JUNE BIRTHDAYS

June 1^st 

Actors:

• Sarah Wayne Callies is 46 (“Prison Break,” “The Walking Dead”)
• Mark Curry is 62 (“Hangin' with Mr. Cooper,” “It's Showtime at the Apollo”)
• Brian Cox is 77 (“Manhunter,” “The Bourne Identity”) (FAST FACT: He was the first actor to portray Hannibal Lecter on film in the 1986 film, “Manhunter.”)
• Morgan Freeman is 86 (“The Shawshank Redemption,” “Seven”) (FAST FACT: Nominated for an Oscar for his role in 1994’s “The Shawshank Redemption,” he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in 2005’s “Million Dollar Baby”)
• Adam Garcia is 50 (“Wilde,” “Coyote Ugly”)
• Danielle Harris is 46 (“Halloween,” “Daylight”)
• Oliver James is 43 (“What A Girl Wants,” “Roadkill”)
• Jonathan Pryce is 76 (“Pirates of the Caribbean,” “Game of Thrones”) (FAST FACTS: He has received numerous awards including two Tony Awards and two Laurence Olivier Awards. In 2021 he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to drama.)
• Robin Mattson is 67 (“Santa Barbara,” “General Hospital”)
• Teri Polo is 54 (“Meet The Parents,” “The West Wing”)
• The late Rene Auberjonois (1940 – 2019)...he would have been 83 ("Star Trek: Deep Space Nine," “Boston Legal”)
• The late Powers Boothe (1948 – 2017) …he would have been 75 (“Tombstone,” “Deadwood”)
• The late Andy Griffith (1926 – 2012)…he would have been 97 (“The Andy Griffith Show,” “Matlock”) (FAST FACT: He developed an interest in acting during high school, but went to college with the intent to become a preacher)
• The late Cleavon Little (1939 – 1992)…he would have been 84 (“Blazing Saddles,” “True Colors”)
• The late Marilyn Monroe (1926 – 1962)…she would have been 97 (“Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” “ The Seven Year Itch”) 

Musicians:

• Lisa Hartman Black is 67
• Brandi Carlile is 42
• Pat Boone is 89
• Ronnie Dunn is 70
• Alanis Morissette is 49
• Ronnie Wood is 76 

Plus:

• Supermodel and TV personality Heidi Klum is 50
• Web video star Charles Lincoln Neal III is 45 (part of the Internet sensation comedy duo known as ‘Rhett and Link’ alongside Rhett McLaughlin – he’s ‘Link’)
• Video game designer Markus Persson is 44 (FAST FACTS: Also known as Notch, he’s the guy a Swedish video game designer known for his role in developing ‘Minecraft,’ the hit PC game. In 2014, he became a billionaire when Microsoft purchased Minecraft for $2.5-billion)
• Comedienne Amy Schumer is 42
• The late religious leader Brigham Young (1801 – 1877) (FAST FACTS: He was the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1847 until his death in 1877. He also notably helped found the institutions, which are now known as the University of Utah and Brigham Young University. He not only founded Salt Lake City Utah, but is also responsible for the famous Mormon Temple. A practicing polygamist, he also had 55 wives and 56 children) 

 

June 2^nd 

Actors:

• Dana Carvey is 68 (“SNL,” “Wayne’s World”)
• Nikki Cox is 45 (“Las Vegas,” “Baywatch”)
• Dennis Haysbert is 69 (“Major League,” “24”)
• Stacy Keach is 82 (“The Bourne Legacy,” “Prison Break”)
• Justin Long is 45 (“GalaxyQuest,” “Idiocracy”)
• Jerry Mathers is 75 (Beaver on "Leave It to Beaver")
• Wentworth Miller is 51 ( “Prison Break,” “Legends of Tomorrow”)
• Zachary Quinto is 46 (“Star Trek,” “American Horror Story”)
• The late Sally Kellerman (1938 – 2022) …she would have been 86 (“M*A*S*H,” “The Young & The Restless”)
• The late Johnny Weissmuller (1904 – 1984) (“Tarzan”) (FAST FACTS: He played Tarzan for two different studios and won five gold medals for swimming in two different Olympics) 

Musicians:

• Spandau Ballet’s Tony Hadley is 63
• The Dandy Warhols’ Zia McCabe is 48
• Willy Moon is 34
• The Strokes’ Fabrizio Moretti is 43
• Zz Ward is 37 (Zz? Yup – her given name is Zsuzsanna Eva Ward)
• The late Rolling Stone Charlie Watts (1941 – 2021)…he would have been 82 

Plus:

• Comedian Beetlejuice is 55 (Born Lester Green)
• TV personality Wayne Brady is 51
• Bravo hostest with the mostest Andy Cohen is 55
• Celebrity kid Willow Sage Hart is 12 (She’s the first child of Pink and Carey Hart) (FAST FACT: Her baby photographs were published in “People” magazine, and her parents donated the proceeds from the photo shoot to such charities as Autism Speaks and the Ronald McDonald House.)
• TV personality Judge Jeanine Pirro is 72 (FAST FACT: She was the first female judge on the Westchester County Court bench)
• The late composer Marvin Hamlisch (1944 – 2012)…he would have been 79 (He composed the score for 1975's “A Chorus Line,” receiving both a Tony Award and a Pulitzer Prize for his work)
• The late writer and sadist Marquis de Sade (1740 – 1814) (French aristocrat, revolutionary politician, philosopher and writer, famous for his libertine sexuality – yes, the words ‘sadist’ and ‘sadism’ are based on his name)
• The late Martha Washington (1731 – 1802) (FAST FACTS: George Washington was actually her second husband. After having four children with her first husband, she married Washington in 1759, and they were married 20 years before he became president).

June 3^rd 

Actors:

• Sean Berdy is 30 (“Switched At Birth”) (FAST FACTS: A year before he was nominated for TV Breakout Star at the 2011 Teen Choice Awards, Berdy was crowned Mr. Deaf Teen America)
• Lalaine Dupree is 36 (“Lizzie McGuire”)
• Suzie Plakson is 65 (“Mad About You,” “How I Met Your Mother”)
• James Purefoy is 59 (“Rome,” “The Following”)
• Tristan Rogers is 77 (“General Hospital”)
• Scott Valentine is 65 (“Family Ties,” “Black Scorpion”)
• The late Josephine Baker (1906 - 1975) (FAST FACT: Coretta Scott King asked Baker if she would lead the Civil Rights Movement after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. She declined the offer to instead, be there for her children).
• The late Ellen Corby (1911 – 1999) (Grandma Walton on “The Waltons”)
• The late Tony Curtis (1925 - 2010)…he would have been 98 (“Some Like It Hot”, “Spartacus” – he acted in more than 100 films in roles covering a wide range of genres, from light comedy to serious drama. Curtis was the father of actresses Jamie Lee Curtis and Kelly Curtis by his first wife, actress Janet Leigh)
• The late Colleen Dewhurst (1924 – 1991)…she would have been 99 (“A Moon for the Misbegotten,” “Anne of Green Gables,” “Murphy Brown”) 

Musicians:

• No Mercy’s Ariel and Gabriel Hernandez is 52
• Mott the Hoople’s Ian Hunter is 84
• Lyfe Jennings is 45
• Stereophonics’ Kelly Jones is 49
• Slayer’s Kerry King is 59 (FAST FACT: He played a guitar solo on the Beastie Boys’ "No Sleep till Brooklyn.")
• Jamie O’Neal is 55
• Suzi Quatro is 73
• Deniece Williams is 72
• The late Curtis Mayfield (1942 – 1999)…he would have been 81
• The late Lynyrd Skynrd’s Billy Powell (1952 – 2009)…he would have been 71 

Plus:

• Newsman Anderson Cooper is 56
• The late Game show host and author Chuck Barris (1929 – 2017)…he would have been 94 (FAST FACT! He claimed that while he was creating game shows like “The Newlywed Game” and “The Dating Game;” and hosting “The Gong Show,” he was a contract CIA assassin)
• The late politician Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) (President of the Confederate States of America from its beginning in 1861 to its collapse in 1865. His 1881 memoir, “The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government,” helped restore his reputation after the war and he is now an icon and symbol of pride for many Southerners. Ironically, he actually argued against secession while he was a Senator from Mississippi.)
• The late beatnik poet Allen Ginsberg (1926 – 1997)…he would have been 97 (National Book Award recipient who is best known for “Howl,” a controversial 1956 poetic work. His other notable works include “Reality Sandwiches,” “Iron Horse,” and “White Shroud Poems”)

 

June 4^th 

Actors:

• Oona Chaplin is 37 (“Sherlock,” “Game of Thrones”) (FAST FACT: She’s Charlie Chaplin’s great-granddaughter.)
• Keith David is 67 (“Platoon,” “The Thing”)
• Bruce Dern is 87 (“Nebraska,” “The Hateful Eight”)
• Angelina Jolie is 48 (“Tomb Raider,” “A Mighty Heart,” “Maleficent”)
• Kathryn Prescott is 32 (“Skins,” “Finding Carter”)
• Theo Rossi is 48 (“Sons of Anarchy,” “Bad Hurt”)
• Parker Stevenson is 71 (“Legion,” “Longmire”)
• Julie White is 62 (“Transformers” franchise, “Grace Under Fire”)
• Noah Wyle is 52 (“ER”, “The Librarians”)
• The late Rosalind Russell (1907-1976) (“Auntie Mame,” “His Girl Friday”) (FAST FACT: She won five Golden Globes throughout her career and a Tony Award for her performance in “Wonderful Town.”) 

