Birthdays 6/27 - 7/4

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June 27^th

Actors:

• Drake Bell is 36 (“The Amanda Show,” “Drake & Josh”) 
• Sam Claflin is 36 (“Pirates of the Caribbean,” “Snow White & the Huntsman” “The Hunger Games” series)
• Julia Duffy is 71 ("Newhart," “Designing Women,” “Scream Queens”)
• Matthew Lewis is 33 (Neville Longbottom in the “Harry Potter” Franchise)
• Tobey Maguire is 47 (“Spiderman,” “Spider-Man” film trilogy, “Pleasantville,” “The Cider House Rules,” “Wonder Boy,” “Seabiscuit,” “The Good German,” “Brothers,” “The Great Gatsby,” “Pawn Sacrifice”)
• Alanna Masterson is 34 (“The Walking Dead’s” Tara, “Mistresses”)
• Madylin Sweeten is 31 (“Everybody Loves Raymond,” “TMI Hollywood”)
• Chandler Riggs is 23 (“The Walking Dead’s” Carl)
• Ed Westwick is 35 (“Gossip Girl,” “Romeo and Juliet,” “Bone in the Throat,” “Freaks of Nature,” “Billionaire Ransom,” “White Gold,” “Wicked City”) 
• The late Bob Keeshan (1927-2004)…he would have 95 (“Captain Kangaroo”)

Musicians:

• Modern Day Escape Drummer Sandra Alva is 34
• Fifth Harmony’s Lauren Jauregui is 26
• The Beach Boys’ Bruce Johnston is 80
• Squeeze’s Gilson Lavis is 71
• Lorrie Morgan is 63
• Sixpence None the Richer’s Leigh Nash is 46
• Lawson’s Joel Peat is 32

Plus:

• Producer/director JJ Abrams is 56 (“Felicity,” “Alias,” “Lost,” “Mission Impossible III,” “Armageddon,” “Cloverfield,” “Star Trek,” “Star Wars: The Force Awakens)
• Reality star Khloe Kardashian is 38 (“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 73
• 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 92
• 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.)

June 28^th

Actors:

• Tichina Arnold is 53 (“Martin,” “Big Momma’s House,” “Everybody Hates Chris,” “Happily Divorced,” “Survivor's Remorse,” “’The Neighborhood”)
• Kathy Bates is 74 (“Misery,” “Fried Green Tomatoes,” “Dolores Claiborne,” “Titanic,” “Six Feet Under,” “Harry’s Law,” “American Horror Story,” “Feud: Bette and Joan”)
• Steve Burton is 52 (“General Hospital,” “The Young and the Restless”)
• John Cusack is 56 (“Say Anything,” “Grosse Pointe Blank,” “High Fidelity,” “Being John Malkovich,” “1408,” “2012,” “Hot Tub Time Machine,” “The Raven”)
• Felicia Day is 43 (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Monk,” “Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return”)
• Alessandro Nivola is 50 (“Goal!,” “Face/Off,” “American Hustle,” “A Most Violent Year,” “Selma”)
• The late Pat Morita (1932-2005) …he would have been 90. (“Happy Days,” “Sanford and Son,” “Karate Kid”)
• The late Gilda Radner (1946-1989) …she would have been 76 (“Saturday Night Live,” “The Woman In Red, “Haunted Honeymoon”) (Radner met actor Gene Wilder on the set of 1982’s “Hanky Panky,” when the two worked together. She described their first meeting as "love at first sight." She was unable to resist her attraction to Wilder as her marriage to guitarist G. E. Smith deteriorated. Radner went on to make a second film, “The Woman in Red,” released in 1984 with Wilder and their relationship grew. The two were married on September 18, 1984, in Saint-Tropez. The pair made a third film together, “Haunted Honeymoon,” which was released in 1986. They remained married until her death in 1989.

Musicians:

• Procol Harum’s David Knights is 77
• Kellie Pickler is 36
• Savage is 41 (born Demetrius Savelio) 

Plus:

