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Winona Ryder is 51.

Never 11 without 12. I'm getting a gut feeling that Jimmy Carter is going to go the same way as Bush 41 (last public appearance voting in midterms, then died soon after).

1987: Ozzy Osbourne (1/31)  1989: Frank Bruno, Mike Ditka, Ozzy Osbourne, Brian Wilson, David Jenkins (5/32)  1990: Mike Ditka, Rex Williams, Oprah Winfrey, Terry Waite (4/42)  1991: Leo Beenhakker (1/40)  1992: Shaun Ryder (1/37)  1993: Tony Bennett, Henry Kissinger, George Lineker, Jerry Lee Lewis (3/56) 1994: Edmund White, Holly Johnson, Peter Shilton (3/50)  1995: Holly Johnson (1/50)  1996: Mr T (1/50)  1997: (0/50)  1998: (0/50)  1999: Nick Leeson, Carly Simon (2/50)  2000: Louis Farrakhan (1/50)  2001: Liza Minnelli (1/50)  2002: (0/50)  2003: (0/50)  2004: Pervez Musharraf (1/50)  2005: Hamed Karzai (1/50) 2006: (0/50)  2007: Tim Johnson, Louis Farrakhan (2/50)  2008: Russell Watson, Hamed Karzai, Charles Taylor (3/50)  2009: (0/50)  2010: (0/50)  2011: Ali Khamenei, Dick Cheney, Michael Douglas (3/50)  2012: Nigel Lawson, Henry Kissinger, Dick Van Dyke, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (4/50) 2013: Henry Kissinger (1/50)  2014: Wilko Johnson, Dick Van Dyke, Tony Bennett (3/50)  2015: Leslie Phillips, Henry Kissinger, Jake Roberts (3/50)  2016: Prunella Scales, Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Tommy Chong, Leslie Phillips, Sandy Gall, Paul Gascoigne (7/50)  2017: Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Bob Barker, Sandy Gall, Pope Benedict XVI, Emperor Akihito (6/50)  2018: Linda Nolan, Bob Barker, Prunella Scales, Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Henry Kissinger, Dick Van Dyke, Stanley Baxter, Mel Brooks, Pope Benedict XVI, Louis Farrakhan, Ronnie Wood, Joni Mitchell, Paul Gascoigne (14/50)  2019: Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Bob Barker, Emperor Akihito, Alan Greenspan, Dick Van Dyke, Barbara Walters, Harry Belafonte, Vanessa Redgrave, Cleo Laine, Prunella Scales, Tina Turner, Shane MacGowan (13/50) 2020: Dick Van Dyke, Emperor Akihito, Bob Barker, Alan Greenspan, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Tony Bennett, Harry Belafonte, Prunella Scales, Jacques Delors, Willie Nelson, Shane MacGowan, Dick Cheney, Imelda Marcos, Joanne Woodward, David Crosby, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Pervez Musharraf, David Attenborough (20/50) 2021: Dick Van Dyke, Emperor Akihito, Bob Barker, Alan Greenspan, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Leslie Phillips, Jacques Delors, Ali Khamenei, David Crosby, Prunella Scales, Tony Bennett, Rosalynn Carter, Dick Cheney, Harry Belafonte, BobNewhart, Barbara Walters, Pope Benedict XVI, Imelda Marcos, Yoko Ono, Linda Nolan, Joanne Woodward, Mel Brooks, Willie Nelson, Betty Boothroyd, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Raul Castro, Burt Bacharach, Stanley Baxter, Vanessa Redgrave, Shane MacGowan, Shannen Doherty (32/50) Updated for Jerry Lee Lewis.

I'm choosing Leslie Phillips this time.

41 Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge over troubled water +1 37 Freda Payne – Band of Gold 36 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – Tears of a Clown 35 Slade - Coz I Luv You 34 Jimi Hendrix Experience – Voodoo Chile +2 32 T. Rex – Get It On 31 Dave & Ansel Collins – Double Barrel 22 Dave Edmunds – I Hear You Knocking +1 17 Rod Stewart - Maggie May 15 T. Rex – Hot Love -3 0 Benny Hill - Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West) -3 Ernie would've worked better as a picture book IMO.

