Share what you know about the year you were born.

OK, I cheated and googled it. A fantastic photo journey through 1965 from The Atlantic came up. Check it out here.

The eldest members of Generation X arrived in a big year – Selma, Vietnam, The Beatles, the first moon walk, the Voting Rights Act. I did not know that Winston Churchill died in 1965, or that the US occupied the Dominican Republic that year.

Now I’ll admit to a horribly vain thing that I do: I keep track of a select list of female celebrities – born in 1965 – for the sole purpose of watching them age and comparing myself to them. I’ll literally pause a TV show and ask my husband if Sarah Jessica Parker looks older or younger than me. He knows the right answer is always “about the same as you.” You don’t stay married for 30+ years without learning basic shit.

Here’s my “born in 1965” vanity comparison list with birthdays. I was born in June, so I’m within 6 months of each of them.

Kyra Sedgwick, 8/19

Diane Lane, 1/22

Sarah Jessica Parker, 3/25

Elizabeth Hurley, 6/10

Brooke Shields, 5/31

Kristin Davis, 2/23

Paulina Porizkova, 4/9

Viola Davis, 8/11

Julia Ormond, 1/4

Maura Tierney, 2/3

Marlee Matlin, 8/24

Shania Twain, 8/28

Linda Evangelista, 5/10

I seem to have a special fondness for my fellow GenX Gemini, Brooke Shields. (She was looking at colleges the same time I was and visited some of the same schools.) I really enjoyed the recent documentary about her (Pretty Baby). She’s keepin it real and, in my opinion, looks better than ever.