Actors:
Rhyon Brown is 31 (“Lincoln Heights,” “Get Rich or Die Tryin’”)
Britt Ekland is 81 (“The Man with the Golden Gun,” “Wicker Man”)
Roshon Fegan is 32 (“Shake It Up,” “Camp Rock” franchise)
Ioan Gruffudd is 50 (“Black Hawk Down,” “Fantastic Four” franchise)
Amy Jo Johnson is 53 (“Felicity,” “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers”)
Cameron Kennedy is 30 (“My Babysitter’s a Vampire”)
Emily Mortimer is 52(“The Newsroom,” “Shutter Island”)
Wes Ramsey is 46 (“Charmed,” “Bitter Sweet”)
Lamman Rucker is 52 (“Meet the Browns,” “As The World Turns”)
Elisabeth Shue is 60 (“The Karate Kid,” “Adventures in Babysitting”)
Jeremy Sisto is 49 (“Six Feet Under,” “Law & Order”)
Ellen Travolta is 84 (“Happy Days,” “Joanie Loves Chachi”) (FAST FACT: She is John Travolta’s older sister”)
The late Carole Lombard (1908 - 1942) (“No Man of Her Own,” “Malice in Wonderland”) (FAST FACT: Her tremendous Hollywood career ended at age 33 when she died in an plane crash.)
Musicians:
Arcade Fire’s Will Butler is 41
REO Speedwagon’s Kevin Cronin is 72
Los Lobos’ David Hidalgo is 69
Tim Rushlow is 57
Tommy Stinson is 57
Matthew Sweet is 59
Lil Wyte is 41 (born Patrick Lanshaw)
The late Millie Small (1946 – 2020) ...she would have been 77 (FAST FACT: Her success with the cover of The Cadillacs’ “My Boy Lollipop” was significant because it was the first major hit for Island Records)
Plus:
Author Amanda Brown is 53 (“Legally Blonde,” “School of Fortune”)
Reality TV star and trans activist Jazz Jennings is 23 (“I Am Jazz”)
WNBA champ and ESPN analyst Rebecca Lobo is 50 (FAST FACT: She’s 6-feet, 4-inches tall)
Former NFL Coach/TV Personality Tony Dungy is 68 (FAST FACT: He won Super Bowl XLI as head coach of the Indianapolis Colts)
The late scientist and inventor George Westinghouse (1846 – 1914) (He was an American entrepreneur and engineer who invented air brakes for trains. His development of AC electrical power was also used in some of the early electrical chairs in prison)
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