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Post by dex on May 11, 2018 15:51:58 GMT -5
TODAY IN HISTORY
The Associated Press
Today is May 11, the 131st day of 2018. There are 234 days left in the year.
On this date
In 1502, Christopher Columbus left Cadiz, Spain, on his fourth and final trip to the Western Hemisphere. In 1647, Peter Stuyvesant arrived in New Amsterdam to become governor of New Netherland. In 1858, Minnesota became the 32nd state of the Union. In 1888, songwriter Irving Berlin was born Israel Baline in Temun, Russia. In 1927, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was founded during a banquet at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. In 1935, the Rural Electrification Administration was created as one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs. In 1943, during World War II, U.S. forces landed on the Aleutian island of Attu, which was held by the Japanese; the Americans took the island 19 days later. In 1953, a tornado devastated Waco, Texas, claiming 114 lives. In 1960, Israeli agents captured Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 1973, the espionage trial of Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo in the “Pentagon Papers” case came to an end as Judge William M. Byrne dismissed all charges, citing government misconduct. In 1988, master spy Harold “Kim” Philby, the notorious “third man” of a British espionage ring, died in the Soviet Union at age 76. In 1996, an Atlanta-bound ValuJet DC-9 caught fire shortly after takeoff from Miami and crashed into the Florida Everglades, killing all 110 people on board. In 1998, India set off three underground atomic blasts, its first nuclear tests in 24 years. Also, a French mint produced the first coins of Europe’s single currency, the euro.
Today’s birthdays
Comedian Mort Sahl is 91. Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan is 85. Jazz keyboardist Carla Bley is 82. Rock singer Eric Burdon (The Animals; War) is 77. Actress Pam Ferris is 70. White House chief of staff John F. Kelly is 68. Actress Frances Fisher is 66. Sports columnist Mike Lupica is 66. Country musician Mark Herndon (Alabama) is 63. Actress Martha Quinn is 59. Actor Tim Blake Nelson is 54. Actor Jeffrey Donovan is 50. Country musician Keith West (Heartland) is 50. Actor Nicky Katt is 48. Actor Coby Bell is 43. Cellist Perttu Kivilaakso is
40. Actor Austin O’Brien is 37. Actor-singer Jonathan Jackson is 36. Rapper Ace Hood is 30. Latin singer Prince Royce is 29. Actress Annabelle Attanasio (TV: “Bull”) is 25. Musician Howard Lawrence (Disclosure) is 24.
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Post by dex on May 15, 2018 8:43:47 GMT -5
TODAY IN HISTORY
The Associated Press
Today is May 15, the 135th day of 2018. There are 230 days left in the year.
On this date
In 1567, Mary, Queen of Scots, married her third husband, James Hepburn, the Earl of Bothwell, who had been implicated in (but acquitted of) the death of Mary’s second husband, Lord Darnley. In 1928, the Walt Disney cartoon character Mickey Mouse made his debut in the silent animated short “Plane Crazy.” In 1930, registered nurse Ellen Church, the first airline stewardess, went on duty aboard an Oaklandto-Chicago flight operated by Boeing Air Transport, a forerunner of United Airlines. In 1948, hours after declaring its independence, the new state of Israel was attacked by Transjordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon. In 1958, Vice President Richard Nixon received a hero’s welcome from President Dwight D. Eisenhower and other well-wishers on his return to Washington from a violence-marred tour of Latin America. In 1972, Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace was shot and left paralyzed while campaigning for president in Laurel, Maryland, by Arthur H. Bremer, who served 35 years for attempted murder. In 1975, U.S. forces invaded the Cambodian island of Koh Tang and captured the American merchant ship Mayaguez, which had been seized by the Khmer Rouge. (All 39 crew members had already been released safely by Cambodia; some 40 U.S. servicemen were killed in connection with the operation.) In 1988, the Soviet Union began the process of withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan, more than eight years after Soviet forces entered the country.
Today’s birthdays
Actress-singer Anna Maria Alberghetti is 82. Counterculture icon Wavy Gravy is 82. Singer Trini Lopez is 81. Actress-singer Lainie Kazan is 76. Actor Chazz Palminteri is 72. Baseball Hall of Famer George Brett is 65. Musician-composer Mike Oldfield is 65. Actor Lee Horsley is 63. TV personality Giselle Fernandez is 57. Football Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith is 49. Rock musician Ahmet Zappa is 44. Olympic gold medal gymnast Amy Chow is 40. Actor David Krumholtz is 40 Actress Jamie-Lynn Sigler is 37. Actress Alexandra Breckenridge is 36. Tennis player Andy Murray is 31.
