Barbara Bush is 82.
Jerry Stiller is 80. Stiller and Anne Meara have been married since 1954 and they are, of course, Ben and Amy Stiller’s parents.
Joan Alexandra Molinsky is 74. That’s Joan Rivers. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Barnard College.
Moondoggie is 71. James Darren to us; born James William Ercolani.
Nancy Sinatra is 67. Her boots have done a lot of walkin’.
Robbie Douglas is 63. That’s the second of “My Three Sons,” Don Grady.
Keenen Ivory Wayans is 49.
Julianna Margulies is 40.
Eddie Gaedel was born on this date in 1925. The 3-feet 7-inch Gaedel came to bat for the St. Louis Browns in 1951. He was, according to Browns owner Bill Veeck, “the best darn midget who ever played big-league ball.” Read about Gaedel’s time at the plate, told as the first chapter of Veeck’s autobiography, Veeck as in Wreck — “When Eddie went into that crouch, his strike zone was just about visible to the naked eye. I picked up a ruler and measured it for posterity. It was 1½ inches. Marvelous.”
Frank Lloyd Wright was born on this date in 1867. PBS has a locator to the more than 60 Wright buildings open to the public. It includes building names, locations, photographs and maps.
For more than 70 years, Frank Lloyd Wright showed his countrymen new ways to build their homes and see the world around them. He created some of the most monumental, and some of the most intimate spaces in America. He designed everything: banks and resorts, office buildings and churches, a filling station and a synagogue, a beer garden and an art museum.
