Actors:
James Fox is 83 (“A Passage to India,” “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” “Sherlock Holmes”) (FAST FACTS: his role in the 1963 film “The Servant” earned him a VAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer.)
Jessica Fox is 39 (“The Muppet Christmas Carol,” “Back Home,” “The Phoenix and the Carpet”)
Eric Lloyd is 36 ("The Santa Clause" film series, “Batman & Robin”)
Geraldine Somerville is 55 (“Harry Potter,” “Gosford Park”)
Jason Gray-Stanford is 52 (“Earth to Echo,” “Monk,” “Monday Mornings”)
Eleanor Tomlinson is 30 (“Jack the Giant Slayer,” “Alice in Wonderland,” “Angus,” “Poldark”)
The late Peter Mayhew (1944 – 2019)…he would have been 78 (Chewbacca in the “Star Wars” franchise, he was 7-feet, 3-inches tall)
Musicians:
Shooter Jennings is 43
Grace Jones is 74
Rohan Marley is 50 (Yes, Bob Marley is his father.)
AC/DC’s Phil Rudd is 68 (FAST FACT: When his solo album was released, it didn’t do as well as it was expected to. So he fired several employees and threatened to kill his personal assistant. He later plead guilty to death threat and drug charges and was sentenced to home detention.)
Sam Smith is 30
Pete Townshend is 77 (FAST FACTS: He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990.)
Yo Gotti is 41 (born Mario Mims)
The late ZZ Top bassist Dusty Hill (1949 – 2021) …he would have been 73 (FAST FACTS: He also appeared in the movie “Back to the Future Part III.)
The late Joey Ramone (1951 – 2001)…he would have been 71
Plus:
Racecar driver Dario Franchitti is 49 (FAST FACT: He married Ashley Judd in 2001 and while they separated briefly in 2013, they reconciled following an accident on the track. But then, in 2014, they went ahead with the divorce anyway. He has since remarried Eleanor Robb – their daughter Sofia was born in 2015)
TV personality David Hartman is 87
Reality star Kim Zolciak-Biermann is 44 (“Real Housewives of Atlanta,” “Don’t Be Tardy,” “Dancing with the Stars”)
The late wrestler (and sometime actor) Andre the Giant (1946 – 1993)…he would have been 76 (FAST FACT: Born André René Roussimoff, it was his 7-foot, 5-inch; 525-pound stature that had people regard him as The Eighth Wonder of the World)
The late author/screenwriter/director Nora Ephron (1941 – 2012)…she would have been 81 (“Silkwood,” “When Harry Met Sally,” “Sleepless in Seattle,” "Mixed Nuts,” “You've Got Mail," “Julie & Julia”)
The late broadcast journalist Jim Lehrer (1934 – 2020) ...he would have been 88
The late communist ruler of Vietnam Ho Chi Minh (1890 – 1969)
The late Cambodian dictator Pol Pot (1925 – 1998)…he would have been 97 (He led Khmer Rouge revolutionary group from 1963 to 1988 – and between 1975 and 1979 murdered 25% of the country's population through starvation, overwork and executions.)
The late celebrity spouse/murder victim Nicole Brown Simpson (1959 – 1994)…she would have been 63
The late Malcolm X (1925 – 1965)…he would have been 97 (FAST FACTS: He was born Malcolm Little and after the death of his father, he and his brothers would hunt game to make ends meet. A trip to the Muslim holy city of Mecca helped him to develop his beliefs; he began signing his last name as X to replace the ancestral slave name Little.)