Fats Domino is 82.


Ariel Sharon is 82.

Joanne Woodward is 80.


Elizabeth Taylor is 78.

Producer Saul Zaentz is 89. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus.


Charles Durning is 87.


Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva is 84.

Richard Wilbur is 89. Former American Poet Larueate.


Robert Clary is 84. Cpl. LeBeau on "Hogan's Heroes"


Harry Belafonte is 83.


Judge Robert Bork is 83.

Mikhail Gorbachev is 79.


Tom Wolfe is 79.

Claude Choules is 109. British-born Australian WWI vet, served in British armed forces.



David Greenglass is 88. Atomic spy for the Soviet Union. Brother in Law of Ethel Rosenberg.


Folk Singer Doc Watson is 87.

Margaret Osborne DuPont is 92. American tennis player.

James Noble is 88. Played the Governor on Benson.

Film director Lewis Gilbert is 90. 'Sink the Bismarck!', 'Educating Rita','The Spy Who Loved Me', 'Alfie'.


William Webster is 86. Former director of the FBI and former head of the CIA


Alan Greenspan is 84.


Andrzej Wajda is 84. Polish filmmaker. The 'War' Trilogy: A Generation (1954), Kanał (1956) and Ashes and Diamonds (1958).


Gabriel García Márquez is 82.


Lorin Maazel is 80. Conductor, violinist and composer.

Laugh in Regular Alan Sues is 84.

Ralph H. Baer is 88. 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 83.

Ornette Coleman is 80.

Nobel Prize winning Physicist Val Logsdon Fitch is 87. Worked on the Manhattan Project.

Dr. Thomas Starzl is 84. Performed the first human liver transplants. "The father of modern transplantation."

Agathe Von Trapp is 97. One of two surviving of the seven original Von Trapp kids.


British actress Googie Withers is 93. The Lady Vanishes (1938), Night and the City (1950), Shine (1996).


SF writer Harry Harrison is 85.


Dramatist Edward Albee is 82. 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf'.

Ralph J Roberts is 90. Founder and Chairman Emeritus of Comcast.


Mad Magazine's Al 'Fold Ins' Jafee is 89.


Jazz drummer Roy Haynes is 85.

Doris Eaton Travis is 106. Last surviving Ziegfeld girl. Introduced the song "Singin' in the Rain" in the Hollywood Music Box Review in 1929.


W. Willard Wirtz is 98. Secretary of Labor 1962-1969.


William Clay Ford Sr. is 85. Owner of the Detroit Lions. Grandson of Henry Ford.

George Avakian is 91. Record Producer. Worked with Miles Davis among others.


Madelyn Pugh is 89. Wrote for 'I Love Lucy'.


Cecil Taylor is 81.

Jerry Lewis is 84.

Art Gilmore is 98. American radio and TV announcer.


Reinhard Hardegen is 97. German U Boat commander. Sank 22 ships during WW2.


Christopher Challis is 91. British cinematographer, "Two for the Road", "Tales of Hoffman"


Andy Granatelli is 88. Race car driver and motorsports entrepeneur. He created the STP brand of automotive products.


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

Dr. Brent Scowcroft is 85. National Security Advisor for George H.W. Bush during the Persian Gulf War.

Ruby Muhammad is 104. Honorary 'Mother' of the Nation of Islam.


Singer Vera Lynn is 93. Sang at the end of Dr Strangelove (We'll Meet Again).


Jazz Pianist Marian McPartland is 92.


Carl Reiner is 88.

Anton Coppola is 93. Composer and conductor. Uncle of Francis.


Peter Brook is 85. Director. Lord of the Flies( 1963), King Lear (1971)

'Earth Day' founder John McConnell is 95.


Stewart Stern is 88. Screenwriter. 'Rebel Without a Cause', 'Sybil'.


Allen Neuharth is 86. Founder of USA Today.


Stephen Sondheim is 80.


Pat Robertson is 80.


William Shatner is 79.

Jack Rollins is 95. Long time producer for Woody Allen.


Marty Allen is 88.

Social Activist Dr. Dorothy Height is 98.


Lawrence Ferlinghetti is 91. Beat Poet.


Byron Janis is 82. American pianist.

Magda Olivero is 100. Opera singer.


Benzion Netanyahu is 100. Israeli historian. Father of Benjamin Netanyahu.


Eileen Ford is 88. Head of Modeling Agency.

Jacqueline de Romilly is 97. French philoligist


Harry Rabinowitz is 94. South African-born British film composer and conductor. He has conducted the film scores for Chariots of Fire (1981), Remains of the Day (1993), The English Patient (1996), and Cold Mountain (2003). He has also composed music for television including I, Claudius (1976) and Reilly, Ace of Spies (1983).


Bob Elliot is 87. of Bob and Ray fame. Chris Elliot's dad


Pierre Boulez is 85. Conductor, composer. Conductor Emeritus of the Chicago Symphony.

Alberto Grimaldi is 85. Film producer. "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly", "Last Tango in Paris", "Gangs of NY"

Peter Geach is 94. Philosopher.


John Mclaughlin is 83. Host of the Mclaughlin Group.

Actor Turhan Bey is 88.


Peter Marshall is 84. Host of the original version of "Hollywood Squares"

Lucille Bliss is 94. Voice of Smurfette.


Film director Ted Post is 92. Hang Em High, Magnum Force.


William Daniels is 83.


Gordie Howe is 82.

Christopher Walken is 67 today - apparently neither old nor obscure enough for Tony.

Just not old enough.

SF/Fantasy writer Anne McCaffrey is 84.


Milan Kundera is 81.


Jane Powell is 81. 'Royal Wedding', 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers'


Grace Lee Whitney is 80. Yeoman Rand on the original "Star Trek" TV series and movies


Debbie Reynolds is 78.

Gloria Henry is 87. 'Dennis The Menace'

Songwriter Ervin Drake is 91. 'It Was a Very Good Year'


Doris Day is 88.

Richard Coogan is 96. Played Captain Video on TV 60 years ago.


Maya Angelou is 82.

Roger Corman is 84.

Irish Unionist wacko Ian Paisley is 84.


DNA co-discoverer James Watson is 82.

Character Actor R.G. Armstrong is 93. "Ride the High Country", "The Great White Hope" and many other movies, he played Pruneface in the movie "Dick Tracy".


He's 92.


Ravi Shankar is 90.


James Garner is 82.

Alois Brunner is 98. Aide to Adolf Eichmann. Last known to be living in Syria in 1996.


Betty Ford is 92.


Comedian Shecky Green is 84.


John Gavin is 82.

Satirist Tom Leher is 82.


Hugh Hefner is 84.

Harry Morgan is 95.


Max Von Sydow is 81.


Liz Sheridan is 81. Played Jerry's mom on Seinfeld.


John Madden is 74.

John Levy is 98. Jazz musician.


Morton Sobell is 93. American espionage figure, co-defendant with Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.


Hugh Carey is 91. Former Governor of NY (1975-1982).

Economist Armen Alchian is 96.


Gilbert Taylor is 96. British cinematographer. "Dr Strangelove ""A Hard Day's Night", "Repulsion" "The Omen" "Star Wars"


Children's Author Beverly Cleary is 94.

Stanley Donen is 86. Film Director. Singin In The Rain, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Charade...



Jack Chick is 86. Christian Fundamentalist cartoonist.

Marvin Miller is 93. Former head of the MLB Players Asc.

Richard von Weizsäcker is 90. Former president of West Germany and later president of all of Germany after the country was reunited in 1991.


Conductor Sir Neville Marriner is 89.


Michael Ansara is 88.

Pope Benedict XVI is 83.