Birthdays - 9/16 - 9/30

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September 16^th

Actors:

• Alexis Bledel is 41 (“Gilmore Girls,” “Tuck Everlasting,” “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants,” “The Handmaid's Tale”)
• Ed Begley, Jr. is 73 (“Stay Hungry,” “An Officer and a Gentleman,” “St. Elsewhere,” “This Is Spinal Tap,” “The Accidental Tourist,” “The Pagemaster,” “Batman Forever,” “Pineapple Express,” “Addams Family Reunion,” “Best in Show,” “A Mighty Wind,” “For Your Consideration”)
• Ian Harding is 36 (“Pretty Little Liars”)
• Daren Kagasoff is 35 (“The Secret Life of the American Teenager”)
• Amy Poehler is 51 (“Saturday Night Live,” “Mean Girls,” “Parks and Recreation,” “Baby Mama,” “Welcome To Sweden”)
• Mickey Rourke is 70 (“Diner,” “Rumble Fish,” “The Pope of Greenwich Village,” “9½ Weeks,” “Barfly,” “Angel Heart,” “The Rainmaker,” “Man On Fire,” “Iron Man 2,” “The Expendables,” “Immortals”)
• Jennifer Tilly is 64 (“Let It Ride,” “Made in America,” “Bound,” “Liar Liar,” “Bride of Chucky,” “Family Guy,” “The Haunted Mansion,” “Bullets over Broadway”)
• Molly Shannon is 58 (“Saturday Night Live,” “Scary Movie” series, “A Night at the Roxbury,” “Never Been Kissed,” “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” “Osmosis Jones,” “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby,” “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,” “Divorce,” “Other People”)
• The late Lauren Bacall (1924-2014) …she would have been 98 (“To Have and Have Not,” “The Big Sleep,” “Dark Passage,” “Key Largo,” “ How to Marry a Millionaire,” “Designing Woman,” “The Shootist,” “Prêt-à-Porter,” “The Mirror Has Two Faces,” “Dogville”) (FAST FACTS: Born Betty Joan Perske, she was named the 20^th greatest female star of Classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute, and received an Academy Honorary Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2009, "in recognition of her central place in the Golden Age of motion pictures.”)
• The late Peter Falk (1927-2011) …he would have been 95 (“Columbo,” “Murder, Inc.,” “Pocketful of Miracles,” “It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World,” “The Great Race,” “The Brinks Job,” “The Princess Bride,” “Corky Romano”) (FAST FACT: In 1996, “TV Guide” ranked Falk number 21 on its 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time list)

Musicians:

• Marc Anthony is 54
• David Bellamy is 72
• Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ Ron Blair is 74
• Nick Jonas is 30 (FAST FACT: He married Priyanka Chopra in 2018)
• Martha and the Vandellas’ Betty Kelley is 78
• Earl Klugh is 69
• Richard Marx is 59 (FAST FACTS: Married to Cynthia Rhodes from 1989 – 2014, he’s been hitched to former MTV VJ Daisy Fuentes since 2015 – they apparently started dating seriously after she appeared in his 2014 “Beautiful Goodbye” video.)
• The late B.B. King (1925 – 2015)…he would have been 97

Plus:

• Magician David Copperfield is 66 (FAST FACTS: Forbes has described him as the most commercially successful magician in history. Don’t believe it? He’s collected 11 “Guinness World Records,” a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a knighthood by the French government, and he has been named a Living Legend by the US Library of Congress. At last check, he has sold 33-million tickets and grossed over $4-billion, which is more than any other solo entertainer in history.)
• The late “Candid Camera” creator Allen Funt (1914 – 1999)
• The late entrepreneur James Cash Penney (He founded the J.C. Penney chain in 1902) (1875 – 1971)

September 17^th

Actors:

• Kyle Chandler is 57 (“Early Edition,” “What About Joan,” “Friday Night Lights,” “King Kong,” “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” “Super 8,” “Argo,” “Zero Dark Thirty,” “The Wolf of Wall Street,” “Bloodline,” “Manchester by the Sea”)
• Bobby Lee is 51 (“MadTV,” “Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle,” “Pineapple Express,” “The Dictator”)
• Cassandra Peterson is 71 (“Elvira,” “Lost City of Gold,” “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure”)
• Denyse Tontz is 28 (“Big Time Rush,” “Dog with a Blog,” “The Fosters”)
• Malik Yoba is 55 (“New York Undercover,” “Cool Runnings,” “Alphas,” “Revolution,” “Empire”)
• The late Anne Bancroft (1931-2005)… she would have been 91 (“The Miracle Worker,” “The Elephant Man,” “Agnes of God,” “To Be or Not to Be,” “Dracula: Dead and Loving It”) (FAST FACTS: She met her husband, Mel Brooks on the set of “The Perry Como Show” in the early 60s. As the story goes, Brooks walked up to her and said, “I’m going to marry you.” He did – The couple tied the knot in 1964 and they remained together until she passed away.)
• The late Paul Benedict (1938-2008)… he would have been 84 (“Sesame Street,” Mr. Bentley on “The Jeffersons”)
• The late Roddy McDowall (1928-1998)…he would have been 94 (“How Green Was My Valley,” “My Friend Flicka,” “Lassie Come Home,” “Planet of the Apes,” “Cleopatra,” “Funny Lady,” “Bedknobs and Broomsticks,” “Fright Night,” “Overboard,” “Fright Night 2,” “Quantum Leap”)
• The late John Ritter (1948-2003)… he would have been 74 (“Three’s Company,” “Problem Child,” “Problem Child 2,” “Sling Blade,” “Bride of Chucky,” “8 Simple Rules,” “Bad Santa”)

Musicians:

• Anastacia is 54
• Simple Plan’s Chuck Comeau is 43
• Flo Rida is 43 (That’s according to Yahoo!, wiki says his birthday is September 16^th) (he was born Tramar Lacel Dillard)
• Doug E. Fresh is 56 (his mama knows him as Douglas E. Davis)
• Pentatonix’s Scott Hoying is 31
• Bebe Winans is 60
• The late Keith Flint (of The Prodigy) (1969 – 2019)…he would have been 53
• The late Steve Sanders of the Oak Ridge Boys (1952-1998)… he would have been 70
• The late Hank Williams Sr. (1923-1953)…he would have been 99

