Gisele Bundchen turns 29 today. Rocco Landesman, the Broadway mega-producer and nominee to be the next chairman of the NEA, is turning 62. Two prominent people at the New York Times are celebrating birthdays today: op-ed columnist Thomas Friedman is 56 and advertising columnist Stuart Elliott is 57. Developer Sheldon Solow is 81. Carlos Santana is turning 62. Omar Epps turns 36. Actress Sandra Oh is turning 38. Former U.S. Senator Larry Craig is 64. Composer Michael Gordon is turning 53. Aussie animal lover Terri Irwin is 45. Josh Holloway of Lost is turning 40. Former MTV VJ Simon Rex is 35. And Dancing With the Stars winner Julianne Hough turns 21 today.

Two members of the Gossip Girl gang are celebrating birthdays today: Chace Crawford is 23 and Kristen Bell is 28. Steve Forbes, who is not on Gossip Girl (but could very well be a fan? Steve?) turns 61 today. Brooklyn Museum director Arnold Lehman will be 64, New York's Adam Platt will turn 50, and Joe Torre will celebrate his 68th. Weekend birthdays: On Saturday, artist Marilyn Minter will be 60, Calvin Butts will turn 59, and ESPN's Stuart Scott will be 43. On Sunday, Gisele Bundchen will turn 28. Other birthdays on Sunday: the Times' Stuart Elliott, composer Michael Gordon, theater producer Rocco Landesman, and former VJ Simon Rex.

Famous for merging rock, industrial and classical instrumentation, the contemporary composer is the co-founder of experimental musical group Bang on a Can.