September 25th
Actors:
- Tate Donovan is 57 (“Damages,” “Hercules,” “The O.C”)
- Michael Douglas is 76 (“Wall Street,” “Black Rain,” “Romancing the Stone,” “The Game,” “Basic Instinct”) (FAST FACT: Douglas shares the same birthday as his wife, Catherine Zeta Jones)
- Donald Glover (aka musician Childish Gambino) is 37 (“Community,” “ Magic Mike XXL,” “The Martian,” “Spider-Man: Homecoming,” “Atlanta”) (FAST FACT: Yes, he just won an Outstanding Lead Actor - Comedy Series Emmy for his work on “Atlanta.” But he also made history with his Emmy win in the Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series for his work on “B.A.N.,” an experimental episode of "Atlanta.” He is the first Black director to win an Emmy for work on a comedy series, and the first Black man to win an Emmy for lead acting in a comedy series since 1985)
- Mark Hamill is 69 (“General Hospital,” Luke Skywalker in the original “Star Wars” series, “The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia,” “Timerunner,” “Village of the Damned,” “Kingsman: The Secret Service,” “The Flash”)
- Catherine Zeta Jones is 51 (“Mask of Zorro,” “Chicago,” “Lay the Favorite,” “The Terminal,” “Ocean’s Twelve,” “Entrapment”)
- Heather Locklear is 59 (“TJ Hooker,” “Dynasty,” “Melrose Place,” “Spin City,” “Hot in Cleveland,” “ Franklin & Bash,” “Too Close To Home”)
- Michael Madsen is 63 (“Kill Bill,” “Reservoir,” “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves”)(That age is according to Wiki, according to AP – he’s 60)
- Lee Norris is 39 (“One Tree Hill,” “Boy Meets World”)
- Will Smith is 52 (“The Fresh Price of Bel-Air,” “I Am Legend,” “Men in Black,” “Independence Day,” “Hitch”)
- Hal Sparks is 51 (“Talk Soup,” “Queer as Folk,” “Lab Rats”)
- The late Christopher Reeve(1952-2004)…he would have been 68(1978’s “Superman,” “Somewhere In Time,” “The Bostonians,” “Street Smart,” “The Remains of the Day”) (FAST FACTS: He was tragically paralyzed in a horse-riding accident in 1995. Confined to a wheelchair and required a portable ventilator for the rest of his life, he lobbied on behalf of people with spinal-cord injuries and for human embryonic stem cell research until he passed. He received a Screen Actor Guild Award in 1998 and the Lasker Award in 2003)
Musicians:
- Casper is 39 (born Benjamin Griffey)
- Childish Gambino (aka actor Donald Glover) is 37
- I. is 40 (born Clifford Joseph Harris Jr.)
Plus:
- TV personality Jamie Hyneman is 64 (“Mythbusters”)
- Model Bridget Marquardt is 47 (also one of Hugh Hefner’s famous girlfriends on reality show, “The Girls Next Door”)
- NBA Hall of Famer Scottie Pippen is 55 (A legendary forward, he played alongside Michael Jordan on six Chicago Bulls Championship teams, he was named to 7 NBA All-Star games and was a 3-time All-NBA First Team selection)
- Supermodel Cheryl Tiegs is 73 (She was the first supermodel to enter the world of fashion design and endorsements) (FAST FACT: She was a covergirl by the time she was 17 years old)
- Iconic journalist Barbara Walters is 91
- The late author William Faulkner(1897-1962)(“The Sound and the Fury,” “As I Lay Dying,” and “A Rose for Emily”) (FAST FACTS: A Pulitzer Prize-winner, he also won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949)
- The late author Shel Silverstein(1930-1999)…he would have been 90(known as “Uncle Shelby” for his children’s books, such as, “The Giving Tree,” “Where the Sidewalk Ends,” “A Light In The Attic”)