Birthdays - July 1-14

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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)

July 5^th

Actors:

• Jason Dolley is 31 (“Corey in the House,” “Minutemen,” “Good Luck Charlie”)
• Edie Falco is 59 (“Oz,” “The Sopranos,” “Nurse Jackie”)
• Ryan Hansen is 41 (“Veronica Mars,” “ Friday the 13^th,” “Party Down,” “Veronica Mars,” ‘2 Broke Girls”)
• Terrell Ransom Jr. is 19 (“Days of Our Lives,” “12 Years a Slave,” “Best Man Holiday”)
• Dorien Wilson is 59 (“Dream On,” “Sister Sister,” “The Parkers”)
• The late Katherine Helmond (1929 – 2019)...she would have been 93 (“Soap,” “Who’s the Boss?,” “Coach,” “Everybody Loves Raymond”)

Musicians:

• Marc Cohn is 63
• The Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA is 53 (born Robert Fitzgerald Diggs)
• Lady Antebellum’s Dave Haywood is 40
• The Cardigans’ Bengt Lagerberg is 49
• Huey Lewis is 72 (born Hugh Anthony Cregg III)
• Arctic Monkeys’ Nick O’Malley is 37
• The Script’s Glen Power is 44 (that’s according to several sites. According to Yahoo!, however, Glen is 48)
• Robbie Robertson is 79 (his given name, Jaime Royal Robertson)
• Lifehouse’s Jason Wade is 42
• Adam Young (Owl City) is 36

Plus:

• Talk show host Judge Joe Brown is 75
• Reality star “DJ Pauly D” Paul DelVecchio is 42 (“Jersey Shore”)
• Screenwriter Jenji Kohan is 53 (“Orange is the New Black,” “Weeds”)
• US Women’s Soccer mid-fielder Megan Rapinoe is 37

July 6^th

Actors:

• Allyce Beasley is 69 (“Moonlighting,” “Legally Blonde”)
• Fred Dryer is 76 (“Hunter” “Death Before Dishonor,” “Land’s End,” “Justice League,” “Crisis,” “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D”)
• Grant Goodeve is 70 (“Eight is Enough,” “Dynasty,” “One Life to Live,” “Northern Exposure,” “If Walls Could Talk”)
• Eva Green is 42 (“Kingdom of Heaven,” “Casino Royale”)
• Shelley Hack is 75 (“Annie Hall,” “Charlie’s Angels,” “Jack and Mike”)
• Twin sisters Tia and Tamera Mowry is 44 (“Sister Sister,” “Seventeen Again”) (FAST FACTS: Tia is two minutes younger than her sister, Tamera can currently be seen on “The Real”)
• Geoffrey Rush is 71 ("Shine," "Shakespeare In Love," “Quills,” “Pirates of the Caribbean” series, "Elizabeth," “The King’s Speech”) (FAST FACTS: Rush is among the few who have won the "Triple Crown of Acting": the Academy Award, the Primetime Emmy Award, and the Tony Award)
• Jennifer Saunders is 64 (“French and Saunders,” “In the Bleak Midwinter,” “Absolutely Fabulous”)
• Sylvester Stallone is 76 (“Rocky” series, “Rambo” series, “The Expendables” series, “Creed”)
• Burt Ward is 77 (Robin on "Batman") (FAST FACT: He was listed as the world's youngest professional ice skater when he was two-years-old)
• The late Ned Beatty (1937 – 2021)…he would have been 84 (“Network,” “Friendly Fire,” “Deliverance,” “Hear My Song,” “Superman,” “The Toy,” “Toy Story 3,” “Charlie Wilson’s War”)
• The late Sebastian Cabot (1918-1977) (“Family Affair’s” Mr. French)
• The late Janet Leigh (1927-2004)…she would have been 95 (“Psycho,” “Tough of Evil,” “Angels In The Outfield”) (FAST FACT: Jamie Lee Curtis is her daughter by Tony Curtis)
• The late Della Reese (1931 – 2017) …she would have been 91 (“Harlem Nights,” “227,” “Touched by an Angel,” “Beauty Show”)

