Eva Zeisel is 100. Hungarian-born American ceramist and industrial designer.


Dramatist William Gibson is 92. The Miracle Worker.


Jack Narz is 84. TV game show host, notably of "Dotto", "Concentration", and "Beat the Clock".

Singer Martha Tilton is 91


Sherwood Schwartz is 90. Television producer. Created "Gilligan's Island" and "The Brady Bunch"

Comic Book artist Martin Nodell is 91. Co-created the Green Lantern.


Animator Bill Melendez is 90. Directed 'A Chalie Brown Christmas'.


Judge Joseph Wapner is 87.

Anatoly Dobrynin is 87. Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. during the Cuban Missle Crisis. Inspriation for the Peter Bull character in 'Dr. Strangelove'?

Rollie Stiles is 100. Oldest living former major league baseball player.

Cinematographer Gunnar Fischer is 96. Smiles of a Summer Night, The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries.



Senator Ted Stevens is 83.

Griffith Jones is 96.


Alan Young is 87.

Belatedly, happy birthday Tony!

It was a month and a half ago but thanks.

I'm just now catching up.

Senator Robert Byrd is 89. Fourth in line to the Presidency.


Evelyn Keyes is 87. Played One of Scarlet's sisters in 'Gone with the Wind'.


South African writer and Nobel Laureate, Nadine Gordmier is 83.



Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot is 82.

Stan Musial is 86.

Stan the Man.

Cinematographer Oswald Morris is 91. Kubrick's Lolita, Fiddler on the Roof, The Hill, The Man Who Would Be King, Oliver!...



Former Senator Claiborne Pell is 88. The Pell Grant.



Film Director Arthur Hiller is 83. The Americanization of Emily, The In-Laws.

Michael Gough is 89. Alfred in the first 4 modern Batman films. The Man in the White Suit.


Calling Jigga....

Bobby Rush is 60.

Forrest J. Ackerman is 90.


William F. Buckley Jr. is 81.

Augusto Pinochet is 91.


Noel 'Lois Lane' Neill is 86.


Ricardo Montalban is 86.

I've gotta get over to the AckerMansion while he's still alive. He's already sold most of his stuff to a museum in Germany.

Czech-born pianist Alice Sommer Herz is 103. 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 99.



American pianist Earl Wild is 91.


SF writer Frederick Pohl is 87.

Opera singer Rose Bampton is 99.



Claude Levi-Strauss is 98. Founder of Structural Anthropology.

Writer Madeleine L'Engle is 88. 'A Wrinkle in Time'


Joe Weider is 84. Publisher of M&F. Creator of Mr Olympia contest.

Jacques Barzun is 99. French Educator, author and cultural historian.


Actor Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. is 88. The F.B.I.

Dancer/Actor Marc Platt is 93. 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers'.


Character Actor Bill Erwin is 92.


Actor Jonathan Frid is 82.


Former Sec. of State Alexander Haig is 82

Len Lesser is 84. Uncle Leo on Seinfeld.

Deanna Durbin is 85.

Eve Curie Labouisse is 102. Daughter of scientists Marie and Pierre Curie, and the author of "Madame Curie", a popular biography of her mother.


Dave Brubeck is 86.

The 'King of Latin American Music' is 96.


Eli Wallach is 91.

'Days of Our Lives' Legend, Frances Reid is 93.


Kirk Douglas is 90.

He released an editorial today...

My name is Kirk Douglas. You may know me. If you don't ... Google me. I was a movie star and I'm Michael Douglas' dad, Catherine Zeta-Jones' father-in-law, and the grandparents of their two children. Today I celebrate my 90th birthday.

I have a message to convey to America's young people. A 90th birthday is special. In my case, this birthday is not only special but miraculous. I survived World War II, a helicopter crash, a stroke, and two new knees.

It's a tradition that when a "birthday boy" stands over his cake he makes a silent wish for his life and then blows out the candles. I have followed that tradition for 89 years but on my 90th birthday, I have decided to rebel. Instead of making a silent wish for myself, I want to make a LOUD wish for THE WORLD.

