Category Archives: Birthdays

Playwright David Rabe (Casualties of War, I’m Dancing as Fast as I Can) is 72.

Singer Dean Torrence (Jan & Dean) is 72.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNwqa-QzAec

Actor and karate champion Chuck Norris (Lone Wolf McQuade, Walker Texas Ranger) is 72.

Minnesota Vikings quarterback Bob Berry (Super Bowls VIII, IX, XI) is 70.

Actress Katharine Houghton (Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Billy Bathgate) is 67.

Musician – singer – songwriter Tom Scholz (Boston) is 65.

Actress Sharon Stone (Basic Instinct, Total Recall) is 54.

Singer – songwriter Neneh Cherry (Rip Rig + Panic, The Slits) is 48.

Prince Edward (Edward Antony Richard Louis; youngest child of Great Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II) is 48.

Actress Jasmine Guy (Harlem Nights, School Daze) is 48.

Actress Joyce Van Patten (Monkey Shines, The Goodbye Guys) is 78.

Singer Mickey Gilley (Don’t the Girls Get Prettier at Closing Time, Bring It on Home); owner of Mickey Gilley’s Theatre, Branson MO, is 76.

Actor Marty Ingels (If It’s Tuesday This Must be Belgium, A Guide for the Married Man) is 76.

Golfer and ESPN commentator Jim Colbert (eight-time PGA Tour winner) is 71.

Singer – songwriter – saxophonist Mark Lindsay (Paul Revere & The Raiders) is 70.

Former TV news host Charles Gibson is 69.

Actress Trish Van Devere (The Day of the Dolphin, Deadly Currents) is 69.

Guitarist Trevor Burton (The Move) is 68.

Guitarist Robin Trower (Procol Harum) is 67.

Guitarist Jim Cregan (Family) is 66.

Singer – musician Jimmie Fadden (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) is 64.

Drummer – singer – songwriter Jeffrey Osborne (L.T.D.) is 64.

Singer Martin Fry (ABC) is 54.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N6PYNRF8mg

Actress Linda Fiorentino (Unforgettable, Bodily Harm) is 52.

Actor Emmanuel Lewis (Webster) is 41.

Actress Susan Clark (Coogan’s Bluff, Airport 1975) is 72.

Banjo player – singer Ralph Ellis (The Swinging Blue Jeans) is 70.

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

Singer – drummer Mickey Dolenz (The Monkees) is 67.

Singer – base guitarist Randy Meisner (The Eagles) is 66.

Guitarist Mike Allsup (Three Dog Night) is 65.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmTx9y7ePTg

Singer – songwriter Carole Bayer Sager is 65.

Singer Cheryl Baker (Bucks Fizz) is 58.

Drummer Clive Burr (Iron Maiden) is 55.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8KTMkf6QwI

Singer Gary Numan (Cars, Are Friends Electric) is 54.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldyx3KHOFXw

Actor Aidan Quinn (Legends of the Fall, Avalon) is 53.

NBC News anchor Lester Holt is 53.

TV personality Willard Scott is 78.

Janet Guthrie, the first woman to compete in the Indianapolis 500, is 74.

Actor Daniel J. Travanti (Hill Street Blues, Weep No More My Lady) is 72.

Bass guitarist Chris White (The Zombies) is 69.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfwFpRnOeGg&feature=related

Actor John Heard (The Pelican Brief, The Milagro Beanfield War) is 67.

Keyboardist Matthew Fisher (Procol Harum) is 66.

Singer Peter Wolf (J. Geils Band) is 66.

Franco Harris, former Pittsburgh Steelers running back; Super Bowls IX, X, XIII, XIV, is 62.

Billy Joe DuPree, Dallas Cowboys tight end; Super Bowls X, XII, XIII, is 62.

Lynn Swann, Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver; Super Bowls IX, X, XIII, XIV; TV sportscaster, is 60.

Tennis champion Ivan Lendl (Australian Open [1983,1989,1990], French Open [1984, 1986, 1987], U.S. Open [1985, 1986, 1987]) is 52.

Comic Wanda Sykes is 48.

Alan Greenspan, chairperson of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board from 1987 – 2006, is 86.