• Film director (and National Treasure) Mel Brooks is 96 (“The Producers,” “The Twelve Chairs,” “Blazing Saddles,” “Young Frankenstein,” “Silent Movie,” “High Anxiety,” “History of the World, Part I,” “Spaceballs,” “Robin Hood: Men in Tights”)
• Reality star and professional skateboarder Rob Dyrdek is 48 (FAST FACTS: He gained fame on the MTV show “Rob and Big,” chronicling his experiences with his bodyguard, and “Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factory” and “Ridiculousness.”)
• Legendary Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway is 62 (FAST FACTS: He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2004 and won two Super Bowls with the Broncos.)
• American engineer and entrepreneur Elon Musk is 51 (FAST FACTS: He founded PayPal, SpaceX and Tesla Motors. He was the inspiration for Jon Favreau’s take on the classic character Tony Stark in the “Iron Man” movies. He’s been dating Grimes since at least 2018...they welcomed their first child, a son in May 2020)
• The late Broadway composer Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) (FAST FACTS: Best known for his work with lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II, he composed over 900 songs and 43 musicals, including “Oklahoma!,” “The King and I” and “The Sound of Music.” He was the first to win an EGOT: an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony.)
• The late King Henry VIII of England (1491-1547) (FAST FACTS: He had several children - the best-known are the three legitimate children who survived Henry and succeeded him as monarchs of England successively, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I. His first two wives, Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn, had several pregnancies that ended in stillbirth, miscarriage, or death in infancy. Henry acknowledged one illegitimate child, Henry FitzRoy, as his own, but is suspected to have fathered several illegitimate children by different mistresses.

June 29^th

Actors:

• Maria Conchita Alonso is 65 (“Moscow on the Hudson,” “Chasing Papi,” “Colors,” “Saints & Sinners”) (FAST FACT: In addition to being an actress, Maria has been nominated for three GRAMMY Awards.)
• Kimberlin Brown is 61 (“Young and the Restless,” “Bold & The Beautiful,” “The Bay”)
• Gary Busey is 78 (“Lethal Weapon,” “The Buddy Holly Story,” “The Apprentice”)
• Amanda Donohoe is 60 (“L.A. Law,” “Lair of the White Worm,” “Stand & Deliver,” “Castaway,” “Liar Liar,” “Murder City,” “Emmerdale”)
• Fred Grandy is 74 (“Love, American Style,” “The Love Boat’s” ‘Gopher’, “The Mindy Project”)
• Melora Hardin is 55 (“Lambada,” “Cover Me,” “Monk,” “The Office,” “Transparent”)
• Colin Jost is 40 (“Saturday Night Live”) (FAST FACT: He’s a Harvard grad)
• Sharon Lawrence is 61 (“NYPD Blue,” “Fired Up,” “Ladies Man,” “Drop Dead Diva,” “Rizzoli & Isles”)
• Richard Lewis is 75 (“Anything But Love,” “Leaving Las Vegas,” “Hugo Pool,” “The Maze,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm”)
• Lily Rabe is 40 (“Mona Lisa Smile,” “American Horror Story,” “The Whispers”)
• Adam G. Sevani is 30 (“Step Up” film series, “The First Time”)
• The late Nelson Eddy (1901-1967) (“Make Mine Music” “Phantom of the Opera”) (FAST FACTS: During his 40-year career, he earned three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame – one each for film, recording, and radio – left his footprints in the wet concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theater, earned three gold records, and was invited to sing at the third inauguration of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1941)
• The late Ruth Warrick (1916-2005) (“The Corsican Brothers,” “Song of the South,” “As The World Turns,” “All My Children”)

Musicians:

• DJ Shadow is 50 (his mama knows him as Joshua Paul Davis)
• Dokken’s Don Dokken is 69
• Goldfinger’s John Feldmann is 55
• Men at Work’s Colin Hay is 69
• Flight of the Conchords’ Bret McKenzie is 46
• Deep Purple drummer Ian Paice is 74
• Nicole Scherzinger is 44

Plus:

• LA Clippers small forward Kawhi Leonard is 31
• The late civil rights leader Stokely Carmichael (1941-1998)…he would have been 81 (He rose to prominence in the civil rights and Black Power movements, first as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, later as the "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party, and finally as a leader of the All-African People's Revolutionary Party)

June 29^th

Actors:

