Actors:
Emilia Clarke is 36 (“Game of Thrones,” “Terminator Genisys,” “Me Before You,” “Solo: A Star Wars Story”) (FAST FACT: She’s survived TWO aneurysms! In an essay she wrote for “The New Yorker” in 2019, Clarke revealed that she had suffered a brain bleed caused by a ruptured aneurysm in February 2011 – which left her with relearning to speak. She had a second aneurysm surgically treated in 2013. As a result, she’s a passionate advocate for ending the stigma surrounding brain injury)
Briana Evigan is 36 (“Sorority Row,” “Step Up 2: The Streets,” “S. Darko,” “From Dusk Til Dawn”) (FAST FACT: Her dad is Greg Evigan, who GenXers will recognize from the hit series, “BJ and the Bear” and “My Two Dads.”)
Jon Huertas is 53 (“Castle,” “Generation Kill,” “This Is Us”)
Ryan Reynolds is 46 (“Two Girls and a Guy,” “The Proposal,” “Green Lantern,” “X-Men Origins” series, “Deadpool”) (FAST FACT: He was voted
“People” magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive in 2010. Previously married to Scarlett Johansson from 2008 – 2011, he’s been married to Blake Lively since 2012. The couple has three daughters and in September 2022 revealed they’re expecting their fourth child. No word on a due date, but when she revealed the news on the red carpet at the 10th Annual Forbes Power Women's Summit…her bump suggested she’s well along.)
Taylor Spreitler is 29 (“Days of Our Lives”)
Amandla Stenberg is 24 (“The Hunger Games,” “Sleepy Hollow”)
Jessica Stroup is 36 (“90210,” “Prom Night,” “Ted,” “The Following”)
The late Hayden Rorke ("I Dream of Jeannie's" Dr. Alfred Bellows) (1910-1987)
Musicians:
Junior Bryant (formerly of Ricochet) is 54
Barbara Ann Hawkins of The Dixie Cups is 79
Cage the Elephant’s Matt Shultz is 39
Metallica’s Robert Trujillo is 58
Jimmy Wayne is 50
Weird Al Yankovic is 63 (FAST FACT: He got started with the accordion after a door-to-door salesman offered his parents a choice between accordion lessons or guitar lessons)
Dwight Yoakam is 66 (FAST FACT: Dwight and his wife Emily Joyce got hitched in May 2020 and welcomed their first child in August 2020)
Plus:
Celebrity daughter and model Ireland Baldwin is 27 (FAST FACT: She’s the daughter of Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger)
WWE wrestler Carmella is 35 (born Leah Van Damme Dale)
TV personality Cat Deeley is 46 (“So You Think You Can Dance”)
TV personality Nancy Grace is 63
TV personality Sanjay Gupta is 53 (Atlanta neurosurgeon and chief medical correspondent for CNN. He has won multiple Emmy Awards for appearing on the program “Sanjay Gupta, M.D.”)
Filmmaker Ang Lee is 68 (“Brokeback Mountain,” “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” “Life of Pi”)
TV personality Meghan McCain is 38
Brazilian soccer star Pelé is 82 (FAST FACT: He was voted Football Player of the Century by the IFFHS in 1999)
The late talk show titan Johnny Carson (1925-2005) …he would have been 97
The late author Michael Crichton (1942-2008) …he would have been 80 (A number of his works were adapted for film – including, “The Andromeda Strain,” “Congo,” “Sphere,” “Travels,” “Jurassic Park,” “Rising Sun,” “Disclosure,” “The Lost World.”)
The late Marquis M. Converse (1861-1931) (He founded the Converse Rubber Shoe Company)
The late Hilton Hotels entrepreneur Barron Hilton (yes, Paris Hilton’s granddad) (1927 – 2019)...he would have been 95 (FAST FACT: When he passed away in 2019, he left three-percent of his fortune to his family...the remaining 97% - about $3.4-billion – went to the Hilton Family Foundation, which focuses on disaster relief and recovery, youth development, treating children with HIV and AIDS, poverty alleviation, supporting homeless shelters)
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