Jimbo’s Birthday Wishes (07/24/26 – 07/26/26)
Jimbo's Birthday Wishes (07/24/26 - 07/26/26)
Birthdays on July 24, 2026
Daveigh Chase would have been 36. (1990 – 2026) Samara the dead girl from the well in “The Ring”, Donnie’s little sister Samantha in “Donnie Darko”, and Lilo in “Lilo & Stitch”.
Bindi Irwin is 28. Steve “The Crocodile Hunter” Irwin’s daughter and the winner of Season 21 of “Dancing with the Stars”.
Emily Bett Rickards is 35. Felicity on “Arrow”.
Mara Wilson is 39. The adorable little girl in “Mrs. Doubtfire” and “Matilda”. She graduated from NYU in 2009 and blogs at mara.substack.com.
Elisabeth Moss is 44. Offred in “The Handmaid’s Tale”. She was also Peggy Olson on “Mad Men”, and first daughter Zoey Bartlet on “The West Wing”.
Anna Paquin is 44. Rogue in the original “X-Men” movies, Sookie on “True Blood”, and 10-year-old Best Supporting Actress winner for “The Piano”.
Summer Glau is 45. Cameron, the terminator on “The Sarah Connor Chronicles”, and River Tam on “Firefly”.
Rose Byrne is 47. Renai Lambert in the “Insidious” movies, Seth Rogen’s wife in “Neighbors”, and Kristen Wiig’s nemesis in “Bridesmaids”.
Jerrod Niemann is 47. Country singer. “Drink to That All Night“
Torrie Wilson is 51. Former WWE wrestler.
Patty Jenkins is 55. “Wonder Woman” director.
Jennifer Lopez is 57.
Rick Fox is 57. Retired NBA player and ex-husband of Vanessa Williams.
Kadeem Hardison is 61. Dwayne Wayne on “A Different World” and Zendaya’s dad on her Disney Channel spy show “K.C. Undercover”.
Barry Bonds is 62. Steroid abusing cheat and Hall of Fame candidate.
Karl Malone is 63. Former Utah Jazz scoring legend.
Pam Tillis is 69. Country singer; Mel’s daughter. “Maybe It Was Memphis“, “Shake the Sugar Tree“, “Spilled Perfume“, and “Don’t Tell Me What to Do“.
Lynda Carter is 75. The original “Wonder Woman”. She was also President Marsdin on “Supergirl” and the Governor in the “Super Troopers” movies.
Michael Richards is 77. Kramer on “Seinfeld”.
Robert Hays is 79. Ted Striker in “Airplane”.
Chris Sarandon is 84. Prince Humperdinck in “The Princess Bride”, Jack Skellington in “A Nightmare Before Christmas”, and vampire Jerry Dandridge in the original, 1985 version of “Fright Night”. He’s Susan Sarandon’s ex-husband.
Ruth Buzzi (1936 – 2025) “Laugh-In” superstar.
Gallagher (1946 – 2022) Watermelon-smashing superstar.
John Aniston (1933 – 2022) Victor Kiriakis on “Days of Our Lives”. And Jennifer Aniston’s dad.
Amelia Earhart (1897 – 1937) The first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. She disappeared mysteriously on July 2nd, 1937, during her attempt to fly around the world.
• Today is National Tequila Day
• It’s also National Drive-Thru Day
• 42 days until Labor Day Weekend
Birthdays on July 25, 2026
Meg Donnelly is 26. Addison Wells in Disney’s “Zombies” movies. She’s also Mary Campbell on “The Winchesters” and Taylor Otto on “American Housewife”.
Jaafar Jackson is 30. Jermaine’s son. He played his uncle in this year’s “Michael”.
Michael Welch is 39. Mack on “Z Nation”, Luke on “Joan of Arcadia”, and Mike Newton in the “Twilight” movies.
Shantel VanSanten is 41. Ryan Phillippe’s wife Julie on “Shooter”.
James Lafferty is 41. Nathan Scott on “One Tree Hill”.
Kevin McCall is 41. Rapper you may know from the Chris Brown songs “Deuces“ and “Strip“.
Louise Brown is 48. The world’s First Test Tube Baby . . . born in Oldham, England. She had two babies of her own that she conceived naturally.
D.B. Woodside is 57. President Wayne Palmer on “24” and the angel Amenadiel on “Lucifer”.
Matt LeBlanc is 59. Joey Tribbiani on “Friends”, himself on Showtime’s “Episodes”, and Adam Burns on CBS’s “Man with a Plan”.
Wendy Raquel Robinson is 59. Tasha Mack on “The Game”.
Roger Clinton is 70. Brother of Bill and THE star of “Bio-Dome”, “Spy Hard” and “Pumpkinhead 2: Blood Wings”.
