Actors:
Ken Foree is 76 (“Dawn of the Dead,” “Kenan & Kel”)
Antonio Sabato, Jr. is 52 (“General Hospital,” “Melrose Place) (FAST FACT: His first claim to fame was being a Calvin Klein underwear model)
The late Dennis Farina (1944 – 2013)…he would have been 80 (“Midnight Run,” “The Mod Squad”) (FAST FACT! Before fame, he worked in the Chicago Police Department's burglary division for eighteen years.)
The late Alex Rocco (1936 – 2015)…he would have been 88 (“Facts of Life,” “The Godfather”)
Musicians:
Foster The People’s Mark Foster is 40
Collective Soul’s Johnny Rabb is 52
Ja Rule is 48 (born Jeffrey Atkins)
Saul Williams is 52
Plus:
Olympian Cullen Jones is 40 (an American competition swimmer and Olympic gold medalist who specializes in freestyle sprint events. As part of the American team, he holds the world record in the 4×100-meter freestyle relay (long course). At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he won silver medals in the 4 x 100-meter freestyle relay and the 50-meter freestyle, as well as the gold in the 4 x 100-meter medley)
Astronaut Jack Lousma is 88 (American space shuttle commander of STS-3 and member of the 2nd manned crew on the Skylab space station. He was selected as part of the 1966 NASA Group)
Self-help guru Tony Robbins is 64 (Motivational speaker and author of “Awaken the Giant Within,” his popular seminar, “Unleash The Power Within,” includes an exercise in which participants take their shoes off and walk over a bed of hot coals)
Film composer Mervyn Warren is 60 (Known for producing and arranging songs for the hit 1993 film “Sister Act 2,” 1996’s Whitney Houston film “The Preacher's Wife” (which went on to become the best-selling Gospel album of all time), Warren is five-time GRAMMY Award winner and a 10-time GRAMMY nominee.)
The late composer Jimmy Dorsey (1904 – 1957)
The late scientist Herman Hollerith (1860 – 1929) (An American statistician who, in 1889, invented a machine to rapidly tabulate statistics, making him the father of modern automatic computation. In other words – you like that calculator? It’s thanks to him that such a thing exists.)
The late Dinah Shore (1916 – 1994) (After failing singing auditions for the bands of Benny Goodman, as well as both Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Shore struck out on her own. Good thing – she became the first singer of her era to achieve massive solo Between 1940 to 1957, she enjoyed a string of 80 charted hits. She went on to appear in a handful of feature films, and really found her next success in television – enjoying a four-decade career starring in her own music and variety shows from 1951 through 1963 and hosting two talk shows in the 1970s. “TV Guide” has ranked her at #16 on their list of the top fifty television stars of all time.)
The late reality TV star and LGBT activist Pedro Zamora (1972 – 1994)…he would have been 52 (His appearance on MTV's The Real World: San Francisco helped to raise awareness about AIDS and LGBT issues across the nation. He was a respected educator who spoke before the United States Congress on the importance of AIDS education.) (FAST FACT: His commitment ceremony to long-term partner Sean Sasser on “The Real World: San Francisco” was the first such ceremony ever shown on television.)