Category Archives: Birthdays

If today is your birthday, “Happy Birthday!”

Author and sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer (Karola Ruth Siegel) is 84.

Jazz singer – actress Morgana King (The Godfather, The Godfather Part 2, A Time to Remember) is 82.

Actor Bruce Dern (Black Sunday, Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte, Coming Home, The ’Burbs, They Shoot Horses Don’t They?) is 76.

Author Robert Fulghum (It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten) is 75.

Michelle Phillips (singer: The Mamas and the Papas; actress: The Last Movie, Dillinger, Knot’s Landing) is 68.

Actor Parker Stevenson (The Hardy Boys Mysteries, Baywatch, Melrose Place, Falcon Crest) is 60.

Actor Keith David (Dead Presidents, The Quick and the Dead, The Last Outlaw, Final Analysis, Men at Work, Platoon) is 56.

Actor Eddie Velez (Extremities, Bitter Vengeance, Rooftops, Romero) is 54.

Former tennis player Andrea Jaeger (1984 U.S. Olympic women’s team) is 47.

Mezzo soprano opera singer Cecilia Bartoli is 46.

Actor Scott Wolf (Party of Five, The Evening Star, The Naked Dead) is 44.

Actor Noah Wyle (ER, Can’t Stop Dancing, Pirates of Silicon Valley) is 41.

Actress Angelina Jolie (Girl, Interrupted; Gia, George Wallace, Cyborg 2, Foxfire, Playing by Heart, Tomb Raider) is 37.

If today is your birthday, “Happy Birthday!”

Director Alain Resnais (Last Year at Marienbad, Stavisky, Providence, On connaît la chanson) is 90.

Author Larry McMurtry (The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment, Lonesome Dove) is 76.

Olympic Gold medalist swimmer Michael Burton (1,500-meter freestyle [1968, 1972], 400-meter freestyle [1968] – the only swimmer to win this event twice) is 65.

Singer – actress Suzi Quatro is 62.

Singer Deniece Williams (Let’s Hear It for the Boy, Too Much, Too Little, Too Late) is 62.

Actor Scott Valentine (Family Ties, Midnight Caller, Object of Obsession) is 54.

If today is your birthday, “Happy Birthday!”

Actor Milo O’Shea (The Playboys, Only the Lonely, Broken Vows, The Purple Rose of Cairo, The Verdict, Sacco & Vanzetti, Romeo and Juliet, Barbarella) is 86.

Actress Sally Kellerman (M*A*S*H, The Boston Strangler, Brewster McCloud, Fatal Attraction) is 75.

Actor Stacy Keach (Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer, Conduct Unbecoming, Sunset Grill, Texas, Road Games, The Long Riders) is 71.

Drummer Charlie Watts (Rolling Stones) is 71.

Actor Charles Haid (Hill Street Blues, Delvecchio, Altered States, The Fire Next Time) is 69.

Composer – pianist Marvin Hamlisch (The Sting, The Way We Were, A Chorus Line) is 68.

Actor Jerry Mathers (Leave It to Beaver, The Trouble with Harry, Back to the Beach) is 64.

Actress Joanna Gleason (For Richer for Poorer, Crimes & Misdemeanors, Heartburn, Love & War, Mr. Holland’s Opus) is 62.

Actor – comedian Dana Carvey (Saturday Night Live, Clean Slate, It Happened in Paradise, Wayne’s World) is 57.

Singer Tony Hadley (Spandau Ballet) is 52.

If today is your birthday, “Happy Birthday!”

Actor – producer – director Andy Griffith (The Andy Griffith Show, Matlock, A Face in the Crowd, No Time for Sergeants, From Here to Eternity) is 86.

Singer Pat Boone (Love Letters in the Sand, April Love, Moody River, Ain’t That a Shame, I Almost Lost My Mind, Friendly Persuasion, Don’t Forbid Me) is 78.

Peter Masterson (actor: The Exorcist; as Carlos Bee Masterson director: Arctic Blue, Night Game, Full Moon in Blue Water, The Trip to Bountiful) is 78.

Actor Morgan Freeman (Driving Miss Daisy, Glory, Unforgiven, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Queen, Another World, Outbreak, Amistad) is 75.

Actor Rene Auberjonois (Coco, The Ballad of Little Jo, Gore Vidal’s Billy the Kid, Police Academy 5, Pete ’n’ Tillie, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Brewster McCloud) is 72.

Actor Jonathan Pryce (Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Carrington, Barbarians at the Gate, The Age of Innocence, Glengarry Glen Ross, Jumpin’ Jack Flash, Brazil) is 65.

Guitarist Ron Wood (Rolling Stones, since 1975) is 65.

Actor Powers Boothe (Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones [1980]; Skag, Sudden Death, Nixon, Extreme Prejudice, The Emerald Forest) is 64.

Singer Graham Russell (Air Supply) is 62.

Actress Diana Canova (Soap, I’m a Big Girl Now, Throb, Home Free) is 59.

Singer Ronnie Dunn (Brooks & Dunn) is 59.

Actress Lisa Hartman (Knots Landing, Tabitha, Bare Essentials, Deadly Blessing, Red Wind) is 56.

Keyboardist Alan Wilder (Depeche Mode) is 53.

Drummer Mike Joyce (The Smiths) is 49.