December 13th
Actors:
- Steve Buscemi is 64 (“Barton Fink,” “Billy Bathgate,” “Reservoir Dogs,” “Pulp Fiction,” “Fargo,” “The Big Lebowski,” “Boardwalk Empire,” “30 Rock,” “Portlandia”)
- Christie Clark is 48 (“Children of the Corn II,” “A Nightmare on Elm Street 2,” “Days of Our Lives”)
- Jamie Foxx is 54 (“MAD TV,” “Ray,” “Collateral,” “Django Unchained”)
- Bart Johnson is 51 (“High School Musical” franchise, “The Yankles,” “The Client List”)
- James Kyson Lee is 46 (“Heroes,” Despicable Me,” “Shutter”)
- Robert Lindsay is 72 (“My Family,” “Citizen Smith,” “Wimbledon”)
- Wendie Malick is 71 (“Just Shoot Me!” “Hot in Cleveland,” “Dream On,” “Pitch”)
- Maisy Stella is 18 (“Nashville”)
- Dick Van Dyke is 96 (“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 Christopher Plummer(1929 – 2021) …he would have been 92(“The Sound of Music,” “The Pink Panther,” “Malcolm X,” “A Beautiful Mind,” “The New World,” “Inside Man,” “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” “Knives Out,” “The Last Full Measure”)
- The late Robert Prosky(1930 – 2008)… he would have been 91(“Hill Street Blues,” “Dead Man Walking,” “Mrs. Doubtfire” “Last Action Hero,” “The Great Outdoors”)
Musicians:
- John Anderson is 67
- Morris Day is 64
- Tom DeLonge is 46 (FAST FACT: He owns the Macbeth Footwear line)
- Evanescence’s Amy Lee is 40
- Ted Nugent is 73
- Alabama’s Randy Owen is 72
- Taylor Swift is 32
Plus:
- Voice actress Harley Bird is 18 (FAST FACT: The voice of Peppa Pig, she became the youngest BAFTA Award winner)
- Reality TV star Alyssa “Redd” Carswell is 33 (“Bad Girls Club”)
- Game show host John Davidson is 80 (“That’s Incredible,” “Hollywood Squares,” “Time Machine”)
- Reality TV star Nene Leakes is 54
- New York Jets football coach-turned-analyst Rex Ryan is 59
- Reality TV star Mike “Sugar Bear” Thompson is 50 (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 98(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)