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1960 Nicola Bryant Age 58		Nicola Jane Bryant is an English actress known for her role as Perpugilliam "Peri" Brown, a companion of the Doctor in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who from 1984 to 1986.
1965 Jeff Peron Age 53		Jean-François Péron, more commonly known in England as Jeff Peron, is a retired French professional footballer who played as a midfielder for several teams in the Football League. Peron played 54 times for Portsmouth scoring 3 goals between 1998 – 1999
1972 Claudia Black Age 46		Claudia Lee Black is an Australian actress and voice actress, known for her portrayals of Aeryn Sun in the science fiction series Farscape and Vala Mal Doran in the science fiction series Stargate SG-1, as well as Sharon "Shazza" Montgomery in the film Pitch Black. She has also had several prominent roles in video games, such as Chloe Frazer in the Uncharted series, the witch Morrigan in Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age: Inquisition, Admiral Daro'Xen and Matriarch Aethyta in Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3, and squadmate Samantha Byrne in Gears of War 3.She also starred as Doctor Sabine Lommers in the miniseries Containment.
1976 Emily Deschanel Age 42		Emily Erin Deschanel is an American actress, director and producer. She is best known for starring in the Fox crime procedural comedy-drama series Bones as Dr. Temperance Brennan from 2005 to 2017.
1980 Nyron Nosworthy Age 38		Nyron Paul Henry Nosworthy is an English-born Jamaican former footballer. Beginning his career with Gillingham he moved to Sunderland in 2005 with whom he played in the Premier League. After two lengthy loan spells with Sheffield United he made a permanent switch to Watford in 2012 but was released in the summer of 2014 after a loan spell with Bristol City. Born in Brixton, South London, Nosworthy has represented Jamaica at international level, playing ten games and scoring once. Nosworthy played 7 times for Portsmouth in 2015
1985 Margaret Berger Age 33		Margaret Berger is a Norwegian singer, songwriter, music director, and DJ. She made her debut on Sony BMG after she placed second on the second season of Norwegian Idol in 2004. She released the studio albums Chameleon (2004) and Pretty Scary Silver Fairy (2006). Her upcoming third album is set to be released in October 2015. Berger represented Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö, Sweden, finishing in fourth place with the song "I Feed You My Love".
1985 Michelle Trachtenberg Age 33		Michelle Christine Trachtenberg is an American actress. She is best known for playing the lead role of Harriet M. Welsch in Harriet the Spy, Nona F. Mecklenberg in The Adventures of Pete & Pete, Dawn Summers in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Georgina Sparks in Gossip Girl.

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Jeff Peron . Nyron Nosworthy

September 20
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1967 Michalis Vlachos Age 51		Michalis Vlachos is a Greek football former professional player. Vlachos played 63 times for Portsmouth scoring 2 goals between 1998 – 1999
1977 Stefani Miglioranzi Age 41		Stefani Miglioranzi is a retired Brazilian-American footballer. Miglioranzi played 42 times for Portsmouth scoring 2 goals between 1999 – 2002
1978 Charlie Weber Age 40		Charles Alan "Charlie" Weber Jr. is an American actor and former model. In 2014, Weber began starring as Frank Delfino in the ABC legal drama series, How to Get Away with Murder.
1979 Sean Davis Age 39		Sean Davis is an English former footballer who played for clubs such as Fulham, Tottenham Hotspur, Portsmouth and Bolton Wanderers. Davis played 116 times for Portsmouth scoring 3 goals between 2006 – 2009
1986 Aldis Hodge Age 32		Aldis Alexander Basil Hodge is an American actor, best known for his portrayal of Alec Hardison on the TNT series Leverage, MC Ren in the 2015 biopic Straight Outta Compton, Levi Jackson in the 2016 film Hidden Figures, and as Noah in the WGN America series Underground.
1995 Sammi Hanratty Age 23		Samantha Lynne "Sammi" Hanratty is an American actress. In 2007, she began her acting career portraying the young version of Charlotte "Chuck" Charles on the ABC series Pushing Daisies. Hanratty's first lead role took place in 2009, portraying Chrissa Maxwell in An American Girl: Chrissa Stands Strong. In 2011, she played the role Whitney Brown in the film The Greening of Whitney Brown. Hanratty is considered a Celebrity Friend for the Starlight Children's Foundation.