Margaret I of Denmark died on this day 610 years ago, aged 59. Margaret (or Margrethe) was the daughter of Valdemar IV of Denmark. She married Haakon VI of Norway, and had a son, Olaf (II of Denmark and IV of Norway), who would become the king of Denmark following his grandfather's death in 1375- with his mother's help, arguing against her brother in law, Henry III, Duke of Mecklenburg. As Olaf was a child when he was crowned, Margaret ruled as regent. Margaret was widowed in 1380, and their son would also become king of Norway because of this. Olaf died suddenly at the age of 16 in 1387. Margaret was chosen as regent during this time, and would soon be known as the "Lady King" to her subjects due to her effective statesmanship. In 1388, Margaret sent troops to help depose the unpopular king Albert of Sweden, who was defeated in battle the following year. Margaret was instated as queen of Sweden, giving her control over much of Scandinavia. In 1397, Margaret united the three countries into the Kalmar Union (which lasted until 1523). Margaret is considered to be among the most powerful women of her time. It wasn't until 1972 that another female would become the queen of Denmark- she would also be named Margrethe.

Decided to announce two birthdays today. Daphne Zuniga is 60... Wait, that isn't her, that's her stunt double! Here she is: Joaquin Phoenix is 48.

36 Dave & Ansel Collins – Double Barrel 36 Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge over troubled water +2 35 Freda Payne – Band of Gold 33 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – Tears of a Clown 33 Slade - Coz I Luv You 30 T. Rex – Get It On 30 Jimi Hendrix Experience – Voodoo Chile 23 Dave Edmunds – I Hear You Knocking 20 Edison Lighthouse - Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) 18 T. Rex – Hot Love -1 16 Rod Stewart - Maggie May 11 Mungo Jerry - In the Summertime +2 9 Benny Hill - Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West) -5

All things must pass. Also, we've hit the halfway mark of 1970-1971- 14 songs gone, 14 remain.

King Albert II of Germany died on this day 583 years ago, aged 42. Albert was the son of the duke of Austria, and became duke at the age of 7 when his father died, with his uncles acting as regents- their fighting nearly led to civil war due to each trying to take full control of Austria. Albert became king proper in 1411, when he was 14. Albert notoriously ordered the forced conversion of Austrian Jews to Christianity in 1420 due to church influence. Those who did not convert were either banished (by being sent down the Danube River in boats), stripped of their property, tortured, or burned at the stake. Jewish babies were also forcibly baptized (Pope Martin V stopped Albert from doing that when he found out). The religion was completely banned in Austria in 1421. Albert fought in the Hussite War against the Hussites (followers of Jan Hus) with his father-in-law, Sigismund (the Holy Roman Emperor). Sigismund declared Albert to be his successor as king, and Albert was crowned upon Sigismund's death in 1437. Sigismund would also become the king of Hungary and Bohemia. And before you ask, yes, he does look like that old Spoderman meme:

John Cleese is 83.

38 Dave & Ansel Collins – Double Barrel 35 Freda Payne – Band of Gold 33 Edison Lighthouse - Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) +1 32 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – Tears of a Clown 29 Slade - Coz I Luv You 28 T. Rex – Get It On 28 Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge over troubled water 27 Jimi Hendrix Experience – Voodoo Chile 26 Dave Edmunds – I Hear You Knocking 18 Rod Stewart - Maggie May 17 T. Rex – Hot Love 17 Benny Hill - Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West) 15 Mungo Jerry - In the Summertime +1 9 George Harrison - My Sweet Lord +2 8 Lee Marvin - Wanderin' Star -6 Noticing that people here either love or hate "My Sweet Lord"- I'm in the former group.

