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September 1^st

Actors:

Ricardo Antonio Chavira is 51 (“Desperate Housewives,” “24,” “Scandal,” “Santa Clarita Diet”)
Scott Speedman is 47 (“Felicity,” “The Strangers,” “The Vow,” “Animal Kingdom”)
Maury Sterling is 51 (“Smokin’ Aces,” “Homeland”)
Lily Tomlin is 83 (“9 to 5,” “All of Me,” “Flirting with Disaster,” “Tea with Mussolini,” “I Heart Huckabees,” “Grace & Frankie”) (FAST FACTS: The legendary comedienne has won multiple awards including a GRAMMY in 1972 for “This Is A Recording” as well as four Emmy Awards. Closeted for years, she’s been with her partner Jane Wagner since 1971 – the couple married in 2013.)
Zendaya is 26 (Her last name is Coleman, by the way!) (While we met her as a singer, she’s also appeared in “Shake It Up,” “KC Undercover,” “Spiderman,” “The Greatest Showman”) (FAST FACT: While rumored to be involved with “Spider Man” co-star Tom Holland since 2016, their status was confirmed in July 2021 when paparazzos snapped the pair smooching in a car)
The late Yvonne DeCarlo (1922 – 2007)…she would have been 100 (“The Ten Commandments,” “Flame of the Islands,” “Death of a Scoundrel,” “Band of Angels,” “The Sword and the Cross,” “The Munsters”)

Musicians:

Scissor Sisters’ Babydaddy (born Scott Hoffman) is 46
Sly and the Family Stone drummer Greg Errico is 74
Gloria Estefan is 65
Barry Gibb is 76
Tokio Hotel’s Tom Kaulitz is 33
Pistol Annies’ Angaleena Presley is 46
Charlie Robison is 58
Fall Out Boy’s Joe Trohman is 38
The late Conway Twitty (1933 – 1993)…he would have been 89 (He was born Harold Lloyd Jenkins)

Plus:

Celebrity offspring (and burgeoning model and footballer/soccer player) Romeo Beckham is 20 (The son of David Beckham and Victoria Beckham, his older brother is Brooklyn and his younger brother is Cruz)
Famed (or infamous, depending on your perspective) lawyer Alan Dershowitz is 84 (He has earned his fame by representing a long list of celebrity clients, including Mike Tyson, Patty Hearst, and Jim Bakker. His most notable cases include his role in 1984 in overturning the conviction of Claus von Bülow – for the attempted murder of his wife, Sunny – and as the appellate adviser for the defense in the O.J. Simpson murder trial.)
TV personality Padma Lakshmi is 52 (“Top Chef”)
TV personality Dr. Phil McGraw is 72
Reality TV star/sometime rapper Chanel West Coast is 34 (Born Chelsea Chanel Dudley, you can find her on shows including “Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factory,” “Ridiculousness.” She’s currently expecting her first child with boyfriend Dom Fenison.)
Fashion designer/stylist Rachel Zoe is 51

September 2^nd

Actors:

Mark Harmon is 71 (“The Presidio,” “Summer School,” “Flamingo Road,” “St. Elsewhere,” “Reasonable Doubts,” “Chicago Hope,” “NCIS,” “NCIS: New Orleans”) (FAST FACT: He’s been married to Pam Dawber of “Mork & Mindy” fame since 1987)
Salma Hayek is 56 (“Desperado,” “From Dusk Till Dawn,” “Dogma,” “Wild Wild West,” “Frida,” “Grown Ups,” “Ugly Betty,” “30 Rock,” “How To Be A Latin Lover,” “The Hitman’s Bodyguard”)
Jonathan Kite is 43 (”2 Broke Girls”)
Linda Purl is 67 (“Happy Days,” “Matlock,” “The Office,” “Reckless”)
Keanu Reeves is 58 (“Bill and Ted” franchise, “Point Break,” “Bram Stoker’s Dracula,” “Speed,” “Dangerous Liaisons,” My Own Private Idaho,” “The Matrix” franchise, “The Devil's Advocate,” “Constantine,” “47 Ronin,” “John Wick” series)
Cynthia Watros is 54 (“Guiding Light,” “The Drew Carey Show,” “Lost,” “Titus”)
Katt Williams is 51 (“Friday After Next, “My Wife and Kids,” Norbit”) (FAST FACT: His given name is Micah Sierra Williams)

Musicians:

10,000 Maniacs’ Jerry Augustyniak is 64
Mayday Parade’s Jake Bundrick is 39
The Mavericks’ Paul Deakin is 63
K-Ci and JoJo’s Cedric “K-Ci” Hailey is 53
Limp Bizkit bassist Sam Rivers is 45
Panic At The Disco’s! Spencer Smith is 35
Zedd is 33 (born Anton Zaslavski)
The late Impressions’ founder Sam Gooden (1934 – 2022)…he would have been 88
The late Billy Preston (1946 – 2006)…he would have been 76

Plus:

Reality TV star Tamra Judge is 55 (“Real Housewives of Orange County”)
Pro Football Hall of Famer Terry Bradshaw is 74 (FAST FACTS: The Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback who led the team to four Super Bowl Championships after the team selected him first overall in the 1970 NFL Draft. He became a widely popular Fox sports analyst after retirement.)
Tennis champ Jimmy Connors is 70 (FAST FACTS: Connors won eight Grand Slam tournaments including the U.S. Open five times from 1974 to 1983. He held the top ranking in tennis for 160 consecutive weeks from July, 1974 to August, 1977)
Reality TV star Camille Grammer is 54 (“Real Housewives of Beverly Hills)
Entrepreneur Harvey Levin is 72 (Former lawyer and “People’s Court” correspondent, who became the founder of TMZ)
Heavyweight boxing champ Lennox Lewis is 57 (He’s a three-time world heavyweight champion, a two-time lineal champion, and remains the last heavyweight to hold the undisputed title. Holding dual British and Canadian citizenship; he represented Canada at the 1988 Summer Olympics as an amateur – and won a gold medal in the super-heavyweight division after defeating future world champion Riddick Bowe in the final.)
Celebrity daughter Aimee Osbourne is 39 (FAST FACT: Unlike the rest of her famous family, Aimee has largely avoided the limelight – and had declined to participate in “The Osbournes.” In recent years, however, she’s begun releasing music under the moniker ARO)
The late schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe (1948 – 1986)…she would have been 74 (FAST FACTS: Scheduled to become NASA's first teacher in space, McAuliffe was tragically killed in 1986 when the Challenger exploded. She was chosen for the STS-51-L mission from among 11,000 applications. She was posthumously granted the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 2004.)

September 3rd

Actors:

Ashley Jones is 46 (“The Bold & The Beautiful,” “True Blood”)
Costas Mandylor is 57 (“Mobsters,” "Picket Fences," “Saw” series)
Valerie Perrine is 79 (“Slaughterhouse-Five,” “Superman,” “Electric Horseman,” “The Cannonball Run,” “) (FAST FACTS: She began her career as a Las Vegas showgirl, and made her screen debut as the soft-core porn actress Montana Wildhack in “Slaughterhouse-Five,” “The Californians”)
Charlie Sheen is 57 (“Platoon,” “Wall Street,” “Young Guns,” “Eight Men Out,” “Major League,” “Hot Shots!,” “The Three Musketeers,” “Two and a Half Men,” “Anger Management”) (FAST FACT: His birth name is Carlos Irwin Estévez)
Nick Wechsler is 44 (“Roswell,” “Team Knight Rider,” “Revenge”)
The late Eileen Brennan (1932 – 2013)…she would have been 90 (“Divorce American Style,” “The Last Picture Show “The Sting,” “Taxi,” “Private Benjamin,” “Newhart,” “Clue,” “thirtysomething,” “Jeepers Creepers,” “7^th Heaven,” “Will & Grace”) (FAST FACT: She received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for her role in “Private Benjamin,” and when she reprised the role for the TV adaptation of the film, she won both a Golden Globe and Emmy for her performance.)
The late Kitty Carlisle-Hart (1910 – 2007) (“Murder at the Vanities,” “A Night at the Opera,” “Hollywood Cantee,” “Radio Days,” “Six Degrees of Separation,” “Catch Me If You Can,” “To Tell The Truth”)
The late Anne Jackson (1925 – 2016)…she would have been 97 (“Gunsmoke,” “The Shining,” “The Secret Life of An American Wife” (FAST FACT: She was married to actor Eli Wallach from 1948 until his death in June 2014 making their 66-year marriage one of the longest in Hollywood history)

Musicians:

Grand Funk Railroad’s Don Brewer is 74
The Beach Boys’ Al Jardine is 80
Sum 41’s Jason McCaslin is 42
LMFAO’s Redfoo is 47 (given name Stefan Kendal Gordy) (FAST FACTS: The son of Motown founder Berry Gordy, Jr., he went to school with GoonRock and will.i.am, and began his career as a producer and song writer at age 22)
Hollywood Undead’s Charlie Scene is 37 (that’s according to FamousBirthdays.com)
The Sex Pistols’ Steve Jones is 67
Disturbed’s Mike Wengren is 51

Plus:

Snowboarder/skateboarder Shaun White is 36 (FAST FACTS: A two-time Olympic Gold medalist, he holds the X-Games records for gold medals and highest overall medal count, and has won 10 ESPY Awards. He’s been dating actress Nina Dobrev since 2019)
The late car manufacturer Ferdinand Porsche (1875 – 1951) (FAST FACTS: He created the Volkswagen Beetle and the early Porsche cars. He also created the first electric hybrid automobile. During WWII, he helped design and build Germany's fearsome tanks.)

September 4^th

Actors:

Khandi Alexander is 65 ("ER," "Newsradio," “CSI: Miami”)
Wes Bentley is 44 (“American Beauty,” “Four Feathers,” “Ghost Rider,” “The Hunger Games,” “American Horror Story”)
Mitzi Gaynor is 91 (“South Pacific,” “There's No Business Like Show Business”)
Max Greenfield is 43 (“Veronica Mars,” “Modern Men,” “The Gentlemen’s League,” “New Girl,” “The Mindy Project,” “The Neighborhood”)
Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs is 69 (“Welcome Back, Kotter,” “Alien Nation,” “Roseanne,” “Moesha,” “Sublime,” “The Jacksons: An American Dream,” “The Parent ‘Hood,” “The Wayans Bros.”)
Judith Ivey is 71 (“B.J. Poteet” of “Designing Women,” “Will & Grace,” “Rose Red,” “Grey’s Anatomy”)
Carter Jenkins is 31 (“The Bernie Mac Show,” “Scrubs,” “Surface”)
Ione Skye is 52 (“River’s Edge,” “Say Anything,” “Zodiac,” “Private Practice,” “Arrested Development”) (FAST FACT: Donovan is her father. Married to Beastie Boys Ad-Rock – aka Adam Horowitz – from 1992 to 1999, she married Ben Lee in 2008 and they’re still together)
Noah Taylor is 53 (“Flirting,” “Vanilla Sky,” “Almost Famous,” “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider,” “Game of Thrones”)
Damon Wayans is 62 (“In Living Color,” “My Wife and Kids,” “Major Payne,” “Celtic Pride,” “Bulletproof,” “Lethal Weapon”)
The late Dick York (1928 – 1992)…he would have been 94 (“Going My Way,” “Bewitched”) (FAST FACTS: While he was the “first” Darrin Stephens on “Bewitched,” he was the second Dick Sargeant, who was the “second” Darrin had actually been offered the role first, but couldn’t accept. York held the role for five seasons until he was forced to quit due to debilitating back pain. Sargeant was free – and took over the role until the show ended in 1972.)

