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January Celebrity Birthdays!
Alan Alda, 86, actor, (M*A*S*H), director, born Alphonso D’Abruzzo, New York, NY, Jan 28, 1936.Alan Alda, 86, actor, (M*A*S*H), director, born Alphonso D’Abruzzo, New York, NY, Jan 28, 1936. Moody College of Communication from Austin, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Do you share a birthday with a celebrity?
1 – Michael Imperioli, 56, actor (The Sopranos), Mount Vernon, NY, 1966.
2 – Cuba Gooding, Jr., 54, actor, the Bronx, NY, 1968.
3 – Dabney Coleman, 90 (WarGames), actor, Austin, TX, 1932.
4 – Graham McTavish, 61, actor (The Hobbit trilogy), Glasgow, Scotland, 1961.
5 – Carrie Ann Inaba, 54, television personality (Dancing With the Stars), Honolulu, HI, 1968.
6 – Eddie Redmayne, 40, actor (The Danish Girl), London, England, 1982.
7 – Brett Dalton, 39, actor (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), San Jose, CA, 1983
8 – Shirley Bassey , 85, singer, Cardiff, Wales, 1937.
9 – Nina Dobrev, 33, actress (The Vampire Diaries), born Nikolina Konstantinova Dobreva, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1989.
10 – Jemaine Clement, 48, comedian, actor (Flight of the Conchords), Masterton, New Zealand, 1974.
11 – Stanley Tucci , 62, actor (The Hunger Games), Katonah, NY, 1960.
12 – Kirstie Alley, 67, actress (Cheers, Look Who’s Talking), Wichita, KS, 1955.
13 – Liam Hemsworth, 32, actor (The Hunger Games), born Melbourne, Australia, 1990.
14 – LL Cool J, 54, actor (NCIS: Los Angeles), singer, born James Todd Smith, Bay Shore, NY, 1968.
15 – Pitbull, 41, rapper, record producer, born Armando Christian Perez, Miami, FL, 1981.
16 – Ronnie Milsap, 78, singer, Robbinsville, NC, 1944.
17 – Maury Povich, 83, talk show host, Washington, DC, 1939.
18 – Jane Horrocks, 58, actress (Absolutely Fabulous), Lancashire, England, 1964.
19 – Shelley Fabares, 80, actress (The Donna Reed Show), Santa Monica, CA, 1942 (some sources say 1944).
20 – Questlove, 51, musician, television personality (The Tonight Show), born Ahmir-Khalib Thompson, Philadelphia, PA, 1971.
21 – Billy Ocean, 72, musician, born Leslie Charles, Trinidad, West Indies, 1950.
22 – Linda Blair, 63, actress (The Exorcist), Westport, CT, 1959.
23 – Tiffani Thiessen, 48, actress (Beverly Hills 90210), Long Beach, CA, 1974.
24 – Mischa Barton, 36, actress (The O.C.), London, England, 1986.
25 – Alicia Keys, 41, musician, singer, Harlem, NY, 1981.
26 – Anita Baker, 64, singer, Toledo, OH, 1958.
27 – Mimi Rogers, 66, actress (The Mirror Has Two Faces), Coral Gables, FL, 1956.
28 – Alan Alda, 86, actor, (M*A*S*H), director, born Alphonso D’Abruzzo, New York, NY, Jan 28, 1936.
29 – Sam Jaeger, 45, actor (Parenthood), Perrysburg, OH, 1977.
30 – Felipe VI of Bourbon and Greece, 54, King of Spain, Madrid, Spain, 1968.
31 – Marcus Mumford, 35, musician (Mumford & Sons), Yorba Linda, CA, 1987.
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