Entertainment:
Patrick Dempsey is an actor known for the movie “Made of Honor” and the TV show “Grey’s Anatomy”.
Liam Hemsworth is an actor known for the movies “The Hunger Games” franchise and “Independence Day: Resurgence”.
Natalia Dyer is an actress known for the TV show “Stranger Things” and the movie “Yes G-D Yes”.
Orlando Bloom is an actor known for the movies “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise and “Lord of the Rings” franchise.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus is an actress known for the TV shows ‘Seinfeld” and “Veep”.
Shonda Rhimes is a screenwriter and television producer who created the TV shows “Grey’s Anatomy” and Bridgeton”.
William B Davis is an actor known for the TV shows “X-Files” and “Stargate: SG1”.
Julian Morris is an actor known for the TV shows “New Girl” and “Pretty Little Liars”.
Kevin Anderson is an actor known for the TV shows “Nothing Scared” and “Skin”.
Michael Pena is an actor known for the movies “End of Watch” and “Antman”.
Trace Adkins is a country musician and actor known for the TV shows “King of the Hill” and “Monarch”.
Wayne Coyne is the lead singer of the Rock band Flaming Lips.
Sports:
Hockey:
Connor McDavid is a six time All-Star center for the Edmonton Oilers where he has won five Art Ross trophies, won three Hart Memorial trophies and won four Ted Lindsay awards.
Nikolai Khabibulin is a former four time All-Star goalie who has won one Gold Medal, Bronze Medal and on Stanley Cup Championship in 2004 with the Tampa Bay Lighting.
Basketball:
James Posey is a former small forward who won two NBA Championships as a player and one as an assistant coach. He also has a Gold Medal from the the 1998 Goodwill Games.
Baseball:
Kevin Mitchell is a former two time All-Star outfielder who won one World Series Championship in 1986 with the New York Mets and won one MVP along with one Silver Slugger Award.
Akinori Otsuka is a former closer who won one Gold Medal in the World Baseball Classic and is pitching coach currently back in Japan.
Elmer Dessens is a former reliever who pitched for fourteen seasons for ten teams and served as captain of Mexico’s World Baseball Classic team in 2009.
Heath Hembree is a reliever who won one World Series with the Red Sox in 2018.
Other Baseball Birthdays:
Mike Tyson, Billy Jo Robidoux, Jim Margoneri, Ron Brand, Larry Jaster, Les Cain, Jim Foor, Mike Buskey, Bob Galasso, Odell Jones, Steve Comer, Mike Madden, Gene Roof, Jose Nunez, Orlando Miller, Jason Childers, Darrell Rasner, Andy Sisco, Oliver Drake, Hoby Milner, Jack Larsen, Andre Scrubb & Brayan Rocchio!
In Memoriam:
Entertainment:
Robert Stack was an actor known for the movie “Airplane” and the TV show “The Untouchables”.
Gregory Walcott was an actor known for the movies “Plane 9 from Outer Space” and “Red Skies of Montana”.
Rip Taylor was an actor known for lending his voice in the TV shows “The Adams Family” and “Here Comes the Grump”.
Richard Moll was an actor known for the TV shows “Night Court” and “Batman: The Animated Series”.
Fred White was an original member of the R&B group Earth Wind and Fire as their drummer up until his death.
Sports:
Basketball:
Tom Gola was a Hall of Fame five time All-Star small forward who won one NBA Championship in 1956 with the Philadelphia Warriors and won one NCAA Championship.
Baseball:
Bob Forsch was a starting pitcher who threw two no-hitters, won two Silver Slugger Awards and one one World Series Championship in 1982 with the St Louis Cardinals.
Fred Schulte was a center fielder who went to one World Series and then went on to manage and coach in the Minor Leagues before becoming a scout until 1964.
Bunny Hearn was a pitcher who in college had 109 strikeouts in 1910 was an Elon single-season record that stood for 67 years. Hearn won 22 games for the 1916 New London Planters. The 1916 squad was named one of the one hundred greatest teams in minor league history by the official Minor League Baseball website. He won six Southern Conference titles and two Ration League titles as the baseball coach for the North Carolina Tar-Heels.
Charlie Wilson was a infielder nicknamed “Swamp Baby”, from a prank he pulled one day when he didn’t want to practice: He flooded the field so that it became unplayable, a stunt that may have been one of the influences for the scene in “Bull Durham” when Crash Davis gets his team a “rainout” by turning on the sprinklers.