Actors:
Meredith Baxter is 77 (“Family Ties,” “A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story,”)
Erica Durance is 46 (“Smallville,” “Supergirl”)
Ron Ely is 86 (“Tarzan,” “Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze”)
Michael Gross is 77 (“Family Ties,” “Suits”) (FAST FACT: While most fans know him for warmer, fuzzier roles… “Law & Order” devotees know his particularly creepy turns as killers in “Criminal Intent” and “SVU” episodes)
Mariette Hartley is 84 (“The Incredible Hulk,” “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”)
Juliette Lewis is 51 (“Natural Born Killers,” “From Dusk till Dawn,”)
Michael Malarkey is 41 (“The Vampire Diaries”)
David Morrissey is 60 (“Sense and Sensibility,” “The Walking Dead”)
Chris Pratt is 45 (“Parks and Recreation,” “Guardians of the Galaxy,” “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom”) (FAST FACT: In 2015, “Time” magazine named Pratt one of the 100 most influential people in the world on the annual ‘Time 100 list.’ Now counting ‘Governator’ Arnold Schwarzenegger as his father-in-law, Pratt got hitched to Katherine Schwarzenegger in 2019. Their first child together, Lyla Maria, was born in August 2020, they welcomed their second daughter, Eloise Christina, in May 2022)
Carrie Preston is 57 (“True Blood,” “The Good Wife”)
Doug Savant is 60 (“Desperate Housewives,” “24”)
Maggie Siff is 50 (“Mad Men,” “Sons of Anarchy”)
Jussie Smollett is 42 (“The Mighty Ducks,” “Alien: Covenant”)
The late Jane Russell (1921-2011) (“Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” “Fate is the Hunter”)
Musicians:
Kris Allen is 39
Ray Davies is 80
Lana Del Rey is 39 (Her real name? Elizabeth Woolridge Grant)
The Killers’ Brandon Flowers is 43 (FAST FACT: He joined the Killers in response to a newspaper ad)
Aerosmith’s Joey Kramer is 74
Kathy Mattea is 65
Plus:
YouTube sensation Rebecca Black is 27 (FAST FACT: Rebecca Black earned her fame with the song “Friday” in 2011, which went viral for being one of the worst music videos of all time. More recently, she returned to the collective consciousness by way of the FOX series, “The Four: The Battle For Stardom” as well as a stint on NBC’s “The Voice”)
Edward Snowden is 41 (FAST FACT: Former CIA employee who made global headlines in June 2013 when he told the media about the National Security Agency's invasive tactics)
Britain’s Prince William/Duke of Wales is 42
The late Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007) …she would have been 71 (FAST FACT: became the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state. She was assassinated in a bombing in Pakistan after spending nine years in self-exile)
The late philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) (FAST FACT: he is considered the father of existentialism)
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