Celebrity Birthdays AUgust 21st:

Entertainment:

Hayden Panettiere is an actress known for the TV shows “Heroes” and “Nashville”.

Loretta Devine is an actress known for the TV shows “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Boston Public”.

Kim Cattrall is an actress known for the TV shows “Sex & the City” and “How I Met Your Father”.

Carrie Ann Moss is an actress known for the movies “The Matrix” franchise and “Memento”.

Alicia Witt is an actress known for the movies “Dune” and “88 Minutes”.

Brooks Wheelan is an actor known for the TV shows “SNL” and “Big Hero 6: The Series”.

Kacey Musgraves is a singer-songwriter-musician who began her career in the early 2000s, when she self-released three solo albums and recorded another album as a member of the duo Texas Two Bits.

Serj Tankian is a singer-songwriter who is best known as the lead vocalist, keyboardist, and primary lyricist of System of a Down, which was formed in 1994.

Carl Giammarse is a singer who began his music career as a founding member of The Buckinghams, as lead guitarist and vocalist, in 1965.

Glenn Hughes is a singer-musician who is best known for playing bass and performing vocals in the hard rock band Trapeze and in the Mk. III and IV line-ups of Deep Purple, as well as briefly fronting Black Sabbath in the mid-1980s.

Sports:

Football:

Mike Evans is a wide receiver for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers who has made five Pro-Bowls and won one Super Bowl Championship in 2020.

Jim McMahon is a former quarterback who Rookie of the Year and won two Super Bowl Championships.

Olympics:

Usain Bolt is a retired sprinter, widely considered to be the greatest sprinter of all time who is an eight-time Olympic gold medalist and the world record holder in the 100 metres, 200 metres, and 4 × 100 metres relay.

Baseball:

JD Martinez is a designated hitter for the New York Mets who has made six All-Star teams and has won one World Series Championship in 2018 with the Red Sox.

Craig Counsell is a former infielder-manager of the Chicago Cubs who won two World Series Championships and won one NLCS MVP.

Corbin Carroll is an outfielder for the Arizona Diamondbacks who has made one All-Star team and won Rookie of the Year.

Felix Millan is a former second basemen who made three All-Star teams and won two Gold Glove Awards.

John Wetteland is a former closer who made three All-Star teams and won one World Series Championship in 1996 with the New York Yankees where he won the World Series MVP.

Jason Marquis is a former starting pitcher who made one All-Star team and won one Silver Slugger Award.

Tuffy Rhodes is a former outfielder who made ten NPB All-Star teams and won seven Best Nine Awards.

Brandon Drury is an infielder for the Los Angels Angels who has won one Silver Slugger Award.

Other Baseball Birthdays:

Ismael Valdez, BJ Upton, Jack Damaska, Jerry DaVanon, Craig Robinson, Chip Lang, Bruce Berenyi, John Henry Johnson, Steve Eddy, Ken Jackson, Shawn Hillegas, Jim Bullinger, Mike Misuraca, Lou Pote, Dean Crow, Lou Collier, Mike Bovee, Derrin Ebert, Ramon Vazquez, Lee Gronkiewicz, Jesse Chavez, Jeff Clement, Dustin Molleken, Erik Harmen, Tim Collins, Ehire Adrianza, Elliott Soto, Christian Vazquez, Mason Williams, Derek Fisher, Luke Weaver, Ryan Dorow, Eric Orze, Ryan Pepiot & Amos Willingham!

In Memoriam:

Entertainment:

Melvin Van Peebles was an actor known for the movies “Don’t Play us Cheap” and “Jaws: The Revenge”.

Stephen Hillenburg was an director-animator known for creating the show “SpongeBob SquarePants”.

Kenny Rodgers was a singer-songwriter who was particularly popular with country audiences but also charted more than 120 hit singles across various genres, topping the country and pop album charts for more than 200 individual weeks in the United States alone. He sold more than 100 million records worldwide during his lifetime, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time.

Sports:

Basketball:

Wilt Chamberlain was a Hall of Fame center who made thirteen All-Star games and won two NBA Championships where he also won one NBA Finals MVP.

Baseball:

Jack Buck was a Hall of Fame play-by-play broadcaster for the St Louis Cardinals and is a football Hall of Fame broadcaster too.

Murry Dickson was a pitcher who made one All-Star team and won two World Series Championships.

John Stearns was a catcher who made four All-Star teams.

Gerry Staley was a reliever who made four All-Star teams.

Chief Wilson was an outfielder who had the most triples in a season(36) and won one World Series Championship in 1909 with the Pittsburgh Pirates.