Famous Birthdays Today- Jamie Foxx Is 52

December 13th

Actors:

  • Steve Buscemi is 62 (“Barton Fink,” “Billy Bathgate,” “Reservoir Dogs,” “Pulp Fiction,” “Fargo,” “The Big Lebowski,” “Boardwalk Empire,” “30 Rock,” “Portlandia”)
  • Christie Clark is 46 (“Children of the Corn II,” “A Nightmare on Elm Street 2,” “Days of Our Lives”)
  • Jamie Foxx is 52 (“MAD TV,” “Ray,” “Collateral,” “Django Unchained”)
  • Bart Johnson is 49 (“High School Musical” franchise, “The Yankles,” “The Client List”)
  • James Kyson Lee is 44 (“Heroes,” Despicable Me,” “Shutter”)
  • Robert Lindsay is 70 (“My Family,” “Citizen Smith,” “Wimbledon”)
  • Wendie Malick is 69 (“Just Shoot Me!” “Hot in Cleveland,” “Dream On,” “Pitch”)
  • Christopher Plummer is 90 (“The Sound of Music,” “A Beautiful Mind,” “The Pink Panther”)
  • Maisy Stella is 16 (“Nashville”)
  • Dick Van Dyke is 94 (“Mary Poppins,” “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” “Diagnosis Murder”) (FAST FACT: He served as a radio announced in the US Army Air Corps during WWII)
  • The late Robert Prosky(1930 – 2008)… he would have been 89(“Hill Street Blues,” “Dead Man Walking,” “Mrs. Doubtfire” “Last Action Hero,” “The Great Outdoors”) 

Musicians:

  • John Anderson is 65
  • Morris Day is 62
  • Tom DeLonge is 44 (FAST FACT: He owns the Macbeth Footwear line)
  • Evanescence’s Amy Lee is 38
  • Ted Nugent is 71
  • Alabama’s Randy Owen is 70
  • Taylor Swift is 30 

Plus:

  • Reality TV star Alyssa “Redd” Carswell is 31 (“Bad Girls Club”)
  • Game show host John Davidson is 78 (“That’s Incredible,” “Hollywood Squares,” “Time Machine”)
  • Reality TV star Nene Leakes is 52
  • New York Jets football coach Rex Ryan is 57
  • Reality TV star Mike “Sugar Bear” Thompson is 48 (Honey Boo Boo’s Dada)
  • The late civil rights activist Ella Baker(1903-1986)(Considered to be one of the most important women of the 20thcentury, she is a largely unsung hero of the civil rights Freedom Movement who inspired and guided emerging leaders.)
  • The late post-impressionist artist Emily Carr(1871-1945)(A Canadian artist and writer heavily inspired by the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest, she was one of the first painters in Canada to adopt a Modernist and Post-Impressionist painting style)
  • The late baseball player Larry Doby(1923-2003)…he would have been 96(Hebecame the first black player to ever play in the American League in 1947, when he joined the Cleveland Indians)
  • The late director Norman Foster(1903-1976)
  • The late political wife Mary Todd Lincoln (Wife of Abe Lincoln and first lady of the US from 1861-1865)(1818-1882)
  • The late boxing champion Archie Moore (Having one of the longest professional careers in the sport’s history, he was nicknamed "The Mongoose," – and "The Old Mongoose" in the latter half of his career. He Moore holds the record for the most career knockouts (131) in boxing history and ranks #4 on “The Ring's” list of "100 Greatest Punchers of All Time.”(1916-1998)

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