Musicians:

• 50 Cent is 47 (born Curtis James Jackson III)
• Kate Nash is 35
• Jeannie Seely is 82
• The late Bill Haley (1925-1981)…he would have been 97

Plus:

• Former President George W. Bush (Dubya/aka Bush II) is 76
• Sportcaster/TV personality Josh Elliott is 51 (The former ESPN SportsCenter anchor joined “Good Morning America” in 2011. In 2014, he left ABC to join NBC Sports. In March 2016, he became the lead anchor for CBSN and left there in February 2017).
• Comedian (and sometime actor) Kevin Hart is 43 (FAST FACT: His “Laugh At My Pain” album went 5x platinum in June 2012)
• Religious and World leader Dalai Lama is 87 (Spiritual leader of Tibet who travels the world talking about the importance of compassion as the source of a happy life. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 for his advocacy of peace in Tibet and all around the world)
• The late former First Lady Nancy Reagan (1921 – 2016)
• The late painter Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) (FAST FACTS: Best known for her 55 self-portraits, she was inspired by the indigenous Mexican culture and Mexican mythology. She suffered from polio as a child and developed a slight physical deformity. In her teens, her health was further compromised by severe injuries sustained during a bus accident. She had one gallery showing in the United States: the Julien Levy Gallery in 1938)
• The late TV host Merv Griffin and media mogul (1925-2007)…he would have been 97 (From 1965 to 1986 Griffin hosted his own talk show, “The Merv Griffin Show,” created the game shows including “Jeopardy!,” “Wheel of Fortune”)
• The late Revolutionary War Hero John Paul Jones (1747 – 1792) (He made many friends and enemies—who accused him of piracy—among America's political elites, and his actions in British waters during the Revolution earned him an international reputation which persists to this day. As such, he is sometimes referred to as the "Father of the American Navy")
• The late comedian Pat Paulsen (1927-1997)…he would have been 94

July 7^th

Actors

• Billy Campbell is 63 (“Dynasty,” “The Rocketeer,” “Dracula,” "Once and Again," “Enough,” “Gods and Generals,” “The Killing,” “Helix”)
• Shelley Duvall is 73 (“The Shining,” “Annie Hall,” “Time Bandits”) (FAST FACTS: Duvall has lived out of public view since her retirement in 2002. In November 2016, “USA Today” reported that she appeared to be suffering from mental illness. Later that month, she appeared on an episode of “ Phil.” Vivian Kubrick, whose father directed Duvall in “The Shining,” described the interview as "exploitive entertainment" and "appallingly cruel.” After the episode aired, the non-profit Actor Fund contacted her about providing assistance.)
• Jorja Fox is 54 (“ER,” “Momento,” “The West Wing,” "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation”)
• Allen Payne is 54 (“New Jack City,” “CB4,” “The Cosby Show,” “Tyler’s Perry’s House of Payne,” “The Perfect Storm”)
• Joe Spano is 76 (“Hill Street Blues,” “Apollo 13,” “Primal Fear,” “NCIS”)
• Dylan Sprayberry is 24 (“Man of Steel,” “Teen Wolf”)
• Cree Summer is 53 ("A Different World," “Inspector Gadget,” “X-Men Legends,” “Voltron: Legendary Defender”)
• Kirsten Vangsness is 50 (“Criminal Minds,” “Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior,” Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders”)
• The late Jon Pertwee (1919-1996) (“Doctor Who”)

Musicians

• Swedish DJ Alesso is 31 (his given name, Alessandro Lindblad)
• Fifth Harmony’s Ally Brooke is 29
• Cassidy is 40 (born Barry Adrian Reese)
• Avenged Sevenfold’s Synyster Gates is 41 (his mama knows him as Brian Elwin Haner Jr.)
• Five Seconds of Summer’s Ashton Irwin is 28
• Ringo Starr is 82
• The late Charlie Louvin (1927-2011)…he would have been 95

Plus:

