Irving Brecher is 94. Cowrote 'Meet Me in St louis'


Luis Echeverría Álvarez is 86. Former President of Mexico.


Betty White is 86.


Newton Minow is 82. Former chairman of the FCC who is famous for his description of television during a speech in 1961 as "a vast wasteland", the S.S. Minnow, in the TV series "Gilligan's Island", is said to have been named for him


Eartha Kitt is 81.


Mick Taylor is 60.

John Boorman is 75.


Ray Dolby is 75.

Javier Pérez de Cuéllar is 88. Former Secretary-General of the United Nations


Jean Stapleton is 85.


Film maker Richard Lester is 76. A Hard Day's Night, Help!, Superman 2, Superman 3.

Ray Anthony is 86.



Slim Whitman is 84.


Patricia Neal is 82.


Tom Baker is 74.

Albert Rosellini is 98. Former Governor of Washington state.


Howard Unruh is 87. The first modern American mass murderer, gunned down thirteen on Sept. 6, 1949, he was diagnosed as severely schizophrenic and has been confined to a mental hospital ever since.


Actor Paul Scofield is 86. A Man For All Seasons.

Henry Bachau is 95. Belgian writer.


Henri Dutilleux is 92. French composer.

Combat Photographer David Douglas Duncan is 92.


NJ Senator Frank Lautenberg is 84.


Jeanne Moreau is 80.

Granny D (nee Ethel Doris Haddock) is 98. Granny D, her legal name since 2004, walked across the continental United States in 1999 to advocate campaign finance reform.


American composer Norman Dello Joio is 95.


Ernest Borgnine is 91.


Oral Roberts is 90.


Jerry Maren is 88. The guy in the middle.

Ernie Harwell is 90. Longtime Detroit Tigers radio announcer.



Newsman Edwin Newman is 89.


Eduard Shevardnadze is 80.

SF writer Philip Jose Farmer is 90.



Paul Newman 83.


Joan Leslie is 83. "Sergeant York", "Yankee Doodle Dandy"

Norwegian philosopher and mountaineer Arne Dekke Næss is 96.


Bobby Blue Bland is 78.

Nien Cheng is 93. Recounted her harrowing experiences of the Cultural Revolution in her memoir 'Life and Death in Shanghai'.



Sarah McLachlan is 40.

John Forsythe is 90.

Race Car driver Paul Frere is 91.


Dick Martin is 86.

Dorothy Malone is 83.



Harold Prince is 80.



Gene Hackman is 78.

Spirtual Leader Daya Mata is 94. President of Self-Realization Fellowship (1955-present)


Carol Channing is 87

Dr. Leila Denmark is 110. American pediatrician and medical researcher


Frank Buckles is 107. American WW1 Vet.


Gospel Singer George Beverly Shea is 99. He sings about Jesus.


Geoge Nissen is 94. Gymnast. Inventor of the modern trampoline.


Alicia Rhett is 93. India Wilkes in 'Gone with the Wind'


Lisa Marie Presley is 40.

Titanic survivor Milvina Dean is 96


Actor Olaf Pooley is 92.


Gossip Columnist Liz Smith is 85.


Elaine Stritch is 83

Mary Carlilse is 96. Grand Hotel


Dr. Henry Heimlich is 88. Originated the anti-choking procedure.


Comedian Shelley Berman is 82


Filmmaker Kenneth Anger is 81.

British comedian Norman Wisdom is 93.


Janet Waldo is 90. The voice of many cartoon characters, including Judy Jetson in the animated TV series "The Jetsons", Josie in "Josie and the Pussycats"


He's 85.


Alice Cooper is 60.

He's 85.



Novelist and columnist Andrew Greeley is 80.

Zsa Zsa Gabor is 91.


Patrick Macnee is 86.

Country Singer Wilma Lee Cooper is 87.


Roberta McCain is 96. Mother of John.

Something tell me Tony's head would explode if he got to post about the same person on both the Birthday Thread and the Dead Thread on the same day.

This happened just over two years ago (2/4/06) when Betty Friedan died on her 85th birthday.

Composer John Williams is 76.



Gary Coleman is 40

Disney Animator Bill Justice is 94.


Kathryn Grayson is 86.


Roger Mudd is 80

Cinematographer Douglas Slocombe is 95. The Lion In Winter, The Indiana Jones Trilogy.


Opera Singer Leontyne Price is 81

Of Masters and Johnsons fame...Virginia Johnson is 83.



Leslie Nielsen is 82.

Film maker Franco Zeffirelli is 85. Made 1968's 'Romeo and Juliet'. Hamlet with Mel Gibson.

One wonders if the majority of the 38,000+ views of this thread are from all SOMBie villagers or just from Tony himself. Just wondering.

I view this thread once a day after posting to make sure my post went through as I expected. Maybe once more later to check something. If people want me to stop just give the word.

Herb Hash is 97. Former Boston Red Sox.


Chuck Yeager is 85.

Willem Kolff is 97. Inventor of the Kidney Dialysis machine.


Hugh Downs is 87.

Miep Gies is 99. During World War II, with her husband Jan Gies and others, protected Anne Frank and her family by hiding them in a secret annex above Anne's father's shop in Amsterdam, she saved the diary that made Anne Frank a household name


Actor Kevin McCarthy is 94. 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers'


Actor Allan Arbus is 90. Played Sidney Freedman on "M*A*S*H"


Country Music singer Hank Locklin is 90.



1980 Independent Presidential Candidate John Anderson is 86.

Patty Andrews is 90. The one in the middle. Last surviving member of the The Andrews Sisters.

American big-band leader and composer Orrin Tucker is 97.


Hal Holbrook is 83.

Helen Gurley Brown is 86. Author of 1962's 'Sex and the Single Girl' which jump-started the feminist movement. Former Editor of Cosmopolitan.


Actor George Kennedy is 83.


U.S. Senator John Warner is 81.


Yoko Ono is 75


Molly Ringwald is 40

Dancer Jean Erdman is 92. Widow of Joseph Campbell.


Fashion Designer Gloria Vanderbilt is 84.


Writer Richard Matheson is 82. 'Duel', 'Stir of Echoes', 'I am Legend'


Sidney Poitier is 81.

Hans Erni is 99. Swiss painter and sculptor.


Robert Mugabe is 84. President of Zimbabwe.


Fashion designer Hubert De Givenchy is 81.

president of zimbabwe has a nice hitler stache goin on

Announcer Don Pardo is 90.

Abe Vigoda is 87. Yes he's still alive.


Steven Hill is 86.

Fats Domino is 80

Ariel Sharon is 80.


Elizabeth Taylor is 76.

Charles Durning is 85


Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva is 82.

'All My Children' vet James Mitchell is 88

Richard Wilbur is 87. Former American Poet Larueate.


Robert Clary is 82. Cpl. LeBeau on "Hogan's Heroes"


Harry Belafonte is 81.



Judge Robert Bork is 81.

Jennifer Jones is 90.


Mikhail Gorbachev is 77.


Tom Wolfe is 77.

Folk Singer Doc Watson is 85.

James Noble is 86. Played the Governor on Benson.