Today’s Famous Birthdays

If it’s yours, too, Happy Birthday!

Composer Stephen Sondheim (Send in the Clowns, A Little Night Music; scores for West Side Story, Reds) is 82.

Actor William Shatner (Star Trek, T.J. Hooker, Boston Legal) is 81.

Actress May Britt (The Young Lions, The Hunters, Murder, Inc.) is 79.

Actor M. Emmet Walsh (Serpico, Blade Runner, Reds, Ordinary People, East of Eden) is77.

Singer – guitarist Jeremy Clyde (Chad & Jeremy) is 71.

Actor Bruno Ganz (The American Friend, Wings of Desire, The Last Days of Chez Nous) is 71.

Singer – guitarist George Benson (This Masquerade, On Broadway, Give Me the Night) is 69.

Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber (Jesus Christ Superstar, Hair, Cats, Phantom of the Opera) is 64.

Sportscaster – news anchor Bob Costas (CBS Sports, NBC Sports, Dateline NBC) is 60.

Actress Lena Olin (Romeo is Bleeding, Havana) is 57.

Singer – actress Stephanie Mills is 55.

Actor Matthew Modine (And the Band Played On, Pacific Heights, Full Metal Jacket) is 53.