December 8th
Actors:
- Kim Basinger is 68 (“9 ½ Weeks,” “Batman,” “L.A. Confidential,” “8 Mile,” “Fifty Shades Darker”) (FAST FACT: She’s mom to Ireland Baldwin, whom she shares with ex Alec Baldwin)
- Teri Hatcher is 57 (“Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman,” “Tomorrow Never Dies,” “Desperate Housewives,” “Planes”) (FAST FACT: She was once a cheerleader for the San Francisco 49ers)
- Matthew Labyorteaux is 55 (“Little House on the Prairie,” “Deadly Friend”)
- Dominic Monaghan is 45 (“Lord of the Rings,” “Lost,” “X-Men Origins”) (FAST FACT: He currently hosts the nature program “Wild Things with Dominic Monaghan”).
- Wendell Pierce is 58 (“The Wire,” “Parker,” “Ray,” “Suits,” “The Odd Couple”)
- AnnaSophia Robb is 28 (“Soul Surfer,” “Bridge to Terabithia,” “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”)
- Ian Somerhalder is 43 (“Lost,” “Pulse,” “The Vampire Diaries”) (FAST FACT: He’s been married to Nikki Reed since 2015)
- The late James MacArthur(1937-2010)…he would have been 84(“Hawaii Five-O,” “Swiss Family Robinson,” “The Bedford Incident”)
- The late David Carradine(1936 – 2009)… he would have been 85(“Kung Fu,” “North and South,” “Kill Bill: Vol. 1”)
- The late Flip Wilson(1933-1998)… he would have been 88(“The Flip Wilson Show”) (FAST FACT: Time magazine called him TV’s first black superstar in 1972)
Musicians:
- Def Leppard’s Phil Collen is 64
- Marty Friedman (Megadeth, Tourniquet) is 59
- Sam Hunt is 37
- Ingrid Michaelson is 42
- Chrisette Michele is 39
- Nicki Minaj is 39
- Marty Raybon is 62
- Slipknot’s Corey Taylor is 48
- Kate Voegele is 35
- The late Gregg Allman(1947-2017)…he would have been 74
- The late Sammy Davis Jr.(1925-1990)…he would have been 96
- The late Jim Morrison(1943-1971)… he would have been 78
Plus:
- Author/political commentator Ann Coulter is 60
- Racecar driver Kevin Harvick is 46 (He is the all-time winningest Cup Series driver at Phoenix International Raceway with 8 wins, and the third winningest driver in Xfinity Series history with 46 wins.)
- Los Angeles Lakers’ center Dwight Howard is 36
- NFL QB Phillip Rivers is 40
- The late comedian Sam Kinison(1953-1992)… he would have been 68
- The late Mary Stuart – aka Mary, Queen of Scots(1542-1587)(She became Queen of Scotland when she was just 6-days old)
- The late cotton gin inventor Eli Whitney(1765-1825)(His was one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution and shaped the economy of the Antebellum South)