May 30th
Actors:
- Ralph Carter is 59 (“Good Times”)
- Sean Giambrone is 21 (“The Goldbergs”)
- Ted McGinley is 62 (“Happy Days,” “Love Boat,” “Dynasty,” “Married…With Children,” “Hope & Faith,” “The Baxters” – which is set to premiere later this year and stars Roma Downey)
- Colm Meaney is 67 (“Star Trek: The Next Generation,” “Get Him To The Greek”)
- Idina Menzel is 49 (“Rent,” “Wicked,” “Glee,” “Enchanted,” “Frozen”)
- The late John Heawood(1920 – 1995)…he would have been 100(“Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,” “Sergeant Cork”)
- The late Meredith MacRae(1944 – 2000)…she would have been 76(“My Three Sons,” “Born Famous”)
Musicians:
- Cee Lo Green is 46 (his given name, Thomas DeCarlo Callaway)
- Pavement’s Stephen Malkmus is 54
- Tom Morello is 56
- Remy Ma is 40
- Wynonna is 56
- The late Benny Goodman(1909 – 1986)(FAST FACTS: Known as the King of Swing, he had joined the Ben Pollack Orchestra, one of Chicago's top bands at 16. He himself would have one of the greatest bands of the 1930s, and his Carnegie Hall concert of 1938 was largely credited with making jazz a respectable genre of music.
Plus:
- Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer is 45
- The late cartoon voicist Mel Blanc (FAST FACT: His real name was Melvin Jerome Blank, but he changed the spelling of his last name after a rude comment made by his high school teacher.)(1908 – 1989)
- The late entrepreneur Bob Evans (He created the Bob Evans chain and Owens Country Sausage line)(1918 – 2007)