Actors:
Stephen Dorff is 49 (“Backbeat,” “Blade,” “Felon,” “Space Truckers”)
Dean Haglund is 57 (“The X Files,” “The Lone Gunmen,” “The Lady Killers”)
Roz Kelly is 79 (“Pinky Tuscadero” from “Happy Days”)
Allison Mack is 40 (“Smallville,” “Wilfred”) (FAST FACTS: Mack was indicted on a laundry list of charges associated with her involvement in the NXIVM organization. Specifically, she allegedly recruited women to a secret sub group of sex slaves for NXIVM founder Keith Raniere. Mack pleaded guilty to racketeering charges in April 2019, and was sentenced to three years in prison in June 2020.)
Rachel Miner is 42 (“Guiding Light,” “Bully,” “The Black Dahlia,” “Penny Dreadful,” “Supernatural”)
Timothy Omundson is 53 (“Xena: Warrior Princess,” “Psych,” “Judging Amy,” “Galavant”)
Alexandra Paul is 59 (“Christine,” “Baywatch,” “Firequake,” “Spy Hard,” “Sharknado: The 4th Awakens”)
Matt Prokop is 32 (“High School Musical: Senior Year” “Geek Charming”)
Josh Radnor is 48 (“Senior Year,” “How I Met Your Mother,” “Mercy Street”)
Rodney Allen Rippy is 54 (former child star best-known for “Jack in the Box” commercials)
Wil Wheaton is 50 (“Stand By Me,” “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” “Toy Soldiers”)
The late Clara Bow (1905-1965) (Rising to stardom as a silent film star in the 1920’s, she appeared in 46 silent films and 11 talkies, including hits such as 1926’s “Mantrap and 1927’s “Wing” How bankable was she – her presence in a film guaranteed investors success by odds of nearly 2-to-1. At the height of her stardom in 1929, she received more than 45,000 fan letters in a single month.)
Musicians:
Kat Dahlia is 32 (born Katriana Sandra Huguet)
Danger Mouse is 45
Belly drummer Chris Gorman is 55
Rush frontman Geddy Lee is 69
Martina McBride is 56
Boyz II Men’s Wanya Morris is 49
James Otto is 49
Patti Scialfa (also of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band) is 69
Plus:
Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns is 69 (“The Civil War,” “Baseball,” “The National Parks,” “The Roosevelts,” “The Vietnam War,” “Country Music”)
Author Sharon Creech is 77 (“Heartbeat,” “Walk Two Moons”)
Former presidential candidate Elizabeth Dole is 86 (Wife of Senator Bob Dole and Red Cross President from 1991 to 1999. She was also the 20th United States Secretary of Labor from 1989 to 1990)
Reality TV star Tim Gunn is 69 (“Project Runway” – his catchphrase: "Make it work")
The late legendary newsman Peter Jennings (1938-2005) …he would have been 84 (He was the sole anchor of ABC's “World News Tonight” from 1983 until his death in 2005 of complications from lung cancer. A high-school dropout, he transformed himself into one of American television's most prominent journalists)
The late Italian dictator Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) (He ruled Italy as Prime Minister from 1922 until his ousting in 1943. He ruled constitutionally until 1925, when he dropped all pretense of democracy and set up a legal dictatorship. He was also a key figure in the creation of fascism who sided with Germany during WWII)
The late inventor Vladimir Zworykin (1888 – 1982) (often called "The father of Television" for inventing the iconoscope, TV Camera Tube and Electron microscope)