Happy Birthday Steve

Yes, today was the 37th birthday of Guildford's answer to David Brent .. hope you had a good one mate.

Today we all received an email at work saying that Steve had bought some cakes and biscuits for all, which was nice, and also that he shared his birthday with Jean Michel Jarre, Yasser Arafat and Windows 95. Over lunch, we talked about the usual drivel, but tried to come up with people's best list of celebrities born on the same day they were born.

Then someone came up with the idea of taking everybody's list of 3 celebrities, and having them compete against each other in some kind of Superstars-style competition. This hit problems straight away when it was pointed out that a 100m sprint involving Welsh diva Shirley Bassey, the wheelchair-bound cosmologist Steven Hawking and the Operating System Windows 95 might not work too well.

I was looking at J-Walk today, and there's a link to Wikipedia Daily, a site with an entry for every day of the year. So, events that happened on your birthday Steve, over the years have been:

• Mount Vesuvius erupts, AD 79, covering Pompeii
• Potato Chips first prepared, 1853
• Born: Steve Guttenberg, actor, 1958
• Alaska become US territory, 1912
• Mark Chapman is sentenced for murdering John Lennon, 1981
• Born: Paulo Coelho, Brazilian author of the Alchemist