VIGGO MORTENSEN - 55 (The studly Aragorn in "The Lord of the Rings".) (Of course, chances are you're more familiar with Viggo through his work as "Tim" on the 1985 ABC After School Special, "High School Narc"!!! Just kidding His Naked fight in the steam room in EASTERN PROMISES makes me moist)
John Krasinski - 33 (Jim on "The Office".)
Sam Witwer - 36 (Darth Vader's secret apprentice in the "Star Wars" video game "The Force Unleashed", Crashdown on "Battlestar Galactica" and Doomsday on "Smallville".)
Snoop Dogg - 42 (PASS DAGRASS!)
TOM PETTY - 59
Dannii Minogue - 42 (Kylie's younger sister . . . who used to be married to "Nip/Tuck" stud Julian McMahon. She books herself into hotels under the name Pussy Jones. (True!)
Jim Sonefeld - 49 (One of the white guys in Hootie & The Blowfish.) Keith Hernandez - 55 (Former New York Mets all-star (slash) fantastic "Seinfeld" guest star.)
William Christopher - 81 (Father Mulcahy on "M*A*S*H". He was also Private Lester Hummel on "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.")
Jerry Orbach - Would have been 78 - (1935 - 2004) (Lenny Briscoe on "Law & Order".)
Earl Hindman - Would have been 71 - (1942 - 2003) (Wilson on "Home Improvement".
Grandpa Jones - (1913 - 1998) ("Hee Haw" and Grand Ole Opry regular.)
Mickey Mantle - (1931 - 1995)
1944 - During World War Two, GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR stepped ashore at Leyte in the Philippines, two-and-a-half years after he'd said, "I SHALL RETURN."
1968 - Former first lady JACQUELINE KENNEDY married troll-like Greek shipping magnate ARISTOTLE ONASSIS. Drunken TEDDY KENNEDY was responsible for the financial side of the shady deal.
(They had a 173-clause marriage agreement that stipulated "separate bedrooms" and "no children". Jackie HO was guaranteed only $52,000 if she left Onassis in the first five years of marriage . . . and she only had to spend Catholic and summer holidays with him.)
1973 - The ROLLING STONES scored their first #1 ballad, "Angie", whose title sparked rumors that it was a love song from Mick Jagger to DAVID BOWIE'S then-wife, Angela. Mick Jagger and David Bowie had the naked encounters ya know.
1973 - The STEVE MILLER BAND classic "The Joker" was released!!!
1973 Special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox and Deputy Attorney General William B. Ruckelshaus were fired and Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson resigned in the so-called Saturday Night Massacre.
1977 - LYNYRD SKYNYRD singer RONNIE VAN ZANT, guitarist STEVE GAINES, and his sister / backup singer CASSIE, were killed when Skynyrd's single engine plane crashed in the swamps of Gillsburg, Mississippi.
1988 - The LOS ANGELES DODGERS won the WORLD SERIES, beating the OAKLAND A'S in five games.
1994 - BURT LANCASTER died in Los Angeles at age 80. He used to schtupp LIZ TAYLOR, ya know.
2004 - LENNY KRAVITZ was sued for causing over $300,000 worth of water damage to a neighbor's apartment when his penthouse toilet overflowed two months earlier.
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