Ted Williams is 89 today. Again as he has in recent years, Williams is planning to spend the day hanging out and just chillin’.
It’s also the birthday —
… of Bill Daily. He was the goofy other guy on I Dream of Jeannie, and the neighbor on The Bob Newhart Show. Daily is 80 today.
… of the other Buffet, Warren. The one who’s not wasting away again in Margaritaville. The billionaire is 77.
… of Peggy Lipton. The Mod Squad member is 60.
… of Lewis Black. The comedian, and regular on The Daily Show, is 59.
… of basketball hall-of-famer Robert Parish. He’s 54. Parish played in 1,611 NBA games, the record.
… of Cameron Diaz. Princess Fiona is 35.
… of Andy Roddick. He’s 25.
Fred MacMurray was born on this date in 1908. MacMurray required that all his scenes for My Three Sons be filmed at one time. After MacMurray was done, the rest of the cast started filming the shows in the normal sequence. IMDb has MacMurray saying: “The two films I did with Billy Wilder, ‘Double Indemnity’ and the ‘The Apartment’ are the only two parts I did in my entire career that required any acting.” It showed Fred, it showed.
Oscar-nominee Raymond Massey was born on this date in 1896. Massey received the nomination for Abe Lincoln in Illinois. Massey, related to the Masseys of Massey-Ferguson (tractors and such), was in a lot of westerns and did a lot of TV.
Best actress Oscar-winner Shirley Booth was born on this date in 1898. Booth won the award for Come Back, Little Sheba. Sadly, she’s probably better known for playing the maid Hazel on the sitcom.
Had you invested $10,000 with Berkshire Hathaway when Warren Buffet took it over in 1965, and left it, you’d be worth about $30 million today — 3000X. (A similar investment with the S&P 500 would be worth just $500,000 — 50X.)