Sara Ramirez - 38 (Latina Callie Torres who schtupped T.R. Knight's character on "Grey's Anatomy".)
Chris Tucker - 38 ("Rush Hour" clown-ass.)
Debbie Gibson - 43 ("s" SUPERSTAR!!!)
Queen Rania, the wife of Jordan's King Abdullah II turns 43 years old today.
Edwin Moses - 58 (Track god in the hurdles. From 1977 to 1987, he won 122 races IN A ROW.)
TULA - 59 ( Six-Foot Transsexual. He-she was an uncredited Bond Girl in 1981's "For Your Eyes Only" AND he-she was the first post-o p transsexual to pose for "Playboy")
Richard Gere - 64
Itzhak Perlman, Violinist, turns 68
Van Morrison - 68 (Genius.)
James Coburn - Would have been 85 - (1928 - 2002) (He was Pat Garrett in 1973's "Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid", co-starring Kris Kristofferson and Bob Dylan. That's the movie that gave us the song "Knockin' On Heaven's Door".)
Buddy Hackett - Would've been 89 - (1924 - 2003) (Old-school comedic star.)
Alan Jay Lerner 8/31/1918 - 6/14/1986 American librettist and lyricist for stage and screen
Arthur Godfrey 8/31/1903 - 3/16/1983 American radio and television entertainer
1887 - THOMAS EDISON received a patent for his crazy "Kinetoscope", a strange device that projected MOVING PICTURES.
1888 - Mary Ann Nicholls was found murdered in her London apartment. Her murder was the first slaying committed by JACK THE RIPPER.
1946 - The classic murder mystery "The Big Sleep" was released . . . starring HUMPHREY BOGART and LAUREN BACALL. It was Bogey and Bacall's second film together, and they were married by the time production on the film ended.
1963 - WALTER CRONKITE began his anchorman duties at the CBS Evening News. He retired in 1981. (--He was succeeded by Dan Rather . . . who's since been replaced by Katie Couric. who's since been replaced too)
1976 - GEORGE HARRISON was found guilty of "SUBCONSCIOUS PLAGIARISM" of the CHIFFONS hit "He's So Fine" in his "My Sweet Lord". After five years of appeals, the decision cost George almost half a million dollars.
1981 - NBC's contract with MILTON BERLE AND HIS GIGANTIC MEMBER finally expired after 30 years.
1985 - RICHARD RAMIREZ, the California "Night Stalker", was captured by the
bad-ass, probably-illegal Chicano residents of an East Los Angeles barrio.
1987 - MICHAEL JACKSON released his "Bad" album.
1988 - Actress JULIANNE PHILLIPS filed for divorce from BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, citing irreconcilable back-up singers . . . uhhh . . . DIFFERENCES.
1997 - PRINCESS DIANA, her dashing Arab companion INTERNATIONAL PLAYBOY DODI AL FAYED, and their drunk chauffeur Henri Paul, died in a car crash in Paris.(This actually happened on the overnight . . . it was technically August 31st over in Paris.)
1998 - "Titanic" became the first movie in North America to earn more than $600 MILLION.