Musicians:

Beyoncé is 41 (full name Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter) (FAST FACT: Yes, her legal last name is Knowles-Carter, but then, so is hubby Jay-Z’s. Indeed, known as Shawn Knowles-Carter – he allegedly made the move as Bey’s family didn’t have any male sons…and they wanted to keep the family name going.)
A.S.P.’s Blackie Lawless is 66 (His birth name, Steven Edward Duren)
Lacey Sturm (formerly of Flyleaf) is 41
Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil is 62

Plus:

Entrepreneur and reality TV star Adrienne Maloof is 61 (Owner of the Maloof Companies, which included the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas and Maloof Music – but we know her best from “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills”)
Comedian (and former “SNL” cast member) Kyle Mooney is 38\
Retired MLB champ Mike Piazza is 54 (FAST FACTS: 12-time MLB All-Star who set the record for most career home runs hit by a catcher with 396; retired with a total of 427 home runs between his time as a catcher and in other positions.)
Radio and TV personality Dr. Drew Pinsky is 64 (FAST FACT: He graduated from USC's Medical School in 1984)
“Jackass” producer Jeff Tremaine is 56
PGA star Tom Watson is 73 (FAST FACT: Six-time PGA Player of the Year)
Disgraced politician Anthony Weiner is 58 (New York Democrat who resigned in disgrace from the U.S. House of Representatives in 2011 after it came to light that he had tweeted photos of his “special parts” to female supporters. He had a failed bid for Mayor in 2013. Of course, he was up to his old tricks in August 2016…even sending a “sexy” photo showing his young child sleeping next to him. As a result, his wife, Clinton confidante Huma Abedin, finally dumped him for good. In May 2017, he pled guilty to a sexting charge of transferring obscene material to a minor, was sentenced to 21 months in prison, and was ordered to pay a $10,000 fine. Released in May 2019, he will also be forced to register as a sex offender for life.)
The late radio personality Paul Harvey (1918 – 2009) (He hosted “The Rest of the Story” for years before winning the Paul White Award and being appearing on a Gallup pole for the most admired men in America.)
The late entrepreneur Lewis Howard Latimer (1848 – 1928) (FAST FACTS: The son of escaped slaves who became a master draftsman and inventor, he helped Alexander Graham Bell make the patent drawings for his telephone.)
The late author Richard Wright (1908 – 1960) (“Black Boy,” “Native Son,” “Uncle Tom's Children”) (Much of his work has racial themes, especially those involving the plight of African Americans during the late 19^th to mid-20^th Literary critics believe his work helped change race relations in the United States in the mid-20th century)

September 5^th

Actors:

Kristian Alfonso is 59 (“Days of Our Lives,” “The Starmaker”)
William Devane is 83 (“Knots Landing,” “The Dark Knight Rises,” “Space Cowboys,” “The Dark Knight Rises,” “24,” “Live Another Day”)
Michael Keaton is 71 (“Night Shift,” “ Mom,” “Johnny Dangerously,” “Beetlejuice,” “Batman,” “Birdman,” “Spotlight,” “The Founder,” “Spider-Man: Homecoming”)
Carol Lawrence is 90 (FAST FACT: Best known for her role as Maria in the original production of “West Side Story” on Broadway; “The Fugitive,” “Hawaii 5-0,” “Kung Fu,” “Mannix,” “Murder She Wrote,” “Saved by the Bell,” “Sex and the City”)
George Lazenby is 83 (“Her Majesty’s Secret Service,” “The Return of the Man From U.N.C.L.E.,” “The Shrine of Ultimate Bliss,” “The Master,” and “Never Too Young to Die”)
Rose McGowan is 49 (“Encino Man,” “The Doom Generation,” “Scream,” “Going All the Way,” “Devil in the Flesh,” “Jawbreaker,” “Charmed,” “The Black Dahlia,” “Machete,” “Grindhouse”)
Bob Newhart is 93 (“The Bob Newhart Show,” “Newhart,” “Catch-22,” “Elf,” “The Big Bang Theory,” “The Librarians”) (FAST FACT: He guest hosted “The Tonight Show” 87 times)
Carice Van Houten is 46 (“Game of Thrones”)
Raquel Welch is 82 (“Fantastic Voyage,” “One Million Years B.C.,” “Bedazzled,” “100 Rifles,” “Myra Breckinridge,” “The Three Musketeers,” “Legally Blonde) (FAST FACTS: “Playboy” has ranked her #3 on their "100 Sexiest Stars of the Twentieth Century" list. In 2011, “Men's Health” ranked her #2 in its "Hottest Women of All Time" list.)

Musicians:

En Vogue’s Terry Ellis is 59
Journey’s Arnel Pineda is 55
Evanesence’s Will Hunt is 51
Al Stewart is 77
Loudon Wainwright, III is 76
Rage Against The Machine’s Brad Wilk is 54
Dweezil Zappa is 53 (FAST FACT: His birth name is actually Ian Donald Calvin Euclid Zappa)
The late Freddie Mercury (1946-1991)…he would have been 76 (FAST FACT: His given name was Farrokh Bulsara)

Plus:

"Cathy" cartoonist Cathy Guisewite is 72 (FAST FACTS: Her “Cathy” cartoon was based on a career woman facing the issues and challenges of eating, working, relationships, etc. – it had a remarkable run of 34 years, ending in October 2010.)
The late poet Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618) (He was an English adventurer and writer who established a colony near Roanoke Island, now known as Virginia. He was imprisoned in the Tower of London and eventually put to death for treason.)
The late outlaw Jesse James (1847-1882) (James is one of the most beloved figures in American history in spite of the fact that he was an outlaw, gang leader, robber, train robber, and murderer. Already a celebrity when he was alive, he became a legendary figure of the Wild West after his death.)

September 6^th

Actors:

Dylan Bruno is 51 (“Saving Private Ryan,” “The Rage: Carrie 2,” “Numb3ers,” “NCIS”)
Jane Curtin is 75 (“Saturday Night Live,” “How To Beat The High Cost of Living,” “Coneheads,” “Kate & Allie,” “United We Fall”) (FAST FACT: In 1986, she was included on the list of the "Top Prime Time Actors and Actresses of All Time”)
Idris Elba is 50 (“The Wire,” BBC's “Luther,” “American Gangster,” “Thor,” “Prometheus,” “Pacific Rim,” “Thor: The Dark World,” “Beasts of No Nation”)
Swoosie Kurtz is 78 (“Wildcats,” “Dangerous Liaisons,” “Stanley & Iris,” “Sisters,” Citizen Ruth,” “Liar Liar,” “Huff,” “Pushing Daisies,” “Mike & Molly”).
Anika Noni Rose is 50 (“Dreamgirls,” “For Colored Girls,” “Bag of Bones”)
Rosie Perez is 58 (“Do The Right Thing,” “White Men Can’t Jump,” “Fearless,” “The Take”)
Betsy Russell is 59 (“Private School,” “Tomboy,” “The A Team,” “1^st & Ten,” “Saw” series – she played Jigsaw’s ex wife)
Michael Winslow is 64 (“Spaceballs,” “Police Academy” film series – he’s the one that makes awesome mouth noises)
Jo Anne Worley is 85 (“Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In”)

Musicians:

Foxy Brown is 43 (born Inga DeCarlo Fung Marchand)
Mark Chesnutt is 59
David Allan Coe is 83
The Wanted’s Max George is 34
Macy Gray is 55
O.R.E/Noreaga is 45 (born Victor Santiago, Jr.) (that’s according to Wiki)
CeCe Peniston is 53
The Cardigans’ Nina Persson is 48
Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters is 79

Plus:

Former New Jersey Governor-turned-TV commentator Chris Christie is 60
Funnyman Jeff Foxworthy is 64
Model Lupita Jones is 55 (FAST FACTS: Born María Guadalupe "Lupita" Jones Garay, in 1991, she became the first-ever Mexican woman to win the Miss Universe title)
Celebrity sister Philippa “Pippa” Middleton (now Matthews) is 39 (FAST FACT: She has gained nothing other that notoriety from her sister’s marriage to Prince William. On the flip side, she’ll be known as Lady Glen Affric should her husband, James Matthews, inherit his father's title, Laird of Glen Affric. And yeah, “just” a title…but still fun, right?)
The late scientist John Dalton (1766 – 1844) (English chemist and physicist who pioneered research in the field of atomic theory. He also studied color blindness and was one of the first to recognize the condition as being hereditary.)
The late biochemist and physiologist John MacLeod (1876 – 1935) (He is known for his work on carbohydrate metabolism and especially with his collaboration with Frederick Banting and Charles Best in the discovery of insulin. For this work on the discovery of insulin, in 1921, Banting and Macleod were jointly awarded the 1923Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.)
The late civil rights leader Frances “Fanny” Wright (1795-1852) (A 19^th century Women's Liberation activist and abolitionist who founded the Nashoba Commune in Tennessee, a utopian community to prepare slaves for emancipation.)

September 7^th

Actors:

Corbin Bernsen is 68 (“L.A. Law,” “Major League” series, “JAG,” “Psych,” “General Hospital”)
Susan Blakely is 74 (“Rich Man, Poor Man,” “The Towering Inferno,” “Capone,” “The Concorde ... Airport '79,” “Over the Top,” “Southland”)
W Earl Brown is 59 (“Deadwood,” “Scream,” “There's Something About Mary,” “American Crime,” “Preacher,” “Black Mass”)
Ian Chen is 16 (“Fresh Off The Boat”)
Shannon Elizabeth is 49 (“American Pie,” “Scary Movie,” “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back,” “Thirteen Ghosts,” “Love Actually”)
Michael Emerson is 68 (“The Practice,” “Saw” series, “Lost,” “Person of Interest”)
Diane Farr is 53 (“Roswell,” “The Job,” “Rescue Me,” “Numb3rs,” “The Secret Life Of The American Teenager,” “Private Practice,” “Chance”)
Oliver Hudson is 46 (“Dawson’s Creek,” “Rules of Engagement,” “Nashville,” “Scream Queens,” “Splitting Up Together”)
Leslie Jones is 55 (“Saturday Night Live,” 2016’s “Ghostbusters”) (FAST FACT: Her birth name is Annette Jones)
Julie Kavner is 72 (“Rhoda,” “The Tracey Ullman Show,” “The Simpsons”)
Devon Sawa is 44 (“Little Giants,” “Casper,” “Night of the Twisters,” “Wild America,” “Idle Hands,” “Final Destination”)
Tom Everett Scott is 52 (“That Thing You Do!,” “An American Werewolf in Paris,” “Boiler Room,” “One True Thing,” “Dead Man on Campus,” “Because I Said So,” “ER,” “Southland,” “Scream,” “Z Nation”)
Evan Rachel Wood is 35 (“American Gothic,” "Once & Again,” “The Upside of Anger,” “Thirteen,” “True Blood,” “Westworld”)
The late Peter Lawford (1923 – 1984)…he would have been 99 (“The White Cliffs of Dover, “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” “Never So Few,” “Oceans 11”)

Musicians:

Chic’s Alfa Anderson is 76
Starland Vocal Band’s Margot Chapman is 65
Michael Feinstein is 66
Gloria Gaynor is 79
The Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde is 71
311’s Chad Sexton is 52
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers keyboardist Benmont Tench is 69
The late Buddy Holly (1936 – 1959)…he would have been 86 (FAST FACT: His birth name, Charles Hardin Holley)

Plus:

Model Angie Everhart is 53
The late film producer/director Elia Kazan (“A Streetcar Named Desire,” “On the Waterfront,” “East of Eden,” “On the Waterfront”) (1909 – 2003)
The late inventor Luther Childs Crowell (He created the machine that makes square-bottomed grocery bags) (1840 - 1903)

September 8^th

Actors:

David Arquette is 51 (“Wild Bill,” “Buffy The Vampire Slayer,” “Scream” series, “3000 Miles to Graceland”)
Martin Freeman is 51 (“Love Actually,” “Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy,” “The Hobbit,” “Fargo”)
Heather Thomas is 65 (“The Fall Guy,” “T.J. Hooker”)
Jonathan Taylor Thomas is 41 (“Home Improvement,” voice of young Simba in the “The Lion King,” “Last Man Standing”) (FAST FACTS: He bailed on Hollywood in 1998 to focus on academics. In 2000, he graduated with honors from Chaminade College Preparatory School in West Hills, California. Upon graduation, he enrolled at Harvard University, where he studied philosophy and history and spent his third year abroad at St. Andrews University in Scotland. In 2010, he graduated from the Columbia University School of General Studies.)
The late Sid Caesar (1922 – 2014)…he would have been 100 (“Show of Shows,” “Casesar's Hour,” “It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World,” “Silent Movie,” “Grease,” “History of the World, Part I,” “Cannonball Run II”)
The late Peter Sellers (1925 – 1980)…he would have been 97 (“ Strangelove…,” “The Pink Panther”)

Musicians:

Neko Case is 52
Keane drummer Richard Hughes is 47
Aimee Mann is 62 (FAST FACT: She’s been married to Michael Penn since 1997)
Pink is 43 (birth name Alecia Beth Moore)
Fine Young Cannibals bassist David Steele is 62
Slim Thug is 42 (born Stayve Jerome Thomas)
Wiz Khalifa is 35 (born Cameron Jibril Thomaz)
The late Avicii (his given name, Tim Bergling) (1989 – 2018)…he would have been 33
The late Patsy Cline (1932 – 1963)…she would have been 90 (FAST FACT: Her given name was Virginia Hensley)
The late Cars bassist Ben Orr (1947-2000)…he would have been 75
The late Jimmie Rodgers (1897 – 1933) (Known as The Father of Country Music, he was a country musician and professional yodeler. He released more than fifty recordings, many of which became country standards.)

Plus:

TV personality Brooke Burke is 51
Reality TV star Chumlee is 40 (“Pawn Stars”) (FAST FACT: Born Austin Lee Russell, he was given the nickname "Chumlee" when he was about 12 years old because his large stature resembled an animated walrus named Chumly from the series Tennessee Tuxedo.)
Civil rights leader Ruby Bridges is 68 (She VOLUNTEERED and became the first African American child to attend an all-white school on November 14, 1960…in the heavily segregated city of New Orleans) (FAST FACT: Her struggle was the subject of the 1998 TV movie, “Ruby Bridges.”)
Director Kimberly Peirce (yes, that’s how you spell it) is 55 (“Boys Don’t Cry,” “Stop-Loss,” 2013’s “Carrie”)

September 9^th

Actors:

Charles “Chip” Esten is 57 (“Whose Line Is It Anyway,” “61*,” “Nashville”)
Hugh Grant is 62 (“Four Weddings and a Funeral,” “Sense & Sensibility,” “Mickey Blue Eyes,” “Notting Hill,” “Bridget Jones's Diary,” “About a Boy,” “American Dreamz,” “Cloud Atlas,” “Florence Foster Jenkins”)
Constance Marie is 57 (“Selena,” “Switched At Birth,” “The George Lopez Show”)
Adam Sandler is 56 (“Airheads,” “The Waterboy,” “Mr. Deeds,” “Big Daddy,” “Blended”) (FAST FACT: His movies have grossed over $2-billion)
Eric Stonestreet is 51 (“Modern Family")
Henry Thomas is 51 (“E.T.,” “Gangs of New York”)
Chaim Topol is 87 (“Tevye” of “Fiddler on the Roof”)
Michelle Williams is 42 (“Dawson’s Creek,” “Brokeback Mountain,” “Prozac Nation,” “Blue Valentine,” “Manchester by the Sea")
Tom Wopat is 71 (“Dukes of Hazzard,” “Cybil,” “Django Unchained”)
The late Cliff Robertson (1923 – 2011)…he would have been 99 (“PT 109,” “Charlie”)

Musicians:

Yung Berg is 37 (born Christian Ward)
Michael Buble is 47
Hunter Hayes is 31
The late Otis Redding (1941 – 1967) …he would have been 81

Plus:

Supermodel Rachel Hunter is 53
NFL Hall of Famer Joe Theismann is 73 (He enjoyed his most enduring fame in 12 seasons with the Washington Redskins, where he was a two-time Pro Bowler and helped the team to consecutive appearances to Super Bowl XVII (winning) and Super Bowl XVIII (losing). He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2003)
The late “Kentucky Fried Chicken” founder Col. Harland David Sanders (1890 – 1980) (FAST FACT: He sold KFC to a group of investors for just $2-million in 1964. The chain’s approximate annual revenue today? About $16-billion.)
The late author Count Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910) (“War and Peace,” “Anna Karenina”) (Born Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, he’s usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy and is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time.)

September 10^th

Actors:

Kate Burton is 65 (“Grey’s Anatomy,” “Scandal”)
Colin Firth is 62 (“Pride & Prejudice,” “Shakespeare In Love,” “Love Actually,” “Bridget Jones’s Diary”)
Amy Irving is 69 (“Carrie,” “Micki & Maude,” “Yentl,” “Crossing Delancey,” “Yentl,” “Tuck Everlasting”)
Eddy Martin is 32 (“Glee,” “Just Jordan”)
Ryan Phillippe is 48 (“I Know What You Did Last Summer,” “Crash,” “One Life To Live“)
Luke Treadaway is 38 (“Clash of the Titans,” “Wasteland,” “Get Lucky”)
Daniel Wisler is 42 (“The Unit,” “Sea Beast”)
Jacob Young is 43 (“All My Children,” “The Bold and the Beautiful”)
The late actor Ian Fleming (not the James Bond creator) (1888-1969) (“Waterloo Road”)

Musicians:

Bush’s Robin Goodridge is 56
Big Daddy Kane is 54 (Born Antonio Hard, he rose to fame as part of the Juice Crew)
Aerosmith’s Joe Perry is 72
My Chemical Romance’s Mikey Way is 42

Plus:

TV personality Bill O’Reilly is 73
Director Guy Ritchie is 54 (“Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,” “Snatch,” “Revolver,” “Sherlock Holmes” series)
The late adventurer Maxie Anderson(born Max Leroy Anderson) (1934 – 1983)…he would have been 88 (He was responsible for the first nonstop balloon crossing of the Atlantic Ocean and of the United States)
The late newsman Charles Kuralt (1934-1997) …he would have been 88
The late fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld (1933 – 2019)…he would have been 89
The late baseball star Roger Maris (1934-1985) …he would have been 88 (FAST FACTS: He was an American League All-Star from 1959 through 1962, an AL Most Valuable Player in 1960 and 1961, and an AL Gold Glove Award winner in 1960. Maris appeared in seven World Series, five as a member of the Yankees and two with the Cardinals.)
The late golf legend Arnold Palmer (1929-2016) …he would have been 93 (FAST FACT: He gained a reputation for drinking a mixture of iced tea and lemonade. Years later, the mixture became a mass-produced beverage under his name. Nicknamed "The King," he’s one of golf's most popular stars and its most important trailblazer, because he was the first superstar of the sport's television age, which began in the 1950s)

September 11^th

Actors:

Taraji P. Henson is 52 (“Hustle and Flow,” “Baby Boy,” “The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle,” “Empire”) (FAST FACT: The father of her son, Marcell, was murdered in 2003. In March 2015, she also accused the Glendale Police Department of racial profiling Marcell at a traffic stop – until video proved that he wasn’t. She promptly apologized.)
Tyler Hoechlin is 35 (“Teen Wolf,” “7^th Heaven,” “Road To Perdition”)
Amy Madigan is 72 ("Field of Dreams," “Roe vs. Wade,” “Pollock,” “Gone Baby Gone”)
Virginia Madsen is 61 (“Sideways,” “The Haunting in Connecticut,” “The Rainmaker,” “Witches of East End”)
Kristy McNichol is 60 (“Family,” “Little Darlings,” “Only When I Laugh,” “Empty Nest”)
Ariana Richards is 43 (“Prancer,” “Tremors,” "Jurassic Park")
Ryan Slattery is 40 ("JAG," “Sleepover”)
Laura Wright is 52 ("Guiding Light," “General Hospital”)

Musicians:

The Verve’s Richard Ashcroft is 51
Coldplay’s Jonny Buckland is 45
Harry Connick Jr. is 55
Elephant Man is 47 (born Oneal Bryan)
Lola Falana is 80 (She’s also appeared on television – “Mad About You,” “The New Bill Cosby Show”)
LFO’S Brad Fischetti is 47
The Grateful Dead’s Mickey Hart is 79
Lady Antebellum’s Charles Kelley is 41
Ludacris is 45 (given name: Christopher Brian Bridges)
Moby is 57 (born Richard Melville Hall)
Styx’s Tommy Shaw is 69 (FAST FACT: He was discovered by Styx while playing music at a bowling alley.)

Plus:

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad is 57
Journalist Maria Bartiromo is 55 (FAST FACTS: Dubbed the “Money Honey,” she was the first daily TV reporter to broadcast from the N.Y. stock exchange floor. She also became the first journalist to be inducted into the Cable Hall of Fame in 2011)
Elizabeth (aka EG) Daily is 61 (While known for starring in films including “Pee Wee’s Big Adventure,” EG is more known for her voice work in project including “Rugrats,” “The Powerpuff Girls,” “The Country Bears”)
Movie director Brian De Palma is 82 ("Bonfire of the Vanities," “Scarface,” "Carlito’s Way," “The Untouchables”)
The late author D. H. Lawrence ("Lady Chatterly's Lover”) (1885-1930) (FAST FACTS: His collected works, among other things, represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization. In them, some of the issues Lawrence explores are emotional health, vitality, spontaneity and instinct. Lawrence's opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile which he called his "savage pilgrimage." At the time of his death, his public reputation was that of a pornographer who had wasted his considerable talents.

September 12^th

Actors:

Alfie Allen is 36 (“Game of Thrones”)
Linda Gray is 82 (“Dallas,” “Oscar,” “Models Inc.,” “Moment of Truth: Why My Daughter?,” “Accidental Meeting,” “Dallas: J.R. Returns,” “Dallas: War of the Ewings”)
Benjamin McKenzie is 44 (“The O.C.,” “Southland, “Junebug,” “88 Minutes,” “Gotham”)
Emmy Rossum is 36 (“The Day After Tomorrow,” “Mystic River,” “The Phantom of the Opera,” “Shameless”) (FAST FACT: She became a member of New York's Metropolitan Opera Children's Chorus at age seven.)
Rachel Ward is 65 (“The Thorn Birds,” “Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid,” “Against All Odds”)
Amy Yasbeck is 60 (“The Mask,” “Wings,” “That’s So Raven”) (FAST FACT: She’s the widow of John Ritter)
The late Maurice Chevalier (1888 – 1972) (“The Love Parade,” “The Big Pond”)
The late Paul Walker (1973-2013) …he would have been 49 (“Fast & Furious” series, “Running Scared,” “Joy Ride,” “Hours,” “The Lazarus Project”) (FAST FACT: He won the 2001 Hollywood Breakthrough Award for the New Male Stylemaker for his performance in “The Fast and the Furious.”)

