Category Archives: Birthdays

If today is your birthday, “Happy Birthday!”

Actor Dale Robertson (The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang, Melvin Purvis: G-Man, Kansas City Massacre, Son of Sinbad, Tales of Wells Fargo, J.J. Starbuck, Death Valley Days) is 89.

Actor Harry Dean Stanton (Down Periscope, Never Talk to Strangers, Against the Wall, Wild at Heart, Twister, The Last Temptation of Christ, Red Dawn, Christine, Paris, Texas, Repo Man, Young Doctors in Love, Escape from New York, Private Benjamin, Death Watch, The Rose, Alien) is 86.

Actress Nancy Olson (Sunset Boulevard, The Absent-Minded Professor, Snowball Express) is 84.

Actress Polly Bergen (Nellie Burgin; The Winds of War, Cry-Baby, Escape from Fort Bravo) is 82.

Roosevelt ‘Rosey’ Grier (football: L.A. Rams; actor: Sophisticated Gents, The Big Push, The Seekers) is 80.

Actor Jerry Houser (Summer of ’42, Slap Shot, Class of ’44) is 60.

If today is your birthday, “Happy Birthday!”

Playwright David Storey (The Performance of Small Firms, This Sporting Life) is 79.

Author Wole Soyinka (Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka; The Strong Breed, The Lion and the Jewel) is 78.

Actor Patrick Stewart (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Gunmen, Excalibur, L.A. Story, Conspiracy Theory, X-Men) is 72.

Actor Robert Forster (Cover Story, Diplomatic Immunity, Delta Force, Standing Tall, The Death Squad, Medium Cool, Reflections in a Golden Eye, Banyon, Nakia) is 71.

Drummer Stephen Jo Bladd (J. Geils Band) is 70.

Actor Harrison Ford (The Fugitive, Clear and Present Danger, Presumed Innocent, Star Wars series, Indiana Jones series, Apocalypse Now, American Graffiti, Sabrina, The Devil’s Own, Air Force One, Six Days Seven Nights, Random Hearts) is 70.

Singer – guitarist Roger McGuinn (The Byrds) is 70.

Erno Rubik, inventor of the Rubik’s Cube, is 68.

Actor – comedian Cheech (Richard) Marin (Desperado, Far Out Man, Born in East L.A., Rude Awakening, Nash Bridges, Judging Amy) is 66.

Singer Louise Mandrell (Put It on Me, Everlasting Love, Reunited [with husband R.C. Bannon], You Sure Know Your Way Around My Heart) is 58.

If today is your birthday, “Happy Birthday!”

Piano virtuoso Van (Harvey Lavan) Cliburn is 78.

Actor – comedian Bill Cosby (I Spy, The Bill Cosby Special, The Cosby Show, Fat Albert & the Cosby Kids, Leonard VI, California Suite) is 75.

Singer – songwriter – musician Christine McVie (Fleetwood Mac) is 69.

Actress Denise Nicholas (Room 222, In the Heat of the Night, Ghost Dad) is 68.

Health and weight loss expert Richard Simmons is 64.

Actor Jay Thomas (Murphy Brown: Gold Rush, Mork & Mindy, Married People, Love & War, Cheers, Mr. Holland’s Opus, Straight Talk, Little Vegas, The Gig) is 64.

Singer – bassist guitarist John Wetton (Asia) is 63.

Actress Cheryl Ladd (Cheryl Jean Stoppelmoor; Dancing with Danger, Changes, The Grace Kelly Story, One West Waikiki, Charlie’s Angels, Poison Ivy) is 61.

Actor Jamey Sheridan (The House on Carroll Street, Shannon’s Deal) is 61.

Actress Mel Harris (Mary Ellen; Thirtysomething, Sharon’s Secret, The Spider and the Fly, Raising Cain, Desperate Motives, Wanted Dead or Alive) is 56.

Kristi Yamaguchi, 1992 Olympic gold medalist figure skater; 1992 U.S. and world figure skating champion, is 41.

If today is your birthday, “Happy Birthday!”

Author – literary critic Harold Bloom (The Western Canon, The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry, Omens of Millennium: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams, & Resurrection) is 82.

Actor – singer Tab Hunter (Arthur Gelien; Battle Cry, Damn Yankees, Island of Desire, Judge Roy Bean, Ride the Wild Surf) is 81.

