Category Archives: Birthdays

Singer – actor Harry Belafonte (The Banana Boat Song, Jamaica Farewell) is 85.

Actor Robert Conrad (The Wild Wild West, High Mountain Rangers) is 77.

Singer Roger Daltrey (The Who) is 68.

Actor Dirk Benedict (The A-Team, Battlestar Galactica) is 67.

Actor Alan Thicke (Hope & Gloria, Growing Pains) is 65.

Former professional basketball player Brian Winters (LA Lakers, Milwaukee Bucks) is 60.

Actress Catherine Bach (The Dukes of Hazzard, African Skies) is 58.

Producer – director Ron Howard (Splash, Cocoon, Backdraft, Apollo 13) is 58.

Actor Timothy Daly (Diner, Wings) is 56.

Actor Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men) is 43.

Yes, there are people who have the misfortune of being born on February 29^th.  Regardless, let’s celebrate their births, while trying to figure out their real ages. 

Actor Joss Ackland (The Hunt for Red October, The Sicilian, A Woman Named Jackie) is 84.

Tempest Storm (Annie Blanche Banks) actress – stripper – burlesque star (Strip Strip Hooray, Striptease Girl, Teaserama) who retired from stripping at age 65 is 84.

Jack Lousma (Astronaut Hall of Famer, member of Skylab space station crew in 1973, commanded third orbital test flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia in 1982) is 76.

Actor Alex Rocco (The Godfather, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, The Blue Knight) is 76.

Singer Gretchen Christopher (The Fleetwoods) is 72.

Actor Dennis Farina (Law & Order, Get Shorty, Saving Private Ryan) is 68.

Former professional football player John Niland (Dallas Cowboys) is 68.

Science fiction writer Patricia McKillip (The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, Harpists in the Wind) is 64.

Former professional baseball pitcher Al Autry (Atlanta Braves) is 60.

Science fiction writer Tim Powers (The Anubis Gates, Epitaph in Rust) is 60.

Actor Antonio Sabato Jr. (Earth 2, Beyond the Law, War of the Robots) is 40.

Actor Charles Durning (Tootsie, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Sharky’s Machine) is 89.

Chris Kraft (NASA flight director for all Mercury and many Gemini space missions) is 88.

Author Svetlana Alliluyeva (The Faraway Music; daughter of Joseph Stalin; defected to the West in 1967) is 86.

Actor Gavin MacLeod (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Love Boat) is 81.

Dean Smith (Basketball Hall of Famer and coach of 1976 U.S. Olympic Basketball Team) is 81.

Tommy Tune (Tony Award-winning dancer and actor) is 73.

Auto racer Mario Andretti is 72.

Actor Frank Bonner (WKRP in Cincinnati, Sidekicks) is 70.

Guitarist – singer Joe South (Walk a Mile in My Shoes, Games People Play) is 70.

Actress Stephanie Beacham (The Colbys, Dynasty) is 65.

Actress Bernadette Peters (The Jerk, Annie) is 64.

Actress Mercedes Ruehl (Married to the Mob, Big) is 64.

Drummer Phil Gould (Level 42) is 55.

Actor John Turturro (The Sicilian, Hannah and Her Sisters, The Color of Money) is 55.

Singer Cindy Wilson (B-52s) is 55.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS1ti6doGJI

Actor Robert Sean Leonard (Dead Poets Society, Manhattan Project) is 43.

Actress Joanne Woodward (The Three Faces of Eve, Sybil) is 82.

Consumer advocate Ralph Nader is 78.

Singer – songwriter Chuck Glaser (The Brothers Glaser) is 76.

Actor Howard Hesseman (WKRP in Cincinnati, Head of the Class) is 72.

Guitarist Eddie Gray (Tommy James & The Shondells) is 64.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKyEyxwqS2c

Singer Steve Harley (Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel) is 61.

Former professional basketball player Dwight Jones (Houston Cougars, 1972 Summer Olympics) is 60.

Guitarist Neal Schon (Santana, Journey) is 58.

Singer Garry Christian (The Christians) is 57.

Guitarist Adrian Smith (Iron Maiden) is 55.

Keyboardist Paul Humphreys (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark) is 52.

Actor Adam Baldwin (Full Metal Jacket, D.C. Cab, Ordinary People, My Bodyguard) is 50.

