Two time Oscar winner Luise Rainer is 99.


Katherine MacGregor is 84. 'Little House on the Prarie'

Army Archerd is 87. Variety Columnist.

Andy Rooney is 90.



Giulio Andreotti is 90. Prime minister of Italy numerous times.

Phyllis Coates is 82. Played Lois Lane for a year on the old TV show.

Film director Leslie H Martinson is 94. PT-109, Batman the Movie (1966)


American writer William Kennedy is 81. Ironweed.

Luis Echeverría Álvarez is 87. Former President of Mexico.


Betty White is 87.


Newton Minow is 83. Former chairman of the FCC who is famous for his description of television during a speech in 1961 as "a vast wasteland", the S.S. Minnow, in the TV series "Gilligan's Island", is said to have been named for him.


Vidal Sassoon is 81.

Javier Pérez de Cuéllar is 89. Former Secretary-General of the United Nations


Jean Stapleton is 86.

Fleur Cowles is 99. American painter, writer, and editor of Flair magazine.


Ray Anthony is 87.


Slim Whitman is 85.


Patricia Neal is 83.


Arte Johnson is 80.


Tom Baker is 75.

Albert Rosellini is 99. Former Governor of Washington state.


Howard Unruh is 88. The first modern American mass murderer, gunned down thirteen on Sept. 6, 1949, he was diagnosed as severely schizophrenic and has been confined to a mental hospital ever since.

Henry Bauchau is 96. Belgian psychoanalyst and writer.


Henri Dutilleux is 93. French composer.

Combat Photographer David Douglas Duncan is 93.


Former NJ Senator Frank Lautenberg is 85.


Jeanne Moreau is 81.

Granny D (nee Ethel Doris Haddock) is 99. Granny D, her legal name since 2004, walked across the continental United States in 1999 to advocate campaign finance reform.


Ernest Borgnine is 92.


Oral Roberts is 91.


Jerry Maren is 89. The guy in the middle.

Ernie Harwell is 91. Longtime Detroit Tigers radio announcer.


Newsman Edwin Newman is 90.


Eduard Shevardnadze is 81.

SF writer Philip Jose Farmer is 91.


Joan Leslie is 84. "Sergeant York", "Yankee Doodle Dandy"


Cartoonist Jules Feiffer is 80.

Nien Cheng is 94. Recounted her harrowing experiences of the Cultural Revolution in her memoir 'Life and Death in Shanghai'.

John Forsythe is 91.

Dorothy Malone is 84.


Harold Prince is 81.


Gene Hackman is 79.

Spirtual Leader Daya Mata is 95. President of Self-Realization Fellowship (1955-present)


Carol Channing is 88.


She's 80.

Dr. Leila Denmark is 111. American pediatrician and medical researcher


Frank Buckles is 108. American WW1 Vet.


Gospel Singer George Beverly Shea is 100. He sings about Jesus.


Geoge Nissen is 95. Gymnast. Inventor of the modern trampoline.


Alicia Rhett is 94. India Wilkes in 'Gone with the Wind'.

Titanic survivor Milvina Dean is 97


Actor Olaf Pooley is 93.


Gossip Columnist Liz Smith is 86.


Elaine Stritch is 84.

Mary Carlilse is 97. Grand Hotel


Dr. Henry Heimlich is 89. Originated the anti-choking procedure.


Comedian Shelley Berman is 83.


Filmmaker Kenneth Anger is 82.

British comedian Norman Wisdom is 94.


Janet Waldo is 91. The voice of many cartoon characters, including Judy Jetson in the animated TV series "The Jetsons", Josie in "Josie and the Pussycats"


He's 86.


Actor Jerry Adler is 80.

He's 86.


Novelist and columnist Andrew Greeley is 81.


Drummer Hal Blaine is 80. Played on classic Phil Spector records.

Zsa Zsa Gabor is 92.


Patrick Macnee is 87.

