Famous Birthdays Today- Heather Graham Is 51

January 29th

Actors:

  • Edward Burns is 53 (“Saving Private Ryan,” “One Missed Call,” “The Brothers McMullen,” “She's the One,” “Public Morals”) (FAST FACT: He’s been married to supermodel Christy Turlington since 2003)
  • Heather Graham is 51 (“Austin Powers,” “Boogie Nights,” “Anger Management,” “The Hangover”)
  • Justin Hartley is 44 (“Smallville,” “Revenge,” “This Is Us”)
  • Ann Jillian is 71 (“It’s a Living,” “Jennifer Slept Here”)
  • Isabel Lucas is 36 (“Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,” “Immortals,” “Red Dawn”)
  • Katharine Ross is 81 (“The Graduate,” “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” “The Stepford Wives,” “Donnie Darko”)
  • Tom Selleck is 76 (“Magnum P.I.,” “Friends,” “Blue Bloods”)
  • Marc Singer is 73 (“Beastmaster,” “V,” “Dallas,” “Arrow”)
  • Sam Trammel is 52 (“Going To California,” “True Blood,” “Cocked”)
  • Nicholas Turturro is 59 (“Do The Right Thing,” “NYPD Blue,” “Burn Notice,” “Blue Bloods”)
  • The late W.C. Fields(1880-1946)(“The Bank Dick” “My Little Chickadee”) (FAST FACT: He liked to shoot BB pellets at people who loitered outside his home.)
  • The late John Forsythe(1918-2010)(“Bachelor Father,” “Charlie’s Angels,” “Dynasty”)
  • The late Victor Mature(1913-1999)(“My Darling Clementine,” “Kiss of Death,” “Samson and Delilah,” “The Robe”) (FAST FACT: Mature was married five times)

Musicians:

  • Hyde is 52 (given name Hideto Takarai)
  • Queensryche’s Eddie Jackson is 60
  • Adam Lambert is 39
  • Jonny Lang is 40
  • Los Lobos’ Louie Perez is 68
  • Riff Raff is 39 (Given name Horst Christian Simco)
  • Living In A Box’s Marcus Vere is 59
  • Charlie Wilson is 68

Plus:

  • LA Lakers center Marc Gasol is 35
  • Actress-turned TV personality/producer Sarah Gilbert is 45 (“The Talk”) (FAST FACT: Married to Linda Perry since 2014, the couple announced their separation in December 2019)
  • Olympic diving champ Greg Louganis is 61 (He won gold medals at the 1984 and 1988 Games on both the springboard and platform. He is the only male and the second diver in Olympic history to sweep the diving events in consecutive Olympic Games)
  • Web Video Star David Spencer is 29 (Known as iBallisticSquid or Squid on YouTube, he makes popular Minecraft tutorials)
  • Oprah Winfrey is 67 (FAST FACTS: She had the highest rated syndicated program on TV from 1986 to 2011 – and she’s been with her partner Stedman Graham since 1986)
  • The late Russian playwright Anton Checkhov(1860-1904)(he wrote “Uncle Vanya,” “The Seagull,” “Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard)
  • The late President William McKinley(1843-1901)(McKinley was shot twice by anarchist Leon Czolosz at an Exposition in Buffalo, as the President reached to shake his hand. One bullet merely grazed the President, and McKinley felt in his clothing and removed it, saying “I believe that is a bullet.” The second, tragically, embedded itself in his stomach and surgeons were unable to find it. On the operating table, McKinley said: “He didn’t know, poor fellow, what he was doing. He couldn’t have known.” The President died of gangrene a week later.)
  • The late civil rights leader Harriet Tubman(1822-1913)(She escaped from slavery in the South to become a leading abolitionist before the American Civil War. Born in Maryland in 1820, she successfully escaped in 1849. Yet she returned many times to rescue both family members and non-relatives from the plantation system. She led hundreds to freedom in the North as the most famous "conductor" on the Underground Railroad, an elaborate secret network of safe houses organized for that purpose)

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