Singer Billy Joel Celebrates 75th Birthday Today

Actors:

Candice Bergen is 78 (“Murphy Brown,” “Boston Legal”)

John Corbett is 63 (“Sex and the City,” “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”)

Rosario Dawson is 45 (“Sin City, “Clerks II”)

Chris Diamantopoulos is 49 (“Frasier,” “The Sopranos”)

Grace Gummer is 38 (“American Horror Story: Freak Show,” “Mr. Robot”)

Alley Mills is 73 (“The Wonder Years,” “The Bold and the Beautiful”)

Chris Zylka is 39 (“10 Things I Hate About You,” “Everybody Hates Chris”)

The late Albert Finney (1936 – 2019)…he would have been 88 (“Erin Brockovich,” “Skyfall”) 

Musicians:

Simple Plan’s Pierre Bouvier is 45

Depeche Mode’s Dave Gahan is 62

Ghostface Killa is 54 (real name, Dennis Coles)

Billy Joel is 75 

Plus:

Producer James L. Brooks is 84 (“The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” “Terms of Endearment,” “The Simpsons”)

TV personality/reality TV star/swimwear designer Audrina Patridge is 39 (While her first claim to fame was on MTV’s “The Hills,” she has since parlayed that into regular work – including her turn as host of NBC’s “1st Look” and competing on “Dancing with the Stars”)

Celebrity Psalm West is 5 (the progeny of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West)

The late “Peter Pan” author M. Barrie (1860 – 1937) (His other literary works include “The Admirable Crichton,” “The Little White Bird”)

The late archeologist Howard Carter (1874 – 1939) (His discovery of the tomb of 14th-century BC pharaoh Tutankhamun in 1923 made him famous around the world) (FAST FACT: His death at a late age is considered a strong argument against the supposed “curse of the pharaohs,” an alleged hex believed by some to be cast upon any person who disturbs the mummy of an Ancient Egyptian person, especially a pharaoh)

The late Baseball champ (and all-around nice guy!) Tony Gwynn (1960 – 2014)…he would have been 64 (An 8-time National League batting champion, he was also a 15-time MLB All-Star who played twenty seasons for the San Diego Padres)

The late “60 Minutes” newsman Mike Wallace (1918 – 2012)

(Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)