Saint Chad is still known 1400 years later. Think you can top that?
Here they come: the big, big birthdays of 2020. Who turns 50 this year? Who turns 100? What about 1400? (And would you be surprised to learn that Spongebob Squarepants is 21?) Read on for the biggest landmark birthdays of 2020.
Turning 50 in 2020
- Supermodel Naomi Campbell (May 22)
- Oscar-winning actress Octavia Spencer (May 25)
- Lefty golfer Phil Mickelson (June 16)
- Former U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power (September 21)
- Bourne actor Matt Damon (October 8)
- Former Fox News host Megyn Kelly (November 18)
- Old-time rapper DMX (December 18)
- Triple Crown winner Secretariat, if he hadn’t died in 1989 (March 30)
Turning 100 in 2019 (if they were still alive)
- I, Robot author Isaac Asimov (January 2)
- Heimlich maneuverer Henry Heimlich (February 3)
- Sex guru Alex Comfort (February 10)
- Star Trek star James ‘Scotty’ Doohan (March 3)
- Sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar (April 7)
- First Polish pope John Paul II (May 18)
- Double-helix hero Rosalind Franklin (July 25)
- Queen of Crime P.D. James (August 3)
- 90-year actor Mickey Rooney (September 23)
- LSD enthusiast Timothy Leary (October 22)
- Fantasy Island star Ricardo Montalban (November 25)
Turning 200 in 2019 (absolutely no longer alive)
- “War is hell” general William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8)
- Women’s rights icon Susan B. Anthony (February 15)
- British nursing hero Florence Nightingale (May 12)
- Publishing tycoon George “William’s Dad” Hearst (September 3)
- Karl Marx collaborator Friedrich Engels (November 28)
- Underground Railroad hero Harriet Tubman (maybe)
Turning 1400 (!) in 2020 (maybe)
- Religious icon Saint Chad
Saint Chad is not the patron saint of disputed ballots, by the way. But if he’s still remembered 1400 years later, maybe there’s hope for the rest of us! This year, let’s all pledge to do something that will get us immortalized in stained glass. Happy 2020 to all.