Late Actor Heath Ledger Is Born On This Date In 1979

Actors:

David Cross is 60 (“The Ben Stiller Show,” “Arrested Development”) (FAST FACT: He’s been married Amber Tamblyn since 2012: she is 20 years his junior)

Robert Downey Jr. is 59 (“The Avengers,” “Iron Man”)

Christine Lahti is 74 (“Law and Order: Special Victims Unit,” “The Blacklist”)

Natasha Lyonne is 45 (“American Pie,” “Orange Is the New Black”)

Nancy McKeon is 58 (“Facts of Life,” “Dancing with the Stars”) (Appearing on season 27 of ABC’s “DWTS,” she was paired with Valentin Chmerkovskiy – and was the third celeb eliminated)

Phil Morris is 65 (Jackie Chiles on “Seinfeld”)

Craig T. Nelson is 80 (“Coach,” “Parenthood”)

Barry Pepper is 54 (“Saving Private Ryan,” True Grit”)

Amanda Righetti is 41 (“The O.C.,” “The Mentalist”)

Hugo Weaving is 64 (“V,” “The Matrix,” “Lord of the Rings”)

The late Heath Ledger (1979 – 2008)…he would have been 45 (“10 Things I Hate About You,” “The Patriot,” “A Knight's Tale,” “Brokeback Mountain,” “The Dark Knight”) (FAST FACTS: He was passionate about chess, and won the Western Australia's junior chess championship at age 10)

The late Anthony Perkins (1932 – 1992)…he would have been 92 (“The Matchmaker,” “Friendly Persuasion,” “Psycho”) 

Musicians:

Curren$y is 43 (born Shante Scott Franklin)

Clay Davidson is 53

Steve Gatlin is 73

Austin Mahone is 28

Jill Scott is 52

Jamie Lynn Spears is 33

Buck Cherry’s Josh Todd is 54

The late Gary Moore (1952 – 2011)…he would have been 71 (FAST FACT: He played the guitar right-handed even though he is left-handed. His first guitar was a beaten up acoustic that he acquired when he was eight years old)

The late Muddy Waters (his given name, McKinley Morganfield) (1913 – 1983) 

Plus:

Magician David Blaine is 51

Famed Record executive Clive Davis is 92

TV producer David E. Kelley is 68 (“The Practice,” “Ally McBeal,” “Boston Legal”) (FAST FACT: Kelley’s been married to actress Michelle Pfeiffer since 1993)

Biographer Kitty Kelley is 82 (Wrote the best-selling unauthorized bios of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Reagan, the British Royal Family, the Bush family, and Oprah Winfrey)

TV personality Graham Norton is 61 (FAST FACT: He rose to national attention when his appearance in drag as Mother Theresa fooled correspondents on Scottish Television)

The late author/poet Maya Angelou (1928 – 2014)…she would have been 96 (“I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings,” the poem "On the Pulse of Morning”)


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