Another friend sent this message to Roosevelt on his forty-sixth birthday: "You have made a very good start in life.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

And every year on January nineteenth -- Poe's birthday -- people watch for a man dressed in black to appear.

VOA: special.2009.02.02

Some parents take their children's birthday parties very seriously, even when the child is too young to fully understand the celebration.

VOA: special.2009.09.11

At his ninety-fifth birthday party in March, Norman Borlaug told VOA that he was worried about the world's ability to feed itself.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

The group's Web site gives suggestions on how to keep birthday celebrations simple, meaningful and fun without spending a lot of money.

VOA: special.2009.09.11

On his twenty-fourth birthday, doctors told Onalfo he had non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a cancer of the immune system.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

Michele Obama celebrates her 45th birthday Saturday, just 3 days before she becomes America's First Lady.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

But I really do not care. They certainly look better on me than my birthday suit.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

By the nineteen fifties, however, most Americans could expect to live well past their sixtieth birthday.

VOA: special.2011.07.21

In fact, the profits from Seeger's big birthday concert went to Hudson River Sloop Clearwater.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

Mister Obama announced his candidacy for president of the United States on Abraham Lincoln's birthday in front of the Old State Capitol Building in Springfield,Illinois.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

It was released in two thousand five to observe his ninetieth birthday.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

Of course the birthday celebrant himself sang and played banjo as well.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

The United States observes his birthday every year with a federal holiday.

VOA: special.2009.01.16