June 25th
Actors:
- Linda Cardellini is 45 (“Freaks and Geeks,” “ER,” “Scooby Doo,” “Mad Men,” “Bloodline” “Brokeback Mountain,” “Avengers: Age of Ultron”)
- Angela Kinsey is 49 (“The Office,” “Your Family or Mine,” “Haters Back Off”)
- Jason Lewis is 49 (“Sex and the City,” “Brothers & Sisters”)
- June Lockhart is 95 (“Lassie,” “Lost in Space,” “Petticoat Junction,” “Beverly Hills 90210”)
- Busy Philipps is 41 (“Freaks and Geeks,” “Dawson Creek,” “Cougar Town”)
- Jimmie Walker is 73 (“Good Times,” “Scrubs,” “Everybody Hates Chris”)
Musicians:
- Candyman is 51 (born Candell Manson)
- Nickelback’s Mike Kroeger is 48
- Ian McDonald is 74 (King Crimson, Foreigner)
- Toto’s David Paich is 66
- Carly Simon is 75
- The late Allen Lanier (Blue Oyster Cult)(1946 – 2013)…he would have been 74
- The late George Michael (his given name, Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou)(1963 – 2016)…he would have been 57
Plus:
- Children’s author Eric Carle is 91 (He created the best-selling picture book “The Very Hungry Caterpillar,” as well as “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?”)
- Funnyman Ricky Gervais is 59 (Among other things, he co-wrote and co-directed the British version of “The Office”)
- Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is 66 (She is the 111thappointment to the Court, and has the distinction of being its first justice of Hispanic heritage, its third female justice, and its twelfth Roman Catholic justice)
- TV personality, reality TV star and author La La Anthony is 41 (Best known from MTV’s “TRL” and “La La’s Full Court Life,” did you know that her actual name is Alani Nicole Anthony?)
- The late chef, author, all-around awesome TV personality Anthony Bourdain(1956 – 2018)…he would have been 64
- The late author George Orwell(1903-1950)(Aprolific author and satirist, he is best known for “1984,” “Animal Farm” – his actual name? Eric Arthur Blair)