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Celebrity Birthdays for the Week of May 10–16

Here is a list of notable celebrities who are celebrating their birthdays during the week of May 10 to May 16. These individuals have made significant contributions to the entertainment industry and continue to inspire fans around the world.

May 10

David Clennon (Actor, “thirtysomething”) – 83 years old
Donovan (Singer) – 80 years old
Graham Gouldman (Singer, 10cc) – 80 years old
Chris Berman (Sports anchor) – 71 years old
Bruce Penhall (Actor, “CHiPs”) – 69 years old
Victoria Rowell (Actor, “The Young and the Restless”) – 67 years old
Bono (Singer, U2) – 66 years old
Danny Carey (Drummer, Tool) – 65 years old
Darryl M. Bell (Actor, “A Different World”) – 63 years old
Linda Evangelista (Model) – 61 years old
Young MC (Rapper) – 59 years old
Erik Palladino (Actor, “ER”) – 58 years old
Richard Patrick (Singer, Filter) – 58 years old
Lenny Venito (Actor, “Kevin Can Wait”) – 57 years old
Dallas Roberts (Actor, “Dallas Buyers Club,” “The Good Wife”) – 56 years old
Leslie Stefanson (Actor, “The Hunted,” “The General’s Daughter”) – 55 years old
Todd Lowe (Actor, “True Blood,” “Gilmore Girls”) – 54 years old
Andrea Anders (Actor, “Joey”) – 51 years old
Jesse Vest (Bassist, Tantric and Days of the New) – 49 years old
Kenan Thompson (Actor, “Saturday Night Live,” “Kenan and Kel”) – 48 years old
Jason Dalyrimple (Singer, Soul For Real) – 46 years old
Joey Zehr (Drummer, The Click Five) – 43 years old
Lindsey Shaw (Actor, “Pretty Little Liars”) – 37 years old
Lauren Potter (Actor, “Glee”) – 36 years old

May 11

Eric Burdon (Singer, The Animals, War) – 85 years old
Pam Ferris (Actor, “Call the Midwife”) – 78 years old
Shohreh Aghdashloo (Actor, “24”) – 74 years old
Frances Fisher (Actor, “Resurrection,” “Titanic”) – 74 years old
Boyd Gaines (Actor) – 73 years old
Mark Herndon (Drummer, Alabama) – 71 years old
Martha Quinn (Former MTV VJ) – 67 years old
Tim Raybon (Country singer, The Raybon Brothers) – 63 years old
Tim Blake Nelson (Actor, “Lincoln,” “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”) – 62 years old
Jeffrey Donovan (Actor, “Fargo”) – 58 years old
Keith West (Bassist, Heartland) – 58 years old
Nicky Katt (Actor, “Boston Public”) – 55 years old
Coby Bell (Actor, “Third Watch”) – 51 years old
Perttu Kivilaakso (Cellist, Apocalyptica) – 48 years old
Austin O’Brien (Actor, “Last Action Hero”) – 45 years old
Jonathan Jackson (Actor, “Nashville,” “Tuck Everlasting”) – 44 years old
Ace Hood (Rapper) – 38 years old
Prince Royce (Singer) – 37 years old
Annabelle Attanasio (Actor, “Bull”) – 33 years old
Howard Lawrence (Musician, Disclosure) – 32 years old

