Today's Birthdays: Actor Fess Parker is 84
. Actress Ann Blyth is 80.
Actor Robert Culp is 78.
Sportscaster Frank Gifford is 78.
Singer Eydie Gorme is 77.
Actress Julie Newmar is 75.
Actor John Standing is 74.
Actor Gary Clarke is 72.
Actress Anita Gillette is 72.
Actress Carole Shelley is 69.
Country singer Billy Joe Shaver is 69.
Movie director Bruce Beresford is 68.
Rhythm-and-blues singer Robert "Squirrel" Lester (The Chi-Lites) is 66. Actor Bob Balaban is 63.
Ballerina Suzanne Farrell is 63.
Actress Lesley Ann Warren is 62.
Rock singer-musician Joey Spampinato (NRBQ) is 58.
Actor Reginald VelJohnson is 56.
TV personality Kathie Lee Gifford is 55.
Rhythm-and-blues singer J.T. Taylor is 55.
Movie director James Cameron is 54.
Actor Jeff Perry is 53.
Rock musician Tim Farriss (INXS) is 51.
Singer Madonna is 50.
Actress Angela Bassett is 50.
Actress Laura Innes is 49.
Actor Timothy Hutton is 48.
Actor Steve Carell is 45.
Actor Donovan Leitch is 40.
Actor Andy Milder (TV: "Weeds") is 40.
Country singer Emily Robison (The Dixie Chicks) is 36.
Actor George Stults is 33.
Singer Vanessa Carlton is 28.
Actress Agnes Bruckner is 23.
Actor Shawn Pyfrom is 22.
Country singer Ashton Shepherd is 22.

Today's Birthdays: Actress Maureen O'Hara is 88.
Actor Robert DeNiro is 65.
Movie director Martha Coolidge is 62.
Rock musician Gary Talley (The Box Tops) is 61.
Rock musician Sib Hashian is 59.
Actor Robert Joy is 57.
Rock singer Kevin Rowland (Dexy's Midnight Runners) is 55.
Rock musician Colin Moulding (XTC) is 53.
Country singer-songwriter Kevin Welch is 53.
Singer Belinda Carlisle is 50.
Actor Sean Penn is 48.
Jazz musician Everette Harp is 47.
Rock musician Gilby Clarke is 46.
Singer Maria McKee is 44.
Rock musician Steve Gorman (The Black Crowes) is 43.
Rock musician Jill Cunniff is 42.
Actor David Conrad is 41.
Singer Donnie Wahlberg is 39.
Rapper Posdnuos is 39. Tennis player Jim Courier is 38.
Actor Bryton McClure is 22.
Actor Brady Corbet is 20.

Leni Riefenstahl (1902)
Riefenstahl was a German filmmaker whose most famous works are documentary propaganda films for the German Nazi Party. Her Triumph of the Will, a documentary of a huge Nazi rally glorifying Hitler, is widely regarded as one of the most effective pieces of propaganda ever produced. After the war, Riefenstahl was classified as a Nazi sympathizer and blacklisted. Later, she became interested in underwater photography and the Nuba tribe in the Sudan

Duke Kahanamoku (1890)

Kahanamoku, known as the "Big Kahuna," was an Olympic champion swimmer who is generally credited with having invented the modern sport of surfing. He was the first person to be inducted into both the Swimming Hall of Fame and the Surfing Hall of Fame. In his youth, he favored an old-school board that was 16 feet (4.9 m) long and designed in the fashion of ancient Hawaiian olo boards

Singer Vic Dana is 66.

Rhythm-and-blues singer Valerie Simpson is 62.

Pop singer Bob Cowsill is 59.

Leo Tolstoy (1828)

Tolstoy was a Russian novelist and philosopher. Considered one of the world's greatest writers, he is perhaps most famous for his masterpieces, War and Peace, a vast prose epic of the Napoleonic invasion of 1812, and Anna Karenina, about the tragedy of a woman's faith in romantic love. Tolstoy was an anarchist and disapproved of all organizations based on the premise of force, including the government and the Church.

Gloria Estefan (1957)

Gloria Estefan is a Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter. Born in Cuba and raised in Miami, Florida, she began her career as lead vocalist for the Miami Sound Machine. Her later recordings as a solo artist led to mainstream popular success and a slew of English-language hits. With over 90 million albums sold worldwide, she is the single most successful crossover performer in Latin music history.

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Mine! Celebrating by getting my laptop back from the shop so I can crunch more Woodalls.

Mine! Celebrating by getting my laptop back from the shop so I can crunch more Woodalls.

Andrew Carnegie (1835)

Famed philanthropist and self-made man Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist and businessman. He amassed a huge fortune in iron and steel during the American Industrial Revolution and later sold his firm to J.P. Morgan's U.S. Steel Corporation. He donated over $350 million—the equivalent of more than $4 billion today—to various charitable organizations before his death

Gary Oldman (1958)

Oldman is an English actor known for playing eccentric characters and for his ability to master accents. He first appeared on screen in the 1982 film Remembrance and has since played a variety of characters including Dracula, Beethoven, and Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious. In 1997, he wrote, directed, and produced Nil By Mouth, an award-winning film reportedly based on his life.

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Lizzie Borden (1860)

Lizzie Borden was tried for the brutal axe murders of her father and stepmother in late 19th century New England. Though she was ultimately acquitted, the trial stirred pubic interest, and she was widely believed to be guilty. No one else was ever tried, and Borden was ostracized until her death in 1927. The case's notoriety has endured in American pop culture and is still referenced today.

Warren Buffett (1930)

Ranked the second richest man in the world, with an estimated net worth of about US$52 billion in 2007, this "Oracle of Omaha" has amassed a fortune from astute investments through his company, Berkshire Hathaway. In June 2006, he made the commitment to give away his fortune to charity, with more than 80% of it going to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Buffett's donation represents the largest act of charitable giving in US history.

Aimee Semple McPherson (1890)

"Sister Aimee" was an evangelist and the founder of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel. Noted for her extravagant and unconventional religious services, McPherson's revival meetings were often standing room only. On one occasion, she even held services in a boxing ring, inviting those in attendance to "knock out the Devil." On May 18, 1926, she disappeared after heading to Venice Beach for a swim.
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Pearl S. Buck (1892)

Buck was raised in China by her American missionary parents and left the country but a few times before she was 40. She drew upon her experiences there in her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Good Earth, which describes the struggles of a Chinese peasant and his slave wife. Together with Sons and A House Divided, it forms a trilogy, part of the body of work that earned Buck the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938
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