Celeb Birthdays: August 22

Please note that we are approaching a cusp! If no birth time is given and the Sun is posited at or after 29°30" Leo, it is just possible that the individual is actually a Virgo.

Simple Plan guitarist Jeff Stinco is 28 today. See Jeff Stinco's birth chart (Astrotheme, no birth time)

I always believed the sensitive Backstreet Boy, Howard "Howie" Dorough, to be a Virgo (um, not that I've thought about it), but without a birthtime, he and homophobic reggae artist Beenie Man, both 33 today, are right on the Leo-Virgo cusp. See Howie Dorough's birth chart (Astrotheme, no birth time)

Birdlike bobblehead Giada De Laurentiis, who always enunciates her words in a really irritating way that causes her giant freak head to zoom in alarmingly toward the camera, and who always makes some crap like packaged tortellini in a can of broth and acts like it's a big freaking deal, turns 36 today. Um, not that I have a love-hate obsession with the Food Network. See Giada De Laurentiis's birth chart (Astrotheme, no birth time)

Man, it's sad, though depressingly not suprising, that Alice in Chains' Layne Staley did not live to turn 39 today. I mean, you didn't have to be an astrologer to see that one coming, what with the raging heroin abuse and everything, but I wouldn't be surprised if the default noon birthtime was correct, giving him Moon conjunct Chiron in Pisces inconjunct the Sun. And that Mars-Neptune conjunction in Scorpio can't have helped. See Layne Staley's birth chart (Astrotheme, no birth time)

The Wu-Tang Clan's GZA hits 40 today.

I can't say I'm one of those people who rabidly adores Scorpio-rising singer-songwriter Tori Amos (please don't hate me), but I respect that she does her thing and wish her a happy 43rd. See Tori Amos's birth chart (Astrotheme)

Roland Orzabal of Tears for Fears, a band that I would like to go on record as saying holds up extremely well, turns 45 today. See Roland Orzabal's birth chart (Astrotheme, no birth time)

Vernon Reid of Living Colour, a band (and hairstyle) that perhaps does not hold up as well, turns 48 today.

Okay, indicted Cheney lackey Lewis "Scooter" Libby, 56 today, is not exactly a celeb, but notice that Uranus was on his Jupiter, signifying a reversal of fortune, in October 2005, when he was indicted and resigned. See Lewis "Scooter" Libby's birth chart (Astrotheme, no birth time)

Cindy Williams, the latter of Laverne and Shirley, is 59. See Cindy Williams' birth chart (Astrotheme)

Sopranos creator David Chase is 61.

Red Sox great Carl Yastrzemski is 67.

"Brokeback Mountain" writer Annie Proulx is 71. Notice how I styled that in quotes, because it was originally a short story, and not a book. Maybe if she hadn't playa-hated about my boyfriend Matt Dillon's Crash winning Best Picture, I would have conceded her the italics.

Sci-fi author Ray Bradbury is 86. See Ray Bradbury's birth chart (Astrotheme)

Birth dates from IMDB.com. Please email me any corrections, additions or—especially appreciated!—exact birth times.

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