Entertainment:
Tracy Morgan is an actor known for the TV shows “SNL” and “30 Rock”.
Taron Egerton is an actor known for the movies “Kingsman” franchise and “Rocketman”.
Ellen Pompeo is an actress known for the TV show “Greys Anatomy” and the movie “Old School”.
Josh Peck is an actor known for the TV shows “Drake & Josh” and “Grandfathered”.
Mackenzie Foy is an actress known for the movies “Interstellar” and “The Conjuring”.
Michael Cimino is an actor known for the TV shows “Love, Victor” and “Hamster & Gretel”.
Kiernan Shipka is an actress known for the TV shows “Mad Men” and “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina”.
Zoey Deutch is an actress known for the movies “Not Okay” and “Set It Up”.
Michael Jai White is an actor known for the movies “Spawn” and “Black Dynamite”.
Lou Ferrigno Jr is an actor known for the TV shows “S.W.A.T.” and “Outer Banks”.
Heather Matarazzo is an actress known for the movies “Welcome to the Dollhouse” and “The Princess Diaries”.
Sinbad is an actor known for the movies “Coneheads” and “Jingle All the Way”.
Tommy Davidson is an actor known for the TV shows “In Living Color” and the “Proud Family”.
Walton Goggins is an actor known for the movies “The Hateful Eight” and “Django Unchained”.
Roland Emmerich is a director known for the movies “Independence Day” and “Godzilla”.
Eve is a rapper-singer-songwriter-actress who’s debut studio album, Let There Be Eve…Ruff Ryders’ First Lady (1999) peaked atop the Billboard 200 (making her the third female rapper to do so), received double platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America, and spawned the hit singles “What Ya Want” (featuring Nokio), “Love Is Blind”, and “Gotta Man”. That same year, she guest featured on the Roots’ Grammy Award-winning single “You Got Me”, as well as Missy Elliott’s single “Hot Boyz”, both of which peaked within the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100.
Diplo is a DJ-music producer who is a co-creator and lead member of the electronic dancehall music project Major Lazer; a member of the supergroup LSD, with Labrinth and Sia; a member of electronic duo Jack Ü, with producer and DJ Skrillex; and a member of Silk City, with Mark Ronson.
Warren G is a rapper-DJ who helped popularize West Coast hip hop during the 1990s and as a pioneer of G-funk, he attained mainstream success with his 1994 single “Regulate” (featuring Nate Dogg). He is credited with discovering Snoop Dogg, having introduced the then-unknown rapper to record producer Dr. Dre.
Miranda Lambert is a singer-songwriter-musician who has been honored by the Grammy Awards, the Academy of Country Music Awards and the Country Music Association Awards. Lambert has been honored with more Academy of Country Music Awards than any artist in history and was named by the Chicago Tribune as the “greatest country music artist of all time” in 2019.
Sports:
Linda Cohn is a sportscaster who was anchoring ESPN’s SportsCenter from 1992-2024.
Football:
Mike McCarthy is the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys who has won one Super Bowl Championship in 2010 with the Green Bay Packers.
Baseball:
Jack Clark is a former first basemen who made four All-Star teams and won two Silver Slugger Awards.
Shawn Green is a former outfielder who made two All-Star teams and won both a Gold Glove Award and Silver Slugger Award,
Kenny Rogers is a former starting pitcher who made four All-Star teams and won one World Series Championship in 1996 with the New York Yankees.
Bob Stanley is a former closer who made two All-Star teams.
Larry Parrish is a former third basemen who made two All-Star teams.
Other Baseball Birthdays:
Eric Thames, Butch Huskey, Bill Southworth, Mike Vail, Paul Thormodsgard, Larry Christenson, Jeff Twitty, Phil Ouellette, Andres Thomas, Shawn Holman, Keith Lockhart, Junior Noboa, Terry Pearson, Greg LaRocca, Micah Bowie, Matt Cepicky, Jorge DePaula, Tony Blanco, Matt Pagnozzi, Brian Dinkelman, Ryan Mattheus, Kazuhisa Makita, Aaron Crow, Rob Segedin, Michael Choice, Matt Magill, Connor Gillispie, JJ Bleday & Jordan Groshans!
In Memoriam:
Entertainment:
Brittany Murphy was an actress known for the movies “Clueless “and “8 Mile”.
Richard Burton was an actor known for the movies “1984” and “Becket”,
Jane Froman was a singer-actress who during her thirty-year career, she performed on stage, radio, and television despite chronic health problems due to injuries sustained in a 1943 plane crash.
Greg Lake was a singer-songwriter-musician who gained prominence as a founding member of the progressive rock bands King Crimson and Emerson, Lake & Palmer. He went on to release three solo albums with his Greg Lake Band and was also briefly but notably a member of pop rock band Asia in 1983, replacing vocalist/bassist John Wetton (another former member of King Crimson) for three concerts in Tokyo, Japan. As well as collaborating and performing with other artists and with various groups in the 1980s, he had occasional ELP reunions in the 1990s and in 2010, and toured regularly as a solo artist into the 21st century.
Sports:
Football:
Bulldog Turner was a Hall of Fame center-linebacker who seven First-Team All-Pros and won four NFL Championships with the Chicago Bears.
Baseball:
Jimmy Dykes was an infielder-manager who made two All-Star teams and won two World Series Championships.
Gene Conley was a starting pitcher who made four All-Star teams and won one World Series Championship in 1957 with the Milwaukee Braves. He also was a forward who won three NBA Championships with the Boston Celtics.
Norm Cash was a first basemen who made five All-Star teams and won one World Series Championship in 1968 with the Detroit Tigers.
Birdie Tebbetts was a catcher who made four All-Star teams.