It’s the birthday
… of Janet Reno, the only woman attorney general of the United States. She is 72.
… of actor Edward Herrmann. He is 67.
… of actor Wendell Burton, 63. Burton was Liza Minnelli’s boyfriend in The Sterile Cuckoo.
… of Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau. He’s 62.
… of Yusuf Islam, also 62. He was born Steven Demetre Georgiou. Much of his life he was known as Cat Stevens and he sold 60 million albums. Stevens wrote “The First Cut is the Deepest,” a hit for four artists, most recently Sheryl Crow. In 2006, he returned to music after nearly 30 years; his new stage name is Yusuf.
… of Mork. Robin Williams is 59. Williams has been nominated for the best actor Oscar three times without winning. He did win the best supporting actor Oscar for Good Will Hunting.
… of Jon Lovitz. He’s 53. Fresh!
… of Brandi Chastain. She’s 42.
… and of C.C. Sabathia, 30.
Ernest Hemingway was born on this date in 1899. He died a few weeks before his 62nd birthday in 1961. Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954 “for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style.” The New York Times has an extraordinary wealth of reviews, articles, interviews and other material collected on Hemingway.
Marshall McLuhan was born on this date in 1911.