Nothing wrong with birthday threads. And using it as an excuse to bash Shambles is a cheap shot.
Whilst the requests so far have been far from polite, tweaking the titles *would* be worth doing for clarity - many of us don't check the site every day, so knowing when this birthday happened would be nice. And content for slightly more obscure references (and for me, even Art Blakey is obscure - sorry, I'm just ignorant ;-). If people care then no doubt they'll post more info, but if it's someone whose music/contribution you value then sticking that in the first post would be nice. Maybe a Wikipedia link?
Whatever, though. As Guest says above, I don't see the negative in it.