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David Cronenberg, the talented Canadian actor, film director and screenwriter, one of the most important filmmakers of his generation, who started his career in the early 1970s, and whose interesting filmography includes "Shivers", "Scanners", "Videodrome", "The Fly", "Dead Ringers", "Spider", "A History of Violence", "Eastern Promises", "Cosmopolis", "Maps to the Stars", and "Crimes of the Future", is 80 today.

 

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Not famous but today's my birthday :party:

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Pakistani-British billionaire entrepreneur Anwar Pervez is 88 today.

Bestway tycoon Sir Anwar Pervez to buy Co op pharmacies | The Times

 

Born in Rawalpindi in what was then British India, he emigrated to the UK in 1956, becoming a bus conductor in Bradford; he opened his first shop, Kashmir, in Earl's Court in 1963, specialising Asian spices and halal meat, and within a decade had expanded to 10 stores, renamed Bestway, with a wholesale warehouse following soon after. 

 

He was made an OBE in 1992, and knighted in 1999, and awarded the Hilal-e-Pakistan (The Crescent of Pakistan - the country's second highest civil honour) in 2000.

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Eva Longoria, the talented and very sexy actress, who came to prominence in Desperate Housewives is 48 today

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Ry Cooder the multi-instrumentalist also songwriter, film score composer and record producer, best known for his superb guitar playing whether it be blues, Americana, folk or country is 76 today

Album: Ry Cooder, Election Special (Nonesuch) | The Independent | The  Independent

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Italian pop singer Sabrina, who had some hit songs in the UK in the 1980s,  particularly the song Boys- celebrates her 55th birthday today. :birthday:

 

 

 

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Jimmy Swaggart is 88 today.

 

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Sly Stone is 80 today.

 

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Victor Garber, the versatile Canadian film, stage and television actor, an accomplished stage actor, and singer, who started his prolific acting career at the age of 9, who served as a folk singer for the band "The Sugar Shoppe", a noted professional with an impressive list of roles, having appeared in more over 140 films and television series, is 74 today.

 

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Isabelle Huppert, the notable, passionate and prodigious French actress, one of the greatest contemporary actresses and France's most decorated actress, having been nominated 16 times for a César Award, winning a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award and countless other accolades, better known for her portrayals of cold and contemptuous women, who has made over 120 films in her 50-year career, is 70 today.

 

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Erik Estrada, best known for his role as a Highway Patrol Officer in the successful cop show CHiPs, is 74 today

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Sir Roger Norrington, British conductor (of the orchestral variety, rather than buses - that was yesterday) is 89 today. He retired from live conducting in 2021, and conducted his last recorded piece last year, despite being told he was dying from a rare and rapid cancer almost 30 years ago.

Roger Norrington in Berlin - Ein Altmeister verjüngt sich - Berliner ...

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Carlos Bilardo, Argentine football player and legendary coach, FIFA World Cup Winning Manager
1986, 85 today! :birthday:

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Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is 24 today.

 

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Lesley-Anne Down, the attractive actress, ex-model, and singer, who began her career as a model at age ten, who made her film debut in 1969, who achieved international prominence for her work as Lady Georgina Worsley in the ITV drama series "Upstairs, Downstairs", known for films, telefilms and miniseries, including "North and South" and its sequels, who was born in Wandsworth, London, England, is 69 today.

 

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Rob Lowe, the famous American actor, one of the biggest teen idols of the 1980s, a member of the noted "Brat Pack", who millions of heterosexual girls and homosexual boys had his poster on their bedroom walls, and whose best known films include "Class", "Oxford Blues", "St. Elmo's Fire" and "The Outsiders" among many others, is 59 today.

 

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British Radio and television presenter  Judi Spiers, who presented the BBCs Pebble Mill show for a number of years during the 1990s, celebrates her 70th birthday today. :birthday:

 

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American actor Patrick Duffy,  best known for playing Bobby Ewing  in legendary US TV soap Dallas, celebrates his 74th birthday today. :birthday:

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to Clare (C.P.) Grogan, who is 61 today. (She was initially billed as C.P. Grogan owing to there already being a Claire Grogan on Equity's books)

 

As a singer she's best known for fronting Altered Images, who achieved 3 top-10 hits in the '80s, and as an actress, came to prominence in 1981's Gregory's Girl; she was also the first incarnation of Kochanski in TV's Red Dwarf. She makes a cameo appearance in the music video for The Bluebells' Young At Heart.

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Luc Besson, the famed film director, producer and screenwriter, best known for his extravagant and spectacular action films, whose credits include "Subway", "The Big Blue", "Nikita", "Leon", "The Fifth Element", "Joan of Arc", "Arthur and the Invisibles", "The Lady", "Lucy", "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets" and "Anna", who was born in Paris, France, is 64 today.

 

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Shang Chunsong, the impressive Chinese artistic gymnast, probably the most important artistic gymnast of her generation, who grew up in a small village in abject poverty, suffering from malnourishment, who needed to climb a mountain trail everyday to go to school, and dropped out of school at 13 in order to earn money and help pay for her gymnastics, an extraordinary artistic gymnast who won the Chinese National Games in 2013, and with the winnings, she helped her partially blind brother, and won enough to put the down payment on a house for her family, is 27 today.

 

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On 18/03/2022 at 12:15, time said:

John Kander, half of the Kander & Ebb song writing partnership (he did the tunes), is 95 today. Listing Cabaret & Chicago amongst his credits, this one was also a big success.

 

and now he's 96.

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Michael Reagan is 78 today.

 

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No one mentioned on the 12th but Steve Harris turned 67. For those who Dunno, he is the founding member of iron maiden the one who rocks the bass and normally pens the songs :evil2:

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This'll be composer John Kander, obitable on the back of a fuck-tonne of stage musical stuff and television/film work including songs for Cabaret and work on Frank Sinatra's 1973 comeback. A DDP damp squib since he's 96 today, but in some of those other pools he's positively orgasmic, or summat

 

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