Celeb Birthdays: August 8

I happened to check out the August 8 entry in the excellent collection A Year With Rumi: Daily Readings From His Poems and was struck by how perfectly it embodies Leo, the sign that rules the heart and both physical childbirth as well as the "birthing" of the creative process.

Lion of the Heart
You that come to birth and bring the mysteries,
your voice-thunder makes us very happy.

Roar, lion of the heart,
and tear me open.
—Rumi

I apologize for the literary interlude. Now, back to the celebrity birthdays.

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Born under a retrograde Saturn-Uranus conjunction, Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice, elder daughter of Prince Andrew and Fergie and 5th in line for the British throne, turns 18 today. See Princess Beatrice's birth chart (Astrotheme)

Actress Meagan Good is 25. See Meagan Good's birth chart (Astrotheme, no birth time)

Paris Latsis, hapless ex of She Who Shall Not Be Named, For Publicity Feeds Her Horrible Power, is 27. See Paris Latsis's birth chart (Astrotheme, no birth time)

The Parkers actress Countess Vaughn is 28. See Countess Vaughn's birth chart (Astrotheme, no birth time)

Actress Lindsay Sloane is 29.

Former boy banders Drew Lachey of 98° and J.C. Chasez of 'N Sync both turn 30 today. See Drew Lachey's birth chart (Astrotheme, no birth time) ~ See J.C. Chasez's birth chart (Astrotheme, no birth time)

Utter douchebag Scott Stapp is 33. Hey, maybe he and Mel Gibson can go to XAA (Christian Alcoholics Anonymous) together. See Scott Stapp's birth chart (Astrotheme, no birth time)

Hip-hop pioneer Kool Moe Dee is 44.

U2 guitarist The Edge and Poison drummer Rikki Rockett are both 45. See The Edge's birth chart (Astrotheme, no birth time)

Fembot Deborah Norville is 48. See Deborah Norville's birth chart (Astrotheme, no birth time)

Howard Stern cohost Robin Quivers is 54. See Robin Quivers' birth chart (Astrotheme)

Actor Keith Carradine is 57. See Keith Carradine's birth chart (Astrotheme)

Actress-ish Connie Stevens, who may or may not be a fembot, is 68. See Connie Stevens' birth chart (Astrotheme, no birth time)

Actor Dustin Hoffman is 69. Who knew he was that old? See Dustin Hoffman's birth chart (Astrotheme)

Mel Tillis, who is evidently a country artist of some sort and still alive, is 73.

Swimming musical queen Esther Williams, also evidently still alive, is 84. See Esther Williams' birth chart (Astrotheme)

Producer Dino De Laurentiis is 87 and evidently still racking up producer credits. See Dino De Laurentiis'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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