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Happy Fourth of July! Join us as we take a look at all the celebrities who were born on Independence Day…
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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"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.
![Malia Obama](https://www.wonderwall.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/06/1029342-malia-obama-out-and-about-new-york-usa-04-jun-2018.jpg?h=800)
![Geraldo Rivera](https://www.wonderwall.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/03/104-179996_Actual.jpg?h=800)
![Calvin Coolidge](https://www.wonderwall.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/calvin-coolidge.jpeg?w=700)
![Mike Sorrentino, The Situation](https://www.wonderwall.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/1038368-mtv-video-music-awards-arrivals-new-york-usa-20-aug-2018.jpg?h=800)
![Post Malone, 2021](https://www.wonderwall.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/09/shutterstock_editorial_12241104ao.jpg?h=800)
![Gina Lollobrigida](https://www.wonderwall.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/gina-lollobrigida.jpeg?h=800)
![Bill Withers](https://www.wonderwall.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/shutterstock_editorial_8824131a.jpg?h=800)
![Eva Marie Saint](https://www.wonderwall.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/shutterstock_editorial_12172490a.jpg?w=700)
![Neil Simon](https://www.wonderwall.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/08/1034790-les-miserables-film-premiere-new-york-america-10-dec-201.jpg?h=800)
![Tracy Letts](https://www.wonderwall.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/shutterstock_editorial_12937833jb.jpg?h=800)
![Becki Newton](https://www.wonderwall.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/shutterstock_editorial_12933650l.jpg?h=800)
![Queen Sonja of Norway](https://www.wonderwall.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/shutterstock_editorial_12596938t.jpg?h=800)
![Elie Saab](https://www.wonderwall.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/gettyimages-1380578832.jpg?h=800)
![John Waite](https://www.wonderwall.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/john-waite.jpeg?h=800)
![Chef Andrew Zimmern](https://www.wonderwall.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/shutterstock_editorial_11955127b.jpg?h=800)
![Kate Dickie](https://www.wonderwall.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/shutterstock_editorial_10436155m.jpg?h=800)
![Malia Obama](https://www.wonderwall.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/gettyimages-2147795665.jpg?h=800)