--Anna Faris - 37 (the Hot blonde chick in the "Scary Movie" flicks, and "House Bunny".)
--Brian Baumgartner - 41 (Kevin, the accountant / drummer of the Police cover band, Scrantonicity, on "The Office".)
--Gena Lee Nolin - 42("Baywatch" AND former Barker Beauty on "The Price Is Right".
--Jonathan Knight - 45 (NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK!!! He left NKOTB in 1994 because of a supposed emotional breakdown. He was a real estate developer before the New Kids returned )
--Ellen Cleghorne - 48 (young nubian princess formerly on "SNL". Now resting under the urban Rock of Obscurity next to Victoria Jackson and Garrett Morris.)
--Don Cheadle - 49 (Talented incredible actor from "Hotel Rwanda", "Crash", "Ocean's Eleven", "Ocean's Twelve", "Ocean's Thirteen" and "Boogie Nights".)
--ANDREW MCCARTHY- 51 ("St. Elmo's Fire", "Pretty in Pink", "Less Than Zero", "Weekend at Bernie's" AND "Mannequin"!!!)
--Tom Sizemore - 52 (Gotta line? OY!)
--Cathy Moriarty - 53(Probably best known as the very sexy Vickie La Motta in "Raging Bull", Robert Downey Jr.'s tasty tranny "girlfriend", Montana Moorehead, in "Soapdish"
Howie Mandel - 58 (He's BACK ON TOP thanks to first.."Deal or No Deal". and NW America Got Talent.He's a germaphone
Joel Coen - 59 (Along with his brother Ethan, he wrote and directed "Raising Arizona", "Fargo", "O Brother Where Art Thou", "The Man Who Wasn't There" AND "THE BIG LEBOWSKI"!!!)
Garry Shandling - 64 (Neurotic Jewish genius of "The Larry Sanders Show".)
Jerry "The King" Lawler - 64 (WWE announcer. He's also the rassler who had that feud with wacky Andy Kaufman.)
SUZY CHAFFEE! - 66 (She is single-handedly responsible for making "ChapStick" America's Favorite Lip Balm!)
CHUCK MANGIONE!!! - 72 (Composer-musician and master of the soft-toned FLUGELHORN on the fabulous instrumental classic "Feels So Good"!!!
Diane Ladd - 81 (Actress and Laura Dern's mommie.) (Diane played the waitress Flo in the 1974 movie "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore". But when they turned the movie into the TV series "Alice
", Polly Holiday got the part.--When Polly left to do the "Flo" spin-off series . . . which TANKED BIG TIME, by the way . . . Diane Ladd jumped in to play Flo's replacement, Belle. )
VIN SCULLY - 86 (Hall-of-Fame sportscaster for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
JACKIE STALLONE 92 the lucsious Momma of Sly Stallone
Denny Doherty - Would have been 74 - (1940 - 2007) ( lead singer of The Mamas & The Papas. Their 1999 greatest hits album, "20th Century Masters - The Best of the Mamas & the Papas" is certified Gold . . . and features their smashes "California Dreamin'" .
C. S. Lewis - (1898 - 1963) (Wrote the "Chronicles of Narnia" books, including "The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe")
Louisa May Alcott - (1832 - 1888) ( novelist: "Little Women".)
1890 The first Army-Navy football game was played, with Navy winning 24-0 at West Point, N.Y.
1924 Italian composer Giacomo Puccini died in Brussels.
1929 Navy Lt. Cmdr. Richard E. Byrd radioed that he'd made the first airplane flight over the South Pole.
1952 - "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus", by JIMMY BOYD, entered the Top 40.
1952 President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower kept his campaign promise to visit Korea to assess the ongoing conflict.
1959 - The Grammys were shown on television for the first time. BOBBY DARIN won Best New Artist AND Record of the Year for "Mack The Knife".
1961 Enos the chimp was launched from Cape Canaveral aboard the Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft, which orbited Earth twice before returning.
1963 President Lyndon B. Johnson named a commission headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
1967 Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara announced he was leaving the Johnson administration to become president of the World Bank.
1981 Actress Natalie Wood drowned in a boating accident at age 43.
1986 CARY GRANT died of a stroke in Davenport, Iowa, at the age of 82.
1989 In response to a growing pro-democracy movement in Czechoslovakia, the Communist-run parliament ended the party's 40-year monopoly on power.
1990 The U.N. Security Council voted 12-2 to authorize military action if Iraq did not withdraw its troops from Kuwait and release all foreign hostages by Jan. 15, 1991.
1996 A U.N. court sentenced Bosnian Serb army soldier Drazen Erdemovic to 10 years in prison for his role in the massacre of 1,200 Muslims - the first international war crimes sentence since World War II.
1999 Protestant and Catholic adversaries formed a Northern Ireland government.
1999 - "Match Game" host GENE RAYBURN died at the age of 81.
2001 Rock musician George Harrison of the Beatles died at age 58 following a battle with cancer.
2005 - "Bosom Buddies" WENDIE JO SPERBER succumbed to breast cancer at 47.
