For the purposes of this post I mark my closest peers be birth years falling within 3 years my birth year. Therefore, everyone on this list was either at most a Senior when I was Freshman in college, or a Freshman when I was a Senior.

1965 Slick Rick, Chris Rock, Dr. Dre, Robert Downey Jr., John C. Reilly, Stewart Scott, Jeremy Piven

1966 Schoolly D., J.J. Abrams, John Cusack, Rick Astley

1967 Kurt Cobain, Liz Phair, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Judd Apatow

1968 L.L. Kool J., Molly Ringwald, Daniel Craig, Kahimi Karie, Traci Lords, Tony Hawk, Thom Yorke, Parker Posey

1969 Jason Bateman, Cornelius, Jennifer Aniston, Terrence Howard, Ice Cube, Ken Griffey, Jr., Jay-Z

1970 Zack de la Rocha, Tina Fey, Beck, Kevin Smith, Matt Damon, Sarah Silverman

1971 Erykah Badu, Johnny Knoxville, Sofia Coppolla, Norika Fujiwara, Sacha Baron Cohen, Snoop Dogg

R.I.P. River Pheonix (1970-1993), Kurt Cobain (1967-1994), Tupac Shakur (1971-1996), Elliot Smith (1969-2003), Chris Penn (1965-2006)