Phillies Star Bryce Harper Celebrates 31st Birthday Today

Actors:

Barry Corbin is 83 (“Northern Exposure,” “Anger Management”)

Jeremy Jackson is 43 (Hobie Buchannon on the original “Baywatch” TV series)

Kellie Martin is 48 (“Life Goes On,” “ER”) (FAST FACT: She graduated from Yale as an art history major)

Tim Robbins is 65 (“The Shawshank Redemption,” “Dead Man Walking”)

Caterina Scorsone is 42 (“Private Practice,” “Grey’s Anatomy”)

Paul Sparks is 52 (“Boardwalk Empire,” “House of Cards”)

Terri J. Vaughn is 54 (“The Steve Harvey Show,” “Friday”)

Kim Wayans is 62 (“In Living Color,” “Pariah)

The late Linda Darnell (1923-1965) (“My Darling Clementine,” “The Mark of Zorro”)

The late Angela Lansbury (1925 - 2022) …she would have been 98 (“Murder, She Wrote,” the voice of Mrs. Potts in “Beauty and the Beast”)

The late Maidie Norman (1912-1998) (“What Happened to Baby Jane?”) 

Musicians:

B-Rock is 52 (born Baron Agee)

Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea is 61 (given name Michael Peter Balzary)

Mudvayne/ Hellyeah frontman Chad Gray is 52

Spandau Ballet’s Gary Kemp is 64

John Mayer is 46 (FAST FACT: Before fame, he worked at a gas station for over a year in order to buy a Stevie Ray Vaughan Stratocaster)

Gareth McGrillen (of Pendulum and Knife Party) is 41

Bob Mould is 63

Bachman-Turner Overdrive’s Bassist F. Turner is 80

Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir is 76

Wilson Phillips’ Wendy Wilson is 54

The late Nico (1938-1988)… she would have been 85 (Best known for her collaboration with the Velvet Underground, especially on the 1967 album, “The Velvet Underground & Nico”) 

Plus:

Philadelphia Phillies right fielder Bryce Harper is 31 (2012 National League Rookie of the Year for the Washington Nationals, became the youngest player to be selected for an MLB All-Star game)

Producer/director David Zucker is 76 (“Airplane” and “Naked Gun” franchises, “Ruthless People,” “Scary Movie 3”)

The late basketball star Manute Bol (1962-2010)… he would have been 61 (He stood at 7-feet, 7-inches tall – and yes, was one of the tallest to ever play the game)

The late MLB Hall of Famer Leon Allen “Goose” Goslin (1900-1971) (FAST FACT: “Goose” got his nickname because players said he resembled a bird flapping its wings when he ran after a ball)

The late politician David Ben-Gurion (1886-1973) (He served as Israel’s first Prime Minister from 1948-1954 and 1955-1963)

The late writer Noah Webster (1758-1843) (responsible for the first American Dictionary of the English language, later renamed the Merriam-Webster dictionary)

The late novelist and poet Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) (His most heralded works include “The Importance of Being Earnest,” “The Picture of Dorian Gray”)

The late author Paul Edwin Zimmer (1943-1997)… he would have been 80 (“Dark Border” series: “The Wolves of Sarlow,” and “The Lost Prince”) 

 (Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images)

 


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