James Noble is 87. Played the Governor on Benson.

Ed Mcmahon is 86.


Alan Greenspan is 83.

Laugh in Regular Alan Sues is 83.

The guy on the left is Ralph H. Baer who turns 87 today. In the late 1960s he designed the Brown Box, the first home video game console. In 1972 it was released to the public as the Magnavox Odyssey. The original Brown Box currently resides in the Smithsonian.


Musician Dick Hyman is 82.

Ornette Coleman is 79.

Rusian writer Sergei Mikhalkov is 96. Wrote the lyrics to the Soviet National Anthem at Stalin's request. Father of filmmakers Nikita Mikhalkov and Andrey Konchalovsky.


Agathe Von Trapp is 96. One of two surviving of the seven original Von Trapp kids.


Writer Milard Kaufman is 92. 'Bad Day At Black Rock'


SF writer Harry Harrison is 84.


Dramatist Edward Albee is 81. 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf'

MAD Magazine's Al 'Fold Ins' Jafee is 88.


Jazzbo Roy Haynes is 84.

Doris Eaton Travis is 105. Last surviving Ziegfeld girl. Introduced the song "Singin' in the Rain" in the Hollywood Music Box Review in 1929.



W. Willard Wirtz is 97. Secretary of Labor 1962-1969.


William Clay Ford Sr. is 84. Owner of the Detroit Lions.

George Avakian is 90. Record Producer. Worked with Miles Davis among others.


Madelyn Pugh is 88. Wrote for 'I Love Lucy'.


Cecil Taylor is 80.

Francisco Ayala is 103. Spanish novelist and sociologist


Jerry Lewis is 83.

Art Gilmore is 97. American radio and TV announcer.


Reinhard Hardegen is 96. German U Boat commander. Sank 22 ships during WW2.


Christopher Challis is 90. British cinematographer, "Two for the Road", "Tales of Hoffman"


Peter Graves is 83.


Composer John Kander is 82. Cabaret, Chicago, 'New York, New York'

Dr. Brent Scowcroft is 84. National Security Advisor for George H.W. Bush during the Persian Gulf War.

Ruby Muhammad is 103. Honorary 'Mother' of the Nation of Islam.


Singer Vera Lynn is 92. Sang at the end of Dr Strangelove (We'll Meet Again).


Jazz Pianist Marian McPartland is 91.


Carl Reiner is 87.

Anton Coppola is 92. Composer and conductor. Uncle of Francis.


Peter Brook is 84. Director. Lord of the Flies( 1963), King Lear (1971)

Karl Malden is 97.


'Earth Day' founder John McConnell is 94.


Stewart Stern is 87. Screenwriter. 'Rebel Without a Cause', 'Sybil'.


Allen Neuharth is 85. Founder of USA Today.


Stephen Sondheim is 79.


Pat Robertson is 79.


William Shatner is 78

Jack Rollins is 94. Long time producer for Woody Allen.


Marty Allen is 87.

Social Activist Dr. Dorothy Height is 97.


Beat Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti is 90.


American pianist Byron Janis is 81.

Magda Olivero is 99. Opera singer.


Norman Borlaug is 95. Father of the Green Revolution. Nobel Peace Prize Winner.


Eileen Ford is 87. Head of Modeling Agency.

How come you never share anybody's birthday when they turn, like, 34 or 22? They're always 98 or 102 - you know, just a few ticks away from showing up in your other thread.

I focus on people who you may not have known were still alive and/or an occasional round number. I mean who really cares if some starlet turns 22?

Jacqueline de Romilly is 96. French philoligist


Mort Abrahams is 93. American film and TV producer. 'Planet of the Apes'


Harry Rabinowitz is 93. South African-born British film composer and conductor


Bob Elliot is 86. of Bob and Ray fame. Chris Elliot's dad


Conductor, composer Pierre Boulez is 84. Conductor Emeritus of the Chicago Symphony.

Budd Schulberg is 95. Wrote 'On The Waterfront', 'A Face in the Crowd'.

Painter Hyman Bloom is 96.


