born 5 February 1970

Astrid Kumbernuss, Grevesmühlen, East Germany, Atlanta Olympic gold medal shot putter

Brian Wiley, Dayton, Ohio, aspiring documentarian

Eric Le Roux, Saint-Malo, France, actor

Kerry Craft, state of Michigan, makeup artist

Milan “Ribcracker Savage” Jovanovic, Nis, Yugoslavia, strongman

Peter Waal, Halifax, Nova Scotia, TV writer/producer/director

Roxy Rider, birthplace unspecified, Jamaican porn star

Tabitha Stevens, “Long Island, New York”, porn star

Uri Hochman, birthplace unspecified, Israeli actor

Zoltán Schneider, birthplace unspecified, Hungarian actor

This is an amazing amalgam of people. They have a common quality of immense strength. A grouping of like-spirited individuals born on the exact same day such as this really makes a guy believe completely in horoscopes, at least for a minute. Look at those names. The names themselves project power.

It’s not possible to select a definitive winner from a force field such as this. They are greater than the sum of their parts. The honorary winner, though, will have to be Brian Wiley, for the inspiring tale his biography tells. Jump cut: one frame, the horrors of crack-era Dayton; then, boom: the dizzy pleasures of ecstasy-era Orlando. Life, like the movies, is capable of such marvelous changes of scenery.