Musicians:

2 Chainz is 45 (born Tauheed Epps)
Kelsea Ballerini is 29
Ben Folds is 56 (FAST FACT: He’s been married – and divorced – four times. That may be why he was once quoted as saying, “As much as I love the idea of being married, it's not for me.”)
Jennifer Hudson is 41
James McCartney is 45 (yes, the son of Paul – his mom was Linda)
Sugarland’s Jennifer Nettles is 48
Ruben Studdard is 44
The late George Jones (1931-2013) …he would have been 91
The late Rush’s Neil Peart (1952 – 2020) ...he would have been 70
The late Barry White (1944 – 2003)…he would have been 78

Plus:

Model and celebrity ex-girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis is 44
Comedian Louis CK (give name Louis Székely) is 55
TV personality Greg Gutfeld is 58
Basketball star Yao Ming is 42 (FAST FACTS: He stands at 7-feet, 6-inches. Also, he broke Michael Jordan's record for most votes in the 2005 All-Star Game fan voting.)
Composer Hans Zimmer is 65 (He has composed music for more than 150 films since the 80s is they include “Pirates of the Caribbean” series, The Thin Red Line,” “Gladiator,” “The Last Samurai,” “The Dark Knight Trilogy,” “Inception,” “Interstellar”)
The late Henry Hudson (1565-1611) (English navigator who conducted sea explorations in the early seventeenth century. He discovered a river in New York for the Dutch East India Company, who named it the Hudson River. That discovery in 1609, initiated the Dutch colonization of New York.)

September 13^th

Actors:

Barbara Bain is 91 (TV’s “Mission: Impossible,” “Space 1999”)
Jacqueline Bisset is 78 (“The Detective,” “Bullitt,” “The Sweet Ride,” “Airport,” “Murder on the Orient Express” “The Deep,” “Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?,” “Class,” “Joan of Arc,” “Rizzoli and Isles,” “Dancing On The Edge”)
Louise Lombard is 52 (“CSI”)
Ben Savage is 42 (“Boy Meets World,” “Girl Meets World”)
Jean Smart is 71 (“Designing Women,” “The District,” “24,” “Harry's Law,” “Fargo,” “Hacks”)
The late Nell Carter (1948 – 2003)…she would have been 74 (“Ain't Misbehavin’,” “Gimme A Break!,” “You Take The Kids,” “Hangin’ With Mr. Cooper”)
The late Claudette Colbert (1903 – 1996) (“It Happened One Night,” “Cleopatra”) (FAST FACT: In 1999, the American Film Institute posthumously voted Colbert the 12th Greatest Female star of classic Hollywood cinema.)
The late Richard Kiel (1939 – 2014)…he would have been 83 (“Moonraker,” “Happy Gilmore,” “The Incredible Hulk,” “The Hulk”)
The late Joe E. Tata (1936 – 2022) … he would have been 86 (“The Rockford Files,” “Beverly Hills, 90210”)

Musicians:

Fiona Apple is 45
Swizz Beatz is 44 (born Kasseem Dean) (FAST FACT: He’s been married to Alicia Keys since 2010)
Peter Cetera is 78
Blood, Sweat and Tears’ David Clayton-Thomas is 81
Bobbie Cryner is 61
One Direction’s Niall Horan is 29
Village People singer Randy Jones is 70
Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine is 61
Drummer Steve Perkins (Porno for Pyros, Jane’s Addiction) is 55
Rascal Flatts’ Joe Don Rooney is 47
Zak Starkey is 57 (FAST FACTS: The son of Ringo Starr, Keith Moon gave Starkey a drum kit when he was eight-years-old. He began learning how to play in a serious manner when he was ten)
The late Bill Monroe (1911 – 1996) (Known as the Father of Bluegrass, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1970)
The late Mel Torme (1925 – 1999)…he would have been 97

Plus:

Reality TV star (and babymaker) Michelle Duggar is 56
Fashion Designer Stella McCartney is 51
Actor/director/producer Tyler Perry is 53 (“Diary of a Mad Black Woman,” “Madea” film series, “Why Did I Get Married Too?,” “The Single Moms Club,” “Gone Girl”)
Radio-TV personality Tavis Smiley is 58
Motivational speaker and TV host Iyanla Vanzant is 69 (her birth name, Rhonda Eva Harris)
The late author Roald Dahl (1916 – 1990) (“The Witches,” “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” “Fantastic Mr. Fox”)
The late entrepreneur Milton S. Hershey (1857 – 1945) (He founded the Hershey Chocolate Company in 1905 – as such, he’s credited with the founding of “company town” Hershey, Pennsylvania.)

September 14^th

Actors:

Dan Cortese is 55 (“Veronica's Closet,” “Rock Me Baby,” “What I Like About You,” host of truTV's “Guinness World Records Unleashed”)
Mary Crosby is 63 (“Dallas,” “Ice Pirates,” “Lend of Zorro”)
Faith Ford is 58 (“Another World,” “thirtysomething,” “Murphy Brown,” “Maggie Winters,” “Hope & Faith,” “Carpoolers”)
Walter Koenig is 86 (“Star Trek’s” Chekov, “Babylon 5”)
Andrew Lincoln is 49 (“Love Actually,” “The Walking Dead) (FAST FACT: His given name is Andrew James Clutterbuck)
Sam Neill is 75 (“Dead Calm,” “The Hunt for Red October,” “The Piano,” “Jurassic Park,” “Jurassic Park III,” “Omen III: The Final Conflict,” “Thor: Ragnarok”) (FAST FACTS: Named Nigel at birth, he adopted the name Sam to avoid confusion with other students named Nigel. He stuttered as a child, and graduated from Victoria University.)
Michelle Stafford is 57 (“The Young and the Restless”)
Kimberly Williams-Paisley is 51 (“Father of the Bride” series, “According to Jim,” “Safe House,” “The Christmas Shoes,” “Nashville,” “Two and a Half Men”) (FAST FACT: She’s been married to country star Brad Paisley since 2003)
The late Clayton Moore (1914 – 1999) (“The Lone Ranger”)

Musicians:

Jon “Bowzer” Bauman of Sha Na Na is 75
John Berry is 63
Beth Nielsen-Chapman is 64
Alex Clare is 37
A-ha frontman Morten Harket is 63
Lethal Bizzle is 38 (born Maxwell Owusu Ansah)
Nas is 49 (his given name, Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones)
Danielle Peck is 44
The late Amy Winehouse (1983 – 2011)…she would have been 39
The late Ed King (Strawberry Alarm Clock, Lynyrd Skynyrd) (1949 – 2018)…he would have been 73

Plus:

Model Joey Heatherton is 78 (Sex symbol who visited U.S. troops overseas with Bob Hope, she also appeared in films including 1963's “Twilight of Honor” and 1964's “Where Love Has Gone”)
TV personality Robert Herjavec is 59 (wiki lists both 1963 and 1963 so he could be 60) (“Shark Tank,” “Dancing with the Stars”) (FAST FACT: He married his “DWTS” pro Kym Johnson in 2016…and they’ve since welcomed twins!)
TV personality/cookbook author Katie Lee is 41 (One of the co-host of the Food Network's talk show “The Kitchen,” host of Cooking Channel's “Beach Bites with Katie Lee.”) (FAST FACT: She was the original host of Bravo’s “Top Chef,” but the reaction was so negative, she was let go in favor of Padma Lakshmi. Lee was also married to Billy Joel from 2004 to 2010)

September 15^th

Actors:

Josh Charles is 51 (“Dead Poet Society,” “Hairspray,” “Muppets from Space,” “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” ““The Good Wife,” “Drunk History,” “We Own This City”) (FAST FACT: He’s been married to author Sophie Flack since 2013)
Amy Davidson is 43 (“So Little Time,” “8 Simple Rules”)
Tom Hardy is 45 (“Black Hawk Down,” “Star Trek: Nemesis,” “RocknRolla,” “Inception,” “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,” “The Dark Knight Rises,” “Legend,” “The Revenant,” “Mad Max: Fury Road,” “Dunkirk”) (FAST FACT: He’s been married to fellow Brit actress Charlotte Riley since 2014)
Tommy Lee Jones is 76 (“One Life To Live,” “Lonesome Dove,” “Natural Born Killers,” “The Fugitive,” “Coal Miners Daughters,” “Men In Black” series, “Cobb,” “Captain America: The First Avenger”)
Chelsea Kane is 34 (“Bratz: The Movie,” “JONAS,” “Baby Daddy”)
Matt Shively is 32 (“True Jackson, VP,” “Paranormal Activity 4”)
The late Jackie Cooper (1922-2011) …he would have been 100 (“Superman,” “Treasure Island,” “Kramer vs Kramer”)
The late Fay Wray (“The Bowery,” “Villa Villa,” “King Kong”) (1907-2004)

Musicians:

Crash Test Dummies’ drummer Mitch Dorge is 62
OneRepublic’s Zach Filkins is 44
Night Ranger’s drummer/singer Kelly Keagy is 70 (Back in 2001, Keagy released “Time Passes,” the first of his two solo albums, performing drums and vocals. In 2006, came the second solo record, “I'm Alive.” Outside of Night Ranger – whose latest record, “Don’t Let Up,” was released in 2017, Keagy is a core member of the band Scrap Metal, along with Mark Slaughter and Gunnar Nelson.)
Watsky is 36 (FAST FACT: Born George Virden Watsky, he appeared in season 6 of “Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry”)
The late Jessye Norman (1945 – 2019)...she would have been 77

Plus:

Reality star Heidi Montag/Pratt (While she most often goes by her married name, Pratt, many still use her maiden name) is 36 (“The Hills,” “The Hills: New Beginnings”) (FAST FACTS: Married to Spencer Pratt, her co-star on “The Hills,” since 2008…the couple welcomed their first son in October 2017. She’s currently expecting their second child)
Internet star Jenna “Marbles” Mourey is 36 (FAST FACT: Better known as Jenna Marbles, her YouTube videos have attracted over 13-million subscribers and over 1-billion views)
Baseball Hall-of-Famer Gaylord Perry is 84 (FAST FACT: He played for eight different teams including the New York Yankees and Texas Rangers)
Director Oliver Stone is 76 (“Platoon,” “Wall Street,” “Nixon,” “The Doors,” “The Guardian,” “JFK,” “Nixon,” “Snowden”)
Restaurateur and reality TV star Lisa Vanderpump is 62 (“Real Housewives of Beverly Hills”)
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex is 38 (son of Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana)
The late novelist Agatha Christie (1890-1976) (A crime novelist, short story writer, and playwright, she also wrote six romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but she is best known for the 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections she wrote under her own name, most of which revolve around the investigations of such characters as Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple and Tommy and Tuppence. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, “The Mousetrap”)
The late NFL champ and sportscaster (he also dabbled in acting) Merlin Olsen (1940-2010) …he would have been 82
The late comedian Nipsey Russell (1918 – 2005)

September 16^th

Actors:

Alexis Bledel is 41 (“Gilmore Girls,” “Tuck Everlasting,” “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants,” “The Handmaid's Tale”)
Ed Begley, Jr. is 73 (“Stay Hungry,” “An Officer and a Gentleman,” “St. Elsewhere,” “This Is Spinal Tap,” “The Accidental Tourist,” “The Pagemaster,” “Batman Forever,” “Pineapple Express,” “Addams Family Reunion,” “Best in Show,” “A Mighty Wind,” “For Your Consideration”)
Ian Harding is 36 (“Pretty Little Liars”)
Daren Kagasoff is 35 (“The Secret Life of the American Teenager”)
Amy Poehler is 51 (“Saturday Night Live,” “Mean Girls,” “Parks and Recreation,” “Baby Mama,” “Welcome To Sweden”)
Mickey Rourke is 70 (“Diner,” “Rumble Fish,” “The Pope of Greenwich Village,” “9½ Weeks,” “Barfly,” “Angel Heart,” “The Rainmaker,” “Man On Fire,” “Iron Man 2,” “The Expendables,” “Immortals”)
Jennifer Tilly is 64 (“Let It Ride,” “Made in America,” “Bound,” “Liar Liar,” “Bride of Chucky,” “Family Guy,” “The Haunted Mansion,” “Bullets over Broadway”)
Molly Shannon is 58 (“Saturday Night Live,” “Scary Movie” series, “A Night at the Roxbury,” “Never Been Kissed,” “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” “Osmosis Jones,” “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby,” “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,” “Divorce,” “Other People”)
The late Lauren Bacall (1924-2014) …she would have been 98 (“To Have and Have Not,” “The Big Sleep,” “Dark Passage,” “Key Largo,” “ How to Marry a Millionaire,” “Designing Woman,” “The Shootist,” “Prêt-à-Porter,” “The Mirror Has Two Faces,” “Dogville”) (FAST FACTS: Born Betty Joan Perske, she was named the 20^th greatest female star of Classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute, and received an Academy Honorary Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2009, "in recognition of her central place in the Golden Age of motion pictures.”)
The late Peter Falk (1927-2011) …he would have been 95 (“Columbo,” “Murder, Inc.,” “Pocketful of Miracles,” “It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World,” “The Great Race,” “The Brinks Job,” “The Princess Bride,” “Corky Romano”) (FAST FACT: In 1996, “TV Guide” ranked Falk number 21 on its 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time list)

