FEBRUARY BIRTHDAYS

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February 1^st 

Actors:

• Michael C. Hall is 52 (“Dexter,” “Cold in July,” “The Crown,” “Safe”)
• Brian Krause is 54 (“The Christmas Switch,” “Borrowed Moments,” “Plan 9”)
• Rachelle Lefevre is 44 (“The Twilight Saga,” “Casino Jack,” “The Pool Boys”)
• Heather Morris is 36 (“Post,” “Spring Breakers,” “Glee”)
• Linus Roache is 59 (“RFK,” “The Gathering Storm,” “Batman Begins,” “Law and Order,” “Non-Stop,” “Vikings,” “Homeland”)
• Pauly Shore is 55 (“The Wash,” “Opposite Day”)
• The late Clark Gable (1901 – 1960) (“Teacher’s Pet,” “It Started in Naples,” “The Misfits,” “Gone With The Wind”)
• The late Sherman Hemsley (1938 - 2012)…he would have been 85 (“The Jeffersons,” “Mr. Ed,” “Clunkers”)
• The late Terry Jones (Co-founder of the Monty Python troupe) (1942 – 2020)...he would have been 81 (all Monty Python films, “Do Not Adjust Your Set,” “The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles,” “Erik The Viking”)
• The late Brandon Lee (1965 - 1993)…he would have been 58 (“Rapid Fire,” “The Crow”)
• The late Elisabeth Sladen (1946 - 2011)…she would have been 77 (“Doctor Who,” “Peak Practice”)
• The late Lee Thompson Young (1984 - 2013)…he would have been 39 (“The Famous Jett Jackson,” “Akeelah and the Bee,” “Rizzoli & Isles”)

Musicians:

• Big Boi is 48 (born Antwan André Patton)
• Tego Calderon is 51
• Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell is 73
• Exene Cervenka of X is 67
• Jason Isbell is 44
• Del McCoury is 84
• Julie Roberts is 44
• One Direction’s Harry Styles is 29
• MGMT’s Andrew Vanwyngarden is 40
• Weezer’s Patrick Wilson is 54
• The late Lisa Marie Presley (1968 – 2023)…would have been 55
• The late Don Everly (1937 – 2021)…he would have been 86
• The late Rick James (1948 – 20 04)…he would have been 75
• The late Hook & The Medicine Show’s Ray Sawyer (1937 – 2018)…he would have been 86

Plus:

• Author Meg Cabot is 56 (“The Princess Diaries”)
• Reality star and clothing designer Lauren Conrad is 37 (“Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County,” “The Hills”)
• Princess Stephanie of Monaco is 58
• Comedian Garrett Morris is 86
• MMA fighter-turned-WWE star Ronda Rousey is 36
• Author Jerry Spinelli is 82 (“Space Station Seventh Grade,” “Maniac Magee”)
• Celebrity kidlet Stormi Webster is 5 (The child of Travis Scott and Kylie Jenner…Travis Scott’s birth name is Jacques Berman Webster II)
• The late poet Langston Hughes (1901 – 1967) (He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry. Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. He famously wrote about the period that "the negro was in vogue," which was later paraphrased as "when Harlem was in vogue.”)
• The late world leader Boris Yeltsin (1931 – 2007)…he would have been 92 (Originally a supporter of Mikhail Gorbachev, Yeltsin emerged under the perestroika reforms as one of Gorbachev's most powerful political opponents. During the late 1980s, Yeltsin had been a member of the Politburo, and in late 1987 tendered a letter of resignation in protest. No one had resigned from the Politburo before. This act branded Yeltsin as a rebel and led to his rise in popularity as an anti-establishment figure.)

February 2^nd 

Actors:

• Gemma Arterton is 37 (“Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time,” “Clash of the Titans,” “Quantum of Solace”) (FAST FACT! She was born with 12 fingers)
• Adam Ferrara is 57 (“Rescue Me,” “Nurse Jackie,” “Little Italy” He also co-hosted the U.S. version of “Top Gear”)
• Emily Rose is 42 (“ER,” “John from Cincinnati,” “Haven”)
• Brent Spiner is 74 (“Star Trek: The Next Generation,” “Independence Day”)
• Jennifer Westfeldt is 53 (“Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place,” “Kissing Jessica Stein,” “Notes from the Underbelly,” “Younger”)
• Marissa Jaret Winokur is 50 (Broadway’s “Hairspray,” “Stacked,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “Moesha,” “The Steve Harvey Show,” “Just Shoot Me!,” “Felicity,” “Dharma & Greg”)
• Kim Zimmer is 68 ("Guiding Light")
• The late Farrah Fawcett (1947 – 2009)…she would have been 76 (“Charlie’s Angels,” “The Burning Bed”)
• The late Robert Mandan (1932 – 2018)…he would have been 91 ("Soap," "Three's a Crowd")
• The late Elaine Stritch (1925 – 2014)…she would have been 98 (She appeared in numerous stage plays and musicals, feature films, and television series. She was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1995)

Musicians:

• Howard Bellamy is 77
• Stone Temple Pilots bassist Robert DeLeo is 57
• Blaine Larsen is 37
• August Burns Red’s Jake Luhrs is 38
• Graham Nash is 81
• Shakira is 46
• Goodie Mob’s T-Mo is 51
• Journey bassist Ross Valory is 74

Plus:

• Supermodel Christie Brinkley is 69 (FAST FACT: She spent 25 years as the face of CoverGirl cosmetics, which enabled her to be the only model with a contract of this length in the industry's history)
• Reality star Duane ““Dog the Bounty Hunter” Chapman is 70 (FAST FACTS! He has a total of 12 children and has been married 5 times. He became a bail jumper himself after the Mexican police arrested and imprisoned him.)
• NFL champ/author/reality TV star Donald Driver is 48 (A retired wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers, a “New York Times” bestselling author, and the season 14 “Dancing with the Stars” champion) (FAST FACTS! After playing college football for Alcorn State University, Driver was picked by the Green Bay Packers in the seventh round of the 1999 NFL draft. Driver spent his entire 14-season NFL career with the Packers and holds the franchise's all-time records for most career receptions and receiving yards.)
• Celebrity chef Ina Garten is 75
• Celebrity offspring and reality star Messiah Harris is 23 (Son of rapper T.I. who has been featured on series, “T.I. & Tiny: The Family Hustle”)
• Comedian Tommy Smothers is 86
• The late author Ayn Rand (1905 – 1982) (“The Fountainhead,” “Atlas Shrugged”) (She is also known for developing a philosophical system called Objectivism)
• The late newscaster Jessica Savitch (1947 - 1983) …she would have been 76 (Savitch was one of the first women to anchor an evening network news broadcast alone. She also hosted PBS's public affairs documentary program “Frontline” from its January 1983 debut until her death in an automobile accident later that year.)

February 3^rd 

Actors:

• Blythe Danner is 80 (“1776,” “The Great Santini,” “Mr. and Mrs. Bridge,” “The Prince of Tides,” “Husbands and Wives,” “Meet the Parents,” “Meet the Fockers,” “Little Fockers,” “Will & Grace,” “Huff”) (FAST FACT: She’s Gwyneth Paltrow’s mom)
• Warwick Davis is 53 (“Willow,” “Harry Potter”)
• Morgan Fairchild is 73 (“Search for Tomorrow,” “Dallas,” “Flamingo Road,” “Paper Dolls,” “Falcon Crest,” “North & South,” “North & South Book II,” “Friends”) (FAST FACTS: She was born Patsy Ann McClenny…and back in the 70s, she was kidnapped on two separate occasions)
• Isla Fisher is 47 (“Confessions of a Shopaholic,” “Wedding Crashers,” “Now You See Me”) (FAST FACT: She was born in Oman and has been married to Sacha Baron Cohen since 2010 – though they’ve been together since 2002.)
• Nathan Lane is 67 (“The Producers,” “Guys and Dolls,” “The Birdcage,” “Modern Family,” “The Good Wife,” “The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story”)
• Mishon Ratliff is 30 (“Lincoln Heights”)
• Maura Tierney is 58 (“NewsRadio,” “ER,” “Liar Liar,” “The Affair”) 

Musicians:

• Matraca Berg is 59
• The Kinks’ Dave Davies is 76
• The Wreckers’ Jessica Harp is 41
• Sean Kingston is 33
• Sonic Youth’s Lee Renaldo is 67
• The Cure’s Laurence Tolhurst is 64
• Daddy Yankee is 46 (born Ramón Luis Ayala Rodríguez)
• The late Dennis Edwards (of The Temptations) (1943 – 2018)…he would have been 80
• The late Eric Haydock (of the Hollies) (1943 – 2019) …he would have been 80 

Plus:

• Pro-golfer Retief Goosen is 54
• Reality Star Derrick Lavasseur is 39 (He won “Big Brother” by keeping secret that he was an undercover cop)
• NFL Hall of Famer and TV personality Fran Tarkenton is 83
• The late Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910) (The first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States, as well as the first woman on the UK Medical Register. A pioneer in promoting the education of women in medicine, she was the first woman to graduate from medical school, and a social and moral reformer in both the United States and in the United Kingdom. It ran in the family, too. Her sister, Emily, was the third woman to graduate medical school.)
• The late director Michael Cimino (1939 – 2016)…he would have been 84 (“The Deer Hunter,” “Heaven’s Gate”)
• The late surgeon Dr. Henry Heimlich (1920 – 2016) (You know, the guy that developed an anti-choking procedure – yes! He’s a guy!)
• The late explorer Ferdinand Magellan (1480 – 1521) (He planned the first successful expedition to circumnavigate the world)
• The late author Gertrude Stein (1874 – 1946) (FAST FACTS: As an American writer of novels, poetry and plays, she was a literary innovator and a pioneer of Modernist literature, her work broke with the narrative, linear, and temporal conventions of the 19th-century. She is also one of the main characters in Woody Allen’s film “Midnight in Paris”)

February 4^th

Actors:

• Gabrielle Anwar is 53 (“Scent of a Woman,” “Burn Notice,” “The Tudors”)
• Patrick Bergin is 72 (“Sleeping With The Enemy,” “Patriot Games,” “Ella Enchanted,” “Hustle”)
• Brandon Bug Hall is 38 (“Little Rascals,” “Harley and the Davidsons”)
• Gary Conway is 87 (“Burke’s Law,” “Land of the Giants,” “America Ninja 2: The Confrontation”)
• Rob Corddry is 52 (“The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” “Hot Tub Time Machine,” “The Unicorn")
• Andrew Gray is 36 (“Power Rangers Megaforce”)
• Kyla Kenedy is 20 (“The Walking Dead’s” Mika)
• Dallas Lovato is 35 (“The Helpers,” “Snowflake, the White Gorilla”) (FAST FACT: She’s the older sister of Demi Lovato)
• The late Conrad Bain (1923 – 2013)…he would have been 100 (“Diff’rent Strokes”)

Musicians:

• Clint Black is 61 (FAST FACT: He’s been married to Lisa Hartman Black since 1991)
• Jimmy Eat World’s Rick Burch is 48
• Cam’ron is 47 (born Cameron Ezike Giles)
• Alice Cooper is 75
• Gavin DeGraw is 46
• Kansas’ Phil Ehart is 73
• Natalie Imbruglia is 48
• Fifth Dimension’s Florence LaRue is 79
• Zoe Manville of Portugal. The Man is 39
• The Animals’ John Steel is 82
• Pussycat Doll Kimberly Wyatt is 41

Plus:

