#HappyBirthday to the #May27 #BirthdayCohort (with #LisaLopes (@LisaLopes__?) & @ChrisColfer & ... you?) on #NationalCellophaneTapeDay (or #NationalScotchTapeDay) | @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 #Cellophane #Tape Day.

That holiday's explanation is linked through 'the main words' below; but first I want to understand those words 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 “Cellophane” is built by adding the suffix -|phane to the word Cellulose.
The word “Tape” is built on ancient wordnarrs that mean "|Narrow Strip of Cloth used for |Tying, Measuring etc." (atop some unknown ancient words---maybe those that mean "|Carpet," maybe "to Pull, Pluck, Tear"). #Taped #Taping #AdhesiveTape (previously #FrictionTape, not to be confused with #VelcroTape) #TapeRecorder #TapeRecord #TapeMeasure #TapeDelay #AudioTape #Videotape #Tapeworm 
The name "#ScotchTape" comes from when the tape's developer was frustrated with the sample masking-tape & exclaimed "Take this tape back to those 'Scotch' (racial slur, meaning '|Parsimonious') bosses of yours and tell them to put more adhesive on it!" and the name 'stuck' (also being used on 3M's #Scotchgard #Scotchlite #ScotchBrite).
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Today's Birthday-Cohort

Astrologically, their sign is Gemini ... no matter WHICH stars they were born under: Andre 3000, Louis Gossett Jr., Jack McBrayer, Don Williams, Paul Bettany (MARVEL's "Vision"), Christopher Lee, Henry Kissenger, Lisa Lopes (rapper in TLC), Joseph Fiennes, Vincent Price, Wild Bill Hickok, VP Hubert Humphrey, Peri Gilpin, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Chris Colfer (cast-member in glee), Lee Meriwether (Miss America 1955, Betty Jones on Barnaby Jones, The Catwoman/Kitka on the 60s' BATMAN), comedian Adam Carolla ... 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)

And I Wonder What Saints' Day my Heart of the Nation calendar says this is:

optional memorial of Saint Augustine of Canterbury, with the clergy wearing White Vestments (whether-or-not they choose to run the memorial)

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