Interesting Things to Know
January Celebrity Birthdays!
Do you share a birthday with a celebrity?
Rod Stewart, 78, singer, London, England, 1/10/1945. Joe Bielawa from Minneapolis, USA, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
1 – Glen ‘Big Baby’ Davis , 37, former basketball player, Baton Rouge, LA, 1986.
2 – Christopher Durang, 74, playwright, actor, Montclair, NJ, 1949.
3 – Nicole Beharie, 38, actress (Sleepy Hollow), West Palm Beach, FL, 1985.
4 – Dave Foley, 60, actor, Toronto, Canada, 1962.
5 – Warrick Dunn, 48, former football player, Baton Rouge, LA, 1975.
6 – Rowan Atkinson, 68, actor, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, 1955.
7 – Lewis Hamilton, 38, Formula One racing driver, Stevenage, England, 1985.
8 – Bob Eubanks, 85, game show host (The Newlywed Game), Flint, MI, 1937.
9 – Nina Dobrev, 34, actress (The Vampire Diaries), born Nikolina Konstantinova Dobreva, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1989.
10 – Rod Stewart, 78, singer, London, England, 1945.
11 – Cody Simpson, 26, singer, Gold Coast, Australia, 1997.
12 – Zayn Malik, 30, singer, Bradford, England, 1993.
13 – Liam Hemsworth, 33, actor, Melbourne, Australia, 1990.
14 – Faye Dunaway, 82, actress, Bascom, FL, 1941.
15 – Pitbull, 42, rapper, record producer, born Armando Christian Perez, Miami, FL, 1981.
16 – Marilyn Horne, 89, opera singer, Bradford, PA, 1934.
17 – Calvin Harris, 39, DJ, singer, producer, born Adam Richard Wiles, Dumfries, Scotland, 1984.
18 – John Boorman, 90, flmmaker (Deliverance), Shepperton, England, 1933.
19 – Damien Chazelle, 38, director, screenwriter, Providence, RI, 1985.
20 – Bill Maher, 67, comedian, TV host, New York, N.Y., 1956.
21 – Jeff Koons, 68, artist, York, PA, 1955.
22 – Christopher Masterson, 43, actor (Malcolm in the Middle), Long Island, NY, 1980.
23 – Chita Rivera, 90, singer, actress, born Conchita del Rivero, Washington, DC, 1933.
24 – Mischa Barton, 37, actress (The O.C.), London, England, 1986.
25 – Leigh Taylor-Young, 78, actress (Peyton Place, Dallas), Washington, DC, 1945.
26 – W. Kamau Bell, 50, comedian, born Walter Kamau Bell, Palo Alto, CA, 1973.
27 – Mikhail Baryshnikov, 75, ballet dancer, Riga, USSR (now Latvia), 1948.
28 – Elijah Wood, 42, actor (The Lord of the Rings), Cedar Rapids, IA, 1981.
29 – Tom Selleck, 78, actor (Magnum, P.I.), Detroit, MI, 1945.
30 – Christian Bale, 49, actor, born Pembrokeshire, West Wales, 1974.
31 – Kerry Washington, 46, actress, Bronx, NY., 1977.
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