• Maria Conchita Alonso is 65 (“Moscow on the Hudson,” “Chasing Papi,” “Colors,” “Saints & Sinners”) (FAST FACT: In addition to being an actress, Maria has been nominated for three GRAMMY Awards.)
• Kimberlin Brown is 61 (“Young and the Restless,” “Bold & The Beautiful,” “The Bay”)
• Gary Busey is 78 (“Lethal Weapon,” “The Buddy Holly Story,” “The Apprentice”)
• Amanda Donohoe is 60 (“L.A. Law,” “Lair of the White Worm,” “Stand & Deliver,” “Castaway,” “Liar Liar,” “Murder City,” “Emmerdale”)
• Fred Grandy is 74 (“Love, American Style,” “The Love Boat’s” ‘Gopher’, “The Mindy Project”)
• Melora Hardin is 55 (“Lambada,” “Cover Me,” “Monk,” “The Office,” “Transparent”)
• Colin Jost is 40 (“Saturday Night Live”) (FAST FACT: He’s a Harvard grad)
• Sharon Lawrence is 61 (“NYPD Blue,” “Fired Up,” “Ladies Man,” “Drop Dead Diva,” “Rizzoli & Isles”)
• Richard Lewis is 75 (“Anything But Love,” “Leaving Las Vegas,” “Hugo Pool,” “The Maze,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm”)
• Lily Rabe is 40 (“Mona Lisa Smile,” “American Horror Story,” “The Whispers”)
• Adam G. Sevani is 30 (“Step Up” film series, “The First Time”)
• The late Nelson Eddy (1901-1967) (“Make Mine Music” “Phantom of the Opera”) (FAST FACTS: During his 40-year career, he earned three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame – one each for film, recording, and radio – left his footprints in the wet concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theater, earned three gold records, and was invited to sing at the third inauguration of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1941)
• The late Ruth Warrick (1916-2005) (“The Corsican Brothers,” “Song of the South,” “As The World Turns,” “All My Children”)

Musicians:

• DJ Shadow is 50 (his mama knows him as Joshua Paul Davis)
• Dokken’s Don Dokken is 69
• Goldfinger’s John Feldmann is 55
• Men at Work’s Colin Hay is 69
• Flight of the Conchords’ Bret McKenzie is 46
• Deep Purple drummer Ian Paice is 74
• Nicole Scherzinger is 44

Plus:

• LA Clippers small forward Kawhi Leonard is 31
• The late civil rights leader Stokely Carmichael (1941-1998)…he would have been 81 (He rose to prominence in the civil rights and Black Power movements, first as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, later as the "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party, and finally as a leader of the All-African People's Revolutionary Party)

June 30^th 

Actors:

• Willam Belli is 40 (“Nip/Tuck,” “RuPaul’s Drag Race”)
• Lizzy Caplan is 40 (“Freaks and Geeks,” “Mean Girls,” “The Class,” “True Blood,” “Party Down,” “Cloverfield,” “Masters of Sex”)
• Vincent D'Onofrio is 63 (“Full Metal Jacket,” “JFK,” “Law and Order: Criminal Intent,” “Jurassic World,” “Rings,” “CHiPs”)
• Nancy Dussault is 86 (“The Dick Van Dyke Show,” "Too Close For Comfort," “Mad About You”) (FAST FACT: She was the first anchor of “Good Morning America,” working with David Hartman, when the show started in 1975)
• Rick Gonzalez is 43 (War of the Worlds,” “The Rookie,” “Reaper,” “Roll Bounce,” “Arrow”)
• Rupert Graves is 59 (“V For Vendetta,” “The Madness of King George,” “Sherlock”)
• David Alan Grier is 66 (“A Different World,” “Boomerang,” “In Living Color,” “DAG,” “Life With Bonnie,” “The Carmichael Show”)
• Monica Potter is 51 (“Con Air,” “Patch Adams,” “Saw,” “Along Came a Spider,” “Boston Legal,” “Parenthood”)
• The late Susan Hayward (1917-1975) (“My Foolish Heart,” “I Want to Live!”)

Musicians:

• Pantera’s Phil Anselmo is 54
• Fantasia Barrino is 38
• Cheryl is 39 (FAST FACT: She shares son Bear with ex Liam Payne)
• Yngwie Malmsteen is 59
• Matisyahu is 43 (You’ll never guess his birth name: Matthew Paul Miller. Matisyahu is actually his Hebrew name)
• American Author’s James Adam Shelley is 39 (according to FamousBirthdays.com)
• Little River Band’s Glenn Shorrock is 78
• Cole Swindell is 39
• The late Supreme Florence Ballard (1943-1976) …she would have been 79
• The late Lena Horne (1917-2010)

Plus:

