Quick Trivia Burst: Born on Friday the 13th

Posted by Maggie Van Ostrand (maggie@filmschoolrejects.com) on February 14, 2009

Born on Friday the 13th

Steve Buscemi, who played a serial killer in the movie Con Air, was born Friday, December 13th, 1957, and someone even scarier, horror star Christopher Plummer was born on Friday, December 13, 1929.

But the person born on a Friday the 13th (August 13, 1899) who scared more audiences than any other, was Alfred Hitchcock. If he had lived to be one hundred, he would’ve celebrated on another Friday the 13th.

If you find this trivia interesting, you’re as weird as I am.

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Craig

Great trivia find, how did you stumble across this piece of trivia?

maggie

Right after a black cat crossed my path, I was walking under a ladder and it suddenly came to me.
No, seriously, I wrote a Hitchcock story for FSR, knew his birth date, and researched the others.

RobertFure

My parents were married on Friday the 13th.

Meli

Fantastic trivia piece....it adds to an already stupendous weekend.

Cassie

See i was born on march Friday the 13 im 10 years old and when i tell my friends they always freak out : )

Laken

I was born on Friday November 13

jimmy j

no joke i just looked at my calender saw his bday on the 13th and googled "alfred hitchcock friday the 13th" expecting it to be his birthday haha i was also born on friday the 13th

jimmy j

well with further research i find thats bullshit haha. this was the only place i could find this info and according to this http://kaji.com/etc/friday13th/friday13th19c.html the only friday the 13ths in 1899 were on january and october not august.