… of Anthony Hopkins. The Oscar winner is 67. Hopkins has been nominated for Best Actor three times, winning for The Silence of the Lambs. He was also nominated as Best Supporting Actor for Amistad.

… of Tim Considine. Spin is 64. Considine played the soldier slapped by General Patton in the film Patton.

… of Ben Kingsley. The Oscar winner is 61. He won Best Actor for his portrayal of Gandhi. He was also nominated for Best Actor for House of Sand and Fog and twice for Best Supporting Actor.

… of Donna Summer. The Bad Girl is 56.

… of Bebe Neuwirth. Lilith is 46. Ms. Neuwirth won the Emmy twice for this role on Cheers.

… of Bo Diddley. “One of the most original and fertile rhythmic intelligences of our time,” the Rock Hall of Famer is 76.

… of Russ Tamblyn. Riff is 70.

… of Sandy Koufax. The most dominant pitcher in the game in the early 1960s, the man who threw four no-hitters including a perfect games is 69.

… of Paul (Noel actually) Stookey. Paul of Peter, Paul & Mary is 67.

… of Fred Ward. The actor (Gus Grissom in The Right Stuff) is 62.

… of Monkees Michael Nesmith (62) and Davy Jones (59).

… of Patti Smith. Punk rock’s poet laureate is 58.

… of Matt Lauer. The Today show host is 47.

Politician Al Smith (he lost to Herbert Hoover in 1928) was born on this date in 1873.

Albert Einstein was born on this date in 1880.

… of Montgomery Burns, Smithers, Ned Flanders, Principal Skinner and Reverend Lovejoy. Harry Shearer is 61.

… of Steve Carlton. Lefty is 60.

… of Diane Sawyer. She’s 59.

… of Al Kaline. The hall of fame right fielder is 70.

… of Kevin McHale. The basketball hall-of-fame member is 47.

… of Mike Lookinland. Bobby Brady is 44.

… of Roger Smith. One of the James Bonds is 72. Jeffrey Spencer of 77 Sunset Strip is 72.

… of Keith Richards. The Rolling Stone is 61.

… of Steven Spielberg. The director is 58.

… of Brad Pitt. He’s still pretty at 41.

… of Christina Aguilera. She’s 24.

… of Don Hewitt. The producer of 60 Minutes is 82.

… of Patty Duke. The Oscar-winning actress is 58.

… of Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The Nobel Prize winner (for Literature in 1970) is 86.

… of Rita Moreno. Anita is 73.

… of Tom Hayden. Jane’s one-time husband and co-founder of Students for a Democratic Society is 65.

… of John Kerry. The man who received the second most votes for president ever cast in one election is 61.

… of Brenda Lee. Little Miss Dynamite is (gasp!) 60.

… of Richard Wayne Penniman. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Little Richard is 72.

… of Jose Carreras. The tenor is 58.

… of Jim Messina. The one-time member of Buffalo Springfield (with Dewey Martin, Neil Young, Richie Furay and Steven Stills) is 57.

… of Frankie Muniz. Malcolm is 19.