Actor Johnny Knoxville Turns 52

Actors:

David Anders is 42 (“Alias,” “Heroes”)

John Barrowman is 56 (“Dr. Who,” “Torchwood”)

Thora Birch is 41 (“Ghost World,” “America Beauty”)

Jodie Comer (“Killing Eve,” “Free Guy”) is 30

Terrence Howard is 54 (“Iron Man,” “Empire”) (FAST FACT: He thinks that women who don’t use baby wipes in the potty are “unclean.” And then there’s the whole beating up women thing…)

Alex Kingston is 60 (“Dr. Who,” “ER”)

Elias Koteas is 62 (“Crash,” “Chicago PD”)

Johnny Knoxville is 52 (“Men in Black II,” “The Dukes of Hazzard”)

Jeffrey Nordling is 61 (“24,” “Desperate Housewives,” “Body of Proof”)

The late Anissa Jones (1958 – 1976)…she would have been 65 (Buffy on “Family Affair”) (FAST FACT: She died at 18 of a drug overdose) 

Musicians:

The Statler Brothers’ Jimmy Fortune is 68

Nina Hagen is 68 (her given name, Catharina Hagen)

Golden Earring’s George Kooymans is 75

Lisa Loeb is 55

LeToya Luckett (Destiny’s Child) is 42

Cheryl Lynn is 66

Good Charlotte’s Benji and Joel Madden is 44

Bobby McFerrin is 73

Dead Or Alive’s Mike Percy is 62

Big Country’s Bruce Watson is 62

The late HellYeah drummer Vinnie Paul (1964 – 2018)...he would have been 59 

Plus:

Actor-turned-director Peter Berg is 59 (“Battleship,” “Friday Night Lights,” “Hancock,” “Patriots Day”)

Joey Buttafucco is 67 (Best known as the auto body shop owner from Long Island who had an affair with "Long Island Lolita" Amy Fisher – when Fisher was just 17, she shot Buttafucco’s wife in the face. Buttafucco later pled guilty to one count of statutory rape and served four months in jail.)

Newsman Sam Donaldson is 89 (He’s the White House Correspondent for ABC)

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is 92 (He has built a global empire of newspapers, TV, and movies through the holding company News Corporation)

Reality TV Star Melissa Rycroft is 40 (“The Bachelor” “Dancing With The Stars”)

Director Jerry Zucker is 73 (“Ghost,” “First Knight,” “Police Squad”)

The late civil rights leader Ralph Abernathy (1926 – 1990)…he would have been 97 (the close associate and right-hand man of Martin Luther King Jr. in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Abernathy was essential to the civil rights movement, but has been pushed out of the historical narrative because he wrote about King’s affairs)

The late bandleader Lawrence Welk (1903 – 1992) (He hosted “The Lawrence Welk Show” from 1945 to 1982)