Fashion designer Giorgio Armani is 78.

Actress – writer – producer Beverly Todd (Class of ’61, Clara’s Heart, Baby Boom, Brother John, Roots, The Redd Foxx Show, Having Babies) is 66.

Guitarist – singer Jeff Hanna (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) is 65.

Singer Bonnie Pointer (Pointer Sisters) is 62.

Actor Stephen Lang (Tombstone, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Death of a Salesman, Crime Story) is 60.

Boxer Leon Spinks, 1981 and 1983 world heavyweight champion, is 59.

Actress Sela Ward (Sisters, The Fugitive, Child of Darkness, Child of Light) is 56.

Actor Mark Lester (Oliver, The Prince and the Pauper, Fahrenheit 451) is 54.

Actress – model Lisa Rinna (Days of Our Lives, Melrose Place, Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.) is 49.

Actress Debbe Dunning (Home Improvement) is 46.

If today is your birthday, “Happy Birthday!”

Earl Hamner Jr. (writer: Palm Springs Weekend, Spencer’s Mountain, The Homecoming: A Christmas Story; executive producer, narrator: The Waltons) is 89.

Composer – lyricist Jerry Herman (Hello, Dolly!, La Cage aux Folles, Mame, Dear World, Mack and Mabel) is 81.

Actor Lawrence Pressman (The Late Shift, Fire and Rain, The Hanoi Hilton, On Wings of Eagles, For Love or Money, The Winds of War, The Gathering series, Rich Man, Poor Man, The Man in the Glass Booth) is 73.

Actor Ron Glass (Barney Miller, Deep Space, Houseguest) is 67.

Singer – songwriter Arlo Guthrie (The City of New Orleans, Alice’s Restaurant) is 65.

Singer Neil Tennant (Pet Shop Boys) is 58.

Actress – model Sofía Vergara (Acapulco, Cuerpo y Alma, Big Trouble) is 40.

If today is your birthday, “Happy Birthday!”

Actor James Hampton (F Troop, Love American Style, Evening Shade, Doris Day Show, The China Syndrome) is 76.

Actor Brian Dennehy (Cocoon, 10, Presumed Innocent, First Blood, Semi-Tough, Silverado) is 74.

Actor Richard Roundtree (Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored, Q, Body of Influence, Shaft, Shaft’s Big Score) is 70.

John Tesh (musical composer: 1987 Tour de France, 1983Pan-American Games; TV host: Entertainment Tonight, CBS Sports) is 60.

Singer Debbie Sledge (Sister Sledge) is 58.

Actor Jimmy Smits (L.A. Law, N.Y.P.D. Blue, Birdland, Glitz, Mi Familia, Gross Misconduct, The Cisco Kid, Price of Glory) is 57.

Actor Tom Hanks (Philadelphia, Forrest Gump, Apollo 13, Sleepless in Seattle, Big, Joe Versus the Volcano, Splash, The Money Pit, You’ve Got Mail, The Green Mile, Cast Away) is 56.

Actress Kelly McGillis (Witness, The Accused, Top Gun) is 55.

Singer Jim Kerr (Simple Minds) is 53.

Actor Fred Savage (The Wonder Years, The Princess Bride, Little Monsters, The Boy Who Could Fly) is 36.

If today is your birthday, “Happy Birthday!”

Author Shirley Ann Grau (The Keepers of the House [1965 Pulitzer Prize]; The Black Prince and Other Stories) is 83.

Singer – songwriter Steve Lawrence (Sidney Leibowitz; Go Away Little Girl, Party Doll, Pretty Blue Eyes, Footsteps, Portrait of My Love) is 77.

Actor Jeffrey Tambor (Big Bully, Radioland Murders, City Slickers, A Perfect Little Murder, Brenda Starr, Mr. Mom, A Gun in the House, Pals, The Larry Sanders Show, Hill Street Blues) is 68.

Actress Kim Darby (Deborah Zerby; Rich Man, Poor Man, True Grit, The Grissom Gang, The Streets of San Francisco) is 65.

Singer – songwriter Raffi Cavoukian is 64.

Chef Wolfgang Puck, formerly of Spagos in Los Angeles, is 63.

