THIS WEEK’S BIRTHDAYS
TODAY, MARCH 19
Bruce Willis, action hero, is 62. Philip Roth, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, is 84. Ursula Andress, iconic Bond girl, is 81. Glenn Close, actress who starred in Fatal Attraction, is 70. Neil LaBute, playwright, screenwriter and director, is 54. Terry Hall, singer with The Specials, is 58. Ruth Pointer, singer with The Pointer Sisters, is 71. Harvey Weinstein, movie producer, is 65.
MONDAY, MARCH 20
Carl Reiner, US comedy writer, actor and director, is 95. William Hurt, actor, is 67. Steve McFadden, actor (Phil Mitchell in EastEnders), is 58. Spike Lee, film director, is 60. Chester Bennington, lead singer of Linkin Park, is 41. Vera Lynn, English singer hugely popular during World War II, is 100.
TUESDAY, MARCH 21
Michael Heseltine, former British deputy prime minister, is 84. Gary Oldman, actor, is 59. Matthew Broderick, actor is 55. Timothy Dalton, Welsh actor and former James Bond, is 73. Peter Brook ,UK theatre director, is 92. Rosie O’Donnell, actress/comedian, is 55. Ronaldinho, Brazilian footballer, is 37.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22
Tommy Drumm, former Dublin footballer who captained the All-Ireland-winning team of 1983, is 62. Andrew Lloyd Webber, composer, is 69. Reese Witherspoon, actress, is 41. William Shatner, Captain Kirk of Star Trek, is 86. Fanny Ardant, French actress, is 68. Stephen Sondheim, American composer, is 87.
THURSDAY, MARCH 23
Michelle Monaghan, actress, is 41. Chris Hoy, retired British track cyclist, is 41. Damon Albarn, lead singer with Blur and Gorillaz, is 49. Roger
Bannister, the first person to run a sub-four-minute mile, is 88. Chaka Khan, singer, is 64.
Steve Redgrave, British rower who won five Olympic golds, is 55. Mo Farah, Somali-born British long-distance runner, is 34. Perez Hilton, gossip blogger, is 39.
FRIDAY, MARCH 24
Sharon Corr, singer formerly of The Corrs, is 47. Kelly LeBrock, who starred in The Woman in Red, is 57. Alyson Hannigan, actress, is 43. Archie Gemmill, retired Scottish footballer, is 70. Donncha O’Callaghan, former Munster and Ireland rugby player, is 38. Alan Sugar, business magnate who appears on The Apprentice, is 70.
SATURDAY, MARCH 25
Sarah Jessica Parker, Sex and the City star, is 52. Elton John, singer-songwriter, is 70. Aretha Franklin, legendary soul singer, is 75. Marcia Cross, Desperate Housewives actress, is 55. Melanie Blatt, singer with girl group All Saints, is 42. Wladimir Klitschko, Ukrainian boxer and politician, is 41. Paul Michael Glaser, actor who played Starsky in Starsky & Hutch, is 74.