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Roy Kinnear

(Born: 08 Jan 1934)

Died Aged 54

Roy Mitchell Kinnear was an English actor. He is known for his roles in films directed by Richard Lester; including Algernon in Help! (1965); Clapper in How I Won the War (1967); and Planchet in The Three Musketeers (1973), reprising the latter role in the 1974 and 1989 sequels. He is also known for playing Private Monty Bartlett in The Hill (1965) and Henry Salt in the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.

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September 10
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1951 Harry Groener Age 67		Harry Groener is a German-born American actor and dancer, perhaps best known for playing Mayor Wilkins in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (seasons 3, 4 and 7).
1953 Stuart Milligan Age 65		Stuart Milligan is an American actor based primarily in the United Kingdom, best known for his recurring role as Adam Klaus in Jonathan Creek.
1985 Elyse Levesque Age 33		Elyse Marie Levesque is a Canadian film and television actress. She is known for playing Chloe Armstrong in the Syfy original series Stargate Universe and the witch Genevieve in The Originals.

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1974 Clare Kramer Age 44		Clare Elizabeth Kramer is an American actress best known for her starring role of Glory on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and for her role as Courtney in Bring It On. She is a co-founder of GeekNation and hosts the podcast Take Five with Clare Kramer.
1978 John Curtis Age 40		John Charles Keyworth Curtis is an English former professional footballer. He was a versatile defender who could play anywhere along the back four or as a defensive midfielder. Curtis played 7 times for Portsmouth in 2004
1981 Fearne Cotton Age 37		Fearne Wood, known professionally by her maiden name Cotton, is an English television and radio presenter, best known for presenting a number of popular television programmes such as Top of the Pops and the Red Nose Day telethons.
2000 Ashley Boettcher Age 18		Ashley Boettcher is an American teen actress. Boettcher has acted since the age of five and is best known for her role as Mel Fuller in the Amazon Studios Original Series Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street.

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August 20
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1932 Anthony Ainley (Died: 03 May 2004) Aged 71		Anthony Ainley was an English actor best known for his work on British television and particularly for his role as the Master in Doctor Who. He was the fourth actor to play the role of the Master, and the first actor to portray the Master as a recurring role after the death of Roger Delgado in 1973.
1943 Sylvester McCoy Age 75		Sylvester McCoy (born Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith) is a Scottish actor, best known for playing the seventh incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who from 1987 to 1989—the final Doctor of the original run—and briefly returning in a television film in 1996.
1946 Ralf Hutter Age 72		Ralf Hütter is a German musician best known as the lead singer, keyboardist, founding member and leader of Kraftwerk. Since the departure of Florian Schneider in 2008, he is the band's sole remaining founding member.
1948 John Noble Age 70		John Noble is an Australian actor and theatre director of more than 80 plays. He is best known for his roles as Dr. Walter Bishop in the American Fox science fiction television series Fringe, and Henry Parrish in the Fox action-horror series Sleepy Hollow. His most high-profile film role was as Denethor in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy. He also provided the voice of the DC Comics supervillain Scarecrow in the 2015 video game Batman: Arkham Knight, where his character served as the main antagonist. In 2015, he joined the main cast of the television series Elementary as Sherlock Holmes's father. He was also cast as a doctor in the Australian TV series All Saints
1962 James Marsters Age 56		James Wesley Marsters is an American actor and musician. Marsters first came to the attention of the general public playing the popular character Spike in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off series, Angel. Since then, he has gone on to play other science fiction roles, such as the alien supervillain Brainiac on the series Smallville, the time traveller Captain John Hart in British science-fiction show Torchwood, and terrorist Barnabas Greeley in Syfy's Caprica. Marsters appeared in a supporting role in the 2007 movie P.S. I Love You. He appeared as a recurring character in the first season of the revival of Hawaii Five-0. Marsters also plays Victor Stien in the 2017 Hulu adaptation of Marvel Comics Runaways.
1962 Sophie Aldred Age 56		Sophie Aldred is an English actress and television presenter. She portrayed the Doctor's companion Ace in the television series Doctor Who during the late 1980s
1971 Steve Stone Age 47		Steven Brian Stone is an English former footballer who played as a winger. He was part of the coaching staff at Newcastle United from July 2010 to June 2015. Stone played 80 times for Portsmouth scoring 10 goals between 2002 – 2005
1974 Amy Adams Age 44		Amy Lou Adams is an American actress. The 2007 musical Enchanted, in which she played a cheerful Disney Princess, was Adams' first major success. She followed it by playing naive, optimistic women in a series of films, including the 2008 drama Doubt. She subsequently played to positive reviews in the sports film The Fighter (2010), and the psychological drama The Master (2012). In 2013 she began portraying Lois Lane in superhero films set in the DC Extended Universe. She won two consecutive Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress for playing a seductive con artist in the crime film American Hustle (2013) and the troubled painter Margaret Keane in the biopic Big Eyes (2014).
1995 Liana Liberato Age 23		Liana Daine Liberato is an American television and film actress. She played the younger version of the female lead in the 2014 film The Best of Me and starred in the 2010 films, Trust and The Last Sin Eater.

