July 2nd
Actors:
- Yancy Butler is 50 (“The Mentalist,” “As the World Turns,” “Witchblade”)
- Lindsay Lohan is 34 (“The Parent Trap,” “Herbie Fully Loaded” “Mean Girls,” “Scary Movie 5,” “The Canyons”)
- Margot Robbie is 30 (“Vigilante,” “The Wolf of Wall Street,” “I, Tonya”)
- Saul Rubinek is 72 (“Unforgiven,” “Nixon”)
- Wendy Schaal is 66 (”American Dad,” ‘’It’s a Living”)
- Ashley Tisdale is 35 (“The Suite Life of Zack & Cody,” “High School Musical”)
- Polly Dean Holliday is 83 (Flo on the 1970s sitcom, “Alice”)
- The late Ron Silver(1946-2009)…he would have been 74(“Rhoda,” “Silkwood,” “Blue Steel,” “Wiseguy,” “Reversal of Fortune,” “The West Wing”)
Musicians:
- Michelle Branch is 37
- Boomtown Rats’ Pete Briquette is 66
- Huey Lewis and The News’ Johnny Colla is 68
- The Neighbourhood’s Jeremy Freedman is 28
- Monie Love is 50
- Bush’s Dave Parsons is 55
- Clean Bandit’s Jack Patterson is 35
- Cutthroat Boyz’s Vince Staples is 27
- The late saxophonist Lee Allen(1927-1944)…he would have been 93
- The late Jenni Rivera(1969-2012) …she would have been 51
Plus:
- CNN “OutFront” host Erin Burnett is 44
- Former Oakland As and New York Yankees outfielder and designated hitter Jose Canseco is 56 (FAST FACTS: While he hit 462 career home runs and was a six-time All-Star, admitted using performance enhancing drugs during his playing career, and in 2005 wrote a tell-all book,Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits & How Baseball Got Big, in which he claimed that the vast majority of MLB players use steroids.)
- TV producer and writer Larry David is 73 (“Seinfeld,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm”)
- Model Jerry Hall is 64 (FAST FACTS: She was with Mick Jagger from 1977 through 1999 and their 1990 marriage ceremony in Bali? It was later declared invalid. She began dating billionaire Rupert Murdoch in 2015…and married him in March 2016)
- Comedian Peter Kay is 47 (FAST FACTS: His 2010/11 stand-up comedy tour, where he played for over 1.2-million people, was entered into the Guinness Book of World Records as the most successful of all time)
- NASCAR driver Richard Petty is 83 (FAST FACT: He won the Daytona 500 seven times over the course of his career.)
- Olympic figure skater and TV personality Johnny Weir is 36
- The late Civil Rights leader Medgar Evers(1925-1963) …he would have been 95(FAST FACTS: He was the first field secretary for the Mississippi chapter of the NAACP. His murder trials resulted in two hung juries, causing outrage in the African American community.)
- The late Nobel Prize-winning poet Herman Hesse(1877-1962)(“Siddhartha,” “The Glass Bead Game”)
- The late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall(1908-1993)(FAST FACT: He was the first African American U.S. Supreme Court Justice, he served on our nation’s highest court from 1967 – 1991. Before becoming a judge, Marshall was a lawyer who was best known for his high success rate in arguing before the Supreme Court and for the victory in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, which ruled that segregated public schools were unconstitutional.)