Toast 16,146 Posted September 16, 2022 9 hours ago, Gooseberry Crumble said: American singer and actor Nick Jonas, formerly a member of family pop group The Jonas brothers, celebrates his 30th birthday today. Pictured above in a photo shoot were he seems to be imitating the legendary Marky Mark Calvin Klein photo shoot from the early 1990s. He seems to have a nasty itch, poor chap. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gooseberry Crumble 5,346 Posted September 16, 2022 3 hours ago, Toast said: He seems to have a nasty itch, poor chap. I'd have been happy to help him with it if only he would have asked! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,755 Posted September 16, 2022 Jamshid bin Abdullah, last Sultan of Zanzibar 1963-1964 is 93 today. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Drewsky1211 4,756 Posted September 16, 2022 On 14/09/2022 at 21:00, MariNisia said: Henry Silva, the proliferant American film, stage and television character actor who has played a wide variety of criminals, mobsters and robbers in films including "The Bravados", "Johnny Cool", "Sharky's Machine", "Code of Silence" and "Above the Law", is 94 today. He also played a communist agent in the original "The Manchurian Candidate". ...This didn't age well. In fact, it was poorly-aged to begin with. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gooseberry Crumble 5,346 Posted September 16, 2022 Irish born British television presenter Des Lynam celebrates his 80th birthday today. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MariNisia 4,200 Posted September 17, 2022 Patricia "Pat" Crowley, American film, stage and television actress known for her performances in films such as "The Wheeler Dealers", "Hollywood or Bust", "Key Witness", "The Square Jungle" and "There's Always Tomorrow", is 89 today. She is primarily a television actress. Crowley is also remembered for her role in the television sitcom "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" from 1965 to 1967. Lieutenant General Thomas Patten Stafford, American former NASA astronaut who was the Commander of Apollo 10 in 1969, the second manned mission to orbit the Moon, is 92 today. He was the first general officer to fly in space. Stafford is an honorary board member of the humanitarian organization, Wings of Hope. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Drewsky1211 4,756 Posted September 17, 2022 Charles Martinet is 67. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,755 Posted September 17, 2022 David Craig, Baron Craig of Radley, retired RAF officer and Member of the House of Lords is 93 today. He was the United Kingdom's Chief of the Air Staff from 1985 to 1988 and the Chief of the Defence Staff from 1988 to 1991. He was promoted to the rank of Marshal of the Royal Air Force in 1988 and is the last living officer in the British Armed Forces to have held a five-star rank whilst on active service. He was granted life peerage after his retirement from active service. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hell 1,334 Posted September 17, 2022 Narendra Modi is 72 today 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Summer in Transylvania 2,188 Posted September 17, 2022 Chuck Grassley is 89 today. Holocaust Survivor Arek Hersh was 94 on the 13th. Hersh is a rather interesting case, he was taken to Auschwitz in 1942, travelling two days and one night before arriving, malnourished, at the camp. By this time, he had already been residing in concentration camps and ghettos for three years. When he arrived at Auschwitz, he escaped a brush with death, at the very last moment switching queues from the one that was set to be gassed, and the one that was set to be put to work, both of these sorted by Jozef Mengele himself. The camp wasn't much better, though, he was starved, beaten, dehydrated, he accumulated lice, and he slept on a bunk with nine others every night. As was customary for camp inhabitants, he had a number, B7608, tattooed on his arm, which is still there today. He describes his experiences in Auschwitz as "The most horrific thing any human being should ever see". In total, he lost 81 family members, only reuniting with his sister after the war ended and he was brought to England as part of The Windermere Children. Only 40 residents of his home town of Sieradz, Poland survived in its entirety. He scarcely spoke of his time at Auschwitz until he released a book called A Detail of History in 1995. As of 2016, he works in the very same camp he lived the worst years of his life in, showing people around and talking about his experiences. He received an MBE for his work in 2009. He was one of the six Holocaust Survivors immortalised in portraits for this year's Holocaust Memorial Day. The artist was Massimiliano Pironti (pictured with Hersh below). 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 8,618 Posted September 17, 2022 Indarjit Singh, Baron Singh of Wimbledon, is 90 today. Born in Rawalpindi, Punjab in British India, he moved with his parents to Britain as an infant, later studying engineering at Birmingham University. He worked for the NCB and Costain, before moving into local government. He's frequently been consulted on race relations issues, advising or serving on bodies including the Commission for Racial Equality, and has represented the Sikh faith & community at many official events, including the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton. He was a frequent contributor to Radio 4's Thought for the Day for 35 years, until an editorial difference of opinion with the BBC. He was made an OBE in 1996 for services to Urban Regeneration, and a CBE in 2009 for services to Inter-Faith and Community Relations. He was made a crossbench life peer in 2011, becoming the first turban-wearing Sikh in the upper house.. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gooseberry Crumble 5,346 Posted September 17, 2022 American actor and former child star Robert Blake, who gained notoriety in recent decades after being found liable in a civil court for the wrongful death of his second wife who was shot dead, turns 89 today. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gooseberry Crumble 5,346 Posted September 17, 2022 Australian Olympian and professional diver Domonic Bedggood , who was a gold medallist at the Commonwealth games in 2014 and 2018, celebrates his 28th birthday today. French Olympic gold medallist and pole vaulted Renaud Lavillenie, who won gold at the London Olympics in 2012, celebrates turning 36 today. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MariNisia 4,200 Posted September 18, 2022 Gailard Sartain, American supporting actor, often playing characters with roots in the South, known for his work in films, including "Blaze", "Trouble in Mind", "Mississippi Burning" (as a racist sheriff), "Fried Green Tomatoes" and "Ali", is 76 today. Gailard Sartain is also an accomplished illustrator and painter. Frankie Avalon, American actor and singer of Italian descent who was a teen idol and made a series of beach films with Annette Funicello such as "Beach Blanket Bingo", "Beach Party", "Bikini Beach" and "Muscle Beach Party", is 82 today. In 1978, he made an appearance in the musical film "Grease". Frankie Avalon was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Drewsky1211 4,756 Posted September 18, 2022 DeathList 1994 survivor Peter Shilton is 73. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gisooo 3,373 Posted September 18, 2022 Nermin Abadan Unat is 101 today Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hell 1,334 Posted September 18, 2022 James Marsden is 49 today Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MariNisia 4,200 Posted September 19, 2022 Jeremy Irons, the elegant and versatile British actor who began his remarkable career with the Royal Shakespeare Company and won an Oscar for his only nomination as suspected murderer Claus von Bülow in Barbet Schroeder's "Reversal of Fortune", is 74 today. In 1969, after receiving classical training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, he began his career on stage. Other notable films have included "The French Lieutenant's Woman", "The Mission", "Swann in Love" and "Dead Ringers". Jeremy Irons also won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for the historical miniseries "Elizabeth I". 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gooseberry Crumble 5,346 Posted September 19, 2022 Eccentric British fashion designer Zandra Rhodes celebrates turning 82 today. Former England goalkeeper David Seaman celebrates his 59th birthday today. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Summer in Transylvania 2,188 Posted September 19, 2022 35 minutes ago, Gooseberry Crumble said: David Seaman That and Bullock have got to be two of the most unfortunate surnames in history. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Drewsky1211 4,756 Posted September 19, 2022 Tony-winning actress Rosemary Harris, known in recent years as Aunt May in the Sam Raimi Spider-Man trilogy, is 95. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
An Fear Beag 1,535 Posted September 19, 2022 6 hours ago, Summer in Transylvania said: That and Bullock have got to be two of the most unfortunate surnames in history. Among our clients at work, we have a : Ms Dehoir - Pronounced De-Whore (which sounds even better in an Irish accent) Ms Dyke Ms Gash Mr Slaughter (Someone should try set him up with Ms Dehoir- their kids would have the greatest double-barrel surname ever) 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hell 1,334 Posted September 19, 2022 David McCallum is 89 today Jimmy Fallon is 48 today 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,755 Posted September 19, 2022 Subroto, Indonesian economist, the Secretary-General of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) 1984-1985 and 1988-1994 and former Energy Minister of Indonesia is 99 today. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 8,618 Posted September 19, 2022 Pete Murray may or may not be 97 today. Variously his birthdates can be found as 19 September 1925, 19 September 1928 and 25 September 1925. After a stint at Radio Luxembourg, he moved to the BBC, becoming a regular on the Light Programme; he was then one of the original DJs at the opening of Radio One. His show was cancelled by the BBC in 1983 as his style was too outdated, and nothing at all to do with his appearance on BBC Breakfast time when he told viewers that "a vote for Labour was a vote for Communism; May God have mercy on your soul if you don't vote Conservative". 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
