Lizzie Borden Society Forum

This more of a fun type of question. Donny Osmonds birthday is coming up December 9th. I was just thinking how many people share Lizzies birthday of July 29th, or the day the murders happened, August 4th.

For instance, my birthday is September 13th. Peter Cetera (Chicago fame) shares the same day, and he is also left handed like me. That kind of think.

Anybody up for some trivial pursuit?

There is no way to know how many people were born on a particular day, since so many countries do not keep birth records and many births around the world are not officially reported.

Lizzie's birthday was July 19, 1860. (Source: Rebello's 'Past & Present', page 7)

Here is a list of birthdays of famous and infamous people that were born on July 19th. It comes from: Brainy History.com. I do not know if the list is complete or correct.

Well, I went to post a 5-page list and cannot upload it. It says that "the extension docx is not allowed".

Anyway, if you type in "Birthdays July 19" on google, there is a sizable list on the site Brainy History.com. Most of the people I've never heard of, and at least on this list there was no July 19, 1860 match.

I goggled famous people born on July 19. There is a nice long list but here is a few that I picked out, thought people would recognize these names:

Anthony Edwards 1961
Joseph Felding Smith (president of the Mormon church) 1876
Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith last know Lincoln decesdant 1904
Dennis Cole actor 1940
George Dzundza actor 1945

Brian May gutairist for Queen 1947
George Mcgovern poloticain 1922

There are others, but I didn't recognize there names.

Try this site. Just click the day.

http://www.historyorb.com/birthdays-on-this-day.php

To see who was born the same year try this:

http://www.historyorb.com/birthdays-by-year.php

I read somewhere that the probability of two people being born on the same day is much greater than you might imagine. The details elude me, but maybe because there are only 12 months each year with 30 or so days. So you have a 1/12 chance of being born in the same month and about 1/30 of the same day. Or maybe I'm jumbling the whole thing up.

You have about a 1/365 chance of being born the same day as any one specific person, not allowing for leap year.