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Post by dex on May 21, 2018 8:26:52 GMT -5
TODAY IN HISTORY
By The Associated Press
Today is May 21, the 141st day of 2018. There are 224 days left in the year.
On this date
In 1881, Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross.
In 1924, in a case that drew much notoriety, 14-year-old Bobby Franks was murdered in a “thrill killing” carried out by University of Chicago students Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb (Bobby’s cousin).
In 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh landed his Spirit of St. Louis monoplane near Paris, completing the first solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 33½ hours.
In 1932, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean as she landed in Northern Ireland, about 15 hours after leaving Newfoundland.
In 1945, actors Humphrey Bogart, 45, and Lauren Bacall, 20, were married at Malabar Farm in Lucas, Ohio (it was his fourth marriage, her first, and would last until Bogart’s death in 1957).
Today’s birthdays
Rhythm-and-blues singer Ron Isley (The Isley Brothers) is 77. Singer Leo Sayer is 70. Actor Mr. T is 66. Actress Lisa Edelstein is 52. Actor Scott Leavenworth is 28. Actress Sarah Ramos is 27.
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Post by pcdad on May 22, 2018 23:34:34 GMT -5
Lauren Bacall attended HS with my mother-in-law. Lauren’s nickname was “Betty Bagels”.
Remember watching Marilyn and Clark Gable in “The Misfits”. I seem to recall Gable died during a he filming of The Misfits.
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Post by dex on May 24, 2018 10:23:07 GMT -5
That was The King’s last film Daddy-O
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Post by dex on May 29, 2018 8:16:49 GMT -5
TODAY IN HISTORY
The Associated Press
Today is May 29, the 149th day of 2018. There are 216 days left in the year.
On this date
In 1453, Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks, marking the end of the Byzantine Empire. In 1660, Britain’s King Charles II was restored to the throne on his 30th birthday after nine years in exile. In 1765, Patrick Henry denounced the Stamp Act before Virginia’s House of Burgesses. In 1790, Rhode Island became the 13th original colony to ratify the United States Constitution. In 1848, Wisconsin became the 30th state of the union. In 1917, the 35th president of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. In 1932, World War I veterans began arriving in Washington to demand cash bonuses they weren’t scheduled to receive until 1945. In 1943, Norman Rockwell’s portrait of “Rosie the Riveter” appeared on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post. (The model for Rockwell’s Rosie, Mary Doyle Keefe, died in April 2015 at age 92.) In 1953, Mount Everest was conquered as Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tensing Norgay of Nepal became the first climbers to reach the summit. In 1961, a couple in Paynesville, West Virginia, became the first recipients of food stamps under a pilot program created by President John F. Kennedy. In 1977, Janet Guthrie became the first woman to race in the Indianapolis 500, finishing in 29th place (the winner was A.J. Foyt). In 1988, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev opened their historic summit in Moscow.
Today’s birthdays
Former Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent is 80. Motorsports Hall of Famer Al Unser is 79. Actor Kevin Conway is 76. Rock singer Gary Brooker (Procol Harum) is 73. Actor Anthony Geary is 71. Actor Cotter Smith is 69. Singer Rebbie Jackson is
68. Movie composer Danny Elfman is 65. Singer LaToya Jackson is 62. Actor Ted Levine is 61. Actress Annette Bening is
60. Actor Rupert Everett is 59. Actor Adrian Paul is 59. Singer Melissa Etheridge is 57. Actress Tracey Bregman is 55. Rock musician Noel Gallagher is 51. Rock musician Chan Kinchla (Blues Traveler) is 49. Actress Laverne Cox is 46. Cartoonist Aaron McGruder (“The Boondocks”) is 44. Singer Melanie Brown (Spice Girls) is 43. Rapper Playa Poncho is 43. Latin singer Fonseca is 39. Actor Justin Chon (TV: “Deception”; “Dr. Ken”) is 37. NBA player Carmelo Anthony is 34. Actor Billy Flynn is 33. Actor Blake Foster is 33. Actress Lorelei Linklater is 25.
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Post by dex on May 29, 2018 8:20:25 GMT -5
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Post by dex on May 30, 2018 8:35:21 GMT -5
The Associated Press
Today is May 30, the 150th day of 2018. There are 215 days left in the year.
On this date
In 1381, the Peasants' Revolt against economic injustice erupted in England during the reign of King Richard II; the king and his men, initially caught off-guard, were able to crush the rebellion several weeks later. In 1431, Joan of Arc, condemned as a heretic, was burned at the stake in Rouen, France. In 1536, England's King Henry VIII married his third wife, Jane Seymour, 11 days after the king's second wife, Anne Boleyn, was beheaded for treason and adultery. In 1883, 12 people were trampled to death in a stampede sparked by a rumor that the recently opened Brooklyn Bridge was in danger of collapsing. In 1911, the first Indy 500 took place at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway; the winner was Ray Harroun, who drove a Marmon Wasp for more than 6½ hours at an average speed of 74.6 mph and collected a prize of $10,000. In 1922, the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. was dedicated in a ceremony attended by President Warren G. Harding, Chief Justice William Howard Taft and Robert Todd Lincoln. In 1937, ten people were killed when police fired on steelworkers demonstrating near the Republic Steel plant in South Chicago. In 1943, during World War II, American troops secured the Aleutian island of Attu from Japanese forces. In 1958, unidentified American service members killed in World War II and the Korean War were interred in the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery. In 1968, the Beatles began recording their "White Album" at EMI Recording Studios in London, starting with the original version of "Revolution 1." In 1971, the American space probe Mariner 9 blasted off from Cape Kennedy on a jour ney to Mars. In 1982, Spain became NATO's 16th member. In 1996, Britain's Prince Andrew and the former Sarah Ferguson were granted an uncontested decree ending their 10-year marriage.
Today's birthdays
Actor Clint Walker is 91. Actress Ruta Lee is 83. Actor Keir Dullea is 82. Actor Michael J. Pollard is 79. Pro and College Football Hall of Famer Gale Sayers is 75. Rock musician Lenny Davidson (The Dave Clark Five) is 74. Actor Stephen Tobolowsky is 67. Actor Colm Meaney is 65. Actor Ted McGinley is 60. Country singer Wynonna Judd is 54. Rock musician Tom Morello (Audioslave; Rage Against The Machine) is 54. Movie director Antoine Fuqua is 53. Actress Idina Menzel is 47. Rapper Cee Lo Green is 43. Rapper Remy Ma is 38. Actor Jake Short is 21. Actor Sean Giambrone is 19. Actor Jared Gilmore is 18.
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Post by dex on May 31, 2018 9:04:46 GMT -5
TODAY IN HISTORY
The Associated Press
Today is May 31, the 151st day of 2018. There are 214 days left in the year.
On this date
In 1578, the Christian catacombs of ancient Rome were accidentally discovered by workers digging in a vineyard along the Via Salaria.
In 1669, English diarist Samuel Pepys wrote the final entry of his journal, blaming his failing eyesight for his inability to continue.
In 1790, President George Washington signed into law the first U.S. copyright act.
In 1889, some 2,200 people in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, perished when the South Fork Dam collapsed, sending 20 million tons of water rushing through the town.
In 1916, during World War I, British and German fleets fought the naval Battle of Jutland off Denmark; there was no clear-cut victor, although the British suffered heavier losses.
In 1921, a race riot erupted in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as white mobs began looting and leveling the affluent black district of Greenwood over reports a black man had assaulted a white woman in an elevator; hundreds are believed to have died.
In 1935, movie studio 20th Century Fox was created through a merger of the Fox Film Corp. and Twentieth Century Pictures.
In 1949, former State Department official and accused spy Alger Hiss went on trial in New York, charged with perjury (the jury deadlocked, but Hiss was convicted in a second trial).
In 1962, former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann was hanged in Israel a few minutes before midnight for his role in the Holocaust.
In 1977, the Trans-Alaska oil pipeline, three years in the making despite objections from environmentalists and Alaska Natives, was completed. (The first oil began flowing through the pipeline 20 days later.)
In 2005, breaking a silence of 30 years, former FBI official W. Mark Felt stepped forward as "Deep Throat," the secret Washington Post source during the Watergate scandal.
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Post by dex on Jun 2, 2018 8:04:47 GMT -5
TODAY IN HISTORY
The Associated Press
Today is Saturday, June 2, the 153rd day of 2018. There are 212 days left in the year.
On this date
In 1886, President Grover Cleveland, 49, married Frances Folsom, 21, in the Blue Room of the White House. (To date, Cleveland is the only president to marry in the executive mansion.)
In 1897, Mark Twain was quoted by the New York Journal as saying from London that “the report of my death was an exaggeration.” (Twain was responding to a report in the New York Herald that he was “grievously ill” and “possibly dying.”)
In 1924, Congress passed, and President Calvin Coolidge signed, a measure guaranteeing full American citizenship for all Native Americans born within U.S. territorial limits.
In 1941, baseball’s “Iron Horse,” Lou Gehrig, died in New York of a degenerative disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; he was 37.
In 1946, Italy held a referendum which resulted in the Italian monarchy being abolished in favor of a republic.
