time 8,618 Posted August 10, 2022 1 hour ago, Gooseberry Crumble said: /edit Professional british swimmer and Olympic gold medallist Anita Lonsbrough celebrates her 81st birthday today. She has won numerous medals throughout her career but her Olympic gold was at the 1960 Olympics in Rome. She was also the first woman to win the BBC Sports Personality of the Year. 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gooseberry Crumble 5,346 Posted August 10, 2022 Australian actor Chris Hemsworth celebrates his 39th birthday today. American superstar wrestler Hulk Hogan turns 69 today. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MariNisia 4,200 Posted August 11, 2022 Ian McDiarmid, the chameleonic and talented film, radio, stage and television actor who made his name on stage and is internationally famous for his role as Emperor/Senator Palpatine or Sith Lord Darth Sidious in the "Star Wars" film series, is 78 today. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Drewsky1211 4,755 Posted August 11, 2022 Eric Carmen is 73. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,754 Posted August 11, 2022 Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani President/military dictator 2001-2008, on the DL in 2004 and 2020 (and last survivor of the 2004 DL) is 79 today. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gooseberry Crumble 5,346 Posted August 11, 2022 Some Old Hollywood and new generation Hollywood today. American actor George Hamilton, often noted for his permatan before they were more commonplace, celebrates his 83rd birthday today. Oscar winning actor Casey Affleck celebrates his 47th birthday today. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MariNisia 4,200 Posted August 12, 2022 Pete Sampras, the extraordinary and talented American tennis player who won 64 titles in singles, including seven Wimbledon titles and five US Open championships, is 51 today. George Soros, Hungarian-born American political activist, author, businessman with a net worth of over $8 billion, financial speculator, financier, investor and philanthropist, is 92 today. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Drewsky1211 4,755 Posted August 12, 2022 Mark Knopfler is 73. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gooseberry Crumble 5,346 Posted August 12, 2022 English professional darts player Phil Taylor turns 62 today. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MariNisia 4,200 Posted August 13, 2022 Danny Bonaduce, American film/television child actor, radio/television presenter and wrestler who gained fame for his role in the famous 1970s television sitcom "The Partridge Family", is 63 today. He wrote an autobiography, "Random Acts of Badness", about his journey through drug addiction. Tom Perrotta, American bestselling novelist and screenwriter famous for his novels "Election" and "Little Children", both of which were made into films, and "The Leftovers", which was adapted into an Award-winning HBO series, is 61 today. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Drewsky1211 4,755 Posted August 13, 2022 Nintendo composer Koji Kondo is 61. Among his most famous musical works: 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Handrejka 1,904 Posted August 13, 2022 Madhur Jaffrey, actress, author, cook, potential future DL candidate is 89 today. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hell 1,334 Posted August 13, 2022 Sebastian Stan is 40 today 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gooseberry Crumble 5,346 Posted August 13, 2022 Northern Irish singer Feargal Sharkey celebrates turning 64 today. English professional snooker player Joe Perry celebrates his 48th birthday today. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gooseberry Crumble 5,346 Posted August 13, 2022 One of the worlds most commercially successful female novelists Danielle Steel, celebrates her 75th birthday today. She has to date written at least 190 books including 140 novels. A number of which have been adapted for television. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gooseberry Crumble 5,346 Posted August 14, 2022 Retired australian professional swimmer Kieren Perkins, an Olympic gold and silver medallist - 1 Gold at the 1992 Olympics, 1 Gold at the 1996 Olympics and and a silver medallist at both the Sydney Olympics in 2000 and and the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, celebrates his 49th birthday today. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MariNisia 4,200 Posted August 14, 2022 Estrella Morente, Spanish flamenco singer, daughter of legendary singer Enrique Morente and dancer Aurora Carbonell, who belongs to one best known dynasty of flamenco dancers and singers of Spain, is 42 today. Estrella Morente is the most important name of her generation. Her first album, composed of flamenco songs, was platinum and the second, composed of Christmas songs, was gold. Morente was the voice behind Penelope Cruz's flamenco song in "Volver", the 2006 Spanish film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Susan Olsen, American film/television actress, radio host and singer known for her role as Cindy Brady in the famous and popular 1970s sitcom "The Brady Bunch" from 1969 to 1974, is 61 today. Her brother Christopher, remembered for his role as the kidnapped boy in "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (1956), was also a child actor. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Drewsky1211 4,755 Posted August 14, 2022 Gary Larson, of The Far Side fame, is 72. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Summer in Transylvania 2,188 Posted August 14, 2022 This is not a birthday as such, but this is the most appropriate thread for this that I know of. 121 years ago today, the first official flight in an aeroplane was managed by German-American Gustave Albin Whitehead. It is reckoned that the Wright Brothers met him, where they stole his ideas and took the credit for his work two years later. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hell 1,334 Posted August 14, 2022 David Crosby is 81 today Magic Johnson is 63 today 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gooseberry Crumble 5,346 Posted August 14, 2022 Only daughter of Queen Elizabeth ll, HRH Princess Royal, widely known as Princess Anne, celebrates her 72nd birthday today One of the busiest working royals of recent years in the British Royal family. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gooseberry Crumble 5,346 Posted August 14, 2022 American actor, singer and songwriter Joe Jonas, who originally found fame as part of his family pop group The Jonas Brothers, celebrates his 33rd birthday today. Former Prime Minister of France Alain Juppe ,who held the position between 1995-1997, celebrates his 77th birthday today. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MariNisia 4,200 Posted August 15, 2022 Bobby Caldwell, the American contemporary jazz singer and songwriter best known for his 1978 hit single "What You Won't Do For Love", is 71 today. Jim Dale, the British actor, director, lyricist, narrator of the Harry Potter audiobooks and the television series "Pushing Daisies" and singer, is 87 today. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Drewsky1211 4,755 Posted August 15, 2022 Ben Affleck is 50. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hell 1,334 Posted August 15, 2022 Mark Thatcher and Carol Thatcher are both 69 today Jennifer Lawrence is 32 today 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
