Actors:
Emilia Clarke is 37 (“Game of Thrones,” “Solo: A Star Wars Story”) (FAST FACT: She’s survived TWO aneurysms! In an essay she wrote for “The New Yorker” in 2019, Clarke revealed that she had suffered a brain bleed caused by a ruptured aneurysm in February 2011 – which left her with relearning to speak. She had a second aneurysm surgically treated in 2013. As a result, she’s a passionate advocate for ending the stigma surrounding brain injury)
Briana Evigan is 37 (“Sorority Row,” “From Dusk Til Dawn”) (FAST FACT: Her dad is Greg Evigan, who GenXers will recognize from the hit series, “BJ and the Bear” and “My Two Dads.”)
Jon Huertas is 54 (“Castle,” “Generation Kill”)
Ryan Reynolds is 47 (“Green Lantern,” “Deadpool”) (FAST FACT: He was voted
“People” magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive in 2010. Previously married to Scarlett Johansson from 2008 – 2011, he’s been married to Blake Lively since 2012.)
Taylor Spreitler is 30 (“Days of Our Lives”)
Amandla Stenberg is 25 (“The Hunger Games,” “Sleepy Hollow”)
Jessica Stroup is 37 (“90210,” “The Following”)
The late Hayden Rorke ("I Dream of Jeannie's" Dr. Alfred Bellows) (1910-1987)
Musicians:
Junior Bryant (formerly of Ricochet) is 55
Barbara Ann Hawkins of The Dixie Cups is 80
Cage the Elephant’s Matt Shultz is 40
Metallica’s Robert Trujillo is 59
Jimmy Wayne is 51
Weird Al Yankovic is 64 (FAST FACT: He got started with the accordion after a door-to-door salesman offered his parents a choice between accordion lessons or guitar lessons)
Dwight Yoakam is 67 (FAST FACT: Dwight and his wife Emily Joyce got hitched in May 2020 and welcomed their first child in August 2020)
Plus:
Celebrity daughter and model Ireland Baldwin is 28 (FAST FACT: She’s the daughter of Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger)
WWE wrestler Carmella is 36 (born Leah Van Damme Dale)
TV personality Cat Deeley is 47 (“So You Think You Can Dance”)
TV personality Nancy Grace is 64
TV personality Sanjay Gupta is 54 (Atlanta neurosurgeon and chief medical correspondent for CNN. He has won multiple Emmy Awards for appearing on the program “Sanjay Gupta, M.D.”)
Filmmaker Ang Lee is 69 (“Brokeback Mountain,” “Life of Pi”)
TV personality Meghan McCain is 39
The late talk show titan Johnny Carson (1925-2005) …he would have been 98
The late author Michael Crichton (1942-2008) …he would have been 81 (A number of his works were adapted for film – including, “The Andromeda Strain,” “Congo,” “Sphere,” “Travels,” “Jurassic Park,” “Rising Sun,” “Disclosure,” “The Lost World.”)
The late Marquis M. Converse (1861-1931) (He founded the Converse Rubber Shoe Company)
The late Hilton Hotels entrepreneur Barron Hilton (yes, Paris Hilton’s granddad) (1927 – 2019)...he would have been 96 (FAST FACT: When he passed away in 2019, he left three-percent of his fortune to his family...the remaining 97% - about $3.4-billion – went to the Hilton Family Foundation, which focuses on disaster relief and recovery, youth development, treating children with HIV and AIDS, poverty alleviation, supporting homeless shelters)
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