Ito Hirobumi died on this day 113 years ago, aged 68. Born as Hayashi Risuke, his father was adopted by a samurai in 1853, causing him to change his name. After the Boshin War and Meiji Restoration, Ito was appointed the governor of Hyogo Prefecture, and would become a member of the Iwakura Embassy in the early 1870s to bring knowledge of the western world to Japan. In 1885, Ito was appointed as Japan's first ever prime minister. While he resigned from the position in 1888, Ito helped work on the Meiji Constitution published the next year. Hirobumi would serve as PM on and off again from 1892 to 1896, 1898, and 1900 to 1901. After Korea was made a Japanese protectorate in 1905, he became its resident-general, serving until June of 1909. In October of that year, Ito met with Russian foreign minister Vladimir Kokovtsov in Manchuria while on a train. After departing at the railway station in Harbin, Ito was shot dead by a Korean independence activist named An Jung-geun- An would give a list of fifteen reasons why he believed Ito should've died at his trial, and would be executed for the crime in 1910.

Bootsy Collins, singer from the band Parliament, and who sang the vocals on Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice", is 71.

36 Freda Payne – Band of Gold 32 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – Tears of a Clown 30 Dave & Ansel Collins – Double Barrel -1 28 Edison Lighthouse - Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) 28 T. Rex – Get It On 28 Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge over troubled water 27 Jimi Hendrix Experience – Voodoo Chile 26 Dave Edmunds – I Hear You Knocking 23 Rod Stewart - Maggie May 23 Slade - Coz I Luv You 17 T. Rex – Hot Love 16 Benny Hill - Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West) 13 Diana Ross - I'm Still Waiting 13 George Harrison - My Sweet Lord +4 12 Mungo Jerry - In the Summertime 12 Lee Marvin - Wanderin' Star -3 9 Mungo Jerry – Baby Jump -2 8 Matthews Southern Comfort - Woodstock 5 Christie - Yellow River 4 Elvis - The Wonder of You

King George II died on this day 262 years ago, aged 76. George was born in Germany, and is the most recent British monarch to have been born outside of British territory. When Queen Anne died in 1714, his father was declared the first Hanover king, and the two sailed to England. The two had a poor relationship with each other, and when George I died in Hanover in 1727, the new king did not attend his funeral- a move seen by the public as loyalty to Britain. Among the songs written for George II's coronation included Handel's "Zadok the Priest". George II oversaw the War of Jenkins' Ear against Spain from 1739 to 1748, and participated in the War of the Austrian Succession as Spain also fought in it. In 1745, while his army was largely in Austria, Jacobite supporters led by Charles Stuart (the original "Charles III") attempted to regain the throne for the Stuart side of the royal family (his father, James, was a legitimate son of James II and VII). The army defeated the Jacobites, and no serious attempts were made by the Jacobites to reclaim the throne again. In 1756, George began to oversee the Seven Years' (or French and Indian) War, and in 1759, captured Quebec in Canada, foiled a French plot to invade the British Isles, and won the Battle of Minden in Hanover- the year was declared an "annus mirabilis". Age had taken its toll on the elderly George- by 1760, he was partially blind and deaf. On an October morning, he drank a cup of hot chocolate, and then went to the bathroom. A loud noise was heard from the bathroom, and his valet found him on the floor, dead of an aortic dissection (he did not die on the toilet, contrary to popular belief- he had gotten up to open his secretary desk). At 76 years old, George was the longest-lived British monarch at the time (his grandson and successor George III would surpass this in 1815).

Apollo 9 astronaut Rusty Schweickart is 87. (pictured in 1971 and 2020 respectively)

I see no difference:

36 Freda Payne – Band of Gold 30 Edison Lighthouse - Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) 30 Dave & Ansel Collins – Double Barrel 28 T. Rex – Get It On 27 Jimi Hendrix Experience – Voodoo Chile 27 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – Tears of a Clown 27 Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge over troubled water +1 25 Slade - Coz I Luv You 23 Rod Stewart - Maggie May 23 Dave Edmunds – I Hear You Knocking 20 Benny Hill - Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West) -2 20 T. Rex – Hot Love 15 Mungo Jerry – Baby Jump 15 Diana Ross - I'm Still Waiting 13 Lee Marvin - Wanderin' Star -4 13 George Harrison - My Sweet Lord +1 12 Christie - Yellow River 11 Mungo Jerry - In the Summertime +2 10 Elvis - The Wonder of You 7 Dana – All Kinds of Everything 6 Matthews Southern Comfort - Woodstock

