Seeing as it actually *is* my brithday...

The Meme:
Go to Wikipedia and look up your birthday (excluding the year). List three neat facts, two births and one death in your journal, including the year.

The facts:

217 - Roman emperor Caracalla is assassinated (and succeeded) by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus.
1820 - The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Melos.
1994 - The body of Kurt Cobain is discovered in his Washington home after having died three days earlier.

The births:

563 BC - Gautama Buddha, Indian religious leader (d. 483 BC)
1955 - Barbara Kingsolver, American novelist

One death:

(I have to pick just one?)

1492 - Lorenzo de Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1449)