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1969 D. B. Woodside Age 49		David Bryan "D.B." Woodside is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of the White House Chief of Staff (and later President) Wayne Palmer on the Fox action/drama series 24. Additionally, he is noted for his roles as the bass singer Melvin Franklin in the NBC miniseries The Temptations, and starring as Robin Wood on the WB/UPN series Buffy the Vampire Slayer in their seventh season, as Malcolm Franks in Single Ladies, and as Dr. Joseph Prestridge on Parenthood. He played SEC Prosecutor Jeff Malone in the fourth season of Suits, and is currently playing the angel Amenadiel in the hit Fox television series Lucifer, which, as of May 2017, received a full-season pickup for its third year on the network for 2017-18.
2001 Meg Donnelly Age 17		Meg Donnelly is an American actress and singer. She is known for playing Ash in Netflix's 2013 live-action/animated series Team Toon, and for starring as Taylor Otto in the ABC comedy series American Housewife since 2016. In February 2018, Donnelly starred as Addison in the Disney Channel Original Movie Zombies.

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July 23
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1961 Woody Harrelson Age 57		Woodrow Tracy Harrelson is an American actor. His breakout role came in 1985 in the television sitcom Cheers. In film, he is best known for his portrayals of basketball hustler Billy Hoyle in White Men Can't Jump (1992), serial killer Mickey Knox in Natural Born Killers (1994), magazine publisher Larry Flynt in The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), Tallahassee in Zombieland (2009), Capt. Tony Stone in The Messenger (2009), Dave Brown in Rampart (2011), Haymitch Abernathy in The Hunger Games film series (2012–2015), magician/mentalist Merritt McKinney in the Now You See Me film series (2013–2019), the Colonel in War for the Planet of the Apes (2017), and Sheriff Bill Willoughby in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri(2017).
1967 Philip Seymour Hoffman (Died: 02 Feb 2014) Aged 46		Philip Seymour Hoffman was an American actor, director, and producer. Best known for his distinctive supporting and character roles – typically lowlifes, eccentrics, bullies, and misfits – Hoffman acted in many films from the early 1990s until his death in 2014.
1970 Charisma Carpenter Age 48		Charisma Carpenter is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Cordelia Chase in the popular TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–1999) and its spin-off series Angel (1999–2004). She has also starred as Kyra on Charmed (2004), Kendall Casablancas on Veronica Mars (2005–2006), Rebecca Sewell on The Lying Game (2012–2013) and Lacy in The Expendables film series (2010–2012).
1980 Sandeep Parikh Age 38		Sandeep Parikh is an American writer, director, actor and producer of comedy currently residing in Silverlake in Los Angeles, California. He is best known for his co-starring role as Zaboo on the award-winning web series The Guild. He is the founder of Effinfunny.com, a comedy video site focusing on alternative stand up comedy and the creation of original web series like The Legend of Neil (for Comedy Central and AtomFilms), which are currently available online.

