How to determine the date today without a year?

Question

excel

Hello everyone, help with the excel formula, there are birthday people, they have a year of birth, I'm trying to highlight the cell with birthday people in a different color, I run into the fact that today = TODAY () Returns the current date with a year. Now I tried it like this:
=$D2=DAY(TODAY())=MONTH(TODAY())
didn't work(
How to use these formulas correctly?

Answer 1

It is necessary to compare both the month and the day, and not the day with the month.
Something like this:

Answer 2

Option 1: use =DAY() with formatting
Option 2: remove the last 5 characters from the end and get the day.month