Actress Anjelica Huston (Prizzi’s Honor, The Witches, The Grifters, The Addams Family) is 61.

Actor Kevin Bacon (Apollo 13, JFK, A Few Good Men, The River Wild, Footloose, Murder in the First, The Air Up There, The Guiding Light, Wild Things) is 54.

If today is your birthday, “Happy Birthday!”

Fashion designer Pierre Cardin is 90.

Trumpeter – bandleader Doc (Carl) Severinsen, The Tonight Show Band, The Doc Severinsen Band, is 85.

Author David McCullough (The Johnstown Flood, The Path Between the Seas, 1776, John Adams, Truman) is 79.

Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey; drummer: The Beatles; singer: It Don’t Come Easy, Photograph, You’re Sixteen) is 72.

Actor Joe Spano (Hill Street Blues, Cast the First Stone, Brotherhood of Justice, American Graffiti, Northern Lights) is 66.

Actress Shelley Duvall (Popeye, Nashville, Roxanne, Brewster McCloud, The Shining, Annie Hall, McCabe and Mrs. Miller) is 63.

Actor Bill Campbell (Dynasty, Moon Over Miami, Gettysburg, The Brylcreem Boys, Once and Again) is 53.

Actress Jorja Fox (C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation, Missing Persons, ER, The West Wing) is 44.

Michelle Kwan (Olympic Figure Skating Champion [silver, 1998]; World Champion [1996, 1998]; U.S. National Champion [1996, 1998]) is 32.

If today is your birthday, “Happy Birthday!”

Former actress and First Lady Nancy Reagan (Anne Robbins-Davis) is 91.

Actor William Schallert (Dobie Gillis, The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, The Patty Duke Show, The Grace Kelly Story) is 90.

Della Reese (Delloreese Patricia Early; singer: Don’t You Know, And That Reminds Me, Not One Minute More; actress: Della, Chico & the Man, The Royal Family, Touched by an Angel, Let’s Rock, Harlem Nights) is 81.

Lhamo Thondup (Nobel Peace Prize winner, Tibetan spiritual leader, 14^th Dalai Lama) is 77.

Actor Ned Beatty (Deliverance, Homicide, Hear My Song, Friendly Fire, The Guyana Tragedy, Superman, Rudy, The Toy, The Silver Streak, Radioland Murders, Network, Gray Lady Down) is 75.

Actor Burt Ward (Batman, Beach Babes from Beyond Infinity, Robo-chic, Smooth Talker, Virgin High, Killcrazy) is 67.

George W. Bush, 43^rd President of the United States; governor of Texas [1995-2000], is 66.

Actor Sylvester Stallone (Rocky series, Rambo series, Cliffhanger, Cobra, Demolition Man, Nighthawks, Oscar, Tango and Cash, The Specialist, Judge Dredd, Assassins, Cop Land) is 66.

Artist James Browning Wyeth (Lester, Shorty, Halloween, Draft Age, Obelisk, The Red House, The Islander) is 66.

Actress Shelley Hack (Charlie’s Angels, King of Comedy, Annie Hall, A Casualty of War, The Stepfather) is 65.

Grant Goodeve (actor: Dynasty, Eight is Enough, Northern Exposure; TV host: Solid Gold Hits) is 60.

Actress Allyce Beasley (Alice Tannenbaum; The Tommyknockers, Motorama, Moonlighting, Rumpelstiltskin, Dream with the Fishes, Stuart Little) is 58.

Singer – songwriter Nanci Griffith (Other Voices/Other Rooms, From a Distance, Love at the Five and Dime, Fly by Night, Daddy Said, Ford Econoline) is 58.

If today is your birthday, “Happy Birthday!”

Actress Katherine Helmond (Soap, The House of Blue Leaves, Who’s the Boss, Brazil, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman) is 84.

Actress Shirley Knight (Dark at the Top of the Stairs, The Group, 21 Hours at Munich, Sweet Bird of Youth, Color of Night) is 76.

Composer – guitarist Robbie Robertson (The Band) is 69.

Singer – harmonica player Huey Lewis (Huey Lewis and the News) is 62.

Guitarist Michael Monarch (Steppenwolf) is 62.

Actress Jillian Armenante (Judging Amy, The Seven Mysteries of Life, Delivered, Girl, Interrupted) is 44.