Musicians:

• El Debarge is 62 (his given name, Eldra Patrick "El" DeBarge)
• Paramore drummer Zac Farro is 33
• Los Lonely Boys bassist JoJo Garza is 43
• Brandon & Leah’s Brandon Jenner is 42 (yes, you’ve also seen him on “Keeping up with the Kardashians” – he’s son of Caitlyn Jenner and Linda Thompson)
• Dave Matthews Band’s Stefan Lessard is 49
• Al B. Sure! is 55
• The Mamas’ and The Papas’ Michelle Phillips is 79
• The late Freddy Fender (1937 – 2006)…he would have been 86 

Plus:

• Funnyman and sometime actor Russell Brand is 48
• Model Bar Refaeli is 37 (FAST FACT: She’s been continually criticized for her Israel Defense Forces service avoidance – it’s mandatory in Israel for unmarried secular Jewish women over the age of 18. Aside from her career, it was reported that Refaeli had evaded the draft by marrying family acquaintance Arik Weinstein in 2003 – when she turned 18 – and divorcing him in 2005 to avoid military service. She then moved to the United States to pursue a modeling career.)
• Sex and relationship expert Ruth Westheimer is 95
• Reality star Mackenzie Ziegler is 19 (“Dance Moms”)

 

June 5^th

Actors:

• Chad Allen is 49 (“My Two Dads,” “Battle for Terra”)
• Amanda Crew is 37 (“Final Destination 3,” “Charlie St. Cloud,” “Whistler,” “Silicon Valley”)
• Jeff Garlin is 61 (“Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “The Goldbergs”)
• Hank Greenspan is 13 (“The Neighborhood”)
• Nick Kroll is 45 (“Date Night,” “Kroll Show”)
• Ron Livingston is 56 (“Sex and the City,” “Band of Brothers”)
• Sophie Lowe is 33 (“Once Upon a Time in Wonderland”)
• Mark Wahlberg is 52 ( “Entourage,” “Ted”)
• Liza Weil is 46 (“Gilmore Girls,” “How To Get Away With Murder")
• The late Spaulding Gray (1941-2004) …he would have been 82 (“Monster in a Box,” “Gray's Anatomy”) (FAST FACT: Gray died in New York City of an apparent suicide in 2004 – he went missing in January that year and was pulled from the city’s East River the following March. Filmmaker Steven Soderbergh made the 2010 documentary, “And Everything Is Going Fine,” about Gray's life.) 

Musicians:

• Laurie Anderson is 76
• Psychedelic Furs frontman Richard Butler is 67
• Kenny G is 67 (his full name Kenneth Bruce Gorelick)
• Simple Plan’s Sebastian Lefebvre is 42 (FUN FACT: He learned to play guitar by watching Green Day videos.)
• Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain is 71
• Brian McKnight is 54
• Odesza musician Harrison Mills is 34
• Sly and the Family Stone’s Freddie Stone is 76
• Don Reid of The Statler Brothers is 78
• Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz is 44 

Plus:

• TV personality Sterling “Steelo” Brim is 35 (“Fear Factory,” “Ridiculousness”)
• Entrepreneur/ owner of the New England Patriots Robert Kraft is 81
• Nashville Predators’ center Mike Fisher is 43 (FUN FACT: He’s been with Carrie Underwood since 2008 – and married to her since 2010.)
• Author Ken Follett is 74 (“Eye of the Needle,” “The Key to Rebecca,” “Pillars of the Earth,” “World Without End,” “Whiteout”)
• TV journalist Bill Moyers is 89 (FAST FACT: He also served White House Press Secretary in the Johnson administration from 1965 to 1967)
• Financial advisor, motivational speaker and TV personality Suze Orman is 71
• Author Rick Riordan is 59 (His best-known works include “Percy Jackson & the Olympians,” “The Kane Chronicles,” the Tres Navarre books, and “The Maze of Bones”) (FAST FACTS: He is a two-time Mark Twain Award winner - 2008 and 2009 - as well as winner of the Children's Choice Books Awards for Author of the Year in 2011)
• The late children’s author Richard Scarry (1919-1994) (“Busytown,” “Best Word Book Ever”) (FAST FACTS: After high school, Scarry enrolled in a business college but soon dropped out. He then studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where he remained until being drafted into the U.S. Army during World War II. After the war, Scarry worked for the art departments of various magazines before making a career breakthrough in 1949 with Little Golden Books.)
• The late Mexican war hero Pancho Villa (1878-1923) (FAST FACTS: Villa and his supporters seized hacienda land for distribution to peasants and soldiers. He robbed and commandeered trains and, like the other revolutionary generals, printed fiat money to pay for his cause. Villa's men and supporters became known as Villistas during the revolution from 1910 to roughly 1920.)

June 6^th 

Actors:

• Aubrey Anderson-Emmons is 16 (“Modern Family”)
• Robert Englund is 76 (Freddy Kruger in “A Nightmare on Elm Street”)
• Harvey Fierstein is 71 (“Torch Song Trilogy,” “Independence Day”)
• Paul Giamatti is 56 (“Saving Private Ryan,” “Cinderella Man”)
• Jason Isaacs is 60 (“Harry Potter,” “Awake”)
• Staci Keanan is 48 (“Step by Step,” “You Again”) (FAST FACT: After retiring from acting in 2010, she went to law school and now practices law in Los Angeles)
• Johnny Pacar is 42 (“Make It or Break It”) 

Musicians:

• Slayer’s Tom Araya is 62 (FAST FACT: He was a respiratory therapist, saving up money to help Slayer release their first album)
• Gary U.S. Bonds is 84 (FAST FACT: He changed his name so that it would get confused with government bonds and therefore get more airplay – his actual middle name is Levone.)
• Jimmy Jam (The Time) is 64
• Uncle Kracker is 49 (born Matthew Shafer)
• Korn’s James Shaffer is 53
• Somi is 47
• Steve Vai is 63 

Plus:

• Chicago Bears’ corner back Prince Kelechi Amukamara is 34
• Comedienne Sandra Bernhard is 68
• Tennis legend Bjorn Borg is 67 (Swedish tennis ace who won Wimbledon five years in a row from 1976 to 1980. He also won the French Open six times in his career, which was a record before Rafael Nadal won his seventh in 2012)
• Author Sarah Dessen is 53 (Her popular novels, “Someone Like You” and “That Summer,” became the basis for the 2003 film, “How to Deal,” which starred Mandy Moore.)
• WWE Wrestler Drew McIntyre is 39
• TV personality Natalie Morales is 51 (FUN FACT: She was born in Taiwan)
• Funnyman Colin Quinn is 64
• The late American Revolutionary Hero Nathan Hale (1755 -1776) (FAST FACTS: He graduated from Yale in 1773 and was captured and hanged by British forces following his failed espionage mission. His last words were: "I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country.")

June 7^th 

Actors:

• Michael Cera is 35 (“Juno,” “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World”)
• Adrienne Frantz is 45 (“The Bold and the Beautiful,” “The Young and the Restless”)
• Bill Hader is 45 (“Saturday Night Live,” “Trainwreck”)
• Liam Neeson is 71 (“Schindler’s List,” “Taken”)
• Larisa Oleynik is 42 (“3rd Rock From The Sun,” ″Boy Meets World)
• Kim Rhodes is 54 (“Another World,” “As the World Turns”)
• The late Ken Osmond (Eddie Haskell in “Leave It to Beaver”) (1943 - 2020)...he would have been 80 (FAST FACTS: Struggling in Hollywood after being typecast, he later became a Los Angeles police officer. After retiring from police work, he resumed his acting career in the 90’s).
• The late Jessica Tandy (1909 – 1994) (“Driving Miss Daisy,” “Cocoon”) (FAST FACTS: She was married to Hume Cronyn. In 1979, she was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame) 

Musicians:

• Iggy Azalea is 33 (her given name, Amethyst Amelia Kelly)
• George Ezra is 30
• Eric Johnson, guitarist-keyboardist for the Shins is 47
• Tom Jones is 83
• Stone Temple Pilots drummer Eric Kretz is 57
• Jane’s Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro is 56
• Cross Canadian Ragweed’s Randy Ragsdale is 56
• Fetty Wap is 32 (born Willie Maxwell II)
• The late Dean Martin (1917-1995)
• The late, oh so great, Prince (1958 – 2016)…he would have been 65 

Plus:

• Film director James Ivory is 95 (“A Room With a View,” “Howards End”)
• Reality star Bear Grylls is 49 (“Man vs. Wild”) (FAST FACT: Don’t forget that what you see with Bear may not be what you get. He was busted back in 2007 for some fakery on his TV show)
• Wrestling star Mick Foley is 58 (WWE Hall of Fame in 2013)
• NBA star Allen Iverson is 48 (FAST FACTS: He played for fourteen seasons in the NBA at both the shooting guard and point guard positions. An eleven-time NBA All-Star, he won the All-Star game MVP award in 2001 and 2005 and was the NBA's MVP in 2001. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016)
• Reality star Masika Kalysha is 38 (“Love and Hip Hop Hollywood” – plus she has appeared in videos for artists including Waka Flocka, Lil Wayne, and Birdman)
• Retired tennis player Anna Kournikova is 42
• Model/sometime actor Emily Ratajkowski is 32 (she starred in “Gone Girl”)
• Music producer and reality TV star A. Reid is 67
• The late boxer James J. Braddock (1905-1974) (FAST FACT: The movie “Cinderella Man” is based on his life. Braddock was known for his spoiling, counterpunching style, powerful right hand and his iron chin. After losing several bouts because of chronic hand injuries during the Great Depression, he was forced to work on the docks and collect public assistance to feed his family. He made a comeback, and in 1935 he fought Max Baer for the Heavyweight title and won. For this unlikely feat he was given the nickname "Cinderella Man.”)
• The late poet Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) (Pulitzer Prize-winning poet known for works such as “Annie Allen” and “We Real Cool.” She earned the title of U.S. Poet Laureate in 1985. She published her first poem in a children's magazine when she was just thirteen years old.)
• The late artist Paul Gaugin [[go-GAN]] (1848-1903) (Post-Impressionist artist who depicted village life in Tahiti in such colorful works as "Spirit of the Dead Watching." His work became popular after his death and influenced such notables as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse.)
• The late dictator Muammar Gaddafi (1942 – 2011)…he would have been 81 (Ruthless Libyan president for more than 40 years after a bloodless coup in 1969. He was just 27 at the time. Fast forward and years of bad behavior found him beaten and killed by rebels after a civil war broke out in 2011)

June 8^th 

Actors:

• Kathy Baker is 73 (“The Right Stuff,” “The Ranch”)
• Eion Bailey is 47 (“Once Upon a Time,” “Covert Affairs”)
• Sonia Braga is 73 (“Kiss of the Spider Woman,” “Angel Eyes”)
• James Darren is 87 (“Gidget,” “The Guns of Navarone”) (FAST FACT: Also a singer, he released his debut album in 1960 as well as fifteen singles between 1959 and 1977)
• Griffin Dunne is 68 (“My Girl,” “Dallas Buyers Club”)
• Dan Futterman is 56 (“A Mighty Heart” “Kill The Messenger”)
• Frank Grillo is 58 (“Prison Break,” “The Purge” series)
• Julianna Margulies is 57 (“ER,” “The Good Wife”)
• Keenan Ivory Wayans is 65 (“A Different World,” “I’m Gonna Git You Sucka”)
• Kelli Williams is 53 ("The Practice," “The Fosters”)
• The late Don Grady (“My Three Sons") (1944 – 2012) …he would have been 79
• The late Jerry Stiller (“Seinfeld,” “King of Queens”) (1927 - 2020)...he would have been 96 

Musicians:

• The Calling’s Alex Band is 42
• Simply Red’s Mick Hucknall is 63
• Duran Duran’s Nick Rhodes is 61
• A Day to Remember’s Kevin Skaff is 38
• Sturgill Simpson is 45
• Nancy Sinatra is 83
• Bonnie Tyler is 72
• Kanye West is 46 

Plus:

• Tennis star Lindsay Davenport is 47 (FAST FACT: She has been ranked World No. 1 on eight different occasions, for a total of 98 weeks.)
• Scientist Tim Berners Lee is 68 (British computer scientist who is widely credited with inventing the World Wide Web in 1989. He founded the World Wide Web Foundation in 2009 and the group works to improve the availability of the Internet)
• TV personality Maria Menounos is 45 (FAST FACT: In June 2017, she underwent surgery for meningioma, a benign intracranial tumor)
• The late former First Lady Barbara Bush (1925 – 2018) (FAST FACT: Barbara Bush’s great-great-great Uncle was Franklin Pierce, the fourteenth president of the United States.)
• The late scientist Francis Crick (1916 – 2004) (A biologist and neuroscientist, he became one of the most important contributors to understanding DNA when he co-discovered its helical structure in 1953. He was also the one to con the term "central dogma" in reference to how genetic information flows from DNA to RNA to protein.)
• The late comedienne and television personality Joan Rivers (1933 – 2014)
• The late architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867 – 1959) (He sought to blend buildings with the surrounding environment across his 1,000-plus structures. He finished 532 works and was among the leaders of the Prairie School architectural movement. He pioneered urban planning in the United States through the Usonian home.) (FAST FACT: His most famous work, Fallingwater from 1935, was called "the best all-time work of American architecture" and was an example of his belief in organic architecture; it was at one time, however, in danger of falling into the water beneath it.)

June 9^th 

Actors:

• Logan Browning is 34 (“Meet the Browns,” “Hit The Floor”)
• Michaela Conlin is 45 (“MDs,” “Bones”)
• Johnny Depp is 60 ( “Edward Scissorhands,” “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise”) (FAST FACTS: In 2007, he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his role in “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” and in 2015, Depp was inducted as a Disney Legend.)
• Michael J. Fox is 62 (“Back to the Future,” “Spin City”)
• Tamela Mann is 57 (“Diary of a Mad Black Woman,” “Madea's Big Happy Family”)
• Natalie Portman is 42 (“Black Swan,” “Star Wars” prequels,” “Thor”) (FAST FACTS: Portman was born in Israel and speaks Hebrew. She graduated from Harvard with a degree in psychology.)
• Gloria Reuben is 59 (“ER,” “Saints & Sinners”) (FAST FACT: In 2000, she stepped out on her acting career and explored singing – joining Tina Turner on tour as one of her backup singers. She’s since released several albums)
• Brian Patrick Wade is 45 (“The Big Bang Theory,” “Teen Wolf”)
• Mae Whitman is 35 (“Avatar,” “Good Girls”) (FUN FACT: She started her career doing voiceovers for Tyson chicken commercials.) 

Musicians:

• Muse’s Matthew Bellamy is 45 (FAST FACT: He shares son Bing with Kate Hudson)
• Uriah Heep’s Mick Box is 76
• Hootie & the Blowfish’s Dean Felber is 56
• Puddle of Mudd’s lead singer Wes Scantlin is 51
• The Chemical Brothers’ Ed Simons is 53
• The late Les Paul (1915-2009) (A jazz and blues guitarist, he pioneered the solid-body electric guitar, influencing what would become rock 'n' roll music.)
• The late Jackie Wilson (1934-1984) …he would have been 89 

Plus:

• Author Patricia Cornwell is 66 (“Kay Scarpetta” crime novel series) (FAST FACT: A descendant of abolitionist and writer Harriet Beecher Stowe, her books have sold more than 100-million copies.)
• Miami Heat’s power forward/center Udonis Haslem is 43
• Religious leader and author Bishop T.D. Jakes is 66 (FAST FACT: Pastor of The Potter House, a megachurch with 30,000 members, whose sermons are broadcast all over the world on numerous stations including Trinity Broadcasting Network and BET)
• Screenwriter David Koepp is 60 (“Jurassic Park,” “Mission Impossible”) (FAST FACT: He is among some of the most successful screenwriters on Earth, having sold over 2-billion dollars in ticket sales and box office receipts.)
• Film writer and producer Aaron Sorkin is 62 (“Sports Night “Steve Jobs”)
• Legendary sportscaster Dick Vitale is 84
• The late legendary funnyman Jackie Mason (1928 – 2021) …he would have been 95
• The late songwriter Cole Porter (1891-1964) (Songwriter and winner of the 1948 Tony Award for Best Musical for “Kiss Me, Kate.” He wrote such American musical theater and popular standards as "Night and Day," "I Get a Kick Out of You," and "I've Got You Under My Skin." Unlike many successful Broadway composers, Porter wrote the lyrics, as well as the music, for his songs.)

June 10^th 

Actors:

• Jonathan Bennett is 42 (“Mean Girls,” “Veronica Mars“)
• Frankie Faison is 74 (“Silence of the Lambs,” “Hannibal,”)
• Kate Flannery is 59 (Meredith on NBC’s “The Office”)
• Gina Gershon is 61 (“Showgirls,” “PS I Love You”)
• Carolyn Hennesy is 61 ( “Cougar Town,” “True Blood”)
• Elizabeth Hurley is 58 (“Austin Powers,” “Bedazzled”)
• DJ Qualls is 45 (“The Big Bang Theory,” “Supernatural”)
• Leelee Sobieski is 40 (“Joan of Arc,” “Eyes Wide Shut”)
• Jeanne Tripplehorn is 60 (“Basic Instinct,” “Criminal Minds”)
• Shane West is 45 ( “ER,” “Salem”)
• The late Judy Garland (1922-1969) (“Wizard of Oz,” “Easter Parade”) (FAST FACTS: In 1997, Garland was posthumously awarded a GRAMMY Lifetime Achievement Award. Several of her recordings have been inducted into the GRAMMY Hall of Fame. In 1999, the American Film Institute placed her among the ten greatest female stars in the history of American cinema)
• The late Hattie McDaniel (1893-1952) (Played Mammy in “Gone with the Wind.”) (FAST FACTS: She was the first African American to win an Academy Award, but couldn’t attend the films premiere or sit with her colleagues at the academy awards because of segregation laws. And by the way? There is some debate about her birth year – both Wiki & IMDB say 1893, but Yahoo! says 1895) 

Musicians:

• Lee Brice is 44
• Smashing Pumpkin’s Jimmy Chamberlain is 59
• The Breeders’ Kim & Kelley Deal is 62
• Faith Evans is 50
• 702’s LeMisha Grinstead is 45
• Celtic Thunder’s Keith Harkin is 37
• K-Ci & Jojo’s Joel "JoJo" Hailey is 52
• The Shirelles’ Shirley Owens is 82
• The Pixies’ Joey Santiago is 58
• The late blue’s singer Chester Arthur “Howlin’ Wolf” Burnett (1910 – 1976) (FAST FACT: He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991) 

Plus:

• Comedian Bill Burr is 55
• Former Senator John Edwards is 70 (2004 Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee whose political career was shattered after it came to light that he had fathered a child with a woman other than his longtime wife (who had been struggling with cancer) So what’s he up to now? In 2013, Edwards announced the formation of Edwards Kirby Attorneys at Law. The firm reunited Edwards with his former law partner David Kirby. Edwards’ daughter Cate operates the San Diego office of the firm.)
• NFL Hall of Famer Dan Fouts is 72 (QB who played all 15 of his NFL seasons with the San Diego Chargers, then went on to become a color commentator for NFL games on CBS)
• Olympic gold medalist and TV personality Tara Lipinsky is 41 (FAST FACT: At Nagano in 1988, she set the record for the youngest gold medalist at the Winter Olympics at the age of just 15)
• Presidential daughter Sasha Obama is 22 (Daughter of POTUS44 Barack and First Lady Michelle Obama, she was the youngest person to live in the White House since John F. Kennedy administration)
• Former three-time MLB All-Star Ken Singleton is 76
• Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer is 64 (Governor from 2007 to 2008, he resigned in disgrace after it was revealed that he frequented high-end prostitutes. In 2013 he lost the Democratic primary for New York City Comptroller.)
• Model Kate Upton (and wife to Houston Astros pitcher Jason Verlander) is 31
• The late famed lawyer Lee Bailey (1933 – 2021)...he would have been 90 (He has represented such infamous clients as O.J. Simpson, "Boston Strangler" Albert DeSalvo, and Patty Hearst. He also defended Captain Ernest Medina, a United States Army officer blamed for the My Lai Massacre of the Vietnam War)
• The late children’s author Maurice Sendak (1928 – 2012)…he would have been 95 (“Where The Wild Things Are”) (FAST FACT: “Where the Wild Things Are” was originally called “Where the Wild Horses Are;” however, Sendak changed the title after discovering that he was not adept at drawing horses.)
• The late Prince Philip of Britain (1921 – 2021) (FAST FACT: He was married to Queen Elizabeth II from 1947 until his passing)

