10 Celebrity Birthdays in July

Tim Gunn, Kate Bush and Geraldo Rivera among those celebrating milestones this month

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Nicholas DeRenzo,

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Published June 29, 2023

July 4: Geraldo Rivera, 80

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A tabloid TV fixture of the 1980s and ’90s, the Brooklyn-born journalist is perhaps best remembered for stunt specials such as The Mystery of Al Capone’s Vaults (they were empty) and Devil Worship: Exposing Satan’s Underground. He joined Fox News as a war correspondent in 2001, a gig that had him reporting from the front lines of Afghanistan, and then moved on to dodging cross fire of a different kind as one of the rotating cohosts of the panel show The Five. Rivera just left the network in June.

July 7: Vonda Shepard, 60

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Best remembered for costarring on and recording the theme song for the hit dramedy Ally McBeal, the New York City–born singer-songwriter has the distinction of selling more TV soundtrack albums than any other artist in Billboard chart history. Last year, she released Red Light, Green Light, her first full-length studio album in seven years, and you can catch her live this month across California.

July 8: Billy Crudup, 55

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The longtime Broadway favorite picked up a Tony Award for the two-part Tom Stoppard epic The Coast of Utopia, and he’s been stealing scenes in films such as Almost Famous and Big Fish for decades. Crudup has brought his talents to prestige television, winning an Emmy for his role as network CEO Cory Ellison on The Morning Show and starring this year on Hello Tomorrow!, a retro-futuristic series about a salesman hawking timeshares on the moon.

July 10: Fiona Shaw, 65

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Ranked the 29th greatest Irish actor of all time by The Irish Times, the County Cork-born theater legend is perhaps best known to American audiences as Aunt Petunia in the Harry Potter film series. A three-time Emmy nominee for her work on Killing Eve and Fleabag, Shaw joined another beloved fantasy franchise when she starred as Maarva Andor in the Disney+ Star Wars limited series Andor.

July 11: Lisa Rinna, 60

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Known for her prominent lips and her sassy catchphrase (“Own it, baby!”), the actress honed her skills as a drama queen on soap operas of both the daytime (Days of Our Lives) and prime-time varieties (Melrose Place) before becoming a controversial member of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills franchise. The “Bravolebrity” announced her exit from the series in January after eight seasons, and she’s called life post-Housewives “absolute heaven.”

July 16: Jimmy Johnson, 80

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The first head football coach to win a national championship at both the college and professional levels, Jimmy Johnson has enjoyed a robust second career as an analyst on Fox NFL Sunday. For his efforts, he’s been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the College Football Hall of Fame and the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Broadcasting Hall of Fame. In 2022, he shared stories about all of it in Swagger: Super Bowls, Brass Balls, and Footballs — A Memoir.

July 20: Omar Epps, 50

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After making a name for himself in the beloved films Love & Basketball and The Wood, the fan favorite made the rounds as a TV doctor on ER, then House, for which he earned three NAACP Image Awards for best supporting actor. You can catch him on the Starz series Power Book III: Raising Kanan, a 1990s-set prequel to Power on which he plays an NYPD detective and the biological father of the drama’s main character.

July 21: Yusuf/Cat Stevens, 75

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Formerly known by his stage name Cat Stevens, the British singer-songwriter set hearts aflutter in the 1970s with his sensitive, emotionally resonant acoustic tunes including “Morning Has Broken” and “Peace Train.” In 1977, he converted to Islam and changed his name, though he performs as the hybrid Yusuf/Cat Stevens. Last month he released the album King of a Land, which he described as “a very clearly defined description of where I’ve been and who I am.”

July 29: Tim Gunn, 70

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The former chair of the Parsons School of Design fashion department earned a reputation as a nice-guy mentor during his 16 seasons on Project Runway, and his popularity paid off with an Emmy win for outstanding reality show host, which he shared with Heidi Klum. The dynamic duo left the series in 2017 and in 2020 brought their sartorial talents to a new competition series called Making the Cut, on which winning looks were sold on Amazon after each episode.

July 30: Kate Bush, 65

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The British songstress brought an ethereal witchiness to the ’80s pop charts with experimental tunes such as “Wuthering Heights,” “Babooshka” and “Hounds of Love.” A new generation of fans discovered her music when her 1985 single “Running Up That Hill” featured prominently on Netflix’s Stranger Things — then stormed up the charts in 34 countries. That renewed popularity almost certainly had something to do with her finally being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on her fourth nomination, a development that left her “completely shocked.”

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Nicholas DeRenzo is a contributing writer who covers entertainment and travel. Previously he was executive editor of United Airlines’ Hemispheres magazine and his work has appeared in the New York Times, Conde Nast Traveler, Travel & Leisure, Sunset and New York magazine.