President Ronald Reagan Born On This Date in 1911

Actors:

Dane DeHaan is 37 (“Chronicle,” “Kill Your Darlings,” “Lawless”)

Mamie Van Doren is 92 (“Born Reckless,” “High School Confidential,” “Running Wild”) (FAST FACT: In her heyday, she was nicknamed “Hollywood’s bad girl”)

Alice Eve is 41 (“Entourage,” “She’s Out of My League,” “Star Trek Into Darkness”)

Mike Farrell is 84 (“M*A*S*H,” “Providence,” “Desperate Housewives”)

Alice Greczyn is 37 (“The Dukes of Hazzard,” “House of Fears,” “Sleepover”)

David Hayter is 54 (“The Scorpion King,” “Watchmen,” “X-Men”)

Kathy Najimy is 66 (“Hocus Pocus,” “Sister Act,” “Veronica’s Closet,” “Unforgettable”)

Crystal Reed is 38 (“Crazy, Stupid, Love,” “Skyline,” “Teen Wolf”)

Mackenzie Smith is 22 (“Four Christmases,” “God Bless America,” “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles,” “The Middle”)

Brian Stepanek is 52 (“Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil,” “The Suite Life of Zach and Cody”)

Dominic Sherwood is 33 (“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” “Stormbreaker,” “Vampire Academy,” “Shadowhunters”)

Josh Stewart is 46 (“The Collection,” “The Dark Knight Rises,” “Law Abiding Citizen,” “Dirt,” “Thurd Watch,” “Criminal Minds”)

Robert Townsend is 66 (“Hollywood Shuffle,” “Meteor Man,” “The Five Heartbeats,” “The Parent ‘Hood”) (FAST FACT: He was originally supposed to be caste for “Saturday Night Live,” but producers chose Eddie Murphy over him)

The late Zsa Zsa Gabor (1917 – 2016) (“Moulin Rouge,” “Lovely To Look At,” “A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors,” “The Naked Gun 2 ½: The Smell of Fear”) (FAST FACT: She is the sister to the famous Eva Gabor. Zsa Zsa married nine times including once to Conrad Hilton. They had a child in 1947).

The late Patrick Macnee (1922 – 2015) (“The Avenger” film series, “Battlestar Galactica,” “Sherlock Holmes in New York”)

The late Rip Torn (1931 – 2019)...he would have been 92 (“Babydoll,” “Cross Creek,” “Men in Black”)

 

Musicians:

Rick Astley is 57

Fabian is 80 (born Fabiano Anthony Forte)

Lonestar’s Richie McDonald is 61

Fly Away Hero’s Dalton Rapattoni is 27

Guns ‘N’ Roses’ Axl Rose is 61 (born William Bruce Rose Jr.)

The late Natalie Cole (1950 – 2015)…she would have been 73

The late Bob Marley (1945 – 1981) …he would have been 78 (FAST FACT: Known as the Ambassador of the Third World for his music, he died of cancer at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Miami, Florida. He was an activist of the Back to Africa movement and the Rastafari movement. Marley was buried with a soccer ball, a Gibson guitar, a bible, and a bud of marijuana)

 

Plus:

Model Calum Best is 42

Newsman Tom Brokaw is 83 (He is the only person to host all three major NBC News programs: “The Today Show,” “NBC Nightly News,” and, briefly, “Meet the Press.” He now serves as a Special Correspondent for NBC News and works on documentaries. Along with Peter Jennings at ABC News and Dan Rather at CBS News, Brokaw was one of the "Big Three" news anchors in the U.S. during the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s. The three all hosted their network's flagship-nightly-news programs for over 20 years, and all three started and retired within a year of each other.)

Retired NBA Power forward and celebrity ex-spouse Kris Humphries is 38 (FAST FACT: Was famously – or infamously – married to Kim Kardashian for 72 days.)

The late, brief wife of Adolph Hitler, Eva Braun (1912 – 1945) (Married to psychotic dictator for 40 hours, he is said to have complimented her: “A highly intellectual man should have a primitive and stupid woman.” What a romantic. They committed suicide together – she bit into a cyanide capsule, and Hitler had shot himself in the right temple with his pistol.)

The late politician Aaron Burr (1756 – 1836) (FAST FACT: Third Vice Present of the United States who infamously killed his rival, Alexander Hamilton. In 1804, the last full year of his single term as Vice President, Burr killed Hamilton in a famous duel. Burr was never tried for the illegal duel, and all charges against him were eventually dropped, but Hamilton's death ended his political career.)

The late songwriter Haven Gillespie (1888 – 1975) (“Santa Claus is Coming to Town”)

The late scientist Mary Leakey (1913 – 1996) (She discovered the first fossilized Proconsul skull, an extinct ape now believed to be ancestral to humans)

The late President Ronald Reagan (1911 – 2004) (Dubbed “The Great Communicator,” Reagan galvanized the American public in way that re-defined American politics in the 1980s – check out three of his greatest speeches on the right)

The late Babe Ruth (1895 – 1948) (FAST FACT: Also known as “The Great Bambino”, an all-time record breaking Yankees legend who won seven World Series Championships and 12 American League home run titles)

The late scientist Spencer Silver (1941 – 2021)…he would have been 82 (FAST FACT: Chemist who developed adhesive led and co-invented Post-It Note)


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