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John Mayer - 35 (This generation's Eric Clapton??? Discuss.)
Kellie Martin - 37 (was Corky's sexy sister on "Life Goes On".)
Wendy Wilson - 43 (Wilson Phillips. She's Beach Boy Brian Wilson's skinny daughter.)
Terri J. Vaughn - 43 (Played that Lovita on "The Steve Harvey Show". She was also Jonelle on "All of Us", that sitcom loosely based on Will and Jada Pinkett Smith's home life.)
Pamela Bach - 49 (Kaye Morgan from "Baywatch", and ex-wife of international superstar DAVID HASSELHOFF. She used to LOVE the Hoff. Now she HATES the Hoff.)
Flea - 50 (Awesome bassist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers.) (Real name: Michael Balzary.) (Flea provided the bass line for Young MC's classic rap, "Bust A Move" . . . and wore a pair of pants made out of sewn-together stuffed animals in the video. Check it . . .)
Manute Bol - 50 (7-foot-7 former NBA "star" and "Celebrity Boxing" champion. He beat The Fridge.)
Tim Robbins - 54 (used to scjtupp Susan Sarandon. The Shawshank Redemption.)
Bob Weir - 64 (Co-founder and guitarist of The Grateful Dead.)
Suzanne Somers - 66 former TV star and gadget Guru
Fred Turner - 69 (The "Turner" of Bachman-Turner Overdrive.)
Tim McCarver - 71 (Insanely knowledgeable sportscaster who looks like Huey Lewis.)
Angela Lansbury - 87 (She STILL "does it" for Pee-Paw!)
ONE THIS DAY...1793 - Queen MARIE ANTOINETTE was beheaded via the guillotine at the time of the French Revolution. (--She's most famous for saying, "Let them eat cake", when her filthy French subjects were dying from starvation . . . but pretty much any historian will tell you she NEVER said that.)
(It IS true though that she loved to get-it-on which is why she was known as the "AUSTRIAN WHORE". KIRSTEN DUNST and her crooked teeth played Marie in 2006's "Marie Antoinette".)
1900 - The AUTOMOBILE CLUB OF AMERICA was founded.
1916 - MARGARET SANGER opened the FIRST BIRTH CONTROL CLINIC in New York City.
1972 - LORETTA LYNN became the first woman to win the CMA's most prestigious honor, ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR. Loretta had been a Grand Ole Opry member since 1962, and a coal miner's daughter since birth.
1973 - MAYNARD JACKSON was elected to office in Atlanta, Georgia . . . becoming the FIRST BLACK MAYOR of Atlanta or any other major southern city.
1976 - "DISCO DUCK", BY RICK DEES AND HIS CAST OF IDIOTS, HIT #1 ON THE "BILLBOARD" CHARTS!!!
1978 - The College of Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church chose CARDINAL KAROL WOJTYLA to be the new Pope; he took the name PJP2 (POPE JOHN PAUL THE SECOND).
1987 - Rescuers in Midland, Texas, pulled 18-month-old BABY JESSICA out of the well she'd fallen into 58 hours earlier. YWhen she turns 26, "Baby" Jessica will get her hands on the $1 MILLION trust funded by complete strangers from around the world who just threw money at a girl who suffered 2 days of hardship and has NO MEMORY of the ordeal. Meanwhile, one of her rescuers, Robert O'Donnell, KILLED HIMSELF in 1995 because he couldn't handle the stress of the rescue.
1992 - J.K. ROWLING interracially married a lucky man named Jorge Arantes two years after she began writing her first "Harry Potter" novel. She remarried in 2001 to some guy named Neil Murray. Unfortunately, it took her SIX years to finish the book and Jorge STUPIDLY divorced her after their first year of marriage not realizing what a cash cow little Harry Potter would turn out to be)
1992 - George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Neil Young, and others saluted BOB DYLAN at Madison Square Garden.(The highlight of the night was when SINEAD O'CONNOR was booed off the stage for that earlier incident on "Saturday Night Live" where she tore up the Pope's picture. She cried. She's a bipolar, bisexual priest ya know.True)
1995 - A million or so black men gathered in Washington, D.C., for the "MILLION MAN MARCH" led by Nation of Islam leader, LOUIS FARRAKHAN.
1997 - AUDRA LINDLEY (-Mrs. Roper on "Three's Company" and Phoebe's grandmother on "Friends") died of complications from leukemia at the age of 79.
