Gene Autry Was Born On This Date In 1907

Actors:

Roger Bart is 60 (“The Producers,” “Stepford Wives,” “The Lost Room,” “Hostel: Part II,” “American Gangster,” “Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay,” “Desperate Housewives”)

Mackenzie Crook is 51 (“The Office” (original British version), “Pirates of the Caribbean,” “Game of Thrones”)

Alexis Cruz is 48 (“Touched By An Angel,” “Stargate,” “Stargate SG-1”)

Erika Eleniak is 53 (“Baywatch,” “The Blob,” “Under Siege,” “The Beverly Hillbillies,” “Snowbound,” “Betrayal,” “Strike Force”)

Natasha Gregson Wagner is 52 (“Modern Vampires,” “Pasadena” “High Fidelity,” “The 4400”) (FAST FACT: Her mother was Natalie Wood)

Drake Hogestyn is 69 (“Days Of Our Lives”)

Zachary Levi is 42 (“Chuck,” “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel,” “Thor: The Dark World,” “Shazam,” “Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”)

Chrissy Metz is 42 (“American Horror Story: Freakshow,” “This Is Us,” “Sierra Burgess Is a Loser,” “Breakthrough”)

Ian McShane is 80 (“Lovejoy,” “Deadwood,” “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,” “American Gods”)

Jill Whelan is 56 (“Airplane!,” “The Love Boat’s” Vicki Stubing)

The late “Singing Cowboy” Gene Autry (1907-1998)

The late Madeline Kahn (1942-1999) …she would have been 80 (“What's Up, Doc?,” “Young Frankenstein,” “High Anxiety,” “History of the World, Part I,” “Paper Moon,” “Blazing Saddles,” “The Cheap Detective,” “City Heat,” “Clue,” “Mixed Nuts,” “Nixon”)

The late Larry Linville (1939-2000) …he would have been 83 (“M*A*S*H,“ “Grandpa Goes To Washington,” “School Spirit,” “Earth Girls Are Easy,” “C.H.U.D. II: Bud the C.H.U.D.,” “Rock 'n' Roll High School Forever,” “A Million to Juan,” “No Dessert,” “Dad, till You Mow the Lawn”)

The late Lizabeth Scott (1922 – 2015)…she would have been 100 (“Pulp,” “The Skin of Our Teeth,” “The Strange Love of Martha Ivers,” “Dead Reckoning,” “Desert Fury,” “Too Late for Tears”) (FAST FACTS: She was dubbed "the most beautiful face of film noir during the 1940s and 1950s.” Of the 21 films she appeared in, she was the lead actress in all but one.)

Musicians:

Suede’s Brett Anderson is 55

Primus’ Les Claypool is 59

Emerson Drive’s Danick Dupelle is 49

City and Colour and Alexisonfire’s Dallas Green is 42

Halsey is 28 (her given name? Ashley Nicolette Frangipane)

Jerry Lee Lewis is 87

Iron Butterfly’s Mike Pinera is 74

Jean-Luc Ponty is 80

Plus:

Reality TV star Lo Bosworth is 36 (“The Hills”)

Comedian Andrew “Dice” Clay is 65 (born Andrew Clay Silverstein)

TV personality Bryant Gumbel is 74

The late PBS Newshour co-anchor Gwen Ifill (1955 – 2016)…she would have been 67 (FAST FACT: In 1999, she became the first African American woman to host a nationally-televised U.S. public affairs program with “Washington Week in Review”)