Actors:
Justine Bateman is 56 (“Family Ties”)
Jeff Daniels is 67 (“Terms of Endearment,” “Arachnophobia,” “Dumb and Dumber,” “Steve Jobs,” “The Martian,” “The Newsroom”)
Haylie Duff is 37 (“7th Heaven,” “Napoleon Dynamite,” “Love Takes Wing,” “Love Finds a Home”)
Victoria Justice is 29 (“Zoey 101,” “Victorious,” “Eye Candy”)
David Mazouz is 21 (“Gotham,” “Touch”)
Benicio Del Toro is 55 (“The Usual Suspects,” “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” “Sin City,” “Traffic,” “Escobar: Paradise Lost,” “The Wolfman,” “ The Last Jedi," “Guardians of the Galaxy”) (FAST FACT: He won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, ANDa BAFTA Award for his role in “Traffic”)
Bellamy Young is 52 (“The Drew Carey Show,” “The X Files,” “The West Wing,” “Private Practice,” “Two and a Half Men,” “Drop Dead Diva,” “Castle,” “Scandal,” “Prodigal Son,” “Promised Land”)
The late Lee Marvin (1924 – 1987)…he would have been 98(“M Squad,” “Cat Ballou”) (FAST FACT: He won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, AND a BAFTA Award for his role in “Cat Ballou”)
Musicians:
Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi is 74
Seal is 59 (His full name? Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel)
Smokey Robinson is 82
General Public’s Dave Wakeling is 66
The late Falco (1957 – 1998)…he would have been 65 (his given name, Johann Hölzel)
Plus:
Britain’s Prince Andrew is 62 (In 2015, he was embroiled in an under-age sex scandal, his porn star ex, Koo Stark, said he’s ‘too sexy’ to have needed a sex slave. Apparently, a judge agreed and tossed that case out...though the case was revived in the wake of the re-arrest and death of Jeffrey Epstein. Similarly, his disastrous 2019 interview on the subject and the recently settled sex abuse case leaves him under an ugly cloud of suspicion.)
Reality Star Cynthia Bailey is 55 (“The Real Housewives of Atlanta”)
NFL Boss Roger Goodell is 63
Author Jeff Kinney is 51 (“Diary of a Wimpy Kid,” among others)
Author Amy Tan is 70 (“The Joy Luck Club,” “The Bonesetter’s Daughter”)
The late scientist Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) (He came up with idea of heliocentrism, that the earth revolves around the sun. Luckily for Copernicus, he died shortly after publishing his work, and was never bothered by the Catholic Church for his discovery. By contrast, Galileo, who proved the math behind heliocentrism, was sentenced to house arrest by the inquisition.) (FAST FACT: As a young man, he practiced medicine without a medical degree.)
The late labor activist Karen Silkwood (1946 – 1974)… she would have been 76 (She is most famous for her mysterious death, which was the subject of a victorious lawsuit against the chemical company Kerr-McGee. She gained more fame when she was portrayed by Meryl Streep in the 1983 Academy Award-nominated film "Silkwood.”)