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Donald Duck - 78 (Disney's most famous pants-less star until Vanessa Hudgens - Miley cyrus and Lindsay lohan. did I leave one out?)
Jackie Mason is 76 OY! Voice of “Rabbi Hyman Krustofski” on The Simpsons.Old school Jewish comedian. NO comedian is more old school or more Jewish then this guy. He never stops working...even on FRIDAYS
Dick Vitale (sports commentator) is 73
a basketball sportscaster known for his odd phrases like, “It’s awesome baby!”
Aaron Sorkin, Writer, producer ("The West Wing"), turns 51
Michael J. Fox is 51 (Real name: Michael Andrew Fox. Did you know he didn't want his stage name to be Michael A. Fox because, as a Canadian, he thought people would say the "A" like "eh?" So he picked "J" instead.)
Johnny Depp is 49 (Officer Tom Hanson on "21 Jump Street", Glen Lantz in the original "A Nightmare On Elm Street" and the slide guitar player on the Oasis song "Fade In-Out". Not sure what he's up to these days, though. I know Kidding Captain JACK)
Dean Felber (bassist) is 45
- Bassist for Hootie and the Blowfish
Natalie Portman (actress) is 31
Mae Whitman (actress) is 24 was Ann on ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT
Jackie Wilson - (1934 - 1984) - R&B and soul legend. During a concert in 1975 he had a heart attack on stage he was in a coma for almost nine years until he died.
Les Paul - (1915 - 2009) Would have been 96
Cole Porter 6/9/1891 - 10/15/1964
1870 Author Charles Dickens died at age 58.
1891 Composer Cole Porter was born in Peru, Ind.
1911 Carrie Nation, the hatchet-wielding temperance crusader, died at age 64.
1940 Norway surrendered to the Nazis during World War II.
1969 The Senate confirmed Warren Burger to be chief justice of the United States, succeeding Earl Warren.
1973 Secretariat won horse racing's Triple Crown with a victory at the Belmont Stakes.
1980 Comedian Richard Pryor suffered near-fatal burns at his home when a mixture of free-base cocaine exploded.
1986 The Rogers Commission released its report on the Challenger disaster, criticizing NASA and rocket-builder Morton Thiokol for management problems leading to the explosion that claimed the lives of seven astronauts.
1998 - In Jasper, TX, three white men were charged in the dragging death of African-American James Byrd Jr.
1999 - NATO and Yugoslavia signed a peace agreement over Kosovo.
2000 - The U.S. Justice Department announced that it had not uncovered reliable evidence of conspiracy behind 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
2000 - Canada and the United States signed a border security agreement. The agreement called for the establishment of a border-enforcement team.
2000 - The U.S. House of Representatives voted to repeal gift and estate taxes. The bill called for the taxes to be phased out over 10 years.