May 12

Millie Perkins (Actor, “Knots Landing”) – 90 years old
Jayotis Washington (Singer, The Persuasions) – 85 years old
Billy Swan (Country singer) – 84 years old
Linda Dano (Actor, “Another World”) – 83 years old
Steve Winwood (Singer) – 78 years old
Lindsay Crouse (Actor) – 78 years old
Bruce Boxleitner (Actor) – 76 years old
Billy Squier (Singer) – 76 years old
Gabriel Byrne (Actor) – 76 years old
Guy Davis (Blues musician) – 74 years old
Kix Brooks (Country singer, Brooks and Dunn) – 71 years old
Eric Singer (Drummer, Kiss) – 68 years old
Ving Rhames (Actor) – 67 years old
Billy Duffy (Guitarist, The Cult) – 65 years old
Emilio Estevez (Actor) – 64 years old
April Grace (Actor, “Lost,” “Joan of Arcadia”) – 64 years old
Vanessa Estelle Williams (Actor, “Soul Food,” “Melrose Place”) – 63 years old
Carla Hall (TV personality, “The Chew”) – 62 years old
Eddie Kilgallon (Keyboardist, Ricochet) – 61 years old
Stephen Baldwin (Actor) – 60 years old
Scott Schwartz (Actor, “A Christmas Story”) – 58 years old
Kim Fields (Actor, “Living Single,” “The Facts of Life”) – 57 years old
Samantha Mathis (Actor, “The Strain”) – 56 years old
Jamie Luner (Actor, “Melrose Place,” “Profiler”) – 55 years old
Rhea Seehorn (Actor, “Better Call Saul”) – 54 years old
Mackenzie Astin (Actor, “Scandal,” “The Facts of Life”) – 53 years old
Matt Mangano (Bassist, Zac Brown Band) – 50 years old
Rebecca Herbst (Actor, “General Hospital”) – 49 years old
Malin Akerman (Actor, “Trophy Wife”) – 48 years old
Jason Biggs (Actor, “Orange Is the New Black,” “American Pie”) – 48 years old
Rami Malek (Actor, “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Mr. Robot”) – 45 years old
Clare Bowen (Actor, “Nashville”) – 42 years old
Emily VanCamp (Actor, “Revenge”) – 40 years old
Malcolm David Kelley (Actor, “Lost”) – 34 years old
Sullivan Sweeten (Actor, “Everybody Loves Raymond”) – 31 years old

May 13

Buck Taylor (Actor, “Gunsmoke,” “Gods and Generals”) – 88 years old
Harvey Keitel (Actor) – 87 years old
Zoe Wanamaker (Actor, “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”) – 78 years old
Franklyn Ajaye (Actor, “Car Wash,” “Deadwood”) – 77 years old
Stevie Wonder (Musician) – 76 years old
Leslie Winston (Actor, “The Waltons”) – 70 years old
Stephen Colbert (Comedian, “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert”) – 62 years old
John Richardson (Drummer, The Gin Blossoms) – 62 years old
Tom Verica (Actor, “How To Get Away With Murder,” “American Dreams”) – 62 years old
Darius Rucker (Singer, Hootie and the Blowfish) – 60 years old
Susan Floyd (Actor, “All My Children”) – 58 years old
Andy Williams (Drummer, Casting Crowns) – 54 years old
Brian Geraghty (Actor, “The Alienist,” “Boardwalk Empire”) – 51 years old
Samantha Morton (Actor, “The Whale,” “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them”) – 49 years old
Mickey Madden (Bassist, Maroon 5) – 47 years old
Iwan Rheon (Actor, “Game of Thrones”) – 41 years old
Lena Dunham (Actor-writer, “Girls”) – 40 years old
Robert Pattinson (Actor) – 40 years old
Candice Accola King (Actor, “The Vampire Diaries”) – 39 years old
Hunter Parrish (Actor, “Weeds”) – 39 years old
Wylie Gelber (Bassist, Dawes) – 38 years old
Debby Ryan (Actor, “Jessie”) – 33 years old

May 14

Gene Cornish (Guitarist, The Rascals) – 82 years old
George Lucas (Movie director-producer) – 82 years old
Meg Foster (Actor, “Cagney and Lacey”) – 78 years old
Robert Zemeckis (Director, “Forrest Gump,” “Back to the Future”) – 75 years old
David Byrne (Musician, Talking Heads) – 74 years old
Tim Roth (Actor) – 65 years old
Ian Astbury (Singer, The Cult) – 64 years old
C.C. DeVille (Guitarist, Poison) – 64 years old
Danny Huston (Actor, “John Adams” miniseries) – 64 years old
Mike Inez (Bassist, Alice In Chains) – 60 years old
Fabrice Morvan (Musician, Milli Vanilli) – 60 years old
Raphael Saadiq (Singer, Tony! Toni! Tone!) – 60 years old
Cate Blanchett (Actor) – 57 years old
Danny Wood (Singer, New Kids on the Block) – 57 years old
Sofia Coppola (Director, “Lost In Translation”) – 55 years old
Gabriel Mann (Actor, “Revenge”) – 54 years old
Natalie Appleton (Singer, All Saints) – 53 years old
Shanice (Singer) – 53 years old
Carla Jimenez (Actor, “Growing Up Fisher”) – 52 years old
Henry Garza (Guitarist, Los Lonely Boys) – 48 years old
Ketch Secor (Singer-guitarist, Old Crow Medicine Show) – 48 years old
Dan Auerbach (Singer-guitarist, The Black Keys) – 47 years old
Mike Retondo (Bassist, Plain White T’s) – 45 years old
Amber Tamblyn (Actor, “Two and a Half Men,” “Joan of Arcadia”) – 43 years old
Lina Esco (Actor, “S.W.A.T.”) – 41 years old
Miranda Cosgrove (Actor, “iCarly”) – 33 years old

