Famous People Born Today- Boxing Champ “Sugar” Ray Leonard Is 65

May 17th

Actors:

  • Sasha Alexander is 48 (“NCIS,” “Rizzoli & Isles,” “Dawson's Creek”)
  • Rochelle Aytes is 45 (“White Chicks,” “Desperate Housewives,” “Madea's Family Reunion,” “Mistresses”)
  • David Eigenberg is 57 (“Homicide: Life on the Street,” “Sex and the City,” “Chicago Fire”)
  • Hill Harper is 55 (“Live Shot,” “City of Angels,” “CSI: NY,” “Limitless”) (FAST FACTS: Born Francis Eugene Harper, he’s also a Harvard Law School grad. As for why he goes by ‘Hill’ – it’s in honor of his maternal and paternal ancestors.)
  • Ryan Ochoa is 25 (“iCarly,” “Pair of Kings,” “Nostalgia,” “Lake Munro”)
  • Nikki Reed is 33 (“Twilight,” “Lords of Dogtown,” “Thirteen”) (FAST FACTS: First married to “American Idol” contestant Paul McDonald from 2011 – 2015, she’s been married to Ian Somerhalder since 2015 and welcomed their first child, daughter Bodhi Soleil, in July 2017.)
  • Bob Saget is 65 ("Full House,” “Raising Dad,” “How I Met Your Mother”)
  • Paige Turco is 56 (“All My Children,” “The Agency,” “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” “Person of Interest,” “The 100”)
  • The late Dennis Hopper(1936 – 2010)…he would have been 85(“Easy Rider,” “Blue Velvet,” “Speed,” “Apocalypse Now”)
  • The late Bill Paxton(1955 – 2017)…he would have been66(“Weird Science,” “Aliens,” “Apollo 13,” “Twister,” “Titanic,” “Big Love,” “Nightcrawler,” “Hatfields & McCoys,” “Texas Rising,” “Training Day”) (FAST FACTS: His cause of death was a stroke resulting from complications from his heart and aorta surgery that he underwent this past February 14th)

Musicians:

  • The Corrs’ Andrea Corr is 47
  • Enya is 60 (Born Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin)
  • Kree Harrison is 31
  • Jordan Knight is 51
  • Trent Reznor is 56
  • Pierce the Veil’s Jaime Preciado is 35

Plus:

  • Reality TV star Kandi Burruss is 45 (FAST FACTS: Aside from performing as part of Xscape and starring on “Real Housewives of Atlanta,” Burruss wrote the hit songs "No Scrubs" for TLC, and "Bills, Bills, Bills" for Destiny's Child.)
  • Reality star Tabatha Coffey is 52 (“Shear Genius,” “Tabatha Takes Over”)
  • Reality star Luann De Lesseps is 56 (“Real Housewives of New York City”) (FAST FACT: When she marriedThomas D’Agostino Jr., she lost theCountesstitle she gained from her previous husband…and while they’ve since divorced, she never went ahead with changing her name…she’s stillDe Lesseps – and uses “The Countess.”)
  • TV personality Craig Ferguson is 59 (“Celebrity Name Game,” “Join or Die with Craig Ferguson”)
  • “Dancing with the Stars” pro Derek Hough is 36(FAST FACT: He is athree-time “DWTS” champion)
  • Boxing champ “Sugar” Ray Leonard is 65 (FAST FACTS: Olympic champion boxer and dominant prizefighter of the 1980s. He won 173 of his 200 professional fights and was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990.)
  • Sportscaster Jim Nantz is 62
  • San Antonio Spurs’ point guard Tony Parker is 39
  • Model (and onetime girlfriend of Chris Brown) Karrueche Tran is 33 (FAST FACT: She actually an Emmy award-winning producer! She won the award for Outstanding Digital Daytime Drama Series in 2016 and was nominated again for the same this year for the series, “The Bay.”)

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