Category Archives: Birthdays

If today is your birthday, “Happy Birthday!”

Singer – songwriter Tom T. Hall (P.S. I Love You; Harper Valley P.T.A.) is 76.

Actor Sir Ian McKellen (Amadeus, Richard III, The Shadow, Six Degrees of Separation, And the Band Played On, Windmills of the Gods) is 73.

Singer – actress Leslie Uggams (Sing Along with Mitch, The Leslie Uggams Show; Skyjacked, Roots, Backstairs at the White House) is 69.

Puppeteer Frank Oz (Richard Frank Oznowicz, voice of Miss Piggy) is 68.

Singer Mitch Margo (Cross Country; The Tokens) is 65.

Actress Karen Valentine (Room 222, Karen, The Love Boat, Children in the Crossfire) is 65.

Singer Klaus Meine (Scorpions) is 64.

Actress Connie Sellecca (Hotel, The Great American Hero, The Brotherhood of the Rose) is 57.

Actress Octavia Spencer (The Soloist, The Help) is 42.

If today is your birthday, “Happy Birthday!”

Singer – songwriter Bob Dylan is 71.

Actor Gary Burghoff (M*A*S*H, Casino, Small Kill) is 69.

Singer Patti LaBelle (Patricia Louise Holte; Down the Aisle, Lady Marmalade, On My Own, New Attitude) is 68.

Actress Priscilla Beaulieu Presley (Dallas, Naked Gun series) is 67.

Actor Alfred Molina (Dead Man, Letter to Brezhnev, Ladyhawke, Raiders of the Lost Ark) is 59.

Singer – songwriter Rosanne Cash (Right Or Wrong, King’s Record Shop, Interiors) is 57.

Guitarist Rich Robinson (The Black Crowes) is 43.

If today is your birthday, “Happy Birthday!”

Actress – comedienne Jeannie Carson (Red Buttons Show, Hey, Jeannie!, Rockets Galore!, Little Women, Search for Tomorrow) is 84.

Actor Nigel Davenport (A Man for All Seasons, Chariots of Fire, Nighthawks, Picture of Dorian Gray) is 84.

Actress Barbara Barrie (Barney Miller, Backstairs at the Whitehouse, Private Benjamin, Two of a Kind) is 81.

Actress Joan Collins (Dynasty, The Bitch) is 79.

Actress Lauren Chapin (Father Knows Best) is 67.

World chess champion Anatoly Karpov, International Grandmaster, is 61.

International Boxing Hall of Famer “Marvelous” Marvin Hagler (legally changed his name to Marvelous Marvin Hagler) is 58.

Actor – comedian – producer – writer Drew Carey (The Drew Carey Show, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, The Price Is Right) is 54.

If today is your birthday, “Happy Birthday!”

TV critic Judith Crist (TV Guide, Saturday Review, Today Show) is 90.

Actor – singer – songwriter Charles Aznavour (Edith & Marcel, The Tin Drum, Twist, Ten Little Indians, Candy, Shoot the Piano Player) is 88.

Actor Michael Constantine (Room 222, Sirota’s Court, Hey Landlord, The Hustler) is 85.

Pianist Peter Nero (Theme from the Summer of ’42) is 78.

Actor Richard Benjamin (Goodbye Columbus, Diary of a Mad Housewife, He and She, Portnoy’s Complaint, Love at First Bite) is 74.

Actor Frank Converse (Future, Tales of the Unexpected, Home at Last, Cruise into Terror, N.Y.P.D.) is 74.

Actress Barbara Parkins (Peyton Place, Captains and the Kings, Valley of the Dolls, Calendar Girl Murders) is 70.

Singer Morrissey (Stephen Morrissey; The Smiths) is 53.

If today is your birthday, “Happy Birthday!”

Singer Ronald Isley (The Isley Brothers) is 71.

Author Janet Dailey (The Glory Game, Silver Wings, Santiago Blue, The Pride of Hanna Wade) is 68.

Actor Richard Hatch (Battlestar Galactica, Ghetto Blaster, Party Line, Delta Force) is 67.

Actress Carol Potter (Beverly Hills 90210, Today’s F.B.I.) is 64.

Singer Leo Sayer (Long Tall Glasses, You Make Me Feel like Dancing, When I Need You) is 64.

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Actor Mr. T (Lawrence Tureaud; The A-Team, Rocky III, Inspector Gadget) is 60.

Drummer Stan Lynch (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers) is 57.

Actor Judge Reinhold (Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Stripes, Beverly Hills Cop series) is 55.