Musicians:

Marc Anthony is 54
David Bellamy is 72
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ Ron Blair is 74
Nick Jonas is 30 (FAST FACT: He married Priyanka Chopra in 2018)
Martha and the Vandellas’ Betty Kelley is 78
Earl Klugh is 69
Richard Marx is 59 (FAST FACTS: Married to Cynthia Rhodes from 1989 – 2014, he’s been hitched to former MTV VJ Daisy Fuentes since 2015 – they apparently started dating seriously after she appeared in his 2014 “Beautiful Goodbye” video.)
The late B.B. King (1925 – 2015)…he would have been 97

Plus:

Magician David Copperfield is 66 (FAST FACTS: Forbes has described him as the most commercially successful magician in history. Don’t believe it? He’s collected 11 “Guinness World Records,” a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a knighthood by the French government, and he has been named a Living Legend by the US Library of Congress. At last check, he has sold 33-million tickets and grossed over $4-billion, which is more than any other solo entertainer in history.)
The late “Candid Camera” creator Allen Funt (1914 – 1999)
The late entrepreneur James Cash Penney (He founded the J.C. Penney chain in 1902) (1875 – 1971)

September 17^th

Actors:

Kyle Chandler is 57 (“Early Edition,” “What About Joan,” “Friday Night Lights,” “King Kong,” “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” “Super 8,” “Argo,” “Zero Dark Thirty,” “The Wolf of Wall Street,” “Bloodline,” “Manchester by the Sea”)
Bobby Lee is 51 (“MadTV,” “Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle,” “Pineapple Express,” “The Dictator”)
Cassandra Peterson is 71 (“Elvira,” “Lost City of Gold,” “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure”)
Denyse Tontz is 28 (“Big Time Rush,” “Dog with a Blog,” “The Fosters”)
Malik Yoba is 55 (“New York Undercover,” “Cool Runnings,” “Alphas,” “Revolution,” “Empire”)
The late Anne Bancroft (1931-2005)… she would have been 91 (“The Miracle Worker,” “The Elephant Man,” “Agnes of God,” “To Be or Not to Be,” “Dracula: Dead and Loving It”) (FAST FACTS: She met her husband, Mel Brooks on the set of “The Perry Como Show” in the early 60s. As the story goes, Brooks walked up to her and said, “I’m going to marry you.” He did – The couple tied the knot in 1964 and they remained together until she passed away.)
The late Paul Benedict (1938-2008)… he would have been 84 (“Sesame Street,” Mr. Bentley on “The Jeffersons”)
The late Roddy McDowall (1928-1998)…he would have been 94 (“How Green Was My Valley,” “My Friend Flicka,” “Lassie Come Home,” “Planet of the Apes,” “Cleopatra,” “Funny Lady,” “Bedknobs and Broomsticks,” “Fright Night,” “Overboard,” “Fright Night 2,” “Quantum Leap”)
The late John Ritter (1948-2003)… he would have been 74 (“Three’s Company,” “Problem Child,” “Problem Child 2,” “Sling Blade,” “Bride of Chucky,” “8 Simple Rules,” “Bad Santa”)

Musicians:

Anastacia is 54
Simple Plan’s Chuck Comeau is 43
Flo Rida is 43 (That’s according to Yahoo!, wiki says his birthday is September 16^th) (he was born Tramar Lacel Dillard)
Doug E. Fresh is 56 (his mama knows him as Douglas E. Davis)
Pentatonix’s Scott Hoying is 31
Bebe Winans is 60
The late Keith Flint (of The Prodigy) (1969 – 2019)…he would have been 53
The late Steve Sanders of the Oak Ridge Boys (1952-1998)… he would have been 70
The late Hank Williams Sr. (1923-1953)…he would have been 99

Plus:

TV personality and designer Nate Berkus is 51
Race car driver Jimmie Johnson is 47 (FAST FACT: He became the first race car driver to be named Associated Press Male Athlete of the year in 2009)
Mountain climber Reinhold Messner is 78 (He made the first solo ascent of Mount Everest, the world's highest peak, without the use of contained oxygen for breathing in 1980)
Hockey player Alexander Ovechkin is 37 (FAST FACT: in 2013 he became the 8^th player in NHL history to win the Hart Trophy for league MVP three times)
Comedienne Rita Rudner is 69
Director Bryan Singer is 57 (“Superman Returns,” “X-Men,” “The Usual Suspects”)
The late author Ken Kesey (1935-2001)… he would have been 87 (“One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,” “Sometimes a Great Notion,” “Demon Box”)

September 18^th

Actors:

Robert Blake is 89 (“Our Gang,” “Baretta”) (FAST FACTS: He was tried and acquitted of the 2001 murder of his second wife, Bonnie Lee Bakley, but on November 18, 2005, Blake was found liable in a California civil court for her wrongful death.)
James Marsden is 49 (“Ally McBeal,” “X-Men,” “Enchanted,” “27 Dresses,” “Westworld,” “Dead To Me”)
Holly Robinson-Peete is 58 (“21 Jump Street,” “Hangin’ With Mr. Cooper”)
Jada Pinkett-Smith is 51 (“The Nutty Professor,” “The Matrix,” “Madagascar”)
Jason Sudeikis is 47 (“Saturday Night Live,” “Horrible Bosses,” “Hall Pass,” “Ted Lasso”) (FAST FACTS: He and Olivia Wilde became engaged in January 2013. They welcomed their son, Otis Alexander, in April 2014 and in October 2016 – they welcomed their second child, Daisy Josephine. The couple's relationship ended in November 2020.)
The late Eddie Anderson (1905-1977) (“The Jack Benny Program”) (FAST FACTS: Known as ‘Rochester’ on “The Jack Benny Program,” he was the first African American to have a regular role on a nationwide radio program. When the series moved to television, Anderson continued in the role until the series' end in 1965)
The late James Gandolfini (1961-2013)… he would have been 61 (“True Romance,” “Where the Wild Things Are,” “The Sopranos,” “Enough Said”)
The late Greta Garbo (1905-1990) (“Anna Karenina,” “Camille”)
The late Jack Warden (1920-2006) (“Shampoo,” “Heaven Can Wait)
The late Fred Willard (1933 – 2020) ...he would have been 89 (“This Is Spinal Tap,” “Waiting for Guffman,” “Best in Show,” “A Mighty Wind,” “Anchorman” series, “Everybody Loves Raymond”) (FUN FACT: He had to take a sex ed class after being arrested for inappropriate behavior in an adult movie theater. In fact, Willard was ultimately not charged at all, but was required to shell out $380 sex education diversion program)

Musicians:

Frankie Avalon is 82
Towanda Braxton is 49 (FAST FACT: Her singing career was born out starring in the hit show, “Braxton Family Values”)
Xzibit is 48 (born Alvin Nathaniel Joiner)

Plus:

Disgraced Tour de France champ (now podcaster) Lance Armstrong is 51
Fields cookie company founder Debbi Fields is 66
Reality star Jeana Keough is 67 (“Real Housewives of Orange County”) (FAST FACT: she was crowned Playmate of the month in November of 1980)
Composer John Powell is 59 (He’s composed for motion pictures such as “Shrek,” “Happy Feet,” and “Rio”)
The late inventor Elmer Maytag (yes, of the Maytag Company) (1883-1940)

September 19^th

Actors:

Jeremy Irons is 74 (“Dead Ringer,” “Reversal of Fortune,” “Brideshead Revisited,” “Lolita,” “Lion King”)
Sanaa Lathan is 51 (“A Raisin in the Sun,” “Out of Time”)
Randolph Mantooth is 77 (“Emergency!,” “One Life To Live,” “Sons of Anarchy”)
David McCallum is 89 (“The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,” “The Invisible Man,” “NCIS“)
Cheri Oteri is 60 (“Saturday Night Live,” “Life Coach,” “Glory Daze”)
Danielle Panabaker is 35 (“Read It and Weep,” “Stuck in the Suburbs,” 2009’s “Friday the 13^th”)
Kim Richards is 58 (“Escape to Witch Mountain,” “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills”)
Columbus Short is 40 (“Scandal,” “Stomp the Yard,” “Accepted”) (FAST FACT: In 2014, he plead guilty to misdemeanor spousal battery and has had several brushes with the law being arrested and in court for assault(s), failing to appear, etc)
Rex Smith is 67 (“Street Hawk,” “As The World Turns,” “Pirates of Penzance”)
Alison Sweeney is 46 (“Days of Our Lives,” “The Biggest Loser”)
Kevin Zegers is 38 (“Air Bud,” “Transamerica,” “City of Bones”) (FAST FACT: He played Josh Framm in the Air Bud franchise)
The late Frances Farmer (1913 – 1970) (“Too Many Parents,” “Border Flight,” “Come And Get It”) (FAST FACT: She is perhaps better known for sensationalized accounts of her life, especially her involuntary commitments to mental hospitals. Once restored to ‘full civil rights’ she later found success as the host of the TV show, “Frances Farmer Presents.” In 1982, Jessica Lange portrayed her in the film, “Frances.” Lange was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress).
The late Adam West (1928 – 2017)…he would have been 93 (“Batman”)

Musicians:

Lita Ford is 64
The Righteous Brothers’ Bill Medley is 82
Freda Payne is 80
Paul Williams is 82
Tegan and Sara’s Tegan and Sara Quin are 42
Trisha Yearwood is 58

Plus:

Chef, writer, restaurant owner, and TV personality Mario Batali is 62 (FAST FACTS: He inspired the character Bario Matalli in the video game “World of Warcraft: Cataclysm.” He’s largely dropped off the map after allegations of sexual impropriety and even assault surfaced in late 2017. In May 2019, Batali was charged with indecent assault and battery in Boston…he was ultimately acquitted in May 2022. Still, the judge ruled that Batali’s conduct during the alleged incident was "not befitting of a public person of his stature," but agreed with the defense's arguments that his accuser had credibility issues and was motivated by financial gain to make her accusation.)
TV personality and all-around funnyman Jimmy Fallon is 48 (“Saturday Night Live,” NBC’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon”) (FAST FACT: He originally went to college for Computer Science at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY)
TV personality and author Joan Lunden is 72 (“ABC’s Good morning America,” “Behind Closed Doors”)
Wrestler and Total Divas star Eva Marie is 38 (She joined the WWE in 2013)
Model Victoria Silvstedt is 48
Celebrity chef Michael Symon is 53
Legendary model Twiggy is 73
The late TV personality James Lipton (“Inside the Actors Studio”) ( 1926 - 2020)...he would have been 96

September 20^th

Actors:

