Country Star Kenny Chesney Celebrates 56th Birthday Today

Jennifer Grey is 64 (“Red Dawn,” “It’s Like, You Know”)

Jonathan Groff is 39 (“Glee,” “Frozen”)

Michael Imperioli is 58 (“Detroit 1-8-7”)

T.R. Knight is 51 (“Grey’s Anatomy,” “The Catch”)

Keira Knightley is 39 (“Collateral Beauty”) (FAST FACT: She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for “The Imitation Game”)

Vicki Lawrence is 75 (“Carol Burnett Show,” “Mama’s Family”)

Leslie Mann is 52 (“How to Be Single”) (FAST FACT: She’s been married to Judd Apatow since 1997)

Martin Short is 74 (“Jungle 2 Jungle,” “Only Murders in the Building”)

Amy Smart is 48 (“Tyler Perry's The Single Moms Club”)

The late James Caan (“Elf,” “Las Vegas”)…he would have been 84

The late Leonard Nimoy (1931-2015)…he would have been 93 (“Star Trek,” “In Search Of…”) (FAST FACT: While many of us know him for his on-screen work, he was also a prolific artist – his chosen medium, photography) 

Musicians:

Kenny Chesney is 56

James Iha is 56 (Smashing Pumpkins, Tinted Windows, A Perfect Circle)

Charly McClain is 68

Diana Ross is 80 (FAST FACTS: In 1972, she won a Golden Globe for her performance as Billie Holiday in “Lady Sings the Blues”)

Steven Tyler is 76 

Plus:

NFL Hall of Famer Marcus Allen is 64 (FAST FACTS: Six-time Pro Bowl selection and became the first player to rush for 10,000 yards and compile over 500 receiving yards in the NFL)

Novelist and Scientist Richard Dawkins is 83 (famous for his books, “The Selfish Gene,” “The Blind Watchmaker,” and “The God Delusion”)

TV personality Leeza Gibbons is 67 (In 2015, she won “Celebrity Apprentice,” having raised $714,000 for her charity, Leeza's Care Connection. And by the way? She’s one of only two women who has won the competition – the first? Joan Rivers.)

Author Erica Jong is 82 (Her controversial book, "Fear of Flying," was among the first to explore empowered female sexuality.) (FAST FACT: To date, that book has sold more than 20-million copies)

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is 84 (Pelosi has served in the House of Representatives since 1987)

“Watergate” journalist Bob Woodward is 81 (FAST FACT: A young reporter for “The Washington Post” in 1972, he was teamed up with Carl Bernstein and together they broke the infamous “Watergate” scandal)

The late Pulitzer prize-winning poet Robert Frost (1874 – 1963) (“Birches”) (FAST FACT: He read his poem, "The Gift Outright," at the 1961 inauguration of President John F. Kennedy)

The playwright Tennessee Williams (1911 – 1983) (“Orpheus Descending.”) (FAST FACT: Along with Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller he is considered among the three foremost playwrights in 20th-century American drama)

(Photo by Terry Wyatt/Getty Images)


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