky]

This is the most famous person I'm aware of who was born on exactly the same day and year as I was. He's probably not really all that famous. (Sorry, Dash). As a bonus, he kind of sort of looks a little bit like me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash_Mihok

I'm sure some of you have more prominent identical celebrity birthmates.

Happy birthday! Wikipedia doesn't list anyone born on the same day as me, but the birth date of this well-known Swedish singer (well-known in Sweden, anyway) is the day after mine, and since I was born late in the evening in the central time zone of the US, there's nearly a 22% chance she was actually born before me.

[grodney]

Happy birthday! Wikipedia doesn't list anyone born on the same day as me, but the birth date of this well-known Swedish singer (well-known in Sweden, anyway) is the day after mine, and since I was born late in the evening in the central time zone of the US, there's nearly a 22% chance she was actually born before me.

Perhaps we should normalize all birthdays to avoid just such controversies. I *thought* Adele and I shared a birthdate (not year), but now I'm not so sure. For a time I thought Mexico and I also shared a birthdate, but that's just a common misconception among Americans.

As far as same day and year, she doesn't have her own Wiki page, but disgraced Survivor:China participant Denise Martin and I could be twins.