Birthday Buddies

 

            Is your birthday today? Or is it the birthday of anyone you know? There's a way to make it just a little bit more special for a birthday girl or boy, by looking up who else shares a birthday with your friend - a "birthday buddy" who's just a little more famous than you are, at the moment.

 

            For example, here are some famous figures born on March 10:

           

March 10	1867	Lillian Wald, social worker/reformer (Cincinnati, OH; died 1940)
	1888	Barry Fitzgerald, actor (Ireland; died 1961)
	1903	Claire Boothe Luce, playwright/politician (New York, NY; died 1987)
	1940	Chuck Norris, actor (Ryan, OK)
		David Rabe, playwright (Dubuque, IA)
	1947	Bob Greene, journalist (Columbus, OH)
	1958	Sharon Stone, actress (Meadville, PA)
	1964	Jasmine Guy, actress (Boston, MA)
		Prince Edward, youngest son of England's Queen Elizabeth II (London, England)
	1966	Edie Brickell, singer (Oak Cliff, TX)
	1977	Shannon Miller, champion gymnast (Edmond, OK)

 

            The next few times a friend celebrates a birthday, look up the list of birthday buddies on this website and print it out to include in your card.

 

            For your own birthday, type in your month and day, and then print out the names of your birthday buddies. Then go to a search engine such as Google.com or Yahoo.com and run a search on each name. Read up on who they were or are, and what they've accomplished or why they're famous. Write down a few notes.

 

            Someday, when YOU'RE a world-renowned big shot, come back to this website and check out your own name among the greats. Let's just hope they spell your name right, and get your birthday correctly!

 

            It's a great website all the way around, but the birthday section is really worth celebrating:

 

 

By Susan Darst Williams • www.GoBigEd.com • After School Treats 014 • © 2006