Actor Grant Show (Melrose Place, Beverly Hills 90210) is 50.

Former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton is 32.

Singer – songwriter Fats Domino (Ain’t That a Shame, Blueberry Hill) is 84.

Singer Mitch Ryder (Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels) is 67.

Singer Sandie Shaw (There’s Always Something There to Remind Me) is 65.

Keyboardist Jonathan Cain (Journey) is 62.

Singer Michael Bolton (How Am I Supposed to Live Without You) is 59.

Actress Jennifer Grant (Beverly Hills, 90210) is 46.

Former TV talk-show personality Sally Jessy Raphael is 77.

Actor Tom Courtenay (Doctor Zhivago, The Last Butterfly) is 75.

Journalist Bob Schieffer (CBS News) is 75.

Actress Karen Grassle (Little House on the Prairie, President’s Mistress) is 70.

Former professional basketball player and current CBS sports analyst Matt Guokas (Philadelphia 76ers) is 68.

National Track and Field and Olympic Hall of Famer Lee Evans (set a world record for the 400-meter run at 1968 Mexico City Summer Olympics: 43.86 seconds at an altitude over 1,000 meters) is 65.

Guitarist Stuart ‘Woody’ Wood (Bay City Rollers) is 55.

Actress Téa Leoni  (Jurassic Park III, Santa Barbara) is 46.

Actor Sean Astin (The Goonies, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring) is 41.

Comedian – actress Chelsea Handler (Chelsea Lately) is 37.

Actor Abe Vigoda (Barney Miller, Fish, The Godfather) is 91 – for real!

Actor Steven Hill (Law & Order) is 90.

Composer Michel Legrand (Brian’s Song, Yentl) is 80.

Opera soprano Renata Scotto is 78.

Musician – singer Paul Jones (Manfred Mann) is 70.

Actor Barry Bostwick (Rocky Horror Picture Show) is 67.

Musician – songwriter Rupert Holmes Escape (“The Pina Colada Song”) is 65.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsZ5a5UQvrs

Actor Edward James Olmos (Miami Vice, Stand and Deliver, Blade Runner) is 65.

Musician – singer Lonnie Turner (Steve Miller Band) is 65.

TV journalist Paula Zahn (CBS This Morning, Paula Zahn Now) is 56.

Journalist Sylvia Chase (ABC) is 74.

Director – actor Peter Fonda (Easy Rider, Futureworld, The Wild Angels) is 72.

Guitarist Mike Maxfield (The Dakotas) is 68.

Musician Johnny Winter (Still Alive and Well, Second Winter) is 68.

Guitarist Rusty Young (Poco) is 66.

Musician – singer Steve Priest (The Sweet) is 62.

Guitarist Brad Whitford (Aerosmith) is 60.

Actress Dakota Fanning is 18.

Director Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia, Melvin and Howard) is 68.

Former professional basketball player Julius Erving II (Virginia Squires 1971-1973; NY Nets 1973-1976; Philadelphia 76ers 1976-1987) is 62.

Actress Miou-Miou (Sylvette Héry) (Little Indian Big City, Going Places, Entre Nous) is 62.

Actress Julie Walters (Educating Rita, Prick Up Your Ears, Harry Potter series) is 62.

Actor Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet, Dune) is 53.

Actress Drew Barrymore (E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, Batman Forever, Scream) is 37.

Fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy is 85.

Actor Gary Lockwood (Splendor in the Grass, 2001: A Space Odyssey) is 75.

Actor Peter McEnery (I Killed Rasputin, Negatives) is 72.

Tony Award-winning producer David Geffen (Cats, 1983; M Butterfly , 1988) is 69.

Tricia Nixon Cox, daughter of President Richard M. Nixon, is 66.

Actress Tyne Daly (Cagney and Lacey, The Enforcer) is 66.

Keyboardist Jerry Harrison (Talking Heads) is 63.

Actor Kelsey Grammer (Cheers, Frasier) is 57.

Singer – musician – songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter (Passionate Kisses, Stones in the Road) is 54.

Actor Christopher Atkins (The Blue Lagoon) is 51.

Actor William Baldwin (Backdraft, Bulworth) is 49.

Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt (Party of Five, Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit) is 33.