Janet Waldo is 94. The voice of many cartoon characters, including Judy Jetson in the animated TV series "The Jetsons", Josie in "Josie and the Pussycats"


Conrad Bain is 89.


Jerry Adler is 83. Actor.

Ken Adam is 91. Production Designer. Dr Strangelove, Barry Lyndon, many James Bond films.


Claude King is 89.


Arthur Ochs Sulzberger is 86. Publisher of the NY Times from 1963-1992.


Andrew Greeley is 84. Novelist and columnist.


Hal Blaine is 83. Drummer. Played on classic Phil Spector records.


Roger Staubach is 70.


Jennifer Jason Leigh is 50

Zsa Zsa Gabor is 95.


Patrick Macnee is 90.


Haskell Wexler is 90. Cinematographer. 'America, America', 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf', In Cold Blood, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Directed 'Medium Cool'.


Mamie Van Doren is 81.


Rip Torn is 81.


Axl Rose is 50.

Roberta McCain is 100. Mother of John.


Oscar Brand is 92. Folk Singer/Songwriter.


Wilma Lee Cooper is 91. Country/Blue Grass Singer.


Alejandro Jodorowsky is 80. Film maker. El Topo.


Gay Talese is 80. Writer.


Al Worden is 80. One of 24 people to fly to the moon.


Garth Brooks is 50.


Eddie Izzard is 50.

Dame Elisabeth Murdoch is 103. Australian philanthropist. Mother of Rupert.


John Williams is 80. Composer

Freddy Schimidt is 96. MLB pitcher. Played for the 1946 World Series Champion St Louis Cardinals.


Roger Mudd is 84. U.S. television journalist and broadcaster.


Carole King is 70.

Douglas Slocombe is 99. Cinematographer. 'Kind Hearts and Coronets', 'The Lavender Hill Mob', 'The Lion In Winter', 'The Indiana Jones Trilogy'.


Leontyne Price is 85. Opera Singer.


Brian Priestman is 85. British conductor.


Robert Wagner is 82.

Virginia Johnson is 87.


Larry Merchant is 81. Boxing analyst.


Jerome Lowenthal is 80. Concert pianist.


Sheryl Crow is 50.

Franco Zeffirelli is 89. Made 1968's 'Romeo and Juliet'. Hamlet with Mel Gibson.


Joe Garagiola is 86.


Charles Van Doren is 86. Disgraced 'Quiz Show' contestant.


Arlen Specter is 82.


Ehud Barak is 70. Israeli Politician. Former P.M.

Martin Litton is 95. River runner and environmental activist. Opponent of the Glen Canyon Dam.


Chuck Yeager is 89. The First human to break the sound barrier.

Hugh Downs is 91.


Michael Bloomberg is 70. Mayor of N.Y.C.

Allan Arbus is 94. Sidney Freedman on "M*A*S*H"


John B. Anderson is 90. 1980 Independent Presidential Candidate.


Claire Bloom is 81.


Geoff Edwards is 81. Game show host.


Jaromír Jágr is 40. NHL player.

NHL Player

You can tell by the hair.

Oops sorry about that.


Patty Andrews is 94. The one in the middle. Last surviving member of the The Andrews Sisters.


Anna Mae Hays is 92. First woman in American military to be promoted to General.

Hal Holbrook is 87.


Ruth Rendell is 82. British writer of mysteries.


Lou Diamond Phillips is 50.

Helen Gurley Brown is 90. Author of 1962's 'Sex and the Single Girl' which jump-started the feminist movement. Former Editor of Cosmopolitan.


George Kennedy is 87.


John Warner is 85. Former U.S. Senator.


Len Deighton is 83. Writer. 'The Ipcress File'


Toni Morrison is 81.


Milos Forman is 80.


Yoko Ono is 79.

Joseph P. Kerwin is 80. Science pilot for the 1973 Skylab 2 mission. The first physician selected for astronaut training.


Amy Tan is 60.

