May 19th
Actors:
- James Fox is 81 (“A Passage to India,” “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” “Sherlock Holmes”) (FAST FACTS: his role in the 1963 film “The Servant” earned him a VAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer.)
- Jessica Fox is 37 (“The Muppet Christmas Carol,” “Back Home,” “The Phoenix and the Carpet”)
- Eric Lloyd is 34 ("The Santa Clause" film series, “Batman & Robin”)
- Geraldine Somerville is 53 (“Harry Potter,” “Gosford Park”)
- Jason Gray-Stanford is 50 (“Earth to Echo,” “Monk,” “Monday Mornings”)
- Eleanor Tomlinson is 28 (“Jack the Giant Slayer,” “Alice in Wonderland,” “Angus,” “Poldark”)
- The late Peter Mayhew(1944 – 2019)…he would have been76(Chewbacca in the “Star Wars” franchise, he was 7-feet, 3-inches tall)
Musicians:
- ZZ Top’s Dusty Hill is 71 (FAST FACTS: He also appeared in the movie “Back to the Future Part III.)
- Shooter Jennings is 41
- Grace Jones is 72
- Rohan Marley is 48 (Yes, Bob Marley is his father.)
- AC/DC’s Phil Rudd is 66 (FAST FACT: When his solo album was released, it didn’t do as well as it was expected to. So he fired several employees and threatened to kill his personal assistant. He laterplead guilty to death threat and drug chargesand was sentenced to home detention.)
- Sam Smith is 28
- Pete Townshend is 75 (FAST FACTS: He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990.)
- Yo Gotti is 39 (born Mario Mims)
- The late Joey Ramone(1951 – 2001)…he would have been 69
Plus:
- Racecar driver Dario Franchitti is 47 (FAST FACT: He married Ashley Judd in 2001 and while they separated briefly in 2013, they reconciled following an accident on the track. But then, in 2014, they went ahead with the divorce anyway! He has since remarried Eleanor Robb – their daughter Sofia was born in 2015)
- TV personality David Hartman is 85
- Reality star Kim Zolciak-Biermann is 42 (“Real Housewives of Atlanta,” “Don’t Be Tardy,” “Dancing with the Stars”)
- The late wrestler (and sometime actor) Andre the Giant(1946 – 1993)…he would have been74(FAST FACT: Born André René Roussimoff, it was his 7-foot, 5-inch; 525-pound stature that had people regard him as The Eighth Wonder of the World)
- The late author/screenwriter/director Nora Ephron(1941 – 2012)…she would have been 79(“Silkwood,” “When Harry Met Sally,” “Sleepless in Seattle,” "Mixed Nuts,” “You've Got Mail," “Julie & Julia”)
- The late broadcast journalist Jim Lehrer(1934 – 2020) ...he would have been86
- The late communist ruler of Vietnam Ho Chi Minh(1890 – 1969)
- The late Cambodian dictator Pol Pot(1925 – 1998)…he would have been 95(He led Khmer Rouge revolutionary group from 1963 to 1988 – and between 1975 and 1979 murdered 25% of the country's population through starvation, overwork and executions.)
- The late celebrity spouse Nicole Brown Simpson(1959 – 1994)…she would have been 61
- The late Malcolm X(1925 – 1965)…he would have been95(FAST FACTS: He was born Malcolm Little and after the death of his father, he and his brothers would hunt game to make ends meet. A trip to the Muslim holy city of Mecca helped him to develop his beliefs; he began signing his last name as X to replace the ancestral slave name Little.)