Actors:
Kim Basinger is 70 (“9 ½ Weeks,” “Batman”) (FAST FACT: She’s mom to Ireland Baldwin, whom she shares with ex Alec Baldwin)
Teri Hatcher is 59 (“Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman,” “Desperate Housewives”) (FAST FACT: She was once a cheerleader for the San Francisco 49ers)
Matthew Labyorteaux is 57 (“Little House on the Prairie,” “Deadly Friend”)
Dominic Monaghan is 47 (“Lord of the Rings,” “X-Men Origins”) (FAST FACT: He currently hosts the nature program “Wild Things with Dominic Monaghan”).
Wendell Pierce is 60 (“The Wire,” “The Odd Couple”)
AnnaSophia Robb is 30 (“Bridge to Terabithia,” “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”)
Ian Somerhalder is 45 (“Lost,” “The Vampire Diaries”) (FAST FACT: He’s been married to Nikki Reed since 2015)
The late James MacArthur (1937-2010)…he would have been 86 (“Hawaii Five-O,” “The Bedford Incident”)
The late David Carradine (1936 – 2009)… he would have been 87 (“Kung Fu,” “Kill Bill: Vol. 1”)
The late Flip Wilson (1933-1998)… he would have been 90 (“The Flip Wilson Show”) (FAST FACT: “Time” magazine called him TV’s first Black superstar in 1972)
Musicians:
Def Leppard’s Phil Collen is 66
Marty Friedman is 61 (Megadeth, Tourniquet)
Sam Hunt is 39
Ingrid Michaelson is 44
Chrisette Michele is 41
Nicki Minaj is 41
Marty Raybon is 64
Slipknot’s Corey Taylor is 50
Kate Voegele is 37
The late Gregg Allman (1947-2017)…he would have been 76
The late Sammy Davis Jr. (1925-1990)…he would have been 98
The late Jim Morrison (1943-1971)… he would have been 80
Plus:
Author/political commentator Ann Coulter is 62
Race Car driver Kevin Harvick is 48 (He is the all-time winningest Cup Series driver at Phoenix International Raceway with 8 wins, and the third winningest driver in Xfinity Series history with 46 wins.)
Former NBA Center Dwight Howard is 38 (After leaving the LA Lakers, Howard moved to the Taoyuan Leopards in the T1 League. He is an NBA champion, eight-time All-Star, eight-time All-NBA Team honoree, five-time All-Defensive Team member, and three-time Defensive Player of the Year)
The late comedian Sam Kinison (1953-1992)… he would have been 70
The late Mary Stuart – aka Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-1587) (She became Queen of Scotland when she was just 6-days old)
The late cotton gin inventor Eli Whitney (1765-1825) (His was one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution and shaped the economy of the Antebellum South)
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