• Comedian Jim Gaffigan is 56
• ‘80s scandal queen Jessica Hahn is 63 (Former mistress of defrocked “PTL” leader Jim Bakker)
• Olympic medalist figure skater Michelle Kwan is 42 (FAST FACT: She is a two-time Olympic medalist, a five-time World champion and nine-time U.S. champion)
• The late baseball legend Satchel Paige (1906-1982) (He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1971, the first player to be inducted based upon his play in the Negro leagues. He became a legend in his own lifetime by being known as perhaps the best pitcher in baseball history, by his longevity in the game, and by attracting record crowds wherever he pitched.)
• The late movie director George Cukor (1899-1983) (“My Fair Lady,” “The Philadelphia Story”)

July 8^th

Actors:

• Kevin Bacon is 64 (“Apollo 13,” “Footloose,” “A Few Good Men,” “Mystic River,” “The Following”) (FAST FACTS: Bacon has also become an icon for the concept of interconnectedness – as in social networks – having been popularized by the game "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon". In 2007, he created SixDegrees.org, a charitable foundation that connects everyday folks with the causes their favorite celebs care about. He’s also been married to Kyra Sedgwick since 1988)
• Jamie Blackley is 31 (“Snow White and the Huntsman,” “Uwantme2killhim?,” “The Fifth Estate,” “If I Stay,” “The Halcyon”)
• Sophia Bush is 40 (“Chicago PD,” “One Tree Hill,” “John Tucker Must Die,”) (FAST FACT: Back in April 2005, Bush married her ‘OTH’ co-star Chad Michael Murray. After five months of marriage, Bush and Murray split and by February 2006, Bush filed for an annulment, citing fraud – but her petition was denied, and she and Murray were instead granted a divorce in December 2006.)
• Rocky Carroll is 59 (“Roc,” “Crimson Tide,” “Chicago Hope,” “NCIS”)
• Billy Crudup is 54 ("Almost Famous," “Watchmen,” “Public Enemies,” “Spotlight,” “Without Limits,” “Covenant,” “Justice League,” “The Morning Show”) (FAST FACT: He infamously dumped his then-pregnant girlfriend Mary Louise Parker for Claire Danes in 2004. They split two years later.)
• Lance Gross is 41 (“Meet The Browns,” “Our Family Wedding,” Tyler Perry’s House of Payne,” “Crisis”)
• Anjelica Huston is 71 (“The Adams Family,” “The Royal Tenenbaums,” “The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou”)
• Robert Knepper is 63 (“Heroes,” “Prison Break,” “Good Night, and Good Luck,” “Transporter 3”)
• Jake McDorman is 36 (“Live Free or Die Hard,” “Greek,” “Limitless”)
• Jeffrey Tambor is 78 (“The Hangover,” “Arrested Development,” “Tangled,” “Transparent”)
• Michael Weatherly is 54 ("Dark Angel," “Charmed,” “NCIS,” “Bull”)
• Jamal Woolard is 47 (“Notorious,” “Barbershop: The Next Cut,” “All Eyez On Me”)
• Milo Ventimiglia is 45 (“Gilmore Girls,” “Rocky Balboa,” “Heroes,” “The Whispers,” “Opposite Sex,” “Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life,” “This Is Us”)
• The late Marty Feldman (1934-1982) …he would been 88 (“At Last the 1948 Show,” “Marty,” “Young Frankenstein,” “Silent Movie”)

Musicians:

• Beck is 52 (FAST FACT: His last name – he’s got one! – is Hansen. His birth name is actually Bek David Campbell Hansen)
• Arctic Monkeys’ Jamie Cook is 37
• Sky Ferreira is 30
• Toby Keith is 61
• Steve Lawrence is 87
• Joan Osborne is 60
• Raffi is 74
• The late Depeche Mode keyboardist Andy Fletcher (1961 – 2022)…he would have been 61

Plus:

