Kaneto Shindō is 97. Filmmaker, 'Children of Hiroshima', 'Onibaba'


Harper Lee is 83. Wrote 'To Kill A Mockingbird'.

Norman Felton is 96. British-born American TV director and producer, "The Man from U.N.C.L.E."


Celeste Holm is 92. 'All About Eve', 'The Snake Pit'


Composer Harold Shapero is 89.


Filmmaker Irvin Kershner is 86. 'The Empire Strikes Back' , 'Never Say Never Again'.

Sergey Nikolsky is 104. Russian mathematician


Elmo Williams is 96. Won an Oscar as Best Editor for 1952's "High Noon" and produced 1970's WWII drama "Tora! Tora! Tora!".


Elio Toaff is 94. Was the chief rabbi of Rome from 1951-2001.


Cloris Leachman is 83.

Danielle Darrieux is 92. French actress. Persepolis, Madame de..., Le Plaisir, 5 Fingers, La Ronde, Une chambre en ville, Les Demoiselles de Rochefort


Scott Carpenter is 84. Mercury 7 astronaut.


Chuck Bednarik is 84. Iron Man NFL player (played offense and defense).

Van Alexander is 94. American composer, and conductor. Arranger of Ella Fitzgerald's 1938 hit "A-Tisket, A-Tasket".


Theodore Bikel is 85.

Norman Corwin is 99. American writer and producer


Folk singer Pete Seeger is 90.

Hosni Mubarak is 81. President of Egypt.

Andor Lilienthal is 98. Hungarian chess grandmaster.


and Ann B. Davis as Alice is 83.


Musicologist Charles Rosen is 82.

Milton Meltzer is 94. Historian.


Don Rickles is 83.


Ted Sorenson is 81. JFK advisor. Ghostwrote 'Profiles in Courage'.


Thomas Pynchon is 72.

Mike Wallace is 91.


Richard Adams is 89. Wrote 'Watership Down'


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Writer Bel Kaufman is 98. "Up the Down Staircase" First woman to publish in Esquire with a byline. Granddaughter of Yiddish writer Sholom Aleichem (Fiddler on the Roof).


American composer Milton Babbitt is 93.

Boobs is 97 today.

Comedian Mort Sahl is 82.


Actor Bernard Fox is 82.

Journalist James Bacon is 95. Was in all five 'Planet of the Apes' films.


Writer Albert Murray is 93. "Stomping the Blues"


Yogi Berra is 84.


Critic John Simon is 84.


Burt Bacharach is 81.

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Physicist Simon Ramo is 96. Father of the Ballistic missle.


Singer Johnnie Wright is 95. 'Hello Vietnam'.

Godfrey Rampling is 100. Gold medalist in the 4x400 meter relay at the 1936 Summer Olympics. Father of Charlotte Rampling.

Chinese nutritionist and biochemist Zheng Ji is 109.


Film director Mario Monicelli is 94. 'Big Deal on Madonna Street'.


Economist Paul Samuelson is 94.


Actor Joseph Wiseman is 91. Played Dr. No.


Playwright Peter Schaffer is 83. 'Amadeus'

George Gaynes is 92.


Harry Carey Jr is 88. Actor, John Ford regular.

Clarence "Ace" Parker is 97. Played both MLB and Pro football. Oldest living NFL HOF'er.

Actor Bill Macy is 87. 'Maude'


Pernell Roberts is 81.

Nicholas Winton is 100. The British Oskar Schindler, helped an estimated 10,000 European Jewish children be adopted by British families during the Holocaust.


Theater Composer Sandy Wilson is 85. 'The Boyfriend'.

Former Vikings Coach Bud Grant is 82.


Actor David Hedison is 82.

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Maurice Nadeau is 98. French Literary Critic, wrote 'History of Surrealism'


Ara Parseghian is 86. Longtime football coach at Notre Dame University, also coached at Northwestern.

Film critic Judith Crist is 87.


French singer Charles Aznavour is 85.

Morrissey turns 50

Were Morrissey and Tarantino seperated at birth?

Actress Betty Garrett is 90.


Actor Sid Melton is 89.


Spanish pianist Alicia de Larrocha is 86.

Arthur A. Link is 95. Former Governor of North Dakota.

Theodore Hesburgh is 92. Holds the Guinness World Record title for "Most Honorary Degrees", served as president of the University of Notre Dame from 1952-1987.


Hal David is 88. Longtime Burt Bacharach lyricist.


Singer Kitty Kallen is 87. Besame Mucho

Roy Dotrice is 86. Amadeus.


Gunsmoke star James Arness is 86.


Alec McCowen is 84. 'A Night to Remember', Branagh's 'Henry V', Hitchcock's Frenzy.



Dr. Jack Kevorkian is 81.

Bob Hope's widow Dolores is 100.


Writer Herman Wouk is 94.


Former Prime Minister of Japan Yasuhiro Nakasone is 91.


Christopher Lee is 87.


Diplomat Henry Kissinger is 86.


Sumner Redstone is 86. Majority stockholder and, for all intents and purposes, owner of CBS Corporation, Viacom...


Writer John Barth is 79.

Barry Commoner is 92. American biologist who ran for President in 1980 on the Citizens Party ticket.


Boxing trainer Lou Duva is 87.

Johnny Coolrock is 57 (Not an actual picture of the Coolrock)

Actor Clifton James is 88. Cool Hand Luke, Live and Let Die, The Man With the Golden Arm, Superman 2.

Writer Harry Bernstein is 99.


Playwright Joseph Stein is 97. 'Fiddler on the Roof'


Historian Bernard Lewis is 93.


Bernard West is 91. Part of 'Nicholls/Ross/West' Production Team (Three's Company).

Andy Griffith is 83.

Rosa Rio is 107. American organist and composer.

Tony Curtis is 84.


Chuck Barris is 80.

Dr. Ruth is 81.

Former MLB player Eddie Joost is 93.

Henry Allingham is 113. Britain's oldest man. Last surviving member of the RAF's formation in 1918 and the Battle of the Somme.


Kirk Kerkorian is 92. MGM Grand founder and corporate raider.

Director James Ivory is 81.

Jerry Stiller is 82.


Barbara Bush is 84.


Sports painter Leroy Neiman is 88.


Ruth Stone is 94. American poet.

Happy Rockefeller is 83. Widow of former VP Nelson Rockefeller.


Robert McNamara is 93. Secretary of Defense (1961-1968).


Les Paul is 94. Inventor of the solid-body electric guitar.

Maurice Sendak is 81.


Nat Hentoff is 84. Longtime "The Village Voice" columnist. Civil liberties proponent. Jazz expert


Prince Phillip is 88.

Risë Stevens is 96. American opera singer.


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