Singer Cee Lo Green Celebrates 49th Birthday Today

Actors:

Ralph Carter is 63 (“Good Times”)

Sean Giambrone is 25 (“The Goldbergs”)

Ted McGinley is 66 (“Happy Days,” “Married…With Children”)

Colm Meaney is 71 (“Star Trek: The Next Generation,” “Get Him To The Greek”)

Idina Menzel is 53 (“Glee,” “Frozen”)

The late John Heawood (1920 – 1995) (“Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,” “Sergeant Cork”)

The late Meredith MacRae (1944 – 2000)…she would have been 80 (“My Three Sons,” “Born Famous”) 

Musicians:

Cee Lo Green is 49 (his given name, Thomas DeCarlo Callaway)

Pavement’s Stephen Malkmus is 58

Tom Morello is 60

Remy Ma is 44

Wynonna is 60

The late Benny Goodman (1909 – 1986) (FAST FACTS: Known as the King of Swing, he had joined the Ben Pollack Orchestra, one of Chicago's top bands at 16. He himself would have one of the greatest bands of the 1930s, and his Carnegie Hall concert of 1938 was largely credited with making jazz a respectable genre of music. 

Plus:

The late legendary cartoon voicist Mel Blanc (1908 – 1989) (FAST FACT: His real name was Melvin Jerome Blank, but he changed the spelling of his last name after a rude comment made by his high school teacher.)

The late entrepreneur Bob Evans (He created the Bob Evans chain and Owens Country Sausage line) (1918 – 2007)

(Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for UCLA Institute of the Environment & Sustainability)