In 1966, U.S. space probe Surveyor 1 landed on the moon and began transmitting detailed photographs of the lunar surface.
In 1976, Arizona Republic investigative reporter Don Bolles was mortally wounded by a bomb planted underneath his car; he died 11 days later. (Prosecutors believed Bolles was targeted because he had written stories that upset a liquor wholesaler; three men were convicted of the killing.)
In 1986, for the first time, the public could watch the proceedings of the U.S. Senate on television as a six-week experiment began.
In 1997, Timothy McVeigh was convicted of murder and conspiracy in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City that killed 168 people. (McVeigh was executed in June 2001.)
In 2002, a fire broke out at Buckingham Palace, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of people and marring the four-day celebration of Queen Elizabeth II’s 50 years on the throne.
Today’s birthdays
Actress-singer Sally Kellerman is 81. Actor Ron Ely is 80. Filmmaker and movie historian Kevin Brownlow is 80. Actor Stacy Keach is 77. Rock musician Charlie Watts is
77. Rhythm and blues singer Chubby Tavares (Tavares) is 74. Movie director Lasse Hallstrom is 72. Actor Jerry Mathers is 70. Actress Joanna Gleason is 68. NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman is 66. Actor Dennis Haysbert is 64. Comedian Dana Carvey is 63. Actor Gary Grimes is 63. Singer Merril Bainbridge is 50. Rapper B-Real (Cypress Hill) is
48. Actor Zachary Quinto is 41. Rock musician Fabrizio Moretti (The Strokes) is 38. Olympic gold medal soccer player Abby Wambach is 38.
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Post by wtm97 on Jun 3, 2018 15:40:58 GMT -5
The BEAVER is 70...YIKES!!!
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Post by dex on Jun 6, 2018 8:14:53 GMT -5
TODAY IN HISTORY
The Associated Press
Today is June 6, the 157th day of 2018. There are 208 days left in the year.
On this date
In 1523, Gustav Vasa became Sweden's new king, Gustav I. In 1654, Queen Christina of Sweden abdicated; she was succeeded by her cousin, Charles X Gustav. In 1799, American politician and orator Patrick Henry died at Red Hill Plantation in Virginia. In 1809, Sweden adopted a new constitution. In 1918, U.S. Marines suffered heavy casualties as they launched their eventually successful counteroffensive against German troops in the World War I Battle of Belleau Wood in France. In 1925, Walter Percy Chrysler founded the Chrysler Corp. In 1933, the first drive-in movie theater was opened by Richard Hollingshead in Camden County, New Jersey. (The movie shown was "Wives Beware," starring Adolphe Menjou.) In 1944, during World War II, Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, on "D-Day" as they began the liberation of German-occupied Western Europe. In 1966, black activist James Meredith was shot and wounded as he walked along a Mississippi highway to encourage black voter registration. In 1968, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy died at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, 25½ hours after he was shot by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan. In 1978, California voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 13, a primary ballot initiative calling for major cuts in property taxes. In 1982, Israeli forces invaded Lebanon to drive Palestine Liberation Organization fighters out of the country. (The Israelis withdrew in June 1985.) In 1994, President Bill Clinton joined leaders from America's World War II allies to mark the 50th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy. Also, a China Northwest Airlines passenger jet crashed near Xian, killing all 160 people on board. In 2013, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper moved to tamp down a public uproar spurred by the disclosure of secret surveillance programs involving phone and Internet records.
Today's birthdays
Singer-songwriter Gary "U.S." Bonds is 79. Jazz musician Monty Alexander is 74. Actor Robert Englund is 71. Folk singer Holly Near is 69. Singer Dwight Twilley is 67. Playwright-actor Harvey Fierstein is 66. Comedian Sandra Bernhard is 63. International Tennis Hall of Famer Bjorn Borg is 62. Actress Amanda Pays is 59. Comedian Colin Quinn is 59. Record producer Jimmy Jam is 59. Rock musician Steve Vai is 58. Actor Jason Isaacs is 55. Actor Paul Giamatti is 51. Rhythm and blues singer Damion Hall (Guy) is 50.TV correspondent Natalie Morales is 46. Country singer Lisa Brokop is 45. Rapper-rocker Uncle Kracker is 44. Actress Amber Borycki is 35. Actress Aubrey Anderson-Emmons is 11.
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Post by johnnypc on Jun 6, 2018 9:11:06 GMT -5
Today is also D-Day. One of the most important days in world history.
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Post by dex on Jun 7, 2018 8:30:33 GMT -5
TODAY IN HISTORY
The Associated Press
Today is June 7, the 158th day of 2018. There are 207 days left in the year.
