Actors:
Barbara Bain is 91 (TV’s “Mission: Impossible,” “Space 1999”)
Jacqueline Bisset is 78 (“The Detective,” “Bullitt,” “The Sweet Ride,” “Airport,” “Murder on the Orient Express” “The Deep,” “Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?,” “Class,” “Joan of Arc,” “Rizzoli and Isles,” “Dancing On The Edge”)
Louise Lombard is 52 (“CSI”)
Ben Savage is 42 (“Boy Meets World,” “Girl Meets World”)
Jean Smart is 71 (“Designing Women,” “The District,” “24,” “Harry's Law,” “Fargo,” “Hacks”)
The late Nell Carter (1948 – 2003)…she would have been 74 (“Ain't Misbehavin’,” “Gimme A Break!,” “You Take The Kids,” “Hangin’ With Mr. Cooper”)
The late Claudette Colbert (1903 – 1996) (“It Happened One Night,” “Cleopatra”) (FAST FACT: In 1999, the American Film Institute posthumously voted Colbert the 12th Greatest Female star of classic Hollywood cinema.)
The late Richard Kiel (1939 – 2014)…he would have been 83 (“Moonraker,” “Happy Gilmore,” “The Incredible Hulk,” “The Hulk”)
The late Joe E. Tata (1936 – 2022) … he would have been 86 (“The Rockford Files,” “Beverly Hills, 90210”)
Musicians:
Fiona Apple is 45
Swizz Beatz is 44 (born Kasseem Dean) (FAST FACT: He’s been married to Alicia Keys since 2010)
Peter Cetera is 78
Blood, Sweat and Tears’ David Clayton-Thomas is 81
Bobbie Cryner is 61
One Direction’s Niall Horan is 29
Village People singer Randy Jones is 70
Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine is 61
Drummer Steve Perkins (Porno for Pyros, Jane’s Addiction) is 55
Rascal Flatts’ Joe Don Rooney is 47
Zak Starkey is 57 (FAST FACTS: The son of Ringo Starr, Keith Moon gave Starkey a drum kit when he was eight-years-old. He began learning how to play in a serious manner when he was ten)
The late Bill Monroe (1911 – 1996) (Known as the Father of Bluegrass, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1970)
The late Mel Torme (1925 – 1999)…he would have been 97
Plus:
Reality TV star (and babymaker) Michelle Duggar is 56
Fashion Designer Stella McCartney is 51
Actor/director/producer Tyler Perry is 53 (“Diary of a Mad Black Woman,” “Madea” film series, “Why Did I Get Married Too?,” “The Single Moms Club,” “Gone Girl”)
Radio-TV personality Tavis Smiley is 58
Motivational speaker and TV host Iyanla Vanzant is 69 (her birth name, Rhonda Eva Harris)
The late author Roald Dahl (1916 – 1990) (“The Witches,” “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” “Fantastic Mr. Fox”)
The late entrepreneur Milton S. Hershey (1857 – 1945) (He founded the Hershey Chocolate Company in 1905 – as such, he’s credited with the founding of “company town” Hershey, Pennsylvania.)