Actors:
John Krasinski is 44 (Jim Halpert on “The Office,” “A Quiet Place”)
Melanie Mayron is 71 (“Thirtysomething,” “The Baby-Sitters Club”)
Viggo Mortensen is 65 (“Lord of the Rings,” “The Road”)
Jennifer Nicole Freeman is 38 (ABC’s “My Wife & Kids,” “The OC”)
William Russ is 73 (ABC’s “Boy Meets World,” “American History X”)
Alona Tal is 40 (“Supernatural,” “Cult”) (FAST FACT: Born in Israel, she completed mandatory military service in the Israeli Army)
Samuel Witwer is 46 (“Smallville,” “Battlestar Galactica”)
The late William Christopher (1932 – 2016)…he would have been 91 (“Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C,” Father Mulcahy on “M*A*S*H”)
The late Bela Lugosi (1882-1956) (Count “Dracula,” his Hungarian accent led him to being typecast as a horror villain in many films)
The late Jerry Orbach (1935-2004)…he would have been 88 (“Dirty Dancing,” “Beauty and the Beast”)
Musicians:
Asap Ferg is 35 (FAST FACT: Born Darold Ferguson, Jr., he won a BET Hip Hop Award for Rookie of the Year in 2013)
Snoop Dogg is 52 (His given name, Calvin Cordozar Broads Jr.)
Wanda Lavonne Jackson is 86 (The first popular female rockabilly singer, “Tears Will Be the Chaser for Your Wine,” “Fancy Satin Pillows)
Dannii Minogue is 52 (yes, her sister is Kylie Minogue)
The late Michael Johns (1978-2014)…he would have been 45 (The Aussie finished in eighth place on the seventh season of “American Idol,” in 2008.)
The late Grandpa Jones (1913-1998) (Born Louis Marshall Jones, a legendary banjo player and old-time country and gospel singer, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1978)
The late Suicide Silence frontman Mitch Lucker (1984-2012)… he would have been 39
Tom Petty (1950 – 2017)…he would have been 73 (FAST FACT: He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002)
Plus:
Director Danny Boyle is 67 (“Slumdog Millionaire,” “28 Days Later”)
Baseball player-turned-sometimes sportscaster and actor Keith Hernandez is 70 (A five-time All-Star baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals and the New York Mets, his eligibility for the Baseball Hall of Fame ended in 2004, after nine years on the ballot, he received votes from fewer than 5% of the writers.)
Victoria’s Secret model Candice Swanepoel is 35 (She’s been ranked #10 on Forbes’ list of the top-earning models in the world)
The late Joyce Brothers (1927-2013) …she would have been 96 (psychologist, TV personality, and magazine advice columnist)
The late humorist Art Buchwald (1925-2007)…he would have been 98 (columnist for The Washington Post, 1982 Pulitzer Prize recipient for Outstanding Commentary)
The late composer Charles Ives (1874-1954) (credited for composing the 20th century’s first radical musical work, “Central Park in the Dark” in 1906)
The late NY Yankee Mickey Mantle (1931-1995)… he would have been 92 (He hit 536 career home runs, was named American League MVP three times, and totaled 7-World Series Championships. Mantle was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974 and was elected to the Major League Baseball All-Century Team in 1999.)
The late jazz composer Jelly Roll Morton (1890-1941) (Born Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe, this legendary jazz composer’s “Jelly Roll Blues” became the first jazz composition to be published. Morton claimed to have invented jazz outright in 1902—much to the consternation of later musicians and critics. Still, jazz historian, musician, and composer Gunther Schuller once admitted there is "no proof to the contrary" and that Morton's "considerable accomplishments in themselves provide reasonable substantiation.")
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