LeRoy Neiman was born Leroy Runquist 90 years ago today. This painting is featured today at Neiman’s website.
Barbara Bush is 86.
Jerry Stiller is 84. Stiller and Anne Meara have been married since 1954 and they are, of course, Ben and Amy Stiller’s parents.
Joan Alexandra Molinsky is 78. That’s Joan Rivers. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Barnard College.
Moondoggie is 75. James Darren to us; born James William Ercolani.
Nancy Sinatra is 71. Her boots have done a lot of walkin’.
Robbie Douglas is 67. That’s the second of “My Three Sons,” Don Grady.
Boz Scaggs is 67, Kathy Baker is 61 and Tony Rice, the guitarist, is 60.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee is 56 today. He is credited with the invention of the World Wide Web (in 1990, more or less). In the simplest terms, Sir Tim, with the help of Robert Cailliau, developed the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) for managing documents on the Internet.
Scott Adams (“Dilbert”) is 54.
Keenen Ivory Wayans is 53.
Julianna Margulies is 45.
Kanye West is 34.
Eddie Gaedel was born on this date in 1925. The 3-feet 7-inch Gaedel came to bat for the St. Louis Browns in 1951. He was, according to Browns owner Bill Veeck, “the best darn midget who ever played big-league ball.” As told in the first chapter of Veeck’s autobiography, Veeck as in Wreck — “When Eddie went into that crouch, his strike zone was just about visible to the naked eye. I picked up a ruler and measured it for posterity. It was 1½ inches. Marvelous.”
Francis Crick was born on June 8th in 1916. Crick is best known as one of two co-discoverers of the structure of DNA in 1953, along with James D. Watson.
Frank Lloyd Wright was born on this date in 1867. PBS has a locator to the more than 60 Wright buildings open to the public. It includes building names, locations, photographs and maps.
For more than 70 years, Frank Lloyd Wright showed his countrymen new ways to build their homes and see the world around them. He created some of the most monumental, and some of the most intimate spaces in America. He designed everything: banks and resorts, office buildings and churches, a filling station and a synagogue, a beer garden and an art museum.