• Boxing champ Oscar De La Hoya is 50 (Nicknamed "The Golden Boy," De La Hoya won a gold medal at the Barcelona Olympic Games shortly after graduating from High School) (FAST FACTS: De La Hoya has defeated 17 world champions and has won ten world titles in six different weight classes. He has also generated more money than any other boxer in the history of the sport, an estimated to about roughly over $700-million pay-per-view income.)
• NFL Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor is 64 (Once considered to be one of the greatest players in the history of football, his personal life ultimately overshadowed his accomplishments. While Taylor admitted to using drugs such as cocaine as early as his second year in the NFL, and was suspended several times by the league for failing drug tests, his drug abuse escalated after his retirement. He was even jailed three times for attempted drug possession. From 1998 to 2009, Taylor lived a sober, drug-free life – he worked as a color commentator on sporting events after his retirement, and pursued a career as an actor. Fast forward to 2011 and Taylor found himself pleading guilty to sexual misconduct involving a 16-year-old girl. Taylor was later sentenced to six years probation as part of a plea agreement, in which he pled guilty to the misdemeanors of sexual misconduct and patronizing a prostitute.)
• Former vice-president Dan Quayle is 76 (He served under George H.W. Bush…and famously misspelled potato.)
• TV personality Nicolle Wallace is 51
• The late comedian David Brenner (1936-2014)…he would have been 87
• The late feminist author Betty Friedan (1921-2006) (She wrote “The Feminine Mystique” in 1963, about the plight of suburban housewives. One quote is: “It is perhaps beside the point to remark that bowling alleys and supermarkets have nursery facilities, while schools and colleges and scientific laboratories and government offices do not.”) (FAST FACT: She died on her birthday)
• The late aviator Charles Lindbergh (1902 – 1974) (He was the first to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean)
• The late civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks (1913-2005) (FAST FACT: The popular myth that Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat because her feet were tired is not true. “I was not tired physically,” she wrote, “or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.” Here’s the thing – she also wasn’t the first black woman to be arrested for not giving up her seat. That title actually goes to Claudette Colvin, who was the first person arrested for resisting bus segregation in Montgomery, preceding the more publicized Parks’ incident by nine months. Just 15, Montgomery's black leaders did not publicize Colvin's pioneering effort because she was a teenager and became pregnant while unmarried. Given the social norms of the time and her youth, the NAACP leaders worried about using her to represent their movement. Rosa won. And yes, she deserves credit for her role in the fight for civil rights in America – we just don’t want to forget about Claudette.)
• The late artist Norman Rockwell (1894 – 1978) (Most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life he created for “The Saturday Evening Post” magazine over nearly 50 years, one of his most famous works is Rosie the Riveter)
• The late movie director George Romero (1940 – 2017) …he would have been 83 (“Night of the Living Dead,” “Dawn of the Dead”) 

February 5^th

Actors:

• Jamie Brewer is 38 (“Southland,” “American Horror Story”) (FAST FACT: Brewer is an activist in the Down Syndrome community and persuaded Senators of the Texas State Capitol to abolish the word “retarded” from state legislation while serving on the Governmental Affairs Committee for the State of Texas)
• Davis Cleveland is 21 (“Hannah Montana,” “Good Luck Charlie,” “Skate It Up!”)
• Darren Criss is 36 (“Girl Most Likely,” “A Very Potter Musical,” “Glee,” “The Flash,” “The Assassination of Gianni Versace”)
• Christopher Guest is 75 (“This Is Spinal Tap,” “Best in Show,” “A Mighty Wind,” “Investigation of Lying”) (FAST FACT: He’s actually a real baron…and has been married to Jamie Lee Curtis since 1984)
• Barbara Hershey is 75 (“Beaches,” “Black Swan,” “Answer to Nothing,” “Sister”)
• Jennifer Jason Leigh is 62 (“Single White Female,” “Backdraft,” “Weeds,” “Revenge,” “Kill Your Darlings,” “The Hateful 8”)
• Laura Linney is 59 (“The Other Man,” “The Details,” “The Fifth Estate”)
• Tim Meadows is 62 (“SNL,” “The Ladies Man,” “Mean Girls,” “Grown Ups,” “Jack and Jill,” “Trainwreck”)
• Diego Serrano is 50 (“Our Italian Husband,” “Little Miss CEO,” “Blackout”)
• Michael Sheen is 54 (“The Twilight Saga,” “Kill the Messenger,” “Masters of Sex,” “Prodigal Son”)
• Jeremy Sumpter is 34 (“You’re So Cupid,” “Excision,” “The Culling”)
• Nora Zehetner is 42 (“Mad Men,” “Imperial Dreams,” “Maron”)

Musicians:

• Spin Doctors’ frontman Chris Barron is 55
• Bobby Brown is 54
• Sara Evans is 52
• Tyler Farr is 39
• Kevin Gates is 37 (given name Kevin Jerome Gilyard)
• Guns N’ Roses/Velvet Revolver/Jane’s Addiction’s Duff McKagan is 59
• Echosmith drummer Graham Sierota is 24
• Bastille’s Kyle Simmons is 35
• Secondhand Serenade’s John Vesely is 41
• The late Atlanta Rhythm section guitarist J.R. Cobb (1944 – 2019)...he would have been 79
• Three Dog Night’s late Cory Wells (1941 – 2015)…he would have been 82

Plus:

• Wrestler Madison Rayne is 37 (Best known for her time in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where she has been the Women's Knockout and Knockout Tag Team champion)
• The late Legendary MLB player Henry Hank Aaron (1934 – 2021) ...he would have been 89 (Known as the Hammer, he set a league record with 755 career home runs which stood from 1976 to 2007; was a 25-time All-Star, 4-time National League home run champion, 2-time National League batting champion, and 1-time National League MVP throughout his 23-year career.)
• The late Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997) (“Naked Lunch,” “The Nova Trilogy,” “Junkie”) (FAST FACT! He shot and killed his wife, Joan Vollmer, during a drunken party game at a Mexico City bar… what was apparently a drunken attempt at playing William Tell.)
• The late TV show host Red Buttons (1919 – 2006)
• The late TV producer/writer Stephen J. Cannell (1941- 2010)…he would have been 82 (“The Rockford Files,” “The A-Team,” “The Greatest American Hero,” “21 Jump Street,” “The Commish”)
• The late author Fr. Andrew M. Greeley (1928 – 2013) …he would have been 95 (“Cardinal Sins,” “Passover” trilogy)

February 6^th

Actors:

• Dane DeHaan is 37 (“Chronicle,” “Kill Your Darlings,” “Lawless”)
• Mamie Van Doren is 92 (“Born Reckless,” “High School Confidential,” “Running Wild”) (FAST FACT: In her heyday, she was nicknamed “Hollywood’s bad girl”)
• Alice Eve is 41 (“Entourage,” “She’s Out of My League,” “Star Trek Into Darkness”)
• Mike Farrell is 84 (“M*A*S*H,” “Providence,” “Desperate Housewives”)
• Alice Greczyn is 37 (“The Dukes of Hazzard,” “House of Fears,” “Sleepover”)
• David Hayter is 54 (“The Scorpion King,” “Watchmen,” “X-Men”)
• Kathy Najimy is 66 (“Hocus Pocus,” “Sister Act,” “Veronica’s Closet,” “Unforgettable”)
• Crystal Reed is 38 (“Crazy, Stupid, Love,” “Skyline,” “Teen Wolf”)
• Mackenzie Smith is 22 (“Four Christmases,” “God Bless America,” “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles,” “The Middle”)
• Brian Stepanek is 52 (“Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil,” “The Suite Life of Zach and Cody”)
• Dominic Sherwood is 33 (“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” “Stormbreaker,” “Vampire Academy,” “Shadowhunters”)
• Josh Stewart is 46 (“The Collection,” “The Dark Knight Rises,” “Law Abiding Citizen,” “Dirt,” “Thurd Watch,” “Criminal Minds”)
• Robert Townsend is 66 (“Hollywood Shuffle,” “Meteor Man,” “The Five Heartbeats,” “The Parent ‘Hood”) (FAST FACT: He was originally supposed to be caste for “Saturday Night Live,” but producers chose Eddie Murphy over him)
• The late Zsa Zsa Gabor (1917 – 2016) (“Moulin Rouge,” “Lovely To Look At,” “A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors,” “The Naked Gun 2 ½: The Smell of Fear”) (FAST FACT: She is the sister to the famous Eva Gabor. Zsa Zsa married nine times including once to Conrad Hilton. They had a child in 1947).
• The late Patrick Macnee (1922 – 2015) (“The Avenger” film series, “Battlestar Galactica,” “Sherlock Holmes in New York”)
• The late Rip Torn (1931 – 2019)...he would have been 92 (“Babydoll,” “Cross Creek,” “Men in Black”)

Musicians:

• Rick Astley is 57
• Fabian is 80 (born Fabiano Anthony Forte)
• Lonestar’s Richie McDonald is 61
• Fly Away Hero’s Dalton Rapattoni is 27
• Guns ‘N’ Roses’ Axl Rose is 61 (born William Bruce Rose Jr.)
• The late Natalie Cole (1950 – 2015)…she would have been 73
• The late Bob Marley (1945 – 1981) …he would have been 78 (FAST FACT: Known as the Ambassador of the Third World for his music, he died of cancer at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Miami, Florida. He was an activist of the Back to Africa movement and the Rastafari movement. Marley was buried with a soccer ball, a Gibson guitar, a bible, and a bud of marijuana)

Plus:

• Model Calum Best is 42
• Newsman Tom Brokaw is 83 (He is the only person to host all three major NBC News programs: “The Today Show,” “NBC Nightly News,” and, briefly, “Meet the Press.” He now serves as a Special Correspondent for NBC News and works on documentaries. Along with Peter Jennings at ABC News and Dan Rather at CBS News, Brokaw was one of the "Big Three" news anchors in the U.S. during the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s. The three all hosted their network's flagship-nightly-news programs for over 20 years, and all three started and retired within a year of each other.)
• Retired NBA Power forward and celebrity ex-spouse Kris Humphries is 38 (FAST FACT: Was famously – or infamously – married to Kim Kardashian for 72 days.)
• The late, brief wife of Adolph Hitler, Eva Braun (1912 – 1945) (Married to psychotic dictator for 40 hours, he is said to have complimented her: “A highly intellectual man should have a primitive and stupid woman.” What a romantic. They committed suicide together – she bit into a cyanide capsule, and Hitler had shot himself in the right temple with his pistol.)
• The late politician Aaron Burr (1756 – 1836) (FAST FACT: Third Vice Present of the United States who infamously killed his rival, Alexander Hamilton. In 1804, the last full year of his single term as Vice President, Burr killed Hamilton in a famous duel. Burr was never tried for the illegal duel, and all charges against him were eventually dropped, but Hamilton's death ended his political career.)
• The late songwriter Haven Gillespie (1888 – 1975) (“Santa Claus is Coming to Town”)
• The late scientist Mary Leakey (1913 – 1996) (She discovered the first fossilized Proconsul skull, an extinct ape now believed to be ancestral to humans)
• The late President Ronald Reagan (1911 – 2004) (Dubbed “The Great Communicator,” Reagan galvanized the American public in way that re-defined American politics in the 1980s – check out three of his greatest speeches on the right)
• The late Babe Ruth (1895 – 1948) (FAST FACT: Also known as “The Great Bambino”, an all-time record breaking Yankees legend who won seven World Series Championships and 12 American League home run titles)
• The late scientist Spencer Silver (1941 – 2021)…he would have been 82 (FAST FACT: Chemist who developed adhesive led and co-invented Post-It Note)

February 7^th

Actors:

• Essence Atkins is 51 (“Half & Half,” “Smart Guy,” “Are We There Yet?”)
• Jason Gedrick is 58 (“Murder One,” “Boomtown,” “Iron Eagle,” “Major Crimes”)
• Jake Goldberg is 27 (“Grown Ups,” “Choose”)
• Eddie Izzard is 61 (“The Riches,” “Ocean's Twelve,” “Ocean's Thirteen,” “Mystery Men,” “Shadow of the Vampire,” “Across the Universe,” “Valkyrie,” “Victoria & Abdul”)
• Ashton Kutcher is 45 (“That ‘70s Show,” “The Butterfly Effect,” “Two and A Half Men,” “Jobs”) (FAST FACTS: When he was 13, he considered saving his brothers life with a heart transplant by committing suicide. He’s been married to Mila Kunis since 2015)
• Tina Majorino is 38 (“Napoleon Dynamite,” “Veronica Mars”)
• James Spader is 63 (“Less Than Zero,” “Wall Street,” “Sex, Lies, and Videotape,” “Stargate,” “Crash,” “Boston Legal,” “The Blacklist”)
• The late Buster Crabbe (1908 – 1983) (“Tarzan the Fearless,” “Flash Gordon,” Buck Rogers,” “King of the Jungle”) (FAST FACT: He won the 1932 Olympic gold medal for 400-meter freestyle swimming event before breaking into acting.)
• The late Miguel Ferrer (1955 – 2017)…he would have been 68 (“RoboCop,” “Twin Peaks,” “Crossing Jordan,” “Iron Man 3”)

Musicians:

• Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland is 48
• Garth Brooks is 61
• Bon Jovi’s David Bryan is 61
• The late Brian Travers from the UB40s (1959 – 2021) he would have been 64
• The late Bronski Beat’s Steve Bronski (1960 – 2021)…he would have been 63
• The late Jimmy Greenspoon (of Three Dog Night) (1948 – 2015)…he would have been 75

Plus:

• Comedian Emo Philips is 67
• Funnyman Chris Rock is 58
• Author/journalist Gay Talese is 91 (FAST FACT: He worked at “The New York Times” during World War II, and accused the newspaper of keeping news about the Holocaust off the front page so as not to seem like a Jewish newspaper. Talese wrote: “The ‘New York Times’ does not wish to be thought of as a “Jewish newspaper,” which indeed it is not, and it will bend over backwards to prove this point, forcing itself at times into unnatural positions, contorted by compromise, balancing both sides, careful not to offend, wishing to be accepted and respected for what it is—a good citizen’s newspaper, law-abiding and loyal, solidly in support of the best interests of the nation in peace and war.”)
• Comedian Robert Smigel (also Triumph the Insult Comic Dog) is 63
• NBA point guard Isaiah Thomas Jr. is 34
• The late voicist Wayne Allwine (1947-2009)…he would have been 76 (the voice of Mickey Mouse)
• The late inventor John Deere (A blacksmith, he was a pioneer manufacturer of agricultural implements) (1804 – 1886)
• The late author Charles Dickens (FAST FACT: He introduced the words “butter-fingers,” “crossfire,” “dustbin,” “fairy story,” “slow-coach,” and “whoosh” to the English language.) (1812-1870)
• The late author Laura Ingalls Wilder (FAST FACT: She only started writing her famed “Little House” series when she was 65) (1867-1957)

February 8^th

Actors:

• Stephanie Courtney is 53 (Flo in the Progressive Insurance Commercials)
• Seth Green is 49 (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Robot Chicken,” “Family Guy”)
• Pooch Hall is 46 (“The Game,” “Ray Donovan”)
• Dani Harmer is 34 (“Tracy Beaker Returns,” “Dani’s House,” “Dani’s Castle”)
• Mary McCormack is 54 (“The West Wing,” “Murder One,” “In Plain Sight,” “House of Lies”)
• Joshua Morrow is 49 (“Young & The Restless)
• Nick Nolte is 82 (“Affliction,” “48 Hrs.,” Down and Out in Beverly Hills,” “Cape Fear,” “Hotel Rwanda,” “The Prince of Tides” “A Walk in the Woods,” “The Ridiculous 6”)
• Mary Steenburgen is 70 (“Tender Is The Night,” “Parenthood,” “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape,” “Melvin and Howard,” “The Help,” “The Last Man On Earth”)
• Cecily Strong is 39 (“MAD TV,” “The Bronze,” “The Awesomes,” “SNL”)
• Jordan Todosey is 28 (“Life With Derek,” “Degrassi: The Next Generation”)
• The late Gary Coleman (1968-2010)…he would have been 55 (“Diff’rent Strokes”)
• The late James Dean (1931-1955)…he would have been 92 (the original bad boy) (“Rebel Without a Cause,” “East of Eden)
• The late Jack Lemmon (1925 – 2001) …he would have been 98 (“The Odd Couple,” “The Out-of-Towners,” “The China Syndrome,” “Missing,” “Glengarry Glen Ross,” “Grumpy Old Men,” “Grumpier Old Men”)
• The late Audrey Meadows (1922 – 1996) (“The Honeymooners”)
• The late Lana Turner (1921-1995) (“Peyton Place,” “The Postman Always Rings Twice,” “The Bad and The Beautiful”)

Musicians:

• Paramore’s Jeremy Davis is 38
• Carolina Liar drummer Max Grahn is 35
• Daft Punk’s Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo is 49
• The BoDeans’ Sam Llanas is 63
• Motley Crue frontman Vince Neil is 62
• Anderson .Paak is 37 (his birth name, Brandon Paak Anderson)
• Linkin Park’s Phoenix (aka Dave Farrell) is 46
• Tom Rush is 82
• Collective Soul’s Will Turpin is 52
• Composer John Williams is 91

Plus:

• Author John Grisham is 68 (“The Firm”, “The Pelican Brief”, “A Time to Kill”)
• Pro-surfer and author Bethany Hamilton is 33 (She’s the one who got her arm chomped off by a shark back in 2003)
• Comedian Robert Klein in 81
• Legendary newsman Ted Koppel in 83 (Born in England, after his German Jewishparents fled Germany following the rise of Adolf Hitler and Nazism, the family immigrated to the United States in 1953.His mother, Alice, was a singer and pianist, and his father, Edwin, was a tire factory owner.)
• The late poet Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) (She was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 1949 to 1950, the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry in 1956, the National Book Award winner in 1970, and the recipient of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1976)
• The late Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleev (1834-1907) (He came up with the Periodic Table of Elements, and, based on the pattern, was able to predict what elements would soon be discovered)
• The late William Tecumseh Sherman (1820 – 1891) (The Union Army General during the Civil War, most famous for his “scorched earth” policies. During his infamous March to the Sea, he and 62,000 men marched from Atlanta to the port of Savannah Georgia, living off the land and causing, by his own estimate, more than $100-million in property damage.)
• The late author Jules Verne (1825 – 1905) (“20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,” “Journey to the Center of the Earth,” “From the Earth to the Moon,” “Around the World in Eighty Days”)

February 9^th 

Actors:

• Jimmy Bennett is 27 (“Daddy Day Care,” “The Legend of Ron Burgundy,” “No Ordinary Family”)
• Kelli Berglund is 27 (“Lab Rats,” “How to Build a Better Boy”)
• Sharon Case is 52 (“General Hospital,” “Valley of the Dolls,” “The Young and the Restless”)
• Charlie Day is 47 (“It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” “Horrible Bosses,” “Monsters University,” “Pacific Rim,” “Fist Fight”)
• Mia Farrow is 78 (“The Ex,” “The Omen,” “Dark Horse,” “Death on The Nile”)
• David Gallagher is 38 (“7^th Heaven”)
• Michael B. Jordan is 36 (“The Wire,” “Friday Night Lights,” “Fantastic Four,” “Creed,” “Chronicle,” “That Awkward Moment”)
• Tom Hiddleston is 42 (“Thor,” “The Avengers,” “Midnight in Paris,” “Crimson Peak,” “The Night Manager”)
• Judith Light is 74 (“One Life to Live,” “Who’s the Boss,” “Ugly Betty,” “Dallas,” “Transparent”)
• Joe Pesci is 80 (“Goodfellas,” “Raging Bull,” “Lethal Weapon” series, “Casino,” “My Cousin Vinny,” “A Bronx Tale”)
• Charles Shaughnessy is 68 (“Days of Our Lives,” “The Nanny")
• Amber Valetta is 49 (“Drop Back Ten,” “Blood & Oil”)
• Julie Warner is 58 (“Nip/Tuck,” “Doc Hollywood,” “Family Law”)
• Camille Winbush is 33 (“The Secret Life of the American Teenager,” “The Bernie Mac Show”)
• The late Kathryn Grayson (1922-2010 (“Show Boat,” “Kiss Me Kate”)
• The late Carmen Miranda (1909-1955) (“The Gang’s All Here,” “That Night in Rio”) 

Musicians:

• Joe Ely is 76
• Carole King is 81
• Travis Tritt is 60
• The late Kool & The Gang co-founder Dennis Thomas (1951 – 2021)…he would have been 72
• The late R&B singer Major Harris III (1947-2012)…he would have been 76
• The late Avenged Sevenfold drummer James “The Rev” Owen Sullivan (1981-2009)…he would have been 42 (FAST FACT: Initially, foul play was ruled out and his death was suspected as being from natural causes – and the original autopsy exam supported that. Later, toxicology results revealed that he died from an overdose of oxycodone, Valium and alcohol. Still, the coroner noted that Sullivan’s cardiomegaly – aka an enlarged heart – was also a “significant factor.”)
• The late Ernest Tubb (1914-1984) 

Plus:

• Entrepreneur Chris Gardner is 69 (He was portrayed by Will Smith in the 2006 movie, “The Pursuit of Happyness”)
• Author Alice Walker is 79 (“The Color Purple,” “Meridian,” “The Third Life of Grange Copeland”) (FAST FACT: She and her first husband, Melvyn Rosenman Leventhal, a Jewish civil rights lawyer were the first legally married inter-racial couple in Mississippi. She was later involved with singer Tracy Chapman and activist/author Robert Allen)
• The late author George Ade (1866 – 1944) (“The College Widow”, “The Fair Co-ed”, “Fables in Slang”)
• The late U.S. President William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) (FAST FACT: His nickname was Tippecanoe! In order to prove his manly stoicism, he was sworn in without coat or hat on a day that was freezing and rainy. He then proceeded to give the longest inaugural speech in U.S. history, speaking for over two hours. The president immediately came down with a cold and died after only 32 days in office.)
• The late TV journalist Roger Mudd (1928 – 2021)…he would have been 95

February 10^th 

Actors:

• Uzo Aduba is 42 (“Orange Is The New Black,” “The Wiz Live!”)
• Elizabeth Banks is 49 (“The Hunger Games,” “40-Year Old Virgin,” “Magic Mike XXL,” “Pitch Perfect” series)
• Laura Dern is 56 (“Rambling Rose,” “Mask,” “Blue Velvet,” “Jurassic Park,” “The Fault In Our Stars,” “Wild,” “Enlightened”)
• Chloe Grace Moretz is 26 (“Hugo,” “Let Me In,” “Diary of a Wimpy Kid,” “If I Stay,” “The Equalizer,” and “The 5th Wave”)
• Jade Ramsey is 35 (“House of Anubis”)
• Emma Roberts is 32 (“Aquamarine,” “Unfabulous,” “Scream Queens,” “American Horror Story”)
• Yara Shahidi is 23 (“black-ish”)
• Makenzie Vega is 29 (“Saw,” “Sin City,” “The Good Wife”)
• Robert Wagner is 93 (“It Takes A Thief,” “Hart to Hart,” “Austin Powers” series, “Two and a Half Men”)
• The late Lon Chaney Jr. (1906 – 1973)
 (“The Wolf Man,” “Of Mice and Men,” “Dracula vs Frankenstein”) (FAST FACT: His prolific career took him from the 1920’s through 1971)
• The late comedian and actor Jimmy Durante (1893-1980) (“The Great Rupert,” “It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World”) (Nicknamed “The Schnoz,” Durante dropped out of school in seventh grade to become a full-time ragtime pianist. Rising to fame as vaudevillian, he was also beloved on the radio, television and film.) 

Musicians:

• Misha Bryan is 31
• El Rey is 45 (birth name Don Omar)
• Roberta Flack is 86
• Pierce the Veil’s Vic Fuentes is 40
• The late Cliff Burton (1962-1986)…he would have been 61 

Plus:

• TV/Radio personality Glenn Beck is 59
• Golfer Greg Norman is 68 (FAST FACTS: he spent 331 weeks as the world's number one ranked golfer in the 1980s and 1990s. He has won over 85 international tournaments in his career, including two majors: The Open Championship in 1986 and 1993. He is nicknamed The Great White Shark or sometimes simply The Shark – a reference to his blond hair, his size, his aggressive golf style, and the native animal of his home country, Australia.)
• Olympic champion swimmer Mark Spitz is 73 (FAST FACTS: He won seven gold medals at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, an achievement only surpassed by Michael Phelps who won eight golds at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Spitz set new world records in all seven events in which he competed in 1972, a record that still stands. Since the year 1900, no other swimmer has ever gained so great a percentage of all the medals awarded for Olympic events held in a single Games)
• ABC newsman/commentator George Stephanopoulos is 62 (He was a Senior Advisor to Bill Clinton from 1993 – 1996)

February 11^th 

Actors:

• Jennifer Aniston is 54 (“Friends,” “Bruce Almighty,” “The Good Girl,” “Cake”) (FAST FACTS: She was married to Brad Pitt from 2000 – 2005 and to Justin Theroux from 2015 – 2017)
• Natalie Dormer is 41 (“The Tudors,” “Elementary,” “The Hunger Games,” “Game of Thrones”)
• Taylor Lautner is 31 (“Twilight,” “Abduction”) (FAST FACT: Lautner played Jacob Black in Twilight, but wasn’t sure he would be allowed to reprise the role in New Moon, because of his character’s growth spurt and sudden bulking up. In order to prove his dedication, he gained 30 pounds of muscle)
• Matthew Lawrence is 43 (“Brotherly Love,” “The Comebacks,” “Gimme a Break”) (FAST FACT: Yes, Joey Lawrence is his older brother...whoa! He also married “DWTS” pro Cheryl Burke in 2019)
• Damian Lewis is 52 (“Band of Brothers,” “Homeland,” “Wolf Hall,” “Billions”)
• Tina Louise is 89 (Ginger on "Gilligan's Island")
• Carey Lowell is 62 (“Club Paradise,” “Licence To Kill,” "Law & Order," “Law & Order: Trial By Jury,” “Six Degrees”) (FAST FACT: She stepped away from acting when she hooked up with Richard Gere, had a child and married. They split in 2013 and were officially divorced in 2016)
• The late Conrad Janis ("Mork and Mindy" – Mindy’s dad)…he would have been 94
• The late Eva Gabor (1919 – 1995) (“Green Acres”)
• The late Leslie Nielsen (1926 – 2010)…he would have been 97 (“Naked Gun,” “Airplane”)
• The late Burt Reynolds is (1936 – 2018)…he would have been 87 (“Smokey and the Bandit,” “Cop and a Half,” “Boogie Nights”)
• The late Patricia A. Welsh (1915 – 1995) (E.T.'s voice, the voice of Boushh in “Return of the Jedi”) 

Musicians:

• Brandy is 44
• Sheryl Crow is 61
• D’Angelo (born name Michael Eugene Archer) is 49
• Never Shout Never’s Christofer Drew Ingle is 32
• Sergio Mendes is 82
• Dumblonde’s Aubrey O’Day is 39
• Kelly Rowland is 42 (FAST FACT: In 2021 she and husband Tim Weatherspoon welcomed their second child, son Noah Jon Weatherspoon)
• Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda is 46 

Plus:

• Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush is 70
• Radio and TV personality (and hardcore conspiracy theorist) Alex Jones is 49
• Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is 59 (FAST FACT: Her favorite meal is Moose Stew)
• Pro-surfer Kelly Slater is 51 (He has been crowned World Surf League Champion a record 11 times, including five consecutive titles in 1994–98. He is the youngest – at age 20 – and the oldest – at age 39 – person to win the title. Upon winning his 5th world title in 1997, Slater passed Australian surfer Mark Richards to become the most successful champion in the history of the sport. In 2007 he also became the all-time leader in career event wins by winning the Boost Mobile Pro event at Lower Trestles near San Clemente, California. The previous record was held by Slater's childhood hero, three-time world champion Tom Curren.)
• The late inventor Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) (While he held over 1300 patents, recent years have brought a lot of debate about how much inventing he actually did)
• The late sexpert Dr. Virginia E. Johnson (…of Masters & Johnson fame) (1925-2013)…she would have been 98 (FAST FACT: Along with William H. Masters, she pioneered research into the nature of human sexual response and the diagnosis and treatment of sexual dysfunction and disorders from 1957 until the 1990s)
• The late author/playwright/writer Sidney Sheldon (1917 – 2007) (“I Dream of Jeannie,” “The Patty Duke Show,” “Hart to Hart,” and more) (FAST FACT: He is the seventh best-selling fiction writer of all time.)

February 12^th 

Actors:

• Maud Adams is 78 (“The Man with the Golden Gun,” “Octopussy,” “Tattoo”)
• Josh Brolin is 55 (“No Country for Old Men,” “W.,” “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps”)
• Baylie and Rylie Cregut are 13 (“Raising Hope”)
• John Michael Higgins is 60 (“Raising the Bar,” ″A Mighty Wind”)
• Michael Ironside is 73 (“The Machinist,” “Total Recall,” “Top Gun,” “The Perfect Storm,” “The Machinist,” “Terminator Salvation,” “X-Men: First Class,” “Justified”)
• Joanna Kerns is 70 (“Growing Pains,” “Girl, Interrupted,” “All Over The Guy,” “Knocked Up”)
• Sarah Lancaster is 43 (“Saved by the Bell,” “Catch Me If You Can,” “Chuck,” “What About Brian”)
• Lochlyn Munro is 57 (“Scary Movie,” “Freddy vs. Jason,” “White Chicks,” “Daddy Day Camp”)
• Christina Ricci is 43 (“Sleepy Hollow,” “War Flowers,” “Pan Am,” “Grey’s Anatomy”, “The Lizzie Borden Chronicles”)
• Raphael Sbarge is 59 (“Independence Day,” “The Guardian,” “Pearl Harbor,” “Murder In The First,” “The Duel”)
• Jesse Spencer is 44 (“House, M.D.,” “Chicago Fire”) (FAST FACT: He was briefly engaged to “House” costar Jennifer Morrison, whose character he married on the show…after they split)
• Jennifer Stone is 30 (“Wizards of Waverly Place,” “Secondhand Lions,” “Daytime Stories”)
• The late Lorne Greene (1915 - 1987) (“Bonanza,” “Earthquake,” “Battlestar Galactica”)
• The late Forrest Tucker (1919-1986) (“The Love Boat,” “Rare Breed”) 

Musicians:

• Former “American Idol” contestant Casey Abrams is 32
• Barenaked Ladies Bassist Jimmy Creeggan is 53
• Gucci Mane is 43 (Born Radric Delantic Davis)
• Genesis’ Steve Hackett is 73
• Michael McDonald is 71
• Wilson Phillips’ Chynna Phillips is 55 (FAST FACT: She’s been married to Billy Baldwin since 1995)
• Mike Posner is 35
• Jamie Scott is 39
• Elle Varner is 34
• The late Ray Manzarek (1939 - 2013)…he would have been 84 

Plus:

• Children’s author Judy Blume is 85 (“Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret”)
• Talk Show Host Arsenio Hall is 67 (FAST FACT: He won the “Celebrity Apprentice” in 2012)
• Chef and TV personality Aaron Sanchez is 47 (“Iron Chef America,” “Chopped”)
• The late scientist Charles Darwin (1809-1882) (FAST FACT: Along with coming up with the theory of evolution, Darwin was also an abolitionist.)
• The late MLB champ Joe Garagiola (1926 – 2016)…he would have been 97 (He later became an announcer and television host, popular for his colorful personality. He was well known for being one of the regular panelists on NBC’s “Today” for many years.)
• The late Abraham Lincoln (16^thS. President) (1809-1865) (FAST FACT: Lincoln’s cat ate at the White House dinner table.)
• The late movie director Franco Zeffirelli (1923 – 2019) ...he would have been 100 (“Tea with Mussolini”)

February 13^th 

Actors:

• Stockard Channing is 79 (“Grease,” “Six Degrees of Separation,” “The West Wing,” “Practical Magic,” “The Good Wife”)
• Kelly Hu is 55 (“Sunset Beach,” “Nash Bridges,” “The Scorpion King,” “Cradle 2 the Grave,” “The Vampire Diaries,” “Arrow,” “Warehouse 13”)
• Neal McDonough is 57 (“Band of Brothers,” “Boomtown,” “Desperate Housewives,” “Minority Report,” “Suits,” “Justified,” “Legends of Tomorrow)
• David Naughton is 72 (“An American Werewolf in London,” “Midnight Madness,” “My Sister Sam,” “Granite Flats,” “American Horror Story”)
• Kim Novak is 90 ("The Man with the Golden Arm,” “Vertigo,” “The Mirror Crack'd,” “Falcon Crest,” “Liebestraum”)
• Alex Sawyer is 30 (“House of Anubis”)
• Mena Suvari is 44 (“American Beauty,” “The Rage: Carrie 2,” “American Pie, “American Pie 2,” “Trauma,” “Six Feet Under,” “American Reunion”)
• The late Oliver Reed (1938–1999)…he would have been 85 (“The Trap,” “Oliver!” “Women in Love,” “Tommy,” “Castaway,” “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen,” “Funny Bones,” “Gladiator)
• The late George Segal (1934 – 2021) …he would have been 89 (“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” “Just Shoot Me!” “The Goldbergs”) 

Musicians:

• Peter Gabriel is 73
• New Order’s Peter Hook is 67
• Henry Rollins is 62
• The Cult’s Les Warner is 62
• Freedom Williams is 57 (born Frederick Brandon Williams)
• Robbie Williams is 49
• The late Ed Gagliardi of Foreigner (1952-2014) …he would have been 71 (FAST FACT: He’s the band’s original bassist)
• The late Peter Tork (The Monkees’) (1942 – 2019) ...he would have been 81 

Plus:

• Voice actress Carolyn Lawrenceis 56 (Sandy the Squirrel on “SpongeBob SquarePants”)
• Celebrity kid Prince Michael Jackson is 26 (Michael Jackson’s son with Debbie Rowe)
• TV personality Jerry Springer is 79
• The late Brigadier General (ret) Chuck Yeager (1923 – 2020)...he would have been 100 (One of our country’s foremost aviators and record setting test pilots, he was the first to break the sound barrier…and he did it in 1947)
• The late first lady Bess Truman (1885-1982) (At her death in 1982, aged 97, she became the longest-lived First Lady…and she remains so)

February 14^th

Actors:

• Paul Butcher is 29 (“Zoey 101,” “Lake Munro”)
• Enrico Colantoni is 60 (“Flashpoint,” “Veronica Mars”)
• Zach Galligan is 59 (“Gremlins,” “Waxwork,” “Gremlins 2: The New Batch,” “Infested,” “Legion of the Dead”)
• Danai Gurira is 45 (“The Walking Dead,” Marvel’s “Black Panther”)
• Allie Grant is 29 (“Weeds,” “Suburgatory”)
• Freddie Highmore is 31 (“Charlie in the Chocolate Factory”)
• Simon Pegg is 53 (“Shaun of the Dead,” “Hot Fuzz,” “The World's End,” “Paul,” “Mission: Impossible” series,” “Star Trek,” “Star Trek Into Darkness,” “Star Trek Beyond”)
• Meg Tilly is 63 (“Agnes of God,” “Psycho II,” “The Big Chill,” “Masquerade,” “Valmont,” “Bomb Girls)
• Tiffany Thornton is 37 (“Sonny With a Chance,” “So Random!”)
• The late Gregory Hines (1946 – 2003)…he would have been 77 (“Jelly’s Last Jam,” “Running Scared,” “History of the World, Part 1,” “Tap”)
• The late Florence Henderson (1934 – 2016)…she would have been 89 (“The Brady Bunch”)
• The late Vic Morrow (1929 – 1982)…he would have been 94 (“Blackboard Jungle,” “Combat!,” “Twilight Zone: The Movie”) 

Musicians:

• Lit bassist Kevin Baldes is 51 (that’s according to AP)
• Havana Brown is 38
• Heart’s Roger Fisher is 73
• Opera singer Renee Fleming is 64
• Shane Harper is 30
• Maceo Parker is 80
• Big Smo is 47 (born John Lee Smith)
• Matchbox 20’s Rob Thomas is 51
• Tony! Toni! Tone! Singer Dwayne Wiggins is 62 

Plus:

• Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is 81
• TV personality Pat O'Brien is 75
• Teller (silent half of Penn & Teller – his first name? RAYMOND!) is 75 (born Raymond Joseph Teller)
• The late comedian Jack Benny (1894 – 1974)
• The late author and escaped slave Frederick Douglass (1818 – 1895) (Famous Quotes: “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” “I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.” “One and God make a majority.”) (1818-1895)
• The late legendary newsman Hugh Downs (1921 – 2020)
• The late engineer George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. (1859 – 1896) (He’s the guy that created the concept and the original Ferris Wheel, which debuted at the 1893 Chicago World's Exposition.)
• The late Teamster boss Jimmy R. Hoffa (Is he really missing? After all, his body has never been found (1913 – 1975…or 1982 – as he went missing in 1975, but was declared dead in ‘82)

February 15^th 

Actors:

• Claire Bloom is 92 (“A Streetcar Named Desire,” “A Doll’s House”)
• Alex Borstein is 52 (“MAD TV,” “Family Guy,” “Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life,” “Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”)
• Zachary Gordon is 25 (“Diary of a Wimpy Kid”)
• Greer Grammer is 31 (MTV’s “Awkward”)
• Christopher McDonald is 69 (“Happy Gilmore,” “Requiem for a Dream”)
• Amber Riley is 37 (“Glee,” “Dancing With The Stars,” “The Wiz Live!”)
• Jane Seymour is 72 (“Somewhere In Time,” “The Woman He Loved,” “ Quinn, Medicine Woman,” “Wedding Crashers,” “Hooten & the Lady”)
• Haley Tju is 22 (“Monsters vs. Aliens,” “Bella & The Bulldogs”)

• Lynn Whitfield is 70 (“The Josephine Baker Story,” Madea's Family Reunion, “A Thin Line Between Love and Hate,” “The Cheetah Girls 2”)
• Sarah Wynter is 50 (“24,” “Windfall,” “Damages”)
• The late Chris Farley (1964-1997)…he would have been 59 (“Saturday Night Live,” “Tommy Boy,” “Black Sheep,” “Beverly Hills Ninja”)
• The late Harvey Korman (1927-2008)…he would have been 96 (“Carol Burnett Show,” “Blazing Saddles,” “Frankenstein,” “The Flintstones,” “F Troop,” “Mama’s Family,” “Nutt House”)
• The late Cesar Romero (1907-1994) (“The Little Princess,” “Batman,” “Falcon Crest”) 

Musicians:

• The Kinks’ Mick Avory is 79
• Incubus’ Brandon Boyd is 47
• UB40’s Ali Campbell is 64
• Culture Club’s Mikey Craig is 63
• Supertramp’s John Helliwell is 78
• Melissa Manchester is 72
• Gloria Trevi is 55
• Birdman is 54 (born Bryan Williams)
• The late Santana bassist David Brown (1947-2000)…he would have been 76 

Plus:

• Cartoonist Matt Groening is 69 (created “The Simpsons” and “Futurama”)
• Reality TV star/villain/former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman is 50
• Computer programmer/inventor of PASCAL, Niklaus Wirth is 89
• The late suffragette Susan B. Anthony (1820 – 1906) (Great quotes: “No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.” “Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.” “I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.”)
• The late Father of Science Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642) (He promoted the idea of heliocentrism – that the earth revolves around the sun. For this radical idea, Galileo became an enemy of the Catholic Church. He was found guilty of heresy, and forced to recant. He spent the last nine years of his life under house arrest. Stephen Hawking thinks Gaileo is the one individual most responsible for modern science, and Einstein called him the “father of science.” In 1992, Pope John Paul II admitted that the Catholic Church was mistaken in its treatment of Galileo and that the earth does indeed revolve around the sun. Wouldn’t you be proud to be a member of such a cutting-edge organization?)
• The late scientist Cyrus McCormick (1809-1884) (he automated crop harvesting)

February 16^th 

Actors:

• Mahershala Ali is 49 (“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," "The Hunger Games")
• Levar Burton is 66 (“Roots,” “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” “Reading Rainbow”)
• Christopher Eccleston is 59 (“Doctor Who,” “Thor: The Dark World”)
• Alicia Josipovic is 32 (“Degrassi”)
• William Katt is 72 (“Carrie,” “Greatest American Hero”)
• Matthew Knight is 29 (“Queer As Folk,” “My Babysitter’s a Vampire”)
• Elizabeth Olsen is 34 (“Captain America: Civil War,” “Wandavision”)
• The late Hugh Beaumont (1909 – 1982) (While he had an expansive career, most know him as Mr. Cleaver on “Leave It To Beaver”)
• The late Edgar Bergen (1903 – 1978) (“The Charlie McCarthy Show,” “Do You Trust Your Wife?,” “The Muppets”)
• The late Vera-Ellen (1921-1981) (“White Christmas”) (FAST FACT: She was known for having the smallest waist in Hollywood from the mid 1940s through the 1960s) 

Musicians:

• Lupe Fiasco is 41 (born Wasalu Muhammad Jaco)
• Hot Chelle Ray’s Ryan Follese is 36
• Danielle Haim of Haim is 34
• Ice T is 65 (given name, Tracy Lauren Marrow)
• Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo is 58
• The Kentucky Headhunters’ Doug Phelps is 63
• Duran Duran’s Andy Taylor is 62
• The Weeknd is 33 (born Abel Makkonen Tesfaye)
• The late Patty Andrews (of the Andrews Sisters) (1918-2013)
• The late James Ingram (1952 – 2019)…he would have been 71 

Plus:

• Model Janice Dickinson is 68
• Tennis champ and commentator John McEnroe is 64 (He won seven Grand Slam singles titles (three at Wimbledon and four at the US Open), nine Grand Slam men's doubles titles, and one Grand Slam mixed doubles title. McEnroe also won a record eight season ending championships, comprising five WCT Finals titles and three Masters Grand Prix titles from twelve final appearances at those two events, a record he shares with Ivan Lendl. During his career, McEnroe won 77 ATP-listed singles titles and 71 in doubles.) (FAST FACT: First married to Tatum O’Neal from 1986 – 1994, he’s been married to Patty Smyth since 1997)
• Anne Frank’s late sister, Margot Frank (1926-1945)…she would have been 97 (She died of typhus in the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen)
• The late Supreme Leader of North Korea Kim Jong Il (1941-2011)…he would have been 82 (His titles included Shining Star of Paektu Mountain, Guiding Sun Ray, Dear Leader, Great Leader, Respected Leader, Brilliant Leader, Sun of Socialism, The Great Sun of Life, Great Man Who Descended From Heaven, Invincible And Ever-Triumphant General and Highest Incarnation of the Revolutionary Comradely Love. His hobbies were building waterslides, drinking cognac, and kidnapping short people. Okay, he kind of kidnapped anyone.)

The late director John Schlesinger (1926-2003)…he would have been 97 (“Yanks,” “The Believers,” “Pacific Heights”)

February 17^th 

Actors:

• Aidan Alexander is 23 (“The Borgias,” “The Seed,” “Red Wing”)
• Anne Curtis is 38 (“When Love Begins,” “Green Rose”)
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt is 42 (“10 Things I Hate About You,” “Inception”)
• Meaghan Jette Martin is 31 (“Camp Rock,” Awkward”)
• Jerry O’Connell is 49 (“Stand By Me,” “Sliders,” “Jerry Maguire,” he’s currently a co-host on CBS’ “The Talk”)
• Chord Overstreet is 34 (“Glee”)
• Lou Diamond Phillips is 61 ( “Longmire,” “Prodigal Son”)
• Sasha Pieterse is 27 (“Family Affair,” “Pretty Little Liars”)
• Dominic Purcell is 53 (“Prison Break,” “The Flash”)
• Denise Richards is 52 “Wild Things,” “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills”)
• Jason Ritter is 43 (“Joan of Arcadia,” “A Million Little Things”)
• Rene Russo is 69 (“Major League,” “Lethal Weapon”)
• Bonnie Wright is 32 (“Harry Potter”)
• The late Hal Holbrook (1925 – 2021)...he would have been 98 (“Into the Wild,” “Sons of Anarchy”) (FAST FACT: In 2003, Holbrook was honored with the National Humanities Medal by President George W. Bush) 

Musicians:

• Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong is 51
• 311’s Timothy Mahoney is 53
• Ed Sheeran is 32
• Bryan White is 49
• The late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins (1972 – 2022) would have been 51 

Plus:

• Comedian Dame Edna (Barry Humphries) is 89
• Model Selita Ebanks is 40
• Director Michael Bay is 58 (“The Rock,” “The Island,” “Transformers”)
• Comedian Larry the Cable Guy is 60 (his given name Daniel Lawrence "Larry" Whitney)
• Socialite and alleged DJ Paris Hilton is 42 (FAST FACT: Due to bad behavior in her younger years, she was actually cut off from the family fortune and had to work to amass her own fortune. Thanks to her perfumes, appearances and such – her net worth is estimated to be $100-million.)
• NBA Hall of Famer Michael Jordan is 60 (After playing for 15 seasons in the NBA for the Chicago Bulls and Washington Wizards, he became the principal owner and chairman of the Charlotte Hornets. individual accolades and accomplishments include five MVP Awards, ten All-NBA First Team designations, nine All-Defensive First Team honors, fourteen NBA All-Star Game appearances, three All-Star Game MVP Awards, ten scoring titles, three steals titles, six NBA Finals MVP Awards, and the 1988 NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award)
• TV personality and author Rene Syler is 60 (She left "The Early Show" in 2006, wrote “Good Enough Mother” in 2007)
• The late Black Panther Party co-founder Huey P. Newton (1942 – 1989)…he would have been 81

February 18^th

Actors:

• Ike Barinholtz is 46 (“The Mindy Project,” “Suicide Squad”)
• Tyrone Burton is 43 (“The Parent ‘Hood”)
• Matt Dillon is 59 (“The Outsiders,” “There’s Something About Mary”)
• Malese Jow is 32 (“Unfabulous,” “The Social Network”)
• Kristoffer Polaha is 46 (“Ringer,” “Life Unexpected”)
• Molly Ringwald is 55 (“Sixteen Candles,” “The Breakfast Club,”)
• Greta Scacchi is 63 (“Presumed Innocent,” “Brideshead Revisited”)
• Cybill Shepherd is 73 ( “The Last Picture Show,” “Moonlighting,”)
• John Travolta is 69 (“Saturday Night Fever,” “Pulp Fiction” )
• The late George Kennedy (1925 – 2016)…he would have been 98 (“Cool Hand Luke,” “The Naked Gun”)
• The late Jack Palance (1919 – 2006) (“City Slickers,” “Tango & Cash”) 

Musicians:

• Alabama Shakes bassist Zac Cockrell is 34
• STYX’s Dennis DeYoung is 76
• Dre is 58 (his given name, Andre Romelle Young)
• Juice Newton is 71 (born Judy Kay Newton)
• Yoko Ono is 90
• Little River Band’s Derek Pellicci is 70
• Old Dominion guitarist-keyboardist Trevor Rosen is 48
• Regina Spektor is 43
• Nickel Creek guitarist Sean Watkins is 46
• Krewella’s Yasmine Yousaf is 31
• The late Robert Bachman (1953 – 2023) of Bachman-Turner Overdrive…he would have been 70 

Plus:

• Celeb Fitness Trainer Jillian Michaels is 49 (“The Biggest Loser”)
• “Wheel of Fortune” letter-turner Vanna White is 66
• Child pageant phenom Eden Wood is 18 (famous for the song “Cutie Patootie,” which featured the line “rockin out the pageant stage and shakin my bootie.”)
• The late editor of “Cosmopolitan” magazine Helen Gurley Brown (1922 – 2012)…she would have been 100
• The late director Milos Forman [[PR: mee-LOSH FOR-man]] (1932 – 2018)…he would have been 91 (“One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,” “Hair”)
• The late director John Hughes (1950 – 2009)…he would have been 73 (FAST FACT: If you’re a child of the 80’s his movies were your story - he directed or scripted some of the most successful comedy films of the 1980s and early 1990s, including “National Lampoon's Vacation,” “Sixteen Candles,” “Weird Science,” “The Breakfast Club,” “Ferris Bueller's Day Off,” “Pretty in Pink,” “Some Kind of Wonderful,” “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” and “Uncle Buck,” the first two “Home Alone” films. Basically, just about every other teen-angst movie we loved in the 80s)
• The late author Toni Morrison (1939 – 2019)...she would have been 84 (“The Bluest Eye,” “Song of Solomon,” “Beloved”) (quote: “If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”)

Sunday, February 19^th

Actors:

• Justine Bateman is 57 (“Family Ties”)
• Jeff Daniels is 68 (“Terms of Endearment,” “Dumb and Dumber”)
• Haylie Duff is 38 (“7^th Heaven,” “Napoleon Dynamite”)
• Victoria Justice is 30 (“Zoey 101,” “Victorious,”)
• David Mazouz is 22 (“Gotham,” “Touch”)
• Benicio Del Toro is 56 (“The Usual Suspects,” “Traffic,” (FAST FACT: He won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, ANDa BAFTA Award for his role in “Traffic”)
• Bellamy Young is 53 (“The Drew Carey Show,” “The X Files,” “The West Wing”)
• The late Lee Marvin (1924 – 1987)…he would have been 99(“M Squad,” “Cat Ballou”) (FAST FACT: He won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, AND a BAFTA Award for his role in “Cat Ballou”) 

Musicians:

• Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi is 75
• Seal is 60 (His full name? Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel)
• Smokey Robinson is 83
• General Public’s Dave Wakeling is 67
• The late Falco (1957 – 1998)…he would have been 66 (his given name, Johann Hölzel) 

Plus:

• Britain’s Prince Andrew is 63 (In 2015, he was embroiled in an under-age sex scandal, his porn star ex, Koo Stark, said he’s ‘too sexy’ to have needed a sex slave. Apparently, a judge agreed and tossed that case out...though the case was revived in the wake of the re-arrest and death of Jeffrey Epstein. Similarly, his disastrous 2019 interview on the subject and the recently settled sex abuse case leaves him under an ugly cloud of suspicion.)
• Reality Star Cynthia Bailey is 56 (“The Real Housewives of Atlanta”)
• NFL Boss Roger Goodell is 64
• Author Jeff Kinney is 52 (“Diary of a Wimpy Kid,” among others)
• Author Amy Tan is 71 (“The Joy Luck Club,” “The Bonesetter’s Daughter”)
• The late scientist Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) (He came up with idea of heliocentrism, that the earth revolves around the sun. Luckily for Copernicus, he died shortly after publishing his work, and was never bothered by the Catholic Church for his discovery. By contrast, Galileo, who proved the math behind heliocentrism, was sentenced to house arrest by the inquisition.) (FAST FACT: As a young man, he practiced medicine without a medical degree.)
• The late labor activist Karen Silkwood (1946 – 1974)… she would have been 77 (She is most famous for her mysterious death, which was the subject of a victorious lawsuit against the chemical company Kerr-McGee. She gained more fame when she was portrayed by Meryl Streep in the 1983 Academy Award-nominated film "Silkwood.”)

Monday, February 20^th

Actors:

• Lauren Ambrose is 45 (“Torchwood: Miracle Day,” “X-Files”) (FAST FACT: She is also a trained opera singer)
• Brenda Blethyn is 77 (“Pride & Prejudice,” “Secrets & Lies”)
• Sandy Duncan is 77 (“Peter Pan,” “The Hogan Family”)
• Anthony Stewart Head is 69 (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Merlin”)
• Andrew Shue is 56 (“Melrose Place,” “The Rainmaker”) (FAST FACTS: You may have forgotten him on “Melrose Place,” but he’s been busy since - on the Board of Directors for Do Something – which he co-founded – and is the co-founder of the social networking website, CafeMom.com. And guess who he’s married to – “Good Morning America’s” Amy Robach…they got hitched in 2010)
• Tracy Spiridakos is 35 (“Revolution,” “Chicago PD”)
• French Stewart is 59 (“3^rd Rock from the Sun,” “Mom”)
• Peter Strauss is 76 (“Soldier Blue,” “Rich Man, Poor Man”)
• Lili Taylor is 56 (“Mystic Pizza,” “Six Feet Under”)
• Miles Teller is 36 (“Rabbit Hole,” “Whiplash,” “Divergent”)
• The late Willie Garson (1964 – 2021)…he would have been 59 (“Groundhog Day,” “Sex and the City”)
• The late Gale Gordon (1906 – 1995) (“The Lucy Show,” “Here’s Lucy,” “Life with Lucy”)
• The late Sidney Poitier (1927 – 2022)…he would have been 96 (“Lilies of the Field,” “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” “To Sir, with Love”) (FAST FACT: Poitier received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama in 2009) 

Musicians:

• Stone Roses’ Ian Brown is 60
• Backstreet Boys’ Brian Littrell is 48
• Rihanna is 35 (FAST FACTS: Born Robyn Rihanna Fenty, she used to sell clothes in a street stall with her dad. In November 2021, she was honored as a National Hero of Barbados…and she is currently expecting her second child with A$AP Rocky)
• A.T.u.’s Julia Volkova is 38
• The late Kurt Cobain (1967-1994)…he would have been 56
• The late Blood, Sweat, & Tears’ trumpeter Lew Soloff (1944 – 2015)…he would have been 79
• The late jazz great Nancy Wilson (1937 – 2018)…she would have been 86 

Plus:

• NBA champ and commentator Charles Barkley is 60 (He was selected to the All-NBA First Team five times, the All-NBA Second Team five times, and once to the All-NBA Third Team. He earned eleven NBA All-Star Game appearances and was named the All-Star MVP in 1991. In 1993, he was voted the league's Most Valuable Player and during the NBA's 50th anniversary, named one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History.)
• Celebrity kid Cruz Beckham is 18 (David and Victoria Beckham’s son)
• Supermodel Cindy Crawford is 57
• Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is 81
• The late photographer Ansel Adams (1902 – 1984) (His black-and-white landscape photographs of the American West, especially Yosemite National Park, have been widely reproduced on calendars, posters, and book.)
• The late producer/director Robert Altman (1925 – 2006)…he would have been 98 (“The Player,” “Shortcuts”) (FAST FACTS! His films “M*A*S*H*,” “McCabe & Mrs. Miller,” and “Nashville” have been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry)
• The late civil rights leader Angelina Grimke (1805 – 1879) (An American political activist, abolitionist, women's rights advocate, and supporter of the women's suffrage movement.)
• The late designer and socialite Gloria Vanderbilt (she’s also Anderson Cooper’s mom!) (1924 – 2019)...she would have been 99

Tuesday, February 21^st

Actors:

• Christopher Atkins is 62 (“The Blue Lagoon,” “The Pirate Movie”)
• William "Billy" Baldwin is 60 (“Flatliners,” “Backdraft”) (FAST FACT: He’s been married to Wilson Phillips’ Chynna Phillips since 1995)
• Corbin Bleu is 34 (“High School Musical,” “Dancing with the Stars”) (FAST FACT: He’s also tried his hand at stage acting, appearing in Broadway musicals including “In The Heights” and “Godspell”)
• Jack Coleman is 65 (“Dynasty,” “ Heroes,” “The Office”)
• Tyne Daly is 77 (“Cagney & Lacey,” “Judging Amy”)
• Christine Ebersole is 70 (“Ryan’s Hope,” “Saturday Night Live,” “Tootsie”)
• Kelsey Grammer is 68 (“Cheers,” “Frasier,” “Boss”)
• Ashley Greene is 36 (“Twilight”)
• Jennifer Love Hewitt is 44 (“Party of Five,” “Ghost Whisperer,” “Criminal Minds”)
• Elliot Page is 36 (“Juno,” “Inception,” “X-Men,” “Gay-cation”)
• William Petersen is 70 (“To Live and Die in L.A.,” “CSI”)
• Brendan Sexton III is 43 (“Hurricane Streets,” “Desert Blue”)
• The late Rue McClanahan (1934 – 2010)…she would have been 88 (“Maude,” “Mama’s Family,” “The Golden Girls”)
• The late Alan Rickman (1946 – 2016)…he would have been 77 (“Die Hard,” “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves,” “Truly, Madly, Deeply,” “Lee's Sense and Sensibility,” “Harry Potter”) 

Musicians:

• Mary Chapin Carpenter is 65
• Charlotte Church is 37
• Rhiannon Giddens of Carolina Chocolate Drops is 46
• Talking Heads’ Jerry Harrison is 74
• Eric Heatherly is 53
• Sublime bassist Eric Wilson is 53
• The late General Public’s Ranking Roger (1963 – 2019)...he would have been 60
• The late Nina Simone (1933-2003)…she would have been 90 

Plus:

• Celebrity kid Blanket Jackson is 21 (Remember the baby Michael Jackson dangled out a window in Germany? That’s him!)
• Comedian/actor/director Jordan Peele is 44 (Acting-wise, “Key & Peele,” “Fargo,” “The Last O.G.,” “Weird City.” His 2017 directorial debut “Get Out,” was met with serious critical acclaim and was a box-office success. With two Oscar nominations – for “Get Out” and Spike Lee's “BlacKkKlansman,” he now has more Best Picture nominations than any other black producer in history. Of course, he also won an Oscar for “Get Out.”)
• The late humorist Erma Bombeck (1927 – 1996)…she would have been 96 (She was known for her newspaper column describing suburban home life. Quote: “I haven’t trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I’ve never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.”)
• The late Jean Calment (1875 – 1997) (The French supercentenarian who lived until age 122-years and 164 days, hers was the longest verified human life span in history).
• The late entrepreneur Enzo Ferrari (1898 – 1988) (He was a motor racing driver and entrepreneur, the founder of the Scuderia Ferrari Grand Prix motor racing team, and subsequently of the Ferrari automobile marque)
• The late Fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy [[oo-BAIR day jee-VAHN-shee]] (1927 – 2018) …he would have been 96 (He founded The House of Givenchy in 1952, and dressed women from Audrey Hepburn to Jacqueline Kennedy.)
• The late Georgia Senator John Lewis (1940 – 2020) ...he would have been 83. (For many years, he was the only living member of the “Big Six” of the American Civil Rights movement. As a young man he was chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which organized sit-ins, freedom rides, marches, and voter registration drives in the South.)
• The late Cardinal Deacon John Henry Newman (1801-1890) (quote: “To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.”)
• The late writer Anais Nin (1903 – 1977) (Born in France to Cuban parents, she wrote journals – which span more than 60 years – beginning when she was 11-years-old and ending shortly before her death. A great deal of her work, which ranged from novels, critical studies, essays, short stories, and erotica – including “Delta of Venus” and “Little Birds” – was published after her death. She was also known for her torrid affair with author Henry Miller)

February 22^nd 

Actors:

• Drew Barrymore is 48 (“E.T.,” “Charlie’s Angels”)
• Rachel Dratch is 57 (“SNL,” “Just Go With It,”)
• James Hong is 94 (“Big Trouble in Little China,” “Blade Runner”)
• Thomas Jane is 54 (“Boogie Nights,” “The Punisher”)
• Kyle MacLachlan is 64 (“Desperate Housewives,” “Sex and the City”)
• Jeri Ryan is 55 (“Star Trek: Voyager,” “Dark Skies”)
• Lea Salonga is 52 (“Miss Saigon,” “Mulan”)
• Daniel E. Smith is 33 (“Bold & The Beautiful,” “NCIS”)
• Julie Walters is 73 (“Harry Potter,” “Billy Elliot,””) (FAST FACTS: She’s been nominated for Oscars twice: Best Actress for “Educating Rita,” and Best Supporting Actress for “Billy Elliot”)
• The late Robert Young (1907 – 1998) (“Father Knows Best,” “Marcus Welby, M.D.”) 

Musicians:

• James Blunt is 49
• Plain White T’s Tom Higgenson is 44
• Halestorm guitarist Joe Hottinger is 41
• Cole Pendery is 27
• Creed/Alter Bridge drummer Scott Phillips is 50
• Queensryche’s Michael Wilton is 61 

Plus:

• NBA Hall of Famer Julius Erving is 73 (Known as Dr. J, he helped create the modern style of basketball that emphasizes leaping up and jumping above the rim of the basket. Along the way, Erving won three championships, four Most Valuable Player Awards, and three scoring titles with the ABA's Virginia Squires and New York Nets – now the NBA's Brooklyn Nets) and the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers. He is the sixth-highest scorer in ABA/NBA history with 30,026 points (NBA and ABA combined). He was well known for slam dunking from the free throw line in slam dunk contests and was the only player voted Most Valuable Player in both the ABA and the NBA.)
• TV personality Clinton Kelly is 54 (“The Chew,” “What Not to Wear”)
• Choreographer Mia Michaels is 57 (“So You Think You Can Dance”)
• Golfer Vijay Singh is 60 (nicknamed “The Big Fijian,” he is known for his meticulous golf style, and was #1 in the world from 2004-2005)
• The late director Jonathan Demme [[deh-ME]] (1944 – 2017)…he would have been 79 (“Swing Shift,” “Something Wild,” “Silence of the Lambs,” “Philadelphia,” “Rachel Getting Married”)
• The late “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin (1962-2006)…he would have been 61 (FAST FACT: He caught his first croc when he was just nine-years-old.)
• The late lawyer Robert Kardashian (1944-2003)…he would have been 79 (dad of Kim, Rob, Kourtney, and depending on whom you believe…Khloe)
• The late Senator Edward Kennedy (1932 – 2009)…he would have been 91 (Known as “The Lion of the Senate,” the stain of the infamous Chappaquiddick Incident never left him.)
• The late announcer Don Pardo (1918-2014) (Best known to modern audiences for his work on “Saturday Night Live”)
• The late ‘tallest man in the world’ Robert Wadlow (he was 8’11”) (1918-1940)
• The late George Washington (1732 – 1799) (FAST FACT: His teeth were not actually wooden. They were made of a combination of hippopotamus ivory, human teeth, metal fasteners, brass, and gold. At his inauguration, he only had one surviving tooth.)

February 23^rd 

Actors:

• Aziz Ansari is 40 (“Parks and Recreation,” “Master of None”)
• Emily Blunt is 40 (“The Devil Wears Prada,” “The Girl On A Train”) (FAST FACT: She’s been married to John Krasinski since 2010)
• Shakira Caine is 76 (“Son of Dracula,” “The Man Who Would Be King”) (FAST FACTS: At 19, she came in third at the 1967 Miss World competition – it launched her modeling career. Also, after seeing her in a TV commercial for Maxwell House coffee, Michael Caine became obsessed with finding the woman he considered to be "the most beautiful... he had ever seen.” He did – and the couple was married in Las Vegas on January 8^th They have one daughter, Natasha, and are still together.)
• Kristin Davis is 58 (“Melrose Place,” “Sex and the City”)
• Dakota Fanning is 29 (“Coraline,” “Twilight” series”)
• Josh Gad is 42 (“The Book of Mormon,” “Frozen,”)
• Niecy Nash is 53 (“Reno 911!,” “Scream Queens,”)
• Marc Prince is 55 (“Family Ties,” “Killer Tomatoes Eat France!”)
• Patricia Richardson is 72 (“Home Improvement,” “Last Man Standing”)
• The late Peter Fonda (1940 – 2019) ...he would have been 83 (“Easy Rider,” “The Wild Angels”) (FAST FACT: He accidentally shot himself in the stomach at age 11) 

Musicians:

• Sister Hazel’s Jeff Beres is 52
• Skylar Grey is 37
• The Cardigans’ Lars-Olof Johansson is 50
• Howard Jones is 68
• Ab-Soul (born Herbert Anthony Stevens IV) is 36
• Aerosmith’s Brad Whitford is 71
• The late Sweet bassist Steve Priest (1948 – 2020) ...he would have been 75
• The late Johnny Winter (1944-2014)…he would have been 79
• The late Rusty Young (of Poco) (1946 – 2021)…he would have been 77 

Plus:

• Baseball Legend Bobby Bonilla is 60 (He participated in six All-Star Games and won three Silver Slugger Awards. And get this – from 1992 to 1994, Bonilla was the highest paid player in the league, earning more than $6-million per year. Bonilla is currently being paid approximately $1.19-million by the New York Mets each year. This was part of a deal made when the Mets released Bonilla before the 2000 season while still owing him $5.9-million for the final year of his contract. The deal expires in 2035, at which point Bonilla will have been paid $29.8-million for a season in which he didn’t even play for the Mets)
• Entrepreneur Michael Dell is 58 (FAST FACT: He founded his computer company in his dorm room at age 19. And no, this isn’t Padma Lakshmi’s baby daddy – that would be Adam Dell, Michael’s brother)
• Entrepreneur and Shark Tank Star Daymond John is 54 (FAST FACT: His fashion brand FUBU stands for “For Us, By Us”)
• Songwriter Robert Lopez is 48 (“The Book of Mormon,” “Avenue Q”) (FAST FACT: The youngest person to ever EGOT – win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and a Tony.)
• The late author and activist E.B Du Bois (1868-1963) (FAST FACT: He was the first African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard. Among his famous quotes: “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line;” “The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.”)
• The late composer George Frederic Handel (1685-1759)

February 24^th 

Actors:

• Barry Bostwick is 78 (“What I Like About You,” “Spin City”)
• Beth Broderick is 64 (“Sabrina, The Teenage Witch,” “Lost”)
• Dominic Chianese is 92 (″The Sopranos,” “Boardwalk Empire”)
• Daniel Kaluuya is 34 (“Black Panther,” ″Get Out”)
• Alexander Koch is 35 (“Under the Dome”)
• Ramona Marquez is 22 (“The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,” “The King’s Speech”)
• Mark Moses is 65 (“Desperate Housewives,” “Mad Men”)
• Edward James Olmos is 76 (“Blade Runner,” “Battlestar Galactica”)
• Debra Jo Rupp is 72 ( “Friends,” “That '70s Show”)
• Bonnie Somerville (“NYPD Blue,” “Code Black”) is 49
• Billy Zane is 57 (“Dead Calm,” “Titanic”)
• The late James Farentino (1938 – 2012)…he would have been 85 (“Jesus of Nazareth,” “Dynasty”)
• The late Abe Vigoda (1921 – 2016) (“The Godfather,” “Barney Miller”) 

Musicians:

• Trace Cyrus is 34
• Rupert Holmes is 76 (his birth name? David Goldstein)
• Manfred Mann’s Paul Jones is 81
• Gym Class Heroes drummer Matt McGinley is 40
• Michelle Shocked is 61
• Odd Future’s Earl Sweatshirt is 29 (born Thebe Neruda Kgositsile)
• The late Lonnie Turner (Steve Miller Band) (1947-2013)…he would have been 76 

Plus:

• Director Todd Field is 59 ("In the Bedroom," “Little Children”)
• Boxing Champ Floyd Mayweather Jr. is 46 (Widely considered to be one of the greatest boxers of all time, undefeated as a professional, and a five-division world champion, Mayweather won fifteen world titles and the lineal championship in four different weight classes twice at welterweight)
• Newswoman Paula Zahn is 67 (Investigation Discovery’s “On The Case with Paula Zahn”)
• The late author Wilhelm Grimm (half of the Brothers Grimm) (1786 – 1859) (Their first collection of folk tales, Children's and Household Tales (Kinder- und Hausmärchen), was published in 1812. They were among the best-known storytellers of folk tales, and popularized stories including "Cinderella,” “The Frog Prince,” "Hansel and Gretel,” "Rapunzel,” "Rumpelstiltskin," and "Snow White.”)
• The late entrepreneur Steve Jobs (1955-2011)…he would have been 68 (He was the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer (CEO) of Apple Inc.; CEO and majority shareholder of Pixar; a member of The Walt Disney Company's board of directors following its acquisition of Pixar; and founder, chairman, and CEO of NeXT. Jobs and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak are widely recognized as pioneers of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s.)

