Celebrity Birthdays May 12tH:

Entertainment:

Rami Malek is an actor known for the movies “Bohemian Rhapsody” and “Need for Speed”.

Emilio Estevez, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Denis Leary, Stephen Dorff, Jeremy Piven

Emilio Estevez is an actor known for the movies “The Outsiders” and “The Breakfast Club”.

Luke Benward is an actor known for the movies “Life of the Party” and “Dumplin”.

Malin Akerman is an actress known for the movies “Rock of Ages” and “Watchmen”.

Emily VanCamp is an actress known for the TV shows “The Resident” and “Revenge”.

Ving Rhames is an actor known for the movies “Mission Impossible” franchise and “Pulp Fiction”.

Kim Fields is an actress known for the TV shows “The Facts of Life” and “Living Single”.

Rhea Seehorn is an actress known for the TV shows “Franklin & Bash” and “Better Call Saul”.

Jason Biggs is an actor known for the movie “American Pie” franchise and the TV show “Orange is the New Black”.

Homer Simpson is one of the most influential characters in the history of television, and is widely considered an American cultural icon. He embodies many American working class stereotypes: he is obese, balding, immature, outspoken, aggressive, lazy, ignorant, unprofessional, and fond of beer, junk food and television.

Steve Winwood is a singer-songwriter-musician known primarily a guitarist, keyboard player and vocalist, prominent for his distinctive soulful high tenor voice. He has been in the groups Spencer Davis, Traffic and Blind Faith. He has won two Grammy Awards and an Ivor Novello Award, and has been honored as BMI Icon.

Billy Squier is a singer-songwriter-musician who had a string of arena rock and crossover hits in the early 1980s. His best-known songs include “The Stroke”, “Lonely Is the Night”, “My Kinda Lover”, “In the Dark”, “Rock Me Tonite”, “Everybody Wants You”, “Emotions in Motion”, “Love Is the Hero”, and “Don’t Say You Love Me”.

Sports:

Skateboarding:

Tony Hawk is a professional skateboarder, entrepreneur and the owner of the skateboard company Birdhouse. A pioneer of modern vertical skateboarding, Hawk completed the first documented “900” skateboarding trick in 1999. He also licensed a skateboarding video game series named after him, published by Activision that same year. 

Football:

Steve Smith is a former wide receiver who made five Pro-Bowls and made two First-Team All-Pros.

Hockey:

Bernie Federko was a Hall of Fame center who made two All-Star teams and was the first NHL player to get 50 assists in 10 consecutive seasons.

Baseball:

Former Braves player Felipe Alou. (AJC file photo)

Felipe Alou is a former outfielder who made three All-Star teams and won Manager of the Year once.

Lou Whitaker is a former five time All-Star second basemen who won four Silver Slugger Awards and won one World Series Championship in 1984 with the Detroit Tigers.

Lance Lynn is a starting pitcher for the St Louis Cardinals who has made two All-Star teams and won one World Series Championship in 2011.

Kevin Bass is a former outfielder who made one All-Star team.

Evan Meek is a former reliver who made one All-Star team.

Other Baseball Birthdays:

Tom Timmermann, Ted Kubiak, Bob Heise, Pat Darcy, Joe Nolan, Ralph Botting, Willie Lozado, Angel Escobar, Rafael Bournigalk, Kenny Greer, Mark Clark, Wes Helms, Josh Phelps, Travis Dawkins, Felipe Lopez, Jamie D’Antona, Jack Egbert, Blake Lalli, Chris Robinson, Adam Liberatore, Bradin Hagens, Jonathan Davis, Taylor Guilbeau, Jesmuel Valentin, Tyler Ivey, Jonathan Stiever, Terrin Vavra & Matt Brash!

In Memoriam:

Entertainment:

George Carlin was a comedian known for the movie “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure” and TV show “Shining Time Station”.

Katherine Hepburn was an actress known for the movies “On Golden Pony” and “African Queen”.

Sports:

Baseball:

Yogi Berra was a thirteen time World Series Champion Hall of Fame catcher who made eighteen All-Star teams and won three AL MVPs.

Hank Borowy was a starting pitcher who made two All-Star teams and won one World Series Championships in 1943 with the New York Yankees.