March 6th
Actors:
- Tom Arnold is 61 (âTrue Lies,â âBest Damn Sports Show Period,â âMadeaâs Witness Protection,â âJewtopiaâ)
- Jacob Bertrand is 20 (âMarvin Marvin,â âKirby Bucketsâ)
- Connie Britton is 53 (âThe Brothers McMullen,â âFriday Night Lights,â âNashville,â âAmerican Crime Story,â â9-1-1â)
- L. Hughley is 57 ("The Hughleys," âD. L. Hughley Breaks the News,â âDancing with the Stars,â âHeartbeatâ)
- Moira Kelly is 52 (âThe Cutting Edge,â âTwin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me,â âOne Tree Hill,â âChaplinâ)
- Jaclyn Zeman is 67 (âGeneral Hospitalâ)
- The late Lou Costello(1906 â 1959)(âAbbott & Costelloâ) (FAST FACT: Costello met Bud Abbot in Saint Joseph, Missouri while hitchhiking home during the Great Depression. They became an official team in 1936 and made 36 films between 1940 and 1956, becoming one of the most popular and highest-paid entertainers in the world during World War II.)Â
Musicians:
- Tyler the Creator is 29 (given name, Tyler Gregory Okonma)
- Kiki Dee is 73
- Skip Ewing is 56
- Pink Floydâs David Gilmour is 74
- The Zombiesâ Hugh Grundy is 75
- Bubba Sparxxx is 43 (born Warren Anderson Mathis)
- The Supremesâ Mary Wilson is 76
- The late Bob Wills of the Texas Playboys(1905 â 1975)(Considered by music authorities as the co-founder of Western swing, he was universally known as the King of Western Swing)Â
Plus:
- Model Nicole Fox is 29 (winner of âAmericaâs Next Top Model 13â)
- Entrepreneur and âMr. Oprah Winfreyâ Stedman Graham is 69 (FAST FACT: He and Oprah have been together since 1986)
- Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan is 94
- Soccer Player Tim Howard is 41 (The goalkeeper who set a world record at the 2014 World Cup by saving 16 shots in a match against Belgium)
- NBA Champ Shaquille O'Neal is 48 (FAST FACT: He was selected to 15 All-Star games and was named MVP of the NBA All-Star game on 3 occasions; became a popular NBA analyst after retirement)
- Director Rob Reiner is 73 (âThis Is Spinal Tap,â âMisery,â âWhen Harry Met Sally,â âA Few Good Men,â âThe Princess Bride,â âThe American President,â âGhosts of Mississippi,â âLBJ,â âShock and Aweâ)
- Journalist and author John Stossell is 73 (A libertarian pundit who hosts a Fox business show called âStossel.â He was won nearly two dozen Emmy awards over his career)
- The late poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning(1806 â 1861)(The wife of poet Robert Browning, she began writing when she was just six. She was one of the most prominent English poets of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime.)
- The late former Washington D.C. mayor (and famed crack smoker) Marion Barry(1936 â 2014)âŠhe would have been 84(Barry came to national prominence as mayor of the national capital, the first prominent civil rights activist to become chief executive of a major American city. His celebrity was transformed into international notoriety in January 1990, when he was videotaped smoking crack cocaine and was arrested by the FBI on drug charges. The arrest and subsequent trial precluded Barry seeking re-election, and he served six months in a federal prison. After his release, he was elected to the Council of the District of Columbia in 1992. He was elected again as mayor in 1994, serving from 1995 to 1999)
- The late Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez(1927-2014)âŠhe would have been 93(He won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his works of magical realism including âOne Hundred Years of Solitude,â âAutumn of the Patriarch,â and âLove in the Time of Cholera.â)
- The late TV personality Ed McMahon(1923 â 2009)âŠhe would have been 97(Johnny Carsonâs TV partner, he went on to host the show âStar Searchâ)
- The late artist Michelangelo (an artist of the Italian High Renaissance, he is most famous for painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and for his sculpture David, which he sculpted, amazingly, before his 30thbirthday)(1475 â 1564)