Actors:
Barbara Bain is 92 (TV’s “Mission: Impossible,” “Space 1999”)
Jacqueline Bisset is 79 (“Murder on the Orient Express,” “Rizzoli and Isles”)
Louise Lombard is 53 (“CSI”)
Ben Savage is 43(“Boy Meets World,” “Girl Meets World”)
Jean Smart is 72 (“Designing Women,” “Fargo”)
The late Nell Carter (1948 – 2003)…she would have been 75 (“Gimme A Break!,” “Hangin’ With Mr. Cooper”)
The late Claudette Colbert (1903 – 1996) (“It Happened One Night,” “Cleopatra”) (FAST FACT: In 1999, the American Film Institute posthumously voted Colbert the 12th Greatest Female star of classic Hollywood cinema.)
The late Richard Kiel (1939 – 2014)…he would have been 84 (“Moonraker,” “The Hulk”)
The late Joe E. Tata (1936 – 2022) … he would have been 87 (“The Rockford Files,” “Beverly Hills, 90210”)
Musicians:
Fiona Apple is 46
Swizz Beatz is 45 (born Kasseem Dean) (FAST FACT: He’s been married to Alicia Keys since 2010)
Peter Cetera is 79
Blood, Sweat and Tears’ David Clayton-Thomas is 82
Bobbie Cryner is 62
One Direction’s Niall Horan is 30
Village People singer Randy Jones is 71
Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine is 62
Drummer Steve Perkins (Porno for Pyros, Jane’s Addiction) is 56
Rascal Flatts’ Joe Don Rooney is 48
Zak Starkey is 58 (FAST FACTS: The son of Ringo Starr, Keith Moon gave Starkey a drum kit when he was eight-years-old. He began learning how to play in a serious manner when he was ten)
The late Bill Monroe (1911 – 1996) (Known as the Father of Bluegrass, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1970)
The late Mel Torme (1925 – 1999)…he would have been 98
Plus:
Reality TV star (and babymaker) Michelle Duggar is 57
Fashion Designer Stella McCartney is 52
Actor/director/producer Tyler Perry is 54 (“Diary of a Mad Black Woman,” “Madea” film series)
Radio-TV personality Tavis Smiley is 59
Motivational speaker and TV host Iyanla Vanzant is 70 (her birth name, Rhonda Eva Harris)
The late author Roald Dahl (1916 – 1990) (“The Witches,” “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”)
The late entrepreneur Milton S. Hershey (1857 – 1945) (He founded the Hershey Chocolate Company in 1905 – as such, he’s credited with the founding of “company town” Hershey, Pennsylvania.)