Jean Erdman is 96. Dancer. Widow of Joseph Campbell.


Gloria Vanderbilt is 88. Fashion Designer.


Richard Matheson is 86. Writer. 'Duel', 'Stir of Echoes', 'I am Legend', a bunch of old Twilight Zone episodes.


Sidney Poitier is 85.


Jean Kennedy Smith is 84. The sole survivor of Joe and Rose Kennedy's 9 kids.


k-os is 40. Rapper, record producer.

Hans Erni is 103. Swiss painter and sculptor.


Robert Mugabe is 88. President of Zimbabwe.


Dr. Jack Ramsay is 87. Basketball coach.


Hubert De Givenchy is 85. Fashion designer.


Chuck Palahniuk is 50.

Don Pardo is 94. Announcer


Tex Winter is 90. Basketball coach.


Bud Yorkin is 86. Director/Producer. Blade Runner, Sanford and Son.


Paul Dooley is 84. Actor.


Marni Nixon is 82. Soprano. Dubbed the leading female singing in films of The King and I, West Side Story and My Fair Lady.

Dakota Fanning is 18.

Abe Vigoda is 91. Yes he's still alive.


Steven Hill is 90. 'Law and Order'


Richard Hamilton is 90. Pop Art pioneer.


Michel Legrand is 80. Composer often called the French Burt Bacharach. Vivre Sa Vie (1962), Band of Outsiders (1964), The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962), F for Fake (1973), Brian's Song (1971), A Woman Is a Woman (1961).


Joe Liberman is 70. U.S. Senator from CT.

Kathryn Wasserman Davis is 105. American philanthropist.


Monte Irvin is 93. Former Negro Leagues and MLB player.


Rev. Sun Myung Moon is 92.


Jerry Reinsdorf is 76. Owner of the Bulls and the White Sox.

Tom Kennedy is 85. Host of 'Name that Tune', "Split Second"


Fats Domino is 84.


Ariel Sharon is 84.

Theodore Van Kirk is 91. Navigator of the Enola Gay...the plane that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. The last surviving member of the crew.


Joanne Woodward is 82.

Saul Zaentz is 91. Film producer. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus.


Charles Durning is 89.


Frank Gehry is 82. Architect.


Dean Smith is 81. Former basketball coach at UNC.

Leap Day Birthdays!


Michele Morgan is 92. 'Port of Shadows', 'The Fallen Idol'.


Al Rosen is 88. Third Baseman. The Hebrew Hammer.


Joss Ackland is 84. Watership Down (1978), Shadowlands (1985).


Reri Grist is 80. African American soprano.

Richard Wilbur is 91. Former American Poet Larueate.


Robert Clary is 86. Cpl. LeBeau on "Hogan's Heroes"


Harry Belafonte is 85.


Robert Bork is 85. Retired Judge and failed USSC nominee.


Jacques Rivette is 84. Film director. Celine and Julie Go Boating.

Harriet Frank Jr. is 95. Co-wrote Hud, Hombre, Home from the Hill.


Orrin Keepnews is 89. American writer and jazz record producer.


Mikhail Gorbachev is 81.


Tom Wolfe is 81.


John Irving is 70.


Lou Reed is 70.


Jon Bon Jovi is 50.

David Greenglass is 90. Atomic spy for the Soviet Union. Brother in Law of Ethel Rosenberg.


Doc Watson is 89. Folk Singer.

Margaret Osborne DuPont is 94. American tennis player.


Bernard Haitink is 83. Conductor.


Richard DeVos is 86. Co founder of Amway, owner of the Orlando Magic. One of the wealthiest people in the world.

Robert J. Kelleher is 99. American tennis player and jurist.


Milt Schmidt is 94. Canadian hockey player, coach, and manager.


James Noble is 90. He played the Governor on Benson.


Bary Tuckwell is 81. Horn player.

Lewis Gilbert is 92. Film director. 'Sink the Bismarck!', 'Educating Rita','The Spy Who Loved Me', 'Alfie'.