Plus:

• TV personality and designer Nate Berkus is 51
• Race car driver Jimmie Johnson is 47 (FAST FACT: He became the first race car driver to be named Associated Press Male Athlete of the year in 2009)
• Mountain climber Reinhold Messner is 78 (He made the first solo ascent of Mount Everest, the world's highest peak, without the use of contained oxygen for breathing in 1980)
• Hockey player Alexander Ovechkin is 37 (FAST FACT: in 2013 he became the 8^th player in NHL history to win the Hart Trophy for league MVP three times)
• Comedienne Rita Rudner is 69
• Director Bryan Singer is 57 (“Superman Returns,” “X-Men,” “The Usual Suspects”)
• The late author Ken Kesey (1935-2001)… he would have been 87 (“One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,” “Sometimes a Great Notion,” “Demon Box”)

September 18^th

Actors:

• Robert Blake is 89 (“Our Gang,” “Baretta”) (FAST FACTS: He was tried and acquitted of the 2001 murder of his second wife, Bonnie Lee Bakley, but on November 18, 2005, Blake was found liable in a California civil court for her wrongful death.)
• James Marsden is 49 (“Ally McBeal,” “X-Men,” “Enchanted,” “27 Dresses,” “Westworld,” “Dead To Me”)
• Holly Robinson-Peete is 58 (“21 Jump Street,” “Hangin’ With Mr. Cooper”)
• Jada Pinkett-Smith is 51 (“The Nutty Professor,” “The Matrix,” “Madagascar”)
• Jason Sudeikis is 47 (“Saturday Night Live,” “Horrible Bosses,” “Hall Pass,” “Ted Lasso”) (FAST FACTS: He and Olivia Wilde became engaged in January 2013. They welcomed their son, Otis Alexander, in April 2014 and in October 2016 – they welcomed their second child, Daisy Josephine. The couple's relationship ended in November 2020.)
• The late Eddie Anderson (1905-1977) (“The Jack Benny Program”) (FAST FACTS: Known as ‘Rochester’ on “The Jack Benny Program,” he was the first African American to have a regular role on a nationwide radio program. When the series moved to television, Anderson continued in the role until the series' end in 1965)
• The late James Gandolfini (1961-2013)… he would have been 61 (“True Romance,” “Where the Wild Things Are,” “The Sopranos,” “Enough Said”)
• The late Greta Garbo (1905-1990) (“Anna Karenina,” “Camille”)
• The late Jack Warden (1920-2006) (“Shampoo,” “Heaven Can Wait)
• The late Fred Willard (1933 – 2020) ...he would have been 89 (“This Is Spinal Tap,” “Waiting for Guffman,” “Best in Show,” “A Mighty Wind,” “Anchorman” series, “Everybody Loves Raymond”) (FUN FACT: He had to take a sex ed class after being arrested for inappropriate behavior in an adult movie theater. In fact, Willard was ultimately not charged at all, but was required to shell out $380 sex education diversion program)

Musicians:

• Frankie Avalon is 82
• Towanda Braxton is 49 (FAST FACT: Her singing career was born out starring in the hit show, “Braxton Family Values”)
• Xzibit is 48 (born Alvin Nathaniel Joiner)

Plus:

• Disgraced Tour de France champ (now podcaster) Lance Armstrong is 51
• Fields cookie company founder Debbi Fields is 66
• Reality star Jeana Keough is 67 (“Real Housewives of Orange County”) (FAST FACT: she was crowned Playmate of the month in November of 1980)
• Composer John Powell is 59 (He’s composed for motion pictures such as “Shrek,” “Happy Feet,” and “Rio”)
• The late inventor Elmer Maytag (yes, of the Maytag Company) (1883-1940)

September 19^th

Actors:

• Jeremy Irons is 74 (“Dead Ringer,” “Reversal of Fortune,” “Brideshead Revisited,” “Lolita,” “Lion King”)
• Sanaa Lathan is 51 (“A Raisin in the Sun,” “Out of Time”)
• Randolph Mantooth is 77 (“Emergency!,” “One Life To Live,” “Sons of Anarchy”)
• David McCallum is 89 (“The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,” “The Invisible Man,” “NCIS“)
• Cheri Oteri is 60 (“Saturday Night Live,” “Life Coach,” “Glory Daze”)
• Danielle Panabaker is 35 (“Read It and Weep,” “Stuck in the Suburbs,” 2009’s “Friday the 13^th”)
• Kim Richards is 58 (“Escape to Witch Mountain,” “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills”)
• Columbus Short is 40 (“Scandal,” “Stomp the Yard,” “Accepted”) (FAST FACT: In 2014, he plead guilty to misdemeanor spousal battery and has had several brushes with the law being arrested and in court for assault(s), failing to appear, etc)
• Rex Smith is 67 (“Street Hawk,” “As The World Turns,” “Pirates of Penzance”)
• Alison Sweeney is 46 (“Days of Our Lives,” “The Biggest Loser”)
• Kevin Zegers is 38 (“Air Bud,” “Transamerica,” “City of Bones”) (FAST FACT: He played Josh Framm in the Air Bud franchise)
• The late Frances Farmer (1913 – 1970) (“Too Many Parents,” “Border Flight,” “Come And Get It”) (FAST FACT: She is perhaps better known for sensationalized accounts of her life, especially her involuntary commitments to mental hospitals. Once restored to ‘full civil rights’ she later found success as the host of the TV show, “Frances Farmer Presents.” In 1982, Jessica Lange portrayed her in the film, “Frances.” Lange was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress).
• The late Adam West (1928 – 2017)…he would have been 93 (“Batman”)

Musicians:

• Lita Ford is 64
• The Righteous Brothers’ Bill Medley is 82
• Freda Payne is 80
• Paul Williams is 82
• Tegan and Sara’s Tegan and Sara Quin are 42
• Trisha Yearwood is 58

Plus:

