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Very close to zef's solution.

Javascript / 92 characters: 
h="Happy Birthday to you,\n";console.log(h+h+h.slice(0,15)+"dear name!\n"+h.slice(0,21)+'.')
There's always this too: 
s="Happy Birthday to you";print"%s,\n%s,\n%s dear name!\n%s."%(s,s,s,s)
php: 
echo gzinflate(base64_decode("80gsKKhUcMosKslISaxUKMlXqMwv1eHyIEo4JTWxSCEvMTdVEbsGPS4A"));
@arithma nice simple and clean solution
@arithma your solution is incorrect. 
%s dear name!
Output: 
Happy Birthday to you dear name!
Should be: 
s="Happy Birthday to you";print"%s,\n%s,\n%s dear name!\n%s."%(s,s,s[:14],s)
@m0ei: Damn that :D, good find.
Making up for my last hickup (70 chars): 
s='Happy Birthday to you,\n'*4;print s[:61]+"dear name!"+s[68:90]+'.'
2 months later
@Arithma:

You can shorten that by one more character. By moving the newlines around and using one fewer character in array indices:
s='\nHappy Birthday to you,'*4;print s[1:62]+"dear name!"+s[:22]+'.'
4 days later
a='Happy Birtday'
b='to you'
print(a,b,',\n',a,b,',\n',a,'dear name!\n',a,b,'.')
81 char python
6 days later
a="happy birthday"
b=" to you,\n"
print a+b+a+b+a+" dear name!\n"+a+b[:7]+"."
69 characters so far. 
a='to you,';print"Happy Birthday %s\n"*4%(a,a,'dear name!','to you.')
m0ei wrote69 characters so far. 
a='to you,';print"Happy Birthday %s\n"*4%(a,a,'dear name!','to you.')
Nice, I was thinking of similar stuff but i could not get the *4 to work...
@raja: Your answer inserts an extra newline at the beginning. ---Edit My bad it doesn't.
@m0ei: Your answer inserts an extra newline at the end.
arithma wrote@raja: Your answer inserts an extra newline at the beginning. ---Edit My bad it doesn't.
@m0ei: Your answer inserts an extra newline at the end.
What if it does? The problem was to print those lines as seen and it was accomplished am I missing something?

It could look something like this
a='to you,\n';print"Happy Birthday %s"*4%(a,a,'dear name!\n','to you.')
NuclearVision wrote What if it does? The problem was to print those lines as seen and it was accomplished am I missing something? 
>>> expected = 'something'
>>> got = 'something\n'
>>> assert expected == got
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AssertionError
NuclearVision wrote
arithma wrote@raja: Your answer inserts an extra newline at the beginning. ---Edit My bad it doesn't.
@m0ei: Your answer inserts an extra newline at the end.
What if it does? The problem was to print those lines as seen and it was accomplished am I missing something?

It could look something like this
a='to you,\n';print"Happy Birthday %s"*4%(a,a,'dear name!\n','to you.')
Exactly. Now it's 72 characters. This game is about characters. Anyway, who cares, we're just making the game harder for each other for fun.
70 characters solution:
a='to you,';print"Happy Birthday %s\n"*4%(a,a,'dear name!','to you.'),