July 14th
Actors:
- Sara Canning is 33 (“Black Field,” “The Vampire Diaries,” “Primeval: New World,” “Remedy,” “War of the Planet of the Apes”)
- Matthew Fox is 54 (“Party of Five,” “Lost,” “World War Z”)
- Rosey Grier is 88 (“Daniel Boone,” “The White Shadow”) (FAST FACT: Grier became an ordained Christian minister in 1983 and travels as an inspirational speaker. He founded American Neighborhood Enterprises, a nonprofit organization that serves inner city youth.)
- Jackie Earle Haley is 59 (“Bad News Bears,” “Watchmen,” “Nightmare on Elm Street,” “Preacher”)
- Jane Lynch is 60 (“Best In Show,” “The 40-Year-Old Virgin,” “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby,” “Role Models,” “The Three Stooges,” “Glee,” “Angel From Hell,” and since 2013, she has hosted “Hollywood Game Night”)
- Vincent Pastore is 73 (“The Sopranos”)
- Scott Porter is 41 (“Friday Night Lights,” “The Good Wife,” “Hart of Dixie”)
- The late Polly Bergen(1930 – 2014)…she would have been 90(“Cape Fear,” “Playhouse 90”)
- The late Dale Robertson(1923-2013) …he would have been 97(“Tales of Wells Fargo,” “Iron Horse”)
- The late Harry Dean Stanton(1926 – 2017)…he would have been 94(“Kelly’s Heroes,” “Rawhide,” “Gunsmoke,” “Alien,” “The Green Mile,” “Big Love,” “Getting On,” the 2017 reboot of “Twin Peaks”)
- The late Spencer Williams(1893 – 1969)(“The Blood of Jesus,” “Amos ‘n’ Andy's” Andy Brown) (FAST FACT: He was also was a pioneering Black-American film producer and director.)
Musicians:
- Tanya Donnelly is 54 (Throwing Muses, The Breeders, Belly)
- Xscape’s Tameka "Tiny" Cottle-Harris is 45 (While she’s still married to T.I., with whom she co-stars in VH1’s “T.I. and Tiny: The Family Hustle,” the couple separated in December 2016)
- Tenacious D and Trainwreck’s Kyle Gass is 60
- Black Eye Peas’ Taboo is 45 (FAST FACT: Born Jaime Gomez, he was diagnosed with stage 2 testicular cancer in June 2014 and went through 12 weeks of intense, aggressive chemotherapy out of the public eye. He had been diagnosed after going to the emergency room for what he thought was the flu. He now is cancer-free.)
- Jamey Johnson is 45
- Imagine Dragons’ Dan Reynolds is 33
- Bastille’s Dan Campbell Smith is 34
- The late folk singer Woody Guthrie(1912-1967)(FAST FACTS: He composed "This Land Is Your Land” and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988)
Plus:
- Big shot music executive (and former Mr. Mariah Carey) Tommy Mottola is 71
- “Dancing with the Stars” pro Peta Murgatroyd is 34
- The late movie/stage director Ingmar Bergman(1918 – 2007)(“The Seventh Seal,” “Wild Strawberries”)
- The late President Gerald Ford(1913-2006)(FAST FACT: He was the first president not to be elected by the Electoral College as he ascended to office following the resignation of Richard Nixon)
- The late cartoonist William Hanna(1910-2001)(He co-founded Hanna-Barbera, which became the most successful television animation studio and produced shows including “Tom & Jerry,” “The Flintstones,” “The Huckleberry Hound Show,” “The Jetsons,” “Scooby-Doo,” “The Smurfs,” and “Yogi Bear”)
The late Gustav Klimt(1862-1918)(Symbolist painter best known for "The Kiss")