Philosopher Peter Geach is 93.


John Mclaughlin is 82. Host of the Mclaughlin Group.


Perry Farrell is 50.

Actor Turhan Bey is 87.


Peter Marshall is 82. Host of the original version of "Hollywood Squares"

William Lederer is 97. Co-wrote 'The Ugly American'.


Lucille Bliss is 93. Voice of Smurfette.


Film director Ted Post is 91. Hang Em High, Magnum Force.


William Daniels is 82.


Gordie Howe is 81.

Big A&M Herb, 74 today

Herbert G. Klein is 91. Nixon's Communications Director.


SF/Fantasy writer Anne McCaffrey is 83.


Milan Kundera is 80.

Gloria Henry is 86. 'Dennis The Menace'

Songwriter Ervin Drake is 90. 'It Was a Very Good Year'


Doris Day is 85.

Richard Coogan is 95. Played Captain Video on TV 60 years ago.


French filmmaker Eric Rohmer is 89.


Maya Angelou is 81.

Roger Corman is 83.

Irish Unionist wacko Ian Paisley is 83.


DNA co-discoverer James Watson is 81.


Francis Ford Coppola is 70.

Character Actor R.G. Armstrong is 92. "Ride the High Country", "The Great White Hope" and many other movies, he played Pruneface in the movie "Dick Tracy".


He's 91.


Ravi Shankar is 89.


James Garner is 81.

Alois Brunner is 97. Aide to Adolf Eichmann. Last known to be living in Syria in 1996.


Betty Ford is 91.


Comedian Shecky Green is 83.


John Gavin is 81.

Satirist Tom Leher is 81.


Hugh Hefner is 83.

Harry Morgan is 94.


Max Von Sydow is 80.


Liz Sheridan is 80. Played Jerry's mom on Seinfeld.

John Levy is 97. Jazz musician.


Morton Sobell is 92. American espionage figure, co-defendant with Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.


Hugh Carey is 90. Former Governor of NY (1975-1982).

Economist Armen Alchian is 95.


Gilbert Taylor is 95. British cinematographer. "Dr Strangelove ""A Hard Day's Night", "Repulsion" "The Omen" "Star Wars"


Children's Author Beverly Cleary is 93.

Film Director Stanley Donen is 85. Singin In The Rain, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Charade...



Christian Fundamentalist cartoonist Jack Chick is 85.

Béla Király is 97. Hungarian freedom fighter, military historian, and politician


Marvin Miller is 92. Former head of the MLB Players Asc.


Abel Muzorewa is 84. Former head of 'Zimbabwe Rhodesia'.

Richard von Weizsäcker is 89. Former president of West Germany and later president of all of Germany after the country was reunited in 1991.


Conductor Sir Neville Marriner is 88.


Michael Ansara is 87.

Merce Cunningham is 90. American dancer and choreographer.


Pope Benedict XVI is 82.

Sportswriter Lester Rodney is 98. His campaign in the 1940's promoting African-American players helped break MLB's color barrier.


Marta Eggerth is 97. Singer and actress. 1942's "For Me and My Gal" and 1943's "Presenting Lily Mars".


British writer Dora Saint is 96.


Bill Clements is 92. Former Governor of Texas.

Gabriel Axel is 91. Danish filmmaker. 'Babette's Feast'.


Shinobu Hashimoto is 91. Japanese screenwriter, "Rashômon", "Ikiru".


Barbara Hale is 88. Played Della Street on 'Perry Mason' for decades. Born in Dekalb.

Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens is 89.

Wade Mainer is 102. Singer and Banjoist. 'Grandfather of Bluegrass'


Queen Elizabeth II is 83.


Robert Smith is 50.

Charlotte Rae is 83.

Film director Ronald Neame is 98. 'Tunes of Glory' 'The Poseidon Adventure'.


Shirley Temple is 81.


Joyce DeWitt is 60.

Stanley Kauffman is 93. Long time New Republic film critic.

Singer Huey Long is 105. Last surviving member of the Ink Spots.


Rene Zellweger is 40.