/lit/ - Literature

Shakespeare was born and died on my birthday.
Prokofiev was born on my birthday. He's one of my favorites.
Cervantes and Wordsworth died on my birthday.

I was born on my birthday.

>>3298634
Let me go to Wikipedia very quickly.
I share mine with Lawrence Stern, Scott Joplin, Pete Best, and Ted Bundy.
Barack Obama Sr., Lee Harvey Oswald, and Snowflake, a "Spanish gorilla", all died on my birthday.
Aaaaand The Origin of Species was published.
Fucking boring.

The golf war was made official on my birthday.

J. Kepler and D. Knopfler were born on my birthday
so lame :S

>>3298700

Was that the day that Tiger's wife pwned him with a golf club?

Birth:
Schopenhauer

Death:
Saussure

Das Rheingold premiered on my birthday.

That's pretty cool.

Hiroshima was bombed on my birthday.

I feel so awkward because I fucking love Japan beyond stuff like otaku interests. I feel like if I ever lived/visited(not likely) there I'd get odd looks even mentioning my birthday.

>>3300535

I wouldn't. Japanese aren't all butt hurt about dates like the US is about 9/11 and (still for some reason...) December 7th. Though I'm sure there are some old school, hardcore nationalists, you'd be fine mentioning August 6th or 9th or whatever.

Captcha: US riyori (japanese for food/dish)
I lol'd

Giordano Bruno and Krishnamurti died on the date of my birthday.

Other than that wikipedia is not telling me about anyone that I know.

Nabokov, Kant, and sexpot Louise Gluck

I have the same birthday as Virgil, although I've never read any of his work.

Tim Curry and Suge Knight share a birthday with me.

I wonder how they feel about missing 4/20 by a day.

>>3298645
I hope you don't get too drunk on your birthday. That shit's got to be an omen.

I share a birthday with Charles Darwin which is also the day that Kant died.

Its also the day Solzhenitsyn got exiled from the USSR.

I share a birthday with Lou Gehrig and Nick Drake, and William Golding died a year before I was born.

Jesus.
That one guy. Same birthdays.

>>3298634
Born the same day as Julius Caesar

Ernest Hemingway, Bela Tarr & Charlotte Gainsbourg were born on my birthday.
>we are all smoking

>>3300593
Its also Abraham Lincoln's birthday, which I discovered thanks to this.

http://youtu.be/Wb9r0UrKSNc?t=1h7m5s

Kanye West has the same birthday

>>3300597
also the day that the settlers left Roanoke, the FCC was founded, and the 1964 Civil Rights Act was passed. Go me.

Ambrose Bierce born on 0624

>>3300610
in the thumbnail, he looks like he has a big beard instead of hand.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Jack Black

let's see

>Ulysses is published
>Born James Joyce
>Born Ayn Rand
>Died Sid Vicious
>Groundhog Day

Nice

>>3300757
>you'll never eat a bacon-dick

Surprisingly only 4 nobel prize winners were born on my birthday. What luck to have noone of any significance born on the same day as you.
Also why do people like catcher in the rye?

>>3302724

Why on Earth wouldn't you like one of the greatest novels ever written?

>>3302724
>What luck to have noone of any significance born on the same day as you.
On the contrary, why would sharing a birthday with someone significant be any good to you?

>>3302739
I was making the point of the high probability of someone sharing a birthday with atleast someone famous or significant throughout history that they would know.
The fact that I didn't means that I managed to get into that low percentage. Therefore lucky.
I wasn't being sarcastic.
Though a nobel prize is certainly significant to an extent the fact that not even one famous actor from the last 40 years I know of was born on the same day as me is quite unlikely.

I share my birthday with Kurt Godel, Harper Lee and Terry Pratchet.

Only really significant even I found was the execution of Benito Mussolini

births:
George Orwell
Ricky Gervais (I'm not sure if he's a writer, but he's a comedian. I think there's some creative process going on when you're creating a stand-up routine)
deaths:
none that I could recognize

None yet, but I'm planning to kill Vonnegut on my birthday

>>3302827
Hey, good luck with that, buddy.

You go for it.

>Tom Wolfe
>Dr. Suess
Fuck Yeah.

>>3302840
what do you mean

>>3302846
Nothing. I'm just wishing you good luck in your attempts to kill Kurt Vonnegut. I sincerely wish you success in your endeavor to end his life and I support you 100%.

Philip Larkin, Whitney Houston and that murdered toddler Casey Anthony share my birthday. Manson murders occurred on August 9th, as well.

Oh, and some American football player was born and died on our shared birthday.

>>3302854
FUCK DUDE ABANDON SHIP.

>>3302851
thank you for your encouragement. I assume that you're not a fan of his work? I was only kidding, I like his writing very much and don't want to kill him

>>3302861

>>3302851
Look at this man. Such selfless encouragement.

>>3302854
Bob Cousy and Deion Sanders wow

>>3302866
He was trying not to be trolled, considering Vonnegut is dead.

>>3302872
So it goes.

>fucking ten posts to set up that shitty joke, god damn

>>3302866
I enjoy his work, but I think it's important to have a sense of purpose, and I support you in having a sense of purpose that you're working towards. I think it would be a real accomplishment to kill Kurt Vonnegut. It would be something you could look back on and say, "I did that, and no one else ever did. I did something totally unique."

>>3302884
Just me, and a flight of stairs

>>3302724
I dig it because well Im at the same age as Holden or at least I was when I read it and I feel like he does in the Phonies and just his general outlook is perfect.

>>3302888
Ha!

That is good. Better than the other gag.

>>3302898
i was also thinking about a billy pilgrim/time travel gag, but thanks all the same :D

>who says the internet can't be nice?

J.D Salinger died on your birthday, before I knew this I loved Catcher In the Rye.

>>3302914

Brilliant.

>>3300590
Don't worry for me. I'm alcohol intolerant.

My cousin was born on Hitler's birthday (4/20).
His older brother was born on Hitler's death (4/30).
What a coincidence.

H.G. Wells, Stephan King, and I were all born on September 21st.

I share a birthday with Jordan Castro.

Birth of Derleth and Weldon Kees; death of Bowdler (of Bowdlerization).

>>3302965
That fucking guy is 20 years old...TWENTY

Still, the only other author I remember sharing a birthday with is Robert Louis Stevenson...