Today’s Birthdays:
Photo-realist artist Richard Estes is 90.
Actor Dame Sian Phillips is 89.
Former Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., is 80.
Movie producer George Lucas is 78.
Guitarist Gene Cornish is 78.
Actor Meg Foster is 74.
Movie director Robert Zemeckis is 71.
Rock singer David Byrne is 70.
Actor Tim Roth is 61.
Rock singer Ian Astbury (The Cult) is 60.
Rock musician C.C. (aka Cecil) DeVille is 60.
Actor Danny Huston is 60.
Rock musician Mike Inez (Alice In Chains) is 56.
Fabrice Morvan (ex-Milli Vanilli) is 56.
R&B singer Raphael Saadiq is 56.
Actor Cate Blanchett is 53.
Singer Danny Wood (New Kids on the Block) is 53.
Movie writer-director Sofia Coppola (KOH’-pah-lah) is 51.
Former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is 50.
Actor Gabriel Mann is 50.
Singer Natalie Appleton (All Saints) is 49.
Singer Shanice is 49.
Actor Carla Jimenez is 48.
Rock musician Henry Garza (Los Lonely Boys) is 44.
Alt-country musician-singer Ketch Secor is 44.
Rock singer-musician Dan Auerbach is 43.
Rock musician Mike Retondo (Plain White T’s) is 41.
Actor Amber Tamblyn is 39.
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg is 38.
Actor Lina Esco is 37.
NFL player Rob Gronkowski is 33.
Actor Miranda Cosgrove is 29.
I'm out-performing today. Fifteen.
If I know their work but couldn't pick them out of a lineup, they're in blue.
I've exchanged correspondence with Dan Auerbach a couple of times. There's a musicians' group on the web we're both part of.