• Celebrity kid Penelope Disick (Daughter of Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick) is 10 (FAST FACT: Her birth was filmed for her mother’s show “Keeping Up with the Kardashians”)
• Celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck is 73
• Celebrity progeny/model/sometime actor (“The Pursuit of Happyness”)/singer Jaden Smith is 24
• The late fashion designer Hugo Boss (FAST FACT: He once produced uniforms for the Nazi party) (1885-1948)
• The late billionaire and co-founder of Standard Oil Company John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937)
• The late former New York governor and Vice-President under Gerald Ford Nelson Rockefeller (1908-1979)

July 9^th

Actors:

• Douglas Booth is 30 (“LOL,” “Great Expectations”)
• Chris Cooper is 71 (“Adaptation,” “American Beauty”)
• Scott Grimes is 51 (“American Dad!,” “ER”)
• Tom Hanks is 66 (“Splash,” “Big,” “Turner & Hooch,” “A League of Their Own,” “Sleepless In Seattle,” “Forrest Gump,” “Philadelphia,” “You’ve Got Mail,” “Band of Brothers,” “The Green Mile,” “Road To Perdition,” “Da Vinci Code”) (FAST FACT: He’s been married to second wife Rita Wilson since 1988)
• Georgie Henley is 27 (“The Chronicles of Narnia”)
• Toby Kebbell is 40 (“Wrath of the Titans,” “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”)
• Kelly McGillis is 65 (“Witness,” “Top Gun,” “Made In Heaven,” “The Accused,” “Z Nation,” “The L Word”)
• Mitchel Musso is 31 (“Hannah Montana,” “Phineas and Ferb”)
• Fred Savage is 46 (“The Wonder Years,” “The Princess Bride,” “Boy Meets World”)
• Jimmy Smits is 67 (“NYPD Blue,” “The West Wing,” “Star Wars,” “Sons of Anarchy,” “Bluff City Law”)
• The late Brian Dennehey (1938 – 2020) ....he would have been 84 (“First Blood,” “Gorky Park,” “Silverado,” “Cocoon,” “Romeo + Juliet,” “Knight of Cups.” A true legend, Dennehy won two Tony Awards, an Olivier Award, and a Golden Globe, and received six Primetime Emmy Award nominations. He had roles in over 180 films and in many television and stage productions.)

Musicians:

• Soft Cell’s Marc Almond is 65
• The Ames Brothers’ Ed Ames is 95
• Simple Minds’ Jim Kerr is 63
• Courtney Love is 58
• Sister Sledge’s Debbie Sledge is 68
• Emily West is 41
• Jack White is 47
• The Cheetah Girls’ Kiely Williams is 36
• The late Jimi Hendrix Experience drummer Mitch Mitchell (1947-2008)…he would have been 75 (according to Yahoo!, Wiki says he’d have been 76)
• The late AC/DC frontman Bon Scott (1946-1980) …he would have been 76

Plus:

• “Wolf of Wall Street” Jordan Belfort is 60 (Now a motivational speaker and self-help author, the former stockbroker pleaded guilty to fraud and related crimes in connection with stock market manipulation and running a boiler room as part of a penny stock scam. Belfort spent 22 months in prison as part of an agreement under which he gave testimony against numerous partners and subordinates in his fraud scheme. His memoir “Wolf of Wall Street,” was the basis for the film of the same name)
• Author Dean Koontz is 77 (“Demon Seed,” “Watchers”)
• TV producer Nigel Lythgoe is 73 (Creator and producer of “American Idol,” “So You Think You Can Dance” and more)
• Reality star Kevin O’Leary is 68 (“Shark Tank” investor – the bald one)
• Heisman Trophy winner (and convicted felon) O.J. Simpson is 75 (FAST FACTS: He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1983 and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1985. After retiring from football, he began new careers in acting and football broadcasting. After his colossal fall from grace via accusations of murdering his ex-wife and a young man, he was later convicted of armed robbery and kidnapping. Sentenced to 33 years in the clink, with a minimum of nine years without parole, he was set free October 2017.)

