HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Neil Diamond turns 80

Saturday

Nobel Prize-winning chemist John Polanyi is 92. Tony Award-winning actress Chita Rivera is 88. Actor Gil Gerard (Buck Rogers, The Doctors) is 78. Actor Richard Dean Anderson (MacGyver) is 71. Hero pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger is 70.

Sunday

Entertainer Ray Stevens (The Streak) is 82. Singers Neil Diamond (Sweet Caroline, America) and Aaron Neville (Don’t Know Much) both turn 80. Actress Nastassja Kinski (Tess, Cat People) is 60. Olympic gymnast Mary Lou Retton is 53.