On This Day
19 July 2018
Births
| 1976 Benedict Cumberbatch Age 42 |
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Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch CBE is an English actor. He made his West End debut in Richard Eyre's revival of Hedda Gabler in 2005. His television work includes appearances in Silent Witness (2002) and Fortysomething (2003) before playing Stephen Hawking in the television film Hawking in 2004. He has starred as Sherlock Holmes in the series Sherlock since 2010. |
| 1982 Jared Padalecki Age 36 |
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Jared Tristan Padalecki is an American actor, best known for his role as Sam Winchester on Supernatural. He grew up in Texas and rose to fame in the early 2000s after appearing on the television series Gilmore Girls as well as the films New York Minute and House of Wax. |
| 1983 Helen Skelton Age 35 |
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Helen Elizabeth Skelton is an English television presenter and actress, best known for co-presenting the BBC children's programme Blue Peter from 2008 until 2013 and as an occasional presenter on Countryfile. |
| 1986 Drew Talbot Age 32 |
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Andrew Talbot is an English footballer who plays for Chesterfield. A versatile player, Talbot predominantly plays at right back or on the right wing. He has occasionally played at left back and as a left winger, and can be utilised as a striker. Talbot played 14 times for Portsmouth between 2016 – 2017 |
Deaths
| 2013 Mel Smith (Born: 03 Dec 1952) Died Aged 60 |
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Melvin Kenneth Smith was an English comedian, writer, film director, producer and actor. Smith worked on the sketch comedy shows Not the Nine O'Clock News and Alas Smith and Jones along with his comedy partner Griff Rhys Jones. Smith and Jones founded Talkback, which grew to be one of the UK's largest producers of television comedy and light entertainment programming. |