(AP) — Celebrity Birthdays for Feb. 28:
Country singer Jason Aldean is 41.
Singer Sam the Sham is 81.
Actress Bernadette Peters is 70.
Retired pro wrestler Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat is 65.
Pop singer Rene Simard is 57.
Actor Gavin MacLeod is 87.
Singer Fefe Dobson is 33.
Singer-songwriter Jake Bugg is 24.
Comedian Gilbert Gottfried is 63.
Architect Frank Gehry is 89.
Opera singer Joseph Rouleau is 89.
Actor-director-dancer Tommy Tune is 79.
Hall of Fame auto racer Mario Andretti is 78.
Actor Frank Bonner (“WKRP in Cincinnati”) is 76.
Singer Donnie Iris is 75.
Actress Stephanie Beacham (“Beverly Hills, 90210,” “SeaQuest DSV”) is 71.
Writer-director Mike Figgis is 70.
Actress Mercedes Ruehl is 70.
Actress Ilene Graff (“Mr. Belvedere”) is 69.
Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman is 65.
Basketball Hall-of-Famer Adrian Dantley is 62.
Actor John Turturro is 61.
Musician Ian Stanley, formerly of Tears For Fears, is 61.
Phil Gould of the ’80s pop band Level 42 is 61.
Actress Rae Dawn Chong (“The Color Purple”) is 57.
Canadian track and field athlete Angela Bailey is 56.
Actress Maxine Bahns (“The Brothers McMullen”) is 49.
Actor Robert Sean Leonard (“House, M.D.”) is 49.
Singer Pat Monahan of Train is 49.
Actress Tasha Smith (“Empire”) is 47.
Actor Rory Cochrane (“24,” “CSI: Miami”) is 46.
Actress Ali Larter is 42.
Actor Geoffrey Arend (“Madam Secretary”) is 40.
Actress Melanie Chandra (“Code Black”) is 34.
Actress Michelle Horn (“Family Law,” “Strong Medicine”) is 31.
Actress True O’Brien (“Days of Our Lives”) is 24.
Actress Madisen Beaty (“The Fosters”) is 23.
Actress Quinn Shephard (“Hostages”) is 23.
Actor Bobb’e J. Thompson (“The Tracy Morgan Show”) is 22.
Also born on this date (death in parentheses):
In 1882, soprano Geraldine Farrar. (March 11, 1967)
In 1901, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Linus Pauling. (Aug. 19, 1994)
In 1903, film director Vincente Minnelli. (July 25, 1986)
In 1906, gangster “Bugsy” Siegel. (June 20, 1947)
In 1908. actress Billie Bird. (Nov. 27, 2002)
In 1921, producer Saul Zaentz. (Jan. 3, 2014)
In 1923, actor Charles Durning. (Dec. 24, 2012)
In 1931, Hall of Fame U.S. college basketball coach Dean Smith. (Feb. 7, 2015)
In 1932, actor Don Francks. (April 3, 2016)
In 1934, jazz and salsa percussionist Willie Bobo. (Sept. 15, 1983)
In 1940, singer-songwriter Joe South. (Sept. 5, 2012)
In 1940, theatre director Robin Phillips. (July 25, 2015)
In 1942, “Rolling Stone” guitarist Brian Jones. (July 3, 1969)
In 1943, soul singer Barbara Acklin. (Nov. 27, 1998)
In 1945, NFL player and actor Bubba Smith. (Aug. 3, 2011)
In 1960, Canadian model-actress Dorothy Stratten. (Aug. 14, 1980)