Trying to understand your idea: John Shade, Kinbote and Gradus, Sebastian, Pnin, Fyodor ( and perhaps Van Veen) ...are they the "good guys"?   What do you mean by "good" ( and "bad")? 
Did you simply mean "the guys" and not the gals? 
 
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De: frances assa
Para: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
Enviada em: quarta-feira, 24 de abril de 2013 00:43
Assunto: Re: [NABOKV-L] Birthday Wish

A noble goal to compile such a list.
It did seem to me with respect to your query "I have been wondering...why we do not know Humbert's birthday (in contrast to Fyodor G-Ch's, his father's, Sebastian Knight's, Pnin's, and John Shade & co's)  that the list of characters for whom we know birthdays is a list of good guys, exclusively.

 
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