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July 4 Notable Birthdays

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Former advice columnist Pauline Phillips (“Dear Abby”) is 94.

Actress Eva Marie Saint (On the Waterfront, North by Northwest, Exodus, Raintree County) is 88.

Actress Gina Lollobrigida (Trapeze, Belles de Nuit, Solomon and Sheba, Strange Bedfellows, Come September) is 85.

Playwright Neil Simon (The Odd Couple, Lost in Yonkers; The Sunshine Boys, Barefoot in the Park, The Goodbye Girl, California Suite, Plaza Suite, Seems like Old Times, Prisoner of Second Avenue) is 85.

Singer – songwriter Bill Withers (Ain’t No Sunshine, Lean on Me, Use Me) is 74.

Journalist – TV talk show host Geraldo Rivera (Geraldo) is 69.

Guitarist Jeremy Spencer (Fleetwood Mac) is 64.

Singer – songwriter John Waite (Missing You, Tears) is 57.

Guitarist – saxophone player Kirk Pengilly (INXS) is 54.

Actress Signy Coleman (The Young and the Restless) is 52.

 

First daughter Malia Obama is 14.

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July 3 Notable Birthdays

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Playwright Tom Stoppard (The Real Thing, On the Razzle, Travesties, Empire of the Sun) is 75.

 

Singer Fontella Bass (Rescue Me) is 72.

 

Actor Kurtwood Smith (To Die For, The Crush, Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country, Dead Poets Society) is 69.

 

Actor Michael Cole (Mod Squad, Chuka, Nickel Mountain) is 67.

 

Singer Johnny Lee (Lookin’ for Love, One in a Million, Bet Your Heart on Me) is 66.

 

Actress – singer Betty Buckley (Cats, Eight is Enough, Carrie, Wyatt Earp) is 65.

 

Actress Jan Smithers (WKRP in Cincinnati, Mr. Nice Guy, Where the Lilies Bloom) is 63.

 

Former TV talk show host Montel Williams (The Montel Williams Show) is 56.

 

Singer – songwriter – keyboardist Vince Clarke (DePeche Mode, Yaz, The Assembly) is 52.

 

Actor Tom Cruise (Thomas Cruise Mapother IV; Mission: Impossible series, A Few Good Men, The Firm, Days of Thunder, Born on the Fourth of July, Cocktail, Top Gun, Rain Man, The Color of Money, Taps, Interview with a Vampire, Jerry Maguire, Eyes Wide Shut) is 50.

 

Actor Thomas Gibson (Far and Away, The Age of Innocence, Barcelona, Dharma & Greg, Eyes Wide Shut) is 50.

 

Actress Hunter Tylo (All My Children, Final Cut, Days of Our Lives, Longshot) is 50.

 

Actress Shawnee Smith (Becker, Iron Eagle, Who’s Harry Crumb?, Desperate Hours, Leaving Las Vegas, Arsenio, Armageddon) is 42.

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July 2 Notable Birthdays

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Folk singer Tom Springfield (Springfields) is 78.

 

Actress Polly Holliday (Alice, Flo, Private Benjamin, Gremlins) is 75.

 

Auto racer Richard Petty (7-time winner of Daytona 500 [1964, 1966, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1979, 1981]; 1st to win a million-dollar stock car race) is 75.

 

Luci Baines Johnson, daughter of 36th U.S. President Lyndon and Ladybird Johnson, is 65.

 

Guitarist – saxophone player Johnny Colla (Soundhole, Huey Lewis & The News) is 60.

 

Actor Jimmy McNichol (The Fitzpatricks, California Fever, Escape from El Diablo) is 51.

 

Professional baseball player Jose Canseco (Oakland Athletics [1986 Rookie of the Year; all-star 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992; 1st player to hit 40 or more home runs and steal 40 or more bases in same season]; Texas Rangers; Boston Red Sox) is 48.

 

Actress Kathryn Erbe (Oz, Chicken Soup, Dragonfly, Law & Order: Criminal Intent) is 46.

 

Actress Yancy Butler (Hard Target, Law & Order, South Beach, Brooklyn South, The Witness Files) is 42.

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July 1 Notable Birthdays

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Actress Olivia de Havilland (Gone with the Wind, To Each His Own, The Heiress) is 96.

 

Actress Leslie Caron (Lili, The L-Shaped Room, Gigi, An American in Paris, Daddy Long Legs) is 81.

 

Actor Jamie Farr (Jameel Joseph Farah; M*A*S*H, The Blackboard Jungle, Scrooged, Cannonball Run) is 78.

 

Actress Jean Marsh (Upstairs, Downstairs, The Jewel in the Crown, Fatherland, Frenzy, The Changeling) is 78.

 

Actress Karen Black (Easy Rider, You’re a Big Boy Now, Five Easy Pieces, The Great Gatsby, House of 1000 Corpses) is 73.

 

Actress Geneviève Bujold (Anne of a Thousand Days, Earthquake!, Coma, Dead Ringers) is 70.

 

Singer Debbie Harry (Blondie) is 67.

 

Actor – comedian Dan Aykroyd (Saturday Night Live, Driving Miss Daisy, Sneakers, Dragnet, Ghostbusters, The Blues Brothers, Pearl Harbor) is 60.

 

Actress Lorna Patterson (Goodtime Girls, Airplane!) is 56.

 

Carl Lewis, Olympic Gold Medalist: long jump and 4×100 relay [1992], long jump [1996], 100 meter in 9.93 seconds, long jump, 4×100 meter relay [1988], 100 meter & 200 meter sprints, long jump & 4×100 meter relay [1984], is 51.

 

Actress Pamela Anderson (Baywatch, Raw Justice) is 45.

 

Actor Henry Simmons (NYPD Blue, Another World, One Life to Live, A Gentleman’s Game) is 42.

 

Actress Claire Forlani (J.F.K.: Reckless Youth, Police Academy: Mission to Moscow, The Rock, The Last Time I Committed Suicide, Meet Joe Black) is 40.

 

Actress – model Liv Tyler (Silent Fall, Heavy, That Thing You Do!, Armageddon, Cookie’s Fortune, Lord of the Rings series) is 35.

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June 30 Notable Birthdays

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Actress Nancy Dussault (Too Close for Comfort, The Ted Knight Show; co-host: Good Morning America) is 76.

 

Actor Tony Musante (Judgment, Toma, Fatal Choice, The Grissom Gang, Breaking Up is Hard To Do) is 76.

 

Singer Glenn Shorrock (Little River Band) is 68.

 

Guitarist Andy Scott (The Sweet) is 63.

 

Guitarist Hal Lindes (Dire Straits) is 59.

 

Actor David Alan Grier (Tales from the Hood, Jumanji, Loose Cannons, I’m Gonna Git You Sucka, A Soldier’s Story, In Living Color, All is Forgiven) is 57.

 

Musician – singer Philip Adrian Wright (Human League) is 56.

 

Actor Vincent D’Onofrio (Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Mystic Pizza, Ed Wood, The Newton Boys, The Thirteenth Floor, The Cell) is 53.

 

Actor Rupert Graves (The Madness of King George, Damage, Maurice, A Room with a View, Doomsday Gun, Mrs. Dalloway) is 49.

 

Actor Brian Bloom (Once Upon a Time in America, As the World Turns, At Home with the Webbers, Bandit) is 42.

 

Actress Monica Potter (The Young and the Restless, Without Limits, Patch Adams, Along Came a Spider) is 41.

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June 29 Notable Birthdays

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Actor Robert Evans (Robert J. Shapera; The Man of a Thousand Faces, The Best of Everything) is 82.

 

Actor Gary Busey (The Buddy Holly Story, Breaking Point, The Texas Wheelers, Warriors, Lethal Weapon) is 68.

 

Actor – comedian Richard Lewis (Anything But Love, Daddy Dearest, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Wagon’s East) is 65.

 

Former actor and U.S. congressman Fred Grandy is 64.

 

Singer Colin Hay (Men at Work) is 59.

 

Actress Maria Conchita Alonso (Roosters, Texas, Predator 2, Vampire’s Kiss, Colors, The Running Man, Extreme Prejudice, Blood Ties, Moscow on the Hudson) is 55.

 

Actress Sharon Lawrence (NYPD Blue, The Prince of Motor City, Augusta, Gone, Lies & Alibis, I?, Nearing Grace) is 51.

 

Actress Amanda Donohoe (The Substitute, Double Cross, L.A. Law) is 50.

 

Actress Melora Hardin (The North Avenue Irregulars, Iron Eagle, Big Man on Campus, Absolute Power) is 45.