June 11^th 

Actors:

• Adrienne Barbeau is 78 (“Swamp Thing,” “Escape from New York”)
• Ivana Baquero is 29 (“Pan’s Labyrinth”)
• Peter Bergman is 70 (He has played Jack Abbott on “Young & The Restless” since 1989)
• Peter Dinklage is 54 (“Elf” “Game of Thrones”) (FAST FACT: He has been a vegetarian since he was 16)
• Claire Holt is 35 (“Mean Girls 2” “H2O: Just Add Water”)
• Joshua Jackson is 45 (“Dawson’s Creek,” “Fringe”)
• Hugh Laurie is 64 (“Blackadder,” “House”) (FAST FACT: Despite his dead-on American accent, he was born and raised in England)
• Shia LeBeouf is 37 (“Transformers,” “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”)
• Eugene Simon is 31 (“House of Anubis,” “Game of Thrones”)
• The late Ryan Dunn (1977-2011)…he would have been 46 (member of the Jackass crew who tragically died in a car accident in 2011)
• The late Chad Everett (1937-2012) …would have been 86 (best known as Dr. Joe Gannon in TV’s “Medical Center”)
• The late Gene Wilder (1933 – 2016)…he would have been 90 (“Blazing Saddles,” “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory”) 

Musicians:

• ZZ Top’s Frank Beard is 74
• Stereo MC’s Robert Birch is 62
• Tonic’s Dan Lavery is 54
• The Temptations’ Glenn Leonard is 76
• Mariana’s Trench Josh Ramsay is 38
• Bruce Robison is 57 (FAST FACT: Back in 2017, he contracted typhus and was in sick bay for some time due to complications. The good news? He got better and has since resumed touring.)
• Donnie Van Zant is 71
• The late jazz pianist Hazel Scott (1920-1981) (Recognized early as a musical prodigy, Scott was given scholarships from the age of eight to study at Juilliard. She began performing in a jazz band in her teens and was performing on radio at age 16.) 

Plus:

• NFL Hall of Famer Joe Montana is 67 (He was named Super Bowl MVP three times, selected for the Pro Bowl eight times, and chosen for the 1980s All-Decade Team)
• Author Robert Munsch is 78 (the popular children’s book “The Paper Bag Princess”)
• Mehmet Oz is 63 (FAST FACT: Before being discovered by Oprah, Dr. Oz taught in the department of surgery at Columbia University)
• WNBA MVP Diana Taurasi is 41 (FAST FACT: Dubbed the “White Mamba,” she plays for the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury as well as UMMC Ekaterinburg of Russia)
• TV personality Greta Van Susteren is 69
• The late explorer Jacques Cousteau (1910-1997) (He co-developed the Aqua-Lung, pioneered marine conservation)
• The late Vince Lombardi (1913-1970) (Coach who led the Green Bay Packers to victory in Super Bowls I and II)
• The late Jeanette Rankin (1880-1973) (A Republican from Montana, she became the first woman to serve in the U.S. Congress – in 1916)

 

June 12^th 

Actors:

• Timothy Busfield is 66 (“The West Wing,” “For Life”)
• Tim DeKay is 60 (“White Collar,” “Party of Five”)
• Dave Franco is 38 (“21 Jump Street,” “Scrubs”)
• Jenilee Harrison is 65 (Cindy from “Three’s Company,” “Dallas”)
• Paula Marshall is 59 (“The Wonder Years,” “Cheaper by the Dozen”)
• Jason Mewes is 49 (“Clerks,” “Mallrats”)
• Michael Muhney is 48 (“Veronica Mars,” “The Young and the Restless”)
• Eamonn Walker is 61 (“Oz,” “Chicago Fire”)
• The late Jim Nabors (1930 – 2017)….he would have been 93 (“The Andy Griffith Show,” “Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.”) 

Musicians:

• Junior Brown is 71
• Whodini’s Grandmaster Dee is 61 (born Drew Carter)
• Emmure’s Frankie Palmeri is 37
• Robyn is 44 (born Robin Miriam Carlsson)
• Kenny Wayne Shepherd is 46
• Chris Young is 38
• The late Chick Corea (1941 – 2021)...he would have been 82 (FAST FACT: Born Armando Anthony Corea, he attended Columbia University for one month and The Juilliard School for six, but was not satisfied with either, so he dropped out to pursue a career on his own terms)
• The late Vic Damone (1928 – 2018)…he would have been 95 

Plus:

• Sportscaster Marv Albert is 82 (He was known to sports fans as “The Voice of Basketball,” until 1997, when he went on trial for felony charges of forcible sodomy. While he first claimed the activity was consensual, he later pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault and battery charges, while the sodomy charge was dropped. Albert was given a 12-month suspended sentence. He was back on the air two years later.)
• Wrestler Mark Henry is 52 (FAST FACT: U.S. National powerlifting champion who won Silver, Gold and Bronze Medals at the Pan American Games in 1995 before joining WWE)
• All-Star NBA point guard Jrue Holiday (yes, that’s how he spells it) is 33
• Victoria’s Secret Model Adrianna Lima is 42 (FAST FACT: In 2011, she said she drinks nothing but protein shakes for the nine days preceding a show)
• Reality TV star Kendra Wilkinson is 38 (“Girls Next Door,” “Kendra On Top”)
• The late reality TV star Diem Brown (1980 – 2014)…she would have been 42 (MTV's “The Challenge” and “The Duel”) (She died of colon cancer)
• The late author Anne Frank (1929-1945)… she would have been 94 (Anne was a Jewish girl who had to go into hiding during World War II, to avoid the Nazis. Together with seven others she hid in a secret annex in Amsterdam. After almost two years in hiding they were discovered and sent to concentration camps. Anne’s father, Otto, was the only one of the group to survive. After her death, Anne became world famous because of the diary she wrote while in hiding.)
• The late President George H.W. Bush (aka Bush I) (1924 – 2018)
• The late entrepreneur David Rockefeller (1915 – 2017)

June 13^th 

Actors:

• Tim Allen is 70 (“Home Improvement,” “Last Man Standing”)
• Kat Dennings is 37 (“Thor,” “Two Broke Girls”) (FAST FACT: She made her acting debut when she was 10 in a potato chip commercial)
• Chris Evans is 42 (“The Avengers,” “Fantastic Four”)
• Aaron Taylor-Johnson is 33 (“Kickass,” “Godzilla”)
• Malcolm McDowell is 80 (“Fantasy Island,” “Entourage”)
• Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are 37 (“Full House”) (FAST FACT: The twins were signed on for their first famous role when they were six months old, sharing the role of Michelle Tanner)
• Ally Sheedy is 61 (“The Breakfast Club,” “St. Elmo's Fire”)
• Stellan Skarsgard is 72 (“Girl With The Dragon Tattoo,” “The Avengers”) (FAST FACT: Stellan is the father of Alexander Skarsgard)
• The late Paul Lynde (1926-1982) …he would have been 97 (“Bewitched,” “I Dream of Jeannie”)
• The late Basil Rathbone (1892-1967) (First actor to play Sherlock Holmes in a Hollywood film) (FAST FACT: Throughout his career, he appeared in over 70 films) 

Musicians:

• Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo is 53 (FAST FACT: He’s a Harvard graduate)
• Smash Mouth’s Paul DeLisle is 60
• David Gray is 55
• Luke James is 39
• Asking Alexandria’s Cameron Liddell is 34
• Raz-B is 38 (his given name, De'Mario Monte Thornton)
• The late Lil Snupe (1995-2013)…would have been 28 (Born Addarren Ross, he was tragically killed at 18 after being shot in the chest – reportedly over a video game betting dispute between him and 36-year-old Tony Holden. While Holden had turned himself in, it was later shown that Edrick Stewart’s bullets actually did him in.) 

Plus:

• Children’s author Cathy Cassidy is 61 (best known for “The Chocolate Box Girls”)
• Racecar driver Tanner Foust is 50 (Rally racer who won gold medals at the X Games in 2007 and 2010) (FAST FACT: He holds a degree in molecular biology)
• Reality TV star and stunter Steve-O is 49 (“Jackass”) (FAST FACT: Born in London as Stephen Gilchrist Glover, he graduated from clown college after dropping out of the University of Miami. And by the way? He celebrated 13-years of sobriety in March 2021.)
• TV personality Hannah Storm (Co-anchor of Sports Center on ESPN) is 61
• The late physicist James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) (He was the first to measure the speed of light)
• The late poet William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) (Widely considered to be one of the greatest poets of the 20^th century, he was also a Nobel prize recipient)

June 14^th 

Actors:

• Yasmine Bleeth is 55 (“Baywatch”) (FAST FACTS: After a bumpy personal road, she re-emerged in January 2015 is now a breast cancer research advocate)
• Regan Burns is 55 (“Reno 911,” “The Best Man?”)
• Marla Gibbs is 92 (“Madea’s Witness Protection,” “The Hughleys”)
• J R Martinez is 40 (“All My Children,” “SAF3”) (FAST FACT: The winner of Season 13 of ABC's “Dancing with the Stars,” Martinez sustained severe burns to over 34% of his body in 2003 while serving as an Army infantryman in Iraq. Since his recovery, he has traveled around the country speaking about his experiences to corporations, veterans groups, schools, and other organizations.)
• Ryan McCarten is 30 (“Liv and Maddie,” “The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again”)
• Kevin McHale is 35 (“Glee,” “Virtually Famous”)
• Dayo Okeniyi is 35 (“The Hunger Games,” “Terminator Genisys”)
• Daryl Sabara is 31 (“Wizards of Waverly Place,” “Halloween”) 

Musicians:

• King Diamond is 67 (his given name – Kim Bendix Petersen)
• Boy George is 62 (born George Alan O'Dowd)
• Lucy Hale is 34 (Whose rise to fame came courtesy of TV’s “Pretty Little Liars”)
• Lang Lang is 41
• Little Mix’s Jesy Nelson is 32
• The late Burl Ives (1909-1995) 

Plus:

• Real Estate developer, entrepreneur and 45^th President of the United States Donald Trump is 77
• Tennis champ Steffi Graf is 54 (She was ranked world No. 1 during her career and won 22 Grand Slam singles titles. Her 22 singles titles marks the record for most Major wins by a tennis player – male or female – since the introduction of the Open Era in 1968, and is second all-time behind Margaret Court. In 1988, she became the first and only tennis player – male or female – to achieve the Golden Slam by winning all four Grand Slam singles titles and the Olympic gold medal in the same calendar year, furthermore, she is the only tennis player to have won each Grand Slam event at least 4 times.) (FAST FACT: She’s been married to Andre Agassi since 2001)
• The late communist revolutionary Che Guevara (1928-1967) …he would have been 95 (An Argentine Marxist revolutionary and guerrilla leader, who helped overthrow the Cuban government in 1959. Ironically, while some have championed him as a symbol of anti-establishment freedom, Guevara was an ardent racist and homophobe.)
• The late Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) (abolitionist and author of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” which sold 300 thousand copies in its first year – something unheard of for anti-slavery fiction at that time) (FAST FACT: Her body is buried at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, under the epitaph “Her Children Rise up and Call Her Blessed.”)

