June 8th
Actors:
- Kathy Baker is 70 (“The Right Stuff,” “Picket Fences,” “Edward Scissorhands,” “Cold Mountain,” “The Jane Austen Book Club,” “Take Shelter,” “Saving Mr. Banks,” “The Age of Adaline,” “The Ranch”)
- Eion Bailey is 44 (“Once Upon a Time,” “Covert Affairs”)
- Sonia Braga is 70 (“Kiss of the Spider Woman,” “Angel Eyes”)
- James Darren is 84 (“Gidget,” “The Guns of Navarone”) (FAST FACT: Also a singer, he released his debut album in 1960 as well as fifteen singles between 1959 and 1977)
- Griffin Dunne is 63 (“My Girl,” “Dallas Buyers Club”)
- Dan Futterman is 53 (“A Mighty Heart” “Kill The Messenger”)
- Frank Grillo is 55 (“Guiding Light,” “Prison Break,” “The Gates,” “Zero Dark Thirty,” “The Purge” series, “Kingdom”)
- Julianna Margulies is 54 (“ER,” “The Good Wife,” “Dietland,” “The Hot Zone”)
- Keenan Ivory Wayans is 62 (“A Different World,” “Hollywood Shuffle,” “I’m Gonna Git You Sucka”)
- Kelli Williams is 50 ("The Practice," “Lie To Me,” “Men In Trees,” “Army Wives,” “The Fosters”)
- The late Don Grady (“My Three Sons")(1944 – 2012)…he would have been 76
- The late Jerry Stiller (“Seinfeld,” “King of Queens”)(1927 - 2020)...he would have been 93
Musicians:
- The Calling’s Alex Band is 39
- Simply Red’s Mick Hucknall is 60
- Duran Duran’s Nick Rhodes is 58
- A Day to Remember’s Kevin Skaff is 35
- Sturgill Simpson is 42
- Nancy Sinatra is 80
- Bonnie Tyler is 69
- Kanye West is 43
Plus:
- Tennis star Lindsay Davenport is 44 (FAST FACT: She has been ranked World No. 1 on eight different occasions, for a total of 98 weeks.)
- Scientist Tim Berners Lee is 65 (British computer scientist who is widely credited with inventing the World Wide Web in 1989. He founded the World Wide Web Foundation in 2009 and the group works to improve the availability of the Internet)
- TV personality Maria Menounos is 42 (FAST FACT: In June 2017, she underwent surgery for meningioma, a benign intracranial tumor)
- The late former First Lady Barbara Bush(1925 – 2018) …she would have been 95(FAST FACT: Barbara Bush’s great-great-great Uncle was Franklin Pierce, the fourteenth president of the United States.)
- The late scientist Francis Crick(1916 – 2004)(A biologist and neuroscientist, he became one of the most important contributors to understanding DNA when he co-discovered its helical structure in 1953. He was also the one to con the term "central dogma" in reference to how genetic information flows from DNA to RNA to protein.)
- The late comedienne and television personality Joan Rivers(1933 – 2014) … she would have been 87
- The late architect Frank Lloyd Wright (He sought to blend buildings with the surrounding environment across his 1,000-plus structures. He finished 532 works and was among the leaders of the Prairie School architectural movement. He pioneered urban planning in the United States through the Usonian home.) (FAST FACT: His most famous work, Fallingwater from 1935, was called "the best all-time work of American architecture" and was an example of his belief in organic architecture; it was at one time, however, in danger of falling into the water beneath it.)(1867 – 1959)