Category Archives: Birthdays

If today is your birthday, “Happy Birthday!”

Actor Don Murray (Bus Stop, Knots Landing, The Outcasts, Baby the Rain Must Fall, Peggy Sue Got Married, Advice and Consent) is 83.

Actress France Nuyen (Vannga; The Joy Luck Club, South Pacific, Diamond Head, St. Elsewhere) is 73.

Actress Susan Flannery (Days of Our Lives, The Bold and the Beautiful, Dallas, Anatomy of a Seduction) is 69.

Actress Geraldine Chaplin (Nashville, Rosalind, Chaplin, Dr. Zhivago, The Wedding) is 68.

Tennis champion Evonne Goolagong (Australian Open [1974, 1975, 1976, 1977]; Wimbledon [1971, 1980]; French Open [1971]; International Tennis Hall of Fame) is 61.

Actor Barry Van Dyke (Diagnosis Murder, The Van Dyke Show, Foxfire Light, It Happened at Lakewood Manor, Casino) is 61.

Alan Autry (actor: In the Heat of the Night, Proud Men, Blue De Ville, At Close Range; mayor of Fresno, CA, 2001 – 2009) is 60.

Actor Michael Biehn (The Rock, Breach of Trust, Blood of the Hunter, Tombstone, A Taste for Killing, Timebomb, Aliens, The Terminator, The Fan, Coach, The Runaways) is 56.

Drummer Bill Berry (R.E.M.) is 54.

Actor Wesley Snipes (Demolition Man, Rising Sun, Major League, Sugar Hill, White Men Can’t Jump, To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar, One Night Stand, U.S. Marshals) is 50.

Author J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter series) is 47.

Actor Dean Cain (Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman) is 46.

If today is your birthday, “Happy Birthday!”

Actor Jacques Sernas (55 Days at Peking, La Dolce Vita, Superfly T.N.T.) is 87.

Actor Edd Byrnes (Breitenberger; 77 Sunset Strip, Darby’s Rangers) is 79.

Singer – blues guitarist Buddy (George) Guy (Stone Crazy, LPs: A Man and His Blues, This is Buddy Guy, Hold That Plane, Hot and Cool, Buddy and the Juniors, In the Beginning; in films: The Blues is Alive and Well in Chicago, Out of the Blacks and into the Blues) is 76.

Film director Peter Bogdanovich (What’s Up Doc?, Paper Moon, Nickelodeon; director/writer: The Last Picture Show, Texasville) is 73.

Paul Anka (songwriter: Johnny’s Theme [Tonight Show Theme], My Way, She’s a Lady, Diana; singer: Diana, You Are My Destiny, Lonely Boy, Put Your Head on My Shoulder, Puppy Love, You’re Having My Baby) is 71.

Saxophonist – flutist – composer David Sanborn (Voyeur, Sanborn, David Sanborn Band, Heart to Heart, Hideaway, As We Speak, Backstreet, Straight to the Heart, Love and Happiness) is 67.

Actor William Atherton (Bio-Dome, Saints and Sinners, The Pelican Brief, Die Hard series, Ghostbusters, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, The Day of the Locust, Class of ’44, Centennial) is 65.

Arnold Schwarzenegger (actor: Eraser, The Terminator, Predator, Twins, Conan the Barbarian, Total Recall, Kindergarten Cop, True Lies, Last Action Hero; 5-time Mr. Universe; Governor of California [2003 – 2011]) is 65.

Actor Jean Reno (Le Grand bleu, Les Visiteurs, Léon, Mission: Impossible, Godzilla, Just Visiting) is 64.

Actor Frank Stallone (Rocky series, Staying Alive, Ten Little Indians, Hudson Hawk, Tombstone, Doublecross On Costa’s Island) is 62.

Actor Ken Olin (Hill Street Blues, Falcon Crest, Thirtysomething) is 58.

Actress Delta Burke (Delta, Designing Women, Filthy Rich, Chisholm; Miss Florida) is 56.

Law professor Anita Hill, Brandeis University, is 56.

Actor Laurence Fishburne (Two Trains Running; Apocalypse Now, Bad Company, Boyz N the Hood) is 51.

Actress Lisa Kudrow (Friends, Mad About You, The Opposite of Sex, Analyze This, Dr. Dolittle 2) is 49.

Actress Vivica A. Fox (Days of Our Lives, The Young and the Restless, Independence Day, Booty Call, Hollywood Squares, City of Angels) is 48.