June 15^th 

Actors:

• Jim Belushi is 69 (“According to Jim,” “Curly Sue”)
• Courteney Cox is 59 (“Friends,” “Cougar Town”)
• Eileen Davidson is 64 (“Days of Our Lives,” “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills”)
• Neil Patrick Harris is 50 (“Doogie Houser,” “Gone Girl”)
• Julie Hagerty is 68 (“Malcolm In The Middle,” “Trial and Error”)
• Helen Hunt is 60 (“Mad About You,” “Twister”)
• Leah Remini is 53 (“The King of Queens,” “The Blacklist”)
• The late Jim Varney (1949-2000)…he would have been 74 (Best known as Ernest P. Worrell in the “Earnest” film series) 

Musicians:

• Lonestar’s Michael Britt is 57
• Ice Cube is 54 (born O'Shea Jackson Sr.)
• Never Shout Never’s Hayden Kaiser is 33
• Snow Patrol’s Gary Lightbody is 47
• Imagine Dragons’ guitarist Wayne Sermon is 39
• The late Waylon Jennings (1937-2002)...he would have been 86 (FAST FACT: Waylon learned to play guitar at 8 and began performing at 12 for KVOW radio) 

Plus:

• Baseball Hall of Famer Wade Boggs is 65 (FAST FACT: He is a Five-time American League batting champion and a 12-time All-Star)
• Xaviera Hollander, former call-girl famous for her book “The Happy Hooker” is 80
• Celebrity kidlet North West is 10 (Daughter of reality star Kim Kardashian and rapper Kanye West)
• The late Mario Cuomo, former governor of New York (1932-2015)…he would have been 91

June 16^th 

Actors:

• Joan Van Ark is 80 (“Knott’s Landing,” “Dallas”) (FAST FACT: She was named after Joan of Arc because her dad claimed he knew she was going to be a star.)
• Ian Buchanan is 66 (“All My Children,” “General Hospital)
• John Cho is 51 (“Star Trek,” “Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle”)
• Eddie Cibrian is 50 ("Third Watch," “CSI: Miami”)
• Bill Cobbs is 89 (“The Sopranos,” “Night at the Museum”)
• Abby Elliott is 36 (“Saturday Night Live,” “How I Met Your Mother”) (FAST FACT: She is the daughter of comedian Chris Elliott)
• Sidney Fullmer is 23 (“Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day”)
• Laurie Metcalf is 68 ("Roseanne," “The Big Bang Theory”)
• Nathan Parsons is 35 (“General Hospital”)
• Arnold Vosloo is 61 (“The Mummy” series – he was Imhotep, “24”)
• The late movie comedian Stan Laurel (1890-1965) (“The Music Box,” “A Chump at Oxford”) (FAST FACT: He served as an understudy to Charlie Chaplin as a member of Fred Karno’s Army.) 

Musicians:

• Billy "Crash" Craddock is 84
• Diana DeGarmo is 36 (FAST FACTS: She lost American Idol to Fantasia Barrino in 2004 by two percent of the vote. She’s been married to former “American Idol” contestant and Broadway star Ace Young since 2013….in fact, they just celebrated their ninth anniversary on June 1st)
• The O’Jays’ Eddie Levert is 81
• Gino Vannelli is 71
• The late rapper Tupac Shakur (1971-1996) …he would have been 52 

Plus:

• Boxer Roberto "No Mas" Duran is 72
• PGA star and World Golf Hall of Fame Inductee Phil Mickelson is 53 (FAST FACTS: He is a righty, but mirrored his father playing golf as a lefty and became the first left-handed golfer to win the U.S. Amateur. He has won a total of over 40 PGA events.)
• New York Rangers hockey player Rick Nash is 39 (FAST FACTS: He helped Team Canada win the gold medal at the 2014 Sochi Olympics.)
• Model Jenny Shimizu is 56 (FAST FACTS: She claims to have had intimate relationships with both Madonna and Angelina Jolie.)
• Animator and “Veggie Tales” co-creator Phil Vischer is 57
• The late war hero Geronimo (1829-1909) (FAST FACTS: He was a Native American hero of the Apache Wars who led his people in the fight against the U.S. and Mexico. He was forced to surrender in 1886 and lived many of the remaining years of his life as a prisoner of war.)
• The late wrestler James Hellwig (1959-2014)…he would have been 64

June 17^th 

Actors:

• Scott Adkins is 47 (“The Expendables 2,” “The Bourne Ultimatum”)
• Mark Linn Baker is 69 (“Perfect Strangers,” “Noises Off”)
• Thomas Haden Church is 63 (“Wings,” “Spider Man 3”)
• Arthur Darvill is 41 (“Dr. Who,” “Robin Hood”)
• Will Forte is 53 (“Saturday Night Live,” “30 Rock”)
• Greg Kinnear is 60 (“You’ve Got Mail,” “As Good As It Gets”)
• Joshua Leonard is 48 (“The Blair Witch Project”)
• Erin Murphy is 59 (“Bewitched’s” Tabitha)
• Jason Patric is 57 (“The Lost Boys,” “The Outsider”) (FAST FACTS: A TMZ report claims that he donated his sperm to help his then-girlfriend and later fought for partial custody of the child – and won it. His paternal grandfather was Jackie Gleason, the star of the sitcom “The Honeymooners.”)
• The late William Lucking (1941 – 2021)…he would have been 82 (“Sons of Anarchy,” “The A-Team”) 

Musicians:

• Jello Biafra is 65
• Krayzie Bone is 50 (born Anthony Henderson)
• Kendrick Lamar is 36
• Barry Manilow is 80
• Paulina Rubio is 52 (FAST FACTS: She was also judge on season three of “The X Factor.”)
• Color Me Badd’s Kevin Thornton is 54
• The late composer Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) (FAST FACTS: His parents wanted him to be a lawyer but was convinced by the great Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov to pursue a career in music.) 

Plus:

• Fashion designer Tory Burch is 57
• Former Speaker of the House (and one-time candidate for President) Newt Gingrich is 80
• Australian swimmer and Olympian Stephanie Rice is 35 (She won three gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.)
• Tennis great Venus Williams is 43 (FAST FACTS: She won the Australian Open and French Open singles competition in 1998 and was the first black woman to become World Number One. She became one of the first three female tennis players to reach the finals of all four grand slams along with her younger sister Serena and Maria Sharapova.)
• The late entrepreneur Ruth Graves Wakefield (she invented the Toll House Cookie) (1903-1977)

June 18^th 

Actors:

• David Giuntoli is 43 (“Grimm,” “A Million Little Things”)
• Willa Holland is 32 (“The O.C.,” “Arrow”)
• Carol Kane is 71 (“Princess Bride,” “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”)
• Richard Madden is 37 (“Game of Thrones,” “Cinderella”)
• Renee Olstead is 34 (“The Secret Life of an American Teenager,” “Still Standing”)
• Max Records is 26 (“Where the Wild Things Are,” “The Brothers Bloom”)
• Isabella Rossellini is 71 (“Blue Velvet,” “Shut Eye”)
• Meaghan Rath is 37 (“Being Human,” “Hawaii Five-O”)
• The late Jeanette MacDonald (1903 – 1965) (“Maytime,” “The Love Parade”) 

Musicians:

• All Time Low’s Jack Barakat is 35
• Twenty One Pilots’ Josh Dun is 35
• OT Genasis is 36 (born Odis Oliver Flores)
• Paul McCartney is 81
• Boyz II Men’s Nathan Morris is 52
• Ray LaMontagne is 50
• Alison Moyet is 62
• Guns N’ Roses’ Dizzy Reed is 60 (his actual name, Darren Arthur Reed)
• Blake Shelton is 47
• Silkk tha Shocker is 48 (born Vyshonne King Miller) 

Plus:

• MLB catcher Sandy Alomar, Jr. is 57 (FAST FACTS: He won the AL Rookie of the Year award in 1990 and is a six-time All-Star. And you could say his skill is genetic. He’s the son of former major leaguer Sandy Alomar Sr. and the brother of Hall of Fame second baseman Roberto Alomar.)
• Talent manager Scooter Braun is 42 (Born Scott Samuel Braun, his roster of artists includes Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Psy, Carly Rae Jepsen, Dan + Shay, Tori Kelly, Kanye West and Zac Brown Band)
• Comic book author and cartoonist Alan Davis is 67 (He drew “The Fantastic Four: The End” and has written several volumes of the Avengers and Captain America.)
• Children’s author and illustrator Chris Van Allsburg is 74 (“Jumanji,” “The Polar Express”)
• The late songwriter Sammy Cahn (1913-1993) (FAST FACTS: He wrote the songs “Come Fly With Me” and “Love and Marriage” and won four Academy Awards; he was nominated 22 times.)
• The late legendary film critic Roger Ebert (1942 – 2013)…he would have been 81
• The late poet Frances Sargent Osgood (1811-1850) (FAST FACTS: She was a 19^th century American poet known for her works “The Casket of Fate” and “Puss in Boots.” It’s believed that after she separated from her husband, she and Edgar Allan Poe engaged in an affair of the heart – at least – for years. The pair exchanged love poems for years and it’s said that Poe's wife Virginia approved of the relationship – even inviting her to visit their home. Why? Virginia believed their friendship had a "restraining" effect on her husband. Poe had given up alcohol to impress Osgood, for example.)
• The late Anastasia Nikolaevna (1901-1918) (The youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, who was assassinated by Russian secret police, she was the center of many conspiracy theories. In fact, the classic animated film, “Anastasia,” is based on her life, and those rumors.)