Jon Bernthal is 46 (“Eastwick,” “The Walking Dead,” “Mob City,” “The Accountant,” “Baby Driver,” “Wind River,” “Mob City,” “Daredevil,” “The Punisher”)
Gary Cole is 66 (“Midnight Caller,” “The Brady Bunch Movie,” “A Very Brady Sequel,” “Office Space,” “Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story,” “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby,” “American Gothic,” “Pineapple Express,” “The West Wing,” “Chuck,” “Entourage,” “The Good Wife,” “Suits”)
Kristen Johnston is 55 (“30 Rock,” “Viva Rock Vegas,” “Ugly Betty,” “Bride Wars,” “The Exes,” “Mom”)
Spencer Locke is 31 (“Cougar Town,” “Detention, “Resident Evil” film series, 2013’s “Tarzan”)
Sophia Loren is 88 (“The Pride and the Passion,” “Houseboat,” “It Started in Naples,” “Marriage Italian Style,” “Grumpier Old Men,” “Nine”)
Debbi Morgan is 66 (That’s according to IMDB, wiki says 1951 which would make her 69, although )(“All My Children,” “Eve’s Bayou,” “Generations,” “Boston Public,” “Soul Food,” “Charmed,” “Power”) (FAST FACT: She was the first African-American to win the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 1989)
The late Anne Meara (1929 – 2015) …she would have been 93 (Half of the legendary “Stiller and Meara” with husband Jerry Stiller, her incredible resume included “Rhoda,” “Love Boat,” “Archie Bunker’s Place,” “The Other Woman,” “Oz,” “King of Queens,” “Sex and the City: The Movie,” “The Boys From Brazil”) (FAST FACT: …and yes, Ben Stiller is her son)
The late Fernando Rey (1917 – 1994) (Best known for films including “Tristana,” “Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie,” “That Obscure Object of Desire” and “The French Connection,” he appeared in more than 150 films over half a century)

Musicians:

STYX’s Chuck Panozzo is 74
Phillip Phillips (He won the eleventh season of American Idol) is 32
Soundgarden’s Ben Shepherd is 54
The Dream is 45 (his birth name, Terius Youngdell Nash)
Lifehouse’s Rick Woolstenhulme is 43
Yung Joc is 39 (his mama knows him as Jasiel Amon Robinson – and this age is courtesy of AP)

Plus:

The late inventor and scientist Sir James Dewar (1842-1923) (He’s probably best known today for his invention of the vacuum flask, which we would more commonly know as a Thermos – even though that company basically tried to capitalize on the fact that he had forgotten to file a patent for his invention. The good news? He recovered and had a great career. And by the way, no – he’s not related to the Dewar’s Scotch Whisky in any way.)

September 21^st

Actors:

Dave Coulier is 63 (“Full House,” “Robot Chicken,” “Bob & Doug,” “Fuller House”)
David James Elliott is 62 (“JAG,” “Close To Home,” “Scoundrels,” “Impulse”)
Maggie Grace is 39 (“Lost,” “Californication,” “Twilight” series, “Taken” series)
Ryan Guzman is 35 (“Step Up Revolution,” “April Rain,” “Beyond Paradise,” “The Boy Next Door” “9-1-1”)
Rob Morrow is 60 (“Northern Exposure,” “Numb3rs,” “Billions”)
Bill Murray is 72 (“Caddyshack,” “Ghostbusters,” “Groundhog Day,” “The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou,” “Rushmore,” “Lost In Translation,” “The Royal Tenenbaums,” “Olive Kitteridge,” “)
Autumn Reeser is 42 (“Entourage,” “The O.C.,” “Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball”)
Nancy Travis is 61 (“Three Men and a Baby,” “Air America,” “Internal Affairs,” “So I Married an Axe Murderer,” “Becker,” “Last Man Standing”)
Luke Wilson is 51 (“Idiocracy,” “Old School,” “Legally Blonde,” “Death at a Funeral,” “Vacancy,” “Enlightened,” “Roadies”)
The late Larry Hagman (1931 - 2012)…he would have been 90 (“I Dream of Jeannie,” “Dallas”)

Musicians:

Jason Derulo is 33 (born Jason Joel Desrouleaux)
Liam Gallagher is 50
Faith Hill is 55 (FAST FACT: She’s been married to Tim McGraw since October 1996)
Lil Rob is 47 (his given name Robert L. Flores)
Lindsey Stirling is 36
Wale is 38 (born Olubowale Victor Akintimehin)
The late Leonard Cohen (1934 – 2016)…he would have been 88

Plus:

Celebrity Chef/TV Personality (“Worst Cooks In America”) Anne Burrell is 53
Movie producer/screenwriter Ethan Coen is 65 (“Raising Arizona,” “Barton Fink,” “Fargo,” “O’Brother, Where Art Thou,” “The Big Lebowski,” “No Country for Old Men,” “A Serious Man,” “True Grit,” “Inside Llewyn Davis”) (FAST FACT: Known as half of “the Coen Brothers,” he and brother Joel Coen write, direct and produce their films jointly.)
"Who Wants To Marry A Millionaire" bride and one-time “Playboy” playmate Darva Conger is 57
Author, comedienne and TV panelist Fannie Flagg is 78 (Aside from her appearances on “To Tell The Truth,” her storied career includes her writing the book, “Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café,” which was adapted into the film, “Fried Green Tomatoes”)
Author Stephen King is 75 (“Carrie,” “The Shining,” “Misery,” “It,” “The Dark Tower” series) (FAST FACTS: His numerous literary honors include a Bram Stoker Award, an O. Henry Award, and a National Book Foundation Medal)
TV personality (and sometime actress and producer) Ricki Lake is 54
Reality TV star Abby Lee Miller is 57 (“Dance Moms”)
Reality TV star Momma Dee is 59 (“Love & Hip Hop Atlanta”) (Her real name is Deborah Gaither Bryant)
Reality TV star Nicole Richie is 41 (“The Simple Life, “Fashion Star,” “#CandidlyNicole”) (FAST FACTS: She married Joel Madden in 2010 and they share daughter Harlow, and son Sparrow. She’s also helmed the successful jewelry and accessories line, House of Harlow and recently dipped her toe into acting with her participating in NBC’s “Great News”)
The late author H. G. Wells (1866 – 1946) (“The Time Machine,” “The Invisible Man,” “The War of the Worlds”) (FAST FACT: He is sometimes called the Father of Science Fiction)

September 22^nd

Actors:

Scott Baio is 62 (“Happy Days,” “Joanie Loves Chachi,” “Charles In Charge,” “Diagnosis: Murder,” “See Dad Run”)
Shari Belafonte is 68 (“Hotel,” “Hey Arnold!,” “General Hospital”) (FAST FACT: She’s the daughter of singer Harry Belafonte)
Ashley Eckstein is 41 (“That’s So Raven,” “Blue Collar TV,” “Star Wars: The Clone Wars”)
Tom Felton is 35 (“Harry Potter” franchise, “Rise of the Planet of the Apes,” “The Flash”)
Bonnie Hunt is 61 (“Rain Man,” “Beethoven,” “Beethoven's 2nd,” “Jumanji,” “Jerry Maguire,” “The Green Mile,” “Cheaper by the Dozen,” “Cheaper by the Dozen 2,” “Life With Bonnie”)
Paul Le Mat is 77 (“American Graffiti,” “Burning Bed,” “Puppet Master” series, “Lonesome Dove” series, “American History X”)
Tatiana Maslany is 37 (“Heartland,” “The Nativity,” “Being Erica,” “Orphan Black”)
Catherine Oxenberg is 61 (“Dynasty,” “Starship Troopers 3,” “Watch Over Me,” “Sharktopus vs. Whalewolf”) (FAST FACT: She’s the daughter of Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia and is 1,375th in the line of succession to the throne of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth Realms.)
Billie Piper is 40 (“Doctor Who,” “Secret Diary of a Call Girl,” “Penny Dreadful”)
The late John Houseman (1902-1988) (“The Paper Chase,” “Bright Lights, Big City,” “Scrooged”)

Musicians:

Andrea Bocelli is 64 (FAST FACT: Born with poor eyesight, Bocelli became permanently blind at the age of 12, following a soccer accident.)
Debby Boone is 66
Nick Cave is 65
Whitesnake’s David Coverdale is 71
Bastille’s Will Farquarson is 39
The Shins’ bassist-guitarist Dave Hernandez is 52
Joan Jett is 64
Taking Back Sunday’s Adam Lazzara is 41
Concrete Blonde’s Johnette Napolitano is 65
DJ Martin Solveig is 46 (FAST FACT: He has worked with Bloc Party and Dragonette)

Plus:

Olympic skater Tai Babilonia is 63 (Together with Randy Gardner, she won the 1979 World Figure Skating Championships and five U.S. Figure Skating Championships 1976–1980. The pair qualified for the 1976 and 1980 Winter Olympics)
MMA Fighter Bob Sapp is 49
The late Baseball Hall of Famer Tommy Lasorda (1927 – 2021)...he would have been 95 (FAST FACTS: Best known for his two decades as manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, he was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame as a manager in 1997. In 2017, he marked his 68th season in one capacity or another with the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers organization, the longest tenure anyone has had with the team.)

September 23^rd

Actors:

Jason Alexander is 63 (“Pretty Woman,” “Coneheads,” “E/R,” “Seinfeld,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “Listen Up!,” “The Grinder”)
Skylar Astin is 35 (“Taking Woodstock,” “Pitch Perfect,” “Cavemen,” “21 & Over”)
Kaylee DeFer is 36 (“The Mountain,” “The War At Home,” “Gossip Girl, “Flicka”)
Anthony Mackie is 44 (“8 Mile,” “She Hate Me,” “The Hurt Locker,” “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,” “Captain America: Civil War,” “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” “Avengers: Age of Ultron” “Ant-Man,” “All The Way”)
Chi McBride is 61 (“Boston Public,” “Gone in 60 Seconds,” “The Terminal,” “I, Robot,” Roll Bounce,” “Draft Day,” “Hawaii Five-0”)
Mary Kay Place is 75 (“Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman,” “Private Benjamin,” “Sweet Home Alabama,” “Grace & Frankie”)
Anneliese Van der Pol is 38 (“That’s So Raven,” “Raven’s Home,” “Vampires Suck”)
The late Elizabeth Pena (1959 – 2014)…she would have been 63 (“La Bamba,” “Down and Out in Beverly Hills,” “Jacob's Ladder,” “Lone Star,” “Rush Hour,” “I Married Dora,” “Resurrection Blvd.,” “Tough Cookies”) (FAST FACTS: In 1975, she was a founding member of the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors. She graduated from New York's High School of Performing Arts in 1977 – with her classmates were Ving Rhames and Esai Morales)
The late Walter Pidgeon (1897-1984) (“How Green Was My Valley,” “Mrs. Miniver,” “The Bad and the Beautiful,” “Forbidden Planet,” “Advise & Consent,” “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea,” “Funny Girl,” “Harry in Your Pocket”)
The late Mickey Rooney (1920-2014) (“The Black Stallion,” “National Velvet,” “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” “Night at the Museum”) (FAST FACT: He made his first stage appearance when he was fourteen months old, crawling onstage with overalls and a little harmonica during his parents' acting routine.)

Musicians:

Sarah Bettens of K’s Choice is 50
Jermaine Dupri is 50
BR549’s Don Herron is 49
O-Town’s Erik-Michael Estrada is 43 (According to FamousBirthdays.com)
Julio Iglesias is 79
Bruce Springsteen is 73
The late Ray Charles (1930-2004) …he would have been 92 (FAST FACTS: He pioneered the genre of soul music during the 1950s by combining blues, rhythm and blues, and gospel styles and eventually became one of the first black musicians to be granted artistic control by a mainstream record company. Frank Sinatra once called Ray Charles "the only true genius in show business” and in 2002, “Rolling Stone” ranked Charles number ten on its list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time.”)

