Actors:
Richard Dean Anderson is 74 (“Macgyver,” “Stargate SG-1”)
Brennan Bailey is 27 (“My Sister’s Keeper”)
Ewen Bremner is 52 (“Black Hawk Down,” “Trainspotting”)
Gil Gerard is 81 (“The Doctors,” “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century”)
Gail O’ Grady is 61 (“NYPD Blue,” “Revenge,” “Criminal Minds”)
Mariska Hargitay is 60 (“Falcon Crest,” “Law and Order SVU”)
Julia Jones is 43 (“Hell Ride,” “The Twilight Saga”)
Chita Rivera is 91 (“Sweet Charity,” “One Life To Live”) (FAST FACT: She was the first Hispanic woman to receive a Kennedy Center Honors Award. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009)
Tiffani Thiessen is 50 (“Saved by the Bell,” “Beverly Hills 90210”) (FAST FACT: She now hosts the Cooking Channel show, “Dinner at Tiffani’s”)
The late Rutger Hauer (1944 – 2019)...he would have been 80 (“Blade Runner,” “The Rite.”)
The late Randolph Scott (1898–1987) (“Ride the High Country”) (He appeared in over 100 feature films, mostly Westerns)
Musicians:
Reggie Calloway is 69
UB40’s Earl Falconer is 67
KC & The Sunshine Band’s Richard Finch is 70 (FAST FACTS: Back in March 2010, Finch was arrested in Ohio, accused of having sexual contact with a 17-year-old boy. While he pleaded not guilty, police stated that during questioning, he admitted to having sexual contact with that teen and other teens aged 13 to 17. Still, he was convicted and sentenced to seven years in prison – he was released March 2017)
Josh Thompson is 46
Cheap Trick’s Robin Zander is 71
The late Harley Allen (1956 – 2011) …he would have been 68
The late Anita Pointer (1948 – 2022) …she would have been 76
Plus:
Princess Caroline of Monaco is 67 (While she is a princess in her native Monaco, she’s also known as Caroline, Princess of Hanover – as she married Germany’s Prince Ernst August of Hanover in 1999)
Pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger is 73 (He landed an airplane on the Hudson River)
The late revolutionary leader John Hancock (1737-1793) (His legendary quote, after signing his name in huge letters on the Declaration of Independence was: “There! His Majesty can now read my name without glasses. And he can double the reward on my head!”)
The late comedian Ernie Kovacs (1919-1962)
The late painter Edouard Manet (1832–1883)
The late Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart (1915-1985) (His most famous quote on regarding obscenity was: “I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description ["hard-core pornography"], and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that.”)
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