• Chef, writer, restaurant owner, and TV personality Mario Batali is 62 (FAST FACTS: He inspired the character Bario Matalli in the video game “World of Warcraft: Cataclysm.” He’s largely dropped off the map after allegations of sexual impropriety and even assault surfaced in late 2017. In May 2019, Batali was charged with indecent assault and battery in Boston…he was ultimately acquitted in May 2022. Still, the judge ruled that Batali’s conduct during the alleged incident was "not befitting of a public person of his stature," but agreed with the defense's arguments that his accuser had credibility issues and was motivated by financial gain to make her accusation.)
• TV personality and all-around funnyman Jimmy Fallon is 48 (“Saturday Night Live,” NBC’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon”) (FAST FACT: He originally went to college for Computer Science at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY)
• TV personality and author Joan Lunden is 72 (“ABC’s Good morning America,” “Behind Closed Doors”)
• Wrestler and Total Divas star Eva Marie is 38 (She joined the WWE in 2013)
• Model Victoria Silvstedt is 48
• Celebrity chef Michael Symon is 53
• Legendary model Twiggy is 73
• The late TV personality James Lipton (“Inside the Actors Studio”) ( 1926 - 2020)...he would have been 96

September 20^th

Actors:

• Jon Bernthal is 46 (“Eastwick,” “The Walking Dead,” “Mob City,” “The Accountant,” “Baby Driver,” “Wind River,” “Mob City,” “Daredevil,” “The Punisher”)
• Gary Cole is 66 (“Midnight Caller,” “The Brady Bunch Movie,” “A Very Brady Sequel,” “Office Space,” “Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story,” “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby,” “American Gothic,” “Pineapple Express,” “The West Wing,” “Chuck,” “Entourage,” “The Good Wife,” “Suits”)
• Kristen Johnston is 55 (“30 Rock,” “Viva Rock Vegas,” “Ugly Betty,” “Bride Wars,” “The Exes,” “Mom”)
• Spencer Locke is 31 (“Cougar Town,” “Detention, “Resident Evil” film series, 2013’s “Tarzan”)
• Sophia Loren is 88 (“The Pride and the Passion,” “Houseboat,” “It Started in Naples,” “Marriage Italian Style,” “Grumpier Old Men,” “Nine”)
• Debbi Morgan is 66 (That’s according to IMDB, wiki says 1951 which would make her 69, although )(“All My Children,” “Eve’s Bayou,” “Generations,” “Boston Public,” “Soul Food,” “Charmed,” “Power”) (FAST FACT: She was the first African-American to win the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 1989)
• The late Anne Meara (1929 – 2015) …she would have been 93 (Half of the legendary “Stiller and Meara” with husband Jerry Stiller, her incredible resume included “Rhoda,” “Love Boat,” “Archie Bunker’s Place,” “The Other Woman,” “Oz,” “King of Queens,” “Sex and the City: The Movie,” “The Boys From Brazil”) (FAST FACT: …and yes, Ben Stiller is her son)
• The late Fernando Rey (1917 – 1994) (Best known for films including “Tristana,” “Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie,” “That Obscure Object of Desire” and “The French Connection,” he appeared in more than 150 films over half a century)

Musicians:

• STYX’s Chuck Panozzo is 74
• Phillip Phillips (He won the eleventh season of American Idol) is 32
• Soundgarden’s Ben Shepherd is 54
• The Dream is 45 (his birth name, Terius Youngdell Nash)
• Lifehouse’s Rick Woolstenhulme is 43
• Yung Joc is 39 (his mama knows him as Jasiel Amon Robinson – and this age is courtesy of AP)

Plus:

• The late inventor and scientist Sir James Dewar (1842-1923) (He’s probably best known today for his invention of the vacuum flask, which we would more commonly know as a Thermos – even though that company basically tried to capitalize on the fact that he had forgotten to file a patent for his invention. The good news? He recovered and had a great career. And by the way, no – he’s not related to the Dewar’s Scotch Whisky in any way.)

September 21^st

Actors:

• Dave Coulier is 63 (“Full House,” “Robot Chicken,” “Bob & Doug,” “Fuller House”)
• David James Elliott is 62 (“JAG,” “Close To Home,” “Scoundrels,” “Impulse”)
• Maggie Grace is 39 (“Lost,” “Californication,” “Twilight” series, “Taken” series)
• Ryan Guzman is 35 (“Step Up Revolution,” “April Rain,” “Beyond Paradise,” “The Boy Next Door” “9-1-1”)
• Rob Morrow is 60 (“Northern Exposure,” “Numb3rs,” “Billions”)
• Bill Murray is 72 (“Caddyshack,” “Ghostbusters,” “Groundhog Day,” “The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou,” “Rushmore,” “Lost In Translation,” “The Royal Tenenbaums,” “Olive Kitteridge,” “)
• Autumn Reeser is 42 (“Entourage,” “The O.C.,” “Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball”)
• Nancy Travis is 61 (“Three Men and a Baby,” “Air America,” “Internal Affairs,” “So I Married an Axe Murderer,” “Becker,” “Last Man Standing”)
• Luke Wilson is 51 (“Idiocracy,” “Old School,” “Legally Blonde,” “Death at a Funeral,” “Vacancy,” “Enlightened,” “Roadies”)
• The late Larry Hagman (1931 - 2012)…he would have been 90 (“I Dream of Jeannie,” “Dallas”)

Musicians:

• Jason Derulo is 33 (born Jason Joel Desrouleaux)
• Liam Gallagher is 50
• Faith Hill is 55 (FAST FACT: She’s been married to Tim McGraw since October 1996)
• Lil Rob is 47 (his given name Robert L. Flores)
• Lindsey Stirling is 36
• Wale is 38 (born Olubowale Victor Akintimehin)
• The late Leonard Cohen (1934 – 2016)…he would have been 88

Plus:

