Today's celebrity birthdays: January 7, 2026

Happy birthday to entertainers like Kenny Loggins, Katie Couric, and Nicolas Cage! Keep on reading to see who else is celebrating their birthday and some career highlights!

Celebrity birthday highlights for January 7, 2026:

Singer Kenny Loggins (1948) launched his career in Loggins and Messina, singing and writing sing-alongs like "Your Mama Don't Dance." As a solo artist, he became a soundtrack mainstay with "Footloose" and took home a Song of the Year Grammy for co-writing "What a Fool Believes."

TV anchor Katie Couric (1957) spent 15 years steering "Today," then moved to the evening desk on "CBS Evening News with Katie Couric" as the first woman to solo-anchor a network nightly newscast. She went on to report for "60 Minutes," host the daytime show "Katie," and receive the New York Emmy Governors Award.

Actor Nicolas Cage (1964) won the Best Actor Oscar for "Leaving Las Vegas," and he kept mainstream audiences close with crowd-pleasers like "The Rock" and "National Treasure." In 2024, he disappeared into heavy makeup for the horror hit "Longlegs."

Actor Jeremy Renner (1971) earned back-to-back Oscar nominations for "The Hurt Locker" and "The Town," then started a long run as Hawkeye in the MCU. He recently appeared in Netflix's "Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery" and his show, "Mayor of Kingstown," was renewed for a fifth and final season.

Other celebs celebrating birthdays today:

Businessman Jann Wenner (1946), Singer-songwriter Marshall Chapman (1949), Actress Erin Gray (1950), Actor Sammo Hung (1952), Actor David Caruso (1956), Country singer David Lee Murphy (1959), Bassist Kathy Valentine of The Go-Go’s (1959), Actor David Marciano (1960), Actress Hallie Todd (1962), Singer John Ondrasik of Five for Fighting (1965), Actor Rex Lee (1969), Actor-rapper Doug E. Doug (1970), Actor Kevin Rahm (1971), Country singer John Rich of Big and Rich (1974), Actor Reggie Austin (1979), Singer-rapper Aloe Blacc (1979), Actress Lauren Cohan (1982), Actress Ruth Negga (1981), Actor Brett Dalton (1983), Actor Robert Ri’chard (1983), Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton of Ferrari (1985), Actress Lyndsy Fonseca (1987), Actress Haley Bennett (1988), Actor Robert Sheehan (1988), Actor Liam Aiken (1990), Actress Camryn Grimes (1990), Quarterback Lamar Jackson (1997), Actor Marcus Scribner (2000)