August 7th Birthdays
If you were born on August 7th, you share a celebrity birthday with these famous people:
American actress of TV (Love, American Style) and movies (The Loved One; The Appaloosa; Banning; Guns for San Sebastian; Quick, Before It Melts; In Enemy Country; Lepke; The Baby; The Firechasers; The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery; Fire Sale), born August 7, 1939. (Anjanette Comer 1971 Rabbit, Run)
American producer, screenwriter & actress of stage, TV (Longstreet; Ben Casey; Dr. Kildare; Hogan’s Heroes; Barnaby Jones; Love, American Style; Bonanza; Laredo; The F.B.I.) and movies (The Trouble With Girls; Christina; Lonely Hearts), born August 7, 1940. (Marlyn Mason 1966 12 O’Clock High)
Garrison Keillor is 80 (nee Gary Edward Keillor)
National Radio Hall of Fame American humorist, author (Lake Wobegon Days; Happy to Be Here; Leaving Home; We Are Still Married; That Time of Year; Pontoon), and radio host (A Prairie Home Companion / Garrison Keillor’s Radio Show), born August 7, 1942. (Garrison Keillor 2007 Photo: Patricia Feaster)
Tobin Bell is 80 (nee Joseph Henry Tobin Jr.)
American actor of movies (Saw films; Mississippi Burning; An Innocent Man; Loose Cannons; False Identity; Goodfellas; Ruby; The Firm; In the Line of Fire; Malice; Good Neighbor; Power Play) and television (Revelations; 24; Days of Our Lives), born August 7, 1942. (Tobin Bell 2007 Photo: pinguino k)
David Rasche is 78
American actor of stage, TV (Sledge Hammer!; Jack Trenton on Nurses; Wes Leonard on Ryan’s Hope; All My Children; Ugly Betty; Succession), and movies (Delirious; Best Defense; Burn After Reading; That Old Feeling; The Sentinel), born August 7, 1944. (David Rasche 1986 Sledge Hammer Promo: ABC)
John Glover is 78 (nee John Soursby Glover Jr.)
Tony Award-winning American actor of stage, TV (Lionel Luthor on Smallville; Search For Tomorrow; Brimstone; Fear the Walking Dead) and films (Batman & Robin; Payback; Scrooged; Gremlins 2: The New Batch; 52 Pick-Up; Melvin and Howard), born August 7, 1944. (John Glover 1989 A Twist of Fate Photo: NBC)
Dr. Gary Hall Sr. is 71 (nee Gary Wayne Hall)
International Swimming Hall of Fame record-setting American swimmer, 3-time Olympic medalist (1968 Mexico City 400m individual medley silver; 1972 Munich 200m butterfly silver; 1976 Montreal 100m butterfly bronze), born August 7, 1951. (Dr. Gary Hall Sr. 1972 Photo: Panini)
Wayne Knight is 67
American actor of TV (Officer Don Orville on 3rd Rock From the Sun; Newman on Seinfeld; Haskell Lutz on The Exes; Hot in Cleveland), and movies (Jurassic Park; Rat Race; Basic Instinct; Dead Again; V.I. Warshawski; To Die For; Toy Story films), born August 7, 1955. (Wayne Knight 2013 Photo: Shay’s Way)
Alexander Dityatin is 65 (nee Aleksandr Nikolaevich Dityatin)
International Gymnastics Hall of Fame 60+ Soviet Olympic gymnastics medalist (1976 Montreal team & rings silver; 1980 Moscow team, all-around & rings gold; pommel horse, vault, parallel bars, & horizontal bar silver, floor bronze), born August 7, 1957. (Alexander Dityatin 2018 Photo: VK 404)
David Duchovny is 62
American producer, director, screenwriter, and actor of TV (Agent Fox Mulder on The X-Files; Hank Moody on Californication; Jake Winters on Red Shoe Diaries; Aquarius) and movies (Kalifornia; Playing God; The X Files; Phantom), born August 7, 1960. (David Duchovny 2011 Photo: David Shankbone)
Harold Perrineau is 59 (nee Harold Williams)
American actor of stage, TV (Michael Dawson on Lost; Augustus Hill on Oz; Fame; I’ll Fly Away; Sons of Anarchy; Criminal Minds), and movies (Romeo + Juliet; Woman on Top; The Edge; The Best Man; The Matrix Reloaded), born August 7, 1963. (Harold Perrineau 2007 Photo: Ewen Roberts)
Elizabeth Manley is 57
Canadian figure skater, 1988 World and Calgary Winter Olympic ladies figure skating silver medalist, 3-time Canadian ladies champion, author (Thumbs Up!; As I Am: My Life After the Olympics), and figure skating coach, born August 7, 1965. (Elizabeth Manley 2010 Photo: Brendan Lally)
Sydney Penny is 51
American actress of films & television (Dani Collins-Griffin on The New Gidget; Julia Santos on All My Children; B.J. Walker on Santa Barbara; Meg Cummings on Sunset Beach; Samantha Kelly on The Bold and the Beautiful; Joy Arden on Largo Winch; Beverly Hills, 90210; Dr. Liv Norman on Days of Our Lives; Hyperion Bay, born August 7, 1971.
(Ann Harding 1930: Earl Christy | Billie Burke 1917: Neysa McMein)
Happy Birthday to everyone celebrating their birthday on August 7th!
Remember These August 7th Famous Birthdays
B. J. Thomas (nee Billy Joe Thomas)
American Grammy Hall of Fame singer (Hooked on a Feeling; Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head; Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song; I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry; I Just Can’t Help Believing; What’s Forever For; Rock and Roll Lullaby) (born Aug. 7, 1942 – died May 29, 2021; age 78. B. J. Thomas died of lung cancer. (B J Thomas 1972 Photo: William Morris Agency)
Billie Burke (nee Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke)
American actress of radio (The Billie Burke Show), TV (At Home With Billie Burke), classic & silent films (The Wizard of Oz; Merrily We Live; Topper movies; Becky Sharp; Father’s Little Dividend; Pepe; The Young Philadelphians; Father of the Bride; A Bill of Divorcement; Christopher Strong) widow of Florenz Ziegfeld (born Aug. 7, 1884 – died May 14, 1970; age 85). (Billie Burke 1933: MGM)
Louis Leakey (nee Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey)
Kenyan intelligence policeman, archaeologist and paleoanthropologist who researched human evolution and supported primate researchers in natural habitats (Dian Fossey; Jane Goodall, Birutė Galdikas) (born Aug. 7, 1903 – died Oct. 1, 1972; age 69). Cause of death for Louis Leakey was a heart attack. (Louis S.B. Leakey 1962 Photo: Science Service / Smithsonian Institution)
Ann Harding (nee Dorothy Walton Gatley)
American actress of radio, TV, & films (Holiday; Her Private Affair; Mission to Moscow; The Lady Consents; The Flame Within; The Magnificent Yankee; A Night of Terror; The Fountain; Those Endearing Young Charms; Gallant Lady; Strange Intruder; Peter Ibbetson; East Lynne; Janie Gets Married) (born Aug. 7, 1902 – died Sept. 1, 1981; age 79). (Ann Harding 1942 Eyes in the Night)
Felice Bryant (nee Matilda Genevieve Scaduto)
Songwriters & Country Music Hall of Fame songwriter with husband Diadorius Boudleaux Bryant (Wake Up, Little Susie; Rocky Top; Bye Bye Love; Sleepless Nights; Raining in My Heart; We Could; Country Boy; Take a Message to Mary; She Wears My Ring) (born Aug. 7, 1925 – died Apr. 22, 2003; age 77). Cause of death for Felice Bryant is unknown.
American child actor, Alfalfa in Our Gang / Little Rascals film shorts & other movies (Easy to Take; The Great Mike; Scandal Street; Gas House Kids; I Love You Again; Barnyard Follies; Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch; Henry and Dizzy; Shantytown; Big Town Scandal) (born Aug. 8, 1927 – died Jan. 21, 1959; age 31). Carl “Alfalfa” Switzer was shot during a fight. (Carl “Alfalfa” Switzer 1938)
Steve Ihnat (nee Stefan Ihnat)
Slovakian-American actor of TV (The F.B.I.; Gunsmoke; The Virginian; Mission: Impossible; ; Iron Horse; Mannix) & films (Madigan; Strike Me Deadly; Passion Street, U.S.A.; Zig Zag; Countdown; Hour of the Gun; In Like Flint; Fuzz; Do Not Throw Cushions Into the Ring) (born Aug. 7, 1934 – died May 12, 1972; age 37). Steve Ihnat died of a heart illness. (Steve Ihnat 1965 Daniel Boone)
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