Ingvar Kamprad - 87 The Swede who founded IKEA.He is a multi-billionaire and one of the richest men in the world because of YOUR love of particleboard furniture.(even with all that cash, he still drives a 16-year-old Volvo and FLIES COACH. He also used to be a neo-Nazi but he swears it was a youthful mistake and he's sorry.)
John Astin 83- Actor ("GOMEZ on tv's Addams Family") Warren Beatty 76 - Actor
Eric Clapton 68 - Musician
Paul Reiser 56 - Actor ("Mad About You"), comedian getting another show on NBC
Rapper MC Hammer is 51. (Got Vince Neil to ACCEPT JESUS in the first, glorious season of "The Surreal Life". He did a Cash 4 Gold ad with Ed McMahon before he croaked)
Piers Morgan - 48 (a pissy Simon Cowell Lite on "America's Got Talent" who somehow became the successor AND BOMBS MORE THEN to Larry King on CNN.)
Tracy Chapman 49 - Singer (Biggest hits: "Fast Car" and "Give
Me One Reason".)
Celine Dion 45 - Singer Her heart Keeps going on
Mark Consuelos 43 - Actor married to Kelly Rippa. She gets to schtupp him anytime she wants. lucky bitch
Norah Jones 34 - Musician
Allie Gonino - 23 (Laurel Mercer on ABC Family's "The Lying Game
Katy Mixon - 32 (Victoria Flynn on "Mike and Molly"
Frankie Laine - Would have been 100 (1913 - 2007) (Sang the theme to "Rawhide".)
Vincent Van Gogh - (1853 - 1890) (One-eared oil painting genius.)
1858 - Philadelphia genius HYMAN LIPMAN patented the FIRST PENCIL WITH AN ERASER.
1932 - AMELIA EARHARTbecame the first woman to make a solo flight across the Atlantic.
1955 - At the 27th Academy Awards, the Best Picture was "On The Waterfront", the same film for which a svelte MARLON BRANDO won Best Actor. (--GRACE KELLY took Best Actress for her performance in "The Country Girl".)
1960 - Congressman Tip O'Neill demanded that the FCC investigate payola and PROTECT AMERICA'S YOUTH FROM ROCK AND ROLL, which he called, quote, "a type of sensuous music unfit for impressionable minds."
1964 - "Jeopardy" debuted on TV. It was hosted by Art Fleming and ran until 1975. It was resurrected in its current form in 1984, with Alex Trebek.
1981 - PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN was shot and seriously injured by JOHN HINCKLEY as he left a Washington, D.C., hotel. White House press secretary JAMES BRADY and two others were also wounded.
1992 - At the 64th Academy Awards, "The Silence Of The Lambs", starring ANTHONY HOPKINS and JODIE FOSTER, ate up the competition by winning Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director for Jonathan Demme and Best Adapted Screenplay.
2005 - SUGE KNIGHT was ordered to pay $107 MILLION to LYDIA HARRIS, the wife of a convicted drug trafficker, who co-founded Death Row Records. By the time he filed for bankruptcy a year later, he'd only given her $1 million of it.
