Today’s Birthdays

Neymar – 28 years old

Superstar forward who starred for Santos from 2009 to 2013 and FC Barcelona from 2013 to 2017 before joining Paris Saint-Germain. He debuted with the Brazilian national team in 2010 and won the South American Footballer of the Year Award in 2011 and 2012. 

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Kevin Gates – 34 years old

Louisiana-based rapper who broke onto the rap scene with the 2013 mixtape The Luca Brasi Story. He signed to Atlantic Records in the winter of 2013.

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Cristiano Ronaldo (dos Santos Aveiro) – 35 years old

The Portuguese soccer player has been named European Footballer of the Year five times since 2008.Born 1985

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Michael Sheen – 51 years old

The Welsh stage and screen actor has made a career of playing real people. He was Mozart on Broadway, British Prime Minister Tony Blair (in The Queen, The Special Relationship and The Deal), interviewer David Frost (in Frost/Nixon) and sex researcher William Masters (on Showtime’s Masters of Sex). Born 1969

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Bobby Brown – 51 years old

Starting out as a member of New Edition, the Boston native became a successful solo star with a run of legal problems. His marriage to Whitney Houston, for a time the subject of a reality show, unraveled in 2006. Whitney died in 2012 and their daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, died in 2015.Born 1969