… of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Ike Turner, 75 today. [Tina will be 67 later this month.] A Fool in Love / Proud Mary
… of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Art Garfunkel, 65. Bridge Over Troubled Water
… of Sam Shepard. He’s 63. An inductee as a playwright into the Theatre Hall of Fame, Shepard was also nominated for the best actor Oscar for playing Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff.
… of Peter Noone (Herman of Herman’s Hermits). He’s 59. No, Peter isn’t in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Mrs. Brown, You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter
… of Bill Walton, 54. He’s in the Basketball Hall of Fame.
… of football hall-of-famer Kellen Winslow. He’s 49.
… of Tatum O’Neal, 43. Miss O’Neal won the best supporting actress Oscar at age 10 for Paper Moon.
Vivien Leigh (who died at age 53) was born on this date in 1913. Miss Leigh was voted best actress twice — for Katie Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With the Wind (opposite Clark Gable) and for Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (opposite Marlon Brando).
And Leonard Franklin Slye was born in Cincinnati on this date in 1911. As Roy Rogers he’s an inductee into the Country Music Hall of Fame, the only person to be elected twice — as the King of the Cowboys and as a founder of the Sons of the Pioneers (“Tumbling Tumbleweeds,” “Cool Water“). Rogers died in 1998.