MariNisia

Argentina: 3 - Croatia: 1 Yellow cards: 3

Jennifer Connelly, American actress, who won an Oscar for her wonderful performance in "A Beautiful Mind", and model, who began her acting and modelling career at a very young age, appearing in commercials and magazine covers at the age of 10, is 52 today. Emerson Fittipaldi, the remarkable Brazilian Formula One racing champion in 1972 and 1974, the youngest Formula One world champion in history, when he won the 1972 championship, is 76 today.

Lynda Day George, American actress, primarily a television actress, who began her professional career in the 1960s working as a top model in New York, and was a cast member in the critically acclaimed television series "Mission: Impossible", is 78 today. Óscar Gutiérrez Rubio, better known by the ring name Rey Mysterio, American professional wrestler, who began his wrestling career in 1989, at age 14, famous for his high-flying style and iconic masks, is 48 today.

@Wormfarmer... Georgia Holt is a solo hit for me: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/dec/12/georgia-holt-actor-singer-and-chers-mother-dies-aged-96 and Louise Tobin was a solo hit for @Yvonne, too: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/27/arts/music/louise-tobin-dead.html

Georgia Holt a hit for @Bibliogryphon. Congratulations. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11525679/Cher-appears-confirm-mother-Georgia-Holt-passed-96.html next round: 1922 Mildred T. Stahlman / Ronald Blythe 1923 Judith Hemmendinger / Bob Barker 1924 Countess Marianne Bernadotte of Wisborg / Tomiichi Murayama 1925 Ruth Slenczynska / Johnny Lujack 1926 Gudrun Ure / David Frankham 1927 Barbara Rush / Harry Belafonte 1928 Ruth Westheimer / Shimon Baadani 1929 Joan Plowright / Don January 1930 Sandra Day O'Connor / Thomas Patten Stafford 1931 Barbara Barrie / Malachy McCourt

Morocco: 0 - Portugal: 4 England: 0 - France: 0 Yellow cards: 8

Kenneth Branagh, the remarkable actor, director, producer, and screenwriter, Emma Thompson's ex-husband, who made his debut as a film director with a 1989 adaptation of William Shakespeare's "Henry V", and was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, is 62 today. Gloria Loring, American actress, well-known for her work in the soap opera "Days of Our Lives" for six years, and exceptional pop singer who began her music career singing with the folk group "Those Four", is 76 today. Over the years, the versatile Gloria Loring, has shared the stage with remarkable performers including Al Jarreau, Frank Sinatra, Mel Tormé, and the Pointer Sisters. Her first husband was Alan Thicke, remembered for "Growing Pains", and Robin Thicke, the successful singer-songwriter and judge on The Masked Singer US, is her son.

Dame Judith Olivia "Judi" Dench, one of the most admired and respected film, stage and television actresses of all time, a British national treasure, and well-known for her consummate professionalism and extraordinary talent, is 88 today.

Kim Basinger, the well-known American actress and sex symbol of the 1980s and 1990s who came to prominence playing Domino Petachi, a Bond girl, in the film "Never Say Never Again" (1983), opposite Sean Connery, is 69 today. Enrique Ponce, the famous and remarkable Spanish former professional bullfighter, very few bullfighters have reached his extremely high technical level, who was awarded the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts, is 51 today. He has also been given the title of Academic by the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts in Córdoba (Spain). Enrique Ponce is the first academic bullfighter in history. In 2019, he was seriously injured after being tossed into the air and pierced by the bull's horn in his lower backside.

Croatia: 2 - Brazil: 3 Netherlands: 1 - Argentina: 1 Yellow cards: 5

Larry Bird, the noted American former professional basketball player who won three MVP awards and three NBA championships during his 13-year career with the Boston Celtics, is 66 today. Ellen Burstyn, the stupendous American film, stage and television actress who is well known for her work in films, such as "The Last Picture Show", "The King of Marvin Gardens", "The Exorcist", "Harry and Tonto", "Providence", "Same Time, Next Year", "Dying Young", "The Cemetery Club", "Playing by Heart" and "Interstellar", is 90 today. She took home the Best Actress Oscar for her role in "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" (1974). Burstyn's Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress for "Political Animals" is what earned her the prestigious Triple Crown of Acting (Emmy, Oscar, and Tony).

