The Happy Birthday Thread

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Oscar winning american actress Susan Sarandon celebrates her 76th birthday today. 

 

 

 

Former  tory MP and minister Ann Widdecombe,  known for her very socially conservative views, celebrates her 75th birthday today. 

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Bill Fagerbakke, the voice of Patrick Star in SpongeBob SquarePants, is 65.

 

And in live-action, he delivered this line:

 

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Australian actor Guy Pearce, who found fame in Australian soap Neighbours in the 1980s playing Mike Young before later success in Hollywood,  celebrates turning 55 today.

 

British actress Stephanie Cole celebrates her 81st birthday  today. 

An actress with a special talent for comedy she has starred in Sitcoms  Open all hours and Waiting for God as well as playing Sylvia the elderly mother  of Roy Croppers in Coronation Street. 

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Glynis Johns, the stupendous South African-born British actress, dancer and singer who is the oldest living Academy Award-nominee in any acting category, is 99 today.

 

 

Mariano Ozores, the especially successful Spanish film director and screenwriter, a fundamental personality in Spanish cinema, who was born into a family of performers, is 96 today.

His brothers, José Luis, the most beloved comedian actor of the 1950s, and Antonio were actors.

Although critically despised, Ozores directed almost a hundred films, the most popular Spanish comical films of all time and the biggest box-office hits of the era.

The dynasty continues with the actresses Adriana and Emma Ozores, his nieces.

 

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Steve Miller is 79.

 

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Neil deGrasse Tyson is 64 today

 

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Actress and Coronation Street legend  Eileen Derbyshire, who played Emily Bishop for over 60 years , celebrates her 91st birthday today. 

 

A more recent picture  here.

 

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Swedish actress and model  Britt Ekland  celebrates her 80th birthday today. 

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Happy 57th to the greatest hockey player to ever lace up the skates:

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Wendy Robie, American film and television actress who made her acting debut as Nadine Hurley in David Lynch's influential television series "Twin Peaks" and portrayed a villainous woman in the horror film "The People Under the Stairs", is 69 today.

 

 

Elisabeth Shue, American film and television actress mainly known for appearing in films such as "The Karate Kid", "Cocktail", "Leaving Las Vegas", "The Saint", "Deconstructing Harry", "Hollow Man" and many others, is 59 today.

 

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21 minutes ago, MariNisia said:

Wendy Robie, American film and television actress who made her acting debut as Nadine Hurley in David Lynch's influential television series "Twin Peaks" and portrayed a villainous woman in the horror film "The People Under the Stairs", is 69 today.

 

 

Elisabeth Shue, American film and television actress mainly known for appearing in films such as "The Karate Kid", "Cocktail", "Leaving Las Vegas", "The Saint", "Deconstructing Harry", "Hollow Man" and many others, is 59 today.

 

Good choice! Love Wendy Robie in Twin Peaks!

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48 minutes ago, Gooseberry Crumble said:

Good choice! Love Wendy Robie in Twin Peaks!

 

I'm a big fan of Wendy Robie, too!

She was tremendous as the intense and tormented wife of Big Ed.

And it was her debut as an actress.

I like your taste, @Gooseberry Crumble. 

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Melvyn Bragg, broadcaster, documentarian, and screenwriter for the film version of Jesus Christ Superstar, is 83.

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Lonnie Johnson is 73 today.

Born in Mobile, Al, he attended Tuskegee University before joining the Air Force, then working for NASA in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, working on the Galileo project, amongst others. In 1991 he founded his own company Johnson Research and Development Co., Inc.

 

During his time in the Air Force, he had an idea which would generate $1billion in sales - The Super Soaker. This was produced in conjunction with toy company Larami Corp., which would later be taken over by Hasbro. Johnson would later sue Hasbro for underpayment of royalties on sales, being awarded $73million.

 

He would later tweak the design to enable the guns to fire Nerf projectiles rather than water.

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Hu Qili, ancient Chinese politician and former politburo member, is 93 today

A good guy, he had sympathy towards the Tiananmen Square protestors and was purged from his positions due to it. 

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English Elite artistic gymnast Courtney Tulloch,  who specialises in the gymnastics events rings and vault,  celebrates his 27th birthday today.

He won two gold medals in the rings at an individual and team level at the past two Commonwealth games. 

 

 

 

Retired Italian diver and three times Olympic gold medallist klaus Dibiasi  celebrates his 75th birthday today.  

He competed as a diver for four consecutive Olympics starting in 1964.

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Mary Badham, American film, stage and television actress who made her acting debut as Jean Louise "Scout" Finch in the loved film adaptation of Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "To Kill a Mockingbird", is 70 today.

Badham earned an Oscar nomination at age 10 for her work, but she lost out to Patty Duke, who played Helen Keller in "The Miracle Worker".

Her brother is John Badham, the American film director best known for directing "Saturday Night Fever" and "WarGames".

 

 

 

Thomas Keneally, Australian essayist, novelist and playwright who began his writing career in 1964 and won numerous prizes for his famous novel "Schindler's Ark", the basis of the Oscar winning film "Schindler's List", is 87 today.

Keneally has also written memoirs, non-fiction books and screenplays.

 

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Bulgarian professional  diver  Dimitar Isaev, who recently competed in the European Championships,  celebrates his 24th birthday today. 

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Adolf Hitler Vladimir Putin is 70.

 

Hoping that his cake tastes like the one he gave to Alexander Litvinenko.

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Simon Cowell is 63 today

 

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Oscar winning american actor Matt Damon celebrates his 52nd birthday today. 

 

 

 

Australian actor Paul Hogan, best known for his Crocodile Dundee movies, celebrates turning 83 today. 

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Ray Reardon MBE, retired Welsh professional snooker player who won the World Snooker Championship six times, "First Great of Snooker" (first player to be ranked "world number one" when world rankings were introduced during the 1976–77 season), is 90 today 

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Sigourney Weaver, the talented and versatile American film, stage and television actress who began her acting career in Off-Broadway plays before going to work with a very friendly Alien, is 73 today.

Other popular works she has appeared in include "The Year of Living Dangerously", "Ghostbusters", "Gorillas in the Mist" and "Avatar".

She returned to Broadway in 2013.

 

 

Stephanie Zimbalist, American film, stage and television actress, the daughter of actor Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., who is well-remembered for her role as the glamorous Laura Holt in the American television series "Remington Steele", is 66 today.

 

 

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R L Stine, author of the Goosebumps childrens' horror series, is 79.

 

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Betty Boothroyd is 93 today.

 

Once a Tiller Girl, she entered parliament as MP for West Bromwich in a 1973 by-election. She served as Deputy Speaker under Bernard Weatherall from 1987, before being elected speaker in 1992, following Weatherall's retirement. Not only was she the first female speaker, she was also the first to eschew the traditional Speaker's wig. She resigned both her psoition and her seat in August 2000 and was elevated to the House of Lords the following year as Baroness Boothroyd of Sandwell.