George H.W. Bush is 85.


Banker David Rockefeller is 94.


Marina Semyonova is 101. Russian Ballerina.

French actress Gisele Casadesus is 95.


Gene Barry is 90. Star of the 1953 'War of the Worlds'.

Horacio Salgán is 93. Argentine tango composer and pianist

British WW1 Vet Harry Patch is 111.


American composer H Owen Reed is 99.

Tony, why aren't you giving props to Barry Manilow, Newt Gingrich, Joe Piscopo, and Venus Williams today?

He's 67.


So is he.

Because they aren't old or having a round number birthday. Or have some sort of special significance to this board.

Barry Manilow's close enough to Billy Joel, no?

Are you serious?

I'm messing with you.

I took a look through this thread a few weeks ago on my birthday and I wasn't sure what you were going for with this thread. Were you just being Willard Scott - celebrity version or did you want to have a comprehensive list of celebrity birthdays? If it was the latter, today I'd ask where Isabella Rossellini, Carol Kane, and Nathan Morris of Boyz II Men were.

A comprehensive list of celeb birthdays is way beyond my scope/interest. I post birthdays of people who you may not have known were still alive. And/or round numbers and/or people with some special significance to this board.

Louis Jourdan is 90. 'Gigi', 'Letters From an Unknown Woman', 'Octupussy'.

Jean-Marie Le Pen is 81. Leader of the French 'National Front' Party.


Lionel Richie is 60.

She's 88.

Meryl Streep is 60.

He died a year ago today. Time Flies.

Art Modell is 84. Owner of the Baltimore Ravens.

Comedian Jack Carter is 86.


Al Molinaro is 90.


Pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey is 95. Only member of the FDA to object to Thalidomide.


Ernesto Sabato is 98. Argentine writer and literary critic.

Lil Jess' birthday was yesterday. But it's ok that no one noticed. It was "that" birthday...

Sidney Lumet is 85.


June Lockhart is 84.

Swiss tenor Hugues Cuénod is 107.


Country singer Doc Williams is 95.


Eleanor Parker is 87. "Of Human Bondage", "The Sound of Music", "Return to Peyton Place"


Richard Bull is 85.

David 'Honeyboy' Edwards is 94. One of the last Delta Bluesmen still living.


Mel Brooks is 83.

Special Effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen is 89.

Lena Horne is 92.

Farley Granger is 84.


She's 93.

He's 84.

Basketball coach John Kundla is 93. Coached the George Mikan led Lakers.


Ken Russell is 82.

Gina Lollobrigida is 82.


Neil Simon is 82.


Eva Marie Saint is 85.


Abigail Van Buren or 'Dear Abby' is 91.


Malcolm Toon is 93. Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.S.S.R.


Mitch Miller is 98. Said Rock'n'Roll was only a passing fad.


Gloria Stuart is 99. Was in 1932's 'The Old Dark House'...and 1997's 'Titanic'!

Actor William Schallert is 87.


Nancy Reagan is 88.


Frederica Sagor Maas is 109. American screenwriter, 1925's "The Plastic Age"

Doc Severinsen is 82.


Fashion Designer Pierre Cardin is 87.


Blues musician Pinetop Perkins is 96.

Courtney Love is 45.

David Dinkins is 82. Former Mayor of NYC.


Earl Hamner Jr. is 86. Creator and Narrator of The Waltons.


Eunice Kennedy Shriver is 88.


Jake Lamotta is 88.

Literary critic Harold Bloom is 79.


Edward Gough Whitlam is 93. Former PM of Australia.

Norma Zimmer is 86. Lawrence Welk's Champagne Lady for many years. Wonderful!

Playwright Arthur Laurents is 91. 'West Side Story'


Harry Dean Stanton is 83.

Willis Carto is 83. American right wing kook. Promoter of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and Holocaust denial.


Film Critic Charles Champlin is 83.


Phyllis Diller is 92.


Art Linkletter is 97.

91 today.


Dennis Lillee, legendary Aussie cricketer, 60 today

John Glenn is 88.

George McGovern is 87.

Author Thomas Berger is 85. 'Little Big Man'

Roy R. Neuberger is 106. American financier and patron of the Arts.


Singer Kay Starr is 87.


Filmmaker Norman Jewison is 83. In The Heat of the Night, 'Fiddler On the Roof'

Bob Dole is 86.


Singer Margaret Whiting is 85.

Gloria DeHaven is 84.


Michael Foot is 96. British politician, leader of the Labour Party (1980-1983).



The guy on the left is the great Literary Critic M.H. Abrams. He's 97 today.


Leopold Engleitner is 104. Austrian Holocaust survivor and lecturer.


Adolph Herseth is 88. Principal Trumpeter for the Chicago Symphony from 1948-2001. One of the great trumpeters of his generation.
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Marjorie Lord is 91. 'Make Room for Daddy'



Blake Edwards is 87.



Jan Berenstain is 86. co-creator of the Berenstain Bears.

Lupita Tovar is 99. Starred in the Spanish version of Dracula in 1931. her grandsons Chris and Paul Weitz directed 'American Pie'.



Norman Lear is 87.

David Brown is 92. Co-produced Spielberg's first two theaterical features (The Sugarland Express, Jaws).


Filmmaker Andrew V. McLaglen is 89. Shenandoah, McLintock!. Countless episodes of Perry Mason and 'Have Gun Will Travel'.

'Professor' Irwin Corey is 95.

Pianist Hank Jones is 91.

Nehemiah Persoff is 90. 'On the Waterfront', 'Some Like it Hot'.


Former Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt is 87. Replaced by Harry Reid.


Shimon Peres is 86.

Writer P.D. James is 89.


Songwriter Richard Adler is 88. Cowrote the song 'Rags to Riches' and the musical 'Damn Yankees'.


Legendary Football coach Marv Levy is 84.


Singer Tony Bennett is 83. Recorded the song 'Rags to Riches'.