Author Gabriel Garcia-Marquez (A Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera) is 84.

Valentina Tereshkova-Nikolaeva, former Russian cosmonaut and the first woman in space, is 75.

Actor Ben Murphy (The Winds of War, The Chisholms) is 70.

Singer Mary Wilson (The Supremes) is 68.

Drummer Hugh Grundy (The Zombies) is 67.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5IRI4oHKNU

Singer Kiki Dee (Don’t Go Breaking My Heart, Amoureuse) is 65.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh6Qprj7YHU&feature=related

Dick Fosbury (Olympic Gold Medalist and National Track & Field Hall of Famer; invented the Fosbury Flop high jump technique) is 65.

Actor – director Rob Reiner (All In the Family, Sleepless in Seattle, When Harry Met Sally, This is Spinal Tap) is 65.

Actor Tom Arnold (Roseanne, The Jackie Thomas Show) is 53.

Former basketball player Shaquille O’Neal (Orlando Magic, LA Lakers) is 40.

Actor James B. Sikking (Hill Street Blues, Ordinary People) is 78.

Actor Paul Sand (Gimme a Break, St. Elsewhere) is 77.

Actor Dean Stockwell (Gentlemen’s Agreement, Dune) is 76.

Fred ‘The Hammer’ Williamson (former professional football player [Kansas City Chiefs] and sportscaster is 74.

Actress Samantha Eggar (Exterminator, Doctor Dolittle) is 73.

Randy Matson (National Track & Field Hall of Famer and1964 Olympic Silver Medalist) is 67.

Actor Michael Warren (Paris, Hill Street Blues) is 66.

Actor – singer Eddie Hodges (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Hole in the Head) is 65.

Singer – songwriter Eddy Grant (Equals) is 64.

Keyboardist Alan Clark (Dire Straits) is 60.

Actress – comic Marsha Warfield (Night Court, Empty Nest) is 58.

Magician Penn Jillette is 57.

Actress Eva Mendes (Training Day, Once Upon a Time in México) is 37.

Actress Paula Prentiss (Where the Boys Are, The Stepford Wives) is 74.

Singer – songwriter Bobby Womack (I’m a Midnight Mover, I’m in Love) is 68.

Bass guitarist Chris Squire (Yes) is 64.

Guitarist Chris Rea (Chris Rea Band, Ambrosia) is 61.

Actress Kay Lenz (Rich Man Poor Man, Trapped in Space) is 59.

Actor Adrian Zmed (Improper Conduct, Eyewitness to Murder) is 58.

Lightweight boxing champion, actor Ray ‘Boom Boom’ Mancini is 51.

Actress Patsy Kensit (Tunnel Vision, Fall from Grace) is 44.

John Thomas (Olympic medalist (1960 & 1964) and Track & Field Hall of Famer) is 71.

Singer – guitarist Mike Pender (The Searchers) is 70.

Jazz /classical guitarist David Pritchard (Contraband) is 63.

Actor – comedian – writer Tim Kazurinsky (Saturday Night Live) is 62.

Actress Miranda Richardson (Fatherland, The Crying Game) is 54.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee (Olympic gold medalist & 1st woman to hold world record in the heptathlon) is 50.

Herschel Walker (former professional football player [Philadelphia Eagles] and mixed martial artist) is 50.

Mikhail Gorbachev, last official President of the former Soviet Union (1990 –1991), is 81.

Author Tom Wolfe (The Bonfire of the Vanities, The Right Stuff) is 81.

Author John Irving (Cider House Rules, The World According to Garp) is 70.

Singer – songwriter Lou Reed (Walk on the Wild Side, Charley’s Girl) is 70.

Singer – songwriter Eddie Money (Baby Hold On, I Wanna Go Back, Take Me Home Tonight, I Think I’m in Love) is 63.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA1wDgPZCDA

Comedienne – actress Laraine Newman (Saturday Night Live) is 60.

Singer Jay Osmond (The Osmond Brothers) is 57.

Singer John Cowsill (The Cowsills) is 56.

Bass guitarist Mark Evans (AC/DC) is 56.

Singer – songwriter Jon Bon Jovi (Bon Jovi) is 50.