Your Birthday Star:
Your birthday star has the common name Capella. It is in the constellation Auriga. It has the name α (Alpha) Aurigae in Johann Bayer's Uranometria star catalog. It is also called 13 Aurigae in the Historia Cœlestis Britannica of John Flamsteed and Edmund Halley. It is called NS 0516+4559 A in the NStars database.
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It has visual magnitude 0.7 meaning that it is one of the brightest stars in the sky!
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(But of course!) 
It is marked in the center of this star chart, at celestial coordinates (J2000 equinox):
Right ascension 5:16:41.4
Declination 45:59:52.8
This star is 42.2 light years away, which means that the light we see from it today set off on its journey at about the same time that you were born. Come back in a month or two and your birthday star may change, as the light from more distant stars reaches Earth.