'Top Gun's' Tom Cruise Turns 61 Today

Actors:

Andrea Barber is 47 (Kimmy Gibler on “Full House,” “Fuller House”)

Betty Buckley is 76 (“1776,” “Split”)

Tom Cruise is 61 ( “Top Gun,” “Mission Impossible”)

Tommy Flanagan is 58 (“Sons of Anarchy,” “Gladiator”)

Thomas Gibson is 61 (“Dharma & Greg,” “Criminal Minds”)

Audra MacDonald is 53 (“Private Practice,” “A Raisin In The Sun”)

Ryan McPartlin is 48 (“Passions,” “Chuck”)

Olivia Munn is 43 (“The Daily Show” “Magic Mike”)

Connie Nielsen is 58 (“The Devil’s Advocate,” “Law & Order: SVU”)

Kurtwood Smith is 80 (“That 70’s Show,” “Patriot”)

Shawnee Smith is 54 (“Iron Eagle,” “Saw” series)

Jan Smithers (“WKRP In Cincinnati”) is 74

Patrick Wilson is 50 (“The A-Team,” “Aquaman”)

The late George Sanders (1906-1972) (“The Jungle Book,” “All About Eve”) 

Musicians:

The Neighbourhood’s Zach Abels is 31

Ishmael “Butterfly” Butler of Digable Planets is 54

Sarah Buxton is 43

Erasure’s Vince Clarke is 63

The Babys’ Mike Corby is 72

Barenaked Ladies’ Kevin Hearn is 54

Johnny Lee is 77

Boyzone’s Shane Lynch is 47

Memphis May Fire’s Matty Mullins is 35

Ratt’s Stephen Pearcy is 67

Aaron Tippin is 65 

Plus:

Infamous lawyer and media personality Gloria Allred is 82

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is 52

Author Dave Barry is 76 (“Homes and Other Black Holes,” received a Pulitzer Prize for his syndicated Miami Herald humor column)

TV personality and foodie Sandra Lee is 57

NASA astronaut and U.S. Senator Harrison Schmitt is 88

Voice actor Yeardley Smith is 59 (voice of Lisa Simpson on “The Simpsons”)

Emmy-winning talk show host Montel Williams is 67

The late composer George M. Cohan (1878-1942) (“Yankee Doodle Dandy,” “Little Johnny Jones”)

The late Czech novelist Franz Kafka (1883-1924) (‘The Metamorphosis’)

The late film director Ken Russell (1927-2011) …he would have been 96 (“The Devils,” “Women in Love”)

 


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