Entertainment:
Neil Patrick Harris is an actor known for the TV shows “How I Met Your Mother” and “Doogie Houser MD”.
Courtney Cox is an actress known for the TV show “Friends” and the movie “Scream”.
Sissy Sheridan is an actress is known for the TV show “Chicken Girls” and the movie “Odd Man Rush”.
Leah Remini is an actress known the TV shows “The King of Queens” and “Fired Up”.
Helen Hunt is an actress known for the TV show “Mad About You” and the movie “Twister”.
Jim Belushi is an actor known for the TV shows “SNL” and “According to Jim”.
Jake Busey is an actor known for the movies “Starship Troopers” and “Reaer”.
Ice Cube is a rapper-actor who in 1987, with Eazy-E and Dr. Dre, he formed the gangsta rap group N.W.A. As its lead rapper, he wrote some of Dre’s and most of Eazy’s lyrics on Straight Outta Compton, a landmark album that shaped West Coast hip hop’s early identity and helped differentiate it from East Coast rap. He also was in the movies “Friday” and “Boyz n the Hood”.
Sports:
Football:
Mike Holmgren is a former head coach who has won one Super Bowl Championship in 1996 with the Green Bay Packers and won two Super Bowl Championships as an assistant with the San Francisco 49ers.
Cooper Kupp is a wide receiver for the Los Angels Rams who has made one Pro-Bowl and has won one Super Bowl Championship in 2021 with the Los Angels Rams where he won Super Bowl MVP.
Derek Anderson is a former quarterback who made one Pro-Bowl.
Basketball:
Michael Doleac is a former center who made the All-Rookie Second-Team and won one NBA Championship in 2006 with the Miami Heat.
Baseball:
Billy Williams is a Hall of Fame leftfielder who made six All-Star teams and won Rookie of the Year.
Wade Boggs is a Hall of Fame twelve time All-Star third basemen who won eight Silver Slugger Awards and won one World Series Championship in 1996 with the New York Yankees.
Dusty Baker is a former outfielder who made two All-Star teams and won two World Series Championships.
Lance Parrish is a former eight time All-Star catcher who won six Silver Slugger Awards and won one World Series Championship in 1984 with the Detroit Tigers.
Andy Pettitte is a former starting pitcher who made three All-Star team and won five World Series Championships with the New York Yankees.
Tony Clark is a former first basemen who made one All-Star team and is the sixth executive director of the MLBPA.
Tim Lincecum is a former four time All-Star starting pitcher who won two Cy Young Awards and won three World Series Championships with the San Francisco Giants.
Brett Butler is a former outfielder who made one All-Star team and led the league in triples twice.
Other Baseball Birthdays:
Ty Cline, Al Closter, Ken Henderson, Dave Liddell, Ramiro Mendoza, Chris Wakeland, Bret Prinz, Zach Day, Matt Smith, Erik Kratz, Jeremy Reed, Cliff Pennington, Mike Fiers, Sean West, Trevor Plouffe, Jake Elmore, Josh Lindblom, Eduardo Nunez, Travis Jankowski, Dominic Smith, Garrett Acton, Steven Cruz, Christian Scott & Oswald Peraza!
In Memoriam:
Entertainment:
Harry Nilsson was a singer-songwriter who reached the peak of his success in the early 1970s. His work is characterized by pioneering vocal overdub experiments, a return to the Great American Songbook, and fusions of Caribbean sounds. Nilsson was one of the few major pop-rock recording artists to achieve significant commercial success without performing major public concerts or touring regularly.
Sports:
Hockey:
Marcel Pronovost was a Hall of Fame defensemen who made eleven All-Star teams and won five Stanley Cup Championships
Baseball:
Gene Baker was a second basemen who made one All-Star team and won one World Series Championship in 1960 with the Pittsburgh Pirates.