Tennis Legend Anna Kournikova Celebrates 42nd BirthdayToday

Actors:

Michael Cera is 35 (“Juno,” “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World”)

Adrienne Frantz is 45 (“The Bold and the Beautiful,” “The Young and the Restless”)

Bill Hader is 45 (“Saturday Night Live,” “Trainwreck”)

Liam Neeson is 71 (“Schindler’s List,” “Taken”)

Larisa Oleynik is 42 (“3rd Rock From The Sun,” ″Boy Meets World)

Kim Rhodes is 54 (“Another World,” “As the World Turns”)

The late Ken Osmond (Eddie Haskell in “Leave It to Beaver”) (1943 - 2020)...he would have been 80 (FAST FACTS: Struggling in Hollywood after being typecast, he later became a Los Angeles police officer. After retiring from police work, he resumed his acting career in the 90’s).

The late Jessica Tandy (1909 – 1994) (“Driving Miss Daisy,” “Cocoon”) (FAST FACTS: She was married to Hume Cronyn. In 1979, she was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame) 

Musicians:

Iggy Azalea is 33 (her given name, Amethyst Amelia Kelly)

George Ezra is 30

Eric Johnson, guitarist-keyboardist for the Shins is 47

Tom Jones is 83

Stone Temple Pilots drummer Eric Kretz is 57

Jane’s Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro is 56

Cross Canadian Ragweed’s Randy Ragsdale is 56

Fetty Wap is 32 (born Willie Maxwell II)

The late Dean Martin (1917-1995)

The late, oh so great, Prince (1958 – 2016)…he would have been 65 

Plus:

Film director James Ivory is 95 (“A Room With a View,” “Howards End”)

Reality star Bear Grylls is 49 (“Man vs. Wild”) (FAST FACT: Don’t forget that what you see with Bear may not be what you get. He was busted back in 2007 for some fakery on his TV show)

Wrestling star Mick Foley is 58 (WWE Hall of Fame in 2013)

NBA star Allen Iverson is 48 (FAST FACTS: He played for fourteen seasons in the NBA at both the shooting guard and point guard positions. An eleven-time NBA All-Star, he won the All-Star game MVP award in 2001 and 2005, and was the NBA's MVP in 2001. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016)

Reality star Masika Kalysha is 38 (“Love and Hip Hop Hollywood” – plus she has appeared in videos for artists including Waka Flocka, Lil Wayne, and Birdman)

Retired tennis player Anna Kournikova is 42

Model/sometime actor Emily Ratajkowski is 32 (she starred in “Gone Girl”)

Music producer and reality TV star A. Reid is 67

The late boxer James J. Braddock (1905-1974) (FAST FACT: The movie “Cinderella Man” is based on his life. Braddock was known for his spoiling, counterpunching style, powerful right hand and his iron chin. After losing several bouts because of chronic hand injuries during the Great Depression, he was forced to work on the docks and collect public assistance to feed his family. He made a comeback, and in 1935 he fought Max Baer for the Heavyweight title and won. For this unlikely feat he was given the nickname "Cinderella Man.”)

The late poet Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) (Pulitzer Prize-winning poet known for works such as “Annie Allen” and “We Real Cool.” She earned the title of U.S. Poet Laureate in 1985. She published her first poem in a children's magazine when she was just thirteen years old.)

The late artist Paul Gaugin [[go-GAN]] (1848-1903) (Post-Impressionist artist who depicted village life in Tahiti in such colorful works as "Spirit of the Dead Watching." His work became popular after his death and influenced such notables as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse.)

The late dictator Muammar Gaddafi (1942 – 2011)…he would have been 81 (Ruthless Libyan president for more than 40 years after a bloodless coup in 1969. He was just 27 at the time. Fast forward and years of bad behavior found him beaten and killed by rebels after a civil war broke out in 2011) 

 (Photo by Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images)


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