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Friday, December 25, 2009
Happy Birthday, You Famous People Born On Christmas Day
| Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus | Nobel Laureate Chemistry | 1876 |
| Annie Lennox | Singer & Eurythmic | 1954 |
| Anwar Sadat | President of Egypt (former) Nobel Laureate, Peace | 1918 |
| Barbara Mandrell1 | Singer (Country) | 1945 |
| Cab Calloway | Band Leader (Minnie the Moocher) | 1907 |
| Carlos Castaneda | Anthropologist, stoner, writer | 1931 |
| Clara Barton | Nurse | 1821 |
| Conrad Hilton | Hotel executive, ancestor of dingbat | 1887 |
| Cosima Wagner | Composer's annoying wife | 1837 |
| Gary Sandy | Actor (WKRP) | 1945 |
| Gerhard Herzberg | Nobel Laureate, Chemistry | 1904 |
| Giuseppe de Luca | Opera singer | 1876 |
| Helena Rubinstein | Cosmetics merchant | 1870 |
| Humphrey Bogart | Actor | 1899 |
| Isaac Newton | Mathematician, scientist, lawmaker | 1642 |
| Jesus of Nazareth [the place, not the band] | History's Most Influential Liberal, martyr, agent of change | ~ Spring, 4 BC |
| Jimmy Buffett | Singer-songwriter (head Parrot-head) | 1946 |
| Joe McCarthy | Commie-hunter and shameless anatomical orifice of the southern kind note: the anatomical orifice is south of somewhere, but the man was from Wisconsin | 1908 |
| Karl Rove | Liar, Scumbag, Bush's Brain Excellent reason for birth control and abortion | 1950 |
| Kenny Stabler | Pro football player, Snake (Oakland Raiders and most bars & taverns) | 1945 |
| Larry Csonka | Pro football player (Miami Dolphins) linebacker knocker-over | 1946 |
| Linda Wutzer Name (partly true) | Former girlfriend (completely true) | N/A |
| Little Richard | Singer, flaming queen | 1935 |
| Me1 | Renaissance man | N/A |
| Mike Mazurki | Actor | 1911 |
| Mohammed Ali Jinnah | Founder, Islamic Republic of Pakistan | 1876 |
| Nellie Fox | Pro Baseball player | 1927 |
| Rickey Henderson | Pro Baseball player Thief extrordinaire | 1960 |
| Robert L. Ripley | Anthropologist-Cartoonist, Believe It Or Not | 1893 |
| Rod Serling | Writer | 1924 |
| Sissy Spacek | Actor (Carrie) | 1949 |
| Steve Wariner | Singer-songwriter | 1954 |
| Tony Martin | Singer | 1913 |
- People glad they weren't born onChristmas Day:
- many Jews (other than JC)
- most Muslims
- nearly all atheists
- Odds of being born on
- Christmas Day: 1 in 365
- Odds of being born on any other day: 1 in 365
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