Iman is 71. David Bowie’s widow. Sci-fi fans would remember her as the shapeshifter Martia in “Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country”.
Verdine White is 75. Earth, Wind & Fire. Their biggest jams include “Shining Star“, “Got to Get You Into My Life“, “Sing a Song“, “September“, “Boogie Wonderland“, “After the Love Has Gone“ and “Let’s Groove“.
Manny Charlton from Nazareth. (1941 – 2022) “Love Hurts“
Estelle Getty (1923 – 2008) Bea Arthur’s mom Sophia on “The Golden Girls” and Sylvester Stallone’s mom in “Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot”.
Walter Payton (1954 – 1999) “Sweetness”. Chicago Bears legend.
Birthdays on July 26, 2026
Taylor Momsen is 33. Jenny Humphrey on “Gossip Girl”. She has a band called The Pretty Reckless. She got her start as Cindy Lou Who in “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”.
Elizabeth Gillies is 33. Denis Leary’s daughter Gigi on the FX show “Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll”. Your kids also know her as Jade from “Victorious”.
Francia Raisa is 38. Valentina on “How I Met Your Father” and Ana Torres on “Grown-ish”. One of Francia’s kidneys lives inside Selena Gomez.
Monica Raymund is 40. Gabriela Dawson on “Chicago Fire”.
Grace Byers is 42. Boo Boo Kitty! Anika Calhoun on “Empire”.
Kate Beckinsale is 53. Selene the vampire in “Underworld”, a sexy vampire hunter in Hugh Jackman’s “Van Helsing”, and Adam Sandler’s wife in “Click”.
Chris Harrison is 55. Former “Bachelor” host.
Cress Williams is 56. He IS “Black Lightning”.
Jason Statham is 59. Deckard Shaw in the “Fast and Furious” movies, Lee Christmas in “The Expendables”, and Frank Martin in “The Transporter” movies.
Jeremy Piven is 61. Ari Gold on “Entourage”. His big break was playing Spence on “Ellen”. He’s also the dean in “Old School”.
Sandra Bullock is 62.
Danny Woodburn is 62. Mickey Abbott on “Seinfeld”. You’ve seen his 4-foot-tall acting prowess in “Jingle All the Way”, “Death to Smoochy”, and as the leader of the dwarves in the Julia Roberts’ Snow White movie “Mirror Mirror”.
Gary Cherone is 65. Ex-singer of Van Halen the Third AND Extreme. Unless you count Eddie’s son Wolfgang, Gary is the only member of Van Halen who WASN’T inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Kevin Spacey is 67. Frank Underwood on “House of Cards”, Dave Harken in the “Horrible Bosses” movies, and Verbal Kint in “The Usual Suspects”.
Nana Visitor is 69. Trekkies know her as Kira Nerys on “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine”.
Dorothy Hamill is 70. Figure skating star who won Gold in the 1976 Olympics.
Roger Taylor is 77. Queen’s drummer. He also wrote a few of the band’s songs, including “Radio Ga Ga“, and “A Kind of Magic“.
Helen Mirren is 81. Deckard Shaw’s mom in “The Fate of the Furious”, Nic Cage’s mom in the second “National Treasure” movie, Sarah Winchester in “Winchester”, and elderly assassin Victoria Winslow in the “RED” movies.
Mick Jagger is 83. The lips that launched a thousand hits, including “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction“, “Jumpin’ Jack Flash“, “Brown Sugar“, “You Can’t Always Get What You Want“, and “It’s Only Rock and Roll (But I Like It)“.
Joe Jackson (1928 – 2018) Father of Jackie Jackson, Jermaine Jackson, Marlon Jackson, Rebbie Jackson, La Toya Jackson, Randy Jackson, Janet Jackson and the late Tito Jackson and Michael Jackson.
Dobie Gray (1940 – 2011) Biggest hit: 1973’s “Drift Away“. “Give me the beat boys / And free my soul / I wanna get lost in your rock ‘n roll and drift away.”
James Best (1926 – 2015) Rosco P. Coltrane on “The Dukes of Hazzard”.
Vivian Vance (1909 – 1979) Ethel Mertz on “I Love Lucy”.
Stanley Kubrick (1928 – 1999) Director of “The Shining”, “Full Metal Jacket”, “2001: A Space Odyssey”, “A Clockwork Orange”, “Dr. Strangelove”, “Eyes Wide Shut”, and “Spartacus”.
Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963) He wrote “Brave New World” in 1932, which predicted genetic engineering, test tube babies, an over-sexed society hooked on commercial goods and masses of people addicted to pills that keep them from feeling depressed. Sound familiar?