• TV Director Paris Barclay is 66 (“Glee,” “The West Wing”)
• Founding member of “The Wiggles” Murray Cook (the Red one) is 62
• Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps is 37 (FAST FACT: He’s the most decorated Olympian ever with 28 team medals – 23 gold, 3 silver, and 2 bronze. He also holds the all-time records for individual Olympic gold medals with 16 – 13 gold, 2 silver, and 1 bronze)
• Social theorist, economist and author Thomas Sowell is 92 (“A Conflict of Visions,” “Blacks, Rednecks & White Liberals”) (A prominent black conservative, he is known for his libertarian views.)
• Boxing champ Mike Tyson is 56 (He reigned as the undisputed world heavyweight champion and holds the record as the youngest boxer to win a heavyweight title at 20 years, 4 months and 22 days old. Tyson won his first 19 professional fights by knockout, 12 of them in the first round. Tyson is also the first heavyweight boxer to simultaneously hold the WBA, WBC and IBF titles, and the only heavyweight to successively unify them)
• The late magician Harry Blackstone Jr. (1934-1997) …he would have been 88 (FAST FACT: The son of famed magician, he was used as a prop in his father’s act as an infant)

June 30^th

Actors:

• Willam Belli is 40 (“Nip/Tuck,” “RuPaul’s Drag Race”)
• Lizzy Caplan is 40 (“Freaks and Geeks,” “Mean Girls,” “The Class,” “True Blood,” “Party Down,” “Cloverfield,” “Masters of Sex”)
• Vincent D'Onofrio is 63 (“Full Metal Jacket,” “JFK,” “Law and Order: Criminal Intent,” “Jurassic World,” “Rings,” “CHiPs”)
• Nancy Dussault is 86 (“The Dick Van Dyke Show,” "Too Close For Comfort," “Mad About You”) (FAST FACT: She was the first anchor of “Good Morning America,” working with David Hartman, when the show started in 1975)
• Rick Gonzalez is 43 (War of the Worlds,” “The Rookie,” “Reaper,” “Roll Bounce,” “Arrow”)
• Rupert Graves is 59 (“V For Vendetta,” “The Madness of King George,” “Sherlock”)
• David Alan Grier is 66 (“A Different World,” “Boomerang,” “In Living Color,” “DAG,” “Life With Bonnie,” “The Carmichael Show”)
• Monica Potter is 51 (“Con Air,” “Patch Adams,” “Saw,” “Along Came a Spider,” “Boston Legal,” “Parenthood”)
• The late Susan Hayward (1917-1975) (“My Foolish Heart,” “I Want to Live!”)

Musicians:

• Pantera’s Phil Anselmo is 54
• Fantasia Barrino is 38
• Cheryl is 39 (FAST FACT: She shares son Bear with ex Liam Payne)
• Yngwie Malmsteen is 59
• Matisyahu is 43 (You’ll never guess his birth name: Matthew Paul Miller. Matisyahu is actually his Hebrew name)
• American Author’s James Adam Shelley is 39 (according to FamousBirthdays.com)
• Little River Band’s Glenn Shorrock is 78
• Cole Swindell is 39
• The late Supreme Florence Ballard (1943-1976) …she would have been 79
• The late Lena Horne (1917-2010)

Plus:

• TV Director Paris Barclay is 66 (“Glee,” “The West Wing”)
• Founding member of “The Wiggles” Murray Cook (the Red one) is 62
• Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps is 37 (FAST FACT: He’s the most decorated Olympian ever with 28 team medals – 23 gold, 3 silver, and 2 bronze. He also holds the all-time records for individual Olympic gold medals with 16 – 13 gold, 2 silver, and 1 bronze)
• Social theorist, economist and author Thomas Sowell is 92 (“A Conflict of Visions,” “Blacks, Rednecks & White Liberals”) (A prominent black conservative, he is known for his libertarian views.)
• Boxing champ Mike Tyson is 56 (He reigned as the undisputed world heavyweight champion and holds the record as the youngest boxer to win a heavyweight title at 20 years, 4 months and 22 days old. Tyson won his first 19 professional fights by knockout, 12 of them in the first round. Tyson is also the first heavyweight boxer to simultaneously hold the WBA, WBC and IBF titles, and the only heavyweight to successively unify them)
• The late magician Harry Blackstone Jr. (1934-1997) …he would have been 88 (FAST FACT: The son of famed magician, he was used as a prop in his father’s act as an infant)

July 1^st

Actors:

• Pamela Anderson is 55 (“Baywatch,” “Scary Movie 3”)
• Dan Aykroyd is 70 (“1941,” “Trading Places,” “Ghostbusters,” “Spies Like Us,” “Dragnet,” “My Stepmother Is An Alien,” “Driving Miss Daisy,” “Soul Man,” “Blues Brothers,” “Blues Brothers 2000,” “50 First Dates,” “Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry”) (FAST FACT: He’s been married to actress Donna Dixon since 1983)
• Andre Braugher is 60 (“Glory,” “Primal Fear,” “City of Angels,” “Frequency,” “Poseidon,” “The Mist,” “Homicide: Life on the Street,” “Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer,” “The Gambler,” “Brooklyn Nine-Nine”)
• Genevieve Bujold is 80 (“Dead Ringers,” “Coma”)
• Hilarie Burton is 40 (“One Tree Hill,” “Forever,” “White Collar,” “Lethal Weapon”) (FAST FACTS: She’s been with Jeffrey Dean Morgan since 2009, and married to him since 2014. Their son, Augustus Morgan was born in March 2010…and they welcomed baby girl, George Virginia Morgan in February 2018)
• Jamie Farr is 88 (“M*A*S*H,” “Port Charles”)
• Jean Marsh is 88 (“Upstairs, Downstairs,” “Willow,” “Sense & Sensibility”)
• Hannah Murray is 33 (“Skins,” “Game of Thrones”)
• Melissa Peterman is 51 (“Fargo,” “Reba,” the host of ABC’s “Bet On Your Baby”)
• Raini Rodriguez is 29 (“Paul Blart: Mall Cop,” “Austin and Ally”)
• Alan Ruck is 66 (“Ferris Buller’s Day Off,” “Spin City,” “Spin City,” “Bad Boys,” “Three Fugitives,” “Young Guns II,” “Speed,” “Twister,” “Kickin' It Old Skool,” “The Exorcist”)
• Lea Seydoux is 37 (“Blue is the Warmest Color,” “Inglorious Basterds,” “Spectre”)
• Henry Simmons is 52 (“Above The Rim,” “Another World,” "NYPD Blue," “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”)
• Liv Tyler is 45 (“Armageddon,” “The Incredible Hulk,” “Lord of the Rings,” “The Leftovers,” “9-1-1: Lone Star”)
• The late Karen Black (1939-2013) …she would have been 83 (“Easy Rider,” “Five Easy Pieces,” “Family Plot,” “Airport 1975”)
• The late Olivia De Havilland (1916 – 2020) (“The Adventures of Robin Hood,” “Gone with the Wind”) (FAST FACT: She was one of the longest living actors/actresses from the Golden Age of Hollywood – passing at 104 years of age)

Musicians:

• Missy Elliott is 51
• Blondie’s Debbie Harry is 77
• Plies is 46 (born Algernod Lanier Washington)
• Michelle Wright is 61
• The late blues musician Willie Dixon (1915-1992)
• The late Keith Whitley (1954-1989) …he would have been 68 (FAST FACT: Several years of alcoholism severely damaged his health and he died of alcohol poisoning in 1989 at the age of 33. He was married to Lorrie Morgan at the time.)

Plus:

• Olympian Carl Lewis is 61 (FAST FACTS: A United Nations Goodwill Ambassador, Lewis has won 10 Olympic medals, including nine gold, and 10 World Championships medals, including eight gold. His career spanned from 1979 when he first achieved a world ranking to 1996 when he last won an Olympic title and subsequently retired.)
• Award-winning dancer and choreographer Twyla Tharp is 81 (FAST FACT: he was named a Kennedy Center Honoree in 2008)
• The late Diana, Princess of Wales (1961-1997) …she would have been 61
• The late civil rights leader Rev. Curtis West Harris (1924 – 2017)…he would have been 98 (In 1960, he was arrested and sentenced to 60 days in jail for his role in a sit-in at a segregated drugstore in Hopewell, Virginia.)
• The late comedienne and sometime actress Shirley Hemphill (“What’s Happening!”) (1947-1999) …she would have been 74
• The late cosmetics queen Estee Lauder (1906-2004) (FAST FACTS: Lauder was the only woman on “Time” magazine's 1998 list of the 20 most influential business geniuses of the 20^th She was the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She was inducted to the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 1988.)

July 1^st

Actors:

• Pamela Anderson is 55 (“Baywatch,” “Scary Movie 3”)
• Dan Aykroyd is 70 (“1941,” “Trading Places,” “Ghostbusters,” “Spies Like Us,” “Dragnet,” “My Stepmother Is An Alien,” “Driving Miss Daisy,” “Soul Man,” “Blues Brothers,” “Blues Brothers 2000,” “50 First Dates,” “Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry”) (FAST FACT: He’s been married to actress Donna Dixon since 1983)
• Andre Braugher is 60 (“Glory,” “Primal Fear,” “City of Angels,” “Frequency,” “Poseidon,” “The Mist,” “Homicide: Life on the Street,” “Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer,” “The Gambler,” “Brooklyn Nine-Nine”)
• Genevieve Bujold is 80 (“Dead Ringers,” “Coma”)
• Hilarie Burton is 40 (“One Tree Hill,” “Forever,” “White Collar,” “Lethal Weapon”) (FAST FACTS: She’s been with Jeffrey Dean Morgan since 2009, and married to him since 2014. Their son, Augustus Morgan was born in March 2010…and they welcomed baby girl, George Virginia Morgan in February 2018)
• Jamie Farr is 88 (“M*A*S*H,” “Port Charles”)
• Jean Marsh is 88 (“Upstairs, Downstairs,” “Willow,” “Sense & Sensibility”)
• Hannah Murray is 33 (“Skins,” “Game of Thrones”)
• Melissa Peterman is 51 (“Fargo,” “Reba,” the host of ABC’s “Bet On Your Baby”)
• Raini Rodriguez is 29 (“Paul Blart: Mall Cop,” “Austin and Ally”)
• Alan Ruck is 66 (“Ferris Buller’s Day Off,” “Spin City,” “Spin City,” “Bad Boys,” “Three Fugitives,” “Young Guns II,” “Speed,” “Twister,” “Kickin' It Old Skool,” “The Exorcist”)
• Lea Seydoux is 37 (“Blue is the Warmest Color,” “Inglorious Basterds,” “Spectre”)
• Henry Simmons is 52 (“Above The Rim,” “Another World,” "NYPD Blue," “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”)
• Liv Tyler is 45 (“Armageddon,” “The Incredible Hulk,” “Lord of the Rings,” “The Leftovers,” “9-1-1: Lone Star”)
• The late Karen Black (1939-2013) …she would have been 83 (“Easy Rider,” “Five Easy Pieces,” “Family Plot,” “Airport 1975”)
• The late Olivia De Havilland (1916 – 2020) (“The Adventures of Robin Hood,” “Gone with the Wind”) (FAST FACT: She was one of the longest living actors/actresses from the Golden Age of Hollywood – passing at 104 years of age)

Musicians:

• Missy Elliott is 51
• Blondie’s Debbie Harry is 77
• Plies is 46 (born Algernod Lanier Washington)
• Michelle Wright is 61
• The late blues musician Willie Dixon (1915-1992)
• The late Keith Whitley (1954-1989) …he would have been 68 (FAST FACT: Several years of alcoholism severely damaged his health and he died of alcohol poisoning in 1989 at the age of 33. He was married to Lorrie Morgan at the time.)

Plus:

• Olympian Carl Lewis is 61 (FAST FACTS: A United Nations Goodwill Ambassador, Lewis has won 10 Olympic medals, including nine gold, and 10 World Championships medals, including eight gold. His career spanned from 1979 when he first achieved a world ranking to 1996 when he last won an Olympic title and subsequently retired.)
• Award-winning dancer and choreographer Twyla Tharp is 81 (FAST FACT: he was named a Kennedy Center Honoree in 2008)
• The late Diana, Princess of Wales (1961-1997) …she would have been 61
• The late civil rights leader Rev. Curtis West Harris (1924 – 2017)…he would have been 98 (In 1960, he was arrested and sentenced to 60 days in jail for his role in a sit-in at a segregated drugstore in Hopewell, Virginia.)
• The late comedienne and sometime actress Shirley Hemphill (“What’s Happening!”) (1947-1999) …she would have been 74
• The late cosmetics queen Estee Lauder (1906-2004) (FAST FACTS: Lauder was the only woman on “Time” magazine's 1998 list of the 20 most influential business geniuses of the 20^th She was the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She was inducted to the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 1988.)

July 2^nd

Actors:

• Yancy Butler is 52 (“The Mentalist,” “As the World Turns,” “Witchblade”)
• Lindsay Lohan is 36 (“The Parent Trap,” “Herbie Fully Loaded” “Mean Girls,” “Scary Movie 5,” “The Canyons”)
• Margot Robbie is 32 (“Vigilante,” “The Wolf of Wall Street,” “I, Tonya”)
• Saul Rubinek is 74 (“Unforgiven,” “Nixon”)
• Wendy Schaal is 68 (”American Dad,” ‘’It’s a Living”)
• Ashley Tisdale is 37 (“The Suite Life of Zack & Cody,” “High School Musical”)
• Polly Dean Holliday is 85 (Flo on the 1970s sitcom, “Alice”)
• The late Ron Silver (1946-2009) …he would have been 76 (“Rhoda,” “Silkwood,” “Blue Steel,” “Wiseguy,” “Reversal of Fortune,” “The West Wing”)

