Celeb Birthdays: April 12

Okay, okay, so my life has been Lindsay Lohan-level crayzay lately, but I haven't forgotten about you, gentle readers -- and I certainly could not forget this banner day featuring a major Buffy birthday AND a major 90210 birthday! Jeeze, what do you take me for??

Actress Claire Danes is 28. See Claire Danes's birth chart (Astrotheme, no birth time)

Coldplay bassist Guy Berryman, a.k.a. "One of the Other Guys from Coldplay," is 29. See Guy Berryman's birth chart (Astrotheme, no birth time)

Actor Riley Smith (Summerland) is 29. See Riley Smith's birth chart (Astrotheme, no birth time)

Actress Sarah Jane Morris (Brothers & Sisters) is 30.

Actress Jordana Spiro (My Boys) is 30.

Actress Marley Shelton (Grindhouse) is 33. See Marley Shelton's birth chart (Astrotheme, no birth time)

Ohhh, yes, here we go. Perhaps my favorite television character of all time, Brenda Walsh, whose haircut I emulated throughout the '90s, not to mention Prue from Charmed, not to mention the star of such masterworks as Mallrats and TV's Satan's School for Girls, a.k.a. anger-management-challenged Aries actress Shannen Doherty, is 36. Mad love!!! See Shannen Doherty's birth chart (Astrotheme)

The birthday cup runneth over!!! The girliest character on Buffy, a.k.a. Xander, a.k.a. actor Nicholas Brendon, is 36. See Nicholas Brendon's birth chart (Astrotheme, no birth time)

Musician Nick Hexum of 311 is 37.

Musician Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls is 43.

Everclear frontman Art Alexakis is 45.

Country musician Vince Gill is 50.

Actor Andy Garcia (Ocean's Twelve) is 51. See Andy Garcia's birth chart (Astrotheme, no birth time)

Writer Tama Janowitz is also 51. Perhaps I can analyze her horoscope in book group next week in lieu of actually reading Slaves of New York, as I have yet to even obtain a copy. See Tama Janowitz's birth chart (Astrotheme)

Mountaineer-author Jon Krakauer (Into the Wild) is 53. Why the hell people choose to climb mountains is beyond me.

Former teen idol David Cassidy is 57. See David Cassidy's birth chart (Astrotheme)

It's a banner day for cheeseball writers (myself excepted), as Scott Turow (Presumed Innocent) turns 58 and Tom Clancy (Patriot Games) hits 60. See Tom Clancy's birth chart (Astrotheme, no birth time)

Talk show host David Letterman is 60. See David Letterman's birth chart (Astrotheme)

Actor Ed O'Neill (Married … With Children) is 61. See Ed O'Neill's birth chart (Astrotheme)

Steppenwolf frontman John Kay is 63.

Musician Herbie Hancock is 67. See Herbie Hancock's birth chart (Astrotheme)

Children's author Beverly Cleary is 91.

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

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