Actors:
Patti D'Arbanville is 71 (“New York Undercover,” “Guiding Light,” “Third Watch,” “Third Watch”)
Anne Heche is 53 (“Volcano,” “John Q,” “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” “Six Days Seven Nights”)
Justin Henry is 51 ("Kramer vs. Kramer")
Connie Sellecca is 67 (“The Greatest American Hero,” “Hotel,” various TV movies, “Intelligence Your Life”) (FAST FACT: She’s been married to John Tesh since 1992)
Jamie Kennedy is 52 (“Scream,” “Malibu's Most Wanted,” “The Jamie Kennedy Experiment,” “The Ghost Whisperer”)
Sir Ian McKellen is 83 (“Richard III,” “Lord of the Rings,” “X-Men”)
Cillian Murphy is 46 (“28 Days Later,” “Red Eye,” “Inception,” “Transcendence,” “Breakfast on Pluto”)
Mike Myers is 59 (“SNL,” “Austin Powers” series, “Shrek,” “Wayne's World” series, “So I Married An Ax Murderer,” “Shrek” series, “Inglourious Basterds,” “The Gong Show” – as host ‘Tommy Maitland’)
Octavia Spencer is 52 (“Wizards of Waverly Place,” “The Help,” “Fruitvale Station,” “Zootopia,” “Hidden Figures,” “The Shape of Water,” the upcoming “MA”) (FAST FACT: She’s also an author! Spencer has started a children's book series, “Randi Rhodes, Ninja Detective” and published two books: “The Case of the Time-Capsule Bandit” and “The Sweetest Heist in History”)
Leslie Uggams is 79 (“Roots,” “Empire,” “Deadpool”)
Karen Valentine is 75 (“Room 222,” “Hot Lead and Cold Feet,” “The North Avenue Irregulars”)
The late Claude Akins (1926 – 1944)…he would have been 96 (“From Here To Eternity, “The Caine Mutiny,” “Inherit The Wind,” “Rawhide,” “Gunsmoke,” “ J. and the Bear,” “The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo”)
The late Dixie Carter (1939 – 2010)…she would have been 83 (“The Edge of the Night,” “Designing Women,” “That Evening Sun”)
Musicians:
Jessi Colter is 79
Three Days Grace Adam Gontier is 44
The Fray’s Joe King is 42
Scorpions’ Klaus Meine is 74
Rasheeda is 46
Paul Weller is 64 (The Jam from 1976 until 1982; The Style Council from 1983 until 1989)
The late Tom T. Hall (1936 – 2021)…he would have been 86
Plus:
Reality TV star Terra Jole is 42 (“Little Women LA,” “Dancing With The Stars”) (FAST FACT: She recently underwent a double mastectomy thanks to a breast cancer diagnosis)
TV personality Stacy London is 53 (“What Not to Wear,” “Love, Lust, Run”)
Model and sometime actress Molly Sims is 49 (“Las Vegas,” “Yes Man”)
Director and Puppeteer Frank Oz is 78 (“Puppeteer and voice actor behind iconic characters such as Yoda, Cookie Monster, and Miss Piggy. He co-directed “The Dark Crystal” with Jim Henson, then went on to direct the films, “The Muppets Take Manhattan,” “Little Shop of Horrors,” “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.” He also voiced a robot in “Zathura”)