… of Dan Rather. His frequency is 73.

… of Jane Pauley. She’s 54.

… of David Ogden Stiers. Major Winchester is 62.

It’s also the birthday of Michael (Bonanza/Little House on the Prairie) Landon, who was born in 1936 and died in 1991, and John Candy, born in 1950. Candy died in 1994.

… of Grace Slick. The Jefferson Airplane singer is 65.

… of Henry Winkler. The Fonz is 59.

… of Charles Martin Smith. Terry “The Toad” (American Graffiti) is 51.

… of Kevin Kline. The Oscar-winning actor (Best Supporting for A Fish Called Wanda) is 57 today. NewMexiKen thought he made a good president in Dave.

… of F. Murray Abraham. The Oscar-winning actor (Best Actor for Amadeus) is 65 today.

… of Bill Wyman. The Rolling Stones’ bassist is 68.

… of Johnny Carson. He’s 79 today.

… of Pele. He’s 64 today.

Two men who were absolutely the best on the planet at what they did. Happy Birthday!

… of Mickey Mantle. The Mick was born in 1931. He died in 1995.

… of William Christopher. Father Francis Mulcahy is 72.

… of Jerry Orbach. Detective Briscoe is 69. We miss you Jerry.

… of Calvin Cordozar Broadus. Snoop Dogg is 33.

… of Robert Reed, born on this date in 1932. A fine actor but one who will always be remembered best as the dad on The Brady Bunch. Reed’s best TV role was as Kenneth Preston, son in the excellent early 1960s father-son lawyer drama The Defenders. His father was played by E. G. Marshall. Reed died in 1992.

… of Winston Hubert McIntosh, born on this date in 1944. A founding member of The Wailers, Peter Tosh also was an international solo star and songwriter. He was shot and killed along with five others by a friend during an argument on September 11, 1987.

… of Chuck Berry. Roll over Beethoven, Chuck’s 78.

… of Keith Jackson. Whoa, Nellie, he’s 76.

… of Peter Boyle. Raymond’s father is 69.

… of Pam Dawber. Mork’s Mindy is 53.

… of Arthur Miller. The playwright (The Crucible, Death of a Salesman) and one-time husband of Marilyn Monroe is 89.

… of Jimmy Breslin. The columnist is 74.

… of Evel Knievel. The daredevil is 66.

… of Margot Kidder. Lois Lane is 56.

… of George Wendt. Norm is 56.
“What’ll you have Norm?”
“Fame, fortune, fast women.”
“How about a beer?”
“Even better.”

… of Marshall Mathers. Eminem is 32.

… of John Kenneth Galbraith. The famed economist is 96.

… of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. The famed historian is 87.

… of Lee Iacocca. The famed auto-maker is 80. Iacocca wrote that the Chevrolet Vega and Dodge Aspen were two cars that never should have been made. NewMexiKen can attest that they were two cars that never should have been purchased (though, in fairness, we did get more than 120,000 miles from the Aspen).

… of Barry McGuire. He’s 69, pretty close to the Eve of Destruction.

… of Penny Marshall. Laverne DeFazio is 62.

… of Jim Palmer. The Hall of Fame pitcher and underwear pitchman is 59. Palmer won World Series games in three decades (1966, 1970 and 1971, 1983).

… of John Wooden. The Wizard of Westwood is 94.

… of Roger Moore. The oldest of the James Bonds in 77.

… of Ralph Lauren. The founder of Polo is 65.

… of James Whitmore. The actor, twice nominated for an Oscar, is 83. He was the sole cast member of Give ’em Hell, Harry!.

… of Jimmy Carter. The 39th President is 80 today.

… of William Rehnquist. The Chief Justice is also 80 today.

… of Tom Bosley. Richie Cunningham’s father is 77.

… of Julie Andrews. Mary Poppins is 69. Ms. Andrews won the Best Actress Oscar for Mary Poppins; she was nominated for The Sound of Music and Victor/Victoria. Of course, her claim to fame really was as Eliza Doolittle in the stage version of My Fair Lady.

… of Rod Carew. The baseball hall of fame player is 59.

… of Tim O’Brien. The novelist is 58. O’Brien is the author of Going After Cacciato, winner of the 1979 National Book Award in fiction, and The Things They Carried, which was named by The New York Times as one of the ten best books of 1990, received the Chicago Tribune Heartland Award in fiction, and was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In the Lake of the Woods was named by Time as the best novel of 1994. The book also received the James Fenimore Cooper Prize from the Society of American Historians and was selected as one of the ten best books of the year by The New York Times.