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Doris Day is 89. Que Sera sera
Marsha Mason is 70.
Wayne Newton is 70. Vegas wax figure
Tony Orlando is 68.
Alec Baldwin is 54. (Jack Donaghy on "30 Rock".)
David Hyde Pierce (Frasier) is 53. (Out STUD who was Niles Crane on "Frasier".)
Eddie Murphy - 51 (Worst actor of the decade, according to the Razzies Unitl Adam sandler took it away. went from box office blast to BOMB.)
Adam Scott - 39 (Ben Wyatt on "Parks and Recreation". He was also Will Ferrell's old brother Derek in "Step Brothers".)
Cobie Smulders - 30 (Robin on "How I Met Your Mother".)
Leona Lewis is 27. (British singer devoid of any personality but gifted with good looks, a great voice, and high-quality songwriters.)
Amand
a Bynes is 26. (Penny Pingleton in the "Hairspray" remake. She also played Jennie Garth's sister on the WB's "What I Like About You" and pretends to be her own twin brother in "She's the Man".)
Lyle Alzado - Would have been 63 - (1949 - 1992) ('Roid-raging NFL star. Officially, he died of brain cancer, but he may have actually died of AIDS that he got from a tainted needle he used to shoot 'roids.)
Jan Berry - Would have been 71 - (1941 - 2004) (Jan & Dean)
Don Gibson - Would have been 84 - (1928 - 2003) (Country Hall of Famer.)
Marlon Brando - Would have been 88 - (1924 - 2004)
IRON EYES CODY - (1907 - 1999) ( He shed that single tear with all your littering. Would you believe that Iron Eyes Cody's real name was Espera DiCorti, and that he was the son of two Italian immigrants? prolly not)
Washington Irving - (1783 - 1859) (American author who wrote "Rip Van Winkle" and the "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow".)
1860 - The legendary PONY EXPRESS began service between Missouri and California.
1882 - JESSE JAMES was shot in the back by his own cousin and gang-member Robert Ford, who reportedly sold him out for a $10,000 reward. Elton john sanf a song about him.
1953 - "TV Guide" first hit newsstands. It sold for 15 cents a copy. The first cover featured DESI JR., the son of LUCILLE BALL and DESI ARNAZ.
1959 - The BBC thought it totally stamped out all juvenile delinquency forever when it banned the COASTERS classic "Charlie Brown" because it contained the word "spitball". NOT! JErsey SHORE brough brought it back
1968 - "2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY" WAS RELEASED!
1978 - At the 50th Academy Awards, WOODY ALLEN won Best Director for "Annie Hall", beating out STEVEN SPIELBERG for "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind" and GEORGE LUCAS for "Star Wars".
1989 - PEPSI dumped MADONNA as its spokeswoman, after the video for "Like A Prayer" took heat from the Vatican for being "blasphemous".
1994 - Country singer TRACY LAWRENCE was charged with aggravated assault in Nashville . . . for firing a revolver in the air to scare away some ruffian-type hooligans who flipped him off on the freeway.they were not even wearing hoodies!
1996 - The UNABOMBER, Theodore Kaczynski, was finally arrested. Between 1978 and 1995, he sent 16 mail bombs across the country, which killed three people and wounded another 23. He's now serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole
1998 - DAVE NAVARRO left the RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS..
2002 - The lovely TAWNY KITAEN was charged with misdemeanor counts of spousal abuse and battery for laying the smackdown on her second husband, former Major League pitcher CHUCK FINLEY. (--He filed for divorce three days after her arrest.)
2004 - BECK married MARISSA RIBISI. Today is their 8th Anniversary.
