Entertainment:
Darren Criss is an actor known for the TV shows “Glee” and “A Very Potter Musical”.
Jeremy Sumpter is an actor known for the movie “Peter Pan” and the TV show “Friday Night Lights”.
Michael Sheen is an actor known for the TV shows “Masters of Sex” and “Prodigal Son”.
Davis Cleveland is an actor known for the TV shows “Shake it Up” and “Good Luck Charlie”.
Luke Newton is an actor known for the TV shows “Bridgerton” and “The Lodge”.
Tim Meadows is an actor known for the TV shows “SNL” and “The Goldbergs”.
Henry Golding is an actor known for the movies “Crazy Rich Asians” and “Snake Eyes”.
Laura Linney is an actress known for the TV shows “Ozark” and “The Big C”.
Michael Mann is an actor known for the movies “The Insider” and “The Last of the Mohicans”.
Christopher Guest is an actor known for the movies “This is Spinal Tap” and “Waiting for Guffman”.
Chris Parnell is an actor known for the TV shows “Archer” and “Rick & Morty”.
Tony Jaa is an actor-martial artist known for the movies “Ong Bak” franchise and “The Protector” franchise.
Bobby Brown is an R&B singer-rapper who was in the R&B group New Edition and has had his own solo career. He is noted as one of the pioneers of new jack swing: a fusion of hip hop and R&B.
Duff McKagan is the former bass player for the Rock band Guns N Roses.
Sports:
Hockey:
Don Cherry is a former player, coach and broadcaster where he took them to four division titles and two appearances in the Stanley Cup Finals. From 1986 to 2019, Cherry co-hosted Coach’s Corner—a segment aired during CBC’s Saturday-night NHL broadcast Hockey Night in Canada and was voted by viewers as the seventh-greatest Canadian of all-time in the CBC miniseries The Greatest Canadian.
Soccer:
Neymar is a forward who has scored at least 100 goals for three different clubs, making him one of the few players to achieve this feat and is the he all-time top goal scorer for his national team with 79 goals in 128 matches plus won won Brazil’s first ever Gold Medal.
Cristiano Ronaldo is a forward who holds the record for most goals and assists in the UEFA Champions League, the record for most goals in the UEFA European Championship, the FIFA Club World Cup, as most goals scored in a UEFA Champions League season, most international goals, and most appearances in a national team. He has scored a record 873 senior career goals for club and country. All in all he had won over 300 trophies and medals by January 2021, with some of them dating back to his childhood
Football:
Roger Staubach is a six time Pro Bowl Hall of Fame quarterback who won two Super Bowl Championships with the Dallas Cowboys and won SB MVP in one of those two.
Craig Morton is a former quarterback who won one Super Bowl Championship in 1971 with the Dallas Cowboys and is in the College Football Hall of Fame.
Baseball:
Roberto Alomar is a twelve time All-Star Hall of Fame second basemen who ten Gold Glove Awards and four Silver Slugger Awards. He also won two World Series Championships with the Toronto Blues Jays and won one ALCS MVP.
Other Baseball Birthdays:
Al Worthington, Mike Heath, Eric O’Flaherty, Norm Miller, Vic Correll, Barry Raziano, Andres Santana, David Holdridge, Chris Brock, Derrick Gibson, Javier Martinez, Abraham Nunez, Devern Hansack, Ryan Webb, Mark Hamburger, Kaleb Ort, Mark Zagunis, Caleb Hamilton, Austin Warren, Edgar Navarro, Nick Lodolo & Daniel Palencia!
In Memoriam:
Sports:
Baseball:
Hank Aaron was a Hall of Fame right fielder who retired as the all-time leader in homeruns and was a twenty five time All-Star. He won one NL MVP, won one World Series Championship in 1957 with the Milwaukee Braves, won three Gold Glove Awards and won two batting titles. He also has the record for most RBIs, total bases and extra base hits.
Roger Peckinpaugh was a shortstop-manager who one AL MVP and won one World Series Championship in 1924 with the Washington Senators.
Don Hoak was a third basemen who made one All-Star team and won two World Series Championships.
Joan Payson who never baseball herself, after the Dodgers and Giants moved to Los Angeles in 1957, she was instrumental in bringing National League baseball back to New York. She was the first woman to purchase a Major League Baseball team when she bought the Mets in 1962, after previously owning shares of the Giants, and she owned the Mets until her death in 1975. Payson oversaw the Mets’ rapid rise from their 40-120 inaugural season in 1962 to their first World Series title in 1969. She also helped recruit many New York baseball legends to Queens during her tenure, including Casey Stengel, Gil Hodges and Willie Mays.