Entertainment:
Jake Johnson is an actor known for the TV show “New Girl” and the movie “Jurassic World”.
Carey Mulligan is an actor known for the movies “Never Let Me Go” and “Suffragette”.
Laura Bailey is an actress known for the TV shows “Dragon Ball Z” franchise and “Naruto” franchise.
Lukas Gage is an actor known for the the TV shows “Tagged” and “You”.
Gladys Knight is a singer who has won ten-time Grammys and recorded hits through the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s with her family group Gladys Knight & the Pips, which included her brother Merald “Bubba” Knight and cousins William Guest and Edward Patten.
John Fogerty is an singer-songwriter-musician who founded the rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival for which he was the lead singer, lead guitarist, and principal songwriter. CCR had nine top-10 singles and eight gold albums between 1968 and 1972.
Sports:
Football:
Michael Oher is a former tackle who won one Super Bowl Championship in 2012 with the Baltimore Ravens and his final year of high school and first year of college is one of the subjects of Michael Lewis’ 2006 book, The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game, and was dramatized in the 2009 film adaptation.
Basketball:
Jerry West is Hall of Fame fourteen time All-Star who has won one NBA Championship in 1972 with the Los Angeles Lakers and made ten First-Team All-NBAs. He also has won eight NBA Championships as an executive with both the Los Angeles Lakers and Golden State Warriors.
Glen Rice is a former forward who made three All-Star teams and won one NBA Championship with the Los Angeles Lakers in 200.
Baseball:
Kirk Gibson is a former outfielder who won one MVP and won two World Series Championships.
Jhonny Peralta is a former shortstop who made three All-Star teams.
Craig Kimbrel is the closer for the Baltimore Orioles who has made nine All-Star teams and won one World Series Championship in 2018 with the Boston Red Sox.
Duane Ward is a former closer who made one All-Star team and won two World Series Championships with the Toronto Blue Jays.
Ryota Igarshi is a former reliever who made six All-Star teams in Japan and won five World Series Championships there.
Other Baseball Birthdays:
Ryan Burr, Bill Doran, Frank Saucier, Buddy Booker, Skip Jutze, Jim Cox, Rafael Landestoy, Randy Martz, Tom Grant, Ed Olwine, Steve Jeltz, Mike Maksudian, Mark DiFelice, Joe Rosselli, Tilson Brito, Alex Hernandez, Leo Rosales, Daniel Cabrera, Cory Wade, Humberto Sanchez, Justin Bour, Lester Oliveros, Ryan Court, Matt Stites, Aaron Northcraft, Nate Fisher & Huascar Ynoa!
In Memoriam:
Entertainment:
Cameron Boyce was an actor known for the movie “The Descendants” franchise and the TV show “Jessie”.
Sports:
Jim Thorpe was the first Native American to win a gold medal for the United States in the Olympics. Considered one of the most versatile athletes of modern sports, he won two Olympic gold medals in the 1912 Summer Olympics (one in classic pentathlon and the other in decathlon). He also played football (collegiate and professional), professional baseball, and professional basketball.
Hockey:
Red Horner was a Hall of Fame defensemen who won one Stanley Cup Championship in 1932 with the Toronto Maple Leafs.