Robert Downey Jr. Celebrates 67th Birthday Today

Actors:

David Cross is 58 (“The Ben Stiller Show,” “Arrested Development,” “Alvin & The Chipmunks”) (FAST FACT: He’s been married Amber Tamblyn since 2012: she is 20 years his junior)

Robert Downey Jr. is 57 (“Chaplin,” “Tropic Thunder,” “Sherlock Holmes,” “The Avengers,” “Iron Man”)

Christine Lahti is 72 (“Swing Shift,” “...And Justice for All,” “Running on Empty,” “Leaving Normal,” “Chicago Hope,” “Law and Order: Special Victims Unit,” “Hawaii Five-0,” “The Blacklist”)

Natasha Lyonne is 43 (“American Pie,” “Slums of Beverly Hills,” “Orange Is the New Black”)

Nancy McKeon is 56 (“Facts of Life,” “A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story.” “The Division,” “Dancing with the Stars”) (Appearing on season 27 of ABC’s “DWTS,” she was paired with Valentin Chmerkovskiy – and was the third celeb eliminated)

Phil Morris is 63 (Jackie Chiles on “Seinfeld”)

Craig T. Nelson is 78 (“Coach,” “My Name Is Earl,” “Parenthood”)

Barry Pepper is 52 (“Saving Private Ryan,” True Grit,” “Flags of Our Fathers”)

Amanda Righetti is 39 (“The O.C.,” “The Mentalist”)

Hugo Weaving is 62 (“V,” “The Matrix,” “Lord of the Rings”)

The late Heath Ledger (1979 – 2008)…he would have been 43 (“10 Things I Hate About You,” “The Patriot,” “A Knight's Tale,” “Brokeback Mountain,” “The Dark Knight”) (FAST FACTS: He was passionate about chess, and won the Western Australia's junior chess championship at age 10)

The late Anthony Perkins (1932 – 1992)…he would have been 90 (“The Matchmaker,” “Friendly Persuasion,” “Psycho”)

Musicians:

Curren$y is 41 (born Shante Scott Franklin)

Clay Davidson is 51

Steve Gatlin is 71

Austin Mahone is 26

Jill Scott is 50

Jamie Lynn Spears is 31

Buck Cherry’s Josh Todd is 52 (NOTE: Wiki has his birthday as both April 4th and April 9th)

The late Gary Moore (1952 – 2011)…he would have been 70 (FAST FACT: He played the guitar right-handed even though he is left-handed. His first guitar was a beaten up acoustic that he acquired when he was eight years old)

The late Muddy Waters (his given name, McKinley Morganfield) (1913 – 1983)

Plus:

Magician David Blaine is 49

Famed Record executive Clive Davis is 90

TV producer David E. Kelley is 66 (“The Practice,” “Ally McBeal,” “Boston Legal”) (FAST FACT: Kelley’s been married to actress Michelle Pfeiffer since 1993)

Biographer Kitty Kelley is 80 (Wrote the best-selling unauthorized bios of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Reagan, the British Royal Family, the Bush family, and Oprah Winfrey)

TV personality Graham Norton is 59 (FAST FACT: He rose to national attention when his appearance in drag as Mother Theresa fooled correspondents on Scottish Television)

The late author/poet Maya Angelou (1928 – 2014)…she would have been 94 (“I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings,” the poem "On the Pulse of Morning”)


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