Prince Philip is 87 today.
Maurice Sendak is 80. He illustrated and wrote Where the Wild Things Are in 1963.
Football hall-of-famer Dan Fouts is 57.
John Edwards is 55.
Gina Gershon is 46.
Jeanne Tripplehorn is 45. Her father played with Gary Lewis and the Playboys.
Elizabeth Hurley is 43.
Bobby Jindal, the Governor of Louisiana, is 37 today. If he runs with McCain, their average age election day would be nearly 55.
Frances Ethel Gumm was born 86 years ago today. We know her as Judy Garland. She was just under 5-feet tall and the need for weight-control lead her to drugs, which controlled much of her adult life. She died of a barbiturate overdose at age 47. Ms. Garland was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role for A Star is Born (1955) and Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Judgment at Nuremberg (1962). She won a special “Juvenile Oscar” for The Wizard of Oz (1940).
The author Saul Bellow was born on June 10th in 1915 in Quebec. He grew up in Chicago. The Writer’s Almanac had a brief bio last year that included this:
His father wasn’t happy that Bellow wanted to be a writer. He said, “You write and then you erase. You call that a profession?” His brothers went into more conventional careers and Bellow once said, “All I started out to do was to show up my brothers.”
Hattie McDaniel was born on June 10th in 1895. She won a supporting actress Oscar for her portrayal of Mammy in Gone with the Wind, the first African-American to be nominated. Ms. McDaniel has nearly 100 credits listed at IMDB.