Birthdays - (6/15) & (6/16)
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June 15th
Actors:
- Jim Belushi is 68 (“According to Jim,” “The Defenders,” “Little Shop of Horrors,” “Trading Places,” “Salvador,” “Red Heat,” “Who's Harry Crumb?,” “ K-9,” “ Mr. Destiny,” “Last Action Hero,” “Jingle All the Way,” “Wag the Dog,” “Curly Sue,” “Return to Me,” “Underdog,” “The Ghost Writer,” “The Whole Truth”)
- Courteney Cox is 58 (“Friends,” “Dirt,” “Cougar Town,” “Talhotblond”)
- Eileen Davidson is 63 (“Young & The Restless,” “Days of Our Lives,” “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills”)
- Neil Patrick Harris is 49 (“Doogie Houser,” “Starship Troopers,” “Beastly,” “How I Met Your Mother,” “A Million Ways to Die in the West,” “Gone Girl”)
- Julie Hagerty is 67 (“Airplane!,” “What About Bob?,” “A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy,” “Malcolm In The Middle,” “Trial and Error”)
- Helen Hunt is 59 (“Mad About You,” “Twister,” “Cast Away,” “What Women Want,” “Pay It Forward,” “The Sessions,” “Shots Fired”)
- Leah Remini is 52 (“Saved By The Bell,” “The King of Queens,” “Old School,” “Kevin Can Wait,” “The Blacklist”)
- The late Jim Varney (1949-2000)…he would have been 73 (Best known as Ernest P. Worrell in the “Earnest” film series)
Musicians:
- Lonestar’s Michael Britt is 56
- Ice Cube is 53 (born O'Shea Jackson Sr.)
- Never Shout Never’s Hayden Kaiser is 32
- Snow Patrol’s Gary Lightbody is 46
- Imagine Dragons’ guitarist Wayne Sermon is 38
- The late Waylon Jennings (1937-2002)...he would have been 85 (FAST FACT: Waylon learned to play guitar at 8 and began performing at 12 for KVOW radio)
Plus:
- Baseball Hall of Famer Wade Boggs is 64 (FAST FACT: He is a Five-time American League batting champion and a 12-time All-Star)
- Xaviera Hollander, former call-girl famous for her book “The Happy Hooker” is 79
- Celebrity kidlet North West is 9 (Daughter of reality star Kim Kardashian and rapper Kanye West)
- The late Mario Cuomo, former governor of New York (1932-2015)…he would have been 90
June 16th
Actors:
- Joan Van Ark is 79 (“Knott’s Landing,” “Dallas”) (FAST FACT: She was named after Joan of Arc because her dad claimed he knew she was going to be a star.)
- Ian Buchanan is 65 (“All My Children,” “The Bold and the Beautiful,” “General Hospital)
- John Cho is 50 (“Star Trek,” “Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle”)
- Eddie Cibrian is 49 ("Third Watch," “CSI: Miami”) (FAST FACT: He’s been married to LeAnn Rimes since 2011)
- Bill Cobbs is 88 (“The Sopranos,” “Night at the Museum”)
- Abby Elliott is 35 (“Saturday Night Live,” “How I Met Your Mother,” “Odd Mom Out”) (FAST FACT: She is the daughter of comedian Chris Elliott)
- Sidney Fullmer is 22 (“Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day”)
- Laurie Metcalf is 67 ("Roseanne," "Norm," “The Big Bang Theory,” “The Conners”)
- Nathan Parsons is 34 (“General Hospital”)
- Arnold Vosloo is 60 (“The Mummy” series – he was Imhotep, “Hard Target,” “Darkman,” “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra,” “24”)
- The late movie comedian Stan Laurel (1890-1965) (“The Music Box,” “A Chump at Oxford”) (FAST FACT: He served as an understudy to Charlie Chaplin as a member of Fred Karno’s Army.)
Musicians:
- Billy "Crash" Craddock is 83
- Diana DeGarmo is 35 (FAST FACTS: She lost American Idol to Fantasia Barrino in 2004 by two-percent of the vote. She’s been married to former “American Idol” contestant and Broadway star Ace Young since 2013….in fact, they just celebrated their ninth anniversary on June 1st)
- The O’Jays’ Eddie Levert is 80
- Gino Vannelli is 70
- The late rapper Tupac Shakur (1971-1996) …he would have been 51
Plus:
- Boxer Roberto "No Mas" Duran is 71
- PGA star and World Golf Hall of Fame Inductee Phil Mickelson is 52 (FAST FACTS: He is a righty, but mirrored his father playing golf as a lefty and became the first left-handed golfer to win the U.S. Amateur. He has won a total of over 40 PGA events.)
- New York Rangers hockey player Rick Nash is 38 (FAST FACTS: He helped Team Canada win the gold medal at the 2014 Sochi Olympics.)
- Model Jenny Shimizu is 55 (FAST FACTS: She claims to have had intimate relationships with both Madonna and Angelina Jolie.)
- Animator and “Veggie Tales” co-creator Phil Vischer is 56
- The late war hero Geronimo (1829-1909) (FAST FACTS: He was a Native American hero of the Apache Wars who led his people in the fight against the U.S. and Mexico. He was forced to surrender in 1886 and lived many of the remaining years of his life as a prisoner of war.)
- The late wrestler James Hellwig (1959-2014)…he would have been 63