Plus:

Model/TV personality Caridee English is 38(She won the 7^th season of “America’s Next Top Model,” has hosted “Pretty Wicked”)
Stock car driver Regan Smith is 39 (He currently competes part-time in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series)
The late Roman Emperor Caesar Augustus (63 BC-14 AD) (FAST FACTS: He may have died from natural causes, although there were unconfirmed rumors that his wife, Livia, poisoned him. He was succeeded as Emperor by his adopted son – also stepson and former son-in-law – Tiberius.)
The late feminist Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1838-1927) (She was the first woman to run for President – she went against Grant. She was also a stockbroker, newspaper publisher, a pioneer of women's rights and an advocate of free love – aka the freedom to marry, divorce, and bear children without government interference)

September 24^th

Actors:

Ian Bohen is 46 (“Wyatt Earp,” “Teen Wolf,” “Mad Men”)
Grey Damon is 35 (“Friday Night Lights,” “The Nine Lives of Chloe King,” “Aquarius”)
Jessica Lucas is 37 (“Melrose Place,” “She’s The Man,” “Cult,” “The Covenant,” “Gotham” “Cloverfield,” 2013’s “Evil Dead”)
Allison McAtee is 37 (“Iron Man,” “Elevator Girl”)
Ben Platt is 29 (“Pitch Perfect,” “Pitch Perfect 2,” “Ricki and the Flash”)
Jackie Sandler is 48 (“Hotel Transylvania,” “That’s My Boy,” “Grown Ups”) (FAST FACT: Yup – she’s married to Adam Sandler, they’ve been hitched since 2003)
Kevin Sorbo is 64 (“Hercules: The Legendary Journeys,” “Andromeda,” “Kull the Conqueror,” “Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!”)
Nia Vardalos is 60 (“My Big Fat Greek Wedding”) (FAST FACT: “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” is still the highest grossing rom-com of all time)
The late Audra Lindley (1918-1997) (“Three’s Company,” “The Ropers,” “Desert Hearts,” “Cybill,” “Friends”)
The late Phil Hartman (1948-1998)…he would have been 74 (“Saturday Night Live,” “Jingle All the Way,” “NewsRadio,” “The Simpsons”) (FAST FACT: He was murdered by his third wife as he slept, hours before she killed herself. Hartman was posthumously inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in 2012 and the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2014.)

Musicians:

Slipknot drummer Shawn Crahan is 53 (FAST FACT: His metal band was initially known as The Pale Ones in 1993, but they eventually changed it to Slipknot on drummer Joey Jordison's suggestion after they released a song with that name)
Kreayshawn is 33 (born Natassia Gail Zolot) (FAST FACT: She was expelled from Oakland High School as a teen for constantly ditching class)
Gerry and the Pacemakers’ Gerry Marsden (1942-2021)…he would have been 80.
The late Linda McCartney (1941-1998)…she would have been 81 (A vocalist, musician, animal rights activist, and photographer, she founded the Linda McCartney Foods company and published many vegetarian cookbooks)

Plus:

Football legend “Mean” Joe Greene is 76 (Note: Wiki says Sept 5^th and 24^th, but Yahoo says 24^th is correct)(A defensive tackle for the Pittsburgh Steelers, he’s a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the College Football Hall of Fame, and his number 75 jersey is one of only two retired by the Steelers. His 1979 ad for Coke, dubbed “Hey Kid, Catch!” remains beloved.)
Gymnasts Paul and Morgan Hamm are 40 (FAST FACTS! Paul is a three-time Olympic medalist; he won the majority of rounds at the 2004 Olympics in Athens)
TV personality/Chef Robert Irvine is 57 (“Dinner: Impossible,” “Worst Cooks in America,” “Restaurant: Impossible,” “Next Iron Chef” – he currently hosts “The Robert Irvine Show,” which airs on the CW)
TV personality Ross Matthews is 43 (“The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” “Hello Ross,” “Hollywood Today Live,” RuPaul's Drag Race,” “Live from E!”)
WWE Vice President Stephanie McMahon is 46 (FAST FACT: She was a one-time Women's Champion during her short-lived wrestling career)
The late author F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) (“The Great Gatsby,” “The Side of Paradise,” “The Beautiful and Damned,” “Tender is the Night”)
The late scientist John R. Dunning (1907-1975) (A physicist, he helped lay the groundwork for the atomic bomb and was a key figure in the Manhattan Project)
The late director Jim Henson (1936-1990)… he would have been 86 (“The Muppets,” “Sesame Street,” “Fraggle Rock”) (FAST FACT: He was honored on the Hollywood Walk of Fame as both himself and Kermit the Frog)
The late journalist Jim McKay (1921-2008) (Emmy Award-winning sportscaster of ABC’s Wide World of Sports)
The late lyricist Anthony Newley (1931-1999)…he would have been 91 (“Stop the World-I Want to Get Off,” Nina Simone’s classic “Feeling Good,” and more)
The late astronaut John Watts Young (1930 – 2018)…he would have been 92 (FAST FACT: He was the first person to fly into space six times and the ninth to step foot on the moon as Commander of the Apollo 16 mission in 1972)

September 25^th

Actors:

Tate Donovan is 59 (“Damages,” “Hercules,” “The O.C”)
Michael Douglas is 78 (“Wall Street,” “Black Rain,” “Romancing the Stone,” “The Game,” “Basic Instinct”) (FAST FACT: Douglas shares the same birthday as his wife, Catherine Zeta Jones)
Donald Glover (aka musician Childish Gambino) is 39 (“Community,” “ Magic Mike XXL,” “The Martian,” “Spider-Man: Homecoming,” “Atlanta”) (FAST FACT: Yes, he just won an Outstanding Lead Actor - Comedy Series Emmy for his work on “Atlanta.” But he also made history with his Emmy win in the Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series for his work on “B.A.N.,” an experimental episode of "Atlanta.” He is the first Black director to win an Emmy for work on a comedy series, and the first Black man to win an Emmy for lead acting in a comedy series since 1985)
Mark Hamill is 71 (“General Hospital,” Luke Skywalker in the original “Star Wars” series, “The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia,” “Timerunner,” “Village of the Damned,” “Kingsman: The Secret Service,” “The Flash”)
Catherine Zeta Jones is 53 (“Mask of Zorro,” “Chicago,” “Lay the Favorite,” “The Terminal,” “Ocean’s Twelve,” “Entrapment”)
Heather Locklear is 61 (“TJ Hooker,” “Dynasty,” “Melrose Place,” “Spin City,” “Hot in Cleveland,” “Franklin & Bash,” “Too Close To Home”)
Michael Madsen is 65 (“Kill Bill,” “Reservoir,” “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves”)
Lee Norris is 41 (“One Tree Hill,” “Boy Meets World”)
Will Smith is 54 (“The Fresh Price of Bel-Air,” “I Am Legend,” “Men in Black,” “Independence Day,” “Hitch”)
Hal Sparks is 52 (“Talk Soup,” “Queer as Folk,” “Lab Rats”)
The late Christopher Reeve (1952-2004)…he would have been 70 (1978’s “Superman,” “Somewhere In Time,” “The Bostonians,” “Street Smart,” “The Remains of the Day”) (FAST FACTS: He was tragically paralyzed in a horse-riding accident in 1995. Confined to a wheelchair and required a portable ventilator for the rest of his life, he lobbied on behalf of people with spinal-cord injuries and for human embryonic stem cell research until he passed. He received a Screen Actor Guild Award in 1998 and the Lasker Award in 2003)

Musicians:

Casper is 40 (born Benjamin Griffey)
Childish Gambino (aka actor Donald Glover) is 39
TI is 42 (born Clifford Joseph Harris Jr.)

Plus:

TV personality Jamie Hyneman is 66 (“Mythbusters”)
Model Bridget Marquardt is 49 (also one of Hugh Hefner’s famous girlfriends on reality show, “The Girls Next Door”)
NBA Hall of Famer Scottie Pippen is 57 (A legendary forward, he played alongside Michael Jordan on six Chicago Bulls Championship teams, he was named to 7 NBA All-Star games and was a 3-time All-NBA First Team selection)
Supermodel Cheryl Tiegs is 75 (She was the first supermodel to enter the world of fashion design and endorsements) (FAST FACT: She was a covergirl by the time she was 17 years old)
Iconic journalist Barbara Walters is 93
The late author William Faulkner (1897-1962) (“The Sound and the Fury,” “As I Lay Dying,” and “A Rose for Emily”) (FAST FACTS: A Pulitzer Prize-winner, he also won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949)
The late author Shel Silverstein (1930-1999)…he would have been 92 (known as “Uncle Shelby” for his children’s books, such as, “The Giving Tree,” “Where the Sidewalk Ends,” “A Light In The Attic”)

September 26^th

Actors:

Melissa Sue Anderson is 60 (“Little House on the Prairie”)
Jim Caviezel is 54 (“The Passion of the Christ,” “Frequency,” “The Count of Monte Cristo,” “Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius,” “Déjà Vu,” “Person of Interest”)
Mark Famiglietti is 43 (“Hang Time,” “Bones,” “Mad Men”)
Linda Hamilton is 66 (“The Terminator” film series, “Beauty and the Beast,” “Children of the Corn,” “Dante’s Peak,” “Chuck,” “Defiance”)
Ashley Leggat is 36 (“Life With Derek,” “Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen”)
Kent McCord is 80 (“The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet,” “Adam-12,” “Predator 2,” “Out for Justice,” “Return of the Living Dead 3, “seaQuest DSV,” “JAG,” “Farscape”)
Melanie Paxon is 50 (“Notes from the Underbelly,” “Happy Family,” “Descendants”)
Talulah Riley is 37 (“Pride & Prejudice,” “Inception“)
The late Donna Douglas (1932 – 2015) …she would have been 90 (“Beverly Hillbillies,” “Frankie and Johnny”)
The late Edmund Gwenn (1877-1959) (“Miracle on 34^th Street,” “Pride & Prejudice”)
The late Julie London (1926-2000)…she would have been 96 (More than forty films as well as the classic TV drama, “Emergency!”)

Musicians:

Carlene Carter is 67
Bryan Ferry is 77
En Vogue Cindy Herron is 61
Christina Milian is 41
Boyz II Men’s Shawn Stockman is 50
The late Lynn Anderson (1947 – 2015)…she would have been 75
The late Olivia Newton-John (She also starred in a few films including “Grease” and “Xanadu”) (1948 – 2022)…she would have been 74
The late Marty Robbins (1925 – 1982)…he would have been 97

Plus:

TV pitchman Jonathan Goldsmith is 84 (formerly “The Most Interesting Man In The World”)
Producer and TV personality Nev Schulman is 38 (“Catfish: The TV Show,” “Dancing With The Stars”)
Tennis champ Serena Williams is 41
The late pioneer John Chapman aka Johnny Appleseed (1774 – 1845) (John Chapman better known to the rest of us as Johnny Appleseed, was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced apple trees to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, as well as the northern counties of present day West Virginia. He became an American legend while still alive, due to his kind, generous ways, his leadership in conservation, and the symbolic importance he attributed to apples.)
The late poet T. S. Eliot (1888 – 1965) (He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948, "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry.”)
The late composer George Gershwin (1898 – 1937) (“Rhapsody in Blue,” “An American in Paris,” “Porgy and Bess”)
The late fitness guru Jack LaLanne (1914 – 2011) (Considered the “Godfather of Modern Fitness,” he built a career and a brand on the notion that the country's overall health depended on the health of its population, and referred to physical culture and nutrition as "the salvation of America.” And really, without him, celebrity exercise gurus such as Jane Fonda and Richard Simmons may not exist.)

