arghton 6,731 Posted August 15, 2022 Rosa Tarlovsky de Roisinblit, Argentine human rights activist and one of the founders of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo is 103 today! Her daughter and son-in-law disappeared during Jorge Videla's dictatorship in 1978 and were never found. They were members of the left-wing peronist Montoneros, her daughter was eight months pregnant. Her grandson was raised by a military family and was found in 2000. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 8,599 Posted August 15, 2022 Sir Oliver Popplewell is 95 today. A retired judge, he chaired the Bradford City Valley Parade fire enquiry, presided over the Aitken versus The Guardian libel case and is reported to have asked "What is Linford's lunchbox?". He incurred the wrath of Liverpool, by stating that the families of the Hillsbrough victims should behave more like those of the Bradford victims (i.e. quiet and dignified). An amateur cricketer - wicketkeeper/batter, he played for Cambridge University and Free Foresters, and was President of the MCC from 1994 to 1996. One of his sons is Nigel Popplewell, who played for Somerset from 1979 to 1985 before retiring to resume his legal studies. After his retirement, he returned to education taking a PPE degree at Hams Manchester College, Oxford University, graduating aged 79. He's also Stephen Fry's godfather (and defended him when Fry was tried for credit card fraud in 1975). 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gooseberry Crumble 5,342 Posted August 15, 2022 American actress Julie Newmar, who's most famous role is Catwoman , celebrates her 89th birthday today. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MariNisia 4,194 Posted August 16, 2022 James Cameron, the Canadian film director, producer and screenwriter of a number of famous and successful films with several awards and box office records, including "Aliens", "Avatar", "Terminator" and "Titanic", is 68 today. Spoiler alert, if you haven't seen "Jaws: The Revenge". Lorraine Gary, American film and television actress best remembered for her role as Ellen Brody, the wife and later widow of Sheriff Martin Brody, in "Jaws", "Jaws 2" and "Jaws: The Revenge", is 85 today. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Drewsky1211 4,742 Posted August 16, 2022 Steve Carell is 60. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hell 1,334 Posted August 16, 2022 Ann Blyth is 94 today Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 8,599 Posted August 16, 2022 Singer & actor Ketty Lester is 88 today. Her biggest hit, Love Letters (1961), reached number 5 in the US and number 4 in the UK (Incidentally, the same position Alison Moyet would reach over 25 years later, and higher than the Elvis version). Her version also features in David Lynch's Blue Velvet. In the 1970s she retired from commercial singing (though she released a Christian album in 1984) and turned to acting, appearing in a number of films, but more often in TV roles, including regular appearances in Little House on the Prairie and Days of our Lives. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gooseberry Crumble 5,342 Posted August 16, 2022 Retired British professional figure skater Robin Cousins, who won an Olympic gold medal in 1980 and has won numerous other medals in his sport, celebrates turning 65 today. Award winning American novelist Jonathan Franzen, whose novels include Purity (2015), The Corrections(2001) and Freedom (2010) , celebrates his 63rd birthday today. He had a much publicised feud with Oprah Winfrey after publicly expressing mixed feelings about the value of Oprah selecting his novel for her book club. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MariNisia 4,194 Posted August 17, 2022 Julian Fellowes, the talented British novelist and screenwriter known for creating, producing and writing the critically acclaimed television series "Downton Abbey", is 73 today. He wrote romance novels under the pseudonym of Rebecca Greville. Julian Fellowes won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for "Gosford Park". Jiang Zemin, the Chinese politician who served as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party from 1989 to 2002 and as the President of the People's Republic of China from 1993 to 2003, is 96 today. 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Drewsky1211 4,742 Posted August 17, 2022 Robert De Niro is 79. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Summer in Transylvania 2,184 Posted August 17, 2022 6 hours ago, MariNisia said: Julian Fellowes, the talented British novelist and screenwriter known for creating, producing and writing the critically acclaimed television series "Downton Abbey", is 73 today. He wrote romance novels under the pseudonym of Rebecca Greville. Julian Fellowes won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for "Gosford Park". He may have written Downton Abbey, but he is Kilwillie to me. Intriguing Fact: The above mentioned Academy Award that he won for Gosford Park makes a cameo in Monarch of the Glen, disguised as a lamp. 