Emma Stone is 35.  Oscar winner for “La La Land”, and Cruella de Vil in the live action “Cruella” movie.  But to ME she’ll always be Wichita in the “Zombieland” movies.

Patina Miller is 39.  Kanan’s mom on “Power Book III” and Daisy on “Madam Secretary”.

Lamar Odom is 44.  Retired former Kardashian.

Taryn Manning is 45.  Tiffany Doggett on “Orange is the New Black”, McGarrett’s sister on “Hawaii Five-0”, and Rita Roosevelt on “Sons of Anarchy”.

Zoe McLellan is 49.  Agent Brody on “NCIS: New Orleans”.

Thandiwe Newton is 51.  Maeve on “Westworld”.  She’s also Val in “Solo”, Condoleezza Rice in “W.”, and the color Orange in “For Colored Girls”.

Rebecca Romijn is 51.  Number One on “Star Trek: Discovery”.  Before that she was Eve Baird on “The Librarians”, and Mystique in the old “X-Men” movies. 

Ethan Hawke is 53.  Pat Garrett in the Billy the Kid movie “The Kid”.  And the bad guy Arthur Harrow in Marvel’s “Moon Knight”.  He was also the star of “Boyhood”, the first “Purge” movie, and “Training Day”.

Kelly Rutherford is 55.  Blake Lively’s mom on “Gossip Girl”.

Peter DeLuise is 57.  Doug Penhall on “21 Jump Street”.

Corey Glover from Living Colour is 59.  Biggest hit:  “Cult of Personality“.  He also played Francis in Oliver Stone’s “Platoon”.

Lori Singer is 66.  Kevin Bacon fell for her in “Footloose”.

Maria Shriver is 68.  I’mguessing she does all her own housework now.

Sally Field is 77.  “Gidget”, “The Flying Nun”, and “Forrest Gump”, “Norma Rae”, and of course “Mrs. Doubtfire” with the late, great Robin Williams.

Glenn Frey  (1948 – 2016)  He sang on the classic Eagles songs “Take It Easy“, “Peaceful Easy Feeling“, “Tequila Sunrise“, and “Heartache Tonight“. 

His biggest solo hits were “You Belong to the City“ from “Miami Vice”, and “The Heat Is On“ from the “Beverly Hills Cop”.

Mike Nichols  (1931 – 2014)  Oscar-winning director of “The Graduate”.  He also directed “Primary Colors”, “The Birdcage”, and “Silkwood”.

Jonathan Harris  (1914 – 2002)  Dr. Zachary Smith on “Lost in Space”.  As a tribute to him, they made Dr. Smith’s real name June Harris in the Netflix reboot.

James Naismith  (1861 – 1939)  He invented basketball in 1891 and lived long enough to see it become an Olympic sport in 1936.

Antoine-Joseph Sax  (1814 – 1894)  French guy who invented the saxophone.

Pat Tillman  (1976 – 2004)  Ex-NFL player who was so struck by September 11th that he left professional football to enlist in the Army.  He was killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan in April of 2004.

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Originally posted on November 6th, 2023