Today's celebrity birthdays: April 16, 2026

Happy birthday to entertainers like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Martin Lawrence, and Jon Cryer! Keep on reading to see who else is celebrating their birthday and some career highlights!

Celebrity birthday highlights for April 16 2026:

Basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1947) led UCLA to three consecutive NCAA championships from 1967 to 1969 before the Milwaukee Bucks took him first overall in the 1969 draft. He won six NBA titles and a record six MVP awards across stints with the Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers and retired in 1989 as the league's all-time scoring leader.

Football coach Bill Belichick (1952) won two Super Bowls as defensive coordinator of the New York Giants before taking over the Cleveland Browns in 1991. He coached the New England Patriots from 2000 to 2023 and won six more Super Bowls, then took the head coaching job at the University of North Carolina in December 2024.

Actor-comedian Martin Lawrence (1965) co-created and starred on "Martin" from 1992 to 1997 and anchored the "Bad Boys" franchise starting in 1995. He returned for "Bad Boys: Ride or Die" in 2024 and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2023.

Actor Jon Cryer (1965) played Duckie in "Pretty in Pink" in 1986 and landed on "Two and a Half Men" in 2003. He won two Emmys for the role and went on to play Lex Luthor on "Supergirl" from 2019 to 2021.

Actress Claire Foy (1984) won a Golden Globe for Best Actress for her turn as Queen Elizabeth II on Netflix's "The Crown" and earned a BAFTA nomination for "Wolf Hall." She appeared in "First Man" in 2018 and earned another BAFTA nomination for "All of Us Strangers."

Actress Anya Taylor-Joy (1996) broke out in "The Witch" in 2015 and followed it with "Split" the next year. She won a Golden Globe for playing Beth Harmon on Netflix's "The Queen's Gambit" in 2020 and headlined "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga" in 2024.

Other celebs celebrating birthdays today:

Singer Bobby Vinton (1935), Actress Ellen Barkin (1954), Singer Jimmy Osmond of The Osmonds (1963), Actor Peter Billingsley (1971), Singer Akon (1973), Rapper Chance the Rapper (1993), Actress Sadie Sink (2002)