JULY BIRTHDAYS

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July 1^st 

Actors:

• Pamela Anderson is 56 (“Baywatch,” “Scary Movie 3”)
• Dan Aykroyd is 71 (“Ghostbusters,” “Blues Brothers”)
• Andre Braugher is 61 (“Glory,” “Brooklyn Nine-Nine”)
• Genevieve Bujold is 81 (“Dead Ringers,” “Coma”)
• Hilarie Burton is 41 (“One Tree Hill,” “Lethal Weapon”) (FAST FACTS: She’s been with Jeffrey Dean Morgan since 2009, and married to him since 2014. Their son, Augustus Morgan was born in March 2010…and they welcomed baby girl, George Virginia Morgan in February 2018)
• Jamie Farr is 89 (“M*A*S*H,” “Port Charles”)
• Jean Marsh is 89 (“Willow,” “Sense & Sensibility”)
• Hannah Murray is 34 (“Skins,” “Game of Thrones”)
• Melissa Peterman is 52 (“Reba,” the host of ABC’s “Bet On Your Baby”)
• Raini Rodriguez is 30 (“Paul Blart: Mall Cop,” “Austin and Ally”)
• Alan Ruck is 67 (“Ferris Buller’s Day Off,” “The Exorcist”)
• Lea Seydoux is 38 (“Inglorious Basterds,” “Spectre”)
• Henry Simmons is 53 ("NYPD Blue," “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”)
• Liv Tyler is 46 (“Lord of the Rings,” “9-1-1: Lone Star”)
• The late Karen Black (1939-2013) …she would have been 84 (“Easy Rider,” “Five Easy Pieces”)
• The late Olivia De Havilland (1916 – 2020) (“The Adventures of Robin Hood,” “Gone with the Wind”) (FAST FACT: She was one of the longest-living actors/actresses from the Golden Age of Hollywood – passing at 104 years of age) 

Musicians:

• Missy Elliott is 52
• Blondie’s Debbie Harry is 78
• Plies is 47 (born Algernod Lanier Washington)
• Michelle Wright is 62
• The late blues musician Willie Dixon (1915-1992)
• The late Keith Whitley (1954-1989) …he would have been 69 (FAST FACT: Several years of alcoholism severely damaged his health and he died of alcohol poisoning in 1989 at the age of 33. He was married to Lorrie Morgan at the time.) 

Plus:

• Olympian Carl Lewis is 62 (FAST FACTS: A United Nations Goodwill Ambassador, Lewis has won 10 Olympic medals, including nine gold, and 10 World Championships medals, including eight gold. His career spanned from 1979 when he first achieved a world ranking to 1996 when he last won an Olympic title and subsequently retired.)
• Award-winning dancer and choreographer Twyla Tharp is 82 (FAST FACT: he was named a Kennedy Center Honoree in 2008)
• The late Diana, Princess of Wales (1961-1997) …she would have been 62
• The late civil rights leader Curtis West Harris (1924 – 2017)…he would have been 99 (In 1960, he was arrested and sentenced to 60 days in jail for his role in a sit-in at a segregated drugstore in Hopewell, Virginia.)
• The late comedienne and sometime actress Shirley Hemphill (“What’s Happening!”) (1947-1999) …she would have been 75
• The late cosmetics queen Estee Lauder (1906-2004) (FAST FACTS: Lauder was the only woman on “Time” magazine's 1998 list of the 20 most influential business geniuses of the 20^th She was the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She was inducted to the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 1988.)

July 2^nd 

Actors:

• Yancy Butler is 53 (“The Mentalist,” “Witchblade”)
• Lindsay Lohan is 37 (“The Parent Trap,” “ “The Canyons”)
• Margot Robbie is 33 (“Vigilante,” “The Wolf of Wall Street”)
• Elizabeth Reaser is 48 (“Twilight,” “True Detective”)
• Saul Rubinek is 75 (“Unforgiven,” “Nixon”)
• Wendy Schaal is 69 (”American Dad,” ‘’It’s a Living”)
• Ashley Tisdale is 38 (“The Suite Life of Zack & Cody,” “High School Musical”)
• Polly Dean Holliday is 86 (Flo on the 1970s sitcom, “Alice”)
• The late Ron Silver (1946-2009) …he would have been 77 (“Silkwood,” “The West Wing”) 

Musicians:

• Michelle Branch is 40
• Boomtown Rats’ Pete Briquette is 69
• Huey Lewis and The News’ Johnny Colla is 71
• The Neighbourhood’s Jeremy Freedman is 31
• Monie Love is 53
• Bush’s Dave Parsons is 60
• Clean Bandit’s Jack Patterson is 38
• Cutthroat Boyz’s Vince Staples is 30
• The late saxophonist Lee Allen (1927-1944) …he would have been 96
• The late Jenni Rivera (1969-2012) …she would have been 54 

Plus:

• CNN “OutFront” host Erin Burnett is 47
• Former Oakland As and New York Yankees outfielder and designated hitter Jose Canseco is 59 (FAST FACTS: While he hit 462 career home runs and was a six-time All-Star, admitted using performance enhancing drugs during his playing career, and in 2005 wrote a tell-all book, Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits & How Baseball Got Big, in which he claimed that the vast majority of MLB players use steroids.)
• TV producer and writer Larry David is 76 (“Seinfeld,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm”)
• Model Jerry Hall is 67 (FAST FACTS: She was with Mick Jagger from 1977 through 1999 and their 1990 marriage ceremony in Bali? It was later declared invalid. She began dating billionaire Rupert Murdoch in 2015…and married him in March 2016. Sadly, as we told you last week, word of the couple’s split came out. Since? According to reports, it wasn’t just his idea…he allegedly ended the marriage via text.)
• Comedian Peter Kay is 50 (FAST FACTS: His 2010/11 stand-up comedy tour, where he played for over 1.2-million people, was entered into the Guinness Book of World Records as the most successful of all time)
• NASCAR driver Richard Petty is 86 (FAST FACT: He won the Daytona 500 seven times over the course of his career.)
• Olympic figure skater and TV personality Johnny Weir is 39 (FAST FACTS: He is a two-time Olympian (representing the United States in 2006 and 2010). Before that? He was the 2001 World Junior Champion, and a three-time U.S. National champion (2004–2006)…as well as the 2008 World bronze medalist, and a two-time Grand Prix Final bronze medalist. He was the youngest U.S. National champion since 1991, in 2004 the first skater to win U.S. Nationals three times in a row since Brian Boitano in the late 1980s and the first American to win Cup of Russia in 2007. He retired in 2013)
• The late Civil Rights leader Medgar Evers (1925-1963) …he would have been 98 (FAST FACTS: He was the first field secretary for the Mississippi chapter of the NAACP. His murder trials resulted in two hung juries, causing outrage in the African American community.)
• The late Nobel Prize-winning poet Herman Hesse (1877-1962) (“Siddhartha,” “The Glass Bead Game”)
• The late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993) (FAST FACT: He was the first African American U.S. Supreme Court Justice, he served on our nation’s highest court from 1967 – 1991. Before becoming a judge, Marshall was a lawyer who was best known for his high success rate in arguing before the Supreme Court and for the victory in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, which ruled that segregated public schools were unconstitutional.)

July 3^rd 

Actors:

• Andrea Barber is 47 (Kimmy Gibler on “Full House,” “Fuller House”)
• Betty Buckley is 76 (“1776,” “Split”)
• Tom Cruise is 61 ( “Top Gun,” “Mission Impossible”)
• Tommy Flanagan is 58 (“Sons of Anarchy,” “Gladiator”)
• Thomas Gibson is 61 (“Dharma & Greg,” “Criminal Minds”)
• Audra MacDonald is 53 (“Private Practice,” “A Raisin In The Sun”)
• Ryan McPartlin is 48 (“Passions,” “Chuck”)
• Olivia Munn is 43 (“The Daily Show” “Magic Mike”)
• Connie Nielsen is 58 (“The Devil’s Advocate,” “Law & Order: SVU”)
• Kurtwood Smith is 80 (“That 70’s Show,” “Patriot”)
• Shawnee Smith is 54 (“Iron Eagle,” “Saw” series)
• Jan Smithers (“WKRP In Cincinnati”) is 74
• Patrick Wilson is 50 (“The A-Team,” “Aquaman”)
• The late George Sanders (1906-1972) (“The Jungle Book,” “All About Eve”) 

Musicians:

• The Neighbourhood’s Zach Abels is 31
• Ishmael “Butterfly” Butler of Digable Planets is 54
• Sarah Buxton is 43
• Erasure’s Vince Clarke is 63
• The Babys’ Mike Corby is 72
• Barenaked Ladies’ Kevin Hearn is 54
• Johnny Lee is 77
• Boyzone’s Shane Lynch is 47
• Memphis May Fire’s Matty Mullins is 35
• Ratt’s Stephen Pearcy is 67
• Aaron Tippin is 65 

Plus:

• Infamous lawyer and media personality Gloria Allred is 82
• Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is 52
• Author Dave Barry is 76 (“Homes and Other Black Holes,” received a Pulitzer Prize for his syndicated Miami Herald humor column)
• TV personality and foodie Sandra Lee is 57
• NASA astronaut and U.S. Senator Harrison Schmitt is 88
• Voice actor Yeardley Smith is 59 (voice of Lisa Simpson on “The Simpsons”)
• Emmy-winning talk show host Montel Williams is 67
• The late composer George M. Cohan (1878-1942) (“Yankee Doodle Dandy,” “Little Johnny Jones”)
• The late Czech novelist Franz Kafka (1883-1924) (‘The Metamorphosis’)
• The late film director Ken Russell (1927-2011) …he would have been 96 (“The Devils,” “Women in Love”)

July 4^th 

Actors:

• David Kross is 33 (“The Reader,” “War Horse”)
• Rosie Malek-Yonan is 58 (“Rendition,” “ER”)
• Becki Newton is 45 (“Ugly Betty,” “How I Met Your Mother”)
• Julianna Rose is 32 (“Crazy, Stupid, Love,” “Khumba”)
• Eva Marie Saint is 99 (“On the Waterfront,” “North by Northwest”)
• John Lloyd Young is 48 (“Glee,” “Jersey Boys”)
• The late Gloria Stuart (1910-2010) (Rose in “Titanic”) 

Musicians:

• Annette Beard of Martha and the Vandellas is 80
• Ricochet steel guitarist Teddy Carr is 63
• Barenaked Ladies’ Andrew Creeggan is 52
• Sunny Day Real Estate’s William Goldsmith is 51
• Earth, Wind & Fire’s percussionist Ralph Johnson is 72
• Stryper frontman Michael Sweet is 60
• Counting Crows’ bassist Matt Malley is 60
• BBMak’s Stephen “Ste” McNally is 45
• Widespread Panic percussionist Domingo Ortiz is 71
• INXS guitarist Kirk Pengilly is 65
• John Waite is 71
• DJ Zonka (Big Audio Dynamite) is 61
• The late Mitch Miller (“Sing Along with Mitch”) (1911-2010)
• The late Bill Withers (1938 – 2020)...he would have been 84 

Plus:

• Former First Daughter Malia Obama is 25
• TV personality Geraldo Rivera is 80
• Fashion designer Elie Saab is 59
• Reality star Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino is 41 (“Jersey Shore”)
• The late 30^thS. President Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933)
• The late author Nathaniel Hawthorne (“The House of the Seven Gables,” “The Scarlet Letter”) (1804-1864)
• The late playwright/screenwriter/author Neil Simon (1927 – 2018)…he would have been 96 (“Come Blow Your Horn,” “The Odd Couple,” “Biloxi Blues,” “The Out-of-Towners,” “Murder by Death,” “The Goodbye Girl”)
• The late New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner (1930-2010) …he would have been 93
• The late advice columnist Abigail Van Buren ("Dear Abby" – her real name? Pauline Esther"Popo" Phillips) (1918-2013) 

July 5^th 

Actors:

• Jason Dolley is 32 (“Corey in the House,” “Good Luck Charlie”)
• Edie Falco is 60 (“Oz,” “The Sopranos,” “Nurse Jackie”)
• Ryan Hansen is 42 (“Veronica Mars,” “2 Broke Girls”)
• Terrell Ransom Jr. is 20 (“Days of Our Lives,” “12 Years a Slave”)
• Dorien Wilson is 60 (“Dream On,” “Sister Sister”)
• The late Katherine Helmond (1929 – 2019)...she would have been 94 (“Coach,” “Everybody Loves Raymond”) 

Musicians:

• Marc Cohn is 64
• The Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA is 54 (born Robert Fitzgerald Diggs)
• Lady Antebellum’s Dave Haywood is 41
• The Cardigans’ Bengt Lagerberg is 50
• Huey Lewis is 73 (born Hugh Anthony Cregg III)
• Arctic Monkeys’ Nick O’Malley is 38
• The Script’s Glen Power is 45
• Robbie Robertson is 80 (his given name, Jaime Royal Robertson)
• Lifehouse’s Jason Wade is 43
• Adam Young (Owl City) is 37 

Plus:

• Talk show host Judge Joe Brown is 76
• Reality star “DJ Pauly D” Paul DelVecchio is 43 (“Jersey Shore”)
• Screenwriter Jenji Kohan is 54 (“Orange is the New Black,” “Weeds”)
• US Women’s Soccer mid-fielder Megan Rapinoe is 38

July 6^th 

Actors:

• Allyce Beasley is 69 (“Moonlighting,” “Legally Blonde”)
• Fred Dryer is 77 (“Hunter” “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D”)
• Grant Goodeve is 71 (“Eight is Enough,” “Northern Exposure”)
• Eva Green is 43 (“Kingdom of Heaven,” “Casino Royale”)
• Shelley Hack is 76 (“Annie Hall,” “Charlie’s Angels”)
• Twin sisters Tia and Tamera Mowry are 45 (“Sister Sister,” “Seventeen Again”) (FAST FACTS: Tia is two minutes younger than her sister, Tamera can currently be seen on “The Real”)
• Geoffrey Rush is 72 ("Shakespeare In Love," “The King’s Speech”) (FAST FACTS: Rush is among the few who have won the "Triple Crown of Acting": the Academy Award, the Primetime Emmy Award, and the Tony Award)
• Jennifer Saunders is 65 (“French and Saunders,” “Absolutely Fabulous”)
• Sylvester Stallone is 77 (“Rocky” series, “Rambo” series)
• Burt Ward is 78 (Robin on "Batman") (FAST FACT: He was listed as the world's youngest professional ice skater when he was two-years-old)
• The late Ned Beatty (1937 – 2021)…he would have been 85 (“Network,” “Toy Story 3”)
• The late Sebastian Cabot (1918-1977) (“Family Affair’s” Mr. French)
• The late Janet Leigh (1927-2004)…she would have been 96 (“Psycho,” “Angels In The Outfield”) (FAST FACT: Jamie Lee Curtis is her daughter by Tony Curtis)
• The late Della Reese (1931 – 2017) …she would have been 92 (“Harlem Nights,” “227”) 

Musicians:

• 50 Cent is 48 (born Curtis James Jackson III)
• Kate Nash is 36
• Jeannie Seely is 83
• The late Bill Haley (1925-1981)…he would have been 98 

Plus:

• Former President George W. Bush (Dubya/aka Bush II) is 77
• Sportcaster/TV personality Josh Elliott is 52 (The former ESPN SportsCenter anchor joined “Good Morning America” in 2011. In 2014, he left ABC to join NBC Sports. In March 2016, he became the lead anchor for CBSN and left there in February 2017).
• Comedian (and sometime actor) Kevin Hart is 44 (FAST FACT: His “Laugh At My Pain” album went 5x platinum in June 2012)
• Religious and World leader Dalai Lama is 87 (Spiritual leader of Tibet who travels the world talking about the importance of compassion as the source of a happy life. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 for his advocacy of peace in Tibet and all around the world)
• The late former First Lady Nancy Reagan (1921 – 2016)
• The late painter Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) (FAST FACTS: Best known for her 55 self-portraits, she was inspired by the indigenous Mexican culture and Mexican mythology. She suffered from polio as a child and developed a slight physical deformity. In her teens, her health was further compromised by severe injuries sustained during a bus accident. She had one gallery showing in the United States: the Julien Levy Gallery in 1938)
• The late TV host Merv Griffin and media mogul (1925-2007)…he would have been 98 (From 1965 to 1986 Griffin hosted his own talk show, “The Merv Griffin Show,” created the game shows including “Jeopardy!,” “Wheel of Fortune”)
• The late Revolutionary War Hero John Paul Jones (1747 – 1792) (He made many friends and enemies—who accused him of piracy—among America's political elites, and his actions in British waters during the Revolution earned him an international reputation which persists to this day. As such, he is sometimes referred to as the "Father of the American Navy")
• The late comedian Pat Paulsen (1927-1997)…he would have been 95

July 7^th 

Actors

• Billy Campbell is 64 (“Dynasty,” “Helix”)
• Shelley Duvall is 74 (“The Shining,” “Annie Hall”) (FAST FACTS: Duvall has lived out of public view since her retirement in 2002. In November 2016, “USA Today” reported that she appeared to be suffering from mental illness. Later that month, she appeared on an episode of “ Phil.” Vivian Kubrick, whose father directed Duvall in “The Shining,” described the interview as "exploitive entertainment" and "appallingly cruel.” After the episode aired, the non-profit Actor Fund contacted her about providing assistance.)
• Jorja Fox is 55 (“ER,” "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation”)
• Allen Payne is 55 (“New Jack City,” “The Perfect Storm”)
• Joe Spano is 77 (“Hill Street Blues,” “NCIS”)
• Dylan Sprayberry is 25 (“Man of Steel,” “Teen Wolf”)
• Cree Summer is 54 ("A Different World," “Voltron: Legendary Defender”)
• Kirsten Vangsness is 51 (“Criminal Minds,” Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders”)
• The late Jon Pertwee (1919-1996) (“Doctor Who”) 

Musicians

• Swedish DJ Alesso is 32 (his given name, Alessandro Lindblad)
• Fifth Harmony’s Ally Brooke is 30
• Cassidy is 41 (born Barry Adrian Reese)
• Avenged Sevenfold’s Synyster Gates is 42 (his mama knows him as Brian Elwin Haner Jr.)
• Five Seconds of Summer’s Ashton Irwin is 29
• Ringo Starr is 83
• The late Charlie Louvin (1927-2011)…he would have been 96 

Plus:

• Comedian Jim Gaffigan is 57
• ‘80s scandal queen Jessica Hahn is 64 (Former mistress of defrocked “PTL” leader Jim Bakker)
• Olympic medalist figure skater Michelle Kwan is 43 (FAST FACT: She is a two-time Olympic medalist, a five-time World champion and nine-time U.S. champion)
• The late baseball legend Satchel Paige (1906-1982) (He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1971, the first player to be inducted based upon his play in the Negro leagues. He became a legend in his own lifetime by being known as perhaps the best pitcher in baseball history, by his longevity in the game, and by attracting record crowds wherever he pitched.)
• The late movie director George Cukor (1899-1983) (“My Fair Lady,” “The Philadelphia Story”)

July 8^th 

Actors:

• Kevin Bacon is 65 (“Footloose,” “The Following”) (FAST FACTS: Bacon has also become an icon for the concept of interconnectedness – as in social networks – having been popularized by the game "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon". In 2007, he created org, a charitable foundation that connects everyday folks with the causes their favorite celebs care about.)
• Jamie Blackley is 32 (“Snow White and the Huntsman,” “The Halcyon”)
• Sophia Bush is 41 (“Chicago PD,” “John Tucker Must Die,”) (FAST FACT: Back in April 2005, Bush married her ‘OTH’ co-star Chad Michael Murray. After five months of marriage, Bush and Murray split and by February 2006, Bush filed for an annulment, citing fraud – but her petition was denied, and she and Murray were instead granted a divorce in December 2006.)
• Rocky Carroll is 60 (“Roc,” “NCIS”)
• Billy Crudup is 55 ("Almost Famous," “The Morning Show”)
• Lance Gross is 42 (“Meet The Browns,” Tyler Perry’s House of Payne”)
• Anjelica Huston is 72 (“The Adams Family,” “The Royal Tenenbaums”)
• Robert Knepper is 64 (“Heroes,” “Prison Break”)
• Jake McDorman is 37 (“Live Free or Die Hard,” “Greek”)
• Jeffrey Tambor is 79 (“The Hangover,” “Arrested Development”)
• Michael Weatherly is 55 ("Dark Angel," “NCIS”)
• Jamal Woolard is 48 (“Notorious,” “Barbershop: The Next Cut”)
• Milo Ventimiglia is 46 (“Gilmore Girls,” “This Is Us”) 

Musicians:

• Beck is 53 (FAST FACT: His last name – he’s got one! – is Hansen. His birth name is actually Beck David Campbell Hansen)
• Arctic Monkeys’ Jamie Cook is 38
• Sky Ferreira is 31
• Toby Keith is 62
• Steve Lawrence is 88
• Joan Osborne is 61
• Raffi is 75
• The late Depeche Mode keyboardist Andy Fletcher (1961 – 2022)…he would have been 62 

Plus:

• Celebrity kid Penelope Disick (Daughter of Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick) is 11 (FAST FACT: Her birth was filmed for her mother’s show “Keeping Up with the Kardashians”)
• Celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck is 74
• Celebrity progeny/model/sometime actor (“The Pursuit of Happyness”)/singer Jaden Smith is 25
• The late fashion designer Hugo Boss (FAST FACT: He once produced uniforms for the Nazi party) (1885-1948)
• The late billionaire and co-founder of Standard Oil Company John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937)
• The late former New York governor and Vice-President under Gerald Ford Nelson Rockefeller (1908-1979) 

July 9^th 

Actors:

• Douglas Booth is 31 (“LOL,” “Great Expectations”)
• Chris Cooper is 72 (“Adaptation,” “American Beauty”)
• Scott Grimes is 52 (“American Dad!,” “ER”)
• Tom Hanks is 67 (“Splash,” “Forrest Gump”) (FAST FACT: He’s been married to second wife Rita Wilson since 1988)
• Georgie Henley is 28 (“The Chronicles of Narnia”)
• Toby Kebbell is 41 (“Wrath of the Titans,” “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”)
• Kelly McGillis is 66 (“Witness,” “Top Gun”)
• Mitchel Musso is 32 (“Hannah Montana,” “Phineas and Ferb”)
• Fred Savage is 47 (“The Wonder Years,” “The Princess Bride”)
• Jimmy Smits is 68 (“NYPD Blue,” “The West Wing”)
• The late Brian Dennehey (1938 – 2020) ....he would have been 85 (“First Blood,” “Cocoon.” A true legend, Dennehy won two Tony Awards, an Olivier Award, and a Golden Globe, and received six Primetime Emmy Award nominations. He had roles in over 180 films and in many television and stage productions.) 

Musicians:

• Soft Cell’s Marc Almond is 66
  • Simple Minds’ Jim Kerr is 64
  • Courtney Love is 59
  • Sister Sledge’s Debbie Sledge is 69
  • Emily West is 42
  • Jack White is 48
  • The Cheetah Girls’ Kiely Williams is 37
  • The late Jimi Hendrix Experience drummer Mitch Mitchell (1947-2008)…he would have been 76
  • The late AC/DC frontman Bon Scott (1946-1980) …he would have been 77 

Plus:

• “Wolf of Wall Street” Jordan Belfort is 61 (Now a motivational speaker and self-help author, the former stockbroker pleaded guilty to fraud and related crimes in connection with stock market manipulation and running a boiler room as part of a penny stock scam. Belfort spent 22 months in prison as part of an agreement under which he gave testimony against numerous partners and subordinates in his fraud scheme. His memoir “Wolf of Wall Street,” was the basis for the film of the same name)
• Author Dean Koontz is 78 (“Demon Seed,” “Watchers”)
• TV producer Nigel Lythgoe is 74 (Creator and producer of “American Idol,” “So You Think You Can Dance” and more)
• Reality star Kevin O’Leary is 69 (“Shark Tank” investor – the bald one)
• Heisman Trophy winner (and convicted felon) J. Simpson is 76 (FAST FACTS: He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1983 and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1985. After retiring from football, he began new careers in acting and football broadcasting. After his colossal fall from grace via accusations of murdering his ex-wife and a young man, he was later convicted of armed robbery and kidnapping. Sentenced to 33 years in the clink, with a minimum of nine years without parole, he was set free October 2017.)

July 10^th 

Actors:

• Chiwetel Ejiofor is 46 (“Dirty Pretty Things,” “Love Actually”)
• Adrian Grenier is 47 (“The Devil Wears Prada,” “Entourage”)
• Gale Harold is 54 (“Desperate Housewives,” “The Secret Circle”)
• Thomas Ian Nicholas is 43 (“American Pie,” “Rookie of the Year”)
• Fiona Shaw is 65 (“My Left Foot,” Petunia Dursley in the “Harry Potter” series)
• John Simm is 53 (“Dr. Who,” “Life on Mars”)
• Phyllis Smith is 72 (“Bad Teacher,” “The Office”)
• Sofia Vergara is 51 (“Modern Family,” “Hot Pursuit”)
• The late Fred Gwynne (1926-1993) … he would have been 96 (Herman Munster on “The Munsters,” “ “Pet Sematary”)
• The late Ron Glass (1945-2016) …he would have been 78 (“Barney Miller,” “Firefly”)
• The late Don Herbert (1917-2007) (“Mr. Wizard”) 

Musicians:

• Porno for Pyros’ Peter DiStefano is 58
• Little Mix’s Perrie Edwards is 30
• Arlo Guthrie is 76
• Angel Haze is 32 (born Raykeea Wilson)
• Greg Kihn is 74
• Brand New’s Jesse Lacey is 45
• Rascal Flatts’ Gary Levox is 53
• Kid ‘n’ Play’s Christopher Martin is 61
• Take That’s Jason Orange is 53
• Jessica Simpson is 43
• The Pet Shop Boys’ Neil Tennant is 69
• The late Ronnie James Dio (1942-2010) … he would have been 81 

Plus:

• NFL wide receiver Antonio Brown is 35
• The late tennis champ Arthur Ashe (1943-1993) …he would have been 80 (FAST FACTS: He was the first Black American member of the Davis Cup tennis team. He won three Grand Slams during his career and was the first black player to win at Wimbledon.)
• The late civil rights leader Mary McLeod Bethune (1875- 1955) (Her background as a teacher inspired her to open the Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls in Daytona Beach, Florida back in 1904. When the school opened on October 3rd of that year, there were just five students. Eventually, the school blossomed to include a farm, high school, and nursing school – and later became the co-educational Bethune-Cookman College in 1929 after merging with Cookman Institute and was fully accredited in 1943.
• The late TV newscaster David Brinkley (1920-2003) (FAST FACTS: He won 10 Emmy Awards and the Presidential Medal of Freedom during his career.)
• The late former World Middleweight Champion boxer Jake “Raging Bull” LaMotta (1922 – 2017)
• The late engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) (Lovingly referred to by many as “The Greatest Geek Who Ever Lived,” Tesla’s best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electricity supply system – and back in 1926, he predicted smart phones.)

July 11^th 

Actors:

• Justin Chambers is 53 (“Broken City,” “Grey’s Anatomy”)
• David Henrie is 34 (“How I Met Your Mother,” “Wizards of Waverly Place”)
• Bruce McGill is 73 (“Collateral,” “Law Abiding Citizen”)
• Lisa Rinna is 60 (“Days of Our Lives,” “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills”)
• Michael Rosenbaum is 51 (“Sorority Boys,” “Smallville”)
• Mindy Sterling is 70 (“Austin Powers” series, “Desperate Housewives”)
• Rachael Taylor is 39 (“Transformers,” “Crisis”)
• Sela Ward is 67 (“CSI: NY,” “Gone Girl”)
• The late Yul Brynner (1920-1985) (“The King and I,” “The Ten Commandments”)
• The late Tab Hunter (1931- 2018)…he would have been 92 (“Damn Yankees,” “Love Letters”) (FAST FACT! A true icon of his heyday, he used his idol status to launch a successful career in music, where he stayed at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks, with “Young Love,” in 1957)
• The late Brett Somers (1924-2007) (“The Odd Couple,” “A Rage to Live”) 

Musicians:

• Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s Jeff Hanna is 76
• Lil Kim is 49
• Lil Zane is 41 (born Zane R. Copeland Jr.)
• Richie Sambora is 64
• Mayday Parade’s Derek Sanders is 37
• Weezer’s Scott Shriner is 58
• Suzanne Vega is 64
• The late Bonnie Pointer (1950 - 2020)...she would have been 73 

Plus:

• Fashion designer Giorgio Armani is 89
• TV personality John Henson is 56 (“Talk Soup,” “Wipeout,” “Second City This Week”)
• TV personality Shaun Robinson is 61
• “Octomom” Nadya Suleman is 48
• Tennis star Caroline Wozniacki is 33 (FAST FACTS: She earned her first number one ranking in October 2010 and made it to the finals of the 2009 US Open and the 2011 Australian Open.)
• The late 6^th President of the United States John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) (He was a member of the Federalist, Democratic-Republican, National Republican, and later the Anti-Masonic and Whig parties)
• The late children’s author EB White (1899-1985) (“Charlotte’s Web,” “Stuart Little”)

July 12^th 

Actors:

• Anna Friel is 47 (“Timeline,” “Pushing Daisies”)
• Topher Grace is 45 (“That 70s Show,” “Spider Man 3”)
• Steve Howey is 46 (“Reba,” “Shameless”)
• Cheryl Ladd is 72 (“Charlie’s Angels,” “Poison Ivy”)
• Michelle Rodriguez is 45 (“The Fast and the Furious” series, “Avatar”)
• Phoebe Tonkin is 34 (“Tomorrow, When the War Began,” “Vampire Diaries”)
• The late Charlie Murphy (1959 – 2017)…he would have been 64 (“Night at the Museum,” “Chappelle’s Show”) 

Musicians:

• Sandi Patty is 67
• Dream Theater’s John Petrucci is 56
• The Band Perry’s Kimberly Perry is 40
• Soul Asylum’s Dan Murphy is 61
• Tracie Spencer is 47
• Gin Blossoms’ Robin Wilson is 58 

Plus:

• Author Joan Bauer is 72 (“Backwater,” “Hope Was Here”)
• Comedienne/TV personality Loni Love is 52 (“The Real”)
• Fitness guru Richard Simmons is 75 (born Milton Teagle Simmons)
• Olympic gold medal figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi is 52 (She’s the 1992 Olympic champion, a two-time World champion – 1991 and 1992 – and the 1992 U.S. champion. As a pairs skater with Rudy Galindo, she is the 1988 World Junior champion and a two-time national champion – 1989 and 1990. In December 2005, she was inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame. In 2008, Yamaguchi became the celebrity champion in the sixth season of “Dancing with the Stars”)
• Peace activist Malala Yousafzai is 26 (FAST FACTS: She is the youngest Nobel Prize laureate history and is dedicated to the cause of educating girls around the world.)
• The late scientist George Washington Carver (1864-1943) (FAST FACTS: He researched alternative crops to cotton like peanuts, soybeans and sweet potatoes. He met with three U.S. presidents about his inventions, which was rare for an African American at the time.) (OF NOTE: This birthdate has been floating around the Internet for some time, but as he was born into slavery, no one’s really sure about his date of birth)
• The late Chilean poet, diplomat and Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) (“Residencia en la Tierra,” “El Habitante y su Esperanza”)
• The late author/philosopher/naturalist Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) (A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book, “Walden,” which is seen as a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. His essay, "Civil Disobedience" – originally published as "Resistance to Civil Government" – was an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.)
• The late artist Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) (FAST FACTS: He also illustrated novels including “Treasure Island” and “The Last of the Mohicans.”)

July 13^th 

Actors:

• Gil Birmingham is 70 (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Twilight” series)
• Didi Conn is 72 (“Grease,” “Benson”)
• Harrison Ford is 81 (“Star Wars,” “Indiana Jones” series)
• Ken Jeong is 54 (“Hangover,” “The Masked Singer”) (FAST FACT: Sure, he played a doctor on TV, but he’s actually a real doctor – he’s licensed to practice in California…but obviously, is a little busy on the acting and stand-up comedy front)
• Cheech Marin is 77 (“Cheech and Chong” series, “Nash Bridges”) (FAST FACT: He speaks some Spanish and uses it in his movies, but he is said to be not fluent.)
• Steven R. McQueen is 35 (“Vampire Diaries,” “Chicago Fire”)
• Daphne Maxwell-Reid is 75 (“WKRP In Cincinnati,” “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”)
• Patrick Stewart is 83 (“Star Trek: The Next Generation,” “X-men” series; “The Emoji Movie,” he voices Poop)
• The late Bob Crane (1928-1978)…he would have been 95 (“Hogan’s Heroes”) (In June 1978, Crane was found bludgeoned to death in his Arizona apartment...the murder remains officially unsolved.) 

Musicians:

• Leon Bridges is 34
• Deborah Cox is 49
• Louise Mandrell is 69
• The Byrds’ Roger McGuinn is 81
• Victoria Shaw is 61
• The late Gerald Levert (1966-2006)...he would have been 57 

Plus:

• Writer/Director Cameron Crowe is 66 (“Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” “Say Anything,” “Singles,” “Jerry Maguire,” “Almost Famous”)
• The late political activist Jack Kemp (1935-2009)…he would have been 88 (An NFL player for both the San Diego Chargers and Buffalo Bills, the Republican served as a New York state Congressman from 1971 – 1989. He then moved up to serve as Housing Secretary in the administration of President George H. W. Bush from 1989 to 1993. He was the GOP nominee for Vice President in the 1996 election, where he was the running mate of presidential nominee Bob Dole.)
• The late comedienne Danitra Vance (1954-1994)…she would have been 69 (In 1985, she was the first Black-American woman to appear as part of the regular “SNL” cast. She was also was the first lesbian cast member hired – though her sexual orientation never became public knowledge until her death. She chose to leave at the end of the 1986 season along with many other cast members from that season who were dismissed, including Joan Cusack, Robert Downey, Jr., Randy Quaid, Anthony Michael Hall, and Terry Sweeney.)
• The late Roman Statesman Julius Caesar (100 BC – 44 BC) (FAST FACTS: Considered by many to be one of the greatest military commanders in history, his victories in the Gallic Wars – completed by 51 BC – extended Rome's territory to the English Channel and the Rhine. Caesar became the first Roman general to cross both when he built a bridge across the Rhine and conducted the first invasion of Britain. According to Eutropius, around 60 or more men participated in his assassination – he was stabbed 23 times.)

July 14^th 

Actors:

• Sara Canning is 36 (“The Vampire Diaries,” “War of the Planet of the Apes”)
• Matthew Fox is 57 (“Lost,” “World War Z”)
• Rosey Grier is 91 (“Daniel Boone,” “The White Shadow”) (FAST FACT: A former NFLer, Grier became an ordained Christian minister in 1983 and travels as an inspirational speaker. He founded American Neighborhood Enterprises, a nonprofit organization that serves inner city youth.)
• Jackie Earle Haley is 62 (“Watchmen,” “Nightmare on Elm Street”)
• Jane Lynch is 63 (“Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby,” “Glee”)
• Vincent Pastore is 77 (“The Sopranos”)
• Scott Porter is 44 (“Friday Night Lights,” “The Good Wife”)
• The late Polly Bergen (1930 – 2014)…she would have been 93 (“Cape Fear,” “Playhouse 90”)
• The late Dale Robertson (1923-2013) (“Tales of Wells Fargo,” “Iron Horse”)
• The late Harry Dean Stanton (1926 – 2017)…he would have been 97 (“Kelly’s Heroes,” “Rawhide,” “Gunsmoke,” “Alien,” “The Green Mile,” “Big Love,” “Getting On,” the 2017 reboot of “Twin Peaks”)
• The late Spencer Williams (1893 – 1969) (“The Blood of Jesus,” “Amos ‘n’ Andy's” Andy Brown) (FAST FACT: He was also was a pioneering Black-American film producer and director.) 

Musicians:

• Tanya Donnelly is 57 (Throwing Muses, The Breeders, Belly)
• Xscape’s Tameka "Tiny" Cottle-Harris is 48 (While she’s still married to T.I., with whom she co-stars in VH1’s “T.I. and Tiny: The Family Hustle,” the couple separated in December 2016)
• Tenacious D and Trainwreck’s Kyle Gass is 63
• Black Eye Peas’ Taboo is 48 (FAST FACT: Born Jaime Gomez, he was diagnosed with stage 2 testicular cancer in June 2014 and went through 12 weeks of intense, aggressive chemotherapy out of the public eye. He had been diagnosed after going to the emergency room for what he thought was the flu. He now is cancer-free.)
• Jamey Johnson is 48
• Imagine Dragons’ Dan Reynolds is 36
• Bastille’s Dan Campbell Smith is 37
• The late folk singer Woody Guthrie (1912-1967) (FAST FACTS: He composed "This Land Is Your Land” and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988) 

Plus:

• Big shot music executive (and former Mr. Mariah Carey) Tommy Mottola is 73
• “Dancing with the Stars” pro Peta Murgatroyd is 37 (FAST FACT: She’s been married to Maksim Chmerkovskiy since 2017)
• The late movie/stage director Ingmar Bergman (1918 – 2007) (“The Seventh Seal,” “Wild Strawberries”)
• The late President Gerald Ford (1913-2006) (FAST FACT: He was the first president not to be elected by the Electoral College as he ascended to office following the resignation of Richard Nixon)
• The late cartoonist William Hanna (1910-2001) (He co-founded Hanna-Barbera, which became the most successful television animation studio and produced shows including “Tom & Jerry,” “The Flintstones,” “The Huckleberry Hound Show,” “The Jetsons,” “Scooby-Doo,” “The Smurfs,” and “Yogi Bear”)
• The late Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) (Symbolist painter best known for "The Kiss")

July 15^th 

Actors:

• Willie Aames is 63 (“Eight is Enough,” “Charles in Charge”)
• Lolita Davidovich is 62 (“Gods and Monsters,” “Raising Cain”)
• Scott Foley is 51 ("Felicity," “Scandal”)
• Brian Austin Green is 50 ("Beverly Hills, 90210," “Domino”)
• Eddie Griffin is 55 ("Malcolm & Eddie," “Undercover Brother”)
• Taylor Kinney is 42 (“Trauma,” “Chicago Fire”)
• Diane Kruger is 47 (“Inglorious Basterds,” “National Treasure”)
• Tanner Maguire is 25 (“Lost,” “My Name is Earl”)
• Brigitte Nielsen is 60 (“Rocky IV,” “Beverly Hills Cop II”)
• Terry O'Quinn is 71 (“Primal Fear,” “Hawaii Five-O”)
• Lana Parrilla is 46 (“Spin City,” “Boomtown”)
• Forest Whitaker is 62 (“Platoon,” “Phone Booth”)
• Tristan Wilds is 34 (“The Wire,” “90210”) (FAST FACT: He’s also a recording artist known as Mack Wilds)
• The late Alex Karras (1935 – 2012)…he would have been 88 (“Blazing Saddles,” “Porky’s”) (FAST FACT: While a beloved actor, his first claim to fame was also a defensive tackle for the Detroit Lions)
• The late Kristoff St. John (1966-2019) …he would have been 57 (“The Young and the Restless”)
• The late Jan-Michael Vincent (1944-2019) …he would have been 79 (“Big Wednesday,” “Airwolf”) 

Musicians:

• Jason Bonham is 57
• Marianas Trench drummer Ian Casselman is 40
• John Dolmayan (System of a Down, Scars on Broadway) is 51
• Millie Jackson is 79 (and no, she’s not among the members of the Jackson family – no relation to Michael Jackson)
• Jim Jones is 47 (born Joseph Guillermo Jones II, also known as Jimmy Jones and CAPO)
• Ambrosia’s David Pack is 71
• Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer Artimus Pyle is 75
• Marky Ramone is 71
• Linda Ronstadt is 77
• Joe Satriani is 67
• My Chemical Romance’s Ray Toro is 46
• The late Ian Kevin Curtis of Joy Division (1956-1980) …he would have been 67 

Plus:

• Model/TV personality Kim Alexis is 63 (one of the original ‘supermodels’ that rose to fame in the 80s)
• Huffington post founder Arianna Huffington is 73
• Comedian Gabriel Iglesias is 47
• Original “Mythbuster” Adam Savage is 56 (FAST FACT: As a model designer, his work has appeared in “The Matrix Reloaded” and “Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones”)
• Former Governor (and former wrestler) Jessie Ventura is 72 (He served as the 38^th Governor of Minnesota from 1999 to 2003. He was the first and only member of the Reform Party to win a major government position, but later joined the Independence Party of Minnesota).
• The late Francesca Cabrini (1850-1917) (An Italian nun who, in 1900, founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart, which gave relief to Italian American immigrants. After coming to America she was naturalized, and ultimately became the first American canonized by the Catholic Church.)
• The late artist Rembrandt (1606-1669) (His full name, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, His best-known works include The Night Watch, Bathsheba at Her Bath, and numerous self-portraits)

July 16^th 

Actors:

• Phoebe Cates is 60 (“Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” “Gremlins”)
• Will Ferrell is 56 (“Elf,” “Ron Burgundy”)
• Corey Feldman is 52 (“Gremlins,” “The Goonies”)
• Calum Gittins is 37 (“The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers,” “The King’s Speech”)
• Annalynne McCord is 36 (“Nip/Tuck,” “90210”) (FAST FACT: She was home-schooled and graduated from high school at the age of 15)
• Jayma Mays is 44 (“Heroes,” “Glee”)
• Daniel Pearson is 27 (“The Dumping Ground,” “Emmerdale”)
• Rosa Salazar is 38 (“Parenthood,” “American Horror Story: Murder House”)
• Alexandra Shipp is 32 (“Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel,” “Straight Outta Compton”)
• The late Ginger Rogers (1911-1995) (“Top Hat,” “The Gay Divorcee”) (FAST FACT: A legendary star of Hollywood’s ‘Golden Age,’ she #14 on the AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars list of female stars of classic American cinema.)
• The late Barbara Stanwyck (1907-1990) (“Double Indemnity,” “The Big Valley”) (FAST FACT: She made 85 films over the course of her prolific career) 

Musicians:

• The Police’s Stewart Copeland is 71 (FAST FACT: In 2016, he was ranked 10^th on “Rolling Stone” magazine's "100 Greatest Drummers of All Time”)
• 5 Seconds of Summer’s Luke Hemmings is 27
• Big Time Rush’s James Maslow is 33
• Wizkid (born Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun) is 33 

Plus:

• “Riverdance” creator and “Lord of the Dance” Michael Flatley is 65
• Hall of Fame coach Jimmy Johnson is 80 (He served as head coach of the Dallas Cowboys from 1989 to 1993 and the Miami Dolphins from 1996 to 1999. As of 2013, he is an analyst for “Fox NFL Sunday,” the Fox network's NFL pregame show.)
• S. women’s soccer player Carli Lloyd is 41 (She won Golden Ball honors in the 2015 Women’s World Cup, and became the first woman to score a hat trick in a World Cup final match. She’s also a two-time Olympic gold medalist)
• “Jackass stunter” Chris Pontius is 49
• Legendary NFL running back Barry Sanders is 55 (He spent his entire professional career with the Detroit Lions of the National Football League. A member of both the college and professional football halls of fame, he was ranked by NFL Top 10 as the most elusive runner in NFL history.)
• The late “Shoeless” Joe Jackson (1887-1951) (FAST FACT: Known as Shoeless Joe, he hit for an astounding .408 average in 1911, helped the Chicago White Sox win the 1917 World Series, and was banned from the major leagues in 1920 for the notorious Black Sox Scandal.)
• The late Orville Redenbacher (1907-1995) (Orville grew up on his family's Indiana farm where he sometimes sold popcorn from the back of his car. He graduated from Brazil High School in 1921 in the top 5% of his class. He attended Purdue University, where he joined the ag-oriented Alpha Gamma Rho. By the mid 1970s, Orville Redenbacher popcorn had captured a third of the unpopped popcorn market.)
• The late civil rights leader and women’s rights activist Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) (A journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist and sociologist, she was an early leader in the civil rights movement – and a Republican. She documented lynching in the United States, showing that it was often used as a way to control or punish blacks who competed with whites, rather than being based in criminal acts by blacks, as was usually claimed by white mobs. She was opposed to the policy of accommodation advocated by Booker T. Washington and had personal, if not ideological, difficulties with W.E.B. Du Bois.)

July 17^th 

Actors:

• Jason Clarke is 54 (“Zero Dark Thirty,” “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes”)
• Brando Eaton is 37 (“Zoey 101,” “Dexter”)
• David Hasselhoff is 71 (“Knight Rider,” “Baywatch”)
• Beth Littleford is 55 (“The Daily Show,” “Dog With a Blog”)
• Donald Sutherland is 88 (“The Dirty Dozen,” “The Hunger Games” series)
• Alex Winter is 58 (“The Lost Boys,” “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure”)
• The late James Cagney (1899-1986) ( “Angels with Dirty Faces,” “Ragtime”)
• The late Diahann Carroll (1935 – 2019) ...she would have been 88 (“Porgy and Bess,” “Dynasty”) (A heralded star of stage and screen, it was her 1968 debut in the TV series, "Julia," which set her course. That was the first role on TV for a Black woman to star in a non-stereotypical role) 

Musicians:

• Regina Belle is 60
• Luke Bryan is 47 (His given name, Thomas Luther Bryan)
• Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler is 74
• Anderson East is 35
• Jeremih is 36 (Born Jeremy Felton)
• McFly’s Tom Fletcher is 38
• Craig Morgan is 59
• The late Phoebe Snow (1950-2011) …she would have been 73 

Plus:

• Queen Camilla Parker Bowles, the second wife of Britain’s King is 76 (FAST FACTS: Charles’ first wife, Princess Diana referred to Camilla as "the Rottweiler;" while Camilla called her "that ridiculous creature.”)
• Television producer Mark Burnett is 63 (“Survivor,” “The Apprentice”) (FAST FACTS: He co-produced the History Channel series, “The Bible,” with his wife Roma Downey.)
• “Dancing with the Stars” pro Tony Dovolani is 50 (FAST FACTS: He joined Dancing With the Stars during its second season and has spent over 15 seasons on the show.)
• The late comedienne Phyllis Diller (1917-2012) (FAST FACTS: The legendary lady was known for her brash sense of humor and in recent years, provided the voice of Queen in Pixar’s “A Bug’s Life.”)
• The late legendary TV show host, Art Linkletter (1912-2010) (“TV’s House Party,” “Kids Say the Darndest Things”)

 July 18^th 

Actors:

• Lee Arenberg is 61 (“Pirates of the Caribbean” series, “Once Upon a Time”)
• Kristen Bell is 43 (“Veronica Mars,” “The Good Place”)
• Grant Bowler is 55 (“Lost,” “True Blood”)
• James Brolin is 83 (“Amityville Horror,” “Life In Pieces”)
• Priyanka Chopra Jonas is 41 (2017’s “Baywatch,” “Quantico”)
• Chace Crawford is 38 (“Gossip Girl,” “The Covenant”)
• Vin Diesel is 56 (“The Fast and the Furious” franchise, “Guardians of the Galaxy”) (FAST FACT: His birth name is Mark Sinclair)
• Margo Martindale is 72 (“Million Dollar Baby,” “Justified”)
• Elizabeth McGovern is 62 (“The Handmaid's Tale,” “Downton Abbey”)
• The late Harriet Nelson (1909-1994) (“The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet”)
• The late Richard “Red” Skelton (1913-1997) (“Clem Kadiddlehopper”)
• The late Chill Wills (1902-1978) (“The Alamo,” “Gunsmoke”) 

Musicians:

• I.A. is 48 (born Mathangi 'Maya' Arulpragasam)
• Ryan Cabrera is 41
• Benzino is 58 (His given name? Raymond Leon Scott)
• Lil Bibby is 29 (born Brandon Dickinson)
• XTC’s Terry Chambers is 68
• Eve 6 drummer Tony Fagenson is 45
• Underoath and The Almost’s Aaron Gillespie is 40
• Hopsin is 38 (born Marcus Jamal Hopson)
• Founding Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Jack Irons is 61 (He’s also played with Pearl Jam, among others)
• Yung Lean is 27 (born Jonatan Aron Leandoer Håstad)
• Public Image Ltd.’s Keith Levene is 66 (He was also a founding member of The Clash)
• System of a Down’s Daron Malakian is 48
• Martha Reeves is 82
• Ricky Skaggs is 69
• The late blues singer “Screamin’” Jay Hawkins (1929-2000) … he would have been 94 (“I Put a Spell On You”) (FAST FACTS: Hawkins had six marriages; his last wife was 31 at his death. Singing partner Shoutin' Pat Newborn stabbed him in jealousy when he married Virginia Sabellona. He had three children with his first wife and claimed variously to have 57 or 75 in total. After his death, his friend and biographer Maral Nigolian set up a website to trace these children, identifying 33.) 

