Today's celebrity birthdays: February 14, 2026

Happy birthday to entertainers like Zach Galligan, Jake Lacy, and Freddie Highmore! Keep on reading to see who else is celebrating their birthday and some career highlights!

Celebrity birthday highlights for February 14, 2026:

Journalist Carl Bernstein (1944) earned a Pulitzer Prize for exposing the Watergate scandal in "The Washington Post" before co-authoring the landmark book "All the President's Men."

Actor Zach Galligan (1964) led the charge against furry chaos in "Gremlins" and "Waxwork" before returning for "Gremlins 2: The New Batch." He recently had a cameo on the animated series "Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai."

Actor Simon Pegg (1970) co-created the sitcom "Spaced," fought zombies in "Shaun of the Dead," and engineered solutions in the "Star Trek" reboot. He recently returned as Benji Dunn in "Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning."