Actors:
Daniel Craig is 54 (“Cowboys & Aliens,” “Casino Royale,” “Skyfall,” “Knives Out,” “Spectre”) (FAST FACT: He’s been married to Rachel Weisz since 2011)
Veronica Dunne is 27 (“Kickin’ It,” “K.C. Undercover”)
Heather McComb is 45 (“Apt Pupil,” “All the Real Girls”)
Gates McFadden is 73 (“Star Trek: The Next Generation,” “Franklin & Bash”)
Laraine Newman is 70 (“SNL,” “Coneheads”) (While she has really stepped away from on-camera roles, Laraine has a massive voice work resume, which includes “Fairly OddParents,” “Cars, Up!, “Finding Nemo,” “Monsters, Inc.,” “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs,” “Horton Hears a Who!,” “Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius,” “Dr. Seuss' The Lorax,” “Wreck-It Ralph”)
Richard Ruccolo is 50 (“Two Guys and a Girl,” “It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia,” “Rita Rocks”)
Rebel Wilson is 42 (“Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb,” “Bridesmaids,” “Pitch Perfect” series, “Super Fun Night”)
The late Desi Arnaz (1917-1986) (“I Love Lucy”)
Musicians:
Missing Persons’ Dale Bozzio is 67
AC/DC’s Mark Evans is 66
Becky G is 25 (born Rebbeca Marie Gomez – and yes, her first name is spelled with two b’s)
Jon Bon Jovi is 60
Coldplay’s Chris Martin is 45
Method Man is 51 (his given name, Clifford Smith)
The Osmonds’ Jay Osmond is 67
The Kooks’ Luke Pritchard is 37
Restless Heart’s Larry Stewart is 63
The late Karen Carpenter (1950 – 1983)…she would have been 72
The late Lou Reed (Velvet Underground) (1942-2013)…he would have been 80
Plus:
The last leader of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev is 91 (His policies of “Glasnost and Perestroika” – aka opening and restructuring – heralded in the end of the Cold War and dissolution of the Soviet Union. He was recently interviewed by Jason Jones of “The Daily Show,” who he threatened to “put against the wall”)
Author John Irving is 80 (Among his heralded works, “Cider House Rules,” “A Prayer for Owen Meany” and “A Widow for One Year.” He also wrote “The World According to Garp” – the 1982 movie of the same name was based on his book and starred the late Robin Williams)
Health coach/Reality TV star Chris Powell is 44 (“Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition”)
The late Texas politician Sam Houston (1793-1863) (Serving as a U.S. Senator from Texas from 1846 to 1859, he was the 7th Governor of Texas from 1859 to 1861. He refused to swear allegiance to the confederacy during the Civil War, a decision that led to his removal from office by the Texas secession convention. He also refused an offer of a Union army to put down the Confederate rebellion. Instead, he retired to Huntsville, Texas, where he died before the end of the war)
The late author Dr. Seuss (aka Theodor Seuss Geisel) (1904-1991) (Sure, you know him for “The Cat in the Hat,” and “Green Eggs and Ham,” but did you know he drew over 400 political cartoons agitating against the Nazis during World War II? He really embodied his own quote: “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”)
The late author Tom Wolfe (1930 – 2018)…he would have been 91 (He founded the New Journalism movement in the 1960s and his books include “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test” and “The Bonfire of the Vanities”)