July 10^th

Actors:

• Chiwetel Ejiofor is 45 (“Dirty Pretty Things,” “Love Actually,” “Serenity,” “Children of Men,” “12 Years A Slave”)
• Adrian Grenier is 46 (“Hart’s War,” “The Devil Wears Prada,” “Entourage”)
• Gale Harold is 53 (“Deadwood,” “Queer as Folk,” “Desperate Housewives,” “Hellcats,” “The Secret Circle”)
• Thomas Ian Nicholas is 42 (“American Pie,” “Rookie of the Year”)
• Fiona Shaw is 64 (“My Left Foot,” “Three Men and A Little Lady,” Petunia Dursley in the “Harry Potter” series, “Emerald City,” “Killing Eve”)
• John Simm is 52 (“Dr. Who,” “Life on Mars”)
• Phyllis Smith is 71 (“Bad Teacher,” “The Office,” “The OA”)
• Sofia Vergara is 50 (“Modern Family,” “Meet the Browns,” “Machete Kills,” “Chef,” “Hot Pursuit”) (FAST FACT: She’s been married to Joe Manganiello since 2015)
• The late Fred Gwynne (1926-1993) … he would have been 95 (Herman Munster on “The Munsters,” “The Cotton Club,” “Pet Sematary,” “My Cousin Vinny”)
• The late Ron Glass (1945-2016) …he would have been 77 (“Barney Miller,” “Firefly”)
• The late Don Herbert (1917-2007) (“Mr. Wizard”)

Musicians:

• Porno for Pyros’ Peter DiStefano is 57
• Little Mix’s Perrie Edwards is 29
• Arlo Guthrie is 75
• Angel Haze is 31 (born Raykeea Wilson)
• Greg Kihn is 73
• Brand New’s Jesse Lacey is 44
• Rascal Flatts’ Gary Levox is 52
• Kid ‘n’ Play’s Christopher Martin is 60
• Take That’s Jason Orange is 52
• Jessica Simpson is 42
• The Pet Shop Boys’ Neil Tennant is 68
• The late Ronnie James Dio (1942-2010) … he would have been 80

Plus:

• NFL wide receiver Antonio Brown is 34
• The late tennis champ Arthur Ashe (1943-1993) …he would have been 79 (FAST FACTS: He was the first Black American member of the Davis Cup tennis team. He won three Grand Slams during his career and was the first black player to win at Wimbledon.)
• The late civil rights leader Mary McLeod Bethune (1875- 1955) (Her background as a teacher inspired her to open the Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls in Daytona Beach, Florida back in 1904. When the school opened on October 3rd of that year, there were just five students. Eventually, the school blossomed to include a farm, high school, and nursing school – and later became the co-educational Bethune-Cookman College in 1929 after merging with Cookman Institute and was fully accredited in 1943.
• The late TV newscaster David Brinkley (1920-2003) (FAST FACTS: He won 10 Emmy Awards and the Presidential Medal of Freedom during his career.)
• The late former World Middleweight Champion boxer Jake “Raging Bull” LaMotta (1922 – 2017)…he would have been 100
• The late engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) (Lovingly referred to by many as “The Greatest Geek Who Ever Lived,” Tesla’s best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electricity supply system – and back in 1926, he predicted smart phones.)

July 11^th

Actors:

• Justin Chambers is 52 (“Broken City,” “Grey’s Anatomy”)
• David Henrie is 33 (“How I Met Your Mother,” “Wizards of Waverly Place”)
• Bruce McGill is 72 (“Collateral,” “Law Abiding Citizen”)
• Lisa Rinna is 59 (“Days of Our Lives,” “Melrose Place,” “Celebrity Apprentice,”
• “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills”)
• Michael Rosenbaum is 50 (“Sorority Boys,” “Smallville”)
• Mindy Sterling is 69 (“Austin Powers” series, “iCarly,” “Monsters University,” “Desperate Housewives,” “A.N.T. Farm,” “Con Man”)
• Rachael Taylor is 38 (“Transformers,” “The Mystery of Natalie Wood,” “Crisis”)
• Sela Ward is 66 (“Sisters,” “Once and Again,” “CSI: NY,” “Gone Girl,” “Independence Day: Resurgence,” “Graves”)
• The late Yul Brynner (1920-1985) (“The King and I,” “The Ten Commandments”)
• The late Tab Hunter (1931- 2018)…he would have been 91 (“Damn Yankees,” “Love Letters”) (FAST FACT! A true icon of his heyday, he used his idol status to launch a successful career in music, where he stayed at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks, with “Young Love,” in 1957)
• The late Brett Somers (1924-2007) …she would have been 98 (“The Odd Couple,” “A Rage to Live”)

