Cher Celebrates 78th Birthday Today

Actors:

John Billingsley is 64 (Dr. Phlox on "Star Trek: Enterprise," “The Man From Earth,” “True Blood” coroner Mike Spencer)

Dean Butler is 68 ("Little House on the Prairie")

Mindy Cohn is 58 ("The Facts of Life," voice of Velma on “Scooby Doo”) (FAST FACT: She was discovered in high school by actress Charlotte Rae and the “Facts of Life” producers while they were conducting research for the show.)

Jack Gleeson is 32 (“Game of Thrones”) (FAST FACTS: Now out of acting, he founded and became the artistic director of the Collapsing Horse Theatre Company in Dublin, Ireland)

Tony Goldwyn is 64 (“Ghost,” “The Pelican Brief”)

Michaela McManus is 41 (“One Tree Hill,” “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”)

Timothy Olyphant is 56 (“Justified,” “Santa Clarita Diet”)

Bronson Pinchot is 65 (“Perfect Strangers,” “Beverly Hills Cop”)

Dave Thomas is 75 ("SCTV," one of the “McKenzie Brothers”) (FAST FACTS: He directed John Travolta in the 1989 comedy “The Experts” while he worked with Paramount.)

The late Jimmy Stewart (1908 – 1997) (“The Philadelphia Story,” “It's A Wonderful Life,” “Rear Window,” “ Vertigo,” “The Man Who Knew Too Much”) (FAST FACTS: there is a Jimmy Stewart Museum in Indiana, Pennsylvania, his hometown. The establishment commemorates Stewart’s greatest accomplishments in film, radio, TV, military, and just being a world citizen.) 

Musicians:

Cher is 78

3LW’s Naturi Naughton is 40

Jon Pardi is 39

Rachel Platten is 43

Busta Rhymes is 52 (FAST FACTS: Born Trevor George Smith Jr., he went to high school with Jay-Z, DMX, and The Notorious B.I.G. …that high school must’ve been doing something right!)

Semisonic’s Dan Wilson is 63

Jane Wiedlin is 66

The late Joe Cocker (1944 – 2014) …he would have been 80 

Plus:

TV personality Ted Allen is 59 (“Queer Eye for The Straight Guy,” “Chopped”)

The late entrepreneur Emile Berliner (1851 – 1929) (FAST FACTS: He transferred music from Edison's cylinders onto flat spinning discs to create the gramophone.)

The late comedian George Gobel (1919 – 1991) (FAST FACTS: he starred in his own weekly NBC television show, “The George Gobel Show” that ran from 1954 to 1960)

The late first lady Dolley Madison (1768 – 1849) (FAST FACTS: She was the wife of James Madison who served as President of the United States from 1809 to 1817. And yes, her name is spelled with an ‘ey’)

(Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for iHeartRadio)


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