Actors:
Jensen Ackles is 42 (“Dark Angel,” “Smallville,” “Supernatural”)
Javier Bardem is 51 (“No Country for Old Men,” “Skyfall,” “Biutiful”) (FAST FACTS: He is the first Spaniard to win the Best Supporting Actor Oscar – he got it for “No Country for Old Men.” When he won his 5th Goya Award, as Best Actor in “Biutiful,” dedicating the win to his wife, Penélope Cruz, and then-newborn son. Bardem and Cruz have been together since 2007, and married since 2010)
Bryan Batt is 57 (“Mad Men”)
Catherine Bach is 66 (“Dukes of Hazzard”)
Dirk Benedict is 75 (“Battlestar Galactica,” “The A Team”)
Robert Clary is 94 (“Hogan's Heroes”)
Tim Daly is 64 (“Wings,” “Private Practice,” “Madam Secretary”)
George Eads is 53 (“CSI,” “MacGyver”)
Mark-Paul Gosselaar is 46 (“Saved By The Bell,” “NYPD Blue,” Raising the Bar,” “Franklin & Bash,” “Pitch,” “The Passage”)
Daniella Monet is 31 (“Victorious”)
Lupita Nyong'o is 37 (“12 Years a Slave,” “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” “Queen of Katwe,” “Black Panther”)
Donovan Patton is 42 (“Blues Clues” )(While many of us would know him as the guy who replaced ‘Steve’ on “Blues Clues,” he has gone on to a number of voice roles in shows such as “Clarence”)
The late Robert Conrad (1935 – 2020)...he would have been 85 (“The Wild Wild West,” “Black Sheep Squadron,” “Jingle All The Way”)
The late Alan Thicke (1947 – 2016)…he would have been 73 (“Growing Pains,” “Hope & Gloria,” “Not Quite Human”)
The late David Niven (1910 – 1983) (“The Bishop’s Wife,” “Around the World in 80 Days,” “Pink Panther”) (He won Best Actor for “Separate Tables”)
Musicians:
Harry Belafonte is 93 (aka the “King of Calypso”)
Justin Bieber is 26
Manfred Mann’s Mike D’Abo is 76
The Who’s Roger Daltrey is 76
Blood, Sweat, and Tears’ Jerry Fisher is 78
Kesha is 33
The late bandleader Glenn Miller (1904 – 1944) (The best-selling recording artist from 1939 to 1943, while he was traveling to entertain U.S. troops in France during World War II, Glenn Miller's aircraft disappeared in bad weather over the English Channel.)
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