Beyonce Celebrates 43rd Birthday Today

Actors:

Khandi Alexander is 67 ("ER," “CSI: Miami”)

Wes Bentley is 46 (“American Beauty,” “American Horror Story”)

Mitzi Gaynor is 93 (“South Pacific,” “There's No Business Like Show Business”)

Max Greenfield is 45 (“Veronica Mars,” “The Neighborhood”)

Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs is 71 (“Welcome Back, Kotter,” “Roseanne”)

Judith Ivey is 73 (“B.J. Poteet” of “Designing Women,” “Grey’s Anatomy”)

Carter Jenkins is 33 (“The Bernie Mac Show,” “Scrubs”)

Ione Skye is 54 (“Private Practice,” “Arrested Development”) (FAST FACT: Donovan is her father. Married to Beastie Boys Ad-Rock – aka Adam Horowitz – from 1992 to 1999, she married Ben Lee in 2008 and they’re still together)

Noah Taylor is 55 (“Lara Croft: Tomb Raider,” “Game of Thrones”)

Damon Wayans is 64 (“In Living Color,” “My Wife and Kids”) 

Musicians:

Beyoncé is 43 (full name Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter) (FAST FACT: Yes, her legal last name is Knowles-Carter, but then, so is hubby Jay-Z’s. Indeed, known as Shawn Knowles-Carter – he allegedly made the move as Bey’s family didn’t have any male sons…and they wanted to keep the family name going.)

A.S.P.’s Blackie Lawless is 68 (His birth name, Steven Edward Duren)

Lacey Sturm (formerly of Flyleaf) is 43

Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil is 64 

Plus:

Entrepreneur and reality TV star Adrienne Maloof is 63 (Owner of the Maloof Companies, which included the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas and Maloof Music – but we know her best from “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills”)

Comedian (and former “SNL” cast member) Kyle Mooney is 40

Retired MLB champ Mike Piazza is 56 (FAST FACTS: 12-time MLB All-Star who set the record for most career home runs hit by a catcher with 396; retired with a total of 427 home runs between his time as a catcher and in other positions.)

Radio and TV personality Drew Pinsky is 66 (FAST FACT: He graduated from USC's Medical School in 1984)

“Jackass” producer Jeff Tremaine is 58

PGA star Tom Watson is 75 (FAST FACT: Six-time PGA Player of the Year)

The late radio personality Paul Harvey (1918 – 2009) (He hosted “The Rest of the Story” for years before winning the Paul White Award and being appearing on a Gallup pole for the most admired men in America.)

The late entrepreneur Lewis Howard Latimer (1848 – 1928) (FAST FACTS: The son of escaped slaves who became a master draftsman and inventor, he helped Alexander Graham Bell make the patent drawings for his telephone.)

The late author Richard Wright (1908 – 1960) (“Black Boy,” “Native Son,” “Uncle Tom's Children”) (Much of his work has racial themes, especially those involving the plight of African Americans during the late 19th to mid-20th Literary critics believe his work helped change race relations in the United States in the mid-20th century)

(Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images)


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