Today's celebrity birthdays: December 13, 2025

Happy birthday to entertainers like Dick Van Dyke, Steve Buscemi, and Taylor Swift! Keep on reading to see who else is celebrating their birthday and some career highlights!

Celebrity birthday highlights for December 13, 2025:

• Actor Dick Van Dyke (1925) made TV comedy look like choreography on "The Dick Van Dyke Show" with award-winning timing as Rob Petrie, and became a big-screen musical staple in "Bye Bye Birdie," "Mary Poppins" and "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang." His honors include multiple Emmys, a Tony for "Bye Bye Birdie," a Grammy for "Mary Poppins" and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award.

• Actress Kathy Garver (1945) grew up on TV and became the level-headed big sister Cissy Davis on "Family Affair," then stepped into animation as Firestar on "Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends."

• Actress Wendie Malick (1950) earned two Primetime Emmy nominations and a Golden Globe nomination for playing Nina Van Horn on "Just Shoot Me!" and went on to star on "Hot in Cleveland."

• Actor Steve Buscemi (1957) became a signature presence in 1990s cinema with roles in "Reservoir Dogs," "Fargo," and "The Big Lebowski." He then led HBO's "Boardwalk Empire" to a Golden Globe win for Best Actor in a Television Series, Drama, and won an Emmy for the short-form series "Park Bench with Steve Buscemi."

• Actor-comedian Jamie Foxx (1967) went from sketch comedy on "In Living Color" to Oscar glory as Ray Charles in "Ray," and also scored a Grammy Award-winning collaboration with T-Pain on "Blame It."

• Singer Amy Lee (1981) co-founded Evanescence and pushed it into the mainstream with "Bring Me to Life" and "My Immortal." In 2025 the band rolled out the single "Afterlife" tied to Netflix's "Devil May Cry" and performed it at The Game Awards.

• Singer Taylor Swift (1989) turned diaristic songwriting into stadium-scale pop with albums like "Fearless," "1989" and "Folklore," and she made Grammy history with a record fourth Album of the Year win for "Midnights." In 2025, she released her 12th studio album, "The Life of a Showgirl."

Other celebs celebrating birthdays today:

Actor-singer John Davidson (1941), Baseball Hall of Famer Ferguson Jenkins (1942), Guitarist Jeff “Skunk” Baxter of The Doobie Brothers (1948), Singer Ted Nugent (1948), Country singer-guitarist Randy Owen of Alabama (1949), Former Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack (1950), Former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke (1953), Country singer John Anderson (1954), Singer Steve Forbert (1954), Singer Morris Day of The Time (1956), Actor Johnny Whitaker (1959), Football coach Rex Ryan (1962), Bassist John Munson of Semisonic (1966), Reality TV star NeNe Leakes (1966), Actress Lusia Strus (1967), Hockey Hall of Famer Sergei Fedorov (1969), TV personality Debbie Matenopoulos (1974), Singer-guitarist Tom Delonge of Blink-182 (1975), Actor James Kyson Lee (1975), Actress Kimee Balmilero (1979), Actress Chelsea Hertford (1981), Golfer Rickie Fowler (1988), Actor Marcel Spears (1988), Football player Fletcher Cox (1990), Football player Brock Bowers (2002), Actress Maisy Stella (2003)