February 25^th 

Actors:

• Tucker Albrizzi is 23 (“Big Time Rush,” “Good Luck Charlie”) (FAST FACT: His brother created the Driving for Donors charity after he was diagnosed with Leukemia. He and Tucker appear in the Michael Moore documentary, “Sicko.”)
• Sean Astin is 52 (“Lord of the Rings,” “Stranger Things”)
• Justin Berfield is 37 (“Malcolm in the Middle") (FAST FACT: He bought and sold Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey’s former house)
• Alexis Denisof is 57 (“Buffy The Vampire Slayer,” “How I Met Your Mother”)
• Lee Evans is 59 (“The Fifth Element,” “There’s Something About Mary”)
• Isabelle Fuhrman is 26 (“Dear Eleanor,” “The Hunger Games,”) (FAST FACT: She was nominated for a Young Artist Award for her role in “Ghost Whisperer”)
• Karen Grassle is 81 (“Little House on the Prairie”)
• Gerran Howell is 32 (“Crusade in Jeans,” “Young Dracula”)
• Rashida Jones is 47 (“The Office,” “Parks and Recreation”)
• Tea Leoni is 57 “Impact,” “Jurassic Park III”) (FAST FACT: Asteroid8299 Téaleoni, discovered by Eric Elst at La Silla in 1993, was named after her)
• Anson Mount is 50 (“Conviction,” “Hell on Wheels”) (FAST FACT: His father was an editor for “Playboy” magazine and his mother was a professional golfer)
• James Phelps is 37 (“The Da Vinci Code,” “Harry Potter”)
• Oliver Phelps is 37 (“Harry Potter,” “Ward 3”) (FAST FACT: He and his twin brother James, played the Weasley twins in Harry Potter. Oliver is older by 13 minutes)
• Abby Wilde is 34 (“iCarly,” “Zoey 101”)
• The late Jim Backus (1913–1989) (“Gilligan’s Island’s” Mr. Howell)
• The late Herbert Manfred "Zeppo" Marx (1901–1979) (“The Cocoanuts,” “Duck Soup,” “The Marx Brothers”)
• The late Brenda Joyce (1917–2009) (“The Rain Came,” “Tarzan and the Amazons”) 

Musicians:

• Miss May I’s Levi Benton is 32 (FAST FACT: He owns a clothing line called Vursa Limited)
• X’s John Doe is 70 (born John Nommensen Duchac)
• 98 Degrees’ Justin Jeffre is 50
• Kaskade is 52 (FAST FACT: Born Ryan Raddon, he has remained among “DJ Magazine’s” Top 100 DJs – and was dubbed America’s Best DJ by “DJ Times” in both 2011 and 2013)
• MKTO’s Tony Oller is 32
• The Used’s Bert McCracken is 41
• Pierce the Veil’s Tony Perry is 37
• The late George Harrison (1943–2001)…he would have been 80 (FAST FACT: He wrote the well-known songs “Here Comes The Sun,” “Something” and “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.”) 

Plus:

• Former WWE wrestler Ric Flair is 74 (World Heavyweight Champ known as “The Nature Boy”)
• Comedienne/TV personality Chelsea Handler is 48 (FAST FACTS: She was among “Time” magazine’s ‘100 Most Influential People’ in 2012. She’s confirmed she’s dating comedian JoKoy in September 2021.)
• Movie director Neil Jordan is 73 (“The Crying Game,” “Interview With A Vampire”)
• WWE wrestler Maria Kanellis is 41
• TV personality Nancy O’Dell is 57
• Talk show host Sally Jessy Raphael is 88
• Legendary CBS newsman Bob Schieffer is 86
• Comedian Carrot Top (aka Scott Thompson) is 58
• Model Veronica Webb is 58 (The first African-American model to have a major cosmetics contract, Webb has appeared on covers of “Vogue,” “Essence” and “Elle” magazines and on the runway for Victoria's Secret and Chanel)

February 26^th 

Actors:

• Mark Dacascos is 59 (“Iron Chef,” “Hawaii Five-0)
• Taylor Dooley is 30 (“The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl”)
• Greg Germann is 65 (“Ally McBeal,” “Grey’s Anatomy”)
• Chase Masterson is 60 (“Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,” “Yesterday Was A Lie”)
• Teresa Palmer is 37 (“Bedtime Stories,” “Warm Bodies,” “The Grudge 2,” “Point Break”)
• The late William Frawley (1887 – 1966) (“I Love Lucy’s” Fred Mertz)
• The late Jackie Gleason (1916 – 1987) (“The Honeymooners,” “Smokey and the Bandit” series) (FAST FACT: He was once a carnival barker.)
• The late Tony Randall (1920 – 2004) (“Pillow Talk,” “The Odd Couple”) 

Musicians:

• Erykah Badu is 52
• Michael Bolton is 70
• Journey’s Jonathan Cain is 73 (FAST FACT! Jonathan is married to controversial televangelist Paula White...who you may also know as now-former President Trump’s spiritual adviser. Among other things, she wants followers to pay her before they pay their bills. CLICK HERE to see for yourself.)
• Ky-Mani Marley is 47 (FAST FACT: He is the only child of Bob Marley with Anita Belnavis, a Jamaican table tennis champion. All the rest of his Marley sibs have Rita Marley for a mom)
• Corrine Bailey Rae is 44
• ’s frontman Nate Reuss is 41
• The late Johnny Cash (1932 – 2003)…he would have been 91
• The late Fats Domino is (1928 – 2017)…he would have been 95 

Plus:

• The late "Looney Tunes" animator Fred "Tex" Avery (1908–1980)
• The late frontiersman William Frederick “Buffalo Bill” Cody (1846–1917) (Yes – he was a real guy! A legend and showman, Buffalo Bill was rumored to have killed over 4,000 buffalo. His show, “Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show,” also featured Annie Oakley)
• The late author and poet Victor Hugo (1802–1885) (The son of a Napoleonic warrior, he became one of the greatest French writers of all time, penning classics including “Les Miserables” and “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame”)
• The late John H. Kellogg (1852–1943) (FAST FACTS: A medical doctor by trade, he hailed from Michigan and ran a sanitarium in Battle Creek. The focus of his facility was using holistic methods – especially nutrition, enemas and exercise – to improve health. Kellogg was an advocate of vegetarianism and is best known for the invention of corn flakes, which he created with his brother, Will Keith Kellogg.)
• The late game show hosting icon Tom Kennedy (“You Don't Say!,” “Split Second,” “Name That Tune”) (1927 – 2020) ...he would have been 96
• The late businessman Levi Strauss (1829–1902) (A German-American businessman of German Jewish descent who founded the first company to manufacture blue jeans. His firm, Levi Strauss & Co., began in 1853 in San Francisco.)

February 27^th

Actors:

• Adam Baldwin is 61 (“Full Metal Jacket,” “Firefly”)
• Richard Coyle is 51 (“Human Traffic,” “Covert Affairs”)
• Donal Logue is 57 (“Sons of Anarchy,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Vikings”)
• Kate Mara is 40 (“American Horror Story: Murder House,” “The Martian”)
• Grant Shaud is 62 (“Murphy Brown,” “Madigan Men”)
• Grant Show is 61 ("Melrose Place," “Dynasty”)
• Joanne Woodward is 93 (“Three Faces of Eve”) (She won Best Actress for “Three Faces of Eve” and was nominated three times for “Rachel, Rachel,” “Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams,” and “Mr. and Mrs. Bridge”) (FAST FACT: She married the late and so great Paul Newman in 1958, and by all accounts, the couple remained happily married until he passed in 2008)
• The late Mary Frann (1943–1998)…she would have been 80 (“Newhart”) (FAST FACT: Her last acting role came in the series “Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction.” Due to the sporadic airing of the series, the episode she was in, "The Curse of Hampton Manor," aired two years after her death.)
• The late Howard Hesseman (1940 – 2022) …he would have been 83 (“WKRP,” “Dr. Detroit,” “This Is Spinal Tap,” “Head of the Class,” “Bigfoot”)
• The late Elizabeth Taylor (1932–2011)…she would have been 91 (“Cleopatra,” “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” “Butterfield 8”) (She won Best Actress twice for “Butterfield 8” and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf”) 

Musicians:

• Nine Days’ Jeremy Dean is 51
• Josh Groban is 42
• M.D.’s Paul Humphreys is 63
• Journey’s Neil Schon is 69
• TLC’s Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas is 52
• Lynyrd Sknyryd’s Johnny Van Zant is 63 

Plus:

• Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton is 43 (FAST FACT: Her secret service code-name was “Energy”)
• Reality TV diva Jennifer “JWoww” Farley is 37 (“Jersey Shore,” “TNA Impact!,” “Marriage Boot Camp”)
• Consumer advocate (and sometime presidential candidate) Ralph Nader is 89
• Director James Wan is 46 (“Saw” franchise, “Insidious,” “Insidious: Chapter 2,” “The Conjuring 2” “Furious 7”)
• The late poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) ("The Song of Hiawatha," "Evangeline”) (Classic quote: “Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.” He was also the first American to translate Dante Alighieri’s “Divine Comedy,” and was one of the five Fireside Poets.)
• The late author John Steinbeck (1902–1968) (He wrote 27 books, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and five collections of short stories. Among his classics - “The Grapes of Wrath,” “East of Eden,” “Of Mice and Men”)

February 28^th 

Actors:

• Kelly Bishop is 79 (“Dirty Dancing,” “Gilmore Girls”)
• Rae Dawn Chong is 62 (“The Color Purple,” “Quest for Fire”)
• Rory Cochrane is 51 (“Dazed and Confused,” “CSI: Miami,”)
• Noreen Dewulf is 39 (“Anger Management”)
• Ali Larter is 47 (“Legally Blonde,” “Heroes”)
• Robert Sean Leonard is 54 (“Dead Poet’s Society,” “House, M.D.”)
• Tangi Miller is 53 (“Felicity,” “Madea’s Family Reunion”)
• Bernadette Peters is 75 (“The Jerk,” “Gypsy”)
• Mercedes Ruehl is 75 (“Slaves of New York,” “Lost In Yonkers”) (FAST FACT: She won Best Supporting Actress Oscar for “The Fisher King”)
• Brendan Robinson is 33 (“Pretty Little Liars”)
• John Turturro is 66 (“Do the Right Thing,” “The Big Lebowski”)
• The late Charles Durning (1923 – 2012) (“Dog Day Afternoon,” “Best Little Whorehouse in Texas”) (He was nominated twice for Best Actor in a Supporting Role Oscar for “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” and “To Be or Not to Be”)
• The late Gavin MacLeod (1931 – 2021) …he would have been 92 (“The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” "The Love Boat”) 

Musicians:

• Jason Aldean is 46
• Jake Bugg is 29
• Train frontman Patrick Monahan is 54
• B52’s Cindy Wilson is 66 

Plus:

• World Champion Racing Driver Mario Andretti is 83 (FAST FACT: No American has won a Formula One race since Andretti's victory at the 1978 Dutch Grand Prix. Andretti had 109 career wins on major circuits)
• Architect Frank Gehry is 94 (Brad Pitt is a huge fan - A number of Gehry’s buildings, including his private residence, have become world-renowned attractions. His works are cited as being among the most important works of contemporary architecture in the 2010 World Architecture Survey, which led “Vanity Fair” to label him as "the most important architect of our age")
• Supermodel Karolina Kurkova is 39
• Song and dance man Tommy Tune is 84 (FAST FACT: Over the course of his career, he won nine Tony Awards)
• The late NFL Hall of Famer and sometime actor Bubba Smith (1945 – 2011)…he would have been 78 (Smith played nine years in the NFL with the Baltimore Colts (1967–1971), Oakland Raiders (1973–1974) and Houston Oilers (1975–1976). The first selection of the 1967 NFL Draft he was the Colts' starting left defensive end for five seasons who played in Super Bowls III and V, the latter with the winning side. He was named to two Pro Bowls and was a First-Team All-Pro in 1971. Despite being 6 feet 7 inches (2.01 meters) tall and weighing 265 pounds – he had tremendous speed. This combination usually caused him to draw two blockers. During his acting career, he mainly specialized in comedic roles in films, television advertisements and programs. For about a decade following his retirement from football, he appeared in various commercials for Miller Lite. His best-known role was as Moses Hightower in the first six “Police Academy” Posthumously, Smith was diagnosed to have suffered from CTE, a neurological condition generally related to concussion and sub-concussive head trauma.)
• The late car paint king Earl Scheib (1908 – 1992) (his company stopped operating in 2010)
• The late gangster Bugsy Siegel (1906 – 1947) (Described as “handsome and charismatic,” Bugsy became one of the first front-page-celebrity gangsters – think the ‘Teflon Don’ John Gotti of his day. Crime aside, what is known as Las Vegas likely wouldn’t exist without him – as he was a driving force behind the development of the Las Vegas Strip. He was not only influential within the Jewish mob but, like his friend and fellow gangster Meyer Lansky, he also held significant influence within the Italian-American Mafia and the largely Italian-Jewish National Crime Syndicate. Yes, there was one.)