This Day in Showbiz  History… August 16

ON THIS DAY IN 2025:

Madonna (pictured) turns 67 today, and this day is also memorable for her in that, on her 27th birthday, in 1985, she wed actor Sean Penn on this day. This was also the day, in 2008, that Ellen DeGeneres married Portia de Rossi, 15 years her junior, in California.

Top TV talk show host, Sir Michael Parkinson, who has a seven-decade career and was knighted in 2008, died on this day in 2023. He was 88.

Musician Paul Simon and writer-actress Carrie Fisher, daughter of actress Debbie Reynolds, married on this day in 1983. And on this day in 1968, Frank Sinatra and actress Mia Farrow divorced after two years of marriage.

Comic actor Steve Carell turns 63 today and dancer-actress Lesley Ann Warren, an Oscar-nominee as the ditzy blonde in Victor/Victoria, turns 79. Cam Gigandet, of The Twilight Saga and Burlesque, turns 43.

The Stylistics rose to the top of the UK singles chart on this day in 1975, with their only No 1 hit, Can’t Give You Anything (But My Love). It spent three weeks crowning the chart. Just saying…