Musicians:

• Michelle Branch is 39
• Boomtown Rats’ Pete Briquette is 68
• Huey Lewis and The News’ Johnny Colla is 70
• The Neighbourhood’s Jeremy Freedman is 30
• Monie Love is 52
• Bush’s Dave Parsons is 57
• Clean Bandit’s Jack Patterson is 37
• Cutthroat Boyz’s Vince Staples is 29
• The late saxophonist Lee Allen (1927-1944) …he would have been 95
• The late Jenni Rivera (1969-2012) …she would have been 53

Plus:

• CNN “OutFront” host Erin Burnett is 46
• Former Oakland As and New York Yankees outfielder and designated hitter Jose Canseco is 58 (FAST FACTS: While he hit 462 career home runs and was a six-time All-Star, admitted using performance enhancing drugs during his playing career, and in 2005 wrote a tell-all book, Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits & How Baseball Got Big, in which he claimed that the vast majority of MLB players use steroids.)
• TV producer and writer Larry David is 75 (“Seinfeld,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm”)
• Model Jerry Hall is 66 (FAST FACTS: She was with Mick Jagger from 1977 through 1999 and their 1990 marriage ceremony in Bali? It was later declared invalid. She began dating billionaire Rupert Murdoch in 2015…and married him in March 2016. Sadly, as we told you last week, word of the couple’s split came out. Since? According to reports, it wasn’t just his idea…he allegedly ended the marriage via text.)
• Comedian Peter Kay is 49 (FAST FACTS: His 2010/11 stand-up comedy tour, where he played for over 1.2-million people, was entered into the Guinness Book of World Records as the most successful of all time)
• NASCAR driver Richard Petty is 85 (FAST FACT: He won the Daytona 500 seven times over the course of his career.)
• Olympic figure skater and TV personality Johnny Weir is 38 (FAST FACTS: He is a two-time Olympian (representing the United States in 2006 and 2010). Before that? He was the 2001 World Junior Champion, and a three-time U.S. National champion (2004–2006)…as well as the 2008 World bronze medalist, and a two-time Grand Prix Final bronze medalist. He was the youngest U.S. National champion since 1991, in 2004 the first skater to win U.S. Nationals three times in a row since Brian Boitano in the late 1980s and the first American to win Cup of Russia in 2007. He retired in 2013)
• The late Civil Rights leader Medgar Evers (1925-1963) …he would have been 97 (FAST FACTS: He was the first field secretary for the Mississippi chapter of the NAACP. His murder trials resulted in two hung juries, causing outrage in the African American community.)
• The late Nobel Prize-winning poet Herman Hesse (1877-1962) (“Siddhartha,” “The Glass Bead Game”)
• The late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993) (FAST FACT: He was the first African American U.S. Supreme Court Justice, he served on our nation’s highest court from 1967 – 1991. Before becoming a judge, Marshall was a lawyer who was best known for his high success rate in arguing before the Supreme Court and for the victory in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, which ruled that segregated public schools were unconstitutional.)

July 3^rd

Actors:

• Andrea Barber is 46 (Kimmy Gibler on “Full House,” “Fuller House”)
• Betty Buckley is 75 (“1776,” “Carrie,” “Tender Mercies,” “Frantic,” “Eight Is Enough,” “Oz,” “Split”)
• Tom Cruise is 60 (“Rain Man,” “Born on the Fourth of July,” “Top Gun,” “Mission Impossible,” “Vanilla Sky,” “The Last Samurai,” “Minority Report)
• Tommy Flanagan is 57 (“Sons of Anarchy,” “Gladiator”)
• Thomas Gibson is 60 (“Dharma & Greg,” “Criminal Minds”)
• Audra MacDonald is 52 (“Private Practice,” “A Raisin In The Sun,” “Sound of Music Live!”)
• Ryan McPartlin is 47 (“Passions,” “Chuck,” “Devious Maids”)
• Olivia Munn is 42 (“The Daily Show” “Magic Mike,” “The Newsroom,” “X-Men: Apocalypse,” “Six”) (FAST FACTS: With funnyman John Mulaney in the earlier part of 2021, they announced that she was pregnant in September 2021. Their son was born that November. Their son's middle name is Hiệp [[hee-EP]], which honors Munn's Vietnamese heritage
• Connie Nielsen is 57 (“The Devil’s Advocate,” “Gladiator,” “Law & Order: SVU”)
• Kurtwood Smith is 79 (“That 70’s Show,” “Medium,” “Patriot”)
• Shawnee Smith is 53 (“Iron Eagle,” “Saw” series, “Becker,” “Anger Management”)
• Jan Smithers (“WKRP In Cincinnati”) is 73
• Patrick Wilson is 49 (“Angels in America,” “The Alamo,” “The A-Team,” “Insidious,” “The Conjuring,” “A Gifted Man,” “Fargo,” “Aquaman”)
• The late George Sanders (1906-1972) (“The Jungle Book,” “All About Eve”)