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1963 Rocky Carroll Age 55		Roscoe "Rocky" Carroll is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Joey Emerson on the FOX comedy-drama Roc (1991–94) as Dr. Keith Wilkes on the CBS medical drama Chicago Hope, and as NCIS Director Leon Vance on the CBS drama NCIS and its spinoffs Los Angeles and New Orleans. He also played a supporting role in the 1995 thriller film Crimson Tide.
1968 Michael Weatherly Age 50		Michael Manning Weatherly, Jr., is an American actor, producer and director who became known for playing the role of Anthony DiNozzo in NCIS (2003–2016). In October 2016, he assumed the role of the titular Dr. Jason Bull in Bull. Weatherly is also recognized for his portrayal of Logan Cale in Dark Angel (2000–2002).
1976 Iyari Limon Age 42		Iyari Pérez Limón is a Mexican-American actress, best known for her supporting role as Potential Slayer Kennedy on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
1982 Sophia Bush Age 36		Sophia Anna Bush is an American actress, director, spokesperson, and activist. She starred as Brooke Davis in The WB/CW drama series One Tree Hill (2003–2012). She had major film roles in John Tucker Must Die (2006), The Hitcher (2007), and The Narrows (2008). From 2014 to 2017, she starred in the NBC police procedural drama series Chicago P.D. as Det. Erin Lindsay.
1985 Romuald Boco Age 33		Romuald Boco is a footballer who plays as a midfielder for Leyton Orient. Born in France, he has represented Benin at full international level. Boco played 4 times for Portsmouth between 2015 – 2016

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1919 Jon Pertwee (Died: 20 May 1996) Aged 76		John Devon Roland Pertwee, known professionally as Jon Pertwee, was an English actor, entertainer and cabaret performer. Pertwee starred as the Third Doctor in the science-fiction series Doctor Who between 1970 and 1974, and also spent 18 years (1959–1977) playing Chief petty officer Pertwee in The Navy Lark on BBC Radio. He later played the title character in the series Worzel Gummidge from 1979 to 1981, and again from 1987 to 1989.
1941 Bill Oddie Age 77		William Edgar "Bill" Oddie, OBE is an English writer, composer, musician, comedian, artist, birder, conservationist, television presenter and actor. He became famous as one of The Goodies. Oddie has established a reputation as a naturalist, conservationist, and television presenter on wildlife issues. Some of his books are illustrated with his own paintings and drawings. His wildlife programmes for the BBC include: Springwatch/Autumnwatch, How to Watch Wildlife, Wild In Your Garden, Birding with Bill Oddie, Britain Goes Wild with Bill Oddie and Bill Oddie Goes Wild.
1946 Joe Spano Age 72		Joseph Peter Spano is an American actor who came to prominence through his role as Lt. Henry Goldblume on Hill Street Blues. Spano is now best known for his work on NCIS as FBI Special AgentTobias C. Fornell.
1970 Robia LaMorte Age 48		Robia Brett LaMorte, sometimes credited as Robia La Morte, is an American actress and former dancer. She is best known as a dancer and spokesperson for the musician Prince, and for starring as Jenny Calendar in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
1988 Jack Whitehall Age 30		Jack Peter Benedict Whitehall is an English comedian, television presenter, and actor. He is best known for his stand up comedy, for starring as JP in the TV series Fresh Meat, and for playing Alfie Wickers in the TV series Bad Education, which he also co-wrote.

