By Neia Balao
10:00am PDT, Jul 4, 2023
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"Jersey Shore" star Mike Sorrentino — better known as The Situation — was born on July 4, 1982, on New York's Staten Island.
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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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Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida — a famed sex symbol of 1950s and 1960s cinema — was born on July 4, 1927. She died in 2023.
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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.