 

June 19^th 

Actors:

• Hugh Dancy is 48 (“Hannibal,” “Law & Order”)
• Paul Dano is 39 (“Little Miss Sunshine,” “12 Years a Slave”)
• Jean Dujardin is 51 (“The Artist,” “The Wolf of Wall Street”) (FAST FACT: He won the Oscar for his role in the silent film “The Artist” in 2012)
• Ryan Hurst is 47 (“Remember the Titans,” “Sons of Anarchy”)
• Mia Maestro is 45 (“Alias,” “The Twilight Saga”)
• Phylicia Rashad is 75 (“The Cosby Show,” “Creed”)
• Gena Rowlands is 93 (“The Notebook,” “Monk”)
• Zoe Saldana is 45 (“Avatar,” “Guardians of the Galaxy”)
• Mia Sara is 56 (“Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” “Chicago Hope”)
• Robin Tunney is 51 (“Encino Man,” “Prison Break”)
• Aidan Turner is 40 (“The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,” “The Clinic”)
• Kathleen Turner is 69 (“The War of the Roses,” “Californication”)
• The late leader of the Three Stooges, Moe Howard (1897-1975) (“Men in White,” “Three Little Pigskins”) 

Musicians:

• Paula Abdul is 61
• Mayday Parade’s Jeremy Lenzo is 37
• The Avett Brothers’ Scott Avett is 47
• Macklemore is 40 (his mama knows him as Benjamin Hammond Haggerty)
• The Verve Pipe’s Brian Vander Ark is 57
• Korn’s guitarist Brian “Head” Welch is 53
• Heart’s Ann Wilson is 73
• The late bandleader of The Royal Canadians, Guy Lombardo (1902-1977) (FAST FACTS: He and his band were known for singing “Auld Lang Syne” on New Year’s Eve. They sold over 100-million albums over the course of his career and he has three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.) 

Plus:

• Talk show host and author Laura Ingraham is 60 (“The Obama Diaries”)
• Author Salman Rushdie is 76 (“The Satanic Verses,” “Midnight’s Children,” “Fury”) (FAST FACTS: He received death threats from the Iranian government for his controversial works – especially the “Satanic Verses,” which was deemed an affront to Islam.)
• TV personality Lara Spencer is 54 (“Good Morning America,” “Antiques Roadshow FYI,” “Flea Market Flip”)
• The late Baseball Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig (1903-1941) (FAST FACTS: He was a 7-time All Star, 6-time World Series Champion, 2-time AL MVP and became known as the “Iron Horse” after playing in 2,130 consecutive games.)
• The late French physicist Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) (He was also a Christian philosopher, inventor, writer, and math theorist)

 

June 20^th 

Actors:

• John Goodman is 71 (“10 Cloverfield Lane,” “Roseanne”)
• Nicole Kidman is 56 (“Moulin Rouge,” “Big Little Lies”)
• Claudia Lee is 27 (“Zeke & Luther,” “Heart of Dixie”)
• Josh Lucas is 52 (“A Beautiful Mind,” “Hulk”)
• Sereyah McNeil is 28 (“Empire”)
• Christopher Mintz-Plasse is 34 (“Superbad,” “Role Models,” “Kick-Ass”)
• Peter Paige is 54 (“Say Uncle,” “Queer as Folk”)
• Tika Sumpter is 43 (“One Life to Live,” “Ride Along”)
• The late Danny Aiello (1933-2019)...he would have been 90 (“The Godfather: Part II,” “Moonstruck”)
• The late Olympia Dukakis (1931 – 2021) ...she would have been 92 (“Moonstruck,” “In the Land of Women,” “Steel Magnolias”)
• The late Errol Flynn (1909-1959) (“The Adventures of Robin Hood,” “Captain Blood”)
• The late Martin Landau (1928 – 2017) (“Mission Impossible,” “Ed Wood,” “North by Northwest”)
• The late John Mahoney (1940 – 2018)…he would have been 83 (“Frasier,” “Say Anything”) 

Musicians:

• Van Halen/ Chickenfoot/ Sammy Hagar and the Circle bassist Michael Anthony is 69
• Switchfoot’s Jerome Fontamillas is 56
• Sugar Ray’s Murphy Karges is 56 (that’s according to FamousBirthdays.com)
• Anne Murray is 78
• Grace Potter is 40 (FAST FACT: Grace and her record producer/husband, Eric Valentine, welcomed their son, Sagan Potter Valentine, in January 2018)
• Twiggy Ramirez is 52 (Born Jeordie Osbourne White, he played with Marilyn Manson for a number of years – in 2017, he was kicked from Manson’s crew amid accusations by ex-girlfriend Jessicka Addams, who published a Facebook post accusing White of raping her, as well as physically and emotionally abusing her throughout their relationship)
• Lionel Richie is 74 (FAST FACTS: He co-wrote the famous fundraising song “We Are the World” with Michael Jackson, which raised money for people in Africa. He also adopted Nicole Richie when she was 9.)
• Duran Duran’s John Taylor is 63
• Chuck Wicks is 44
• Brian Wilson is 81 (FAST FACTS: He co-wrote over 25 top 40 hits for the Beach Boys such as “Good Vibrations” and “Surfin’ the USA.”)
• The late guitarist Chet Atkins (1924-2001) (FAST FACTS: He received 14 Grammy awards and won the Instrumentalist of the Year honor at the Country Music Awards nine times.) 

Plus:

• Comedian Mike Birbiglia is 45
• Director Stephen Frears is 82 (“My Beautiful Laundrette,” “Florence Foster Jenkins””)
• Director Robert Rodriguez is 55 (“From Dusk Till Dawn,” “Machete”)
• WWF wrestler Koko B. “The Birdman” Ware is 65

June 20^th 

Actors:

• John Goodman is 71 (“10 Cloverfield Lane,” “Roseanne”)
• Nicole Kidman is 56 (“Moulin Rouge,” “Big Little Lies”)
• Claudia Lee is 27 (“Zeke & Luther,” “Heart of Dixie”)
• Josh Lucas is 52 (“A Beautiful Mind,” “Hulk”)
• Sereyah McNeil is 28 (“Empire”)
• Christopher Mintz-Plasse is 34 (“Superbad,” “Role Models,” “Kick-Ass”)
• Peter Paige is 54 (“Say Uncle,” “Queer as Folk”)
• Tika Sumpter is 43 (“One Life to Live,” “Ride Along”)
• The late Danny Aiello (1933-2019)...he would have been 90 (“The Godfather: Part II,” “Moonstruck”)
• The late Olympia Dukakis (1931 – 2021) ...she would have been 92 (“Moonstruck,” “In the Land of Women,” “Steel Magnolias”)
• The late Errol Flynn (1909-1959) (“The Adventures of Robin Hood,” “Captain Blood”)
• The late Martin Landau (1928 – 2017) (“Mission Impossible,” “Ed Wood,” “North by Northwest”)
• The late John Mahoney (1940 – 2018)…he would have been 83 (“Frasier,” “Say Anything”) 

Musicians:

• Van Halen/ Chickenfoot/ Sammy Hagar and the Circle bassist Michael Anthony is 69
• Switchfoot’s Jerome Fontamillas is 56
• Sugar Ray’s Murphy Karges is 56 (that’s according to FamousBirthdays.com)
• Anne Murray is 78
• Grace Potter is 40 (FAST FACT: Grace and her record producer/husband, Eric Valentine, welcomed their son, Sagan Potter Valentine, in January 2018)
• Twiggy Ramirez is 52 (Born Jeordie Osbourne White, he played with Marilyn Manson for a number of years – in 2017, he was kicked from Manson’s crew amid accusations by ex-girlfriend Jessicka Addams, who published a Facebook post accusing White of raping her, as well as physically and emotionally abusing her throughout their relationship)
• Lionel Richie is 74 (FAST FACTS: He co-wrote the famous fundraising song “We Are the World” with Michael Jackson, which raised money for people in Africa. He also adopted Nicole Richie when she was 9.)
• Duran Duran’s John Taylor is 63
• Chuck Wicks is 44
• Brian Wilson is 81 (FAST FACTS: He co-wrote over 25 top 40 hits for the Beach Boys such as “Good Vibrations” and “Surfin’ the USA.”)
• The late guitarist Chet Atkins (1924-2001) (FAST FACTS: He received 14 Grammy awards and won the Instrumentalist of the Year honor at the Country Music Awards nine times.) 