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1954 Alan Rogers Age 64		Alan Rogers is an English retired footballer who played as a winger. Rogers played 192 times for Portsmouth scoring 17 goals between 1979 – 1984
1978 Adam Busch Age 40		Adam Richard Busch is an American actor, film director and singer best known starring as Warren Mears on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He also starred as Neal in the TBS comedy Men at Work. He appears in the webshow MyMusic on YouTube as Indie.

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1926 Mel Brooks Age 92		Mel Brooks (born Melvin Kaminsky) is an American actor, writer, producer, director, comedian, and composer. He is known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parodies. Brooks began his career as a comic and a writer for the early TV variety show Your Show of Shows. He created, with Buck Henry, the hit television comedy series Get Smart, which ran from 1965 to 1970.
1951 Lalla Ward Age 67		Lalla Ward (born Sarah Jill Ward) is an English actress and author. She is known for her role as Romana in the BBC television series Doctor Who.
1965 Saul Davies Age 53		Saul Davies is a British musician best known as a member of the rock band James. Davies is a multi-instrumentalist whose primary instruments are the violin, guitar and percussion.
1976 Camille Guaty Age 42		Camille Guaty is an American film and television actress. She is known for her role as Daisy in Gotta Kick It Up! (2002), for playing Maricruz Delgado, Sucre's girlfriend, in Prison Break (2005–07) and as Walter O'Brien's sister, Megan, a recurring role on the CBS series Scorpion (2014–15).
1979 Felicia Day Age 39		Kathryn Felicia Day is an American actress, singer, writer, and web series creator. She is best known as the creator, star, writer, and producer of the original web series The Guild (2007–2013), a show loosely based on her life as a gamer. She also wrote and starred in the Dragon Age web series Dragon Age: Redemption (2011). Day was a member of the board of directors of the International Academy of Web Television beginning December 2009 until the end of July 2012.
1986 Paul Jones Age 32		Paul Jones is an English professional footballer who plays for Exeter City, on loan from Norwich City, as a goalkeeper. Jones played 64 times for Portsmouth between 2014 – 2016
1991 Tom Naylor Age 27		Thomas Keith Naylor is an English professional footballer who plays for Portsmouth.

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1964 Joss Whedon Age 54		Joseph Hill Whedon is an American screenwriter, director, producer, comic book writer, and composer. He is the founder of Mutant Enemy Productions and co-founder of Bellwether Pictures, and is best known as the creator of several television series, including Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003), Angel (1999–2004), Firefly (2002), Dollhouse (2009–10), and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (from 2013).
1970 Yann Tiersen Age 48		Yann Tiersen is a French musician and composer. His musical career is split between studio albums, collaborations and film soundtracks. His music involves a large variety of instruments; primarily the guitar, piano, synthesizer or violin together with instruments like the melodica, xylophone, toy piano, harpsichord, accordion and typewriter.
1975 KT Tunstall Age 43		Kate Victoria Tunstall, known by her stage name KT Tunstall, is a Scottish singer-songwriter and musician. She broke into the public eye with a 2004 live solo performance of her song "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" on Later… with Jools Holland.
1977 Hayden Foxe Age 41		Hayden Vernon Foxe is an Australian former footballer and current assistant coach with Western Sydney Wanderers. He played football at the top level in Germany, Japan, Belgium, England and Australia. Foxe represented his country at international level 11 times between 1998 and 2003. Foxe played 46 times for Portsmouth scoring 2 goals between 2002 – 2003
1980 Melissa Rauch Age 38		Melissa Ivy Rauch is an American actress and comedian. She is known for playing Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz on the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory.
1987 Stanley Aborah Age 31		Stanley Opoku Aborah is a Ghanaian-Belgian footballer who plays for League of Ireland Premier Division side Waterford. He is primarily an attacking midfielder. Aborah played 4 times for Portsmouth in 2017
2000 Caitlin Blackwood Age 18		Caitlin Blackwood is a British actress from Northern Ireland who is best known for playing the 'young Amy Pond' in the British TV show Doctor Who.

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