June 7th
Actors:
- Michael Cera is 32 (“Arrested Development,” “Superbad,” “Juno,” “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,” “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind”)
- Bill Hader is 42 (“Saturday Night Live,” “Superbad,” “Tropic Thunder,” “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” “The Skeleton Twins,” “Trainwreck”)
- Liam Neeson is 68 (“Excalibur,” “The Mission,” “Schindler’s List,” “Taken,” “Clash of the Titans,” “The Grey”)
- Kim Rhodes is 51 (“Another World,” “As the World Turns”)
- Kym Whitley is 59 (“My Brother and Me,” “Sparks,” “Sister, Sister,” “The Parkers,” “Next Friday”)
- The late Ken Osmond (Eddie Haskell in “Leave It to Beaver”)(1943 - 2020)...he would have been 77 (FAST FACTS:Struggling in Hollywood after being typecast, he later became a Los Angeles police officer. After retiring from police work, he resumed his acting career in the 90’s).
- The late Jessica Tandy(1909 – 1994)(“Driving Miss Daisy,” “Cocoon”) (FAST FACTS: She was married to Hume Cronyn. In 1979, she was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame)
Musicians:
- Iggy Azalea is 30 (her given name, Amethyst Amelia Kelly)
- George Ezra is 27
- Tom Jones is 80
- Jane’s Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro is 53 (FAST FACT: He’s also host of Spike TV’s “Ink Master.”)
- Cross Canadian Ragweed’s Randy Ragsdale is 53
- Fetty Wap is 29 (born Willie Maxwell II)
- The late Dean Martin(1917-1995)
- The late, oh so great, Prince(1958 – 2016)…he would have been 62
Plus:
- Film director James Ivory is 92 (“A Room With a View,” “Howards End”)
- Reality star Bear Grylls is 46 (“Man vs. Wild”) (FAST FACT: Don’t forget that what you see with Bear may not be what you get. Hewas busted back in 2007 for some fakeryon his TV show)
- Wrestling star Mick Foley is 55 (WWE Hall of Fame in 2013)
- NBA star Allen Iverson is 45 (FAST FACTS: He played for fourteen seasons in the NBA at both the shooting guard and point guard positions. An eleven-time NBA All-Star, he won the All-Star game MVP award in 2001 and 2005, and was the NBA's MVP in 2001. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016)
- Reality star Masika Kalysha is 35 (“Love and Hip Hop Hollywood” – plus she has appeared in videos for artists including Waka Flocka, Lil Wayne, and Birdman)
- Retired tennis player Anna Kournikova is 39 (longtime partner to Enrique Iglesias – they’ve been together since 2001)
- Music producer and reality TV star L.A. Reid is 64
- The late boxer James J. Braddock(1905-1974) (that’s according toYahoo! and other sites – though Wiki says it’s the 8th)(FAST FACT: The movie “Cinderella Man” is based on his life. Braddock was known for his spoiling, counterpunching style, powerful right hand and his iron chin. After losing several bouts because of chronic hand injuries during the Great Depression, he was forced to work on the docks and collect public assistance to feed his family. He made a comeback, and in 1935 he fought Max Baer for the Heavyweight title and won. For this unlikely feat he was given the nickname "Cinderella Man.”)
- The late poet Gwendolyn Brooks(1917-2000)(Pulitzer Prize-winning poet known for works such as “Annie Allen” and “We Real Cool.” She earned the title of U.S. Poet Laureate in 1985. She published her first poem in a children's magazine when she was just thirteen years old.)
- The late artist Paul Gaugin [[go-GAN]](1848-1903)(Post-Impressionist artist who depicted village life in Tahiti in such colorful works as "Spirit of the Dead Watching." His work became popular after his death and influenced such notables as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse.)
- The late dictator Muammar Gaddafi(1942 – 2011)…he would have been 78(Ruthless Libyan presidentfor more than 40 years after a bloodless coupin 1969. He was just 27 at the time. Fast forward and years of bad behavior found him beaten and killed by rebels after a civil war broke out in 2011)