• Celebrity Chef/TV Personality (“Worst Cooks In America”) Anne Burrell is 53
• Movie producer/screenwriter Ethan Coen is 65 (“Raising Arizona,” “Barton Fink,” “Fargo,” “O’Brother, Where Art Thou,” “The Big Lebowski,” “No Country for Old Men,” “A Serious Man,” “True Grit,” “Inside Llewyn Davis”) (FAST FACT: Known as half of “the Coen Brothers,” he and brother Joel Coen write, direct and produce their films jointly.)
• "Who Wants To Marry A Millionaire" bride and one-time “Playboy” playmate Darva Conger is 57
• Author, comedienne and TV panelist Fannie Flagg is 78 (Aside from her appearances on “To Tell The Truth,” her storied career includes her writing the book, “Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café,” which was adapted into the film, “Fried Green Tomatoes”)
• Author Stephen King is 75 (“Carrie,” “The Shining,” “Misery,” “It,” “The Dark Tower” series) (FAST FACTS: His numerous literary honors include a Bram Stoker Award, an O. Henry Award, and a National Book Foundation Medal)
• TV personality (and sometime actress and producer) Ricki Lake is 54
• Reality TV star Abby Lee Miller is 57 (“Dance Moms”)
• Reality TV star Momma Dee is 59 (“Love & Hip Hop Atlanta”) (Her real name is Deborah Gaither Bryant)
• Reality TV star Nicole Richie is 41 (“The Simple Life, “Fashion Star,” “#CandidlyNicole”) (FAST FACTS: She married Joel Madden in 2010 and they share daughter Harlow, and son Sparrow. She’s also helmed the successful jewelry and accessories line, House of Harlow and recently dipped her toe into acting with her participating in NBC’s “Great News”)
• The late author H. G. Wells (1866 – 1946) (“The Time Machine,” “The Invisible Man,” “The War of the Worlds”) (FAST FACT: He is sometimes called the Father of Science Fiction)

September 22^nd

Actors:

• Scott Baio is 62 (“Happy Days,” “Joanie Loves Chachi,” “Charles In Charge,” “Diagnosis: Murder,” “See Dad Run”)
• Shari Belafonte is 68 (“Hotel,” “Hey Arnold!,” “General Hospital”) (FAST FACT: She’s the daughter of singer Harry Belafonte)
• Ashley Eckstein is 41 (“That’s So Raven,” “Blue Collar TV,” “Star Wars: The Clone Wars”)
• Tom Felton is 35 (“Harry Potter” franchise, “Rise of the Planet of the Apes,” “The Flash”)
• Bonnie Hunt is 61 (“Rain Man,” “Beethoven,” “Beethoven's 2nd,” “Jumanji,” “Jerry Maguire,” “The Green Mile,” “Cheaper by the Dozen,” “Cheaper by the Dozen 2,” “Life With Bonnie”)
• Paul Le Mat is 77 (“American Graffiti,” “Burning Bed,” “Puppet Master” series, “Lonesome Dove” series, “American History X”)
• Tatiana Maslany is 37 (“Heartland,” “The Nativity,” “Being Erica,” “Orphan Black”)
• Catherine Oxenberg is 61 (“Dynasty,” “Starship Troopers 3,” “Watch Over Me,” “Sharktopus vs. Whalewolf”) (FAST FACT: She’s the daughter of Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia and is 1,375th in the line of succession to the throne of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth Realms.)
• Billie Piper is 40 (“Doctor Who,” “Secret Diary of a Call Girl,” “Penny Dreadful”)
• The late John Houseman (1902-1988) (“The Paper Chase,” “Bright Lights, Big City,” “Scrooged”)

Musicians:

• Andrea Bocelli is 64 (FAST FACT: Born with poor eyesight, Bocelli became permanently blind at the age of 12, following a soccer accident.)
• Debby Boone is 66
• Nick Cave is 65
• Whitesnake’s David Coverdale is 71
• Bastille’s Will Farquarson is 39
• The Shins’ bassist-guitarist Dave Hernandez is 52
• Joan Jett is 64
• Taking Back Sunday’s Adam Lazzara is 41
• Concrete Blonde’s Johnette Napolitano is 65
• DJ Martin Solveig is 46 (FAST FACT: He has worked with Bloc Party and Dragonette)

Plus:

• Olympic skater Tai Babilonia is 63 (Together with Randy Gardner, she won the 1979 World Figure Skating Championships and five U.S. Figure Skating Championships 1976–1980. The pair qualified for the 1976 and 1980 Winter Olympics)
• MMA Fighter Bob Sapp is 49
• The late Baseball Hall of Famer Tommy Lasorda (1927 – 2021)...he would have been 95 (FAST FACTS: Best known for his two decades as manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, he was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame as a manager in 1997. In 2017, he marked his 68th season in one capacity or another with the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers organization, the longest tenure anyone has had with the team.)

September 23^rd

Actors:

• Jason Alexander is 63 (“Pretty Woman,” “Coneheads,” “E/R,” “Seinfeld,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “Listen Up!,” “The Grinder”)
• Skylar Astin is 35 (“Taking Woodstock,” “Pitch Perfect,” “Cavemen,” “21 & Over”)
• Kaylee DeFer is 36 (“The Mountain,” “The War At Home,” “Gossip Girl, “Flicka”)
• Anthony Mackie is 44 (“8 Mile,” “She Hate Me,” “The Hurt Locker,” “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,” “Captain America: Civil War,” “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” “Avengers: Age of Ultron” “Ant-Man,” “All The Way”)
• Chi McBride is 61 (“Boston Public,” “Gone in 60 Seconds,” “The Terminal,” “I, Robot,” Roll Bounce,” “Draft Day,” “Hawaii Five-0”)
• Mary Kay Place is 75 (“Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman,” “Private Benjamin,” “Sweet Home Alabama,” “Grace & Frankie”)
• Anneliese Van der Pol is 38 (“That’s So Raven,” “Raven’s Home,” “Vampires Suck”)
• The late Elizabeth Pena (1959 – 2014)…she would have been 63 (“La Bamba,” “Down and Out in Beverly Hills,” “Jacob's Ladder,” “Lone Star,” “Rush Hour,” “I Married Dora,” “Resurrection Blvd.,” “Tough Cookies”) (FAST FACTS: In 1975, she was a founding member of the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors. She graduated from New York's High School of Performing Arts in 1977 – with her classmates were Ving Rhames and Esai Morales)
• The late Walter Pidgeon (1897-1984) (“How Green Was My Valley,” “Mrs. Miniver,” “The Bad and the Beautiful,” “Forbidden Planet,” “Advise & Consent,” “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea,” “Funny Girl,” “Harry in Your Pocket”)
• The late Mickey Rooney (1920-2014) (“The Black Stallion,” “National Velvet,” “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” “Night at the Museum”) (FAST FACT: He made his first stage appearance when he was fourteen months old, crawling onstage with overalls and a little harmonica during his parents' acting routine.)

