Birthdays - (6/6) & (6/7)

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Today, June 6^th

Actors:

• Aubrey Anderson-Emmons is 15 (“Modern Family”)
• Robert Englund is 75 (Freddy Kruger in “A Nightmare on Elm Street”) 
• Harvey Fierstein is 70 (“Torch Song Trilogy,” “Bullets Over Broadway,” “Mrs. Doubtfire,” “Independence Day,” “The Year Without a Santa Clause”)
• Paul Giamatti is 55 (“Sideways,” “Saving Private Ryan,” “Cinderella Man”)
• Jason Isaacs is 59 (“Harry Potter,” “Awake”)
• Staci Keanan is 47 (“Step by Step,” “You Again”) (FAST FACT: After retiring from acting in 2010, she went to law school and now practices law in Los Angeles)
• Johnny Pacar is 41 (“Make It or Break It”)

Musicians:

• Slayer’s Tom Araya is 61 (FAST FACT: He was a respiratory therapist, saving up money to help Slayer release their first album)
• Gary US Bonds is 83 (FAST FACT: He changed his name so that it would get confused with government bonds and therefore get more airplay – his actual middle name is Levone.)
• Jimmy Jam (The Time) is 63
• Uncle Kracker is 48 (born Matthew Shafer)
• Korn’s James Shaffer is 52
• Somi is 46
• Steve Vai is 62

Plus:

• Chicago Bears’ corner back Prince Kelechi Amukamara is 32
• Comedienne Sandra Bernhard is 67
• Tennis legend Bjorn Borg is 66 (Swedish tennis ace who won Wimbledon five years in a row from 1976 to 1980. He also won the French Open six times in his career, which was a record before Rafael Nadal won his seventh in 2012)
• Author Sarah Dessen is 52 (Her popular novels, “Someone Like You” and “That Summer,” became the basis for the 2003 film, “How to Deal,” which starred Mandy Moore.)
• WWE Wrestler Drew McIntyre is 37
• TV personality Natalie Morales is 50 (FUN FACT: She was born in Taiwan)
• Funnyman Colin Quinn is 63
• The late American Revolutionary Hero Nathan Hale (1755 -1776) (FAST FACTS: He graduated from Yale in 1773 and was captured and hanged by British forces following his failed espionage mission. His last words were: "I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country.")

Tomorrow, June 7^th

Actors:

• Michael Cera is 34 (“Arrested Development,” “Superbad,” “Juno,” “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,” “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind”)
• Adrienne Frantz is 44 (“The Bold and the Beautiful,” “The Young and the Restless”)
• Bill Hader is 44 (“Saturday Night Live,” “Superbad,” “Tropic Thunder,” “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” “The Skeleton Twins,” “Trainwreck”)
• Liam Neeson is 70 (“Excalibur,” “The Mission,” “Schindler’s List,” “Taken,” “Clash of the Titans,” “The Grey”)
• Larisa Oleynik is 41 (“3rd Rock From The Sun,” ″Boy Meets World)
• Kim Rhodes is 53 (“Another World,” “As the World Turns”)
• The late Ken Osmond (Eddie Haskell in “Leave It to Beaver”) (1943 - 2020)...he would have been 79 (FAST FACTS: Struggling in Hollywood after being typecast, he later became a Los Angeles police officer. After retiring from police work, he resumed his acting career in the 90’s).
• The late Jessica Tandy (1909 – 1994) (“Driving Miss Daisy,” “Cocoon”) (FAST FACTS: She was married to Hume Cronyn. In 1979, she was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame)

Musicians:

• Iggy Azalea is 32 (her given name, Amethyst Amelia Kelly)
• George Ezra is 29
• Eric Johnson, guitarist-keyboardist for the Shins is 46
• Tom Jones is 82
• Stone Temple Pilots drummer Eric Kretz is 56
• Jane’s Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro is 55 (FAST FACT: He’s also host of Spike TV’s “Ink Master.”)
• Cross Canadian Ragweed’s Randy Ragsdale is 55
• Fetty Wap is 31 (born Willie Maxwell II)
• The late Dean Martin (1917-1995)
• The late, oh so great, Prince (1958 – 2016)…he would have been 64

Plus:

• Film director James Ivory is 94 (“A Room With a View,” “Howards End”)
• Reality star Bear Grylls is 48 (“Man vs. Wild”) (FAST FACT: Don’t forget that what you see with Bear may not be what you get. He was busted back in 2007 for some fakery on his TV show)
• Wrestling star Mick Foley is 57 (WWE Hall of Fame in 2013)
• NBA star Allen Iverson is 47 (FAST FACTS: He played for fourteen seasons in the NBA at both the shooting guard and point guard positions. An eleven-time NBA All-Star, he won the All-Star game MVP award in 2001 and 2005, and was the NBA's MVP in 2001. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016)
• Reality star Masika Kalysha is 37 (“Love and Hip Hop Hollywood” – plus she has appeared in videos for artists including Waka Flocka, Lil Wayne, and Birdman)
• Retired tennis player Anna Kournikova is 41 (longtime partner to Enrique Iglesias – they’ve been together since 2001)
• Model/sometime actor Emily Ratajkowski is 31 (she starred in “Gone Girl”)
• Music producer and reality TV star L.A. Reid is 66
• The late boxer James J. Braddock (1905-1974) (that’s according to Yahoo! and other sites – though Wiki says it’s the 8^th) (FAST FACT: The movie “Cinderella Man” is based on his life. Braddock was known for his spoiling, counterpunching style, powerful right hand and his iron chin. After losing several bouts because of chronic hand injuries during the Great Depression, he was forced to work on the docks and collect public assistance to feed his family. He made a comeback, and in 1935 he fought Max Baer for the Heavyweight title and won. For this unlikely feat he was given the nickname "Cinderella Man.”)
• The late poet Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) (Pulitzer Prize-winning poet known for works such as “Annie Allen” and “We Real Cool.” She earned the title of U.S. Poet Laureate in 1985. She published her first poem in a children's magazine when she was just thirteen years old.)
• The late artist Paul Gaugin [[go-GAN]] (1848-1903) (Post-Impressionist artist who depicted village life in Tahiti in such colorful works as "Spirit of the Dead Watching." His work became popular after his death and influenced such notables as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse.)
• The late dictator Muammar Gaddafi (1942 – 2011)…he would have been 80 (Ruthless Libyan president for more than 40 years after a bloodless coup in 1969. He was just 27 at the time. Fast forward and years of bad behavior found him beaten and killed by rebels after a civil war broke out in 2011)