#HappyBirthday to @AmySchumer & @Morgan_Freeman & ... you? (in #June1's #BirthdayCohort) on Oscar the #Grouch Day @NationalToday | @411Holidays @BirthdayMates #TheFamousPeople @YourTango @MySundayMass

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I sometimes get a little 'thrill' from realizing that I have the same birthday as several famous people, and enough other people get that thrill from seeing their birthday-cohort (both the currently-famous & the probably-not-yet famous) that I figure it's worth doing 'one of these entries for every birthday'---maybe focusing on one of these holidays & or event-anniversaries in each entry)?'

That way I can go back & input new birthdays & events etc. Like today's Oscar the Grouch Day.

That explanation of the Grouch's birthday (including 'the reason his name is Oscar') is linked through 'the main word' below; but first I want to understand that word better. And I find that you understand words better when you look at the other words at the bases of the words you're thinking-of ...
The word “Grouch” is old U.S. college-slang for 'an Ill-|Tempered person's common state of |Irritable |Glumness,' a word that might be built on ancient words that mean "|Complaint, |Grumbling" (|Grutch). #Grouched #Grouching #GrouchBag (purse for carrying money secretly ... Julian Marx earned the nickname #Groucho by carrying such a bag to poker-games).
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Today's Birthday-Cohort

Astrologically, their sign is Gemini ... no matter WHICH stars they were born under: Nikki Glaser, Pat Boone, Robert Powell (who looks like he portrayed Jesus Christ in a movie), Marilyn Monroe, Tom Holland, Morgan Freeman, Alanis Morrisette, Andy Griffith, Heidi Klum, Amy Schumer, Jonathan Pryce ("Mayor Swann" in the Pirates of the Caribbean-movies), Rene Auberjonois, Brigham Young, inventor of the turbojet engine Frank Whittle ... and lots more I don't recognize (maybe you do recognize some ... you can find the date at the birthday-cohort link)
the ETERNAL Horoscope-dates

(and--if you or someone you know about has a birthday today
--please mention them (and how you know them or -know
 about them) in the comments, thanks)

My Heart of the Nation calendar says that we (Catholics) are celebrating Saint Justin, with the clergy wearing Red Vestments in his Memorial on the 9th Week in Ordinary Time


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