Sportscaster Bob Costa Celebrates 71st Birthday Today

Actors:

Guillermo Diaz is 48 (“Half Baked,” “Scandal”)

Matthew Modine is 64 (“Full Metal Jacket,” “Stranger Things”)

Will Yun Lee is 52 (“Hawaii Five-O,” “The Good Doctor″)

Lena Olin is 68 (“Unbearable Lightness of Being,” “Chocolat”)

William Shatner is 92 (“Star Trek,” "Boston Legal”)

Kellie Shayngne Williams is 47 (“Family Matters,” “What About Joan”)

Reese Witherspoon is 47 (“Legally Blonde” series, “Sweet Home Alabama,” “Walk the Line”)

The late Werner Klemperer (1920 – 2000) (“Hogan’s Heroes,” “Law & Order”)

The late Karl Malden (1912 – 2009) (“A Streetcar Named Desire,” “On the Waterfront”) (he won Best Actor for “A Streetcar Named Desire”)

The late Chico Marx (1887 – 1961) (one of the Marx brothers with Groucho and Harpo. Their most popular films include “A Night at the Opera,” “Go West,” and “Love Happy”)

The late Haing S. Ngor (1940 – 1996)…he would have been 83 (“The Killing Fields,” “Heaven & Earth”) (FAST FACTS: A Cambodian refugee, he received an Academy Award for his role in “The Killing Fields,” which detailed the country’s genocide – that he had escaped. In a tragic twist of fate, he was murdered by robbers in 1996.) 

Musicians:

George Benson is 80

Jeremy Clyde of Chad and Jeremy is 82

Stephanie Mills is 66

Hot Chocolate’s Patrick Olive is 76 (that’s according to FamousBirthdays.com)

Limp Bizkit drummer John Otto is 46

Cage The Elephant guitarist Lincoln Parish is 33

Roger Whitaker is 87

The late Keith Relf of the Yardbirds (1943 – 1976)…he would have been 80 

Plus:

CNN newsman Wolf Blitzer is 75

NBA champ Marcus Camby is 49 (He was named Defensive Player of the Year during the 2006–07 NBA season, leading the league in blocked shots per game. Camby is also a four-time member of the NBA All-Defensive Team and is 12th on the NBA's all-time career blocks list.)

Sportscaster Bob Costas is 71

Comedian/writer/producer Keegan-Michael Key is 52 (“Key & Peele,” “Parks and Recreation”)

Web Video Star and LGBT advocate Tyler Oakley is 34 (FAST FACT: He has more than 8-million YouTube subscribers)

Author James Patterson is 76 (“Women's Murder Club,” “Daniel X,” “Witch and Wizard”)

Televangelist (and avowed non-fan of the LGBT community) Pat Robertson is 93

Olympic figure skater Elvis Stojko is 51 (FAST FACT: Canadian figure skater who won Olympic silver in 1994 and 1998)

Composer Andrew Lloyd Weber is 75 (“Cats," "The Phantom of the Opera") (FAST FACT: He was knighted in 1992 and honored with a peerage by Queen Elizabeth II as recognition for his contributions to music)

The late Legendary composer Stephen Sondheim (1930 – 2021)…he would have been 93 ("West Side Story," "Gypsy," and "Sweeney Todd")

 


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