born 3 December 1970

Brian Van Camp, Southfield, Michigan, actor/driver
Christian Karembeu, Lifou, New Caledonia, French soccer player
Fahima Chowdhury, London, England, production manager
Felipe Braun, Mexico City, actor
Filippo Nigro, Rome, Italy, actor
Henry Octavio Vasquez, birthplace unspecified, Dominican film editor
J. David Crosby, Charlotte, North Carolina, composer
Jennifer Rothschild, birthplace unspecified, American extra
Katarzyna Skrzynecka, Warsaw, Poland, actress
Lindsey Hunter, Utica, Mississippi, NBA basketball player
Paul Byrd, Louisville, Kentucky, major league pitcher
Sandy Pine, Mission Hills, California, reality TV script coordinator
Steve Richard Harris, Brooklyn, New York, actor/short filmmaker
Timothy Jonathan Stark, London, England, actor



Reading up on Today’s Winner’s homeland got me interested in the linguistics of Southeast Asia and Oceania, somehow. Here’s a helpful, brief academic summary of the subject. The dominant theory seems to be that a whole huge part of the Pacific world was populated out of Taiwan.

Which reminds me, I still have to check out this place for the first time on my annual trip to Southern California.