Actors:
Lee Arenberg is 62 (“Pirates of the Caribbean” series, “Once Upon a Time”)
Kristen Bell is 44 (“Veronica Mars,” “The Good Place”)
Grant Bowler is 56 (“Lost,” “True Blood”)
James Brolin is 84 (“Amityville Horror,” “Life In Pieces”)
Priyanka Chopra Jonas is 42 (2017’s “Baywatch,” “Quantico”)
Chace Crawford is 39 (“Gossip Girl,” “The Covenant”)
Vin Diesel is 57 (“The Fast and the Furious” franchise, “Guardians of the Galaxy”) (FAST FACT: His birth name is Mark Sinclair)
Margo Martindale is 73 (“Million Dollar Baby,” “Justified”)
Elizabeth McGovern is 63 (“The Handmaid's Tale,” “Downton Abbey”)
The late Harriet Nelson (1909-1994) (“The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet”)
The late Richard “Red” Skelton (1913-1997) (“Clem Kadiddlehopper”)
The late Chill Wills (1902-1978) (“The Alamo,” “Gunsmoke”)
Musicians:
M.I.A. is 49 (born Mathangi 'Maya' Arulpragasam)
Ryan Cabrera is 42
Benzino is 59 (His given name? Raymond Leon Scott)
Lil Bibby is 30 (born Brandon Dickinson)
XTC’s Terry Chambers is 69
Eve 6 drummer Tony Fagenson is 46
Underoath and The Almost’s Aaron Gillespie is 41
Hopsin is 39 (born Marcus Jamal Hopson)
Founding Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Jack Irons is 62 (He’s also played with Pearl Jam, among others)
Yung Lean is 28 (born Jonatan Aron Leandoer Håstad)
System of a Down’s Daron Malakian is 49
Martha Reeves is 83
Ricky Skaggs is 70
The late blues singer “Screamin’” Jay Hawkins (1929-2000) … he would have been 95 (“I Put a Spell On You”) (FAST FACTS: Hawkins had six marriages; his last wife was 31 at his death. Singing partner Shoutin' Pat Newborn stabbed him in jealousy when he married Virginia Sabellona. He had three children with his first wife and claimed variously to have 57 or 75 in total. After his death, his friend and biographer Maral Nigolian set up a website to trace these children, identifying 33.)
Plus:
Virgin Group founder Richard Branson is 74 (He owns Virgin Records, Virgin Airlines and hundreds of other companies under the Virgin brand) (FAST FACTS: He began his first business in high school with a magazine called “The Student,” which advertised records for lower prices than stores were selling them.)
Author Elizabeth Gilbert is 55 (“Eat, Pray, Love,” “Stern Men”)
The late Astronaut and Senator John Glenn (1921 – 2016) (FAST FACTS: He became the first person to orbit the Earth in 1962 and the oldest person to go to space in 1998.)
Model (and sometime actress) Elsa Pataky is 48 (“The Fast and the Furious”)
Director Paul Verhoeven is 86 (“Basic Instinct,” “Showgirls”)
Talk show host Wendy Williams is 60
The late South African revolutionary leader Nelson Mandela (1918-2013)
The late journalist Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005) …he would have been 87 (“Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” “Hell’s Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs”)
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