On this date
In 1099, the First Crusade began besieging Jerusalem, which was captured the following month. In 1769, frontiersman Daniel Boone first began to explore present-day Kentucky. In 1776, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia offered a resolution to the Continental Congress stating “That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.” In 1892, Homer Plessy, a “Creole of color,” was arrested for refusing to leave a whites-only car of the East Louisiana Railroad. (Ruling on his case, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld “separate but equal” racial segregation, a concept it renounced in 1954.) In 1929, the sovereign state of Vatican City came into existence as copies of the Lateran Treaty were exchanged in Rome. In 1958, singer-songwriter Prince was born Prince Rogers Nelson in Minneapolis. In 1965, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Griswold v. Connecticut, struck down, 7-2, a Connecticut law used to prosecute a Planned Parenthood clinic in New Haven for providing contraceptives to married couples. In 1977, Britons thronged London to celebrate the silver jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, who was marking the 25th year of her reign. In 1981, Israeli military planes destroyed a nuclear power plant in Iraq, a facility the Israelis charged could have been used to make nuclear weapons. In 1998, in a crime that shocked the nation, James Byrd Jr., a 49-year-old black man, was hooked by a chain to a pickup truck and dragged to his death in Jasper, Texas. (Two white men were later sentenced to death; one of them, Lawrence Russell Brewer, was executed in 2011. A third defendant received life with the possibility of parole.)
Today’s birthdays
Movie director James Ivory is 90. Singer Tom Jones is 78. Poet Nikki Giovanni is 75. Actor Ken Osmond (TV: “Leave It to Beaver”) is 75. Former talk show host Jenny Jones is 72. Americana singer-songwriter Willie Nile is 70. Actor Liam Neeson is 66. Actress Colleen Camp is 65. Author Louise Erdrich is 64. Actor William Forsythe is 63. Record producer L.A. Reid is 62. Rock singer-musician Gordon Gano (The Violent Femmes) is 55. Rapper Ecstasy (Whodini) is 54. TV personality Bear Grylls is 44. Actor-comedian Bill Hader is 40. Tennis player Anna Kournikova is 37. Actor Michael Cera is 30. Rapper Iggy Azalea is 28. Actress-model Emily Ratajkowski is 27. Rapper Fetty Wap is 27.
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Post by dex on Jun 8, 2018 8:20:39 GMT -5
TODAY IN HISTORY
The Associated Press
Today is Friday, June 8, the 159th day of 2018. There are 206 days left in the year.
On this date
In 632, the prophet Muhammad died in Medina. In 1845, Andrew Jackson, seventh president of the United States, died in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1917, during World War I, Maj. Gen. John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Force, arrived in Liverpool, England, while en route to France; also, the 1st Expeditionary Division (later the 1st Infantry Division) was organized at Fort Jay in New York. In 1920, the Republican National Convention opened in Chicago; its delegates ended up nominating Warren G. Harding for president. In 1953, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that restaurants in the District of Columbia could not refuse to serve blacks. In 1967, during the six-day Middle East war, 34 American servicemen were killed when Israel attacked the USS Liberty, a Navy intelligence-gathering ship in the Mediterranean Sea. (Israel later said the Liberty had been mistaken for an Egyptian vessel.) In 1968, authorities announced the capture in London of James Earl Ray, the suspected assassin of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In 1978, a jury in Clark County, Nevada, ruled the so-called “Mormon will,” purportedly written by the late billionaire Howard Hughes, was a forgery. In 1987, Fawn Hall began testifying at the Iran-Contra hearings, describing how, as secretary to National Security aide Oliver L. North, she had helped shred some documents and spirit away others. In 1998, the National Rifle Association elected actor Charlton Heston to be its president. In 2017, former FBI Director James Comey, testifying before Congress, asserted that President Donald Trump fired him to interfere with his investigation of Russia’s ties to the Trump campaign.
Today’s birthdays
Actor-comedian Jerry Stiller is 91. Actress Millicent Martin is
84. Actor James Darren is 82. Singer Nancy Sinatra is 78. Musician Boz Scaggs is 74. Author Sara Paretsky is 71. Actress Sonia Braga is 68. Country musician Tony Rice is 67. Rock singer Bonnie Tyler is
67. Actor Griffin Dunne is 63. “Dilbert” creator Scott Adams is 61. Actor-director Keenen Ivory Wayans is 60. Actress Julianna Margulies is 51. Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., is 48. Rapper Kanye West is 41. Country singer-songwriter Sturgill Simpson is 40. Blues-rock musician Derek Trucks (The Derek Trucks Band) is 39. Tennis player Kim Clijsters is 35.
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