AC/DC Guitarist Angus Young Is 68 Today

Actors:

Richard Chamberlain is 89 (“Dr. Kildare,” “The Thorn Birds”)

Tony Cox is 65 (“Bad Santa,” “Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi”)

William Daniels is 96 (“Boy Meets World's” Mr. Feeny. Dr. Mark Craig in “St. Elsewhere”)

Shirley Jones is 89 (“Oklahoma!,” “The Music Man”) (FAST FACTS: She wasn’t just “Mrs. Partridge.” In 1960, she won an Academy Award for her role as prostitute Lulu Bains in “Elmer Gantry.” Also – she is stepmom to David Cassidy, and mom of Shaun Cassidy)

Gabe Kaplan is 78 ("Welcome Back Kotter")

Ed Marinaro is 73 (“Blue Mountain State,” "Hill Street Blues”)

Ewan McGregor is 52 ("Trainspotting," “Star Wars” prequel trilogy)

Rhea Perlman is 75 ("Cheers," “Matilda”) (FAST FACTS: Nominated for an Emmy Award for her role in “Cheers” 10 times, and she won four times. While she and husband Danny Devito separated in 2010, said they planned to stay that way (and not divorce), they have since reconciled)

Jessica Szohr is 38 (“Gossip Girl,” “Piranha 3D”)

Christopher Walken is 80 (“A View to a Kill,” “Pulp Fiction”) (FAST FACT: Always tries to work a jig/dance into his movies) 

Musicians:

Herb Alpert is 88

/Bleachers guitarist Jack Antonoff is 39

Cobra Starship’s Ryland Blackinton is 41

Támar Davis is 43

Jay Rock is 38 (his given name, Johnny Reed McKinzie, Jr.)

Tony Yayo is 45 (born Marvin Bernard)

AC/DC’s Angus Young is 68

The late William Orville “Lefty” Frizzell (1928 – 1975)…he would have been 95

The late Shawty Lo (1976 – 2016)…he would have been 47 (born Carlos Rico Walker) (Walker was killed in a single-car accident in Fulton County, Georgia in the early morning hours of September 21, 2016. The crash happened around 2:20am when Walker's car went over a guardrail, hit two trees, and caught on fire; he had been ejected from the vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene.) 

Plus:

TV personality Samantha Brown is 53 (she’s hosted a variety of shows including “Girl Meets Hawaii,” “Great Vacation Homes,” “Great Hotels,” “Passport to Europe,” “Passport to Latin America,” “Great Weekends”)

Former Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank is 83 (FAST FACT: He served in the House of Representatives from 1981 to 2013)

Former Vice President Al Gore is 75

The late author Leo Buscaglia (1924 – 1998)…he would have been 99 (“Love,” “The Fall of Freddie and the Leaf”)

The late labor leader and farm worker advocate Cesar Chavez (1927 – 1993)…he would have been 96

The late designer Liz Claiborne (1929 – 2007)…she would have been 94 (FAST FACTS: Claiborne, frustrated at the failure of the companies that she worked for to provide clothes for working women started her own design company in 1976. It was an immediate success with sales of $2-million in 1976 and $23 million in 1978. Claiborne listed all employees in the directory in alphabetical order to circumvent what she perceived as male hierarchies)

The late composer Joseph Haydn (1732 – 1809) (FAST FACT: Dubbed Father of the Symphony and Father of the String Quartet)


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