May 15

Anna Maria Alberghetti (Actor-singer) – 90 years old
Wavy Gravy (Counterculture icon) – 90 years old
Gunilla Hutton (Actor, “Petticoat Junction,” “Hee Haw”) – 84 years old
Lainie Kazan (Actor-singer) – 84 years old
Chazz Palminteri (Actor, “Analyze This,” “Mulholland Falls”) – 80 years old
Brian Eno (Musician) – 78 years old
Nicholas Hammond (Actor, “The Sound of Music”) – 76 years old
Mike Oldfield (Musician) – 73 years old
Lee Horsley (Actor, “Matt Houston”) – 71 years old
Melle Mel (Rapper, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five) – 65 years old
David Charvet (Actor, “Melrose Place”) – 54 years old
Russell Hornsby (Actor, “Grimm”) – 52 years old
David Krumholtz (Actor, “Numb3rs”) – 48 years old
David Hartley (Bassist, The War on Drugs) – 46 years old
Jamie-Lynn Sigler (Actor, “The Sopranos”) – 45 years old
Alexandra Breckenridge (Actor, “The Walking Dead,” “American Horror Story”) – 44 years old
Brad Shultz (Guitarist, Cage The Elephant) – 44 years old
Nick Perri (Guitarist, Shinedown) – 42 years old

May 16

Billy Cobham (Jazz drummer) – 82 years old
Danny Trejo (Actor) – 82 years old
Bill Smitrovich (Actor, “Crime Story,” “Life Goes On”) – 79 years old
Pierce Brosnan (Actor) – 73 years old
Debra Winger (Actor) – 71 years old
Mare Winningham (Actor) – 67 years old
Boyd Tinsley (Violinist, The Dave Matthews Band) – 62 years old
Krist Novoselic (Bassist, Nirvana) – 61 years old
Janet Jackson (Singer) – 60 years old
Scott Reeves (Actor-singer, “Nashville,” “General Hospital”) – 60 years old
Brian F. O’Byrne (Actor, “Million Dollar Baby”) – 59 years old
Ralph Tresvant (Singer) – 58 years old
David Boreanaz (Actor, “Bones,” “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”) – 57 years old
Tucker Carlson (Political commentator) – 57 years old
Tracey Gold (Actor, “Growing Pains”) – 57 years old
Bill Rancic (TV personality, “America Now,” “The Apprentice”) – 55 years old
Rick Trevino (Country singer) – 55 years old
Khary Payton (Actor, “The Walking Dead”) – 54 years old
Special Ed (Rapper) – 54 years old
Tori Spelling (Actor) – 53 years old
Sean Carrigan (Actor, “The Young and the Restless”) – 52 years old
B. Slade (Rapper, A.K.A. Tonex) – 51 years old
Lynn Collins (Actor, “John Carter”) – 49 years old
Melanie Lynskey (Actor, “Two and a Half Men”) – 49 years old
Joseph Morgan (Actor, “The Originals,” “Vampire Diaries”) – 45 years old
Alex Pall (DJ, The Chainsmokers) – 41 years old
Megan Fox (Actor, “Transformers”) – 40 years old
Drew Roy (Actor, “Falling Skies,” “Hannah Montana”) – 40 years old
Jermaine Fowler (Actor, “Superior Donuts”) – 40 years old
Thomas Brodie-Sangster (Actor, “Game of Thrones”) – 36 years old
Marc John Jefferies (Actor, “The Tracy Morgan Show”) – 36 years old
Miles Heizer (Actor, “13 Reasons Why,” “Parenthood”) – 32 years old

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