Actors:
Richard Dean Anderson is 73 (“Macgyver,” Stargate SG-1”)
Brennan Bailey is 26 (“My Sister’s Keeper”)
Ewen Bremner is 51 (“Black Hawk Down,” “Trainspotting”) (That’s according to FamousBirthdays.com)
Gil Gerard is 80 (“The Doctors,” “Airport ’77,” “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century”)
Gail O’ Grady is 60 (“NYPD Blue,” “American Dreams,” “Hellcats,” “Revenge,” “Criminal Minds”)
Mariska Hargitay is 59 (“Falcon Crest,” “ER,” “Baywatch,” “In the Heat of the Night,” “Wiseguy,” “thirtysomething,” “Law and Order SVU”) (FAST FACTS: She’s been on “SVU” since it’s inception in 1999)
Julia Jones is 42 (“Hell Ride,” “The Twilight Saga”)
Chita Rivera is 90 (“Sweet Charity,” “Chicago,” “The New Dick Van Dyke Show,” “One Life To Live”) (FAST FACT: She is the first Hispanic woman to receive a Kennedy Center Honors Award. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009)
Tiffani Thiessen is 49 (“Saved by the Bell,” “Beverly Hills 90210,” “Fastlane”) (FAST FACT: She now hosts the Cooking Channel show, “Dinner at Tiffani’s”)
The late Rutger Hauer (“Blade Runner,” “The Hitcher, “Escape from Sobibor” (for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor), “Sin City,” “Ladyhawke,” “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “The Osterman Weekend,” “Batman Begins,” “The Rite.”) (1944 – 2019)...he would have been 79
The late Randolph Scott (1898–1987) (“Ride the High County”) (He appeared in over 100 feature films, mostly Westerns)
Musicians:
Reggie Calloway is 68
UB40’s Earl Falconer is 66
KC & The Sunshine Band’s Richard Finch is 69 (FAST FACTS: Back in March 2010, Finch was arrested in Ohio, accused of having sexual contact with a 17-year-old boy. While he plead not guilty, police stated that during questioning, he admitted to having sexual contact with that teen and other teens aged 13 to 17. Still, he was convicted and sentenced to seven years in prison – he was released March 2017)
Josh Thompson is 45
Cheap Trick’s Robin Zander is 70
The late Harley Allen (1956 – 2011) …he would have been 67
The late Anita Pointer (1948 – 2022) …she would have been 75
Plus:
Princess Caroline of Monaco is 66 (While she is a princess in her native Monaco, she’s also known as Caroline, Princess of Hanover – as she married Germany’s Prince Ernst August of Hanover in 1999)
Pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger is 72 (He landed an airplane on the Hudson River)
The late revolutionary leader John Hancock (1737-1793) (His legendary quote, after signing his name in huge letters on the Declaration of Independence was: “There! His Majesty can now read my name without glasses. And he can double the reward on my head!”)
The late comedian Ernie Kovacs (1919-1962)
The late painter Edouard Manet (1832–1883)
The late Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart (1915-1985) (His most famous quote on regarding obscenity was: “I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description ["hard-core pornography"], and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that.”)