Five-time Oscar nominee Denzel Washington is 54 today. He’s won twice — leading for Training Day and supporting for Glory.
Six-time Oscar nominee Maggie Smith is 74. She’s won twice — leading for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and supporting for California Suite.
Martin Milner, the senior police officer on “Adam-12” is 77.
Stan Lee, the creator of “Spider-Man” and “The Incredible Hulk” is 86.
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born in Staunton, Virginia, on this date in 1856. After graduating from Princeton in 1879, Wilson studied law at the University of Virginia for one year. He received a Ph.D. in political science from Johns Hopkins University in 1886. Wilson remains the only American president to have earned a doctoral degree.
Wilson served on the faculties of Bryn Mawr College and Wesleyan University before joining the Princeton faculty as professor of jurisprudence and political economy in 1890. He became President of Princeton in 1902. His commentary on contemporary political matters led to his election as Governor of New Jersey in 1910 and as President in 1912.
Wilson was the second of two sitting American Presidents to win the Nobel Prize for Peace. (Theodore Roosevelt was the other.)