Happy Birthday to Me

In honor of today being my birthday, I’ve compiled a few birthday tunes, and a list of cool people who happen to share the day with me:

• Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, Governor of the Province of Maryland
• Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States
• Lester Young, jazz saxophone player (aka Prez, aka Pork Pie Hat)
• Mother Teresa, human rights activist, Nobel Peace Prize, Atheist?
• Sgt. Slaughter, professional wrestler
• Paul “Pee-Wee Herman” Reubens
• Alex Lifeson, guitarist from Rush
• Sarah Chalke, actress from Scrubs (on the very same day!!!)

If you look at Wikipedia’s full list of births you may notice a trend: there are an awful lot of Nobel Prize winners. I guess August 27th is a day when geniuses are born…

Andrew Bird - The Happy Birthday Song

The Sugarcubes - Birthday

Thelonious Monk - Boo Boos Birthday

And an appropriate bit of comedy from Sterling, Virginia’s most bitter son, Patton Oswalt:
Patton Oswalt - You Are Allowed 20 Birthday Parties