Actors:
Angelle Brooks is 56 (“Malcolm & Eddie,” “Spider-Man”)
Embeth Davidtz is 58 (“Matilda,” “Mad Men”)
Viola Davis is 58 (“The Help,” “Suicide Squad”)
Anna Gunn is 55 (“The Practice,” “Breaking Bad”)
Will Friedle is 47 (Eric on “Boy Meets World,” “Girl Meets World”)
Chris Hemsworth is 40 (“Star Trek,” “Thor: The Dark World”)
Rob Kerkovich is 44 (“NCIS: New Orleans,” “Cloverfield,”)
Ian McDiarmid is 79 (Emperor Palpatine and Darth Sidious in the “Star Wars” film series)
Sophie Okenedo is 55 (“Hotel Rwanda,” “Secret Life of Bees”)
Alyson Stoner is 30 (“Cheaper By The Dozen,” “The Suite Life of Zack & Cody”)
The late Arlene Dahl (1925 – 2021)…she would have been 98 (“Reign of Terror,” “What’s My Line?”) (FAST FACT: Lorenzo Lamas is her son)
Musicians:
Eric Carmen is 74
John Conlee is 77
Alabama Shakes guitarist Heath Fogg is 39
Gemma Hayes is 46
Manfred Man’s Mike Hugg is 81
B2K’s J-Boog (born Jarell Damonte Houston Sr.) is 38
Joe Jackson is 69
Guess Who bassist Jim Kale is 80
A Tribe Called Quest’s Ali Shaheed Muhammad is 53
The Sugarcubes’ Bragi Olafsson is 61
Asher Roth is 38
Charlie Sexton is 55
Plus:
Wrestler Hulk Hogan (born Terry Gene Bollea) is 70
Entrepreneur Steve Wozniak is 73 (FAST FACTS: The co-founder of Apple, Wozniak single-handedly developed the 1976 Apple I, which was the computer that launched Apple. He primarily designed the 1977 Apple II, while Jobs oversaw the development of its unusual case and Rod Holt developed the unique power supply)
The late TV show host Mike Douglas (1920-2006) (FAST FACT: He was born and died on August 11th)
The late author Alex Haley (1921 – 1992) (“Roots: The Saga of an American Family”) (FAST FACTS: ABC adapted “Roots” as a television miniseries of the same name and aired it in 1977 to a record-breaking audience of 130-million viewers. In the United States the book and miniseries raised the public awareness of African American history and inspired a broad interest in genealogy and family history.)