birthday
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At the All-Star break, just after his 32nd birthday, Ohtani had the second-highest on-base-plus-slugging percentage in the National League at .952, to go along with his 22 homers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
McKellen moved to Wigan as a child, but remained faithful to his Burnley roots, and performed at Burnley Youth Theatre in 2019 as part of his 80th birthday tour.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
Some unironic astrology: To celebrate Slate’s 30th birthday, Slate writer Heather Schwedel asked several astrologers to interpret the magazine’s birth chart.
From Slate ● Oct. 13, 2026
Campbell was a year old when doctors predicted she would not live long enough to see her second birthday.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
Her best friend’s family was in town from all over and her best friend was dancing for the first time, and it was, almost, her birthday!
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
She then put the property on the market for $29.9 million in May, just two months before her youngest children, twins Knox and Vivienne, celebrated their 18th birthdays.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
It is a season in which a lot of energy is flowing out: two family weddings back-to-back, seven family birthdays between August and November, the usual work, a cookbook project, a documentary.
From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026
With both of their birthdays at the end of October, Emily says they'd always planned to spend them together, but "now I just come here".
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
He was taking whatever DJ gigs he could get—weddings, milestone birthdays and once a daycare center.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
His fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, and now eighteenth birthdays had all been spent locked up.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
