My birthday:

Cyrus the Great conquers Babylon.
The surrender of both major British armies in the American colonies (1777 and 1781).
Al Capone found guilty of income tax evasion.
The Oil Embargo.

I share a birthday with, among other people, Evel Knievel, Ernie Els, and Eminem. I don’t see any major negatives on Wikipedia’s list, but not a whole lot of terribly well-known people (at least to me, anyway).