Famous Birthdays Today- Tom Cruise Is 58

By Seth Williams

July 3rd

Actors:

  • Andrea Barber is 44 (Kimmy Gibler on “Full House,” “Fuller House”)
  • Betty Buckley is 73 (“1776,” “Carrie,” “Tender Mercies,” “Frantic,” “Eight Is Enough,” “Oz,” “Split”)
  • Tom Cruise is 58 (“Rain Man,” “Born on the Fourth of July,” “Top Gun,” “Mission Impossible,” “Vanilla Sky,” “The Last Samurai,” “Minority Report)
  • Tommy Flanagan is 55 (“Sons of Anarchy,” “Gladiator”)
  • Thomas Gibson is 58 (“Dharma & Greg,” “Criminal Minds”)
  • Audra MacDonald is 50 (“Private Practice,” “A Raisin In The Sun,” “Sound of Music Live!”)
  • Ryan McPartlin is 45 (“Passions,” “Chuck,” “Devious Maids”)
  • Olivia Munn is 40 (“The Daily Show” “Magic Mike,” “The Newsroom,” “X-Men: Apocalypse,” “Six”)
  • Connie Nielsen is 55 (“The Devil’s Advocate,” “Gladiator,” “Law & Order: SVU”)
  • Kurtwood Smith is 77 (“That 70’s Show,” “Medium,” “Patriot”)
  • Shawnee Smith is 50(Note:Wiki says 51, but Yahoo! says 50)(“Iron Eagle,” “Saw” series, “Becker,” “Anger Management”)
  • Patrick Wilson is 47 (“Angels in America,” “The Alamo,” “The A-Team,” “Insidious,” “The Conjuring,” “A Gifted Man,” “Fargo,” “Aquaman”)
  • The late George Sanders(1906-1972)(“The Jungle Book,” “All About Eve”)

Musicians:

  • The Neighbourhood’s Zach Abels is 28
  • Sarah Buxton is 40
  • Erasure’s Vince Clarke is 60
  • The Babys’ Mike Corby is 69
  • Barenaked Ladies’ Kevin Hearn is 51
  • Johnny Lee is 74
  • Boyzone’s Shane Lynch is 44
  • Memphis May Fire’s Matty Mullins is 32
  • Ratt’s Stephen Pearcy is 64
  • Aaron Tippin is 62

Plus:

  • Infamous lawyer and media personality Gloria Allred is 79
  • Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is 49
  • Author Dave Barry is 73 (“Homes and Other Black Holes,” received a Pulitzer Prize for his syndicated Miami Herald humor column)
  • TV personality and foodie Sandra Lee is 54
  • NASA astronaut and U.S. Senator Harrison Schmitt is 85
  • Voice actor Yeardley Smith is 56 (voice of Lisa Simpson on “The Simpsons”)
  • Emmy-winning talk show host Montel Williams is 64
  • The late composer George M. Cohan(1878-1942)(“Yankee Doodle Dandy,” “Little Johnny Jones”)
  • The late wife of 2004 Vice Presidential Candidate John Edwards, Elizabeth Edwards(1949-2010)…she would have been 71(FAST FACTS: She had to deal with cancer and her husband’s infidelity in the final years of her life, but stood by her husband until it was revealed that he fathered another woman’s child.)
  • The late Czech novelist Franz Kafka(1883-1924)(‘The Metamorphosis’)
  • The late film director Ken Russell(1927-2011)…he would have been 93(“The Devils,” “Women in Love”)
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