Mother theresa was born on this day and that brat mcauley caulken so you pick the winner?

Pretty easy choice for me !

Hands-down - Mother Teresa!

Dear Otis, For me that is easy...

"...it is not how much we do, it is how much love we put in the doing...     Small things with great love."

Neither one. My winner is Chris Curtis, [Chris Crummy], drummer/vocalist for Deep Purple.

It is, probably less known, though more significant, also the birthday of James Franck, a German Physicist, Professor and Nobel Laureate who still stands as one of the giants of atomic physics. --if you'll excuse the contradiction.

I submit, to those of you who would further examine the actual doings of Mother Teresa, you would find her to be much less than the uber-honorable matron of charity that she is portrayed as. 

Allow me : 

Mother Teresa believed that "suffering was a gift from God", and despite untold millions in contributions worldwide, her 500-odd missions were known to be bastions of squalor, filth and death --often from treatable ailments like starvation-- and were seldom supplied with even the most basic medicines. Author Christopher Hitchens observed: "She spent her entire life opposing the only known cure for poverty, the empowerment of women, and the emancipation of them from the livestock version of compulsory reproduction." 

History has a way of being written for the benefit of those in power, not for the truth of events, particularly where religion is involved. 

As for Culkin, a minor footnote in some future trivia game.