Princess Di died on my birthday (I was mid-20s).

Grenfell

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Martin Lewis was born and everything changed.

karl marx was born

Aaliyah died on my birthday in 2001

Someone threw a shoe at George W Bush.

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Major terrorist attack :frowning:

Same for my gf. We were out of the country though so missed most of the insanity.

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Princess Diana’s dead?!

She’ll always be alive in my heart.

  • 1975 – The film Jaws is released in the United States, becoming the highest-grossing film of that time and starting the trend of films known as “summer blockbusters”.

Broke my big toe (kicked a wall)

Ross Barkley was born while I celebrated my 11th birthday. Interestingly enough, I was bought a goal AND a Sondico football from Toys ‘R’ Us. Also, date fans will be fascinated to learn that this was the first time my birthday had fallen on a Sunday since I was born.

Notorious B.I.G died on my birthday

Marathon became Snickers.

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cwbaft

Coldplay released A Rush of blood to the head on my 18th birthday, which seemed like it might be a major event at the time but in retrospect definitely wasn’t.

Whigfield was born

And mine and @iamwiggy’s

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you know Boston, who did More Than A Feeling? singer from that band killed himself on our birthday :pensive:

and this guy (who took the picture on the front cover of Horses by Patti Smith amongst other things) died of complications from HIV/AIDS

and we share birthdays with Yuri Gagarin (first man in space) and John Cale from the Velvet Underground :+1: