Actors:
Dan Cortese is 56 (“Veronica's Closet,” host of truTV's “Guinness World Records Unleashed”)
Mary Crosby is 64 (“Dallas,” “Legend of Zorro”)
Faith Ford is 59 (“Another World,” “Murphy Brown”)
Walter Koenig is 87 (“Star Trek’s” Chekov, “Babylon 5”)
Andrew Lincoln is 50 (“Love Actually,” “The Walking Dead) (FAST FACT: His given name is Andrew James Clutterbuck)
Sam Neill is 76 (“The Hunt for Red October,” “Jurassic Park”) (FAST FACTS: Named Nigel at birth, he adopted the name Sam to avoid confusion with other students named Nigel. He stuttered as a child, and graduated from Victoria University.)
Michelle Stafford is 58 (“The Young and the Restless”)
Kimberly Williams-Paisley is 52 (“Father of the Bride” series, “According to Jim”) (FAST FACT: She’s been married to country star Brad Paisley since 2003)
The late Clayton Moore (1914 – 1999) (“The Lone Ranger”)
Musicians:
Jon “Bowzer” Bauman of Sha Na Na is 76
John Berry is 64
Beth Nielsen-Chapman is 65
Alex Clare is 38
A-ha frontman Morten Harket is 64
Lethal Bizzle is 39 (born Maxwell Owusu Ansah)
Nas is 50 (his given name, Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones)
Danielle Peck is 45
The late Amy Winehouse (1983 – 2011)…she would have been 40
The late Ed King (Strawberry Alarm Clock, Lynyrd Skynyrd) (1949 – 2018)…he would have been 74
Plus:
Model Joey Heatherton is 79 (Sex symbol who visited U.S. troops overseas with Bob Hope, she also appeared in films including 1963's “Twilight of Honor” and 1964's “Where Love Has Gone”)
TV personality Robert Herjavec is 61 (“Shark Tank,” “Dancing with the Stars”) (FAST FACT: He married his “DWTS” pro Kym Johnson in 2016…and they’ve since welcomed twins!)
TV personality/cookbook author Katie Lee is 42 (One of the co-host of the Food Network's talk show “The Kitchen,” host of Cooking Channel's “Beach Bites with Katie Lee.”) (FAST FACT: She was the original host of Bravo’s “Top Chef,” but the reaction was so negative, she was let go in favor of Padma Lakshmi. Lee was also married to Billy Joel from 2004 to 2010)
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