Plus:

• Comedian Mike Birbiglia is 45
• Director Stephen Frears is 82 (“My Beautiful Laundrette,” “Florence Foster Jenkins””)
• Director Robert Rodriguez is 55 (“From Dusk Till Dawn,” “Machete”)
• WWF wrestler Koko B. “The Birdman” Ware is 65

June 21^st 

Actors:

• Meredith Baxter is 76 (“Family Ties,” “A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story,”)
• Erica Durance is 45 (“Smallville,” “Supergirl”)
• Ron Ely is 85 (“Tarzan,” “Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze”)
• Michael Gross is 76 (“Family Ties,” “Suits”) (FAST FACT: While most fans know him for warmer, fuzzier roles… “Law & Order” devotees know his particularly creepy turns as killers in “Criminal Intent” and “SVU” episodes)
• Mariette Hartley is 83 (“The Incredible Hulk,” “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”)
• Juliette Lewis is 50 (“Natural Born Killers,” “From Dusk till Dawn,”)
• Michael Malarkey is 40 (“The Vampire Diaries”)
• David Morrissey is 59 (“Sense and Sensibility,” “The Walking Dead”)
• Chris Pratt is 44 (“Parks and Recreation,” “Guardians of the Galaxy,” “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom”) (FAST FACT: In 2015, “Time” magazine named Pratt one of the 100 most influential people in the world on the annual ‘Time 100 list.’ Now counting ‘Governator’ Arnold Schwarzenegger as his father-in-law, Pratt got hitched to Katherine Schwarzenegger in 2019. Their first child together, Lyla Maria, was born in August 2020, they welcomed their second daughter, Eloise Christina, in May 2022)
• Carrie Preston is 56 (“True Blood,” “The Good Wife”)
• Doug Savant is 59 (“Desperate Housewives,” “24”)
• Maggie Siff is 49 (“Mad Men,” “Sons of Anarchy”)
• Jussie Smollett is 41 (“The Mighty Ducks,” “Alien: Covenant”)
• The late Jane Russell (1921-2011) (“Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” “Fate is the Hunter”) 

Musicians:

• Kris Allen is 38
• Ray Davies is 79
• Lana Del Rey is 38 (Her real name? Elizabeth Woolridge Grant)
• The Killers’ Brandon Flowers is 42 (FAST FACT: He joined the Killers in response to a newspaper ad)
• Aerosmith’s Joey Kramer is 73
• Kathy Mattea is 64 

Plus:

• YouTube sensation Rebecca Black is 26 (FAST FACT: Rebecca Black earned her fame with the song “Friday” in 2011, which went viral for being one of the worst music videos of all time. More recently, she returned to the collective consciousness by way of the FOX series, “The Four: The Battle For Stardom” as well as a stint on NBC’s “The Voice”)
• Edward Snowden is 40 (FAST FACT: Former CIA employee who made global headlines in June 2013 when he told the media about the National Security Agency's invasive tactics)
• Britain’s Prince William/Duke of Cambridge is 41
• The late Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007) …she would have been 70 (FAST FACT: became the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state. She was assassinated in a bombing in Pakistan after spending nine years in self-exile)
• The late philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) (FAST FACT: he is considered the father of existentialism)

June 22^nd 

Actors:

• Amy Brenneman is 59 (“NYPD Blue,” “Judging Amy”)
• Bruce Campbell is 65 (“Xena: Warrior Princess,” “Evil Dead” movie and TV series)
• Donald Faison is 49 (“Remember The Titans,” "Scrubs")
• Graham Greene is 71 ("Dances With Wolves," “The Twilight Saga: New Moon”) (FAST FACT: Greene is an Oneida born in Ohsweken, on the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario)
• Tracy Pollan is 63 (“Family Ties,” “Law & Order: SVU”) FAST FACT: She’s been married to Michael J. Fox since 1988)
• Lindsay Ridgeway is 38 ("Boy Meets World," “Cats Don’t Dance”)
• Tim Russ is 67 (“Star Trek: Voyager,” “iCarly”)
• Meryl Streep is 74 (“Silkwood,” “The Devil Wears Prada”)
• Lindsay Wagner is 74 (“The Bionic Woman,” “Grey’s Anatomy”)
• The late David L. Lander (1947 – 2020) ...he would have been 76 (Squiggy on "Laverne and Shirley," “Twin Peaks,” “Pacific Blue,” “The Bold and the Beautiful”)
• The late Freddie Prinze (“Chico and the Man”) (1954-1977)…he would have been 69 (FAST FACTS: Born Frederick Karl Pruetzel, he was considered one of the biggest stars in 70’s known for his for his stand up talent and his “everyman” humor. Sadly, he committed suicide after years of battling depression that deepened when his wife filed for divorce. His son, Freddie Prinze, Jr. was barely a year old at the time.)
• The late Ralph Waite ("The Waltons," “NCIS”) (1928-2014) … he would have been 95 

Musicians:

• Cory Gunz is 36 (his given name, Peter Cory Pankey, Jr.)
• Fifth Harmony’s Dinah Jane Hansen is 26
• Kris Kristofferson is 87
• Cyndi Lauper is 70
• The late Bobby Harrison of Procol Harum (1939 – 2022)….he would have been 84 

Plus:

• Author Dan Brown is 59 (“The Da Vinci Code,” “Angels & Demons”)
• TV personality Carson Daly is 50
• Clyde “Clyde the Glide” Drexler, former NBA basketball player Olympic gold medalist is 61
• Philadelphia 76ers’ shooting guard/small forward Danny Green is 36
• Former NFL Hall of Famer-turned-analyst Kurt Warner is 52 (FAST FACT: Inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2017, and is the only person inducted into both the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the Arena Football Hall of Fame)
• Reality TV star Porsha Williams is 42 (“The Real Housewives of Atlanta”)
• The late CBS newsman Ed Bradley (1941-2006)…he would have been 82

June 23^rd 

Actors:

• Selma Blair is 51 (“Legally Blonde,” “American Crime Story”)
• Bryan Brown is 76 (“The Thorn Birds,” “Gods of Egypt”)
• Joel Edgerton is 49 (“Star Wars Episode II and II,” “The Thing,” “Zero Dark Thirty”)
• Frances McDormand is 66 (“Raising Arizona,” “Fargo”)
• Melissa Rauch is 43 (“The Big Bang Theory,” the reboot of “Night Court”)
• Ted Shackelford is 77 (“Knots Landing,” “Dallas”)
• Billy Wirth is 61 (“The Lost Boys,” “Body Snatchers”) 

Musicians:

• Memphis Bleek is 45 (His given name, Malik Cox)
• Glenn Danzig is 68 (FAST FACT: Born Glenn Allen Anzalone, he’s 5-feet, 3-inches tall)
• Duffy is 39 (Duffy’s actually her last name – Amy Anne Duffy is her full name)
• April Wine’s Myles Goodwin is 75
• Pake McEntire is 70 (Reba’s older brother)
• Jason Mraz is 46
• Sonic Youth’s Steve Shelley is 61
• KT Tunstall is 48
• The late June Carter Cash (1929 – 2003) …she would have been 94 (FAST FACT: At Carter's funeral, her stepdaughter, Rosanne Cash, said, "If being a wife were a corporation, June would have been a CEO. It was her most treasured role.”
• The late Stuart Sutcliffe (1940 – 1962) …he would have been 83 (FAST FACTS: The Beatles' first bassist, Sutcliffe was credited, along with John Lennon, with creating the band's name.) 

Plus:

• Reality star Anna Duggar is 35 (“19 Kids And Counting”) (FAST FACT: She’s been married to Josh Duggar since 2008 and welcomed their fifth child in September 2017 and in spite of his infidelities – and recent conviction on federal child porn charges – she’s standing by him).
• TV personality Randy Jackson is 67 (While he’s best known to younger audiences as one of the original “American Idol” judges, Randy, he’s also a GRAMMY-winning producer who has been a featured session musician on a variety of projects from rock to pop and even country)
• Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is 75 (Second African-American to serve on the Supreme Court, he succeeded Thurgood Marshall. He is a firm believer in the textualist view of the U.S. Constitution, meaning seeking to uphold what he sees as the original meaning of the United States Constitution and its statutes)
• Producer Joss Whedon is 59 (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Ange,” “Firefly,” “Dollhouse,” “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” (from 2013), “Serenity,” “The Cabin in the Woods,” “The Avengers,” “Avengers: Age of Ultron”)
• The late producer/choreographer Bob Fosse (1927 – 1987 (“The Pajama Game,” “Damn Yankees,” “Cabaret”)
• The late sexologist Alfred C. Kinsey (1894 – 1956) (World-renowned sex researcher who founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University in 1947 and compiled statistical research on his subjects' intimate behavior. His books, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male and Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, are considered precursors to the sexual revolution that occurred over a decade later and he is the subject of the 2004 film, “Kinsey,” where he is played by Liam Neeson.)
• The late runner and Olympic gold medalist Wilma Rudolph (Rudolph was acclaimed the fastest woman in the world in the 1960s and became the first American woman to win three gold medals in a single Olympic Games.) (1940-1994)…she would have been 83.

June 24^th 

Actors:

• Nancy Allen is 73 (“Carrie,” the “Robocop” series)
• Max Ehrich is 32 (“iCarly” “Parenthood”)
• Mindy Kaling is 44 (“The Office,” “Ocean’s 8””)
• Minka Kelly is 43 (“Friday Night Lights,” “Charlie's Angels”)
• Michele Lee is 81 (“Love, American Style,” “The Love Boat”)
• Candice Patton is 35 (“The Young and the Restless,” “The Flash”)
• Joe Penny is 67 (“Riptide,” “Jake and the Fatman”)
• Betsy Randall is 73 (“Boy Meets World,” “Home Improvement”)
• Sherry Stringfield is 56 (“NYPD Blue,” “Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders”)
• Coy Stewart is 25 (“Are We There Yet,” “Bella and the Bulldogs”)
• Peter Weller is 76 (“Robocop” series, also director on “Sons of Anarchy”)
• The late Tom “Tiny” Lister, Jr. (1958 – 2020)...he would have been 65 (“Beverly Hills Cop II,” “The Fifth Element,” “Friday,” “Jackie Brown,” “Next Friday”)
• The late Al Molinaro (1919 – 2015) (Al Delvecchio, “Happy Days” and Murray the Cop on “The Odd Couple”) 

Musicians:

• Mick Fleetwood is 76
• Rammstein’s Richard Kruspe is 56
• Hollywood Undead’s Johnny 3 Tears is 42 (his given name is George Ragan, and that age is according to FamousBirthdays.com)
• Levi Roots is 65 (his mama knows him as Keith Valentine Graham)
• Tears for Fears bassist Curt Smith is 62
• Solange is 37 (her full name, Solange Piaget Knowles)
• The late Jeff Beck…he would have been 79
• The late Astro (aka Terence Wilson) of UB40 (1957 – 2021)…he would have been 66
• The late Chris Wood of Traffic (1944 – 1983)…he would have been 79 

