Vin Scully is 82 today. Scully started broadcasting Dodger games in Brooklyn in 1950.
Diane Ladd is 74. Ladd has appeared in more than 100 films and television programs and has been nominated for the best supporting actress Oscar three times including her portrayal of Flo in Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore and in a film with her daughter Laura Dern, Rambling Rose.
Garry Shandling is 60.
Joel Coen, the Joel of the Coen Brothers, is 55. (Ethan was 52 in September.) Films by the brothers include O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Raising Arizona, The Hudsucker Proxy, Miller’s Crossing, Blood Simple, The Man Who Wasn’t There, No Country for Old Men, Barton Fink, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Burn After Reading, and A Serious Man.
Rahm Emanuel is 50.
Don Cheadle is 45. Cheadle was, of course, nominated for the best actor Oscar for his performance in Hotel Rwanda.
Mariano Rivera is 40 today. He can’t pitch forever, right?
Louisa May Alcott was born on this date in 1832. The Library of Congress’s Today in History has a lot about Alcott.