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Cuban  born American actor Steven Bauer celebrates his 66th birthday today. 

 

His best known film will certainly be Scarface (1983) with Al Pacino. 

Other film credits include  Primal Fear (1996), Raising Cain (1992), Traffic (2000) and Behind enemy lines(2009).

Younger audiences are more likely to know him from his roles in hit US television series  Ray Donovan and Better call Saul. :birthday:

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Serbian born professional tennis player  Monica Seles celebrates her 49th birthday today. :birthday:

 

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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.

 

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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.

 

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Ozzy Osbourne, last survivor of the inaugural 1987 list, is 74.

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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.

 

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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.

 

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American Canadian actor Brendan Fraser  celebrates turning 54 today. 

His breakthrough role  was in Oscar nominated indie film Gods and Monsters (1998) were he played the gardener of a wealthy Hollywood director in the 1950s and ended up having a very intense affair with.

Other film credits include Oscar winning film Crash (2004),  The Quiet American (2002) with Michael Caine,  Blast from the past (1999) and horror film The Mummy (1999) and its sequels. 

 

 

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British songwriter  and record producer  Mike Stock, the Stock in the famous music producing trio Stock Aitken and Waterman, celebrates his 71st birthday today. 

Their heyday was the 1980s and early 1990s   They were behind many of the hit pop songs  and early careers of artists such as Bananarama, Kylie Minogue and Rick Astley. :birthday:

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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.

 

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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.

 

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Frankie Muniz (of Malcolm in the Middle fame) is 37.

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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.

 

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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.

 

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8 hours ago, MariNisia said:

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.

 

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Louise Weinberg, widow of the aforementioned Steven Weinberg, is also 90 today. 

 

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Dutch actor Jeroen Krabbe who played Bond villian General Georgi  Koskov against Timothy Daltons  James Bond in The Living Daylights  (1987) ,celebrates his 78th birthday today. :birthday:

 

He also starred in Barbra Streisand directed movie The Prince of Tides (1991) and in Scandal (1989)- about the 1960s political scandal the Profumo affair. 

 

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English professional snooker player and current world champion Ronnie O'Sullivan,celebrates turning 47 today. :birthday:

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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.

 

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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.

 

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Helen Liddell,  now Baroness Liddell, former Secretary of State for Scotland  in Tony Blairs government, celebrates her 72nd birthday today. :birthday:

 

 

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British professional artistic gymnast and olympian  Joe Fraser  celebrates his 24th birthday today. :birthday:

 

He  is currently the European  all rounder  champion in artistic gymnastics. He also won gold at this years Commonwealth games. 

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Noam Chomsky is 94.

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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.

 

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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).

 

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3 hours ago, MariNisia said:

She took home the Best Actress Oscar for her role in "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" (1974).

 

 

 

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British actor Nicholas Hoult  celebrates his 33rd birthday today. 

His first 'big' role was age 12 in Hugh Grant Toni Collette  lead film About a boy (2002) but arguably his big breakthrough career wise  was in E4 teenage drama Skins. 

 

 

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He has subsequently gone on to have a big Hollywood career  including a regular role in the X Men film franchise. :birthday:

 

 

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Former British Conservative government minister and rebel MP  Anna Soubry  celebrates her 66th birthday today. :birthday:

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Nicki Minaj is 40.

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Here's a mashup involving one of her songs:

 

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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.

 

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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.

 

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Belated Happy Birthday to Irish singer songwriter Sinead O'Connor who turned 56 yesterday. :birthday:

 

 

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Legendary  England  footballer  Geoff Hurst,  the  first and only  man to score a hat trick in a world cup final  celebrated turning  81 yesterday.  Belated :birthday:

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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.

 

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