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July 14, 2026

Birthdays Today: July 14

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Sixty-four living people we could verify share today's birthday, from Imagine Dragons' frontman and Sweden's flag-day Crown Princess to a 98-year-old Sunset Boulevard star and five people, including two headliners, born on the exact same July day in 1960.

The headliners

Dan Reynolds) turns 39 today, and if you have been inside a gym, a stadium, or a movie trailer in the last dozen years, you have heard his voice. He is the frontman of Imagine Dragons, the Las Vegas band behind "Radioactive," "Believer," and "Thunder," songs so inescapable that "Radioactive" spent 87 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 and held the all-time record for the longest run on that chart for more than seven years. The part that does not fit the rock-star picture: Reynolds is the seventh of nine children, an Eagle Scout, and a fourth-generation Nevadan who spent two years as a missionary in Nebraska before he ever fronted a band. He started Imagine Dragons at Brigham Young University and won a campus Battle of the Bands. He has since stepped away from the church he grew up in, but the missionary kid is still the one singing for millions.

Conor McGregor turns 38 today. The Irishman is the fighter who turned mixed martial arts into a global pay-per-view spectacle, the biggest draw in MMA history and, in 2021, Forbes' highest-paid athlete in the world at a reported $180 million. He was the first to hold UFC championships in two weight classes at the same time. The detail that still beggars belief is the thirteen seconds: at UFC 194 in 2015 he knocked out Jose Aldo, who had not lost in a decade, in thirteen seconds, the fastest finish in a UFC title fight ever. He also talked his way into a 2017 boxing match with Floyd Mayweather that became the second-highest-selling pay-per-view in history. Whatever you make of him, he rewrote what a fighter could earn and how loud a fighter could be.

Jane Lynch turns 66 today, and she is the patron saint of late bloomers. She spent roughly twenty years as a working character actress you recognized but could not name, doing Second City, small film parts, and guest spots, before Sue Sylvester on Glee detonated her career in 2009, when she was 49. Tracksuit tyrant, withering putdowns, and suddenly six Emmys and a Golden Globe. She now hosts the American revival of The Weakest Link, and her comic deadpan is trusted enough that Christopher Guest kept casting her in his mockumentaries, Best in Show and A Mighty Wind. The surprise: before any of it she earned an MFA in theatre from Cornell. And here is the truly odd one. She shares her exact birthday, July 14, 1960, with four other notable people on this very list, including her fellow headliner Angelique Kidjo. Five people, one day, all turning 66.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge turns 41 today. She is the British writer-performer who turned a cramped one-woman Edinburgh Fringe show into Fleabag, the series that broke the fourth wall so decisively it became a verb, and swept three Emmys and two Golden Globes. She followed it by shaping Killing Eve and then, improbably, was hired to sharpen the dialogue on the James Bond film No Time to Die, the franchise that had spent decades writing women as furniture. She also acted across from Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. The surprise in her backstory is how gilded it is. She is the daughter of the founder of an electronic trading platform, a descendant of a baronet, and her partner is the playwright Martin McDonagh. Aristocratic pedigree, filthily funny writing.

Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden turns 49 today, and in Sweden her birthday is not just a personal milestone but an official flag day. Victoriadagen is celebrated every July 14 on the island of Oland with a 21-gun salute, a horse-drawn procession, a televised concert, and the Victoria Prize for a Swedish athlete who has excelled on the world stage. The strange part of her resume is that she was not born the heir. When her younger brother Carl Philip arrived in 1979 he became Crown Prince, and she held the title for only about seven months, until January 1, 1980, when Sweden changed its succession law to absolute primogeniture, the first country in Western Europe to do so, and made Victoria the heir apparent instead. When she ascends, she will be Sweden's first ruling queen since 1720.

Angelique Kidjo turns 66 today. The Beninese singer is a five-time Grammy winner, a Polar Music Prize laureate, and the first Black African artist to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She sang at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics and Time put her on its 100 most influential people list. Her music is a polyglot stew of Afropop, jazz, and funk, and she is fluent in five languages, Fon, French, Yoruba, Gen, and English, and sings in all of them, plus a private invented language of her own, which gave us the word "Batonga." She left Benin for Paris in 1983 to keep making music under an oppressive regime. And, as noted upstairs, she shares her exact birthday, July 14, 1960, with Jane Lynch and three others on today's list, all turning 66.

Also celebrating today

A note before the roll call. Five of the names below, Jane Lynch and Angelique Kidjo up top plus Kyle Gass, Ray Herndon, and Anna Bligh down here, were all born on the exact same day, July 14, 1960, and all turn 66 today. It is the kind of calendar coincidence that makes you suspect the date is doing something.

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Sixty-four candles, all lit. See you tomorrow.