St. Ed's Own Phil Donahue Celebrates His 88th Birthday Today

Actors:

Kaitlyn Dever is 27 (“J. Edgar,” “Bad Teacher”)

Jane Fonda is 86 (“Barbarella,” “Grace and Frankie”)

Michelle Hurd is 57 (“The Glades,” “Blindspot”)

Samuel L. Jackson is 75 (“Jungle Fever,” “Captain America: The Winter Soldier”)

Jane Kaczmarek is 68 (“Malcolm in the Middle,” “Falling in Love”) (FAST FACT: She founded the organization, Clothes Off Our Back, which auctioned celebrity clothing for children’s charities)

Ray Romano is 66 (“Everybody Loves Raymond,” “Ice Age”) (FAST FACT: He was in the same high school class as Fran Drescher)

Kiefer Sutherland is 57 (“The Lost Boys,” “24”) (FAST FACT: when he first moved to Hollywood, he lived with fellow actor, Robert Downey, Jr. for three years)

Mike Vitar is 45 (“The Sandlot,” “Diplomatic Immunity”)

Steven Yeun is 40 (“Invincible,” “The Walking Dead”)

The late Paul Winchell (1922-2005) (Tigger in “Winnie the Pooh,” “The Paul Winchell Show”)

 

Musicians:

Natalie Grant is 52

Seether’s Shaun Morgan is 45

Lee Roy Parnell is 67

The late Freddie Hart (1926-2018)… he would have been 97

The late Beach Boy Carl Wilson (1946-1998)… he would have been 77

The late Betty Wright (1953 – 2020) ...she would have been 70

The late Frank Zappa (1940-1993)… he would have been 83

 

Plus:

Screenwriter/producer Chris Collins is 56 (“The Sopranos,” “Sons of Anarchy”)

Funnyman Andy Dick is 58 (FAST FACT! He landed in 7th place on the 16th season of “Dancing with the Stars”)

TV personality and St. Edward High School graduate Phil Donahue is 88

Tennis legend Chris Evert is 69 (FAST FACT: She won a Grand Slam title every year from 1974-1986)

DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg is 73

“Duck Dynasty” wife “Miss” Kay Robertson is 76

The late baseball player Josh Gibson (1911-1947) (Nicknamed the “Black Babe Ruth,” he was the second player after Satchel Paige who had played in the Negro leagues to be inducted in the National Baseball Hall of Fame.)

The late Olympian Florence Griffith Joyner (1959-1998)… she would have been 64 (FAST FACTS: “FloJo” is considered the fastest woman of all time based on the fact that the world records she set in 1988 for both the 100m and 200m – as they still stand. She won three Golds at the 1988 Olympics)

The late disgraced Penn State coach Joe Paterno (1926-2012)…he would have been 97. (His illustrious career ended with his dismissal from the team in November, 2011 as a result of the Penn State child sex abuse scandal.)

The late journalist and author Rebecca West (1892-1983) (FAST FACT! “Time” called her "indisputably the world's number one woman writer" in 1947.)


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