Today's celebrity birthdays: August 16, 2025

Happy birthday to entertainers like Julie Newmar, Madonna, and Steve Carell! Keep on reading to see who else is celebrating their birthday and some career highlights!

Celebrity birthday highlights for August 16, 2025:

• Actress Julie Newmar (1933) purred into pop culture as the original Catwoman on TV’s “Batman” and won a Tony for “The Marriage-Go-Round.” She revisited Catwoman in the animated “Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders” and “Batman vs. Two-Face” in 2016 and 2017, respectively.

• Actor Reginald VelJohnson (1952) is America’s favorite TV cop next door, from “Family Matters” to holiday rewatches of “Die Hard.” He returned to sitcom comfort food as Progressive’s “TV Dad” in 2023 and revisited his “Turner & Hooch” role in the Disney+ series.

• TV Personality Kathie Lee Gifford (1953) brightened mornings on “Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee” and later on “Today.” She added to her shelf as an author in 2024 with the devotional “I Want to Matter” and continues to champion her music-theater film “The Way.”