HOF QB And Broadcaster Troy Aikman Celebrates 56th Birthday Today

Actors:

Kent Boyd is 28 (“Bunheads,” “Teen Beach Movie”)

Lindsey Haun is 38 (“True Blood,” “Broken Bridges,” “The Color of Friendship”)

Goldie Hawn is 77 (“Laugh-In,” “The Sugarland Express,” “Cactus Flower,” “Private Benjamin,” “First Wives Club)

Cherry Jones is 66 (“24,” “The Heiress”)

Lorna Luft is 70 (“White Christmas,” “They‘re Playing Our Song”) (FAST FACT: Her half-sister is Liza Minelli)

Jenna Malone is 38 (“Donnie Darko,” “Into The Wild,” “The Hunger Games” franchise)

Juliet Mills is 81 (“The Other Sister,” “Avanti!,” “From Here On OUT,” “Passions”)

Cynthia Rhodes is 66 (“Flashdance,” “Staying Alive,“ “Dirty Dancing”) (FAST FACT: She was married to singer Richard Marx from 1989–2014…when they split, he married former MTV personality Daisy Fuentes a little more than a year later)

Nicollette Sheridan is 59 (“Knots Landing,” “Paradise,” “Desperate Housewives”)

Marlo Thomas is 85 (“That Girl,” “LOL,” “Playing Mona Lisa”)

Musicians:

Bjork is 57

Steven Curtis Chapman is 60 (FAST FACT: He’s won five GRAMMY Awards and 58 Gospel Music Association Dove Awards)

Blur bassist Alex James is 54

Carly Rae Jepsen is 37 (FAST FACT: Justin Bieber was so impressed with her music that he referred her to his manager in 2012)

Conor Maynard is 30

Twin pop duo Megan and Liz is 30

SHeDAISY’s Kelsi Osborn is 48

Plus:

Sportscaster and former Dallas Cowboys QB Troy Aikman is 56 (FAST FACT: He was once offered a contract with the MLB’s New York Mets, but turned it down to play college football)

NFL all-star and TV personality Michael Strahan is 51 (former New York Giants defensive end, “Live with Kelly and Michael,” “Good Morning America”)

The late businesswoman and financier Hetty “Witch of Wall Street” Green (1834-1916) (Known as "the richest woman in America" during the Gilded Age and was famous for both her wealth and her miserliness, she was the lone woman to amass a fortune when other major financiers were men)

The late baseball legend Stan Musial (1920-2013) (Widely considered to be one of the greatest and most consistent hitters in baseball history, Musial was a first-ballot inductee into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1969, and was also selected to the St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame in the inaugural class of 2014)

The late director Harold Ramis (1944-2014)…he would have been 78 (“Caddyshack,” “Groundhog Day,” “National Lampoon’s Vacation”)

The late French author Voltaire (known for his enlightenment writing and philosophy) (1694-1778)