Musicians:

• Sarah Bettens of K’s Choice is 50
• Jermaine Dupri is 50
• BR549’s Don Herron is 49
• O-Town’s Erik-Michael Estrada is 43 (According to FamousBirthdays.com)
• Julio Iglesias is 79
• Bruce Springsteen is 73
• The late Ray Charles (1930-2004) …he would have been 92 (FAST FACTS: He pioneered the genre of soul music during the 1950s by combining blues, rhythm and blues, and gospel styles and eventually became one of the first black musicians to be granted artistic control by a mainstream record company. Frank Sinatra once called Ray Charles "the only true genius in show business” and in 2002, “Rolling Stone” ranked Charles number ten on its list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time.”)

Plus:

• Model/TV personality Caridee English is 38(She won the 7^th season of “America’s Next Top Model,” has hosted “Pretty Wicked”)
• Stock car driver Regan Smith is 39 (He currently competes part-time in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series)
• The late Roman Emperor Caesar Augustus (63 BC-14 AD) (FAST FACTS: He may have died from natural causes, although there were unconfirmed rumors that his wife, Livia, poisoned him. He was succeeded as Emperor by his adopted son – also stepson and former son-in-law – Tiberius.)
• The late feminist Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1838-1927) (She was the first woman to run for President – she went against Grant. She was also a stockbroker, newspaper publisher, a pioneer of women's rights and an advocate of free love – aka the freedom to marry, divorce, and bear children without government interference)

September 24^th

Actors:

• Ian Bohen is 46 (“Wyatt Earp,” “Teen Wolf,” “Mad Men”)
• Grey Damon is 35 (“Friday Night Lights,” “The Nine Lives of Chloe King,” “Aquarius”)
• Jessica Lucas is 37 (“Melrose Place,” “She’s The Man,” “Cult,” “The Covenant,” “Gotham” “Cloverfield,” 2013’s “Evil Dead”)
• Allison McAtee is 37 (“Iron Man,” “Elevator Girl”)
• Ben Platt is 29 (“Pitch Perfect,” “Pitch Perfect 2,” “Ricki and the Flash”)
• Jackie Sandler is 48 (“Hotel Transylvania,” “That’s My Boy,” “Grown Ups”) (FAST FACT: Yup – she’s married to Adam Sandler, they’ve been hitched since 2003)
• Kevin Sorbo is 64 (“Hercules: The Legendary Journeys,” “Andromeda,” “Kull the Conqueror,” “Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!”)
• Nia Vardalos is 60 (“My Big Fat Greek Wedding”) (FAST FACT: “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” is still the highest grossing rom-com of all time)
• The late Audra Lindley (1918-1997) (“Three’s Company,” “The Ropers,” “Desert Hearts,” “Cybill,” “Friends”)
• The late Phil Hartman (1948-1998)…he would have been 74 (“Saturday Night Live,” “Jingle All the Way,” “NewsRadio,” “The Simpsons”) (FAST FACT: He was murdered by his third wife as he slept, hours before she killed herself. Hartman was posthumously inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in 2012 and the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2014.)

Musicians:

• Slipknot drummer Shawn Crahan is 53 (FAST FACT: His metal band was initially known as The Pale Ones in 1993, but they eventually changed it to Slipknot on drummer Joey Jordison's suggestion after they released a song with that name)
• Kreayshawn is 33 (born Natassia Gail Zolot) (FAST FACT: She was expelled from Oakland High School as a teen for constantly ditching class)
• Gerry and the Pacemakers’ Gerry Marsden (1942-2021)…he would have been 80.
• The late Linda McCartney (1941-1998)…she would have been 81 (A vocalist, musician, animal rights activist, and photographer, she founded the Linda McCartney Foods company and published many vegetarian cookbooks)

Plus:

• Football legend “Mean” Joe Greene is 76 (Note: Wiki says Sept 5^th and 24^th, but Yahoo says 24^th is correct)(A defensive tackle for the Pittsburgh Steelers, he’s a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the College Football Hall of Fame, and his number 75 jersey is one of only two retired by the Steelers. His 1979 ad for Coke, dubbed “Hey Kid, Catch!” remains beloved.)
• Gymnasts Paul and Morgan Hamm are 40 (FAST FACTS! Paul is a three-time Olympic medalist; he won the majority of rounds at the 2004 Olympics in Athens)
• TV personality/Chef Robert Irvine is 57 (“Dinner: Impossible,” “Worst Cooks in America,” “Restaurant: Impossible,” “Next Iron Chef” – he currently hosts “The Robert Irvine Show,” which airs on the CW)
• TV personality Ross Matthews is 43 (“The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” “Hello Ross,” “Hollywood Today Live,” RuPaul's Drag Race,” “Live from E!”)
• WWE Vice President Stephanie McMahon is 46 (FAST FACT: She was a one-time Women's Champion during her short-lived wrestling career)
• The late author F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) (“The Great Gatsby,” “The Side of Paradise,” “The Beautiful and Damned,” “Tender is the Night”)
• The late scientist John R. Dunning (1907-1975) (A physicist, he helped lay the groundwork for the atomic bomb and was a key figure in the Manhattan Project)
• The late director Jim Henson (1936-1990)… he would have been 86 (“The Muppets,” “Sesame Street,” “Fraggle Rock”) (FAST FACT: He was honored on the Hollywood Walk of Fame as both himself and Kermit the Frog)
• The late journalist Jim McKay (1921-2008) (Emmy Award-winning sportscaster of ABC’s Wide World of Sports)
• The late lyricist Anthony Newley (1931-1999)…he would have been 91 (“Stop the World-I Want to Get Off,” Nina Simone’s classic “Feeling Good,” and more)
• The late astronaut John Watts Young (1930 – 2018)…he would have been 92 (FAST FACT: He was the first person to fly into space six times and the ninth to step foot on the moon as Commander of the Apollo 16 mission in 1972)

September 25^th

Actors:

