Fashion Designer Gloria Vanderbilt is 83.



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


Sidney Poitier is 80.

Hans Erni is 98. Swiss painter and sculptor.



Robert Mugabe is 83. President of Zimbabwe.




Fashion designer Hubert De Givenchy is 80.

Announcer Don Pardo is 89.

General Paul Tibbets is 92. Piloted the Enola Gay which dropped the bomb on Hiroshima.

Abe Vigoda is 86. Yes he's still alive.


Steven Hill is 85.

Monte Irvin is 88.

Betty Hutton is 86



Fats Domino is 79

Ariel Sharon is 79.




Elizabeth Taylor is 75.

Charles Durning is 84


Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva is 81.



John Turturro is 50.

'All My Children' vet James Mitchell turns 87 on 2/29. Since this is not a leap year I'll include him today.

Richard Wilbur is 86. Former American Poet Larueate.


Robert Clary is 81. Cpl. LeBeau on "Hogan's Heroes"


Harry Belafonte is 80.



Judge Robert Bork is 80.

Jennifer Jones is 89.


Mikhail Gorbachev is 76.


Tom Wolfe is 76.

Folk Singer Doc Watson is 84.

James Noble is 85. Played the Governor on Benson.

Ed Mcmahon is 84.


Alan Greenspan is 81.

Jazz drummer Lee Young is 90. Brother of Lester Young.


Laugh in Regular Alan Sues is 81.

Cyd Charisse is 86.

Jazz singer Keely Smith is 75.

Country Singer Ralph Emery is 74.


He's 50.

Rupert Murdoch is 76


Antonin Scalia is 71

Astronomer Dorrit Hoffleit is 100.


Wally Schirra is 84.


SF writer Harry Harrison is 82.


Dramatist Edward Albee is 79.

MAD Magazine's Al 'Fold Ins' Jafee is 86.

Doris Eaton Travis is 103. Oldest living Ziegfeld girl, Introduced the song "Singin' in the Rain" in the Hollywood Music Box Review in 1929.



W. Willard Wirtz is 95. Secretary of Labor 1962-1969.



Horton Foote is 91. Wrote the screenplays of To Kill A Mockingbird, A Trip to Bountiful, Tender Mercies.


He's 60.

Ursula Vaughan Williams is 96. British poet and author. Widow of Ralph Vaughn Williams.



Actress Caterina Boratto is 92. '8 1/2' 'Juliet of the Spirits'.


Frank Coghlan Jr. is 91. Billy Batson in the 1940s Captain Marvel serial.

Francisco Ayala is 101. Spanish novelist and sociologist


Jerry Lewis is 81

Sammy Baugh is 93. NFL's first star Quarterback.

Peter Graves is 81

Elżbieta Zawacka is 98. Polish WWII resistance fighter.


Country Singer Smoky Dawson is 94.



Brent Scowcroft is 82. National Security Advisor for George H.W. Bush during the Persian Gulf War.


Glenn Close is 60.

Ruby Muhammad is 110. Widow of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, founder of the Nation of Islam.


Singer Vera Lynn is 90. Sang at the end of Dr Strangelove (We'll Meet Again).


Jazz Pianist Marian McPartland is 89.


Carl Reiner is 85.


Spike Lee is 50.

Matthew Broderick is 45.


Rosie O'Donnell is 45.

Karl Malden is 95


Marcel Marceau is 84


William Shatner is 76

Marty Allen is 85

Social Activist Dr. Dorothy Height is 95.



Swedish American writer Donald Hamilton is 91. The 'Matt Helm' novels.


Beat Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti is 88.

Norman Borlaug is 93. Father of the Green Revolution. Nobel Peace Prize Winner.



She's 65.



He's 60.

Jacqueline de Romilly is 94. French philoligist

Mort Abrahams is 91. American film and TV producer. 'Planet of the Apes'


Harry Rabinowitz is 91. South African-born British film composer and conductor


Bob Elliot is 84. of Bob and Ray fame. Chris Elliot's dad


Conductor, composer Pierre Boulez is 82.

Budd Schulberg is 93. Wrote 'On The Waterfront', 'A Face in the Crowd'.


Cellist Miroslav Rostropovich is 80.

John Mclaughlin is 80. Host of the Mclaughlin Group.

N.Y.C. Philanthropist Brooke Astor is 105


Actor Turhan Bey is 85.



Peter Marshall is 80. Host of the original version of "Hollywood Squares"


He's 70

British writer H.J. Blackham is 104.



American writer William Lederer is 95. 'The Ugly American'


Lucille Bliss is 91. Voice of Smurfette.


William Daniels is 80.

Film director Melville Shavelson is 90. 'Yours Mine and Ours'



SF/Fantasy writer Anne Mccaffrey is 81.

Dabs Greer is 90. Rev. Alden on 'Little House on the Prarie'.



Gloria Henry is 84. Played Mrs. Mitchell on 'Dennis The Menace'

Doris Day is 83

French filmmaker Eric Rohmer is 87.


Maya Angelou is 79.

Actress Gale Storm is 85. starred in My Little Margie


Roger Corman is 81


Colin Powell is 70

Irish Unionist wacko Ian Paisley is 81.


DNA co-discoverer James Watson is 79.

Songwriter Jack Lawrence is 95. "If I Didn't Care", "Tenderly", "Beyond the Sea"


Character Actor R.G. Armstrong is 90. "Ride the High Country", "The Great White Hope" and many other movies, he played Pruneface in the movie "Dick Tracy".



Ravi Shankar is 87.

Alois Brunner is 95. Aide to Adolf Eichmann. Last known to be living in Syria in 1996.


Betty Ford is 89.


Comedian Shecky Green is 81

Jørn Utzon is 89. Danish-born architect, best known for designing the acclaimed Sydney Opera House, winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize


Hugh Hefner is 81

Harry Morgan is 92

At 92 he doesn't look much older than he did in Inherit the Wind or on "Dragnet."