Morocco: 1 - Spain: 4 Portugal: 3 - Switzerland: 1 Rangers B: 2 - East Kilbride: 1

Richard Edlund, the excellent American visual effects artist, one of the most distinguished names in the visual effects industry, who is the talented person behind many famed and successful films, such as "Star Wars", "The Empire Strikes Back", "Raiders of the Lost Ark", "Poltergeist", "Return of the Jedi", "Ghostbusters", "Big Trouble in Little China", "Die Hard" and "Ghost", among others, is 82 today. Edlund, a founding member of Industrial Light & Magic, is a four-time Oscar winner. His 1977 Oscar for "Star Wars" is currently on display at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles. Peter Handke, the noted Austrian essayist, novelist, playwright and poet whose body of work has been awarded numerous European literary prizes and the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature, is 80 today. Peter Handke's literary career has been very marked, the excellent novel "A Sorrow Beyond Dreams" is a good example of this, by the suicide of his Slovenian-born mother, happened in 1971. He has also made film incursions as a director and screenwriter.

Sheldon Lee Glashow, the excellent American theoretical physicist and notable professor who was awarded, with his colleagues Abdus Salam and Steven Weinberg, the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physics, is 90 today. Marcelo Zalayeta, the famed Uruguayan former professional footballer who began his career with Danubio before moving to Peñarol, for a season, and Italian club Juventus, where he remained for ten seasons, is 44 today. Zalayeta represented the Uruguay national team on 47 occasions, scoring ten goals.

Japan: 1 - Croatia: 3 Brazil: 4 - South Korea: 1 Yellow cards: 6

@gcreptile... We would be grateful if you could just give us a bit more time.

France: 3 - Poland: 1 England: 0 - Senegal: 0 Watford Women: 1 - Crawley Wasps: 2

Jeff Bridges, the admired and versatile American actor who made his acting debut at age eight in "Sea Hunt", a television series in which his father, the phenomenal Lloyd Bridges, starred, is 73 today. Costantino Rocca, the jovial and successful Italian professional golfer, the first Italian to play for Europe in the Ryder Cup, who is well known for his second-place finish, and his fantastic hole-in-one, in the 1995 Open Championship, is 66 today. Costantino Rocca, one of the greatest golfers of all time, has 5 European Tour wins, obtained between 1993 and 1999. Rocca's second-best finish in a major was a tie for fifth place in the 1997 US Masters tournament.

Netherlands: 0 - USA: 0 Argentina: 2 - Australia: 0 York: 2 - Wrexham: 3

Robert Guédiguian, the critically acclaimed and committed French film director, producer and screenwriter of Armenian and German origins, one of the most sensitive European filmmakers of his generation, who is married to Ariane Ascaride, who also stars in many of his films, is 69 today. In 1997, Guédiguian was awarded the Louis-Delluc Prize for his stupendous film "Marius and Jeannette", selected at the Cannes Film Festival in Un Certain Regard. Daryl Hannah, the attractive American actress who is widely known for her work in films, such as "Blade Runner", "Summer Lovers", "Splash", "Legal Eagles", "Roxanne", "Wall Street", "Steel Magnolias", "Grumpy Old Men", "Two Much" and "The Real Blonde", is 62 today.

Edwin Meese III, American attorney, author and member of the Republican Party who served, during the Reagan administration, as the seventy-fifth Attorney General of the United States, is 91 today. Jan Ullrich, German former professional cyclist, one of the most noted names of his generation, and also one of the most controversial champions of the Tour de France, is 49 today. Jan Ullrich, the first and last German to win the famed Tour de France, was fired by T-Mobile after he was suspected of using illegal doping through a 21-month-old Spanish police investigation. Ullrich was banned from the sport before deciding to retire. He admitted to blood doping in 2013.

Ghana: 1 - Uruguay: 1 South Korea: 1 - Portugal: 3 Cameroon: 1 - Brazil: 4 Serbia: 3 - Switzerland: 2 Chester: 3 - Blyth Spartans: 1

Chemistry: Rudolph Arthur Marcus Peace: Adolfo Pérez Esquivel Literature: Alice Ann Munro Medicine: Hamilton Othanel Smith Physics: Leo Esaki Economic Sciences: Harry Max Markowitz

Lee Trevino, the remarkable American former professional golfer, one of the greatest players in golf history, who won six major championships and 29 PGA Tour events over the course of his extraordinary career, is 83 today. In 1975, Trevino was struck by lightning at the Western Open. Miraculously, he survived but his back was permanently injured. Lee Trevino was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1981. Gilbert O'Sullivan, the famed and successful Irish singer and songwriter who is best known for his early 1970s hits "Alone Again (Naturally)", "Clair", "Get Down" and "Nothing Rhymed", is 76 today. O'Sullivan sold more UK singles than any other solo male artist in 1972. His best-selling album is "I'm a Writer, Not a Fighter", which sold over 100.000 copies.

Canada: 0 - Morocco: 0 Croatia: 3 - Belgium: 1 Costa Rica: 1 - Germany: 4 Japan: 2 - Spain: 1 Yellow cards: 16