Horton Foote is 90. Wrote the screenplays of To Kill A Mockingbird, A Trip to Bountiful, Tender Mercies.

Jerry Lewis is 80

Sammy Baugh is 92. NFL's first star Quarterback.

Wine maker Ernest Gallo is 97.


Peter Graves is 80

Ruby Muhammad is 109. Widow of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, founder of the Nation of Islam.


Singer Vera Lynn is 89. Sang at the end of Dr Strangelove (We'll Meet Again).


Jazz Pianist Marian McPartland is 88.



Carl Reiner is 84.

The most appropriate birthday today!

Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn
Remember how she said that
We would meet again
Some sunny day
Vera! Vera!
What has become of you
Does anybody else in here
Feel the way I do ?

Vera Lynn

Karl Malden is 94


Marcel Marceau is 83


William Shatner is 75

Marty Allen is 84

Animator Joseph Barbera is 95.



Beat Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti is 87.

Norman Borlaug is 92. Father of the Green Revolution. Nobel Peace Prize Winner.

Budd Schulberg is 92. Wrote 'On The Waterfront', 'A Face in the Crowd'.

N.Y.C. Philanthropist Brooke Astor is 104



Frankie Laine is 93. Sang the theme to Rawhide.

American folk and blues guitarist Etta Baker is 93.


Lucille Bliss is 90. Voice of Smurfette.

SF/Fantasy writer Anne Mccaffrey is 80.

Gloria Henry is 83. PLayed Mrs. Mitchell on 'Dennis The Menace'

Doris Day is 82

Ernestine Gilbreth Carey is 98. Cowrote Cheaper by the Dozen.



French filmmaker Eric Rohmer is 86.

Actress Gale Storm is 84. starred in My Little Margie


Roger Corman is 80

Irish Unionist wacko Ian Paisley is 80.


DNA co-discoverer James Watson is 78.

Character Actor R.G. Armstrong is 89. "Ride the High Country", "The Great White Hope" and many other movies, he played Pruneface in the movie "Dick Tracy".



Ravi Shankar is 86.

Alois Brunner is 94. Aide to Adolf Eichmann. Last known to be living in Syria in 1996.


Betty Ford is 88.


Comedian Shecky Green is 80

Hugh Hefner is 80

Howard Groskloss is 100. Oldest living former ML Baseball player.


Harry Morgan is 91

Children's Author Beverly Cleary is 90.

Oooh! I missed posting this on the 9th:



Cheeta, the Chimp actor, and costar of many of the Tarzan movies, turned 74. He's retired & living in the Palm Springs area. He's currently the world's oldest living chimp.

http://cheetathechimp.org/bio.html

Film Director Stanley Donen is 82. Singin In The Rain, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Charade...

Richard von Weizsäcker is 86. Former president of West Germany and later president of all of Germany after the country was reunited in 1990.



Conductor Sir Neville Marriner is 85.

Maynard James Keenan is 42.

Barbara Hale is 85. Played Della Street on the long-running TV series "Perry Mason" (also in the Perry Mason movies), starred in the movie "The Giant Spider Invasion"


Congressman Henry Hyde is 82.

Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens is 86.


Nina Foch is 82. The Ten Commandments, An American in Paris...

Queen Elizabeth II is 80.

Ronald Neame is 95. British cinematographer, film producer, screenwriter, and director. Director of Tunes of Glory, 1972's "The Poseidon Adventure", co-wrote David Lean's 1945's "Brief Encounter" and 1946's "Great Expectations".


Note to me: Stanley Kauffman is 91 on 24th.

Huey Long is 102. American singer and musician. Last surviving original member of the Ink Spots.



Al Pacino is 66


Talia Shire is 60

I.M. Pei is 89. Chinese-born American architect, designed the glass pyramid in front of the Louvre Museum in Paris, the John Hancock Tower in Boston, Massachusetts and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio

Jack Klugman is 84.

Harper Lee is 80. Wrote 'To Kill A Mockingbird'

Celeste Holm is 87.

SF Writer Jack Williamson is 98.



Cloris Leachman is 80

Glenn Ford is 90. "Gilda", "The Big Heat", "The Blackboard Jungle", "3:10 to Yuma" and the movie version of "The Courtship of Eddie's Father"

One Time NY Times Editor A.M. Rosenthal is 84.



Theodore Bikel is 82

Folk singer Pete Seeger is 87.




Writer Betty Comden is 87. Co-wrote 'On the Town', 'Singin in the Rain', 'The Band Wagon'...

Lady Katherine Brandram nee Princess Ekaterini of Greece and Denmark is 93.
One of only two surviving great-grandchildren of Queen Victoria of England and the last surviving niece of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany.

I am challenged at the moment to find a recent photo of Lady Kathrine. Supposedly there's several out there when she attended the christenings of her neices and nephews..

Ann B. Davis is 80.

Holy crap. Alice is 80.. is Sam even still alive?

answering my own question: yes he is.


Allan Melvin

Don Rickles is 80.

Mike Wallace is 88



Richard Adams is 86. Wrote 'Watership Down'

American composer Milton Babbitt is 90.

Hey, look--pictures of old people.