Wheelz will be twice my age this year.
Ya punk kid! Get off my lawn!
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1953
Bill Pullman
Cyndi Lauper
Dog the Bounty Hunter
Hulk Hogan
Kim Basinger
Rick Moranis
Jon Jeremy
and so on
Betty White is 89. I’m Half her age.
Duke Ellington, Fred Astaire, Ruth Page, Paul Robeson, Ernest Hemmingway, James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Hoagy Carmichael and Alfred Hitchcock - all born in 1899
I thought you were a year older than me?
1898:
Sergei Eisenstein
Bertolt Brecht
Enzo Ferrari
Dorothy Gish
Golda Meir
Norman Vincent Peale
Federico Garcia Lorca
M.C. Escher
Erich Maria Remarque
Alexander Calder
Henry Moore
George Gershwin
Rene Magritte
Alfred Eisenstadt
I see dead people.
1957:
Osama bin Laden (still alive?)
Fran Drescher
Donny Osmond
Katie Couric
Cameron Crowe
Gwyneth Paltrow
Ben Affleck
Cameron Diaz
Amanda Peet
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson (I thought he was older than that…)
Jude Law
Jennifer Garner
Dane Cook
Jane Addams
Nelly Bly
Neville Chamberlain
Marie Dressler
Mohandas K. Ghandi
Andre Gide
Emma Goldman
Charlie Grapewin (Wizard of Oz actor)
John Heisman (name honored with football trophy)
Henri Matisse
Tyrone Power, Sr.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Flo Ziegfeld, Jr.
1961:
Susan Boyle
George Clooney
Ann Coulter
Enya
Melissa Etheridge
Ricky Gervais
Julia Gillard
Sean Hannity
Peter Jackson
k.d. lang
Wynton Marsalis
Barack Obama
Tim Roth
Meg Ryan
Amy Sedaris
George Stephanopolous
Two heads of government, two lesbian singers, two conservative commentators, and some other people.
Jennifer Aniston
Christy Turlington
Jason Bateman
Dave Grohl
Robert Sean Leonard
Paul Rudd
Renee Zellweger- thought she was younger
Jennifer Lopez
Sean Combs
Elliott Smith- one of the few deceased individuals who should be twice my age
ETA: 1969
1914:
George Reeves
Ralph Ellison
Alec Guiness
Professor Irwin Corey
Clayton Moore
Allen Funt
Jack LaLanne
Dylan Thomas
Jonas Salk
Jonathan Harris (Oh, the pain! The pain!)
Joe DiMaggio
Ray Walston
Dorothy LaMour
Only Irwin Corey and Jack LaLanne are still alive.
Whoohoo, Betty White is twice my age and still causing at least as much trouble as I do! /dance
I can’t believe she’s 88, holy crap!
ETA: err, 89. My birth’s at the end of the year, so things get sticky.
And me!
Which makes my doubled-age year 1912. I was pleasantly surprised to find quite a number of living celebrities born in that year.
Said Akl (Lebanese poet)
Perkins Bass (politician)
Alois Brunner (Nazi war criminal - possibly alive)
Mary Carlisle (actress and singer)
Boris Chertok (rocket scientist)
Marta Eggerth (actress and singer)
Otto von Habsburg (claimant to the throne of Austria-Hungary)
Fritz Hellwig (German politician)
Herbert Matare (German physicist)
Roberta McCain (John McCain’s mother)
Kathleen Ollerenshaw (British mathematician)
Clarence “Ace” Parker (professional baseball and football player)
Wolf Gunther Plaut (rabbi and author)
Kurt Sanderling (German conductor)
Zohra Segal (Indian actress)
Kaneto Shindo (Japanese film director)
Edward Short (British politician)
Katsumi Tezuka (Japanese actor)
Nancy Wake (member of the French Resistance)
Lawrence Walsh (Iran-Contra investigator)
You’ve also got Norman Lloyd. One of the founding members of Orson Welles’ Mercury Theatre group. And he’s still working - he appeared last year in an episode of Modern Family.
This. I turn 24 in two weeks. I feel like such a brat now. ![]()
People born in 1946 are twice my age. This includes:
Dolly Parton
Cher
Susan Sarandon
Ozzy Osbourne
Twiggy
Roy Orbison
On a related note, Dakota Fanning is *half *my age for another month.
Born 1943:
Robert De Niro
Ben Kingsley
Penny Marshall
Christopher Walken
Blythe Danner
Chevy Chase
Mick Jagger
I’m 24, so that would put people twice my age at being born in 1963. Notable people on Wikipedia include:
Steven Soderbergh
Michael Jordan
Charles Barkley
Joel Osteen
Bret Michaels
Vanessa L. Williams
Quentin Tarantino
Joe Scarborough
Garry Kasparov
Joel Murray
Conan O’Brien
Jet Li
Mike Myers
Johnny Depp
Helen Hunt
Coolio
Whitney Houston
Tori Amos
Mark McGwire
Elisabeth Shue
Brian Boitano
Rick Allen
Brad Pitt