Bruce Willis, of 'Die Hard' fame, Celebrates 69th Birthday Today

Actors:

Ursula Andress is 88 (“Dr. No,” “Casino Royale”)

Glenn Close is 77 (“Fatal Attraction,” “101 Dalmatians,” “Guardians of the Galaxy”) (FAST FACTS: A eight-time Academy Award nominee, she has the record for being the actress with the most nominations never to have won. Close has had more Oscar nominations without a win than any other living actor. Still not impressed? She’s been nominated for four Tonys (three wins,) fourteen Emmys – three wins, sixteen Golden Globes - three wins, two Drama Desk Awards – one win – and ten Screen Actors Guild Awards – two wins. She’s also won an Obie award and has been nominated for three GRAMMYs and two BAFTAs.)

Renee Taylor is 91 (“Dream On,” "The Nanny," “How I Met Your Mother”)

Bruce Willis is 69 (“Die Hard” series, “Pulp Fiction”) (FAST FACT: The French government appointed him as an Officer of the French Order of Arts and Letters in 2006) 

Musicians:

UGK’s Bun B is 51 (his given name, Bernard Freeman)

Gary Jules is 55

Jimmy Eat World drummer Zach Lind is 48

Lenka is 46

Ruth Pointer of the Pointer Sisters is 78

Billy Sheehan (Mr. Big/Winery Dogs/Sons of Apollo) is 71 (FAST FACT: Sheehan has been an active member of the Church of Scientology since 1971) 

Plus:

The infamous unfit mother and alleged child killer Casey Anthony is 38

Producer and Hollywood pariah Harvey Weinstein is 72

The late Wyatt Earp (1848 – 1929) (FAST FACTS: The Deputy Town Marshall of Tombstone, Arizona, he was in the famous Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and is known as the toughest and deadliest gunman of his day.)

The late comedienne Jackie “Moms” Mabley (1894 – 1975) (FAST FACTS: Born Loretta Mary Aiken, she was a pioneer of the "Chitlin' Circuit" of African-American vaudeville, making ten thousand dollars a week. She also came out as a lesbian in 1921, when it was very rare for a performer to do so).

The late author Phillip Roth (1933 – 2018)…he would have been 91 (“Goodbye, Columbus,” “Portnoy’s Complaint”)

The late Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren (1891 – 1974) (Best known for the liberal decisions of the so-called ‘Warren Court,’ which outlawed segregation in public schools and transformed many areas of American law, especially regarding the rights of the accused, ending public school-sponsored prayers, and requiring "one man–one vote" rules of apportionment of election districts.)

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