Birthdays - (6/13) & (6/14)

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June 13^th

Actors:

• Tim Allen is 69 (“Home Improvement,” “Santa Clause,” “GalaxyQuest,” “Toy Story,” “Last Man Standing”)
• Kat Dennings is 36 (“40-Year-Old Virgin,” “Thor,” “Two Broke Girls”) (FAST FACT: She made her acting debut when she was 10 in a potato chip commercial)
• Chris Evans is 41 (“Not Another Teen Movie,” “Sunshine,” “The Avengers,” “Fantastic Four,” “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,” “Snowpiercer,” “Gifted,” “Captain America” series and also, as Captain America in other projects)
• Aaron Taylor-Johnson is 32 (“Kickass,” “The Illusionist,” “Savages,” “Anna Karenina,” “Godzilla,” “Nocturnal Animals”)
• Malcolm McDowell is 79 (“A Clockwork Orange,” “Caligula,” “Cat People,” “Fantasy Island,” “Entourage,” “Franklin & Bash”)
• Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are 36 (“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 60 (“The Breakfast Club,” “St. Elmo's Fire,” “WarGames,” “Short Circuit,” “High Art,” “Psych”)
• Stellan Skarsgard is 71 (“The Hunt for Red October,” “Thor,” “Girl With The Dragon Tattoo,” “The Avengers,” “Thor: The Dark World,” “Avengers: Age of Ultron”) (FAST FACT: Stellan is the father of Alexander Skarsgard)
• The late Paul Lynde (1926-1982) …he would have been 96 (“Bewitched,” “Bye Bye Birdie,” “Love, American Style,” “The Phil Silvers Show,” “The Patty Duke Show,” “The Munsters,” “The Flying Nun,” “I Dream of Jeannie,” “F Troop, and variety shows such as “The Ed Sullivan Show” and “The Dean Martin Show,” as well as game shows including “Hollywood Squares” and “Match Game”)
• 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 52 (FAST FACT: He’s a Harvard graduate)
• Smash Mouth’s Paul DeLisle is 59
• David Gray is 54
• Luke James is 38
• Asking Alexandria’s Cameron Liddell is 33
• Raz-B is 37 (his given name, De'Mario Monte Thornton)
• The late Lil Snupe (1995-2013)…would have been 27 (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 60 (best known for “The Chocolate Box Girls”)
• Racecar driver Tanner Foust is 49 (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 48 (“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 60
• 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 54 (“Baywatch”) (FAST FACTS: After a bumpy personal road, she re-emerged in January 2015 is now a breast cancer research advocate)
• Regan Burns is 54 (“Reno 911,” “The Best Man?”)
• Marla Gibbs is 91 (“The Jeffersons,” “227,” “Meteor Man,” “Madea’s Witness Protection,” “The Hughleys,” “The First Family”)
• J R Martinez is 39 (“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 29 (“Liv and Maddie,” “The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again”)
• Kevin McHale is 34 (“Glee,” “Boychoir,” “Virtually Famous”)
• Dayo Okeniyi is 34 (“The Hunger Games,” “Revolution,” “Terminator Genisys”)
• Daryl Sabara is 30 (“Spy Kids” series, “Father of the Pride,” “Generator Rex,” “Wizards of Waverly Place,” “The Polar Express,” “Keeping Up with the Steins,” “Halloween”)

Musicians:

• King Diamond is 66 (his given name – Kim Bendix Petersen)
• Boy George is 61 (born George Alan O'Dowd)
• Lucy Hale is 33 (Whose rise to fame came courtesy of TV’s “Pretty Little Liars”)
• Lang Lang is 40
• Little Mix’s Jesy Nelson is 31
• The late Burl Ives (1909-1995)

Plus:

• Real Estate developer, entrepreneur and 45^th President of the United States Donald Trump is 76
• Tennis champ Steffi Graf is 53 (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 94 (An Argentine Marxist revolutionary and guerrilla leader, who helped overthrow the Cuban government 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.”)