Plus:

• Virgin Group founder Richard Branson is 73 (He owns Virgin Records, Virgin Airlines and hundreds of other companies under the Virgin brand) (FAST FACTS: He began his first business in high school with a magazine called “The Student,” which advertised records for lower prices than stores were selling them.)
• Author Elizabeth Gilbert is 54 (“Eat, Pray, Love,” “Stern Men”)
• The late Astronaut and Senator John Glenn (1921 – 2016) (FAST FACTS: He became the first person to orbit the Earth in 1962 and the oldest person to go to space in 1998.)
• Model (and sometime actress) Elsa Pataky is 47 (“The Fast and the Furious”)
• Director Paul Verhoeven is 85 (“Basic Instinct,” “Showgirls”)
• Talk show host Wendy Williams is 59
• The late South African revolutionary leader Nelson Mandela (1918-2013)
• The late journalist Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005) …he would have been 86 (“Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” “Hell’s Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs”) 

July 19^th 

Actors:

• Beverly Archer is 75 (“Major Dad, “Mama’s Family”)
• Trai Byers is 40 (“90210,” “Selma,” “Empire”)
• Benedict Cumberbatch is 47 (“Star Trek Into Darkness,” “ “Doctor Strange”)
• Anthony Edwards is 61 (“Top Gun,” “ER”)
• Jared Padalecki is 41 (“Supernatural,” “Walker”)
• Campbell Scott is 62 (“Dying Young,” “The Amazing Spider-Man”)
• Vinessa Shaw is 47 (“Hocus Pocus,” “Eyes Wide Shut”) 

Musicians:

• Il Divo’s Urs Buhler is 52
• Vikki Carr is 82
• Average White Band’s Alan Gorrie is 77
• Drummer Kevin Haskins is 63 (Bauhaus, Love and Rockets)
• Alesana’s Dennis Lee is 37
• Queen’s Brian May is 76 (FAST FACT: He studied mathematics and in college and earned a PhD)
• Crown the Empire’s Benn Suede is 29 

Plus:

• Riley Curry (daughter of NBA Champion Steph Curry) is 11
• Wildlife enthusiast Chris Kratt is 54 (he’s also the creator, writer and producer of “Zoboomafoo”)
• Starbucks founder Howard Schultz is 70 (FAST FACT: He got his start selling coffee drip machines)
• The late alleged murderer Lizzie Borden (1860-1927) (FAST FACT: Yes, Lizzie was actually acquitted of the murders of her parents, but the horror of the accusation left her and her sister ostracized for the rest of their lives.)
• The late scientist Samuel Colt (1814-1862) (Inventor of the Colt revolver, commonly known as The Gun that Won the West. He was able to produce his guns, which used interchangeable parts, on a large scale due to his ability to employ an assembly line)
• The late Edgar Degas (1834-1917) (French painter considered as one of the founders of impressionism)
• The late painter John Martin (1789-1854) (Romantic painter and engraver whose works included "The Seventh Plague of Egypt" and "The Great Day of His Wrath,")
• The late George McGovern (1922-2012) (Democratic nominee for President in 1972 but lost to President Richard Nixon in one of the biggest landslides in American electoral history)
• The late physicist and inventor Percy Spencer (1894-1970) (We can thank him for inventing the microwave oven)

July 20^th 

Actors:

• Osric Chau is 37 (“Supernatural,” “Fun Size”)
• John Francis Daley is 38 (“Bones,” “Horrible Bosses” series)
• Reed Diamond is 56 (“Homicide: Life on the Street,” “Designated Survivor”)
• Donna Dixon is 66 (“Dr. Detroit,” “Spies Like Us”) (FAST FACT: She’s been married to Dan Aykroyd since 1983, after meeting him on the set of “Dr. Detroit”)
• Omar Epps is 50 (“House MD,” “Shooter”)
• Judy Greer is 48 (“Arrested Development,” “Jurassic World”)
• Sandra Oh is 52 (“Grey’s Anatomy,” “Killing Eve”)
• Simon Rex is 49 (“Scary Movie” franchise, “What I Like About You”)
• Scout Willis is 32 (“Bandits,” “Breakfast of Champions”)
• Dean Winters is 59 (“Oz,” “Law & Order: SVU”)
• The late Diana Rigg (1938 – 2020)...she would have been 85 (“The Avengers,” “Game of Thrones”) (FAST FACT: She played Countess Teresa di Vicenzo – the only Bond girl to ever take James to the altar.)
• The late Natalie Wood (1938-1981) … she would have been 85 (“Miracle on 34^th Street” “Rebel Without a Cause” “West Side Story”) (FAST FACT: Born Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko, Natalie died when she was 43 years old. She was on a yacht with her husband, Robert Wagner, and their mutual friend, Christopher Walken, and the boat's captain, Dennis Davern when she drowned. While officially listed as “solved,” her case was reopened in 2011 and the death certificate was amended. The cause of death was changed from accidental drowning to "drowning and other undetermined factors.”) 

Musicians:

• Kim Carnes is 78
• Sex Pistols drummer Paul Cook is 67
• Radney Foster is 64
• Twisted Sister guitarist Jay Jay French is 71
• Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard is 57
• Carlos Santana is 76
• G. Sheppard is 79
• The late Chris Cornell (1964 – 2017)…he would have been 59
• The late Buddy Knox (He’s best known for his 1957 hit, "Party Doll”) (1933-1999)…he would have been 90 

Plus:

• NBA Champ Ray Allen is 48 (Recognized as one of the most accurate three-point and free throw shooters in NBA history, he is a ten-time NBA All-Star, and has won two NBA championships. He has also won an Olympic gold medal as a member of the 2000 United States men's basketball team)
• Supermodel Gisele Bundchen is 43 (FAST FACT: She’s been married to NFL Quarterback Tom Brady since 2009)
• Dancer/Singer/sometime actress Julianne Hough is 35 (“Dancing With The Stars,” “Footloose”)
• The late explorer Sir Edmund Percival Hillary (FAST FACT: He’s one of the first two men to scale Mt. Everest Mountain – he did so on May 29, 1953) (1919-2008)
• The late spokesperson Billy Mays (Best known for his infomercials pushing OxiClean, Orange Glo, Kaboom, and other cleaning products) (1958-2009)… he would have been he would have been 65
• The late scientist Gregor Mendel (Austrian monk who discovered the basic principles of heredity through experiments in his garden. He gained fame posthumously as the founder of the modern science of genetics.) (1822-1884)
• The late scientist Sir Richard Owen (FAST FACT: Despite being a controversial figure, Owen is generally considered to have been an outstanding naturalist with a remarkable gift for interpreting fossils. He’s best remembered for coining the word Dinosauria (meaning "Terrible Reptile" or "Fearfully Great Reptile") (1804-1892)