Celebrity Birthdays for Jan 2:
Country singer Dick Feller (a.k.a. Deena Kaye Rose) is 82.
Chick Churchill, organist with Ten Years After, is 79.
TV host Jack Hanna ("Jack Hanna's Into the Wild") is 78.
Actress Wendy Phillips is 73.
Actress Cynthia Sikes Yorkin ("St. Elsewhere") is 71.
Actress Gabrielle Carteris ("Beverly Hills, 90210") is 64.
Movie director Todd Haynes is 64.
Actress Tia Carrere is 58.
Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. is 57.
Model Christy Turlington is 56.
Film director Patrick Huard ("Bon Cop Bad Cop") is 56.
Actress Renee Elise Goldsberry (Broadway's "Hamilton") is 54.
Actor Taye Diggs ("The Best Man," ''How Stella Got Her Groove Back") is 54.
Singer Doug Robb of Hoobastank is 50.
Actor Dax Shepard ("Parenthood") is 50.
Actress Paz Vega is 49.
Ballroom dancer Karina Smirnoff (TV: "Dancing with the Stars") is 47.
Singer Kelton Kessee of Immature and of IMX is 44.
Actress Kate Bosworth is 42.
Actor Peter Gadiot is 39.
Jazz singer-musician Trombone Shorty (born Troy Andrews) is 39.
Singer Bryson Tiller is 32.
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Also born on this date (death in parentheses):
In 1727, British General James Wolfe. (Sept. 13, 1759)
In 1920, author Isaac Asimov. (April 6, 1992)
In 1925, Larry Harmon (Bozo the Clown). (July 3, 2008)
In 1926, country musician Harold Bradley. (Jan. 31, 2019)
In 1929, Grammy-nominated rhythm-and-blues singer Arthur Prysock. (June 21, 1997)
In 1936, Grammy-winning singer and songwriter Roger Miller. (Oct. 25, 1992)
In 1969, boxer Tommy Morrison. (Sept. 1, 2013)
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