Jimbo’s Birthday Wishes (05/08/26 – 05/09/26 – 05/10/26)
Jimbo's Birthday Wishes (05/08/26 - 05/09/26 - 05/10/26)
Birthdays on May 8, 2026
Olivia Culpo is 34. Model and former Miss Universe who’s dated Nick Jonas, Tim Tebow, Ryan Lochte, and Patriots wide receiver Danny Amendola. She was on “The Masked Singer” as the UFO.
Elyes Gabel is 43. Walter O’Brien on “Scorpion”.
Christina Cole is 44. Dr. Paula Agard on “Suits”.
Stephen Amell is 45. Oliver Queen / The Green Arrow on the CW’s “Arrow”.
Matthew Davis is 48. Rick on “The Vampire Diaries”, and its two spinoffs “The Originals” and “Legacies”.
Enrique Iglesias is 51. The son of Julio Iglesias and father of Anna Kournikova’s twins.
Darren Hayes is 54. The sexy half of Savage Garden who came out of the closet a few months after he divorced his wife in 1999. Biggest hit: 1997’s “Truly Madly Deeply“.
Melissa Gilbert is 62. Laura Ingalls Wilder on “Little House on the Prairie”. She grew up and married Timothy Busfield . . . a.k.a. Poindexter from “Revenge of the Nerds” and Elliot Weston on “Thirtysomething”.
Ronnie Lott is 67. San Francisco 49ers legend.
Alex Van Halen is 73. Originally, he took guitar lessons and his brother Eddie took drum lessons. Then Alex tried Eddie’s drums, realized he was better at them than his brother . . . and changed the course of music history. Maybe that’s overdramatic. Let’s just say it changed the course of David Lee Roth’s life.
Philip Bailey is 75. His angelic falsetto is responsible for everything you’ve ever loved about Earth, Wind and Fire. Biggest hits: “September“, “Boogie Wonderland“, “After the Love Has Gone“, and “Let’s Groove“.
Toni Tennille is 86. The Captain & Tennille. Biggest hits: “Love Will Keep Us Together“, “Do That to Me One More Time“, and “Muskrat Love“.
David Attenborough is 100. British naturalist who’s responsible for all of those amazing nature documentaries on the Discovery Channel like “Planet Earth”, “Life”, and “Frozen Planet”. His brother was Richard Attenborough, the old guy from the original “Jurassic Park”.
Stephen Furst (1954 – 2017) Kent “Flounder” Dorfman in “Animal House”.
Don Rickles (1926 – 2017) Legendary insult comic, and Mr. Potato Head in the “Toy Story” movies.
Sonny Liston (1932 – 1970) Former heavyweight champ, and one of the greatest boxers of all time. Unfortunately for him, most people only know him as the guy a young Cassius Clay . . . a.k.a. Muhammad Ali . . . knocked out to win his first title.
Harry Truman (1884 – 1972) The 33rd president of the United States. He’s the man behind the expressions “The buck stops here” and “If you can’t stand the heat, you better get out of the kitchen.”
Ricky Nelson (1940 – 1985) Rock & Roll pioneer . . . television sitcom star . . . and the father of Gunnar and Matthew Nelson!
• Today is National Have a Coke Day
• 2 days to Mother’s Day
• 14 days until Memorial Day Weekend
Birthdays on May 9, 2026
Noah Centineo is 30. Netflix heartthrob who’s playing John Rambo in next year’s “Rambo” remake, and Ken Masters in October’s “Street Fighter” remake. You’d know him from the spy series “The Recruit”.
But your daughters know him from “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before”, its two sequels, and “The Perfect Date”.
Mary Mouser is 30. Daniel-san’s daughter Samantha LaRusso on “Cobra Kai“.
Grace Gummer is 40. Meryl Streep’s daughter. She plays FBI agent Dominique DiPierro on “Mr. Robot”. She was also on Halle Berry’s “Extant”, and played Penny the Amazing Lizard Girl on “American Horror Story: Freak Show”.
Audrina Patridge is 41. She was on “The Hills”.
Prince Fielder is 42. Texas Rangers slugger whose career ended with another neck injury in 2016. He and his dad Cecil are the only father-son combination to each hit 50 home runs in a season. They each had 319 total in their careers.
Rosario Dawson is 47. Jedi Ahsoka Tano on “Ahsoka”, “The Mandalorian”, and “The Book of Boba Fett”. She’s also in “Rent“, “Men in Black 2”, “Sin City”, and “Grindhouse”.
Andrew W.K. is 47.
Chris Diamantopoulos is 51. Canadian actor who played Moe in the 2012 “Three Stooges” movie. He’s crazy “three comma club” billionaire Russ Hanneman on HBO’s “Silicon Valley”.
