Date | Name | Notability |
January 5 | Clancy Brown | Actor (SpongeBob SquarePants, Superman: The Animated Series, Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H.) |
January 21 | Bob Boden | American producer |
January 22 | Linda Blair | American actress |
January 27 | Cris Collinsworth | American sports broadcaster |
Keith Olbermann | American sports and political commentator |
January 31 | Anthony LaPaglia | Australian actor (Without a Trace) |
Kelly Lynch | Actress |
February 3 | Fredric Lehne | Actor (Mancuso, F.B.I.) |
February 11 | Bradley Cole | Actor (Guiding Light) |
February 12 | Larry Nance | NBA basketball player |
February 15 | Joseph R. Gannascoli | American actor |
February 18 | Jayne Atkinson | English-American actress (24) |
February 22 | Kyle MacLachlan | Actor (Twin Peaks, Desperate Housewives) |
February 24 | Beth Broderick | Actress (The 5 Mrs. Buchanans, Sabrina the Teenage Witch) |
February 26 | Rolando Blackman | NBA basketball player |
March 5 | Talia Balsam | Actress |
March 6 | Tom Arnold | Actor and comedian (The Best Damn Sports Show Period) |
March 7 | Donna Murphy | Actress and singer |
March 8 | Lester Holt | Journalist and news anchor |
Aidan Quinn | Actor |
March 9 | Tom Amandes | Actor (Everwood) |
March 14 | Tamara Tunie | Actress (As the World Turns, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) |
March 16 | Flavor Flav | Rapper |
March 22 | Stephen Lambert | English television producer |
April 3 | David Hyde Pierce | Actor (Frasier, The Powers That Be) |
Amy Morton | Actress |
April 4 | Phil Morris | Actor (Smallville, The Secret Saturdays, Legion of Super Heroes) |
April 15 | Emma Thompson | English actress |
Thomas F. Wilson | Actor (SpongeBob SquarePants, Tales of Arcadia, Back to the Future) |
April 17 | Sean Bean | English actor (Sharpe, Game of Thrones) |
April 22 | Ryan Stiles | Actor (Whose Line Is It Anyway?) |
April 23 | Dan Frischman | Actor (Head of the Class) |
April 24 | Paula Yates | English television presenter (died 2000) |
May 3 | Ben Elton | English comedian and writer (Blackadder) |
May 5 | Brian Williams | Journalist |
May 7 | Michael E. Knight | Actor (All My Children) |
May 10 | Victoria Rowell | Actress (The Young and the Restless, Diagnosis: Murder) |
May 13 | Jerry Butler | American actor |
May 17 | Jim Nantz | American sportscaster |
May 20 | Bronson Pinchot | Actor (Balki Bartokomous on Perfect Strangers) |
May 29 | Rupert Everett | English actor |
June 1 | Eli Gabay | Actor |
June 2 | Kevin Newman | Journalist |
June 6 | Neal H. Moritz | Film producer |
June 10 | Tim Van Patten | Director |
June 11 | Hugh Laurie | English actor (Jeeves and Wooster, House) |
June 12 | Marty Griffin | Journalist |
June 15 | Eileen Davidson | Actress (Days of Our Lives, The Young and the Restless, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills) |
June 21 | Tom Chambers | NBA basketball player |
June 24 | Dan Gilroy | Screenwriter |
June 26 | Mark McKinney | Actor and comedian (The Kids in the Hall, Superstore) |
June 27 | Janusz Kamiński | Director |
June 30 | Vincent D'Onofrio | Actor (Law & Order: Criminal Intent) |
July 1 | Phyllis Cicero | American actress (Barney & Friends) (died 2021) |
July 3 | David Shore | Canadian television writer |
July 7 | Billy Campbell | Actor (Once and Again, The 4400, The Rocketeer) |
July 8 | Robert Knepper | Actor (Prison Break, Heroes) |
July 12 | Charlie Murphy | Actor and comedian (died 2017) |
July 16 | Bob Joles | Actor (Big City Greens, SpongeBob SquarePants, Spider-Man) |
July 24 | Shawn Weatherly | Actress |
July 25 | Geoffrey Zakarian | American chef, restaurateur, television personality and author |
July 26 | Kevin Spacey | Actor (Wiseguy, House of Cards) |
Tom McGowan | Actor (Frasier, Everybody Loves Raymond, The War at Home) |
August 2 | Victoria Jackson | Actress (Saturday Night Live) |
August 3 | John C. McGinley | Actor (Scrubs, DreamWorks Dragons: Rescue Riders, Justice League Unlimited) |
August 5 | Mark Cendrowski | Director |
August 10 | Rosanna Arquette | Actress |
August 13 | Danny Bonaduce | Actor (The Partridge Family) |
August 14 | Marcia Gay Harden | Actress (Pollock, Code Black) |
Magic Johnson | NBA basketball player |
August 17 | Derek McGinty | American news anchor |
August 18 | June Angela | Actress (The Electric Company) |
August 19 | Pamela Fryman | Director |
August 28 | Arthur Holden | Actor |
September 5 | Rickey Minor | Bass player |
September 11 | John Hawkes | Actor (Deadwood, Eastbound & Down) |
September 13 | Chris Hansen | Television journalist (Dateline NBC) |
September 14 | Mary Crosby | Actress (Dallas) |
Anthony Asbury | Actor |
September 15 | Kevin Allen | Actor |
September 19 | Carolyn McCormick | Actress (Law & Order) |
September 21 | Dave Coulier | Actor (Joey Gladstone on Full House) |
September 23 | Jason Alexander | Actor (Seinfeld, Hit the Road, Duckman) |
September 27 | Stephen Caffrey | Actor (Tour of Duty) |
September 28 | Steve Hytner | Actor |
September 30 | Debrah Farentino | Actress |
October 3 | Jack Wagner | Actor (The Bold and the Beautiful) |
Greg Proops | Actor |
October 7 | Simon Cowell | English television personality |
Dylan Baker | Actor |
October 8 | Nick Bakay | Actor (Sabrina the Teenage Witch, The Angry Beavers) |
October 10 | Julia Sweeney | Actress (Saturday Night Live) |
Bradley Whitford | Actor (The West Wing) |
October 13 | Marie Osmond | Actress and singer (Donny & Marie) |
October 17 | Norm Macdonald | Actor and comedian (Saturday Night Live, Mike Tyson Mysteries) (died 2021) |
October 23 | "Weird Al" Yankovic | Music parodist and actor (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Adventure Time, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!) |
Nancy Grace | American anchor |
October 26 | François Chau | American-Cambodian actor (Lost) |
November 10 | Mackenzie Phillips | Actress (One Day at a Time) |
November 12 | Vincent Irizarry | Soap opera actor |
November 14 | Paul Attanasio | American screenwriter |
November 19 | Allison Janney | Actress (The West Wing, Mom) |
November 26 | Jamie Rose | Actress (Falcon Crest) |
November 28 | Judd Nelson | Actor (Suddenly Susan, Ben 10: Omniverse) |
December 5 | Connie Needham | Actress (Eight is Enough) |
December 6 | Tom Foreman | Canadian television writer |
December 9 | Terry Moran | American journalist |
Pat Battle | American journalist |
December 10 | Mark Aguirre | NBA basketball player |
Burke Moses | Actor |
December 13 | Johnny Whitaker | Actor (Family Affair) |
December 16 | Alison LaPlaca[7] | Actress (Duet) |
December 29 | Mark Madden | American sports talk show host |
December 30 | Tracey Ullman | Actress, comedian (The Tracey Ullman Show) |
December 31 | Val Kilmer | Actor |