Jason Lee - 44 (Earl Hickey on "My Name is Earl". Before that, he was in the Kevin Smith movies "Mallrats", "Chasing Amy", "Dogma" and "Jay & Silent BobStrike Back" . . . AND he played Jeff Bebe, the lead singer of Stillwater, in "Almost Famous".)
Renée Zellweger - 45 (One of her earliest breaks was being cast as the female lead in 1994's "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation" . . . starring an equally unknown Texan by the name of Matthew McConaughey!!!)
Hank Azaria - 50 (The voice of Chief Wiggum, Moe, Apu and COMIC BOOK GUY on "The Simpsons". He was also Huff on Showtime's "Huff" . . . and he was ridiculously funny as the butler, Agador, in "The Birdcage". He used to schtupp Helen Hunt.)
Talia Shire - 68 (Adrian in the "Rocky" movies and Connie Corleone in the "Godfather" movies. You might also remember her as the therapist in those old Geico caveman commercials .)
BJÖRN ULVAEUS - 69 (ABBA) (Their biggest hits include . "Dancing Queen", "Take a Chance on Me", "Mamma Mia", "S.O.S.", "The Winner Takes It All", "Knowing Me, Knowing You", "Fernando" and "Waterloo".)
AL PACINO - 74 (He won an Oscar for "Scent of a Woman" but he'll always be Michael Corleone from the "Godfather" movies. He has two kids out of wedlock with Beverly D'Angelo.)
Meadowlark Lemon - 81 (Former leader of the Harlem Globetrotters.)
Ella Fitzgerald (1917 - 1996) (Legendary jazz great.)
1684 - A patent was granted for the THIMBLE.
1874 - Guglielmo Marconi, the man who invented RADIO, was born in Bologna, Italy.
1928 - The FIRST SEEING-EYE DOG was presented to one Morris Frank, who was blinded during a young ruffian rumble in high school.
1961 - Elvis Presley made his last stage appearance for nearly eight years at Bloch Arena, HI.
1967 - The Beatles recorded "All You Need Is Love" during a British TV broadcast. Marianne Faithfull sang in the chorus.
1968 - The Beatles refused to perform for the Queen of England at a British Olympic Appeal Fund show because "Our decision would be the same no matter what the cause. We don't do benefits."
1974 - Greg Allman played the last date of his solo tour. A 90-minute encore followed with the Allman Brothers Band.
1974 - Pam Morrison, Jim Morrison's widow, died of a heroin overdose at the age of 27. .
1979 - The film "Rock & Roll High School" starring the Ramones premiered.
1981 - Wings broke up with the departure of Denny Laine.
1985 - "Big River," the musical by Roger Miller, opened on Broadway.
2002 - In Honduras, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes (TLC) was killed in a car crash.
2003 - Sinead O'Connor announced on her Web site that she was going to retire.