Musicians:

• Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s Jeff Hanna is 75
• Lil Kim is 47 or 48 (Born Denise Jones, note that Wikipedia lists 1974 and 1975 as the two potential birth years…but Yahoo says 1974, as does IMDB)
• Richie Sambora is 63
• Mayday Parade’s Derek Sanders is 36
• Weezer’s Scott Shriner is 57
• Suzanne Vega is 63
• The late Bonnie Pointer (1950 - 2020)...she would have been 72

Plus:

• Fashion designer Giorgio Armani is 88
• TV personality John Henson is 55 (“Talk Soup,” “Wipeout,” “Second City This Week”)
• TV personality Shaun Robinson is 60
• “Octomom” Nadya Suleman is 47
• Tennis star Caroline Wozniacki is 32 (FAST FACTS: She earned her first number one ranking in October 2010 and made it to the finals of the 2009 US Open and the 2011 Australian Open.)
• The late 6^th President of the United States John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) (He was a member of the Federalist, Democratic-Republican, National Republican, and later the Anti-Masonic and Whig parties)The late children’s author EB White (1899-1985) (“Charlotte’s Web,” “Stuart Little”)

July 12^th

Actors:

• Bill Cosby is 85 (“The Cosby Show,” “I Spy,” “The Cosby Mysteries”)
• Anna Friel is 46 (“A Midsummer Night's Dream,” “Timeline,” “Pushing Daisies,” “The Look of Love”)
• Topher Grace is 44 (“That 70s Show,” “Spider Man 3,” “In Good Company,” “Predators”)
• Steve Howey is 45 (“Reba,” “Shameless”)
• Cheryl Ladd is 71 (“Charlie’s Angels,” “Poison Ivy,” “One West Waikiki,” “Las Vegas,” “The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story”)
• Michelle Rodriguez is 44 (“Girlfight,” “Lost,” “The Fast and the Furious” series, “Resident Evil,” “S.W.A.T.,” “Avatar”)
• Phoebe Tonkin is 33 (“Tomorrow, When the War Began,” “The Secret Circle,” “Vampire Diaries,” “The Originals”)
• The late Charlie Murphy (1959 – 2017)…he would have been 63 (“Night at the Museum,” “Norbit,” “Chappelle’s Show”)

Musicians:

• Sandi Patty is 66
• Dream Theater’s John Petrucci is 55
• The Band Perry’s Kimberly Perry is 39
• Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie is 79
• Soul Asylum’s Dan Murphy is 60
• Tracie Spencer is 46
• Gin Blossoms’ Robin Wilson is 57

Plus:

• Author Joan Bauer is 71 (“Backwater,” “Hope Was Here”)
• Comedienne/TV personality Loni Love is 51 (“The Real”)
• Fitness guru Richard Simmons is 74 (born Milton Teagle Simmons)
• Olympic gold medaling figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi is 51 (She’s the 1992 Olympic champion, a two-time World champion – 1991 and 1992 – and the 1992 U.S. champion. As a pairs skater with Rudy Galindo, she is the 1988 World Junior champion and a two-time national champion – 1989 and 1990. In December 2005, she was inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame. In 2008, Yamaguchi became the celebrity champion in the sixth season of “Dancing with the Stars”)
• Peace activist Malala Yousafzai is 25 (FAST FACTS: She is the youngest Nobel Prize laureate history and is dedicated to the cause of educating girls around the world.)
• The late scientist George Washington Carver (1864-1943) (FAST FACTS: He researched alternative crops to cotton like peanuts, soybeans and sweet potatoes. He met with three U.S. presidents about his inventions, which was rare for an African American at the time.) (OF NOTE: This birthdate has been floating around the Internet for some time, but as he was born into slavery, no one’s really sure about his date of birth)
• The late Chilean poet, diplomat and Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) (“Residencia en la Tierra,” “El Habitante y su Esperanza”)
• The late author/philosopher/naturalist Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) (A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book, “Walden,” which is seen as a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. His essay, "Civil Disobedience" – originally published as "Resistance to Civil Government" – was an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.)
• The late artist Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) (FAST FACTS: He also illustrated novels including “Treasure Island” and “The Last of the Mohicans.”)

