Rusian writer Sergei Mikhalkov is 95. Wrote the lyrics to the Soviet National Anthem at Stalin's request. Father of filmmakers Nikita Mikhalkov and Andrey Konchalovsky.


Agathe Von Trapp is 95. One of two surviving of the oseven original Von Trapp kids.


Writer Milard Kaufman is 91. 'Bad Day At Black Rock'


SF writer Harry Harrison is 83.


Dramatist Edward Albee is 80

MAD Magazine's Al 'Fold Ins' Jafee is 87.

Doris Eaton Travis is 104. Oldest living Ziegfeld girl, Introduced the song "Singin' in the Rain" in the Hollywood Music Box Review in 1929.



W. Willard Wirtz is 96. Secretary of Labor 1962-1969.



Horton Foote is 92. Wrote the screenplays of To Kill A Mockingbird, A Trip to Bountiful, Tender Mercies.



She's 40

Francisco Ayala is 102. Spanish novelist and sociologist


Jerry Lewis is 82

Sammy Baugh is 94. NFL's first star Quarterback.

Composer John Kander is 81. Cabaret, Chicago, 'New York, New York'


Peter Graves is 82

Elżbieta Zawacka is 99. Polish WWII resistance fighter.


Brent Scowcroft is 83. National Security Advisor for George H.W. Bush during the Persian Gulf War.


Patrick McGoohan is 80.

Ruby Muhammad is 111. Widow of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, founder of the Nation of Islam.


Singer Vera Lynn is 91. Sang at the end of Dr Strangelove (We'll Meet Again).


Jazz Pianist Marian McPartland is 90.


Carl Reiner is 86.

No, he's Number 6.

Director Peter Brook is 83. Lord of the Flies( 1963), King Lear (1971)



Gary Oldman is 50

Karl Malden is 96


Stephen Sondheim is 78


William Shatner is 77


Andrew Lloyd Webber is 60

Marty Allen is 86

Social Activist Dr. Dorothy Height is 96.


Beat Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti is 89.


American pianist Byron Janis is 80.

Norman Borlaug is 94. Father of the Green Revolution. Nobel Peace Prize Winner.



Eileen Ford is 86. Head of Modeling Agency.

Jacqueline de Romilly is 95. French philoligist


Mort Abrahams is 92. American film and TV producer. 'Planet of the Apes'



Harry Rabinowitz is 92. South African-born British film composer and conductor



Bob Elliot is 85. of Bob and Ray fame. Chris Elliot's dad



Conductor, composer Pierre Boulez is 83.


Steven Tyler is 60

Budd Schulberg is 94. Wrote 'On The Waterfront', 'A Face in the Crowd'.

Jack Weill is 107. Founder of 'Rockmount Ranch Wear'. His fashions were used in Brokeback Mountain.

John Mclaughlin is 81. Host of the Mclaughlin Group.

Actor Turhan Bey is 86.



Peter Marshall is 81. Host of the original version of "Hollywood Squares"

British writer H.J. Blackham is 105.


American writer William Lederer is 96. 'The Ugly American'


Lucille Bliss is 92. Voice of Smurfette.


Film director Ted Post is 90. Hang Em High, Magnum Force.


William Daniels is 81.


Gordie Howe is 80


Al Gore is 60

SF/Fantasy writer Anne Mccaffrey is 82.

Gloria Henry is 85. 'Dennis The Menace'

Doris Day is 84

French filmmaker Eric Rohmer is 88.


Maya Angelou is 80.

Roger Corman is 82

Irish Unionist wacko Ian Paisley is 82.


DNA co-discoverer James Watson is 80.

Songwriter Jack Lawrence is 96. "If I Didn't Care", "Tenderly", "Beyond the Sea"


Character Actor R.G. Armstrong is 91. "Ride the High Country", "The Great White Hope" and many other movies, he played Pruneface in the movie "Dick Tracy".


He's 90.


Ravi Shankar is 88.


James Garner is 80.

Alois Brunner is 96. Aide to Adolf Eichmann. Last known to be living in Syria in 1996.


Betty Ford is 90.


Comedian Shecky Green is 82

Jørn Utzon is 90. Danish-born architect, best known for designing the acclaimed Sydney Opera House, winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize


Satirist Tom Leher is 80.



Hugh Hefner is 82.

Harry Morgan is 93

John Levy is 96. Jazz musician.


Morton Sobell is 91. American espionage figure, co-defendant with Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.


Hugh Carey is 89. Former Governor of NY (1975-1982).

Gilbert Taylor is 94. British cinematographer. "Dr Strangelove ""A Hard Day's Night", "Repulsion" "The Omen" "Star Wars"


Children's Author Beverly Cleary is 92.

Film Director Stanley Donen is 84. Singin In The Rain, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Charade...



Christian Fundamentalist cartoonist Jack Chick is 84.

Béla Király is 96. Hungarian freedom fighter, military historian, and politician


Conductor Jean Fournet is 95.


Marvin Miller is 91. Former head of the MLB Players Asc.


Abel Muzorewa is 83. Former head of 'Zimbabwe Rhodesia'.

Richard von Weizsäcker is 88. Former president of West Germany and later president of all of Germany after the country was reunited in 1991.



Conductor Sir Neville Marriner is 87


Michael Ansara is 86.

Pope Benedict XVI is 81.


Edie Adams is 81.

Sportswriter Lester Rodney is 97. His campaign in the 1940's promoting African-American players helped break MLB's color barrier.


Marta Eggerth is 96. Singer and actress. 1942's "For Me and My Gal" and 1943's "Presenting Lily Mars".


British writer Dora Saint is 95.


Bill Clements is 91. Former Governor of Texas.

Gabriel Axel is 90. Danish filmmaker. 'Babette's Feast'.


Barbara Hale is 87. Della Street on Perry Mason for decades. Born in Dekalb.

Why are all the birthdays in this thread old people? It's rare to see anything less than an octogenarian.

I focus on those who most people would be surprised to find still alive. If some starlet turned 26 who really gives a shit?

yea, it is pretty startling to see that the pope is still alive. way to pull through big guy.

And of course older people in general. And the occasional round number.

Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens is 88.


Nina Foch is 84. 'An American in Paris' 'The Ten Commandments'.

I share a birthday with Carol Burnett this coming Friday.

Wade Mainer is 101. Singer and Banjoist.


Queen Elizabeth II is 82.

Bettie Page is 85.



Charlotte Rae is 82.

Film director Ronald Neame is 97. 'Tunes of Glory' 'The Poseidon Adventure'.


Shirley Temple is 80.

Stanley Kauffman is 92. Long time New Republic film critic.

Singer Huey Long is 104. Last surviving member of the Ink Spots.