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.

Stan Musial is 88.


He's 84.

Cinematographer Oswald Morris is 93. Kubrick's Lolita, Fiddler on the Roof, The Hill, The Man Who Would Be King, Oliver!...


Andrew Huxkley is 91. Biophysicist. Nobel Laureate. Younger brother of Aldous who died on his birthday.


Former Senator Claiborne Pell is 90. The Pell Grant.



Film Director Arthur Hiller is 85. The Americanization of Emily, The In-Laws.

Writer/historian Dorothy Sterling is 95.


Michael Gough is 95. Alfred in the first 4 modern Batman films. The Man in the White Suit.


Johnny Mandel is 83. Wrote the theme to M.A.S.H.


Composer Jerry Bock is 80. 'Fiddler on the Roof'

Forrest J. Ackerman is 92. I know I said he was dead earlier. Still no confirmation so I'm assuming he's still alive.

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Noel 'Lois Lane' Neill is 88.


Ricardo Montalban is 88.

Czech-born pianist Alice Sommer Herz is 105. Played over 100 recitals in the Theresienstadt, aka Terezín, concentration camp during the Holocaust. Her story is told in the 2004 documentary "We Want the Light".


Limnologist Ruth Patrick is 101.



American pianist Earl Wild is 93.


SF writer Frederick Pohl is 89.

Claude Levi-Strauss is 100. Founder of Structural Anthropology.


Roberto Busa is 95. Jesuit Priest. Computer Science pioneer.

Astrologer Jackie Stallone is 87. Mother of Sylvester.


Joe Weider is 86. Publisher of M&F. Creator of Mr Olympia contest.


Vin Scully is 81

Jacques Barzun is 101. French Educator, author and cultural historian.


Actor Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. is 90. The F.B.I.


Robert Guillame is 81.

Ralph Kercheval is 97. Oldest living former NFL player.


Stansfield Turner is 85. Head of the CIA under Carter.

Dancer/Actor Marc Platt is 95. 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers'.


Character Actor Bill Erwin is 94.


Actor Jonathan Frid is 83.


Former Sec. of State Alexander Haig is 84.

Len Lesser is 86. Uncle Leo on Seinfeld.


Andy Williams is 81.


Jean-Luc Godard is 78.

Waldemar Levy Cardoso is 108. Brazilian field marshal


Ramaswamy Venkataraman is 98. Former Indian president.


Deanna Durbin is 87.

Johannes Heesters is 105. Dutch actor and singer.


Little Richard is 76.

Dave Brubeck is 88.


Don King is 77.

Thomas Hoyt “Slim” Bryant is 100. American country music songwriter and performer. The last surviving musician to play with Jimmie Rodgers.


The 'King of Latin American Music' is 98.


Eli Wallach is 93.


Noam Chomsky is 80.

'Days of Our Lives' Legend, Frances Reid is 95.


Kirk Douglas is 92.

Rod Blagojevich is 52.


Actor Harold Gould is 85.

American composer Elliott Carter is 100.


Portuguese film director Manoel de Oliveira is 100.

British composer Roy Douglas is 101. Orchestrated Richard Addinsell's Warsaw Concerto.


Bob Barker is 85.


Ed Koch is 84.

Couldn't get in yesterday so this is 12/13....

John Hart is 91.


George Shultz is 88. Former Sec. of state.

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Hugh Stewart is 98. Edited Hitchcock's 1934 version of 'The Man Who Knew Too Much'


Actress Elyse Knox is 91. Mark Harmon's mother.



Clark Terry is 88.


Don Hewitt is 86. Creator of '60 Minutes'.

Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer is 101.

Actress Barbara Kent is 102. 'Flesh and The Devil'.


Nicholas Courtney is 79.

Irving Kahn is 103. American financial analyst and investor.



Lawrence Lucie is 101. American Jazz Guitarist. Performed with the orchestras of Duke Ellington (1932), Benny Carter (1932-34), Fletcher Henderson (1934, 1936-39), the Mills Blue Rhythm Band (1934-36), Coleman Hawkins (1940) and Louis Armstrong (1940-44). Last remaining musician to play with Jelly Roll Morton.


Keith Richards is 65.


Rachel Griffiths is 40.


Katie Holmes is 30.

British film director Roy Ward Baker is 92. 'A Night to Remember'


Little Jimmy Dickens is 88. 'Bird of Paradise'

Writer Hortense Calisher is 97.


Former VA Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr. is 94.


She's 90.

Nino Bongiovanni is 97. Played in the 1939 World Series.


Painter Arnold Friberg is 95.


Joe Paterno is 82. Head Football coach of Penn State.


Samuel L. Jackson is 60.

Barbara Billingsley is 93. Fluent in Jive.



Jim Wright is 86. Former Speaker of the House.

Helmut Schmidt is 90. Former chancellor of West Germany



Robert Bly is 82. Poet, publisher of the poetry magazine "The Fifties", "The Sixties", etc., author of the book "Iron John"

Musician Dave Bartholomew is 88. Co-wrote most of Fats Domino's hits.

Singer and Actor Tony Martin is 96.


Composer Pete Rugolo is 93.


Ahmed Ben Bella is 90. Former PM of Algeria. Fought the Battle of Algiers against France.


Actor Dick Miller is 80.

Happy Birthday, Baby Jesus!

Actor Lou Jacobi is 95.


Comic Book Legend Stan Lee is 86.

Milton Rogovin is 99. American photographer.

American ukulelist Bill Tapia is 101.


Violinist Roman Totenberg is 98.


Actor Shih Kien is 96. "Enter the Dragon"


Frances Bay is 91. Multiple episodes of Seinfeld and various things for David Lynch.


J.D. Salinger is 90.


Former Senator Ernest Hollings is 87.

John Hope Franklin is 94. Wrote 'From Slavery to Freedom'

"Uncle" Bill is the nicest guy: always has something sweet to say to the ladies, full of stories about his life in the early 1900s in Hawaii, and can still pull of Jazz riffs on his Uke that impress Jake Shimabukuro. I had a chance to see him on the 19th, but I had to work.

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American painter Jack Levine is 94.


Cellist Bernard Greenhouse is 93.


George Martin is 83.

Herman Franks is 95. Cubs manager in the 1970s.

Walter Mondale is 81.

Former CA Rep. Don Edwards is 94.


Rev. Sun Myung Moon is 89.


Pollster Lou Harris is 88.


Virginia Halas McCaskey is 86. Owner of the Chicago Bears. -


Banjoist Earl Scruggs is 85.

Lawrence E. Walsh is 97. Independent prosecutor for the Iran-Contra Affair


Concert pianist Abbey Simon is 87.


Larry Storch is 86.


Ron Moody is 85.


Soupy Sales is 83.

Judith Krantz is 81.


Vic Mizzy is 93. Composed themes to Green Acres and The Addams Family