Actors:
David Arquette is 51 (“Wild Bill,” “Buffy The Vampire Slayer,” “Scream” series, “3000 Miles to Graceland”)
Martin Freeman is 51 (“Love Actually,” “Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy,” “The Hobbit,” “Fargo”)
Heather Thomas is 65 (“The Fall Guy,” “T.J. Hooker”)
Jonathan Taylor Thomas is 41 (“Home Improvement,” voice of young Simba in the “The Lion King,” “Last Man Standing”) (FAST FACTS: He bailed on Hollywood in 1998 to focus on academics. In 2000, he graduated with honors from Chaminade College Preparatory School in West Hills, California. Upon graduation, he enrolled at Harvard University, where he studied philosophy and history and spent his third year abroad at St. Andrews University in Scotland. In 2010, he graduated from the Columbia University School of General Studies.)
The late Sid Caesar (1922 – 2014)…he would have been 100 (“Show of Shows,” “Casesar's Hour,” “It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World,” “Silent Movie,” “Grease,” “History of the World, Part I,” “Cannonball Run II”)
The late Peter Sellers (1925 – 1980)…he would have been 97 (“ Strangelove…,” “The Pink Panther”)
Musicians:
Neko Case is 52
Keane drummer Richard Hughes is 47
Aimee Mann is 62 (FAST FACT: She’s been married to Michael Penn since 1997)
Pink is 43 (birth name Alecia Beth Moore)
Fine Young Cannibals bassist David Steele is 62
Slim Thug is 42 (born Stayve Jerome Thomas)
Wiz Khalifa is 35 (born Cameron Jibril Thomaz)
The late Avicii (his given name, Tim Bergling) (1989 – 2018)…he would have been 33
The late Patsy Cline (1932 – 1963)…she would have been 90 (FAST FACT: Her given name was Virginia Hensley)
The late Cars bassist Ben Orr (1947-2000)…he would have been 75
The late Jimmie Rodgers (1897 – 1933) (Known as The Father of Country Music, he was a country musician and professional yodeler. He released more than fifty recordings, many of which became country standards.)
Plus:
TV personality Brooke Burke is 51
Reality TV star Chumlee is 40 (“Pawn Stars”) (FAST FACT: Born Austin Lee Russell, he was given the nickname "Chumlee" when he was about 12 years old because his large stature resembled an animated walrus named Chumly from the series Tennessee Tuxedo.)
Civil rights leader Ruby Bridges is 68 (She VOLUNTEERED and became the first African American child to attend an all-white school on November 14, 1960…in the heavily segregated city of New Orleans) (FAST FACT: Her struggle was the subject of the 1998 TV movie, “Ruby Bridges.”)
Director Kimberly Peirce (yes, that’s how you spell it) is 55 (“Boys Don’t Cry,” “Stop-Loss,” 2013’s “Carrie”)