Because I thought it was cool!

Snagged from thalionar:

Go to wikipedia and put in your birth date. Don't put in the year. Post in your LJ with three neat facts, two births, and two deaths! Or ignore those rules and post all the things you want to point out to prove how incredibly cool it was to be born on your birthday!

1138 - Cardinal Gregory is elected anti-pope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II. (The anti-pope!)
1781 - William Herschel discovers the planet Uranus.
1925 - Scopes Trial: A law in Tennessee prohibits the teaching of evolution.
1930 - The news of the discovery of Pluto was telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory.

1950 - William H. Macy, American actor
1960 - Adam Clayton, Irish bassist (U2)

1619 - Richard Burbage, English actor (b. 1567)
1938 - Clarence Darrow, American attorney (b. 1857)
2006 - Maureen Stapleton, American actress in film, theater and television (b. 1925)