May 20th
Actors:
- John Billingsley is 61 (Dr. Phlox on "Star Trek: Enterprise," “The Man From Earth,” “True Blood” coroner Mike Spencer)
- Dean Butler is 65 ("Little House on the Prairie")
- Mindy Cohn is 55 ("The Facts of Life," voice of Velma on “Scooby Doo”) (FAST FACT: She was discovered in high school by actress Charlotte Rae and the “Facts of Life” producers while they were conducting research for the show.)
- Jack Gleeson is 29 (“Game of Thrones”) (FAST FACTS: Now out of acting, he founded and became the artistic director of the Collapsing Horse Theatre Company in Dublin, Ireland)
- Tony Goldwyn is 61 (“Ghost,” “The Pelican Brief,” “Kiss The Girls,” “The Last Samurai,” “Scandal”)
- Michaela McManus is 38 (“One Tree Hill,” “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” “Aquarius”)
- Timothy Olyphant is 53 (“Live Free or Die Hard,” “Deadwood,” “Hitman,” “Justified,” “The Grinder,” “Santa Clarita Diet”)
- Bronson Pinchot is 62 (“Perfect Strangers,” “Risky Business,” “Beverly Hills Cop,” “First Wives Club,” “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman”)
- Dave Thomas is 72 ("SCTV," one of the “McKenzie Brothers”) (FAST FACTS: he directed John Travolta in the 1989 comedy “The Experts” while he worked with Paramount.)
- The late Jimmy Stewart(1908 – 1997)(“The Philadelphia Story,” “It's A Wonderful Life,” “Rear Window,” “ Vertigo,” “The Man Who Knew Too Much”) (FAST FACTS: there is aJimmy Stewart Museumin Indiana, Pennsylvania, his hometown. The establishment commemorates Stewart’s greatest accomplishments in film, radio, TV, military, and just being a world citizen.)
Musicians:
- Cher is 75
- 3LW’s Naturi Naughton is 37
- Jon Pardi is 36
- Rachel Platten is 40
- Busta Rhymes is 49 (FAST FACTS: Born Trevor George Smith Jr., he went to high school with Jay-Z, DMX, and The Notorious B.I.G. …that high school must’ve been doing something right!)
- Semisonic’s Dan Wilson is 60
- Jane Wiedlin is 63
- The late Joe Cocker(1944 – 2014) …he would have been 77
Plus:
- TV personality Ted Allen is 56 (“Queer Eye for The Straight Guy,” “Chopped”)
- The late entrepreneur Emile Berliner(1851 – 1929)(FAST FACTS: He transferred music from Edison's cylinders onto flat spinning discs to create the gramophone)
- The late comedian George Gobel(1919 – 1991)(FAST FACTS: he starred in his own weekly NBC television show, “The George Gobel Show” that ran from 1954 to 1960)
- The late first lady Dolley Madison(1768 – 1849)(FAST FACTS: She was wife to James Madison who served as President of the United States from 1809 to 1817. And yes, her name is spelled with an ‘ey’)