Russian Cartoonist Boris Efimov is 108.



Doris Singleton is 88. 'I Love Lucy' regular.


Naomi Watts is 40.

Lizabeth Scott is 86. The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, Pitfall.


Football coach Bum Phillips is 85.

Ruth Gruber is 97. American journalist, photographer, writer, humanitarian and former government official.



Elie Weisel is 80.

Mathematician Kathleen Ollerenshaw is 96.


James Whitmore is 87. the Asphalt Hungle, Planet of the Apes, The Shawshank Redemption


Jimmy Carter is 84.


Roger Williams is 84.


Tom Bosley is 81.

Gore Vidal is 83

Vidal is a badass.

Run Run Shaw is 101. Hong Kong Media Mogul. Co-founter of the Shaw Brothers studios.

Stetson Kennedy is 92. Pioneering folklorist, labor activist, and environmentalist.


Cartoonist Bil Keane is 86. Creator of Family Circus. The most gut bustingly hilarious comic strip ever.


Glynis Johns is 85. 'Mary Poppins'

Crooner Al Martino is 81. Played Johnny Fontane in The Godfather.

Bei Shizhang is 105. Chinese biologist.


Robert F. Boyle is 99. Art Director and Production designer. North By Northwest, The Birds



Clare Hollingworth is 97. British journalist. First reporter to file a dispatch on the outbreak of WWII


Harold Pinter is 78.

Elmore Leonard is 83.


Earle Hyman is 82.

Yankees announcer Bob Sheppard is 98.



Comedian Dick Gregory is 76.

John Wooden is 98.


Former Surgeon General C Everett Koop is 92.

Yitzhak Shamir is 93.


Alan Wendell Livingston is 91. Creator of Bozo the Clown.


Paul Tanner is 91. Trumpeter with Glenn Miller. Played on Beach Boys 'Good Vibrations' and 'I Just Wasnt Made For These Times'.


Lee Iacocca is 84.

Angela Lansbury is 83.


Gunther Grass is 81.


Charles Colson is 78. One of the Watergate Seven.

Actress Marsha Hunt is 91. Johnny Got His Gun, Easy Living, Pride and Prejudice (1940)



Don Coryell is 84. Former SD Chargers coach.

Ramiz Alia is 83. Communist leader of Albania from 1985 to 1992.


Chuck Berry is 82.


Sports announcer Keith Jackson is 80.

Mathematician Martin Gardner is 94


"Gumby" creator Art Clokey is 87


Actress Joyce Randolph is 83

Joan Fontaine is 91.


Doris Lessing is 89.


Bobby Seale is 72.

literally do not give a shit

gumby was cool though

Coleen Gray is 86. Kiss of Death. Nightmare Alley


American composer Ned Rorem is 85.

Roger Miliken is 93. Textile millionare. Right wing kook.


Y.A. Tittle is 82.


Li Peng is 80. Former premier of China. The 'Butcher of Tienanmen Square'.

Lee Mcphail is 91. Former president of MLB's American League


King Michael is 87. Former king of Romania, forced into exile by the Communists after World War II. The last remaning head of state from WW2.


Bobby Thomson is 85. Scottish born American baseball player for the New York Giants, he hit the 1951 National League pennant-winning home run known as "The Shot Heard 'Round the World" The Giants win the Pennant!


Marion Ross is 80.

Marion Ross is scary.

Diana Serra Cary is 90. 'Baby Peggy'

American Indian historian Joe Medicine Crow is 95.


Nanette Fabray is 88


Ralph Kiner is 86


Ruby Dee is 84


Warren Christopher is 83

Dominick Dunne is 83



Ralph Bakshi is 70.

Muriel Duckworth is 100. Canadian feminist and peace activist.


Griffin Bell is 90. Former US Attorney General.


Mystery writer Dick Francis is 88.


Lee Grant is 81.


Film critic Andrew Sarris is 80.

American tennis player Sydney Wood is 97.


Gunther Plaut is 96. German-born Canadian theologian and writer.


James J. Kilpatrick is 88. Political columnist, known for his appearances on the TV newsmagazine "60 Minutes" in the "Point-Counterpoint" segment.

Ann Rutherford is 88. Scarlett's younger sister in 'Gone with the Wind'


Comic Book artist Steve Ditko is 81. Co-creator of Spider Man.


Pat Buchanan is 70.

He's 90.

Draga Matkovic is 101. Concert Pianist.


Walter Cronkite is 92.

'Baby' Marie Osborne is 97. American child actress of the 1910's. Osborne worked as a costumer on such films as 1956's "Around the World in 80 Days" and 1974's "The Godfather Part II".


Fawzia Bint Fuad is 87. Former Queen of Iran.

Billy Graham is 90.



Joan Sutherland is 82.

Sir John Denis Mahon is 98. British art historian and collector.


June Havoc is 95. 'Gentleman's Agreement'.


Norman Lloyd is 94. 'St. Elsewhere'


TV writer Bob Schiller (left) is 90. 'I Love Lucy'


Patti Page is 81.

Sargent Shriver is 93. First director of the Peace Corps. Maria Shriver's dad.



Alice Coachman is 85. High Jumper in 1948 Olympics. First Black woman to a Gold Medal.

Comic Book artist Joe Simon is 95. Creator of Captain America.


Mikhail Kalashnikov is 89. Inventor of the AK-47.


Russell Johnson is 84. The Professor on Gilligan's Island



Composer Ennio Morricone is 80.

British Secret Agent and Soviet Spy George Blake is 86.



Jonathan Winters is 83


Panama born writer Carlos Fuentes is 80.

Belgian theologian Edward Schillebeeckx is 94. Major contributor to Vatican II.


Charles Manson is 74.

Eva Zeisel is 102. Hungarian-born American ceramist and industrial designer.


Dramatist William Gibson is 94. The Miracle Worker.


Fred Phelps is 79.

I long to see Fred Phelps in the Dead Thread.

Prince Charles is 60.


Boutros Boutros- Ghali is 86. Former U.N. Secretary General.


Sherwood Schwartz is 92. Television producer. Created "Gilligan's Island" and "The Brady Bunch"

Judge Joseph Wapner is 89.


William Heirens is 80. American serial killer who confessed to three murders around Chicago in 1946. Called 'The Lipstick Killer' due to a message scrawled in lipstick at the crime scene. Currently at the Dixon Correctional Center minimum security prison in Dixon, Illinois. He is reputedly the world's longest serving prisoner, having thus far spent 62 years in jail. The Fritz Lang film 'While the City Sleeps' depicts the story of Heirens.

Writer Jean Fritz is 93.


Anatoly Dobrynin is 89. Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. during the Cuban Missle Crisis. Inspriation for the Peter Bull character in 'Dr. Strangelove'?

Gunnar Fischer is 98. Swedish cinematographer. "The Seventh Seal", "Wild Strawberries"



Former Alaska Republican Senator Ted Stevens is 85.

Alan Young is 89.



William Russell is 84.



Larry King is 75.

Senator Robert Byrd is 91. Fourth in line to the Presidency.


South African writer and Nobel Laureate, Nadine Gordimer is 85.


Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot is 84.

Tony, I feel you should add the International Space Station to your longstanding thread. What do you say? That space station is way, way cooler'n Benny Mandelbroth or whoever.

Silly rabbit. Birthday Threads are for people.