Christy Turlington celebrates her 40th today. Taye Diggs is turning 37. Kate Bosworth is turning 26. Former Times reporter Judy Miller is 61. Loews CEO Jim Tisch is 56. Restaurateur Michael Lomonaco is turning 54. Marshall Rose, real estate developer and husband of Candice Bergen, is 72. Actress Paz Vega is 32. Cuba Gooding Jr. is 41. Former House speaker Dennis Hastert is 67. And Michael Bloomberg's mother, Charlotte, celebrates 100 today. Weekend birthdays after the jump.

The Brooklyn-based author is best known for his debut novel, the 2000 critical hit Chang and Eng. He followed up in 2002 with The Real McCoy, a story inspired by the life of boxer and bigamist "Kid" McCoy, which earned Strauss a Guggenheim Fellowship.