A day late to mention that he turned 46 on NYE.

John Hope Franklin is 92. 'From Slavery to Freedom'

Isaac Asimov would've been 87 today.

He actually died of AIDS.

He was infected by a bad batch of blood during heart surgery.

George Martin is 81.

J.R. Simplot is 98. French Fry Magnate. Mcdonald's gets their fries from him.


Malietoa Tanumafili II is 94.
Samoan head of state (1962-present) Third longest-serving head of state in the world after Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej and England's Queen Elizabeth II.



Herman Franks is 93. Cubs manager in the 1970s.



Jane Wyman is 93. Oscar Winner. Once married to Ronald Reagan.

An incredible self-made man, he started the company when he was 14 and built it into one of the world's largest Agribusiness concerns. He's also a famous Atheist, and donated the house currently used as the Idaho Governor's Mansion.

I was going to go to a Samoan restaurant today to celebrate, but the only one I can find is Seau's, which is just a Sports Bar, no Samoan food.

Favorite slogan from the eighties: Jane Wyman was right.

Rev. Sun Myung Moon is 87


Pollster Lou Harris is 86


Banjoist Earl Scruggs is 83

Katie Couric is 50

Lawrence E. Walsh is 95. Independent prosecutor for the Iran-Contra Affair



Larry Storch is 84


Ron Moody is 83


Soupy Sales is 81


Bob Eubanks is 70


David Bowie is 60

Composer Vic Mizzy is 91. Wrote themes to Green Acres and The Addams Family


Herbert Lom is 90. Dreyfus in the Pink Panther movies.

Record Producer Jerry Wexler is 90


Jazz Drummer Max Roach is 83.

Dr. Albert Hoffman is 101. Swiss chemist and inventor of LSD. The first person to ingest it.

French filmmaker Jean Delannoy is 99. Le Symphonie Pastorale.


Two time Oscar winner Luise Rainer is 97.


Katherine MacGregor is 82. Little House on the Prarie.

Army Archerd is 85. Variety Columnist.

Andy Rooney is 88.

Phyllis Coates is 80. Played Lois Lane for a year on the old TV show.


Margaret O'Brien is 70. 'Meet Me in St Louis'

Leslie H. Martinson is 92. Director of "PT 109" (1963) & "Batman the Movie" (1966).



Carl Kartcher is 90. Founder of 'Carl Jr's'

Irving Brecher is 93. Cowrote 'Meet Me in St louis'


Luis Echeverría Álvarez is 85. Former President of Mexico.


Betty White is 85.


Newton Minow is 81. Former chairman of the FCC who is famous for his description of television during a speech in 1961 as "a vast wasteland", the S.S. Minnow, in the TV series "Gilligan's Island", is said to have been named for him


Eartha Kitt is 80.

Javier Pérez de Cuéllar is 87. Former Secretary-General of the United Nations


Jean Stapleton is 84.


Film maker Richard Lester is 75. A Hard Day's Night, Help!, Superman 2, Superman 3.

Ray Anthony is 85.



Slim Whitman is 83.


Patricia Neal is 81.




Tom Baker is 73.

Igor Moiseyev is 101. Russian dancer and choreographer.


Albert Rosellini is 97. Former Governor of Washington state.


Howard Unruh is 86. The first modern American mass murderer, gunned down thirteen on Sept. 6, 1949, he was diagnosed as severely schizophrenic and has been confined to a mental hospital ever since.


Actor Paul Scofield is 85. A Man For All Seasons.

Henri Dutilleux is 91. French composer.

Photographer David Douglas Duncan is 91.


Jeanne Moreau is 79.

Granny D (nee Ethel Doris Haddock) is 97. Granny D, her legal name since 2004, walked across the continental United States in 1999 to advocate campaign finance reform.




American composer Norman Dello Joio is 94.


Ernest Borgnine is 90.


Oral Roberts is 89.



Jerry Maren is 87. The guy in the middle.

Ernie Harwell is 89. Longtime Detroit Tigers radio announcer.



Newsman Edwin Newman is 88.

American character actor Charles Lane is 102.


SF writer Philip Jose Farmer is 89.



Paul Newman 82.



Eddie van Halen is 50.

Norwegian philosopher and mountaineer Arne Dekke Næss is 95.




Bobby Blue Bland is 77.

Nien Cheng is 92. Recounted her harrowing experiences of the Cultural Revolution in her memoir 'Life and Death in Shanghai'.

John Forsythe is 89.

Film director Delbert Mann is 87. 'Marty'


Dick Martin is 85.

Dorothy Malone is 82.


Gene Hackman is 77.

Carol Channing is 86


Norman Mailer is 84.


Phillip Glass is 70

Gospel Singer George Beverly Shea is 98. He sings about Jesus.

Titanic survivor Milvina Dean is 95



Gossip Columnist Liz Smith is 84


Elaine Stritch is 82


Farrah Fawcett is 60.

Mary Carlilse is 95. Grand Hotel


Dr. Henry Heimlich is 87. Originated the anti-choking procedure.


Rat Packer Joey Bishop is 89.


Comedian Shelley Berman is 81

British comedian Norman Wisdom is 92.


Ray Evans is 92. Evans and his partner Jay Livingston, who died in 2001, composed three Academy Award-winning Best Songs – 1948's "Buttons and Bows", 1950's "Mona Lisa", and 1956's "Que Sera Sera". They also wrote the Christmas classic "Silver Bells".


Janet Waldo is 89. The voice of many cartoon characters, including Judy Jetson in the animated TV series "The Jetsons", Josie in "Josie and the Pussycats"


He's 84.

Zsa Zsa Gabor is 90.


Patrick Macnee is 85.

Composer John Williams is 75.

Kathryn Grayson is 85.


Roger Mudd is 79

Of Masters and Johnsons fame...Virginia Johnson is 82.

Leslie Nielsen is 81.

Film maker Franco Zeffirelli is 84. Made 1968's 'Romeo and Juliet'. Hamlet with Mel Gibson.

Herb Hash is 96. Former Boston Red Sox.



Longtime Grambling football coach Eddie Robinson is 88.



Chuck Yeager is 84.

Willem Kolff is 96. Inventor of the Kidney Dialysis machine.



Jimmy Hoffa is 94. Since he has never been found I'm assuming he's still alive.



Hugh Downs is 86.

Miep Gies is 98. During World War II, with her husband Jan Gies and others, protected Anne Frank and her family by hiding them in a secret annex above Anne's father's shop in Amsterdam, she saved the diary that made Anne Frank a household name


Actor Kevin McCarthy is 93. 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers'


Actor Allan Arbus is 89. Played Sidney Freedman on "M*A*S*H"



1980 Independent Presidential Candidate John Anderson is 85.

Philip Rabinowitz is 103. Lithuanian-born South African sprinter. On July 10, 2004, Rabinowitz entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the fastest 100-year-old to run 100 meters.)



Patty Andrews is 89. The one in the middle. Last surviving member of the The Andrews Sisters.

American big-band leader and composer Orrin Tucker is 96.


Margaret Truman is 83. Author and daughter of Harry.


Hal Holbrook is 82.

Helen Gurley Brown is 85. Author of 1962's 'Sex and the Single Girl' which jump-started the feminist movement. Former Editor of Cosmopolitan.


Actor Allan Melvin is 84.


Actor George Kennedy is 82.


U.S. Senator John Warner is 80.

Fashion Designer Gloria Vanderbilt is 83.



Writer Richard Matheson is 81. 'Duel', 'Stir of Echoes', 'I am Legend'


Sidney Poitier is 80.