Today's Famous Birthdays

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Sir Ian Murray McKellen CH CBE
(born 25 May 1939)

is an English actor. With a career spanning over six decades, he is noted for his roles on the
screen and stage in genres ranging from Shakespearean dramas and modern theatre to popular
fantasy and science fiction. He is regarded as a British cultural icon and was knighted by
Queen Elizabeth II in 1991. He has received numerous accolades, including a Tony Award,
six Olivier Awards, and a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for two Academy Awards,
five BAFTA Awards and five Emmy Awards. McKellen was born on 25 May 1939 in
Burnley, Lancashire, the son of Margery Lois (née Sutcliffe) and Denis Murray McKellen.
He was their second child, with a sister, Jean, five years his senior. Shortly before the outbreak
of the Second World War in September 1939, his family moved to Wigan.








Karen Valentine
(born 25 May 1947)

Karen Valentine is an American actress. She is best known for her role as young idealistic
schoolteacher Alice Johnson in the ABC comedy drama series Room 222 from 1969 to 1974,
for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a
Comedy Series in 1970, and received a Golden Globe Award nomination in 1971. She later
went to star in her own short-lived sitcom Karen (1975), and played leading roles in the Disney
films Hot Lead and Cold Feet (1978) and The North Avenue Irregulars (1979). Valentine was
born in Sebastopol, California, in 1947. She is of Portuguese heritage, and her grandfather
changed the family name from Valentin before her birth.








Michael John Myers OC
(born May 25, 1963)

is a Canadian actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer, and director. His accolades include seven
MTV Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. In 2002, he was awarded
a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2017, he was named an Officer of the Order of Canada
for "his extensive and acclaimed body of comedic work as an actor, writer, and producer."
Michael John Myers was born in the Scarborough district of Toronto on May 25, 1963, to data
processor Alice "Bunny" E. (née Hind) and insurance agent Eric Myers. His parents were English
immigrants from the Old Swan area of Liverpool.










Anne Celeste Heche
(May 25, 1969 – August 11, 2022)

was an American actress, known for her roles in a variety of genres in film, television, and theater.
She received numerous accolades, including a Daytime Emmy Award and a National Board of Review Award.
Anne Celeste Heche was born on May 25, 1969, in Aurora, Ohio, the youngest of five children of
Donald "Don" Joe Heche and Nancy Heche (née Prickett). During her early childhood, the Heche family
lived in various towns around Ohio, including suburbs of Cleveland and Akron.








Claude Aubrey Akins
(May 25, 1926 – January 27, 1994)

was an American character actor with a long career on stage, screen, and television. He was best
known as Sheriff Lobo on the 1979–1981 television series B. J. and the Bear, and later
The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo, a spin-off series. Akins was born in Nelson, Georgia, and
grew up in Bedford, Indiana, the son of Maude and Ernest Akins. Film reference works said
he was born in 1918, making his age at death 75; however, Akins' son said his father was 67
at the time of his death, and he is listed as Aubrey Akins in the 1940 Census, age 13.








Thomas Hall
(May 25, 1936 – August 20, 2021),

known professionally as Tom T. Hall and informally nicknamed "the Storyteller," was an
American country music singer-songwriter and short-story author. He wrote 12 No. 1 hit songs,
with 26 more that reached the Top 10, including the No. 1 international pop crossover hit
"Harper Valley PTA" and "I Love", which reached No. 12 on the Hall was born in Tick Ridge,
seven miles from Olive Hill, Kentucky, on May 25, 1936.Billboard Hot 100. He is included in
Rolling Stone's list of 100 Greatest Songwriters.