September 27^th

Actors:

Anna Camp is 40 (“The Mindy Project,” “Pitch Perfect” series, “Equus,” “The Help,” “True Blood,” “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” “Good Girls Revolt,” “Perfect Harmony”)
Amanda Detmer is 51 (“Drop Dead Gorgeous,” “Final Destination,” “Boys and Girls,” “Saving Silverman,” “The Majestic,” “Kiss the Bride”)
Gail Edwards is 70 (“It’s a Living,” “Blossom,” “Full House”)
Sam Lerner is 30 (“Monster House,” “Envy,” “Almanac”)
A Martinez is 74 (“LA Law,” “Santa Barbara”)
Gwyneth Paltrow is 50 (“Seven,” “Emma,” “Sliding Doors,” “A Perfect Murder,” “Shakespeare in Love,” “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” “The Royal Tenenbaums,” “Shallow Hal,” “Proof,” “Iron Man” series, “Glee”)
Sofia Milos is 53 (“E/R,” “Friends,” “The Sopranos,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “CSI: Miami,” “The Border”)
Tamara Taylor is 52 (“Party of Five,” “Diary of a Mad Black Woman,” “Hidden Hills,” “Bones”)
The late Wilford Brimley (1934 – 2020) ...he would have been 88 (“The Waltons,” “The China Syndrome,” “The Thing,” “The Natural,” “Cocoon,” “The Firm”)
The late William Conrad (1920-1994) (“Rocky & Bullwinkle,” ‘The Fugitive,” “Cannon,” “Jake and the Fatman”)

Musicians:

3 Doors Down’s Brad Arnold is 45
Bachman-Turner Overdrive Randy Bachman is 80
Color Me Badd’s Mark Calderon is 53
Of Mice & Men’s Austin Carlile is 36
Shaun Cassidy is 65
Third Eye Blind’s Stephan Jenkins is 59
Avril Lavigne is 39
Lil Wayne is 41 (birth name Dwayne Michael Carter Jr.)
Trick Daddy is 49 (born Maurice Samuel Young)
The late Meat Loaf (1947 – 2022)…he would have been 75 (His given name Michael Lee Aday)

Plus:

Fashion designer Jason Wu is 41
Founding Father Samuel Adams (1722-1803) (A statesman and politician, while his name is used by the Boston Beer Company, he doesn’t have any connection to beer. He was a second cousin to fellow Founding Father, President John Adams.)

September 28^th

Actors:

Brigitte Bardot is 88 (“Contempt,” “Spirits of the Dead,” “...And God Created Woman,” “Viva Maria!”)
Maria Canals-Barrera is 56 (“Wizards of Waverly Place,” “Camp Rock,” “Larry Crowne”)
Peter Cambor is 44 (“NCIS: Los Angeles,” “Notes from the Underbelly,” “Wedding Band”)
Hilary Duff is 35 (“Lizzie McGuire,” “Cadet Kelly,” “Santa Claus Lane,” “Metamorphosis,” “Agent Cody Banks,” “Cheaper by the Dozen,” “A Cinderella Story,” “Cheaper by the Dozen 2,” “Younger”)
Mira Sorvino is 55 (“Mighty Aphrodite,” “Romy and Michele's High School Reunion,” “Norma Jean & Marilyn,” “Mimic,” “Lulu on the Bridge,” “The Replacement Killers,” “Summer of Sam (1999), “Like Dandelion Dust,” “Human Trafficking”
Naomi Watts is 54 (“Brides of Christ,” “Home and Away,” “Flirting,” “Tank Girl,” “Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering,” “King Kong,” “21 Grams,” “The Impossible,” “Mulholland Drive,” “I Heart Huckabees,” “The Ring,” “Birdman”)

Musicians:

Mandy Barnett is 47
Esmée Denters is 34
Little Big Town’s Karen Fairchild is 53
Marilyn Manson drummer Ginger Fish is 57
Young Jeezy is 45 (born Jay Wayne Jenkins)
Luke Mossman (guitarist for Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats) is 44
Imagine Dragons’ Daniel Platzman is 36
Vincent is 40 (born Anne Erin “Annie” Clark)
Melody Thornton is 38
Moon Zappa is 55
The late Ben E. King (1938 – 2015)…he would have been 84

Plus:

Reality TV star Bam Margera is 43 (“Jackass,” “Viva La Bam”)
Burlesque dancer and model Dita Von Teese is 50 (her given name is Heather Renée Sweet)
The late entrepreneur Thomas Crapper (1836 – 1910) (English plumber who gave the world modern bathroom fixtures, but did not invent the flush toilet. John Harrington is the actual inventor of the flush toilet. And P.S. while his last name became slang for human bodily waste, although the term "crap" was actually of Middle English origin and was once used in an entirely different way.)
The late TV personality Ed Sullivan (1901 – 1974) (He hosted “The Toast of the Town, also known as “The Ed Sullivan Show,” from 1955 to 1971

September 29^th

Actors:

Roger Bart is 60 (“The Producers,” “Stepford Wives,” “The Lost Room,” “Hostel: Part II,” “American Gangster,” “Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay,” “Desperate Housewives”)
Mackenzie Crook is 51 (“The Office” (original British version), “Pirates of the Caribbean,” “Game of Thrones”)
Alexis Cruz is 48 (“Touched By An Angel,” “Stargate,” “Stargate SG-1”)
Erika Eleniak is 53 (“Baywatch,” “The Blob,” “Under Siege,” “The Beverly Hillbillies,” “Snowbound,” “Betrayal,” “Strike Force”)
Natasha Gregson Wagner is 52 (“Modern Vampires,” “Pasadena” “High Fidelity,” “The 4400”) (FAST FACT: Her mother was Natalie Wood)
Drake Hogestyn is 69 (“Days Of Our Lives”)
Zachary Levi is 42 (“Chuck,” “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel,” “Thor: The Dark World,” “Shazam,” “Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”)
Chrissy Metz is 42 (“American Horror Story: Freakshow,” “This Is Us,” “Sierra Burgess Is a Loser,” “Breakthrough”)
Ian McShane is 80 (“Lovejoy,” “Deadwood,” “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,” “American Gods”)
Jill Whelan is 56 (“Airplane!,” “The Love Boat’s” Vicki Stubing)
The late “Singing Cowboy” Gene Autry (1907-1998)
The late Madeline Kahn (1942-1999) …she would have been 80 (“What's Up, Doc?,” “Young Frankenstein,” “High Anxiety,” “History of the World, Part I,” “Paper Moon,” “Blazing Saddles,” “The Cheap Detective,” “City Heat,” “Clue,” “Mixed Nuts,” “Nixon”)
The late Larry Linville (1939-2000) …he would have been 83 (“M*A*S*H,“ “Grandpa Goes To Washington,” “School Spirit,” “Earth Girls Are Easy,” “C.H.U.D. II: Bud the C.H.U.D.,” “Rock 'n' Roll High School Forever,” “A Million to Juan,” “No Dessert,” “Dad, till You Mow the Lawn”)
The late Lizabeth Scott (1922 – 2015)…she would have been 100 (“Pulp,” “The Skin of Our Teeth,” “The Strange Love of Martha Ivers,” “Dead Reckoning,” “Desert Fury,” “Too Late for Tears”) (FAST FACTS: She was dubbed "the most beautiful face of film noir during the 1940s and 1950s.” Of the 21 films she appeared in, she was the lead actress in all but one.)

Musicians:

Suede’s Brett Anderson is 55
Primus’ Les Claypool is 59
Emerson Drive’s Danick Dupelle is 49
City and Colour and Alexisonfire’s Dallas Green is 42
Halsey is 28 (her given name? Ashley Nicolette Frangipane)
Jerry Lee Lewis is 87
Iron Butterfly’s Mike Pinera is 74
Jean-Luc Ponty is 80

Plus:

Reality TV star Lo Bosworth is 36 (“The Hills”)
Comedian Andrew “Dice” Clay is 65 (born Andrew Clay Silverstein)
TV personality Bryant Gumbel is 74
The late PBS Newshour co-anchor Gwen Ifill (1955 – 2016)…she would have been 67 (FAST FACT: In 1999, she became the first African American woman to host a nationally-televised U.S. public affairs program with “Washington Week in Review”)

September 30^th

Actors:

Monica Bellucci is 58 (“Dracula,” “The Matrix Reloaded,” “The Matrix Revolutions,” “The Passion of the Christ,” “Spectre”) (FAST FACT: At 50, she became the oldest Bond girl ever in the James Bond film franchise, playing Lucia Sciarra in “Spectre”)
Crystal Bernard is 61 (“Happy Days,” “It’s A Living,” “Wings,”)
Lacey Chabert is 40 (“Party Of Five,” “Lost in Space,” “Not Another Teen Movie,” “Daddy Day Care,” “Mean Girls,” “Black Christmas,” “Baby Daddy”)
Marion Cotillard is 47 (“La Vie en Rose,” “Inception,” “Assassin's Creed”)
Keiran Culkin is 40 (“Home Alone,” “She’s All That,” “Scott Pilgrim vs. The World”) (FAST FACT: He is the younger brother of Macaulay Culkin)
Angie Dickinson is 91 (“Rio Bravo,” “Police Woman,” “Dressed To Kill,” “Oceans Eleven”)
Fran Drescher is 65 (“Saturday Night Fever,” “American Hot Wax,” “This Is Spial Tap,” “The Nanny,” “Happily Divorced”)
Jenna Elfman is 51 (“Dharma and Greg,” “Friends With Benefits,” “1600 Penn”) (FAST FACT: She and husband Bodhi Elfman are avowed Scientologists)
Tony Hale is 52 (“Arrested Development,” “Veep”)
Ezra Miller is 30 (“The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” “Madame Bovary,” “We Need to Talk About Kevin,” “The Stanford Prison Experiment,” “Trainwreck,” “The Flash,” “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them”)
Andrea Roth is 55 (“RoboCop: The Series,” “Rescue Me”)
Eric Stoltz is 61 (“Mask,” “Pulp Fiction,” “Chicago Hope,” “Killing Zone,” “Once and Again,” “Capricia,” “Madam Secretary”) (FAST FACT: He was also a regular director on the television series “Glee”)
Barry Williams is 68 (“The Brady Bunch,” “Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star,” “Mega Piranha”)
The late Deborah Kerr (1921-2007) (“The King and I,” “The Sundowners,” “An Affair To Remember”)

Musicians:

Phish’s Trey Anastasio is 58
Cissy Houston is 89
Mumford & Son’s Ben Lovett is 36
Johnny Mathis is 87
The 5^th Dimension’s Marilyn McCoo is 79
Marty Stuart is 64
Goo Goo Dolls’ Robby Takac is 58
T-Pain is 38 (born Faheem Rashad Najm)

Plus:

Reality star and dancer Maddie Zeigler is 20 (She came to fame on “Dance Moms,” but has since become Sia’s muse)
Tennis champ Martina Hingis is 42 (FAST FACTS: She scored a Grand Slam junior title at age 12)
The late Truman Capote (1924 – 1984)…he would have been 98 (“Breakfast at Tiffany's,” “In Cold Blood”) (FAST FACTS: He taught himself to read and write when he was a child, and published his first short stories when he was in his late teens. He was also childhood neighbor and close, lifelong friend of “To Kill a Mockingbird” author, Harper Lee.)
Nobel Peace Prizewinner Elie Wiesel (1928 – 2016)…he would have been 94 (The author of 57 books, including “Night,” a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz, Buna, and Buchenwald concentration camps. Wiesel was also the Advisory Board chairman of the newspaper “Algemeiner Journal.”

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