December 10th
Actors:
- Kenneth Branagh is 59 (“Thor,” “My Week with Marilyn,” “Hamlet”)
- Emmanuelle Chriqui is 44 (“Entourage,” “You Don’t Mess With the Zohan”)
- Susan Dey is 67 (“The Partridge Family,” “L.A. Law”)
- Patrick Flueger is 36 (“The Princess Diaries,” “Footloose,” “The World’s Fastest Indian”)
- Arden Myrin is 46 (“Bubble Boy,” “MADtv,” “What Women Want”) (FAST FACT: She once was an intern for Late Night with Conan O’Brien)
- Nia Peeples is 58 (“Fame,” “Walker, Texas Ranger,” “Pretty Little Liars”)
- Xavier Samuel is 36 (“Twilight Saga: Eclipse,” “Bait 3D,” “A Few Best Men”)
- Raven-Symone is 34 (“The Cosby Show,” “That‘s So Raven,” “The Cheetah Girls”)
- The late Dan Blocker(1928-1972)…he would have been 91(“Bonanza”)
- The late Michael Clarke Duncan(1957-2012)…he would have been 62(“The Green Mile,” “Armageddon,” “The Whole Nine Yards,” “The Scorpion King,” “Daredevil,” “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby”)
- The late Dorothy Lamour(1914-1996)(“Road To…” franchise, “The Jungle Princess”)
- The late Una Merkel(1903-1986)(“Abraham Lincoln,” “Spinout”)
Musicians:
- Ana Gabriel is 64
- Gloria Loring is 73
- Meg White (She’s stepped away from music since The White Stripes officially disbanded in 2011) is 45
- The late Kevin Sharp(1970 – 2014)…he would have been 49
Plus:
- Chef Bobby Flay is 55
- The late Melvil Dewey (inventor of the Dewey Decimal System)(1851 – 1931)
- The late poet Emily Dickinson(1830-1886)(While Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly 1,800 poems were published during her lifetime, and the work that was published during her life was usually altered by the publishers to fit the “conventional rules” of the time. It wasn’t until after her death when her younger sister, Lavinia, discovered her cache of poems — that the breadth of her work became apparent to the public. And while that work was also heavily edited, finally in 1955 the world got to see her work in its true form.)
- The late newscaster Chet Huntley(1911-1974)(Best known for co-anchoring NBC's evening news program, “The Huntley-Brinkley Report,” for 14 years beginning in 1956)
- The late TV Producer Agnes Nixon(1922-2016)…she would have been 97(“All My Children,” “One Life to Live”)