• Tate Donovan is 59 (“Damages,” “Hercules,” “The O.C”)
• Michael Douglas is 78 (“Wall Street,” “Black Rain,” “Romancing the Stone,” “The Game,” “Basic Instinct”) (FAST FACT: Douglas shares the same birthday as his wife, Catherine Zeta Jones)
• Donald Glover (aka musician Childish Gambino) is 39 (“Community,” “ Magic Mike XXL,” “The Martian,” “Spider-Man: Homecoming,” “Atlanta”) (FAST FACT: Yes, he just won an Outstanding Lead Actor - Comedy Series Emmy for his work on “Atlanta.” But he also made history with his Emmy win in the Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series for his work on “B.A.N.,” an experimental episode of "Atlanta.” He is the first Black director to win an Emmy for work on a comedy series, and the first Black man to win an Emmy for lead acting in a comedy series since 1985)
• Mark Hamill is 71 (“General Hospital,” Luke Skywalker in the original “Star Wars” series, “The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia,” “Timerunner,” “Village of the Damned,” “Kingsman: The Secret Service,” “The Flash”)
• Catherine Zeta Jones is 53 (“Mask of Zorro,” “Chicago,” “Lay the Favorite,” “The Terminal,” “Ocean’s Twelve,” “Entrapment”)
• Heather Locklear is 61 (“TJ Hooker,” “Dynasty,” “Melrose Place,” “Spin City,” “Hot in Cleveland,” “Franklin & Bash,” “Too Close To Home”)
• Michael Madsen is 65 (“Kill Bill,” “Reservoir,” “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves”)
• Lee Norris is 41 (“One Tree Hill,” “Boy Meets World”)
• Will Smith is 54 (“The Fresh Price of Bel-Air,” “I Am Legend,” “Men in Black,” “Independence Day,” “Hitch”)
• Hal Sparks is 52 (“Talk Soup,” “Queer as Folk,” “Lab Rats”)
• The late Christopher Reeve (1952-2004)…he would have been 70 (1978’s “Superman,” “Somewhere In Time,” “The Bostonians,” “Street Smart,” “The Remains of the Day”) (FAST FACTS: He was tragically paralyzed in a horse-riding accident in 1995. Confined to a wheelchair and required a portable ventilator for the rest of his life, he lobbied on behalf of people with spinal-cord injuries and for human embryonic stem cell research until he passed. He received a Screen Actor Guild Award in 1998 and the Lasker Award in 2003)

Musicians:

• Casper is 40 (born Benjamin Griffey)
• Childish Gambino (aka actor Donald Glover) is 39
• TI is 42 (born Clifford Joseph Harris Jr.)

Plus:

• TV personality Jamie Hyneman is 66 (“Mythbusters”)
• Model Bridget Marquardt is 49 (also one of Hugh Hefner’s famous girlfriends on reality show, “The Girls Next Door”)
• NBA Hall of Famer Scottie Pippen is 57 (A legendary forward, he played alongside Michael Jordan on six Chicago Bulls Championship teams, he was named to 7 NBA All-Star games and was a 3-time All-NBA First Team selection)
• Supermodel Cheryl Tiegs is 75 (She was the first supermodel to enter the world of fashion design and endorsements) (FAST FACT: She was a covergirl by the time she was 17 years old)
• Iconic journalist Barbara Walters is 93
• The late author William Faulkner (1897-1962) (“The Sound and the Fury,” “As I Lay Dying,” and “A Rose for Emily”) (FAST FACTS: A Pulitzer Prize-winner, he also won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949)
• The late author Shel Silverstein (1930-1999)…he would have been 92 (known as “Uncle Shelby” for his children’s books, such as, “The Giving Tree,” “Where the Sidewalk Ends,” “A Light In The Attic”)

September 26^th

Actors:

• Melissa Sue Anderson is 60 (“Little House on the Prairie”)
• Jim Caviezel is 54 (“The Passion of the Christ,” “Frequency,” “The Count of Monte Cristo,” “Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius,” “Déjà Vu,” “Person of Interest”)
• Mark Famiglietti is 43 (“Hang Time,” “Bones,” “Mad Men”)
• Linda Hamilton is 66 (“The Terminator” film series, “Beauty and the Beast,” “Children of the Corn,” “Dante’s Peak,” “Chuck,” “Defiance”)
• Ashley Leggat is 36 (“Life With Derek,” “Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen”)
• Kent McCord is 80 (“The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet,” “Adam-12,” “Predator 2,” “Out for Justice,” “Return of the Living Dead 3, “seaQuest DSV,” “JAG,” “Farscape”)
• Melanie Paxon is 50 (“Notes from the Underbelly,” “Happy Family,” “Descendants”)
• Talulah Riley is 37 (“Pride & Prejudice,” “Inception“)
• The late Donna Douglas (1932 – 2015) …she would have been 90 (“Beverly Hillbillies,” “Frankie and Johnny”)
• The late Edmund Gwenn (1877-1959) (“Miracle on 34^th Street,” “Pride & Prejudice”)
• The late Julie London (1926-2000)…she would have been 96 (More than forty films as well as the classic TV drama, “Emergency!”)

Musicians:

• Carlene Carter is 67
• Bryan Ferry is 77
• En Vogue Cindy Herron is 61
• Christina Milian is 41
• Boyz II Men’s Shawn Stockman is 50
• The late Lynn Anderson (1947 – 2015)…she would have been 75
• The late Olivia Newton-John (She also starred in a few films including “Grease” and “Xanadu”) (1948 – 2022)…she would have been 74
• The late Marty Robbins (1925 – 1982)…he would have been 97

Plus:

• TV pitchman Jonathan Goldsmith is 84 (formerly “The Most Interesting Man In The World”)
• Producer and TV personality Nev Schulman is 38 (“Catfish: The TV Show,” “Dancing With The Stars”)
• Tennis champ Serena Williams is 41
• The late pioneer John Chapman aka Johnny Appleseed (1774 – 1845) (John Chapman better known to the rest of us as Johnny Appleseed, was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced apple trees to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, as well as the northern counties of present day West Virginia. He became an American legend while still alive, due to his kind, generous ways, his leadership in conservation, and the symbolic importance he attributed to apples.)
• The late poet T. S. Eliot (1888 – 1965) (He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948, "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry.”)
• The late composer George Gershwin (1898 – 1937) (“Rhapsody in Blue,” “An American in Paris,” “Porgy and Bess”)
• The late fitness guru Jack LaLanne (1914 – 2011) (Considered the “Godfather of Modern Fitness,” he built a career and a brand on the notion that the country's overall health depended on the health of its population, and referred to physical culture and nutrition as "the salvation of America.” And really, without him, celebrity exercise gurus such as Jane Fonda and Richard Simmons may not exist.)