July 13^th

Actors:

• Gil Birmingham is 69 (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Twilight” series, “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”)
• Didi Conn is 71 (“Grease,” “Benson,” “Grease 2,” “Shining Time Station,” “Law & Order SVU,” “Grease: Live”)
• Harrison Ford is 80 (“Star Wars,” “Apocalypse Now,” “Indiana Jones” series, “Blade Runner,” “Witness,” “Patriot Game,” “Clear and Present Danger,” “What Lies Beneath,” “42,” “The Expendables 3,” “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”) (FAST FACTS: He’s been married to Calista Flockhart since 2010, though they’ve been together since meeting at the Academy Awards in 2002.)
• Ken Jeong is 53 (“Hangover,” “Pineapple Express” “Transformers: Dark of the Moon,” “Dr. Ken,” “The Masked Singer”) (FAST FACT: Sure, he played a doctor on TV, but he’s actually a real doctor – he’s licensed to practice in California…but obviously, is a little busy on the acting and stand-up comedy front)
• Cheech Marin is 76 (“Cheech and Chong” series, “Spy Kids,” “Nash Bridges”) (FAST FACT: He speaks some Spanish and uses it in his movies, but he is said to be not fluent.)
• Steven R. McQueen is 34 (“Vampire Diaries,” “Chicago Fire”)
• Daphne Maxwell-Reid is 74 (“WKRP In Cincinnati,” “Simon & Simon,” “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” “Slavery and the Making of America”)
• Patrick Stewart is 82 (“Star Trek: The Next Generation,” “X-men” series; “The Emoji Movie,” he voices Poop)
• The late Bob Crane (1928-1978)…he would have been 94 (“Hogan’s Heroes”) (In June 1978, Crane was found bludgeoned to death in his Arizona apartment...the murder remains officially unsolved.)

Musicians:

• Leon Bridges is 33
• Deborah Cox is 48
• Louise Mandrell is 68
• The Byrds’ Roger McGuinn is 80
• Victoria Shaw is 60
• The late Gerald Levert (1966-2006)...he would have been 56

Plus:

• Writer/Director Cameron Crowe is 65 (“Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” “Say Anything,” “Singles,” “Jerry Maguire,” “Almost Famous”)
• The late political activist Jack Kemp (1935-2009)…he would have been 87 (An NFL player for both the San Diego Chargers and Buffalo Bills, the Republican served as a New York state Congressman from 1971 – 1989. He then moved up to serve as Housing Secretary in the administration of President George H. W. Bush from 1989 to 1993. He was the GOP nominee for Vice President in the 1996 election, where he was the running mate of presidential nominee Bob Dole.)
• The late comedienne Danitra Vance (1954-1994)…she would have been 68 (In 1985, she was the first Black-American woman to appear as part of the regular “SNL” cast. She was also was the first lesbian cast member hired – though her sexual orientation never became public knowledge until her death. She chose to leave at the end of the 1986 season along with many other cast members from that season who were dismissed, including Joan Cusack, Robert Downey, Jr., Randy Quaid, Anthony Michael Hall, and Terry Sweeney.)
• The late Roman Statesman Julius Caesar (100 BC – 44 BC) (FAST FACTS: Considered by many to be one of the greatest military commanders in history, his victories in the Gallic Wars – completed by 51 BC – extended Rome's territory to the English Channel and the Rhine. Caesar became the first Roman general to cross both when he built a bridge across the Rhine and conducted the first invasion of Britain. According to Eutropius, around 60 or more men participated in his assassination – he was stabbed 23 times.)

