Actors:
Linda Cardellini is 49 (“Freaks and Geeks,” “Avengers: Age of Ultron”)
Erica Gimpel is 60 (TV’s “Fame,” “Veronica Mars”)
Angela Kinsey is 53 (“The Office,” “Your Family or Mine”)
Jason Lewis is 53 (“Sex and the City,” “Brothers & Sisters”)
June Lockhart is 99 (“Lassie,” “Lost in Space”)
Busy Philipps is 45 (“Freaks and Geeks,” “Dawson Creek,” “Cougar Town”)
Jimmie Walker is 77 (“Good Times,” “Scrubs,” “Everybody Hates Chris”)
Musicians:
Candyman is 56 (born Candell Manson)
Tim Finn (Split Enz, Crowded House) is 72
Sixpence None The Richer guitarist Sean Kelly is 53
Nickelback’s Mike Kroeger is 52
Toto’s David Paich is 70
Richie Rich is 57
Carly Simon is 81
The late Allen Lanier (Blue Oyster Cult) (1946 – 2013)…he would have been 78
The late Ian McDonald (King Crimson, Foreigner) (1946 – 2022)…he would have been 78
The late George Michael (his given name, Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou) (1963 – 2016)…he would have been 61
Plus:
Funnyman (and sometime actor) Ricky Gervais is 63 (Among other things, he co-wrote and co-directed the British version of “The Office”)
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is 70 (She is the 111th appointment to the Court, and has the distinction of being its first justice of Hispanic heritage, its third female justice, and its twelfth Roman Catholic justice)
TV personality, reality TV star and author La La Anthony is 42 (Best known from MTV’s “TRL” and “La La’s Full Court Life,” did you know that her actual name is Alani Nicole Anthony?)
The late chef, author, all-around awesome TV personality Anthony Bourdain (1956 – 2018)…he would have been 68
The late children’s author Eric Carle (1929 – 2021) (He created the best-selling picture book “The Very Hungry Caterpillar,” as well as “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?” As for his ‘Hungry Caterpillar?’ It’s been translated into more than 66 languages and sold more than 50-million copies)
The late author George Orwell (1903-1950) (A prolific author and satirist, he is best known for “1984,” “Animal Farm” – his actual name? Eric Arthur Blair)
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