born 15 May 1970

Attrell Cordes, Jersey City, New Jersey, Prince Be

Brad Rowe, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, actor

Dave Finkel, Los Angeles, California, TV writer/producer

Desmond Howard, Cleveland, Ohio, NFL football player

Edmundo Castro, birthplace unspecified, Brazilian actor

Franciscus and Ronaldus de Boer, Hoorn, The Netherlands, soccer players

Keith Mukai, Richmond, British Columbia, lighting technician

Michael Patrick Jann, Albany, New York, TV writer/director

Michelle Bauxau, Norfolk, Virginia, craft service/animated cartoon makeup artist

Rod Smith, Texarkana, Arkansas, NFL football player

Salena Del Ray, birthplace unspecified, American porn star

Sean O’Brian, Thunder Bay, Ontario, actor

Simon Scott, Montreal, Quebec, actor

Sonia Hell, Mulhouse, France, actress

Taylor Moore, Puyallup, Washington, porn star

Tino Marcos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, sports TV writer/director

P.M. Dawn has its defenders, but I have not got enough information to join them.

Likewise, I’d like to single out Sonia Hell for having a cool name.

But the winner today is the curious case of Ronald de Boer. He was the slightly less awesome of the two awesome Dutch soccer-playing de Boer twins of the 1990s. It must be an odd road to be that good at what you do, yet have your twin brother be generally understood to be ever so slightly better. Sports is one arena where this phenomenon can be measurably detected (the Collinses and Lopezes of the NBA, for example). Politics is another. It will be very interesting to see how the career of Jarosław Kaczyński proceeds from here. In the wake of his brother’s death he probably can’t lose, but can he govern?