Birthdays! Birthdays!

How to Find A Person's Birthday

Let's say you want to find out a famous person's birthday or a friends birthday and feel too embarassed to say you forgot. Well, the internet makes finding almost anyone's birthday a breeze. And finding expensive belated birthday gifts even easier.

Finding a famous person's birthday:

Actors: The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) lists birthdays for all actors, even extras in movies. Simply type in the name of the actor or actress whose birthday you want to find and presto.

Musicians, Politicians, Famous People in General: Wikipedia usually offers birthdays and ages for all of the people listed in their database. While you're at it, you can check out their full profile and possibly even figure out what you can send them for their birthday.

Friends and Family: Social networks like MySpace and Facebook list all of your friends birthdays. In fact MySpace and Facebook even alert you when one of your friends' birthdays are coming up. Even if they are not on your friends list, you will still be able to see what their birthday is by searching for them.

You can also use "Birthday Databases" like Birth Database but these can rarely find what you are looking for.

If it is a friend or family member's birthday you are looking for, the best way to go about it is ask. Yeah you might be a little red faced but hey, we all forget sometimes.

Other ways to find out someone's birthday:

• Steal their wallet. Hey, you are desperate right? Just pretend to bump into them and then just slide it out. Find a piece of I.D. Then you can even give the wallet back as a birthday gift.
• Hire a private investigator. These guys are pretty good at finding things out. For a nominal fee many detectives will be glad to find out when the person's birthday is and their favorite color.