Today's celebrity birthdays: June 5, 2026

Happy birthday to entertainers like Jeff Garlin, Mark Wahlberg, and Pete Wentz! Keep on reading to see who else is celebrating their birthday and some career highlights!

Celebrity birthday highlights for June 5 2026:

Saxophonist Kenny G (1956) broke out with "Songbird" off "Duotones" and then sold more than 30 million copies of "Breathless" worldwide. He took home a Grammy for "Forever in Love," and Golf Digest once named him the best golfer in music.

Actor-comedian Jeff Garlin (1962) logged a dozen seasons as manager Jeff Greene on "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and played sitcom dad Murray Goldberg on "The Goldbergs." He's also the voice of the spaceship captain in "WALL-E" and directed the comedies "I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With" and "Dealin' with Idiots."

Author Rick Riordan (1964) taught middle school for about fifteen years before spinning bedtime Greek myths into a juggernaut with "Percy Jackson and the Olympians," starting with "The Lightning Thief." He's kept the mythology machine running through "The Heroes of Olympus" and "The Trials of Apollo," then jumped to Egyptian and Norse gods in "The Kane Chronicles" and "Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard."