Today's celebrity birthdays: October 2, 2025

Happy birthday to entertainers like Don McLean, Sting, and Kelly Ripa! Keep on reading to see who else is celebrating their birthday and some career highlights!

Celebrity birthday highlights for October 2, 2025:

• Singer Don McLean (1945) turned an eight-and-a-half-minute folk-rock chronicle into one of the longest number-one hits in Billboard history with "American Pie." He followed his magnum opus with songs like "Vincent" and "And I Love You So."

• Musician Sting (1951) created some of the most enduring hits in rock history during his Police years, from "Roxanne" to "Every Breath You Take," before launching a solo career in 1985 that produced classics like "Fields of Gold" and "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free."

• Actress Lorraine Bracco (1954) turned her Oscar-nominated performance as mobster wife Karen Hill in "Goodfellas" into a springboard for playing psychiatrist Jennifer Melfi on "The Sopranos," earning four Emmy nominations.