Actors:
Adam Baldwin is 61 (“Full Metal Jacket,” “Firefly”)
Richard Coyle is 51 (“Human Traffic,” “Covert Affairs”)
Donal Logue is 57 (“Sons of Anarchy,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Vikings”)
Kate Mara is 40 (“American Horror Story: Murder House,” “The Martian”)
Grant Shaud is 62 (“Murphy Brown,” “Madigan Men”)
Grant Show is 61 ("Melrose Place," “Dynasty”)
Joanne Woodward is 93 (“Three Faces of Eve”) (She won Best Actress for “Three Faces of Eve” and was nominated three times for “Rachel, Rachel,” “Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams,” and “Mr. and Mrs. Bridge”) (FAST FACT: She married the late and so great Paul Newman in 1958, and by all accounts, the couple remained happily married until he passed in 2008)
The late Mary Frann (1943–1998)…she would have been 80 (“Newhart”) (FAST FACT: Her last acting role came in the series “Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction.” Due to the sporadic airing of the series, the episode she was in, "The Curse of Hampton Manor," aired two years after her death.)
The late Howard Hesseman (1940 – 2022) …he would have been 83 (“WKRP,” “Dr. Detroit,” “This Is Spinal Tap,” “Head of the Class,” “Bigfoot”)
The late Elizabeth Taylor (1932–2011)…she would have been 91 (“Cleopatra,” “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” “Butterfield 8”) (She won Best Actress twice for “Butterfield 8” and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf”)
Musicians:
Nine Days’ Jeremy Dean is 51
Josh Groban is 42
M.D.’s Paul Humphreys is 63
Journey’s Neil Schon is 69
TLC’s Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas is 52
Lynyrd Sknyryd’s Johnny Van Zant is 63
Plus:
Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton is 43 (FAST FACT: Her secret service code-name was “Energy”)
Reality TV diva Jennifer “JWoww” Farley is 37 (“Jersey Shore,” “TNA Impact!,” “Marriage Boot Camp”)
Consumer advocate (and sometime presidential candidate) Ralph Nader is 89
Director James Wan is 46 (“Saw” franchise, “Insidious,” “Insidious: Chapter 2,” “The Conjuring 2” “Furious 7”)
The late poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) ("The Song of Hiawatha," "Evangeline”) (Classic quote: “Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.” He was also the first American to translate Dante Alighieri’s “Divine Comedy,” and was one of the five Fireside Poets.)
The late author John Steinbeck (1902–1968) (He wrote 27 books, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and five collections of short stories. Among his classics - “The Grapes of Wrath,” “East of Eden,” “Of Mice and Men”)