July 14^th

Actors:

• Sara Canning is 35 (“Black Field,” “The Vampire Diaries,” “Primeval: New World,” “Remedy,” “War of the Planet of the Apes”)
• Matthew Fox is 56 (“Party of Five,” “Lost,” “World War Z”)
• Rosey Grier is 90 (“Daniel Boone,” “The White Shadow”) (FAST FACT: A former NFLer, Grier became an ordained Christian minister in 1983 and travels as an inspirational speaker. He founded American Neighborhood Enterprises, a nonprofit organization that serves inner city youth.)
• Jackie Earle Haley is 61 (“Bad News Bears,” “Watchmen,” “Nightmare on Elm Street,” “Preacher”)
• Jane Lynch is 62 (“Best In Show,” “The 40-Year-Old Virgin,” “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby,” “Role Models,” “The Three Stooges,” “Glee,” “Angel From Hell,” and since 2013, she has hosted “Hollywood Game Night”)
• Vincent Pastore is 76 (“The Sopranos”)
• Scott Porter is 43 (“Friday Night Lights,” “The Good Wife,” “Hart of Dixie”)
• The late Polly Bergen (1930 – 2014)…she would have been 92 (“Cape Fear,” “Playhouse 90”)
• The late Dale Robertson (1923-2013) …he would have been 99 (“Tales of Wells Fargo,” “Iron Horse”)
• The late Harry Dean Stanton (1926 – 2017)…he would have been 96 (“Kelly’s Heroes,” “Rawhide,” “Gunsmoke,” “Alien,” “The Green Mile,” “Big Love,” “Getting On,” the 2017 reboot of “Twin Peaks”)
• The late Spencer Williams (1893 – 1969) (“The Blood of Jesus,” “Amos ‘n’ Andy's” Andy Brown) (FAST FACT: He was also was a pioneering Black-American film producer and director.)

Musicians:

• Tanya Donnelly is 56 (Throwing Muses, The Breeders, Belly)
• Xscape’s Tameka "Tiny" Cottle-Harris is 47 (While she’s still married to T.I., with whom she co-stars in VH1’s “T.I. and Tiny: The Family Hustle,” the couple separated in December 2016)
• Tenacious D and Trainwreck’s Kyle Gass is 62
• Black Eye Peas’ Taboo is 47 (FAST FACT: Born Jaime Gomez, he was diagnosed with stage 2 testicular cancer in June 2014 and went through 12 weeks of intense, aggressive chemotherapy out of the public eye. He had been diagnosed after going to the emergency room for what he thought was the flu. He now is cancer-free.)
• Jamey Johnson is 47
• Imagine Dragons’ Dan Reynolds is 35
• Bastille’s Dan Campbell Smith is 36
• The late folk singer Woody Guthrie (1912-1967) (FAST FACTS: He composed "This Land Is Your Land” and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988)

Plus:

• Big shot music executive (and former Mr. Mariah Carey) Tommy Mottola is 73
• “Dancing with the Stars” pro Peta Murgatroyd is 36 (FAST FACT: She’s been married to Maksim Chmerkovskiy since 2017)
• The late movie/stage director Ingmar Bergman (1918 – 2007) (“The Seventh Seal,” “Wild Strawberries”)
• The late President Gerald Ford (1913-2006) (FAST FACT: He was the first president not to be elected by the Electoral College as he ascended to office following the resignation of Richard Nixon)
• The late cartoonist William Hanna (1910-2001) (He co-founded Hanna-Barbera, which became the most successful television animation studio and produced shows including “Tom & Jerry,” “The Flintstones,” “The Huckleberry Hound Show,” “The Jetsons,” “Scooby-Doo,” “The Smurfs,” and “Yogi Bear”)
• The late Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) (Symbolist painter best known for "The Kiss")