This Day in Showbiz History… July 30

ON THIS DAY IN 2025:

Lisa Kudrow (pictured), who played goofy Phoebe in TV’s Friends, turns 62 today, while Arnold Schwarzenegger turns 78, actress Vivica A Fox turns 61 and singer Kate Bush turns 67. Singer Paul Anka turns 84 today and actor Jean Reno turns 77.

Actor Laurence Fishburne also celebrates his birthday today – he turns 64 – while two-time Oscar-winner Hilary Swank turns 51 and musician David Sanborn turns 80. Director Richard Linklater, who gave us the films Dazed and Confused and Boyhood, turns 65, and director Christopher Nolan turns 55.

Both actress Claudette Colbert and Swedish writer-director Ingmar Bergman died on this day – she in 1996 and he in 2007.

The last movie teaming Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney, Girl Crazy, was released on this day in 1943, while it is reported that on this day in 1969 Barbra Streisand opened for Liberace at Las Vegas’s International Hotel.

Topping the UK singles chart on this day in 1974 was She by French crooner Charles Aznavour. It spent four weeks crowning the chart. Just saying…