'Professor' Irwin Corey is 96.

Henry Bloch is 88. Co founder with his brother Richard of H&R Block.

Sammy Lee is 90. First male diver to win two Olympic gold medals in platform diving.


King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz is 87. Head of Saudi Arabia.


Lawrence Eagleburger is 80. Former US Secretary of State.


Geoffrey Holder is 80. Actor. 'Live and Let Die' 'Annie'

Nehemiah Persoff is 91. 'On the Waterfront', 'Some Like it Hot'.


Former Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt is 88. Replaced by Harry Reid.


Shimon Peres is 87.

The "Un-Cola Nut" ad pitchman!

Writer P.D. James is 90.


Songwriter Richard Adler is 89. Cowrote the song 'Rags to Riches' and the musical 'Damn Yankees'.


Legendary Football coach Marv Levy is 85.


Singer Tony Bennett is 84. Recorded the song 'Rags to Riches'.

Irving Fields is 95. American pianist, composer, and recording artist, "Bagels and Bongos"


Helen Thomas is 90.

Happy birthday Gordon,
where ever you are...

And tell Chalcedony "happy birthday," too!

She needs her own thread, with quotes & more pictures. But I still disagree with her on the nature of Love.

Neil Armstrong is 80.

He's 76.

Flamenco guitarist Manitas de Plata is 89.


Stan Freberg is 84.

William Asher is 89. Prolific TV director. Producer/Director of Bewitched. Was married to Elizabeth Montgomery.


He's 84. The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, Forbidden Planet, Paths of Glory.


Swimming movie star Esther Williams is 88.


Dino De Laurentiis is 91. Produced La Strada, Conan The Barbarian, Dune..

Evangelist Ernest Angley is 89.


Writer Daniel Keyes is 83. 'Flowers for Algernon'

Eddie Fisher is 82.


Martha Hyer 86. 'Some Came Running'


Rhonda Fleming is 87. 'Spellbound'


He's 94.

Hugh Martin is 96. Co-wrote songs for the 1944 film "Meet Me in St. Louis", including 'The Boy Next Door', "The Trolley Song" and "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas".




Claus Von Bulow is 84. He may have killed his wife.


Arelene Dahl is 84. 'Life with Father', 'Three Little Words'.

George Soros is 80.


Richard L. Bare is 97. Directed almost every episode of Green Acres.

Fidel Castro is 84.


Jimmy McCracklin is 89. Guitarist.


Jazz pianist George Shearing is 91.


English biochemist Frederick Sanger is 92. He is the fourth (and only living) person to have been awarded two Nobel Prizes.

American writer Russell Baker is 85.


Italian filmmaker Lina Wertmuller is 84.


Singer Buddy Greco is 84.

Filmmaker Nicholas Roeg is 82.


Mike Connors is 85. Mannix!


Phyllis Schlafly is 86.


Rose Marie is 87. The Dick Van Dyke show.

Frank Gifford is 80.


Ann Blyth is 82.

Jiang Zemin is 84. Former President of China.


Maureen O'Hara is 90. Miracle on 34th Street, How Green Was My Valley, The Quiet Man

Vincent Bugliosi is 76.


Roman Polanski is 77.


Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter is 83.


Writer Brian Aldiss is 85.

L.Q. Jones is 83.


He's 64.

Walter Bernstein is 91. Screenwriter: Fail Safe, The Front.

Ray Bradbury is 90.


Denton Cooley is 90. He performed the first successful human heart transplant in the United States in 1968. In 1969, he became the first heart surgeon to implant an artificial heart in man.

Former Sheriff Jim Leavelle is 90.


Vera Miles is 81.

Bruno Giacometti is 103. Swiss architect.

Dorthea Tanning is 100. American painter, printmaker, sculptor and writer.


General Giap is 100. The most prominent NV military commander besides Ho Chi Minh during the war.


Monty Hall is 89. Let's Make a Deal.


Sean Connery is 80.

Ben Bradlee is 89. Former Washington Post editor.


Hutton Gibson is 92. Mel's father. Conspiracist Kook.

Maria F. Von Trapp is 96. Called Louisa in 'The Sound of Music'.


SF Writer Jack Vance is 94.


Ben Gazzara is 80.

John McCain is 74.


Betty Lynn is 84. Played Thelma Lou on The Andy Griffitih show.


Sir Richard Attenborough is 87. Directed Gandhi.


Wolfgang Suschitzky is 99. Austrian-born British cinematographer, "Ulysses". His son Peter is also a cinematographer who did 'The Empire Strikes Back', The War Game, 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' and a handful of Cronenberg films.

Nancy Wake is 98. Leading figure of the French Resistance. One of the Allies' most decorated servicewoman of WW2.


Princess Lilian is 95. Swedish Royal. Duchess of Halland


She's 91.


Boxing Trainer Angelo Dundee is 89.


Warren Buffet is 80.

Actor G.D. Spradlin is 90.


Bernard Lovell is 97. British Astronomer. The Lovell Telescope.


Debbie Gibson is 40.

Miriam Seegar is 103. Actress.


Melvin R. Laird is 88. Secretary of Defense under Nixon.

Dancer Marge Champion is 91.

Artist Mort Walker is 87. Created Beetle Bailey.

Gerald Wilson is 92. Jazz Trumpeter, Arranger.

Paul Volcker is 83. Former head of the Fed.


Makeup Artist Stuart Freeborn is 96. Did the original Star Wars films and 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Writer Robert Pirsig is 82.


Cartoonist Sergio Aragones is 73.

Pianist Graeme Bell is 96.


Guitarist Al Caiola is 90.


Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye is 86.

Frank Cady is 95. Green Acres, Petticoat Junction.


Sid Caesar is 88.


Lyndon Larouche is 88.

Topol is 75.


Cliff Robertson is 87.

1922 was a good year for comedians.

Philip Baker Hall is 79.


Arnold Palmer is 81.

Hawaii Senator Daniel Akaka is 86.


Reed Whittemore is 91. Former Poet Laureate of the U.S.


Herbert Lom is 93. Dreyfus in the Pink Panther films. Earlier he was paired with Peter Sellers in The Ladykillers.


Ed Sabol is 94. Founder of NFL Films along with his son Steve.

British writer Mary Stewart is 94. The Merlin Series.


Dickie Moore is 85. Member of Our Gang. 'Out of the Past'

American composer Robert Ward is 93. 1961 operatic version of 'The Crucible'.

Playwright Eric Bentley is 94.