Actors:
Jordana Brewster is 43 (“Fast & Furious” series, “Dallas”)
Carol Burnett is 90 (“The Carol Burnett Show,” “The Four Seasons,” “Annie,” “Noises Off”)
Joan Chen is 62 (“The Last Emperor,” “Twin Peaks,” “Saving Face”)
Michael Damian is 61 (“The Facts of Life,” “The Young and the Restless,” “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”)
Giancarlo Esposito is 65 (“Do the Right Thing,” “School Daze,” “Mo' Better Blues,” “The Usual Suspects,” “Once Upon a Time,” “Revolution.,” “Breaking Bad,” “Better Call Saul,” “The Get Down”)
Kevin James is 58 (“Paul Blart: Mall Cop,” “Zookeeper,” “Grown Ups,” “King of Queens,” “Kevin Can Wait”)
Amin Joseph is 43 (“Baywatch” (film), “City of Lies,” “Snowfall”)
Stana Katic is 45 (“Quantum of Solace,” “Castle,” “Absentia”) (FAST FACT: She speaks English, Serbian, Croatian, French, Italian, and Slovenian fluently.)
Jet Li is 60 (“Shaolin Temple,” “Hero, Fist of Legend,” “The Forbidden Kingdom,” “The Expendables” films, “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, “Lethal Weapon 4,” “Romeo Must Die”)
Channing Tatum is 43 (“Coach Carter,” “21 Jump Street,” “She's the Man,” “Magic Mike” series, “Foxcatcher,” “ The Hateful Eight,” “Hail, Caesar!,” “Logan Lucky”) (FAST FACT: As most people now know, before fame he briefly worked as a stripper, which was inspiration for his character in “Magic Mike” – but he’s since brought the ‘Magic Mike Live’ experience to Las Vegas.)
Tom Welling is 46 (“Judging Amy,” “Smallville,” “The Fog,” “The Choice,” “Draft Day”)
Debra Wilson is 61 (“MAD TV,” “Family Guy,” “CSI” “GSN Live!”)
Musicians:
Rascal Flatts’ Jay DeMarcus is 52
Little Texas Keyboardist Jeff Huskins is 57
Jose Pasillas of Incubus is 47
Duran Duran’s Roger Taylor is 63
Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins is 53
The late Slipknot/Sinsaenum drummer Joey Jordison (1975 – 2021)…he would have been 48 (FAST FACTS: He started playing drums at age eight, when he received his first drum set. He helped his mother run a funeral home after his parents divorced. While his cause of death has yet to be confirmed, in 2016, he revealed his battle with the neurological disease acute transverse myelitis. Its symptoms started in 2010 while touring with Murderdolls, but the disease was diagnosed long after. This progressed to the loss of use of his left leg and illness had temporarily cost him the use of his legs and caused him to be unable to play the drums before rehabilitation therapy.)
The late Bobby Rydell (1942 – 2022)…he would have been 81
The late Ma Rainey (1886 – 1939) (The “Mother of the Blues” who was among the first singers to infuse folk blues music into her performances and was known for took the songs of hardship and struggle of African Americans and re-telling them. She recorded more than one hundred songs over the course of her career, including "See See Rider.")
Plus:
Model (and former FLOTUS) Melania Trump is 53
Reality TV star Jacqueline Laurita is 53 (“Real Housewives of New Jersey”)
Iraqi War hero Jessica Lynch is 40 (Lynch’s was the first successful rescue of an American POW since World War II and the first-ever female POW)
Producer Giorgio Moroder is 83 (“Flashdance,” “Top Gun”) (FAST FACT: His song, “Flashdance (What a Feeling),” from 1983’s “Flashdance” won an Oscar and a GRAMMY for Best Original Song)
The late emperor Marcus Aurelius (Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 who was called 'The Philosopher King.' He is one of the most important Stoic philosopher and he wrote an important treatise on the subject of leadership) (FAST FACT: The movie “Gladiator” was partly based on his life) (121 – 180 AD)
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