Roberta McCain is 97. Mother of John.


Country Singer Wilma Lee Cooper is 88.

Dame Elisabeth Murdoch is 100. Australian philanthropist. Mother of Rupert.


Margot Stevenson is 95. American actress, radio's "The Shadow"


Composer John Williams is 77.


Gary Coleman is 41.

Disney Animator Bill Justice is 95.


Kathryn Grayson is 87.


Roger Mudd is 81.

Cinematographer Douglas Slocombe is 96. The Lion In Winter, The Indiana Jones Trilogy.


Opera Singer Leontyne Price is 82.

Of Masters and Johnsons fame...Virginia Johnson is 84.



Leslie Nielsen is 83.

Actor Lincoln Maazel is 106. Appeared in George Romeo's 'Martin'. Father of conductor Lorin Maazel.


Film maker Franco Zeffirelli is 86. Made 1968's 'Romeo and Juliet'. Hamlet with Mel Gibson.

Chuck Yeager is 86.

Hugh Downs is 88.

Miep Gies is 100. During World War II, with her husband Jan Gies and others, protected Anne Frank and her family by hiding them in a secret annex above Anne's father's shop in Amsterdam, she saved the diary that made Anne Frank a household name


Actor Kevin McCarthy is 95. 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers'


Actor Allan Arbus is 91. Played Sidney Freedman on "M*A*S*H"


Country Music singer Hank Locklin is 91.


1980 Independent Presidential Candidate John Anderson is 87.

Patty Andrews is 91. The one in the middle. Last surviving member of the The Andrews Sisters.

American big-band leader and composer Orrin Tucker is 98.


Hal Holbrook is 84.

Helen Gurley Brown is 87. Author of 1962's 'Sex and the Single Girl' which jump-started the feminist movement. Former Editor of Cosmopolitan.


Actor George Kennedy is 84.


Former U.S. Senator John Warner is 82.


Yoko Ono is 76.

Errol Harris is 101. South African philosopher.

Small Fact:


AP was at Disneyland last week. (On February 13th) While in line for the "Soaring over California" ride, a Disney employee comes over to me, and asks if I know the pilots name who broke the sound barrier. I was like "Duh, Chuck Yeager." Correct! ding ding ding! I was snatched out of the line and sent to thee very front of the line. By-passing a 30 minute wait. I was seated front row center. That ride is AWESOME. Thank you Tony for posting these relevant dates which can come in handy.

Keep up the good work.


FWIW... Perhaps toss in a tiny tid-bit of trivia with each Birthday entry.

Such as Chuck Yeager is 86. His record breaking plane was the Bell X-1.

I digress... Your thread is just fine.

Dancer Jean Erdman is 93. Widow of Joseph Campbell.


Fashion Designer Gloria Vanderbilt is 85.


Writer Richard Matheson is 83. 'Duel', 'Stir of Echoes', 'I am Legend'


Sidney Poitier is 82.

Hans Erni is 100. Swiss painter and sculptor.


Robert Mugabe is 85. President of Zimbabwe.


Fashion designer Hubert De Givenchy is 82.

Announcer Don Pardo is 91.

Dakota Fanning is 15.

Abe Vigoda is 88. Yes he's still alive.


Steven Hill is 87. 'Law and Order'

Monte Irvin is 90. Former Negro Leagues and MLB player.



Jerry Reinsdorf is 73. Owner of the Bulls and the White Sox.

Fats Domino is 81.

Elizabeth Taylor is 77.

Charles Durning is 86.


Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva is 83.

Richard Wilbur is 88. Former American Poet Larueate.


Robert Clary is 83. Cpl. LeBeau on "Hogan's Heroes"


Harry Belafonte is 82.


Judge Robert Bork is 82.

Jennifer Jones is 90.


Mikhail Gorbachev is 78.


Tom Wolfe is 78.

Folk Singer Doc Watson is 86.