Celebrity Birthdays January 8th:

Entertainment:

Ryan Destiny is an actress-singer known for the TV shows “Star” and “Grownish”.

Noah Cyrus is an actress-singer known for the TV shows “Hannah Montana” and “Doc”.

Cynthia Erivo is an actress-singer known for movies “Widows” and “Harriet”.

Genevieve Padalecki is an actress known for the TV shows “Flashforward” and “Supernatural”.

May 17, 2016 – New York, New York, U.S. – Actor FREDDIE STROMA attends 2016 ABC Upfront Presentation held at David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center. (Credit Image: Nancy Kaszerman via ZUMA Wire)

Freddie Stroma is an actor known for the movies “Pitch Perfect” franchies and “Harry Potter” franchise.

Michelle Forbes is an actress known for the TV shows “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and “Homicide: Life on the Street”.

Rachel Nichols is an actress known for the TV shows “Continuum” and “Criminal Minds”.

Gaby Hoffmann is an actress known for the movies “Field of Dreams” and “Now and Then”.

Amber Benson is an actress known for the TV show “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and the movie “Chance”.

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Gregory Pace/Shutterstock (9313227eh) Harriet Sansom Harris The National Board of Review Awards Gala, Arrivals, New York, USA – 09 Jan 2018

Harriet Sansom Harris is an actress known for the TV shows “Desperate Housewives” and “The 5 Mrs. Buchanans”.

Sarah Polley is an actress known for the movies “Dawn of the Dead” and “Go”.

Bob Eubanks is a former game show host-DJ who is widely known for hosting the game show The Newlywed Game on and off since 1966. He also hosted the successful revamp version of Card Sharks from 1986 to 1989

Jenny Lewis is a singer-songwriter-musician-actress who was the lead singer, rhythm guitarist, and keyboardist for the indie rock band Rilo Kiley. She was in the movies “Troop Beverly Hills” and “The Wizard”.

Robby Krieger is a musician who is a founding member of the rock band the Doors and he wrote or co-wrote many of the Doors’ songs, including the hits “Light My Fire”, “Love Me Two Times”, “Touch Me”, and “Love Her Madly”. When the Doors disbanded shortly after the death of lead singer Jim Morrison, Krieger continued to perform and record with other musicians including former Doors bandmates John Densmore and Ray Manzarek.

R Kelly is a singer-songwriter who has released 18 studio albums which yielded a number of hit singles, including “I Believe I Can Fly”, “Bump N’ Grind”, “Your Body’s Callin'”, “Fiesta (Remix)”, “Ignition (Remix)”, “Step in the Name of Love (Remix)”, “If I Could Turn Back the Hands of Time”, “The World’s Greatest”, “I’m a Flirt (Remix)”, and the hip hopera Trapped in the Closet.

Sports:

Baseball:

Jason Giambi is a former first basemen who made five All-Star teams and has won one MVP.

Carl Pavano is a former starting pitcher who made one All-Star team and won one World Series Championship in 2003 with the Miami Marlins.

Mike Cameron is a former centerfielder who made one All-Star team and won three Gold Glove Awards.

Jeff Francoeur is a former outfielder who won one Gold Glove Award.

Jeff Hoffman is a reliever for the Toronto Blue Jays who has made one All-Star team.

Other Baseball Birthdays:

Jeff Francis, Brian Johnson, Brian Boehringer, John DeMerit, Jesus Hernaiz, Craig Gerber, Julio Solano, Randy Ready, Shane Turner, Matt Maysey, Randy Nosek, Paul Carey, Dave Matranga, Derek Thompson, Daniel Davidson, Kevin Whelan, Matt LaPorta, James Russell, Jon Edwards, Carlos Contreras, Breyvic Valera, Chris Paddack, Jhoan Duran, Ken Waldichuk & Kameron Misner!

In Memoriam:

Entertainment:

William Hartnell was an actor known for the TV show “Doctor Who” and the movie “Query”.

Jose Ferrer was an actor known for the movies “The Caine Mutiny” and “Dune”.

Soupy Sales was an actor known the TV shows “The Soupy Sales Show” and “Donkey Kong”.

Ron Cephas Jones was an actor known for TV shows “This Is Us” and “Luke Cage”.

Stephen Hawking was a theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge.

David Bowie was a singer-writer-musician-actor who sold over 100 million worldwide and won six Grammy Awards and four Brit Awards. His career was marked by reinvention and visual presentation, and his music and stagecraft has had a significant impact on popular music. had three number-one hits: the 1980 single “Ashes to Ashes”, its album Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) and “Under Pressure” (a 1981 collaboration with Queen). 

Elvis Presley was singer-songwriter-musician-actor who energized performances and interpretations of songs, and sexually provocative performance style, combined with a singularly potent mix of influences across color lines during a transformative era in race relations, brought both great success and initial controversy. He sold over 500 million records to over a billion worldwide and was commercially successful in many genres, including pop, country, rock and roll, rockabilly, rhythm and blues, adult contemporary, and gospel. He won three Grammy Awards and received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award at age 36. He holds several records, including the most RIAA-certified gold and platinum albums, the most albums charted on the Billboard 200, the most number-one albums by a solo artist on the UK Albums Chart, and the most number-one singles by any act on the UK Singles Chart.

Sports:

Football:

Dwight Clark was a wide receiver who made two Pro Bowls and won two Super Bowl Championships with San Francisco 49ers.

Baseball:

Bruce Sutter was a Hall of Fame closer who made six All-Star teams and won one World Series Championship in 1982 with the St Louis Cardinals.

Walker Cooper was catcher who made eight All-Star teams and won two World Series Championships.