Hailee Steinfeld is 27. Kate Bishop on “Hawkeye”, Emily in the “Pitch Perfect” movies, Gwen Stacy / Spider-Gwen in “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”, and Charlie in the Transformers movie “Bumblebee”.
Rider Strong is 44. Shawn on “Boy Meets World” and “Girl Meets World”.
Courtney Henggeler is 45. Amanda LaRusso on the “Karate Kid” TV series “Cobra Kai”, and Sheldon’s sister Missy Cooper on “The Big Bang Theory”.
Rey Mysterio Jr. is 49. High flying masked WWE luchador.
Mos Def is 50. Intelligent rapper currently known as Yasiin Bey.
Mo’nique is 56.
Gary Dourdan is 57. Green-eyed stud Warrick Brown from “CSI”.
Nikki Sixx from Motley Crue is 65.
Jermaine Jackson is 69. Tito’s brother.
Teri Garr is 76. “Tootsie”, “Mr. Mom”, “Young Frankenstein” and Phoebe’s real mom on “Friends”. She announced in 2002 that she has multiple sclerosis. She hasn’t done any movies or TV since 2007.
Brenda Lee is 79. ’60s singing sensation. Biggest hits: “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree“ and the country hit “I’m Sorry“. She’s the only female artist to be in both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Country Music Hall of Fame.
John Kerry is 80. Obama’s Secretary of State.
Donna Mills is 83. Abby on “Knots Landing”.
David Gates from Bread is 83. Their classics include “Make It with You“, “It Don’t Matter to Me“, “If“, “Baby I’m-a Want You“, and “Lost Without Your Love“.
Rita Moreno is 92. Grandma Lydia on the Netflix reboot of “One Day at a Time”. She’s one of the very few people to ever win all four major entertainment awards.
She won an Emmy for being on “The Muppet Show”, a Grammy for “The Electric Company”álbum, an Oscar for “West Side Story”, and a Tony for “The Ritz”.
Walter Knott (1889 – 1981) Founder of Knott’s Berry Farm, a great line of jams, and the nation’s first theme park. Walter Knott is also responsible for naming the BOYSENBERRY . . . after the man who created it, Rudolph Boysen.
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