You simply type "died on *your birth date including year* into google (i use bing usually but this seemed to work better in google for some reason)

The result is who you were in your previous life.

I was Shibdas Ghosh apparently.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibdas_Ghosh

Interesting indeed.

Now who were you?

I only got a list of famous/celebrity birthdays for the date I put in. But according to this site (which also came up in the search):

www.historyorb.com/deaths-by-year.php

...I might have been Gottfried Benn, writer, who died aged 70 *goes off to try and find out who the fek Gottfried Benn was*

or mary nash www.nndb.com/people/448/000278611/

Yeah it is not an exact science(or scientific at all) just thought it was fun and an interesting way to learn about random people in history.

Oh my god...
It makes perfect sense..
At least i have a hollywood star.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eberhard_von_Mackensen

Lorenzo Perosi an Italian composer of sacred music and the only member of the Giovane Scuola who did not write opera. In the late 1890s, while he was still only in his 20s, Perosi was an internationally celebrated composer of sacred music, especially large-scale oratorios. Nobel Prize winner Romain Rolland wrote: "It's not easy to give you an exact idea of how popular Lorenzo Perosi is in his native country." [1] Perosi's fame was not restricted to Europe. A 19 March 1899 New York Times article entitled "The Genius of Don Perosi" began: "The great and ever-increasing success which has greeted the four new oratorios of Don Lorenzo Perosi has placed this young priest-composer on a pedestal of fame which can only be compared with that which has been accorded of late years to the idolized Pietro Mascagni by his fellow-countrymen." Gianandrea Gavazzeni made the same comparison: "The sudden clamors of applause, at the end of the [19th] century, were just like those a decade earlier for Mascagni."[2] Perosi worked for five Popes, including Pope St. Pius X who greatly fostered his rise.



Nope, me neither.

Ummm, this Gottfried Benn chappie sounds a riot - small extract from his wiki entry:

Benn's poetry offers an introverted nihilism: an existentialist philosophy which sees artistic expression as the only purposeful action. In his early poems Benn used his medical experience and terminology to portray a morbid conception of humanity as another species of disease-ridden animal.[8] He enlisted in 1914, spent a brief period on the Belgian front, and then served as a military doctor in Brussels. Benn attended the trial and execution of Nurse Edith Cavell. He worked as a physician in an army brothel. After the war, he returned to Berlin and practiced as a dermatology and venereal disease specialist.[9]

An uncanny resemblance m'dear.

No wonder I can't get a publisher this time round.

i was nobody i think, no one famous anyway.

batou wrote:
Me too. Providing I did it right

You might have to hunt further. Somebody must have died when you two were born.

i-baster wrote:
Well unless I'm doing it wrong, there was a measly 4 who did and none of them worth a mention according to this

It figures that you two would be originals.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexy_I_of_Moscow

Patriarch Alexy I (Alexius I, Russian: Патриарх Алексий I, secular name Sergey Vladimirovich Simanskiy, Russian: Сергей Владимирович Симанский; November 8 [O.S. October 27] 1877 – April 17, 1970) was the 13th Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus, Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) between 1945 and 1970.

Born in Moscow to a noble family, his father was a Chamberlain of the Russian Imperial Household. In 1899 he graduated from Moscow Imperial University with a law degree; was conscripted by the army and served in a grenadier regiment. In 1902 he enrolled at Moscow Theological Academy and by 1906 he had been elevated to the dignity of archimandrite and was appointed rector of the seminary at Tula.

or

Leonard James Barry (27 October 1901 – 17 April 1970)[1] was an English footballer who played at both professional and international levels as an outside left.

is what you get if you remove the quotation marks skets:)

A cunning way to harvest our D.O.B.

What next, a link to a which ancient Greek God would have had your national insurance number?

thoreau wrote:
lol cheers

i-baster wrote:
I'll take that as a compliment on behalf of myself and bats

oioioi wrote:
True.

Nowt to do with any of us telling the world when our birthdays are then