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More cool cartoons at Toothpaste For Dinner.

If today is your birthday, we at onelargeprawn wish you a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY. And it’s on a Friday – you lucky so-and-so – hope you got cool pressies and cake and beer and tequila and lots of other good stuff (and not a Lance Armstrong cancer bracelet).

Also born on this day were:

1908 – Simone de Beauvoir, French author
1913 – Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States
1929 – Dorothea Puente, American serial killer
1933 – Wilbur Smith, Zambian-British novelist
1941 – Joan Baez, American singer and activist
1944 – Jimmy Page, British musician and producer (Led Zeppelin)
1967 – Dave Matthews, South African singer and musician
1975 – Kimberley Ann Scott Mathers, former wife of Eminem
1982 – Kate Middleton, girlfriend of Prince William of Wales

Thanks for the info Wikipedia.

Let me know if you’d like me to add a friend, family member or little ol’ you to our daily birthday lists of (famous) people.

Mail me names, years of birth, and what makes you or them famous.

2008 has been an eventful year and Boston.com has compiled a set of photos to show what life has been like over the past 12 months.

Here are a couple I lifted off the article (click the pictures to see in a larger resolution):

Firefighters battle a blaze at the Namdaemun gate, one of South Korea’s most historic sites, in central Seoul, on February 11, 2008. An arsonist started the fire, destroying the gate – the oldest wooden structure in Seoul, first constructed in 1398 and rebuilt in 1447. (Kim Jae-hwan/AFP/Getty Images.

An Afghan refugee child hides from a dust storm behind a tent at a refugee camp in Kabul, Afghanistan on October 7, 2008. Over a quarter million Afghans have returned home this year from Pakistan and Iran, many of them reportedly due to economic and security uncertainties faced in exile, the United Nations said. (MANPREET ROMANA/AFP/Getty Images.

A polar bear shakes his body to remove water at the St-Felicien Wildlife Zoo in St-Felicien, Quebec on March 6, 2008. (REUTERS/Mathieu Belanger).

Samuel Peter from Nigeria receives a punch from Vitali Klitschko of Ukraine during their WBC heavyweight boxing world championship fight in Berlin, Germany on Oct.11, 2008. Klitschko won the fight after round nine due to technical knock out. (AP Photo/Herbert Knosowski).

Drummers perform during the Opening Ceremony for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics at the National Stadium on August 8, 2008 in Beijing. (Adam Pretty/Getty Images.

See the amazing 3-part photo narrative at Boston.com – Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3.