Today’s Birthdays

Nokio (Tamir Ruffin) – 40 years old

Dru HillBorn 1980

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Emma Bunton – 44 years old

Spice Girls (“Baby Spice”)Born 1976

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Ken Leung – 50 years old

Actor (TV’s The Night Shift, Lost, Inhumans and The Blacklist; Star Wars: The Force Awakens, X-Men: The Last Stand, Saw, Rush Hour)Born 1970

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Jam Master Jay (Jason Mizell)

The Run-DMC DJ and producer was shot to death at his Queens studio October 30th, 2002 at 37.Died in 2002 – Born 1965

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Hakeem Olajuwon – 57 years old

The Nigerian-born Basketball Hall of Famer played all but the final year of his college and pro careers in Houston — first at the University of Houston and then with the Rockets, where he led the team to back-to-back NBA Championships in 1994 and 1995.Born 1963

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Robby Benson (Robin Segal) – 64 years old

The teen star (Modern Love, Ice Castles, The Chosen, Ode to Billy Joe, Jeremy) grew up to be a novelist, screenwriter, songwriter, college professor and husband of one-time Meat Loaf foil Karla DeVito.

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Billy Ocean – 70 years old

English R&B singer who gained international fame with songs like “Caribbean Queen” and “Lover Boy.” He has won awards like the Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance.