Actors:
Meredith Baxter is 76 (“Family Ties,” “A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story,”)
Erica Durance is 45 (“Smallville,” “Supergirl”)
Ron Ely is 85 (“Tarzan,” “Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze”)
Michael Gross is 76 (“Family Ties,” “Suits”) (FAST FACT: While most fans know him for warmer, fuzzier roles… “Law & Order” devotees know his particularly creepy turns as killers in “Criminal Intent” and “SVU” episodes)
Mariette Hartley is 83 (“The Incredible Hulk,” “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”)
Juliette Lewis is 50 (“Natural Born Killers,” “From Dusk till Dawn,”)
Michael Malarkey is 40 (“The Vampire Diaries”)
David Morrissey is 59 (“Sense and Sensibility,” “The Walking Dead”)
Chris Pratt is 44 (“Parks and Recreation,” “Guardians of the Galaxy,” “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom”) (FAST FACT: In 2015, “Time” magazine named Pratt one of the 100 most influential people in the world on the annual ‘Time 100 list.’ Now counting ‘Governator’ Arnold Schwarzenegger as his father-in-law, Pratt got hitched to Katherine Schwarzenegger in 2019. Their first child together, Lyla Maria, was born in August 2020, they welcomed their second daughter, Eloise Christina, in May 2022)
Carrie Preston is 56 (“True Blood,” “The Good Wife”)
Doug Savant is 59 (“Desperate Housewives,” “24”)
Maggie Siff is 49 (“Mad Men,” “Sons of Anarchy”)
Jussie Smollett is 41 (“The Mighty Ducks,” “Alien: Covenant”)
The late Jane Russell (1921-2011) (“Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” “Fate is the Hunter”)
Musicians:
Kris Allen is 38
Ray Davies is 79
Lana Del Rey is 38 (Her real name? Elizabeth Woolridge Grant)
The Killers’ Brandon Flowers is 42 (FAST FACT: He joined the Killers in response to a newspaper ad)
Aerosmith’s Joey Kramer is 73
Kathy Mattea is 64
Plus:
YouTube sensation Rebecca Black is 26 (FAST FACT: Rebecca Black earned her fame with the song “Friday” in 2011, which went viral for being one of the worst music videos of all time. More recently, she returned to the collective consciousness by way of the FOX series, “The Four: The Battle For Stardom” as well as a stint on NBC’s “The Voice”)
Edward Snowden is 40 (FAST FACT: Former CIA employee who made global headlines in June 2013 when he told the media about the National Security Agency's invasive tactics)
Britain’s Prince William/Duke of Cambridge is 41
The late Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007) …she would have been 70 (FAST FACT: became the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state. She was assassinated in a bombing in Pakistan after spending nine years in self-exile)
The late philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) (FAST FACT: he is considered the father of existentialism)