august 23 famous birthdays
This will bedrock you: Queen guitarist Brian May — who shreds it in the 1975 hit “Bohemian Rhapsody” — accustomed his PhD in astrochemistry on this day in 2007.
He’d auspiciously dedicated his 48,000-word apriorism — blue-blooded “Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud” — at Imperial College London, area May advised afore abrogation in 1971 to become a bedrock star.
“It’s been the longest gap year ever,” May told the BBC at the time.
Cheers! It’s extra Shelley Long’s 67th birthday.
Soap brilliant Kim Matula (don’t you ambition you were one of the Bold and the Beautiful?) is 28.
Bring on the Linsanity for NBA amateur Jeremy Lin’s 28th birthday.
Sky Blu of LMFAO — which the bandage says stands for “Loving My Friends And Others” — uh huh — is 30.
Actress Joanne Froggatt — the admirable but oft-star-crossed ladies maid Anna Bates in “Downton Abbey” — is 36.
Actress Clare Grant is 37. She does articulation assignment with her husband, amateur and biographer Seth Green, on his Adult Swim appearance “Robot Chicken.”
Singer Julian Casablancas of the Strokes is 38.
Los Angeles Lakers brilliant Kobe Bryant is 38.
Actor Scott Caan —— ““Hawaii Five-0,”” ““Ocean’s 11” —” is 40. And, of course, he’s actor James Caan’’s son.
Actor Ray Park —— Toad of “”X-Men”” — is 42.
“Saturday Night Live” amateur Jay Mohr is 46.
Guitarist Dean DeLeo of ’90s rockers Stone Temple Pilots — who spent hours to get that blowzy beard look, whaddya bet? — is 55.
Actor-record ambassador Mark Hudson is 65. He was one-third of the 1970s accumulation the Hudson Brothers with his, er, brothers.
Singer and Aussie built-in Rick Springfield — credits accommodate the song “Jesse’s Girl,” and the 2015 Meryl Streep cine “Ricki and the Flash” — is 67.
Country fiddler-singer Woody Paul of Riders in the Sky is 67.
Singer Linda Thompson is 67 and befitting Botox in business.
The “genie” who aggressive abounding an boyish babyish boomer fantasy — extra Barbara Eden is 85. She played the appellation role in 1960s TV’s “I Dream of Jeannie.”
Actor River Phoenix — eldest brother to Rain, Joaquin, Liberty, and Summer — was built-in on this date in 1970. The “Stand by Me” actor died of drug-induced affection abortion at age 23 in advanced of L.A.’s Viper Room, putting the bistro on the day-tripper map. He’s apparent apparent in 1986.