Ghostface Killah is 56. Wu-Tang Clansman.
Dave Gahan is 64. Depeche Mode’s lead singer. Biggest hits: “People Are People“, “Enjoy the Silence“, “Policy of Truth“, and “Personal Jesus“. Dave’s cheated death four times in four different ways: He survived a heart attack in 1993, slashing his wrists in 1995, overdosing on a speedball in 1996, and a malignant bladder tumor in 2009.
John Corbett is 65. Aidan on “Sex and the City”, Chris, the disc jockey, on “Northern Exposure”, and the non-Greek groom in “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”.
Tom Petersson is 76. Cheap Trick bassist and founder of Rock Your Speech, a project that helps autistic kids learn to communicate through music.
Billy Joel is 77. Biggest hits: “It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me“, “My Life“, “Tell Her About It“, “Piano Man“, “We Didn’t Start the Fire“, and “The River of Dreams“.
Calvin Murphy is 78. NBA Hall of Famer. He has 14 children with NINE different women.
Candice Bergen is 80. “Murphy Brown” legend.
Tommy Roe is 84. The genius behind the 1966 hit “Sweet Pea“.
James L. Brooks is 86. One of the three men who developed “The Simpsons”. He also co-created “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and “Taxi”.
Albert Finney (1936 – 2019) He was a five-time Oscar nominee who you’d know as Julia Roberts’ boss in “Erin Brockovich”. He was also Dr. Albert Hirsch in “The Bourne Ultimatum”, Kincade in “Skyfall”, Charles in “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead”, Ed Bloom (Senior) in “Big Fish”, and the main star of the 1974 classic “Murder on the Orient Express”.
Mike Wallace (1918 – 2012) “60 Minutes“ legend.
J.M. Barrie (1860 – 1937) The man who wrote “Peter Pan”. He gets full credit for anyone named Wendy. Before he called one of his “Peter Pan” characters “Wendy,” NO ONE was giving their daughter that name.
Birthdays on May 10, 2026
Halston Sage is 33. Lt. Alara Kitan on “The Orville” and Malcolm’s sister Ainsley on “Prodigal Son”.
Lauren Potter is 36. Becky, the cheerleader with Down Syndrome on “Glee”.
Odette Annable is 41. Geri Broussard on “Walker”. She was also Dr. Jessica Adams on “House”, Samantha Arias / Reign on “Supergirl”, and Beth in “Cloverfield”.
Kenan Thompson is 48. “SNL” superstar. His best impressions on the show are Whoopi Goldberg, Charles Barkley, and Tiger Woods. But if you ask me, his best character was Sump’n Claus.
Helio Castroneves is 51. He won the fourth season of “Dancing with the Stars” and won the Indy 500 three times. He also beat the IRS when they went after him for tax evasion.
Young MC is 59. Biggest hit: “Bust a Move“.
Linda Evangelista is 61. Supermodel who made the famous quote: “We don’t wake up for less than $10,000 a day.”
Bono from U2 is 66. Biggest hits: “With or Without You“ and “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For“. Real name: Paul Hewson.
Rick Santorum is 68. A politician with a Google problem.
Chris Berman is 71. ESPN’s catchphrase-spouting, chubby legend. Do not step in front of his teleprompter.
Mark David Chapman is 71. The lunatic who killed John Lennon. He has been locked up in Attica State Prison in New York ever since. Every time he’s up for parole, Yoko Ono does everything she can to make sure he doesn’t get out.
Tito Santana is 73. En fuego ex-pro wrestler. His finishing move was the flying forearm. Jesse “The Body” Ventura, doing casually-racist commentary, would call it the flying jalapeno . . . and call him “Chico.”
Donovan is 80. Flower-type child and ’60s singer. Biggest hits: “Mellow Yellow“, “Sunshine Superman“ and “Hurdy Gurdy Man“. He’s also the father of actress Ione Skye. Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones met during the recording of “Hurdy Gurdy Man” . . . so without Donovan, there wouldn’t have been a Led Zeppelin.
Dave Mason would have been 80. (1946 – 2026) Classic Rocker. Biggest hit: 1977’s “We Just Disagree“.
Gary Owens (1934 – 2015) Legendary radio and TV announcer and class act. Best known for “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In” and being the voice of Powdered Toast Man on “Ren & Stimpy”.
Pat Summerall (1930 – 2013) Former NFL kicker turned broadcasting legend. Apparently, during his playing days, he was known as THE number one partying superstar of the NFL.
Sid Vicious (1957 – 1979) Punk rock icon from the Sex Pistols. He died from a heroin overdose. The heroin was a present from his mom for successfully doing 55 days in prison for assault.
Fred Astaire (1899 – 1987) Legendary actor, singer, and dancer.