September 27^th

Actors:

• Anna Camp is 40 (“The Mindy Project,” “Pitch Perfect” series, “Equus,” “The Help,” “True Blood,” “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” “Good Girls Revolt,” “Perfect Harmony”)
• Amanda Detmer is 51 (“Drop Dead Gorgeous,” “Final Destination,” “Boys and Girls,” “Saving Silverman,” “The Majestic,” “Kiss the Bride”)
• Gail Edwards is 70 (“It’s a Living,” “Blossom,” “Full House”)
• Sam Lerner is 30 (“Monster House,” “Envy,” “Almanac”)
• A Martinez is 74 (“LA Law,” “Santa Barbara”)
• Gwyneth Paltrow is 50 (“Seven,” “Emma,” “Sliding Doors,” “A Perfect Murder,” “Shakespeare in Love,” “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” “The Royal Tenenbaums,” “Shallow Hal,” “Proof,” “Iron Man” series, “Glee”)
• Sofia Milos is 53 (“E/R,” “Friends,” “The Sopranos,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “CSI: Miami,” “The Border”)
• Tamara Taylor is 52 (“Party of Five,” “Diary of a Mad Black Woman,” “Hidden Hills,” “Bones”)
• The late Wilford Brimley (1934 – 2020) ...he would have been 88 (“The Waltons,” “The China Syndrome,” “The Thing,” “The Natural,” “Cocoon,” “The Firm”)
• The late William Conrad (1920-1994) (“Rocky & Bullwinkle,” ‘The Fugitive,” “Cannon,” “Jake and the Fatman”)

Musicians:

• 3 Doors Down’s Brad Arnold is 45
• Bachman-Turner Overdrive Randy Bachman is 80
• Color Me Badd’s Mark Calderon is 53
• Of Mice & Men’s Austin Carlile is 36
• Shaun Cassidy is 65
• Third Eye Blind’s Stephan Jenkins is 59
• Avril Lavigne is 39
• Lil Wayne is 41 (birth name Dwayne Michael Carter Jr.)
• Trick Daddy is 49 (born Maurice Samuel Young)
• The late Meat Loaf (1947 – 2022)…he would have been 75 (His given name Michael Lee Aday)

Plus:

• Fashion designer Jason Wu is 41
• Founding Father Samuel Adams (1722-1803) (A statesman and politician, while his name is used by the Boston Beer Company, he doesn’t have any connection to beer. He was a second cousin to fellow Founding Father, President John Adams.)

September 28^th

Actors:

• Brigitte Bardot is 88 (“Contempt,” “Spirits of the Dead,” “...And God Created Woman,” “Viva Maria!”)
• Maria Canals-Barrera is 56 (“Wizards of Waverly Place,” “Camp Rock,” “Larry Crowne”)
• Peter Cambor is 44 (“NCIS: Los Angeles,” “Notes from the Underbelly,” “Wedding Band”)
• Hilary Duff is 35 (“Lizzie McGuire,” “Cadet Kelly,” “Santa Claus Lane,” “Metamorphosis,” “Agent Cody Banks,” “Cheaper by the Dozen,” “A Cinderella Story,” “Cheaper by the Dozen 2,” “Younger”)
• Mira Sorvino is 55 (“Mighty Aphrodite,” “Romy and Michele's High School Reunion,” “Norma Jean & Marilyn,” “Mimic,” “Lulu on the Bridge,” “The Replacement Killers,” “Summer of Sam (1999), “Like Dandelion Dust,” “Human Trafficking”
• Naomi Watts is 54 (“Brides of Christ,” “Home and Away,” “Flirting,” “Tank Girl,” “Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering,” “King Kong,” “21 Grams,” “The Impossible,” “Mulholland Drive,” “I Heart Huckabees,” “The Ring,” “Birdman”)

Musicians:

• Mandy Barnett is 47
• Esmée Denters is 34
• Little Big Town’s Karen Fairchild is 53
• Marilyn Manson drummer Ginger Fish is 57
• Young Jeezy is 45 (born Jay Wayne Jenkins)
• Luke Mossman (guitarist for Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats) is 44
• Imagine Dragons’ Daniel Platzman is 36
• Vincent is 40 (born Anne Erin “Annie” Clark)
• Melody Thornton is 38
• Moon Zappa is 55
• The late Ben E. King (1938 – 2015)…he would have been 84

Plus:

• Reality TV star Bam Margera is 43 (“Jackass,” “Viva La Bam”)
• Burlesque dancer and model Dita Von Teese is 50 (her given name is Heather Renée Sweet)
• The late entrepreneur Thomas Crapper (1836 – 1910) (English plumber who gave the world modern bathroom fixtures, but did not invent the flush toilet. John Harrington is the actual inventor of the flush toilet. And P.S. while his last name became slang for human bodily waste, although the term "crap" was actually of Middle English origin and was once used in an entirely different way.)
• The late TV personality Ed Sullivan (1901 – 1974) (He hosted “The Toast of the Town, also known as “The Ed Sullivan Show,” from 1955 to 1971

September 29^th

Actors:

• Roger Bart is 60 (“The Producers,” “Stepford Wives,” “The Lost Room,” “Hostel: Part II,” “American Gangster,” “Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay,” “Desperate Housewives”)
• Mackenzie Crook is 51 (“The Office” (original British version), “Pirates of the Caribbean,” “Game of Thrones”)
• Alexis Cruz is 48 (“Touched By An Angel,” “Stargate,” “Stargate SG-1”)
• Erika Eleniak is 53 (“Baywatch,” “The Blob,” “Under Siege,” “The Beverly Hillbillies,” “Snowbound,” “Betrayal,” “Strike Force”)
• Natasha Gregson Wagner is 52 (“Modern Vampires,” “Pasadena” “High Fidelity,” “The 4400”) (FAST FACT: Her mother was Natalie Wood)
• Drake Hogestyn is 69 (“Days Of Our Lives”)
• Zachary Levi is 42 (“Chuck,” “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel,” “Thor: The Dark World,” “Shazam,” “Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”)
• Chrissy Metz is 42 (“American Horror Story: Freakshow,” “This Is Us,” “Sierra Burgess Is a Loser,” “Breakthrough”)
• Ian McShane is 80 (“Lovejoy,” “Deadwood,” “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,” “American Gods”)
• Jill Whelan is 56 (“Airplane!,” “The Love Boat’s” Vicki Stubing)
• The late “Singing Cowboy” Gene Autry (1907-1998)
• The late Madeline Kahn (1942-1999) …she would have been 80 (“What's Up, Doc?,” “Young Frankenstein,” “High Anxiety,” “History of the World, Part I,” “Paper Moon,” “Blazing Saddles,” “The Cheap Detective,” “City Heat,” “Clue,” “Mixed Nuts,” “Nixon”)
• The late Larry Linville (1939-2000) …he would have been 83 (“M*A*S*H,“ “Grandpa Goes To Washington,” “School Spirit,” “Earth Girls Are Easy,” “C.H.U.D. II: Bud the C.H.U.D.,” “Rock 'n' Roll High School Forever,” “A Million to Juan,” “No Dessert,” “Dad, till You Mow the Lawn”)
• The late Lizabeth Scott (1922 – 2015)…she would have been 100 (“Pulp,” “The Skin of Our Teeth,” “The Strange Love of Martha Ivers,” “Dead Reckoning,” “Desert Fury,” “Too Late for Tears”) (FAST FACTS: She was dubbed "the most beautiful face of film noir during the 1940s and 1950s.” Of the 21 films she appeared in, she was the lead actress in all but one.)

Musicians:

• Suede’s Brett Anderson is 55
• Primus’ Les Claypool is 59
• Emerson Drive’s Danick Dupelle is 49
• City and Colour and Alexisonfire’s Dallas Green is 42
• Halsey is 28 (her given name? Ashley Nicolette Frangipane)
• Jerry Lee Lewis is 87
• Iron Butterfly’s Mike Pinera is 74
• Jean-Luc Ponty is 80

Plus:

• Reality TV star Lo Bosworth is 36 (“The Hills”)
• Comedian Andrew “Dice” Clay is 65 (born Andrew Clay Silverstein)
• TV personality Bryant Gumbel is 74
• The late PBS Newshour co-anchor Gwen Ifill (1955 – 2016)…she would have been 67 (FAST FACT: In 1999, she became the first African American woman to host a nationally-televised U.S. public affairs program with “Washington Week in Review”)

September 30^th

Actors:

• Monica Bellucci is 58 (“Dracula,” “The Matrix Reloaded,” “The Matrix Revolutions,” “The Passion of the Christ,” “Spectre”) (FAST FACT: At 50, she became the oldest Bond girl ever in the James Bond film franchise, playing Lucia Sciarra in “Spectre”)
• Crystal Bernard is 61 (“Happy Days,” “It’s A Living,” “Wings,”)
• Lacey Chabert is 40 (“Party Of Five,” “Lost in Space,” “Not Another Teen Movie,” “Daddy Day Care,” “Mean Girls,” “Black Christmas,” “Baby Daddy”)
• Marion Cotillard is 47 (“La Vie en Rose,” “Inception,” “Assassin's Creed”)
• Keiran Culkin is 40 (“Home Alone,” “She’s All That,” “Scott Pilgrim vs. The World”) (FAST FACT: He is the younger brother of Macaulay Culkin)
• Angie Dickinson is 91 (“Rio Bravo,” “Police Woman,” “Dressed To Kill,” “Oceans Eleven”)
• Fran Drescher is 65 (“Saturday Night Fever,” “American Hot Wax,” “This Is Spial Tap,” “The Nanny,” “Happily Divorced”)
• Jenna Elfman is 51 (“Dharma and Greg,” “Friends With Benefits,” “1600 Penn”) (FAST FACT: She and husband Bodhi Elfman are avowed Scientologists)
• Tony Hale is 52 (“Arrested Development,” “Veep”)
• Ezra Miller is 30 (“The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” “Madame Bovary,” “We Need to Talk About Kevin,” “The Stanford Prison Experiment,” “Trainwreck,” “The Flash,” “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them”)
• Andrea Roth is 55 (“RoboCop: The Series,” “Rescue Me”)
• Eric Stoltz is 61 (“Mask,” “Pulp Fiction,” “Chicago Hope,” “Killing Zone,” “Once and Again,” “Capricia,” “Madam Secretary”) (FAST FACT: He was also a regular director on the television series “Glee”)
• Barry Williams is 68 (“The Brady Bunch,” “Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star,” “Mega Piranha”)
• The late Deborah Kerr (1921-2007) (“The King and I,” “The Sundowners,” “An Affair To Remember”)

Musicians:

• Phish’s Trey Anastasio is 58
• Cissy Houston is 89
• Mumford & Son’s Ben Lovett is 36
• Johnny Mathis is 87
• The 5^th Dimension’s Marilyn McCoo is 79
• Marty Stuart is 64
• Goo Goo Dolls’ Robby Takac is 58
• T-Pain is 38 (born Faheem Rashad Najm)

Plus:

• Reality star and dancer Maddie Zeigler is 20 (She came to fame on “Dance Moms,” but has since become Sia’s muse)
• Tennis champ Martina Hingis is 42 (FAST FACTS: She scored a Grand Slam junior title at age 12)
• The late Truman Capote (1924 – 1984)…he would have been 98 (“Breakfast at Tiffany's,” “In Cold Blood”) (FAST FACTS: He taught himself to read and write when he was a child, and published his first short stories when he was in his late teens. He was also childhood neighbor and close, lifelong friend of “To Kill a Mockingbird” author, Harper Lee.)
• Nobel Peace Prizewinner Elie Wiesel (1928 – 2016)…he would have been 94 (The author of 57 books, including “Night,” a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz, Buna, and Buchenwald concentration camps. Wiesel was also the Advisory Board chairman of the newspaper “Algemeiner Journal.”