Plus:

• 2009 FIFA World Player of the Year award winner Lionel Messi is 36
• Supermodel Petra Nemcova is 44 (FAST FACT: Back in December 2004, she was among those swept up in the “Boxing Day Tsunami.” In Thailand with her fiancé, Simon Atlee, a massive earthquake in the Indian Ocean, which caused a tsunami that devastated the region. While Simon drowned, she was able to hold on to a palm tree for eight hours with a broken pelvis and serious internal injuries until she was rescued. In the wake of the massive tragedy, she founded the Happy Hearts Fund, which aims to rebuild safe, resilient schools in areas impacted by natural disasters.)
• The late author and journalist Ambrose Bierce (1842-1913 or 1914) ("An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.") (FAST FACT: Bierce's book “The Devil's Dictionary” was named as one of "The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature" by the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration. In December 1913, Bierce traveled to Chihuahua, Mexico to gain first-hand experience of the Mexican Revolution. He disappeared while rumored to be traveling with rebel troops, and was never seen again.)
• The late prizefighter Jack Dempsey (1895-1983) (He held the World Heavyweight Title in boxing from 1919-1926. Dempsey is ranked as tenth on “The Ring” magazine's list of all-time heavyweights, seventh among its Top 100 Greatest Punchers and is a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame. He was inducted into The Ring's Boxing Hall of Fame in 1951.)
• The late Roy O. Disney (1893 – 1971) (First CEO of The Walt Disney Company, which he co-founded with his younger brother, Walt. He was credited as being the financial mind behind the Disney empire, while Walt was the creative force.)
• The late comedian Phil Harris (1904-1995) (FAST FACT: Voice actor who went from being on radio’s “The Jack Benny Program” to portraying Baloo in Disney's “The Jungle Book” and Thomas O'Malley in “The Aristocats”)
• The late Robert Downey Sr. (1936 – 2021)…he would have been 87 (Director of “Hugo Pool” and “Greaser’s Palace” and father of actor Robert Downey Jr.)
• The late Chuck Taylor (1901-1969) (FAST FACT: He is credited as the first athlete to endorse a line of shoes with his Chuck Taylor All-Stars, which became one of the top-selling basketball shoes in history. Here’s the thing, while he claimed to play on various basketball teams, no record of it appears to exist.) 

June 25^th 

Actors:

• Linda Cardellini is 48 (“Freaks and Geeks,” “Avengers: Age of Ultron”)
• Erica Gimpel is 59 (TV’s “Fame,” “Veronica Mars”)
• Angela Kinsey is 52 (“The Office,” “Your Family or Mine”)
• Jason Lewis is 52 (“Sex and the City,” “Brothers & Sisters”)
• June Lockhart is 98 (“Lassie,” “Lost in Space”)
• Busy Philipps is 44 (“Freaks and Geeks,” “Dawson Creek,” “Cougar Town”)
• Jimmie Walker is 76 (“Good Times,” “Scrubs,” “Everybody Hates Chris”) 

Musicians:

• Candyman is 55 (born Candell Manson)
• Tim Finn (Split Enz, Crowded House) is 71
• Sixpence None The Richer guitarist Sean Kelly is 52
• Nickelback’s Mike Kroeger is 51
• Toto’s David Paich is 69
• Richie Rich is 56
• Carly Simon is 80
• The late Allen Lanier (Blue Oyster Cult) (1946 – 2013)…he would have been 77
• The late Ian McDonald (King Crimson, Foreigner) (1946 – 2022)…he would have been 77
• The late George Michael (his given name, Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou) (1963 – 2016)…he would have been 60 

Plus:

• Funnyman (and sometime actor) Ricky Gervais is 62 (Among other things, he co-wrote and co-directed the British version of “The Office”)
• Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is 69 (She is the 111^th appointment to the Court, and has the distinction of being its first justice of Hispanic heritage, its third female justice, and its twelfth Roman Catholic justice)
• TV personality, reality TV star and author La La Anthony is 41 (Best known from MTV’s “TRL” and “La La’s Full Court Life,” did you know that her actual name is Alani Nicole Anthony?)
• The late chef, author, all-around awesome TV personality Anthony Bourdain (1956 – 2018)…he would have been 67
• The late children’s author Eric Carle (1929 – 2021) (He created the best-selling picture book “The Very Hungry Caterpillar,” as well as “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?” As for his ‘Hungry Caterpillar?’ It’s been translated into more than 66 languages and sold more than 50-million copies)
• The late author George Orwell (1903-1950) (A prolific author and satirist, he is best known for “1984,” “Animal Farm” – his actual name? Eric Arthur Blair)

 

June 26^th 

Actors:

• Robert Davi is 72 (“The Goonies,” “The Expendables 3”)
• Sean Hayes is 53 (“Will & Grace,” “Sean Saves The World”) (FAST FACT: He saved a man's life in 2001 after he had been shot and robbed. He never sought publicity for the act of kindness – he was outed by the victim.)
• Matt Letscher is 53 ("Good Morning, Miami," “The Carrie Diaries”)
• Jeanette McCurdy is 31 (“iCarly,” “Sam & Cat”)
• Mark McKinney is 64 ("Kids in the Hall," “Brain Candy”)
• Chris O'Donnell is 53 (“Grey's Anatomy,” “NCIS: Los Angeles”)
• Nick Offerman is 53 (“Parks and Recreation,” “Fargo”)
• Aubrey Plaza is 39 (“Parks and Recreation” “Criminal Minds”)
• Jason Schwartzman is 43 ("Rushmore," “The Grand Budapest Hotel”) (FAST FACT: His uncle is the famous director Francis Coppola)
• The late Peter Lorre (1904 – 1964) (“Casablanca,” “Casino Royale”)
• The late Eleanor Parker (1922-2013) (“The Sound of Music” “Saramouche”) 

Musicians:

• The 5^th Dimension’s Billy Davis, Jr. is 85
• EMF’s Mark Decloedt is 54
• Ariana Grande is 30
• Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood is 54
• Chris Isaak is 67
• The Clash’s Mick Jones is 68
• Berlin’s Terri Nunn is 62
• Patty Smyth is 66 (FAST FACT: She’s been married to John McEnroe since 1997)
• OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder is 44
• Gretchen Wilson is 50 

Plus:

• MLB champ Derek Jeter is 49 (A five-time World Series champion, Jeter is regarded as a central figure of the Yankees' success of the late 1990s and early 2000s for his hitting, baserunning, fielding, and leadership. The team retired his uniform number – 2 – in May 2017)
• Ex-con NFL QB-turned-analyst Michael Vick is 43
• NBA shooting guard Iman Shumpert is 33 (Shumpert was selected by the New York Knicks with the 17^th overall pick in the 2011 NBA draft. Shumpert won an NBA championship with the Cavaliers in 2016)
• Olympic gold medal winner and Cleveland Cavaliers point guard Deron Wiliams is 38
• The late Pulitzer Prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck (1892 – 1973) (“The Good Earth”) (FAST FACT: In 1938, she became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature)
• The late war hero Abner Doubleday (1819-1893) (U.S. Army officer and American Civil War Union general who fired the first shot in the Civil War's first battle) (FAST FACT: He has often been inaccurately credited with inventing baseball) (1819 – 1893)
• The late award-winning makeup artist Dick Smith (1922 – 2014) (He won the Academy Award for Makeup for “Amadeus.” He has also worked on films such as “The Godfather” and “The Exorcist.”)

June 27^th 

Actors:

• Drake Bell is 37 (“The Amanda Show,” “Drake & Josh”)
• Sam Claflin is 37 (“Pirates of the Caribbean,” “The Hunger Games” series)
• Julia Duffy is 72 ("Newhart," “Designing Women”)
• Matthew Lewis is 34 (Neville Longbottom in the “Harry Potter” Franchise)
• Tobey Maguire is 48 (“Spider-Man” film trilogy, “Pleasantville”)
• Alanna Masterson is 35 (“The Walking Dead’s” Tara, “Mistresses”)
• Madylin Sweeten is 32 (“Everybody Loves Raymond,” “TMI Hollywood”)
• Chandler Riggs is 24 (“The Walking Dead’s” Carl)
• Ed Westwick is 36 (“Gossip Girl,” “Wicked City”)
• The late Bob Keeshan (1927-2004)…he would have 96 (“Captain Kangaroo”) 

Musicians:

• Modern Day Escape Drummer Sandra Alva is 35
• Fifth Harmony’s Lauren Jauregui is 27
• The Beach Boys’ Bruce Johnston is 81
• Squeeze’s Gilson Lavis is 72
• Lorrie Morgan is 64
• Sixpence None the Richer’s Leigh Nash is 47
• Lawson’s Joel Peat is 33 

Plus:

• Producer/director JJ Abrams is 57 (“Felicity,” “Alias,” “Lost,” “Mission Impossible III,” “Armageddon,” “Cloverfield,” “Star Trek,” “Star Wars: The Force Awakens)
• Reality star Khloe Kardashian is 39 (“Keeping Up With The Kardashians”) (FAST FACT: In 2001, Kardashian suffered a traumatic brain injury in a car accident in which she went through the windshield and suffered a severe concussion, causing long-term memory loss.)
• Fashion designer Vera Wang is 74
• The late Helen Keller (1880-1968) (FAST FACTS: Though she was deaf and blind, Keller became a suffragist, political activist and author. She became good friends with author Mark Twain, who helped her to become the first deaf and blind person to receive a Bachelor’s degree.)
• The late Zillionaire and former presidential candidate Ross Perot (1930 – 2019) ...he would have been 93
• The late educator Wilson C. Riles (1917 – 1999) (The first black state official elected to statewide office in California) (FAST FACTS: His upset win in November 1970 over controversial incumbent Max Rafferty was described as "one of the most stunning upsets in California's political history. He was also the first black-American in the nation to be elected state superintendent of schools.)