December 2nd

Five-time Tony winner (10 nominations), three-time Emmy winner (11 nominations), Grammy winner, Kennedy Center Honoree and Oscar nominee Julie Harris is 86 today. That’s her smooching James Dean in East of Eden (1955).

David Hackett Fischer is 76 today. The historian is author of the outstanding, Pulitizer-winning Washington’s Crossing, Paul Revere’s Ride, Champlain’s Dream, Albion’s Seed and Fairness and Freedom: A History of Two Open Societies: New Zealand and the United States, due out in February.

Senator Harry Reid is 72.

Monica Seles is 38.

Nelly Furtado is 33.

Britney Spears is 30.

Aaron Rodgers is 28.