Today’s famous birthdays list for June 17, 2022 includes celebrities Will Forte, Barry Manilow

Will Forte and Barry Manilow celebrate birthdays on June 17th. (AP)
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Birthday wishes go out to Will Forte, Barry Manilow and all the other celebrities with birthdays today. Check out our slideshow below to see photos of famous people turning a year older on June 17th and learn an interesting fact about each of them.

Top celebrity birthdays on June 17, 2022

Barry Manilow performs at We Love NYC: The Homecoming Concert at The Great Lawn in Central Park on Saturday, Aug. 21, 2021, in New York. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP)

Singer Barry Manilow turns 79

Fun fact: His two Emmy wins came almost three decades apart (1977 and 2006)

Sarah Jessica Parker, left, and Thomas Haden Church participate in the "Divorce" panel during the HBO Television Critics Association summer press tour on Saturday, July 30, 2016, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Actor Thomas Haden Church turns 61

Fun fact: Reprised his role of Sandman in ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’

FILE - Greg Kinnear appears at the season six premiere of the Netflix political drama series "House of Cards," on Oct. 22, 2018, in Los Angeles. The two-time Emmy Award-winner and Oscar nominee is slated to take over the role of Atticus Finch from Jeff Daniels beginning Jan. 5, 2022. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

Actor Greg Kinnear turns 59

Fun fact: Originally from Logansport, Indiana which is about a 90-minute drive north of Indianapolis

Will Forte arrives at a screening of "MacGruber" on Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021, at the California Science Center in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Actor Will Forte turns 52

Fun fact: One of his early writing jobs was for ‘The Jenny McCarthy Show’

Venus Williams arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday, March 27, 2022, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Tennis pro Venus Williams turns 42

Fun fact: Competed in 5 Olympics winning 4 gold and 1 silver medal

British actor Jodie Whittaker, left, and BBC America executive director Courtney Thomasma pose together at a special screening of BBC America's "Doctor Who" at the Paley Center for Media on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Actress Jodie Whittaker turns 40

Fun fact: Was recently announced that she’ll be replaced on ‘Doctor Who’ by actor Ncuti Gatwa

More celebrities with birthdays today

Actor Peter Lupus (TV’s “Mission: Impossible”) is 90. Actor Mark Linn-Baker (“Perfect Strangers”) is 68. Actor Jon Gries (“Napoleon Dynamite”) is 65. Singer Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys) is 64. Director Bobby Farrelly (“There’s Something About Mary”) is 64. Actor Kami Cotler (“The Waltons”) is 57. Actor Jason Patric is 56. Singer Kevin Thornton of Color Me Badd is 53. Actor Arthur Darvill (“DC’s Legends of Tomorrow”) is 40. Actor Manish Dayal (“The Resident”) is 39. Country singer Mickey Guyton is 39. Actor-rapper Herculeez of Herculeez and Big Tyme is 39. Rapper Kendrick Lamar is 35. Actor KJ Apa (“Riverdale”) is 25.

Other popular or historical birthdays on June 17th

Igor Stravinsky, composer

MC Escher, artist

Newt Gingrich, former House Speaker (79)

Art Bell, radio host

Joe Piscopo, comedian (71)

with The Associated Press

Prior celebrity fun facts (Associated Press)

Celebrity fun facts

Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson | Emilia Clarke | Sophie Turner

Robert Downey Jr. | Chris Hemsworth | Seth MacFarlane

Gal Gadot | Jason Momoa | Natalie Portman | Kat Dennings

Jenna Fischer | Miley Cyrus | Emma Stone | Reese Witherspoon

Emma Watson | Sarah Michelle Gellar | Tiffani Amber Thiessen

Scarlett Johansson | Kate Mara | Jennifer Aniston | Alan Alda

Jennifer Lawrence & Mila Kunis | David Hasselhoff

Lindsay Lohan | George Clooney | Amanda Seyfried

Betty White | Dave Matthews | Danica McKellar | Taylor Swift

Britney Spears | Bill Nye | Alyson Hannigan | Alec Baldwin

Rachel McAdams | Demi Moore | Julia Roberts | Mark Hamill

Danielle Fishel and the ‘Boy Meets World’ cast

A look at prior movie and tv-related fun fact lists (Associated Press)

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