Take your birthday and go back [edit] 40 weeks to find the date of your conception. Then google "died [date]". I haven't verified it yet, but I'm pretty sure that the first person who shows up is your past life. You can use this to count:
http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/...1962&country=1
My past life was this woman:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Babcock
I think it fits. She's from the same part of the world as me and we have some similar interests.
In another rather freaky part of this, I went back 36 weeks from the day of my birth, and the final date was my mother's birthday. Was I the result of some sort of birthday gift? I'm not sure what to think of that.