If you guessed Mary J. Blige, you are correct. Also celebrating birthdays today include actress Amanda Peet, pro golfer Ben Crenshaw, and country singer Naomi Judd.
Day: January 11, 2009
Why do we light candles on top of a birthday cake when celebrating someone’s birthday?
This custom can be traced back to ancient
Greece when the moon goddess, Artemis, used to make offerings of cakes
with circles of candles representing the full moon. Several centuries
later, the Germans put a single candle on a cake to represent the
spirit of life.