Who turns 21 in 2019? Who turns 50? Who turns 100? Or 200?
Would you believe that Michael Jackson’s daughter Paris is already 21? That Hangover goofball Zach Galifianakis is already 50? That Catcher in the Rye author J.D. Salinger was born 100 years ago today?
Believe it! Read on to see more of the big, big birthdays of 2019.
Turning 21 in 2019
- Pop music heiress Paris Jackson (April 3)
- Actress Elle Fanning (April 9)
- Former first daughter Malia Obama (July 4)
- Actor and Hollywood scion Jaden Smith (July 9)
Turning 50 in 2019
- Old-school supermodel Christy Turlington (January 2)
- Friends star Jennifer Aniston (February 11)
- Pursed-lips actress Renee Zellweger (April 25)
- US Senator and presidential hopeful Cory Booker (April 27)
- Aussie actress Cate Blanchett (May 14)
- Talking head Tucker Carlson (May 16)
- Game of Thrones star Peter Dinklage (June 11)
- Multimedia star Jennifer Lopez (July 24)
- Facebook COO and Lean In author Sheryl Sandberg (August 28)
- Comedian and actor Zach Galifianakis (October 1)
- Singer Gwen Stefani (October 3)
- Rapper and impresario Jay-Z (December 4)
- Linux inventor Linus Torvalds (December 28)
- Entertainment icons Bert and Ernie, Scooby-Doo and Monty Python
Turning 100 in 2019 (were they still alive)
- Catcher in the Rye author J.D. Salinger (January 1)
- Baseball hero Jackie Robinson (January 31)
- Rugged actor Jack Palance (February 18)
- Atheist grand master Madalyn Murray O’Hair (April 13)
- Piano glam master Liberace (May 16)
- High climber Sir Edmund Hillary (July 20)
- Jazz drummer Art Blakey (October 11)
- Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau (October 18)
- The long-dead Shah of Iran (October 26)
Turning 200 in 2019 (definitely not still alive)
- Long-running ruler Queen Victoria (May 24)
- Battle Hymn of the Republic composer Julia Ward Howe (May 27)
- Sensitive and ecstatic poet Walt Whitman (May 31)
- Sewing machine inventor Elias Howe (July 9)
- Moby-Dick author Herman Melville (August 1)
- Not-so-long-running consort Prince Albert (August 26)
- Middlemarch author George Eliot (November 22)
Turning 250 in 2019
- Little military genius Napoleon Bonaparte
That’s enough! We’ll end it there. Happy new year to these landmark birthday people, and a happy new year to you, gentle reader.