February 19th
Actors:
- Justine Bateman is 54 (“Family Ties”)
- Jeff Daniels is 65 (“Terms of Endearment,” “Arachnophobia,” “Dumb and Dumber,” “Steve Jobs,” “The Martian,” “The Newsroom”)
- Haylie Duff is 35 (“7thHeaven,” “Napoleon Dynamite,” “Love Takes Wing,” “Love Finds a Home”)
- Victoria Justice is 27 (“Zoey 101,” “Victorious,” “Eye Candy”)
- David Mazouz is 19 (“Gotham,” “Touch”)
- Benicio Del Toro is 53 (“The Usual Suspects,” “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” “Sin City,” “Traffic,” “Escobar: Paradise Lost,” “The Wolfman,” “ The Last Jedi," “Guardians of the Galaxy”) (FAST FACT: He won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award,ANDa BAFTA Award for his role in “Traffic”)
- Bellamy Young is 50 (“The Drew Carey Show,” “The X Files,” “The West Wing,” “Private Practice,” “Two and a Half Men,” “Drop Dead Diva,” “Castle,” “Scandal,” “Prodigal Son”)
- The late Lee Marvin(1924 – 1987)…he would have been 96(“M Squad,” “Cat Ballou”) (FAST FACT: He won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award,ANDa BAFTA Award for his role in “Cat Ballou”)
Musicians:
- Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi is 72
- Seal is 57 (His full name? Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel)
- Smokey Robinson is 80
- General Public’s Dave Wakeling is 64
- The late Falco(1957 – 1998)…he would have been 63(his given name, Johann Hölzel)
Plus:
- Britain’s Prince Andrew is 60 (In 2015, he was embroiled in an under-age sex scandal, his porn star ex, Koo Stark,said he’s ‘too sexy’ to have needed a sex slave. Apparently, a judge agreed and tossed that case out...though the case has been revived in the wake of the re-arrest and death of Jeffrey Epstein. Similarly, his disastrous interview on the subjectand the continuing case leaves him under an ugly cloud of suspicion.)
- Reality Star Cynthia Bailey is 53 (“The Real Housewives of Atlanta”)
- NFL Boss Roger Goodell is 61
- Author Jeff Kinney is 49 (“Diary of a Wimpy Kid,” among others)
- Author Amy Tan is 68 (“The Joy Luck Club,” “The Bonesetter’s Daughter”)
- The late scientist Nicolaus Copernicus(1473-1543)(He came up with idea of heliocentrism, that the earth revolves around the sun. Luckily for Copernicus, he died shortly after publishing his work, and was never bothered by the Catholic Church for his discovery. By contrast, Galileo, who proved the math behind heliocentrism, was sentenced to house arrest by the inquisition.) (FAST FACT: As a young man, he practiced medicine without a medical degree.)
- The late labor activist Karen Silkwood(1946 – 1974)… she would have been 74(She ismost famous for her mysterious death, which was the subject of a victorious lawsuit against the chemical company Kerr-McGee. She gained more fame when she was portrayed by Meryl Streep in the 1983 Academy Award-nominated film "Silkwood.”)