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June 28 Notable Birthdays

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Actor Bruce Davison (Widow’s Kiss, It’s My Party, Six Degrees of Separation, Longtime Companion, The Ladies Club, The Gathering, Mother, Jugs and Speed) is 66.

 

Actress Kathy Bates (Misery, Fried Green Tomatoes, Home of Our Own, Prelude to a Kiss) is 64.

 

Actress Alice Krige (Star Trek: First Contact, Joseph, Sharpe’s Honour, Sleepwalkers, Barfly, Chariots of Fire, A Tale of Two Cities, In the Company of Spies) is 58.

 

Former Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway (Super Bowls XXI, XXII, XXIV, XXXII, XXXIII: MVP) is 52.

 

Actor John Cusack (Money for Nothing, The Player, True Colors, Bullets over Broadway, The Grifters, Say Anything) is 46.

 

Actress Mary Stuart Masterson (Kate Brasher, Heaven’s Prisoners, Radioland Murders, Funny About Love, Benny & Joon, Fried Green Tomatoes, Heaven Help Us) is 46.

 

Actor Gil Bellows (The Shawshank Redemption, Ally McBeal) is 45.

 

Actress Danielle Brisebois (All in the Family, Knots Landing, Annie, Mom, the Wolfman and Me) is 43.

 

Actress Tichina Arnold (Little Shop of Horrors, Martin, Big Momma’s House) is 41.

 

Actor Alessandro Nivola (Jurassic Park III, Face/Off, Timecode) is 40.

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June 27 Notable Birthdays

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Billionaire industrialist and philanthropist H. Ross Perot (1992 and 1996 presidential candidate) is 82.

 

Actress Shirley Anne Field (The Entertainer, Hear My Song, Shag: The Movie, Getting It Right, Two by Forsyth, My Beautiful Laundrette, House of the Living Dead, Alfie) is 74.

 

Actress Julia Duffy (Designing Women, Newhart, Children in the Crossfire, Night Warning) is 61.

 

Actress Isabelle Adjani (Queen Margot, Ishtar, Subway, The Tenant, The Story of Adele H, The Slap) is 57.

 

Actor Tobey Maguire (Great Scott, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Cider House Rules, Spider-Man) is 37.

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June 26 Notable Birthdays

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Actress Eleanor Parker (The Sound of Music, Of Human Bondage, Caged, The Man with the Golden Arm, Dead on the Money) is 90.

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Composer Dave Grusin (scores: On Golden Pond, Heaven Can Wait, Tootsie) is 78.

Singer Billy Davis Jr. (The 5th Dimension) is 74.

Actress Pamela Bellwood (Airport ’77, Dynasty, Double Standard, Cellar Dweller, Deadman’s Curve, Choices of the Heart) is 61.

Singer – guitarist Mick Jones (Big Audio Dynamite, The Clash) is 57.

Chris Isaak (actor: Little Buddha, Silence of the Lambs, Married to the Mob, Twin Peaks; singer, songwriter: Wicked Game, Blue Hotel) is 56.

Singer Terri Nunn (Berlin) is 51.

Actor Chris O’Donnell (The Three Musketeers, Dead Poets Society, Scent of a Woman, Fried Green Tomatoes, Circle of Friends, Batman Forever, Batman & Robin) is 42.

Actor Sean Hayes (Will & Grace) is 42.

Actor Matthew Letscher (The Mask of Zorro) is 42.

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June 25 Notable Birthdays

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Actress June Lockhart (Lassie, Lost in Space, Petticoat Junction, Deadly Games, The Big Picture, The Yearling, Meet Me in St. Louis) is 87.

 

Singer – songwriter Carly Simon (Anticipation, You’re So Vain, Mockingbird [w/husband James Taylor], Nobody Does It Better) is 67.

 

Guitarist – keyboardist Allen Lanier (Blue Oyster Cult) is 66.

 

Musician Ian McDonald (Foreigner) is 66.

 

Actor – comedian Jimmie Walker (Good Times, B.A.D. Cats, Airplane!, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York) is 65.

 

Phyllis George Brown (Miss America 1971; TV host: The NFL Today, The CBS Morning News) is 63.

 

Singer – keyboardist David Paich (Toto) is 58.

 

Singer George Michael (Yorgos Panayiotou; Wham!: Wake Me Up before You Go-Go; solo: Careless Whisper, Faith, A Different Corner, I Want Your Sex) is 49.

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