William Webster is 88. Former director of the FBI and former head of the CIA


Alan Greenspan is 86.


Andrzej Wajda is 86. Polish filmmaker. The 'War' Trilogy: A Generation (1954), Kanał (1956) and Ashes and Diamonds (1958).


Gabriel García Márquez is 84.


Lorin Maazel is 82. Conductor, violinist and composer.


Hal Needham is 81. Stuntman/film director. Smokey and the Bandit, The Cannonball Run.


Shaquille O'neal is 40.

Henri Landwirth is 85. Hotelier, philanthropist, founder of Give Kids The World and Dignity U Wear.

Do you guys ever click one of these Tony threads, thinking it is the other thread?

Almost had a fucking heart attack when I saw Shaq's picture. Thank god it had "is 40" under it.

I've posted birthdays in the Dead Thread before - manage to delete them quickly enough.

Ralph H. Baer is 90. 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.


Dick Hyman is 85. Musician.

James L Buckley is 89. Retired Federal Judge, NY Senator and one time President of Radio Free Europe. Brother of William F.


Ornette Coleman is 82.


John Cale is 70.

Frank Perconte is 95. Former non-commissioned officer during WWII. He was portrayed by James Madio in the HBO/BBC miniseries Band of Brothers.


Val Logsdon Fitch is 89. Nobel Prize winning Physicist, worked on the Manhattan Project.


Jasmine Guy is 50.

Nicolaas Bloembergen is 92. Dutch-American physicist and Nobel laureate.


Louise Brough is 89.


Thomas Starzl is 86. Performed the first human liver transplants. "The father of modern transplantation."


Rupert Murdoch is 81.

Mike Stepovich is 93. The last territorial Governor of Alaska.


Harry Harrison is 87. SF writer.


Edward Albee is 84. Dramatist. 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf'.


Darryl Strawberry is 50.

Nguyen Van Thien is 106. Vietnamese Bishop - the oldest living Bishop.


Lindy Boggs is 96. Former Congress member and Ambassador to the Vatican. Mother of reporter Cokie Roberts.


Ralph J Roberts is 92. Founder and Chairman Emeritus of Comcast.


Al Jafee is 91. Does Mad Magazine's 'Fold Ins'.


Roy Haynes is 87. Jazz drummer.


Common is 40.

Rita Tushingham is 70. A Taste of Honey, The Knack …and How to Get It, Doctor Zhivago.


William Clay Ford Sr. is 87. Owner of the Detroit Lions. Grandson of Henry Ford.

George Avakian is 93. Record Producer. Worked with Miles Davis among others.


Cecil Taylor is 83.


Terence Trent D'arby is 50.

Christa Ludwig is 84. German mezzo-soprano.


Jerry Lewis is 86.

Gabriele Ferzetti is 87. L'Avventura, Once Upon a Time in the West.


Siegfried Lenz is 86. German writer.


Paul Horn is 82. Flautist. New Age music pioneer.


Mia Hamm is 40. Retired American Soccer player.

Reinhard Hardegen is 99. German U Boat commander. Sank 22 ships during WW2.


Christopher Challis is 93. British cinematographer, "Two for the Road", "Tales of Hoffman"


Andy Granatelli is 90. Race car driver and motorsports entrepeneur. He created the STP brand of automotive products.


John Kander is 85. Composer . Cabaret, Chicago, 'New York, New York'

Patricia Morrison is 97. American stage and film actress and mezzo-soprano.


Giuseppe Rotunno is 89. Cinematographer. Rocco and His Brothers, The Great War, The Leopard, Amarcord, Le Notti Bianche


Brent Scowcroft is 87. National Security Advisor for George H.W. Bush during the Persian Gulf War.


Harvey Weinstein is 60.

Vera Lynn is 95. Singer. Song at the end of Dr Strangelove (We'll Meet Again).


Marian McPartland is 94. Jazz Pianist.


Carl Reiner is 90.


Hal Linden is 81.