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Summer in Transylvania 2,184 Posted August 17, 2022 Joe Ashman is 28 today. Intriguing Fact: While filming the role of main antagonist Callum in Netflix's Free Rein (pictured above), a storm hit the area and production was temporarily postponed. That storm's name? Storm Callum. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 8,599 Posted August 17, 2022 Margaret Hamilton is 86 today. Hamilton was director of MIT's Instrumentation Lab's Software Engineering Division, responsible for the development of flight software for NASA's Apollo missions. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gooseberry Crumble 5,342 Posted August 17, 2022 Acclaimed American actor Robert Redford celebrates his 86th birthday today. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MariNisia 4,194 Posted August 18, 2022 Felipe Calderón, the Mexican politician who served as the President of Mexico from 2006 to 2012, succeeding Vicente Fox and preceding Enrique Peña Nieto, is 60 today. Rosalynn Carter, the wife of President Jimmy Carter, is 95 today. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Drewsky1211 4,742 Posted August 18, 2022 Everlast, the frontman of House of Pain, is 53. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gooseberry Crumble 5,342 Posted August 18, 2022 Controversial French Polish film director Roman Polanski turns 89 today. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hell 1,334 Posted August 18, 2022 Just Fontaine is 89 today 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,731 Posted August 18, 2022 Already past midnight in Taiwan and a lot of other places, Taiwanese Buddhist monk Master Hsing Yun is 95 today! He's a major religious figure in Taiwan, one of the most prominent Humanistic Buddhism proponents in the world, writer, founder of the both Fo Guang Shan and Buddha's Light International Association and one of Taiwan's "Four Heavenly Kings", major buddhist leaders who have all founded a prominent organization (these organizations are called the "Four Great Mountains"). Hsing Yun was the oldest of the four, two of them are still alive, the other being nun, teacher, philanthropist Master Cheng Yen. His grandmother was a practicing Buddhist, he entered the monastic life at 12 around 1939 and fled to Taiwan following the communist victory ten years later. He's quite pro-China in political questions and this has helped him return to mainland China to build organizations there. He suffers from diabetes, heart problems and has had three strokes. The first picture was taken in 1997 when he met pope John Paul II at the Vatican, where they prayed for world peace. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gooseberry Crumble 5,342 Posted August 19, 2022 Retired American actress Jill St John, former Bond Girl Tiffany Case in Diamonds are forever, celebrates her 82nd birthday today. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MariNisia 4,194 Posted August 19, 2022 John Deacon, the famous musician well known for being the bass guitarist of the legendary British rock band Queen who left the music business in 1997 to live a very private life with his family, is 71 today. Debra Paget, American actress remembered for her roles in 1950s films as "Broken Arrow", "Princess of the Nile", "Demetrius and the Gladiators", "The Ten Commandments", "Love Me Tender" (Elvis Presley's first film), or for her snake-dance scene in "The Indian Tomb", is 89 today. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Drewsky1211 4,742 Posted August 19, 2022 Bill Clinton is 76. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 8,599 Posted August 19, 2022 Former Deep Purple vocalist Ian Gillan is 77 today. He joined Purple in 1969, replacing original vocalist Rod Evans, when they had decided to pursue a ;heavier; style than had been followed thus far. He stayed for four years, appearing on some of their most successful albums - In Rock, Fireball, Machine Head, and Who Do We Think We Are. During this period he was also Jesus Christ on the original recording of RIce & Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ, Superstar. Subsequently, he formed his own eponymous band, Gillan, which achieved a UK number 3 album, Glory Road, and joined Black Sabbath as vocalist for a period, before re-joining the re-formed Purple in 1984. He also appeared in Rock Aid Armenia, a charity album in aid of victims of the Armenian earthquake of 1988; he maintained ties with Armenia, and was honoured by the Armenian President (along with Tony Iommi, Geoff Downes & Jon Dee) with the Order of Honour in 2009. WhoCares, a charity supergroup was formed by Gillan & Iommi on the back of this effort. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gooseberry Crumble 5,342 Posted August 19, 2022 Journalist and former BBC Royal Correspondent Jennie Bond celebrates her 72nd birthday today. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hell 1,334 Posted August 19, 2022 John Stamos is 59 today 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
