Tate Donovan is 60 (“Hercules,” “The O.C”)
Michael Douglas is 79 (“Wall Street,” “Basic Instinct”) (FAST FACT: Douglas shares the same birthday as his wife, Catherine Zeta Jones)
Donald Glover (aka musician Childish Gambino) is 40 (“Community,” “ Magic Mike XXL”) (FAST FACT: Yes, he just won an Outstanding Lead Actor - Comedy Series Emmy for his work on “Atlanta.” But he also made history with his Emmy win in the Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series for his work on “B.A.N.,” an experimental episode of "Atlanta.” He is the first Black director to win an Emmy for work on a comedy series, and the first Black man to win an Emmy for lead acting in a comedy series since 1985)
Mark Hamill is 72 (“General Hospital,” Luke Skywalker in the original “Star Wars” series)
Catherine Zeta Jones is 54 (“Mask of Zorro,” “Entrapment”)
Heather Locklear is 62 (“TJ Hooker,” “Dynasty”)
Michael Madsen is 66 (“Kill Bill,” “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves”)
Lee Norris is 42 (“One Tree Hill,” “Boy Meets World”)
Will Smith is 55 (“The Fresh Price of Bel-Air,” “I Am Legend”)
Hal Sparks is 54 (“Talk Soup,” “Queer as Folk”)
The late Christopher Reeve (1952-2004)…he would have been 71 (1978’s “Superman,” “Somewhere In Time”) (FAST FACTS: He was tragically paralyzed in a horse-riding accident in 1995. Confined to a wheelchair and required a portable ventilator for the rest of his life, he lobbied on behalf of people with spinal-cord injuries and for human embryonic stem cell research until he passed. He received a Screen Actor Guild Award in 1998 and the Lasker Award in 2003)
Musicians:
Casper is 41 (born Benjamin Griffey)
Childish Gambino (aka actor Donald Glover) is 40
I. is 43 (born Clifford Joseph Harris Jr.)
Plus:
TV personality Jamie Hyneman is 67 (“Mythbusters”)
Model Bridget Marquardt is 50 (also one of Hugh Hefner’s famous girlfriends on reality show, “The Girls Next Door”)
NBA Hall of Famer Scottie Pippen is 58 (A legendary forward, he played alongside Michael Jordan on six Chicago Bulls Championship teams, he was named to 7 NBA All-Star games and was a 3-time All-NBA First Team selection)
Supermodel Cheryl Tiegs is 76 (She was the first supermodel to enter the world of fashion design and endorsements) (FAST FACT: She was a covergirl by the time she was 17 years old)
The late iconic journalist Barbara Walters (1929-2022) she would have been 94
The late author William Faulkner (1897-1962) (“The Sound and the Fury,” “As I Lay Dying,” and “A Rose for Emily”) (FAST FACTS: A Pulitzer Prize-winner, he also won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949)
The late author Shel Silverstein (1930-1999)…he would have been 93 (known as “Uncle Shelby” for his children’s books, such as, “The Giving Tree,” “Where the Sidewalk Ends,” “A Light In The Attic”)
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