'Star Trek's' William Shatner Celebrates 93rd Birthday Today

Actors:

Guillermo Diaz is 49 (“Half Baked,” “Scandal”)

Matthew Modine is 65 (“Full Metal Jacket,” “Stranger Things”)

Will Yun Lee is 53 (“Hawaii Five-O,” “The Good Doctor″)

Lena Olin is 69 (“Unbearable Lightness of Being,” “Chocolat”)

William Shatner is 93 (“Star Trek,” "Boston Legal”)

Kellie Shayngne Williams is 48 (“Family Matters,” “What About Joan”)

Reese Witherspoon is 48 (“Legally Blonde” series, “Sweet Home Alabama,” “Walk the Line”)

The late Werner Klemperer (1920 – 2000) (“Hogan’s Heroes,” “Law & Order”)

The late Karl Malden (1912 – 2009) (“A Streetcar Named Desire,” “On the Waterfront”) (he won Best Actor for “A Streetcar Named Desire”)

The late Chico Marx (1887 – 1961) (one of the Marx brothers with Groucho and Harpo. Their most popular films include “A Night at the Opera,” “Go West,” and “Love Happy”)

The late Haing S. Ngor (1940 – 1996)…he would have been 84 (“The Killing Fields,” “Heaven & Earth”) (FAST FACTS: A Cambodian refugee, he received an Academy Award for his role in “The Killing Fields,” which detailed the country’s genocide – that he had escaped. In a tragic twist of fate, he was murdered by robbers in 1996.) 

Musicians:

George Benson is 81

Jeremy Clyde of Chad and Jeremy is 83

Stephanie Mills is 67

Hot Chocolate’s Patrick Olive is 77

Limp Bizkit drummer John Otto is 47

Cage The Elephant guitarist Lincoln Parish is 34

The late Keith Relf of the Yardbirds (1943 – 1976)…he would have been 81 

Plus:

CNN newsman Wolf Blitzer is 76

NBA champ Marcus Camby is 50 (He was named Defensive Player of the Year during the 2006–07 NBA season, leading the league in blocked shots per game. Camby is also a four-time member of the NBA All-Defensive Team and is 12th on the NBA's all-time career blocks list.)

Sportscaster Bob Costas is 72

Comedian/writer/producer Keegan-Michael Key is 53 (“Key & Peele,” “Parks and Recreation”)

Web Video Star and LGBT advocate Tyler Oakley is 35 (FAST FACT: He has more than 8-million YouTube subscribers)

Author James Patterson is 77 (“Women's Murder Club,” “Witch and Wizard”)

Olympic figure skater Elvis Stojko is 52 (FAST FACT: Canadian figure skater who won Olympic silver in 1994 and 1998)

Composer Andrew Lloyd Weber is 76 (“Cats," "The Phantom of the Opera") (FAST FACT: He was knighted in 1992 and honored with a peerage by Queen Elizabeth II as recognition for his contributions to music)

The late Legendary composer Stephen Sondheim (1930 – 2021)…he would have been 94 ("West Side Story," "Gypsy," and "Sweeney Todd")

(Photo by Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images)


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