January 31st
Actors:
- Joel Courtney is 26 (“The Between,” “Mercy,” “Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn”)
- Minnie Driver is 52 (“Return to Zero,” “About a Boy”)
- Anthony LaPaglia is 63 (“So I Married An Ax Murderer,” “Empire Records,” “Summer of Sam,” “Murder One,” “Without a Trace”)
- Kelly Lynch is 63 (“Roadhouse,” “Magic City,” “Glass Chin”)
- Bobby Moynihan is 45 (“SNL,” “The Awesomes,” “Bread and Butter,” “Annie”)
- Portia de Rossi is 49 (“Nip/Tuck,” “Arrested Development,” “Scandal”)
- Patricia Velasquez is 51 (“Arrested Development,” “American Family,” “The L Word”)
- Kerry Washington is 45 (“Ray,” “The Last King of Scotland,” “The Details,” “Peoples,” “Scandal”)
- The late James Franciscus (1934 - 1991) …he would have been 88 (“Killer Fish,” “The Last Shark,” “Butterfly”)
- The late Tallulah Bankhead (1902 - 1968) (“The Royal Scandal,” “Batman”)
- The late Carol Channing (1921 – 2019) (“Thoroughly Modern Millie,” “The First Traveling Saleslady,” “Skidoo,” “The Ed Sullivan Show,” “Hollywood Squares,” “Alice in Wonderland”) FAST FACTS: In 1970, Channing became the first celebrity to perform at the Super Bowl halftime show. She was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1981 and received a Lifetime Achievement Tony Award in 1995, but of the many awards she’s earned over the course of her career, Channing says that finding out that she was included on a master list of Nixon's political opponents – informally known as his "enemies list" – in 1973 was the highest honor in her career.)
- The late Suzanne Pleshette (1937 - 2008)…she would have been 85 (“The Birds,” “The Bob Newhart Show,” “The Boys Are Back,” “Will & Grace”)
- The late Jean Simmons (1929 - 2010)…she would have been 93 (“How to Make an American Quilt,” “Shadows in the Sun”)
Musicians:
- C. & The Sunshine Band’s Harry Wayne “K.C.” Casey is 71
- The Cure’s Jason Cooper is 55
- Lloyd Cole is 61
- Cro is 32 (birth name Carlo Waibel)
- Florida Georgia Line’s Tyler Hubbard is 35
- Jesus Jones’ bassist Alan Doughty is 56 (born Al Jaworski)
- Sex Pistols’ John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten) is 66
- Phil Manzanera is 71
- Mumford & Sons’ Marcus Mumford is 35
- Justin Timberlake is 41
- The late Slayer guitarist Jeff Henneman (1964 – 2013)…he would have been 58
- The late Chicago co-founder Terry Kath (1946 – 1978)…he would have been 76
Plus:
- Baseball Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan is 75 (FAST FACT: Hall of Fame MLB pitcher who set league records by striking out 5,714 batters)
- The late Baseball Hall of Famer Ernie Banks (1931 - 2015)…he would have been 91 (FAST FACT: The famed infielder known as Mr. Cub played his entire 19-year career with the Chicago Cubs)
- The late author Zane Grey (1872 – 1939) (Best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that were a basis for the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the American frontier – 1912’s “Riders of the Purple Sage” was his best-selling book)
- The late TV personality Garry Moore (1915 – 1993) (“I've Got a Secret,” “To Tell the Truth”)
- The late baseball player Jackie Robinson (1919 – 1972) (FAST FACT: The first African American major league baseball player. every team in the major leagues retired his jersey number, #42. On Jackie Robinson Day, every player across the league wears the number 42. In his first year of eligibility for the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962, Robinson encouraged voters to consider only his on-field qualifications, rather than his cultural impact on the game. He was elected on the first ballot, becoming the first black player inducted into the Cooperstown museum)
- The late composer Franz Schubert (1797 – 1828)