Don Messick died on this day 25 years ago, aged 71. Messick started off as a radio host, and his first work as a voice actor was as Raggedy Andy on The Raggedy Ann Show (also on radio, contrary to the title). In 1949, Messick became the voice of Droopy Dog when fellow veteran voice actor Daws Butler suggested that Tex Avery hired him, when Droopy's voice actor Bill Thompson was not available. Messick and Butler would soon provide their voices to Hanna-Barbera's first show, The Ruff and Ready Show, in which they voiced the title characters. Messick would also voice Boo Boo and Ranger Smith in The Yogi Bear Show, Barney's son Bamm-Bamm in The Flintstones, Astro in The Jetsons, and Muttley in Wacky Races. Messick took over the voices of Atom Ant and Mr. Peebles (the latter from Magilla Gorilla) when Howard Morris left the company. In 1969, Messick was cast in his most well-known role- Scooby-Doo. He would voice him until the 1994 TV movie Scooby-Doo in Arabian Nights, and after his death, the role be passed to Frank Welker (who voiced Fred in the original series). Later roles Messick would be known for were as Papa Smurf in The Smurfs and Hamton in Tiny Toon Adventures. Messick retired in 1996 following a stroke, and many of his co-workers in the voice acting industry gave him a retirement party. Messick died from a second stroke the following year.

John Kassir, best known as the voice of the Crypt Keeper from Tales from the Crypt, is 65.

39 Freda Payne – Band of Gold -1 29 Dave & Ansel Collins – Double Barrel 28 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – Tears of a Clown 28 Edison Lighthouse - Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) 27 Dave Edmunds – I Hear You Knocking 26 T. Rex – Get It On 26 Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge over troubled water 26 Jimi Hendrix Experience – Voodoo Chile 22 Benny Hill - Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West) 21 Rod Stewart - Maggie May 20 T. Rex – Hot Love 19 Mungo Jerry – Baby Jump 18 Christie - Yellow River 17 Lee Marvin - Wanderin' Star  16 Slade - Coz I Luv You 16 George Harrison - My Sweet Lord +2 15 Matthews Southern Comfort - Woodstock -5 14 Dana – All Kinds of Everything 14 Diana Ross - I'm Still Waiting 12 Elvis - The Wonder of You 7 Mungo Jerry - In the Summertime +2 6 The Tams - Hey, Girl, Don't Bother Me

Pete Burns died on this day 6 years ago, aged 57. In 1979, Burns formed the band Nightmares in Wax. After replacing some band members, the band was renamed to "Dead or Alive" the following year. Dead or Alive would achieve mainstream success in the mid-1980s with a cover of KC and the Sunshine Band's "That's The Way (I Like It)" in 1984, and in 1985, their signature song "You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)". The latter peaked at number one on the British, Irish, and Canadian charts, and was later sampled in Flo Rida's "Right Round" in 2009. Burns was known for sparking outrage during television appearances. In 2003, Burns cursed while giving his opinion on the Michael Jackson trial, which was live. The BBC apologized for this event. In 2006, Burns participated in the fourth season of the British version of Celebrity Big Brother, making it to the finale and finishing in fifth place of the six finalists. While on the show, Burns angered animal rights activists when he said that his fur coat was made of gorilla skin- police confiscated the coat, and found it was made with colobus monkey fur that was imported in the 1930s (before it became illegal to import in 1975). In later years, Burns was known for having many plastic surgeries, leading to an androgynous and/or feminine look. Burns died of a sudden heart attack. One of his last public appearances was in May of that year, in which tabloids stated he looked "bloated" and "disheveled" (seen below).

Weird Al Yankovic is 63.