Actors:
Justine Bateman is 57 (“Family Ties”)
Jeff Daniels is 68 (“Terms of Endearment,” “Dumb and Dumber”)
Haylie Duff is 38 (“7th Heaven,” “Napoleon Dynamite”)
Victoria Justice is 30 (“Zoey 101,” “Victorious,”)
David Mazouz is 22 (“Gotham,” “Touch”)
Benicio Del Toro is 56 (“The Usual Suspects,” “Traffic,” (FAST FACT: He won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, ANDa BAFTA Award for his role in “Traffic”)
Bellamy Young is 53 (“The Drew Carey Show,” “The X Files,” “The West Wing”)
The late Lee Marvin (1924 – 1987)…he would have been 99(“M Squad,” “Cat Ballou”) (FAST FACT: He won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, AND a BAFTA Award for his role in “Cat Ballou”)
Musicians:
Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi is 75
Seal is 60 (His full name? Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel)
Smokey Robinson is 83
General Public’s Dave Wakeling is 67
The late Falco (1957 – 1998)…he would have been 66 (his given name, Johann Hölzel)
Plus:
Britain’s Prince Andrew is 63 (In 2015, he was embroiled in an under-age sex scandal, his porn star ex, Koo Stark, said he’s ‘too sexy’ to have needed a sex slave. Apparently, a judge agreed and tossed that case out...though the case was revived in the wake of the re-arrest and death of Jeffrey Epstein. Similarly, his disastrous 2019 interview on the subject and the recently settled sex abuse case leaves him under an ugly cloud of suspicion.)
Reality Star Cynthia Bailey is 56 (“The Real Housewives of Atlanta”)
NFL Boss Roger Goodell is 64
Author Jeff Kinney is 52 (“Diary of a Wimpy Kid,” among others)
Author Amy Tan is 71 (“The Joy Luck Club,” “The Bonesetter’s Daughter”)
The late scientist Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) (He came up with idea of heliocentrism, that the earth revolves around the sun. Luckily for Copernicus, he died shortly after publishing his work, and was never bothered by the Catholic Church for his discovery. By contrast, Galileo, who proved the math behind heliocentrism, was sentenced to house arrest by the inquisition.) (FAST FACT: As a young man, he practiced medicine without a medical degree.)
The late labor activist Karen Silkwood (1946 – 1974)… she would have been 77 (She is most famous for her mysterious death, which was the subject of a victorious lawsuit against the chemical company Kerr-McGee. She gained more fame when she was portrayed by Meryl Streep in the 1983 Academy Award-nominated film "Silkwood.”)