Wikipedia meme

Type in your birthday (minus the year) in the search bar at http://wikipedia.org/

List three interesting facts, two births, and one death that happened on your birthday.

Three facts:
1829 - The British Parliament grants freedom of religion to Roman Catholics
1883 - Alferd Packer is convicted of murder
1921 - Foundation of the Spanish Communist Workers' Party.

Two births:
1570 - Guy Fawkes, English conspirator (d. 1606)
1906 - Samuel Beckett, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)

One death:
2004 - Caron Keating, British television presenter (b. 1962)