Let's face it: THE WORLD IS IN A MESS and you are inheriting it. Generation Y, you are on the cusp. You are the group facing many problems: abject poverty, global warming, genocide, AIDS, and suicide bombers to name a few. These problems exist, and the world is silent. We have done very little to solve these problems. Now, we leave it to you. You have to fix it because the situation is intolerable.

You need to rebel, to speak up, write, vote, and care about people and the world you live in. We live in the best country in the world. I know. My parents were Russian immigrants. America is a country where EVERYONE, regardless of race, creed, or age has a chance. I had that chance. You are the generation that is most impacted and the generation that can make a difference.

I love this country because I came from a life of poverty. I was able to work my way through college and go into acting, the field that I love. There is no guarantee in this country that you will be successful. But you always have a chance. Nothing should interfere with it. You have to make sure that nothing stands in the way.

When I blow out my candles -- 90! ... it will take a long time ... but I'll be thinking of you.

Composer Alexander Courage is 87. Wrote the Star Trek theme.

American composer Elliot Carter is 98.


Portuguese film director Manoel de Oliveira is 98.


Film producer Carlo Ponti is 94. Husband of Sophia Loren.


Writer and Nobel Laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn is 88.

Bob Barker is 83


Ed Koch is 82.

John Hart is 89.



George Shultz is 86. Former Sec. of state.

Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer is 99.

Actress Barbara Kent is 100. 'Flesh and The Devil'


He's 89.

Film director Jules Dassin is 95. 'Night and the City'. Riffifi.

One of the greatest minds of his generation. Inventor of the communications satellite. He also just came out of the closet last year. I guess he figured "I'm almost 90, I might as well come clean since everyone pretty much knows it anyway..."

Ernst Stuhlinger is 93. Colleague and right-hand man of Wernher von Braun


British film director Roy Ward Baker is 90. 'A Night to Remember'


Little Jimmy Dickens is 86. 'Bird of Paradise'

Writer Hortense Calisher is 95.




former VA Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr. is 92

Kurt Waldheim is 88. Former President of Austria. Former Nazi.


Joe Paterno is 80. Head coach of Penn State football team.

Lady Bird Johnson is 94. LBJ's widow.



Barbara Billingsley is 91. Fluent in Jive.

Helmut Schmidt is 88. Former chancellor of West Germany



Robert Bly is 80. Poet, publisher of the poetry magazine "The Fifties", "The Sixties", etc., author of the book "Iron John"

Musician Dave Bartholomew is 86. Co-wrote most of Fats Domino's hits.

Singer and Actor Tony Martin is 94. Married to Cyd Charisse since 1948.

# 1971 simakos
# 1963 Lars Ulrich (drummer)
# 1954 Ozzie Smith (baseballer)
# 1947 Carlton Fisk (baseballer)
# 1946 Joyce Jillson (actress)
# 1940 Phil Spector (record company executive)
# 1927 Alan King (Irwin Kniberg) (comedian, TV panelist, actor, producer)
# 1921 Steve Allen (comedian, author, musician, composer, TV host)
# 1914 Richard Widmark (actor)
# 1893 Mao Tse-Tung (communist-revolutionist: founding father of the People's Republic of China)
# 1891 Henry (Valentine) Miller (writer)
# 1837 Goerge Dewey (Admiral of the Navy)
# 1791 Charles Babbage (Mathematician, inventor)
# 1716 Thomas Gray (poet)

Richard Widmark being the oldest of those listed above who is still alive at 92.

Jazz Violinist Johnny Frigo is 90.

Actor Lou Jacobi is 93.


Comic Book Legend Stan Lee is 84.

I met him pre-Iron John, after he did a performance art piece. Some of the things he talked about in an hour, like the consciousness of plants, the Tao, and working with the universe rather than trying to control it, shifted my perspective on life and are still things I incorporate today.

Milton Rogovin is 97. American photographer.



Punk Rocker Patti Smith is 60.

Dennie Moore is 99. Played Olga, the chatty manicurist, in the 1939 film "The Women" and appeared as Mrs. Van Daan in the original Broadway production of "The Diary of Anne Frank" .