Birthday Meme!

It's the Birthday Meme! You go to Wikipedia and pull up the article on your birthday. Give three neat facts, two shared birthdays, and one death. So, for me (May 11) we have:

3 neat facts:
1818 - Charles XIV of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
1867 - Luxembourg gains its independence.
1949 - Israel joins the United Nations.

2 shared birthdays
1904 - Salvador Dali, Catalan painter
1907 - Rose Ausänder, German poet

1 death
2001 - Douglas Adams, English author