June 21st
Actors:
- Meredith Baxter is 74 (“Family,” “Family Ties,” “A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story,” “Cold Case,” “Finding Carter”)
- Erica Durance is 43 (“Smallville,” “Saving Hope,” “Supergirl”)
- Ron Ely is 83 (“Tarzan,” “How To Marry A Millionaire,” “Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze”)
- Michael Gross is 74 (“Family Ties,” Tremors,” “Suits”) (FAST FACT: While most fans know him for warmer, fuzzier roles… “Law & Order” devotees know his particularly creepy turns as killers in “Criminal Intent” and “SVU” episodes)
- Mariette Hartley is 81 (“Ride the High Country,” “One Life to Live,” “The Incredible Hulk,” “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”)
- Juliette Lewis is 48 (“Cape Fear,” “What's Eating Gilbert Grape,” “Natural Born Killers,” “Kalifornia,” “From Dusk till Dawn,” “The Other Sister,” “Conviction,” “Secrets & Lies”)
- Michael Malarkey is 38 (“The Vampire Diaries”)
- David Morrissey is 57 (“The Reaping,” “Sense and Sensibility,” “Centurion,” “The Walking Dead”)
- Chris Pratt is 42 (“Everwood,” “Parks and Recreation,” “Wanted,” “Moneyball,” “The Five-Year Engagement,” “Zero Dark Thirty,” “Guardians of the Galaxy,” “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2,” “Avengers: Infinity War,” “Jurassic World,” “The Magnificent Seven,” “Passengers,” “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom”) (FAST FACT: In 2015, “Time” magazine named Pratt one of the 100 most influential people in the world on the annual ‘Time 100 list.’ Now counting ‘Governator’ Arnold Schwarzenegger as his father in law, Pratt got hitched to Katherine Schwarzenegger in 2019. Their first child together, Lyla Maria, was born in August 2020)
- Carrie Preston is 54 (“True Blood,” “Person of Interest,” “Crowded,” “The Good Wife,” “The Good Fight”)
- Doug Savant is 57 (“Melrose Place,” “Godzilla,” “Desperate Housewives,” “24,” “What Color Is Love?”) (FAST FACT: He’s been married to “Melrose Place” castmate Laura Leighton since 1998)
- Maggie Siff is 47 (“Mad Men,” “Push,” “Billions,” “Sons of Anarchy”)
- Jussie Smollett is 39 (“The Might Ducks,” “Empire,” “Alien: Covenant”)
- The late Jane Russell(1921-2011)(“Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” “Fate is the Hunter”)
Musicians:
- Kris Allen is 36
- Ray Davies is 77
- Lana Del Rey is 36 (Her real name? Elizabeth Woolridge Grant)
- The Killers’ Brandon Flowers is 40 (FAST FACT: He joined the Killers in response to a newspaper ad)
- Aerosmith’s Joey Kramer is 71
- Kathy Mattea is 62
Plus:
- YouTube sensation Rebecca Black is 24 (FAST FACT: Rebecca Black earned her fame with the song “Friday” in 2011, which went viral for being one of the worst music videos of all time. More recently, she returned theconsciousness by way of the FOX series, “The Four: The Battle For Stardom”as well as a stint onNBC’s “The Voice”)
- Edward Snowden is 38 (FAST FACT: Former CIA employee who made global headlines in June 2013 when he told the media about the National Security Agency's invasive tactics)
- Britain’s Prince William/Duke of Cambridge is 39 (FAST FACT: He is the eldest son of Prince Charles and Princess Diana and is second in line for the throne.)
- The late Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto(1953-2007) …she would have been 68(FAST FACT: became the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state. She was assassinated in a bombing in Pakistan after spending nine years in self-exile)
- The late philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre(1905-1980)(FAST FACT: he is considered the father of existentialism)