Actress Hilary Swank (Growing Pains, Evening Shade, The Next Karate Kid, Boys Don’t Cry, Million Dollar Baby) is 38.

If today is your birthday, “Happy Birthday!”

Actor Robert Horton (Wagon Train, A Man Called Shenandoah, Kings Row, The Green Slime, Men of the Fighting Lady) is 88.

Actor Robert Fuller (Laramie, Wagon Train, Emergency, Maverick, Donner Pass: The Road to Survival, Sinai Commandos) is 79.

Actor David Warner (Holocaust, Tron, Tom Jones, Time Bandits, Star Trek V & VI, Wild Palms, Ice Cream Man, In the Mouth of Madness, The Old Curiosity Shop, The Man with Two Brains) is 71.

Keyboardist Neal Doughty (REO Speedwagon) is 66.

Actress Leslie Easterbrook (Police Academy series, Private Resort, The Song of the Lark, ManiaX) is 61.

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns (The Civil War, Baseball, Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery, Frank Lloyd Wright) is 59.

Singer – bass guitarist Geddy Lee (Rush) is 59.

Singer Patti Scialfa (Bruce Springsteen) is 56.

Actress Alexandra Paul (Baywatch, The Paperboy, Sunset Grill, American Nightmare, Christine) is 49.

Singer Martina McBride (The Time Has Come, The Way I Am, Wild Angels, Evolution) is 46.

Actor Wil Wheaton (Stand by Me, Toy Soldiers, Star Trek: the Next Generation, The Liar’s Club) is 40.

If today is your birthday, “Happy Birthday!”

Cartoonist Jim Davis (Garfield) is 67.

Actress Linda Kelsey (Lou Grant, Day by Day) is 66.

Actress Georgia Engel (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Betty White Show, Goodtime Girls, Jennifer Slept Here, Coach) is 64.

Actress Sally Struthers (All in the Family, Five Easy Pieces, The Odd Couple) is 64.

Drummer Simon Kirke (Free) is 63.

Actress Lori Loughlin (The Night Before, Back to the Beach, Rad, Secret Admirer, The New Kids, Amityville 3: The Demon, The Edge of Night, Full House) is 48.

Actress Elizabeth Berkley (Saved by the Bell, The First Wives Club, Random Encounter, Any Given Sunday, Africa, The Elevator, Soulmates) is 40.

If today is your birthday, “Happy Birthday!”

TV producer Norman Lear (All in the Family, Maude, Good Times, Sanford & Son, Powers that Be, The Nancy Walker Show, The Jeffersons, Hot L Baltimore) is 90.

Actor Jerry Van Dyke (Coach, My Mother the Car, The Judy Garland Show, The Headmaster, Accidental Family) is 81.

Peggy Fleming (1968 Olympic gold medalist: figure skating; Olympic Hall of Famer; ABC sports commentator; International Women’s Sports Hall of Famer) is 64.

Betty Thomas (actress: For Peter’s Sake, Dream On, actress: Hill Street Blues; The Seventh Sign, When Your Lover Leaves, Troop Beverly Hills) is 64.

Singer Maureen McGovern (Different Worlds, The Morning After) is 63.

Actress Maria Grazia Cucinotta (The World Is Not Enough, Maria Maddalena, Picking Up the Pieces, Just One Night) is 44.

Actress Maya Rudolph (Saturday Night Live, City of Angels, Chuck & Buck, Duets) is 40.

If today is your birthday, “Happy Birthday!”

Actress Barbara Harris (Who is Harry Kellerman and Why is He Saying Those Terrible Things about Me, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Peggy Sue Got Married, Plaza Suite, A Thousand Clowns) is 77.

Singer – guitarist Manuel Charlton (Nazareth) is 71.

Singer – bass guitarist Verdine White (Earth, Wind & Fire) is 61.

Cartoonist Ray Billingsley (Curtis) is 55.

Actress Bobbie Eakes (The Bold and the Beautiful, JAG, Choosing Matthias) is 51.

Actress Illeana Douglas (The Perfect Woman, To Die for, Grace of My Heart, Chasing Amy, Picture Perfect, Weapons of Mass Distraction, Bella Mafia, Message in a Bottle, The Next Best Thing) is 47.

Actor Matt LeBlanc (Friends, TV 101, Reform School Girl, Ed, Lost in Space, Charlie’s Angels, All the Queen’s Men) is 45.