June 3rd
Actors:
- Sean Berdy is 28 (“Switched At Birth”) (FAST FACTS: A year before he was nominated for TV Breakout Star at the 2011 Teen Choice Awards, Berdy was crowned Mr. Deaf Teen America)
- James Purefoy is 57 (“Rome,” “The Following”)
- Tristan Rogers is 75 (“General Hospital”)
- The late Josephine Baker(1906 - 1975)(FAST FACT: Coretta Scott King asked Baker if she would lead the Civil Rights Movement after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. She declined the offer to instead, be there for her children).
- The late Ellen Corby(1911 – 1999)(Grandma Walton on “The Waltons”)
- The late Tony Curtis(1925 - 2010)…he would have been 96(“Some Like It Hot”, “Spartacus” – he acted in more than 100 films in roles covering a wide range of genres, from light comedy to serious drama. Curtis was the father of actresses Jamie Lee Curtis and Kelly Curtis by his first wife, actress Janet Leigh)
- The late Colleen Dewhurst(1924 – 1991)…she would have been 97(“A Moon for the Misbegotten,” “Anne of Green Gables,” “Murphy Brown”)
Musicians:
- No Mercy’s Ariel and Gabriel Hernandez is 50
- Mott the Hoople’s Ian Hunter is 82
- Lyfe Jennings is 43(That’s according to Yahoo!, Wiki says 48)
- Stereophonics’ Kelly Jones is 47
- Slayer’s Kerry King is 57 (FAST FACT: He played a guitar solo on the Beastie Boys’ "No Sleep till Brooklyn.")
- Jamie O’Neal is 55(That’s according to FamousBirthdays.com, Wiki says 53)
- Suzi Quatro is 71
- Deniece Williams is 71(That’s according toYahoo!, though Wiki says 70)
- The late Curtis Mayfield(1942 – 1999)…he would have been 79
- The late Lynyrd Skynrd’s Billy Powell(1952 – 2009)…he would have been 69
Plus:
- Newsman Anderson Cooper is 54
- The late Game show host and author Chuck Barris(1929 – 2017)…he would have been 92(FAST FACT! Heclaimed that while he was creating game showslike “The Newlywed Game” and “The Dating Game;” and hosting “The Gong Show,” he was a contract CIA assassin)
- The late politician Jefferson Davis(1808-1889)(President of the Confederate States of America from its beginning in 1861 to its collapse in 1865. His 1881 memoir, “The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government,” helped restore his reputation after the war and he is now an icon and symbol of pride for many Southerners. Ironically, he actually argued against secession while he was a Senator from Mississippi.)
- The late beatnik poet Allen Ginsberg(1926 – 1997)…he would have been 95(National Book Award recipient who is best known for “Howl,” a controversial 1956 poetic work. His other notable works include “Reality Sandwiches,” “Iron Horse,” and “White Shroud Poems”)