Musicians:

• The Neighbourhood’s Zach Abels is 30
• Ishmael “Butterfly” Butler of Digable Planets is 53
• Sarah Buxton is 42
• Erasure’s Vince Clarke is 62
• The Babys’ Mike Corby is 71
• Barenaked Ladies’ Kevin Hearn is 53
• Johnny Lee is 76
• Boyzone’s Shane Lynch is 46
• Memphis May Fire’s Matty Mullins is 34
• Ratt’s Stephen Pearcy is 66
• Aaron Tippin is 64

Plus:

• Infamous lawyer and media personality Gloria Allred is 81
• Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is 51
• Author Dave Barry is 75 (“Homes and Other Black Holes,” received a Pulitzer Prize for his syndicated Miami Herald humor column)
• TV personality and foodie Sandra Lee is 56
• NASA astronaut and U.S. Senator Harrison Schmitt is 87
• Voice actor Yeardley Smith is 58 (voice of Lisa Simpson on “The Simpsons”)
• Emmy-winning talk show host Montel Williams is 66
• The late composer George M. Cohan (1878-1942) (“Yankee Doodle Dandy,” “Little Johnny Jones”)
• The late wife of 2004 Vice Presidential Candidate John Edwards, Elizabeth Edwards (1949-2010) …she would have been 73 (FAST FACTS: She had to deal with cancer and her husband’s infidelity in the final years of her life, but stood by her husband until it was revealed that he fathered another woman’s child.)
• The late Czech novelist Franz Kafka (1883-1924) (‘The Metamorphosis’)
• The late film director Ken Russell (1927-2011) …he would have been 95 (“The Devils,” “Women in Love”)

July 4^th

Actors:

• David Kross is 32 (“The Reader,” “War Horse”)
• Gina Lollobrigida is 95 (“Hotel Paradiso”)
• Rosie Malek-Yonan is 57 (“Rendition,” “ER”)
• Becki Newton is 44 (“Ugly Betty,” “How I Met Your Mother,” “Divorce”)
• Julianna Rose is 28 (“Crazy, Stupid, Love,” “Khumba”)
• Eva Marie Saint is 98 (“On the Waterfront,” “North by Northwest”)
• John Lloyd Young is 47 (“Glee,” “Oy Vey! My Son Is Gay!!,” “Jersey Boys”)
• The late Gloria Stuart (1910-2010) (Rose in “Titanic”)

Musicians:

• Annette Beard of Martha and the Vandellas is 79
• Ricochet steel guitarist Teddy Carr is 62
• Barenaked Ladies’ Andrew Creeggan is 51
• Sunny Day Real Estate’s William Goldsmith is 50
• Earth, Wind & Fire’s percussionist Ralph Johnson is 71
• Stryper frontman Michael Sweet is 59
• Counting Crows’ bassist Matt Malley is 59
• BBMak’s Stephen “Ste” McNally is 44
• Widespread Panic percussionist Domingo Ortiz of is 70
• INXS guitarist Kirk Pengilly is 64
• John Waite is 70
• DJ Zonka (Big Audio Dynamite) is 60
• The late Mitch Miller (“Sing Along with Mitch”) (1911-2010)
• The late Bill Withers (1938 – 2020)...he would have been 83

Plus:

• Former First Daughter Malia Obama is 24
• TV personality Geraldo Rivera is 79
• Fashion designer Elie Saab is 58
• Reality star Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino is 40 (“Jersey Shore”)
• The late 30^thS. President Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933)
• The late author Nathaniel Hawthorne (“The House of the Seven Gables,” “The Scarlet Letter”) (1804-1864)
• The late playwright/screenwriter/author Neil Simon (1927 – 2018)…he would have been 95 (“Come Blow Your Horn,” “The Odd Couple,” “Biloxi Blues,” “The Out-of-Towners,” “Murder by Death,” “The Goodbye Girl”)
• The late New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner (1930-2010) …he would have been 92
• The late advice columnist Abigail Van Buren ("Dear Abby" – her real name? Pauline Esther"Popo" Phillips) (1918-2013)