By Neia Balao
2:02pm PDT, Jul 4, 2022
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Happy Fourth of July! Join Wonderwall.com as we take a look at all the celebrities who were born on Independence Day, starting with this music star… Post Malone was born on July 4, 1995, in Syracuse, New York. The "Twelve Carat Toothache" rapper welcomed his first child in 2022.
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Harvard grad Malia Obama, the elder of Barack Obama and Michelle Obama's two daughters — who's been working as a writer in Hollywood — was born in Chicago on July 4, 1998.
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Journalist, lawyer and former TV host Geraldo Rivera was born on Independence Day in 1943 in New York City.
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The 30th president of the United States, Calvin Coolidge, was born on Independence Day in 1872. The former POTUS — who died in 1933 — is the only American president born on the Fourth of July.
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Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida — a famed sex symbol of 1950s and 1960s cinema — was born on July 4, 1927.
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Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Bill Withers, whose career-defining hits include "Ain't No Sunshine," "Lean on Me" and "Just the Two of Us," was born on July 4, 1938, in Slab Fork, West Virginia. He died in 2020.
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An icon! Oscar- and Emmy-winning actress Eva Marie Saint, one of the last living actresses from Hollywood's Golden Age of cinema, was born on July 4, 1924.
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Playwright, screenwriter and author Neil Simon — who's earned more combined Academy Award and Tony Award nominations than any other writer — was born on July 4, 1927, in the Bronx. He died in 2018.
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Playwright and screenwriter Tracy Letts, who made his Broadway debut as a playwright with "August: Osage County" — for which he earned a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award — was born on July 4, 1965. He's from Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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"The Lincoln Lawyer" actress Becki Newton — who's appeared on "Ugly Betty" and "How I Met Your Mother" — was born on Independence Day in 1978 in New Haven, Connecticut.
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Queen Sonja of Norway was born on July 4, 1937, in Oslo.
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Designer Elie Saab is responsible for dressing some of the world's biggest celebrities. The Lebanese fashion designer, who hails from Beirut, was born on July 4, 1964.
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English musician John Waite, who's perhaps best known for his hist 1984 single "Missing You" and as the former frontman of Bad English, was born on July 4, 1952.
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Celebrity chef Andrew Zimmern, who hosted the Food Network series "The Big Food Truck Tip," is a New York City native. He was born on July 4, 1961.
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When and where was "Game of Thrones" and "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" actress Kate Dickie born? On July 4, 1971, in East Kilbride, Scotland.
