Famous Birthdays Today- TV Personality Jon Taffer Is 65

October 7th

Actors:

  • Adam DeVine is 36 (“Workaholics,” “Pitch Perfect,” “Mama’s Boy,” “Modern Family”)
  • Reid Ewing is 31 (“Friday Night,” “Modern Family,” “Wingman Inc.”)
  • Yunjin Kim is 46 (“Lost,” “Seven Days,” “Mistresses”)
  • Christopher Knight is 62 (‘Peter Brady’ on “The Brady Bunch”)
  • Noah Lomax is 18 (“The Walking Dead”)
  • Jason London is 47 (“To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar,” “The Rage: Carrie Two”)
  • Jeremy London is 47 (“7thHeaven,” “Dazed and Confused,” “Gods and Generals”)
  • Rick Malambri is 37 (“Step Up 3D,” “Surrogates,” “A Holiday Heist”)
  • Lucas Neff is 34 (“Raising Hope,” “Glitch,” “Amigo”)
  • Rachele Brooke Smith is 32 (“Iron Man 2,” “17 Again,” “Burlesque”)
  • The late Dean Jagger(1903-1991)(“White Christmas,” “Mr. Novack,” “Vanishing Point”)
  • The late Dana Plato(1964-1999)…she would have been 55(“Diff’rent Strokes,” “California Suite”) (FAST FACT: She had appeared in over 100 commercials by age seven) 

Musicians:

  • David Guetta is 52
  • Lorde is 23 (Her real name? Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor)
  • Joni Mitchell is 76
  • Shinedown’s Zach Myers is 36
  • Johnny Rivers is 77
  • Tinie Tempah is 31 (born Patrick Chukwuemeka Okogwu)
  • KISS’ Tommy Thayer is 59
  • Mudvayne’s Greg Tribbett is 51 

Plus:

  • War Hero Marcus Luttrell is 44 (A former United States Navy SEAL, he received the Navy Cross and Purple Heart for his actions in June 2005 facing Taliban fighters duringOperation Red Wings.)
  • Beauty guru Bethany Mota is 24 (YouTube superstar with over 7-million subscribers) (FAST FACT: She became the first YouTuber to ever be cast as a member on “Dancing With The Stars”)
  • TV personality/political analyst Lawrence O’Donnell is 68
  • Paralympian and reality star Amy Purdy is 40 (“Dancing with the Stars”) (At 19, she lost both legs due to Meningitis. She went on to become a Paralympic bronze medalist in 2014, co-founder of Adaptive Action Sports, professional motivational speaker, clothing designer and author. On the small screen, she came in third with Derek Hough on season 18 on “Dancing with the Stars”)
  • Director Morgan Spurlock is 49 (“Super Size Me,” “Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden?”)
  • TV personality Jon Taffer is 65 (“Bar Rescue”)
  • The late explorer Captain James Cook(1728-1779)(He mapped the South Pacific, Australia, and Hawaii) (FAST FACT! He named what we know as the Hawaiian islands, the Sandwich Islands, in honor of John Montague, who was the earl of Sandwich and one his patrons in 1778)
  • The late scientist Madame Curie(1867-1934)(A pioneering chemist, she discovered radium and polonium and became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in 1903 – she was also the first person and only woman to wintwice.)
  • The late televangelist Billy Graham(1918-2018)(“America’s Pastor,” has appeared on Gallup’s list of most admired men and women 55 times since 1955) (FAST FACT: He once bailed Martin Luther King Jr. out of jail in the 1960s)
  • The late communist Leon Trotsky(1879-1940)(Russian revolutionary who was the founder and first leader of the Red Army)


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