JBabey How about Birthdays today plugin ? By same guys who give Batti for free as well.
It's a very neat little plugin (~ 70KB) total size.
http://pda.jasnapaka.com/birthdays/
I keep only this one on the Today screen.... even though I have paid for many a today plugins to show all appointments in the last 8 years that I have been using a Pocket PC, I ended up using only this one plugin to view only Birthdays and Anniversaries.