If today is your birthday, “Happy Birthday!”

Actor David Hedison (Licence to Kill, Live and Let Die) is 85.

Actor James McEachin (The Dead Don’t Die, Double Exposure) is 82.

Actress Constance Towers (Naked Kiss, On Wings of Eagles) is 79.

Actor Anthony Zerbe (Harry-O, The Young Riders, Licence to Kill, Onassis, Rooster Cogburn, The Parallax View, Papillon) is 76.

Singer – songwriter Joe Cocker (With a Little Help from My Friends, She Came in through the Bathroom Window, The Letter, You are So Beautiful) is 68.

Singer – actress Cher (Cherilyn Sarkisian LaPierre; I Got You Babe, The Beat Goes On; Gypsys, Tramps and Thieves, The Way of Love, Dark Lady; Moonstruck, The Witches of Eastwick, Silkwood, Mask) is 66.

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Political commentator Ronald Prescott Reagan Jr., son of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan, is 54.

Actor Bronson Pinchot (Courage Under Fire, Beverly Hills Cop series, The Flamingo Kid, Risky Business) is 53.

Actor Tony Goldwyn (Truman, Pocahontas: The Legend, Nixon, The Pelican Brief, Ghost) is 52.

If today is your birthday, “Happy Birthday!”

Film producer – director George Lucas (Star Wars series, Indiana Jones series, American Graffiti) is 68.

Film director Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump, Death Becomes Her, Back to the Future trilogy, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Romancing the Stone) is 61.

Singer – songwriter David Byrne (Talking Heads) is 60.

Screenwriter – director Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation, Marie Antoinette) is 41.

If today is your birthday, “Happy Birthday!”

Actress Zohra Lampert (Alan & Naomi, Splendor in the Grass) is 75.

Actor Harvey Keitel (The Last Temptation of Christ, Death Watch, Blue Collar, Taxi Driver) is 73.

Actress Senta Berger (The Victors, See How They Run, If It’s Tuesday This Must Be Belgium) is 71.

Bass guitarist Danny Klein (The J. Geils Band) is 66.

Actor Tim Pigott-Smith (The Jewel in the Crown, Remains of the Day) is 66.

Actor – comedian Franklyn Ajaye (The Wrong Guys, Fraternity Vacation, The Jazz Singer, Convoy, Car Wash) is 63.

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Singer Stevie Wonder (Uptight, Living in the City, Isn’t She Lovely) is 62.

Actress Frances Barber (We Think the World of You, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, Home Sweet Home) is 54.

If today is your birthday, “Happy Birthday!”

Baseball Hall of Famer Yogi (Lawrence Peter) Berra is 87.

Composer – songwriter Burt Bacharach (Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head, Promises, Promises; What the World Needs Now, Walk on By, Close to You, I Say a Little Prayer, Do You Know the Way to San Jose; with wife, Carol Bayer Sager: Arthur’s Theme) is 84.

Abstract artist – sculptor – painter Frank Stella (Empress of India, Guadalupe Island) is 76.

Actress Susan Hampshire (The Forsythe Saga, The First Churchills, Vanity Fair, The Story of David) is 75.

Actress Millie Perkins (Wall Street, Ensign Pulver) is 74.

Actress Lindsay Crouse (The Juror, The Arrival, Desperate Hours, Places in the Heart, The Verdict, All the President’s Men) is 64.

Singer – songwriter Steve Winwood (Blind Faith; Traffic; Spencer Davis Group; solo artist) is 64.

Actor Bruce Boxleitner (Scarecrow and Mrs. King, The Babe) is 62.

Singer Billy Squier ((Everybody Wants You, Lonely is the Night, The Stroke)) is 62.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLHc-yIAPbg

Actress Kim Greist (Homeward Bound series, Throw Momma from the Train, Brazil, Chicago Hope) is 54.

Actor Emilio Estevez (The Breakfast Club, Repo Man, Young Guns, Stakeout) is 50.

Actor Stephen Baldwin (Fled, The Usual Suspects, Under the Hula Moon, Threesome) is 46.

If today is your birthday, “Happy Birthday!”

Comedian – actor Mort Sahl is 85.

Guitarist Dick Garcia (A Message from Garcia, Four Most Guitars) is 81.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY1wckvMEK8

Fashion designer Valentino Garavani is 80.

Physician Robert Jarvik, inventor of the Jarvik 7 artificial heart implanted into Barney Clark in 1982, which kept Clark alive 112 days, is 66.