Happy belated birthday to actress Maureen O'Hara, who turned 90 5 days before Ray did.

Mickey Rooney turns 90 in 4 days. 1920 was sure a great year!

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Originally posted by Linnl:
...The episode "World Enough and Time" written by Michael Reaves & Marc Scott Zicree and directed by Marc Scott Zicree is dedicated with love to Ray Bradbury...

Marc was also present at Ray's 90th birthday party.

September 20, 1948 – George R.R. Martin
September 21, 1866 – H.G. Wells
September 21, 1947 – Stephen King

The Flintstones are 50 today.

"yabba dabba do" It had to be said.

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Originally posted by jkt:
"yabba dabba do" It had to be said.

Is "yabba" a better word than "dabba"?

Remember when Tony Curtis played a character called Stony Curtis on The Flintstones?

John Lennon should have been 70 today.

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Originally posted by jkt:
John Lennon should have been 70 today.

How he supposedly would have looked, if he had lived (and not changed his glasses for something more modern...):

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...-John-Lennon-70.html

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Originally posted by jkt:
John Lennon should have been 70 today.

Yes, he should have.

Happy 70th birthday John Lennon, wherever you are!

He may be many places, but is at least immortalised in his home town:

http://www.johnlennon.talktalk.net/images/airport.gif

November 9th is the birthdate of science popularizer (and co-founder of THE PLANETARY SOCIETY) CARL SAGAN.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Lm6pEhykhs

Every reader and writer that we know of is also from that pale blue dot.

November 11th is the birthdate of artist and improvisational genius Jonathan Winters.
http://jonathanwinters.com/

and from the Dean Martin Roasts

http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=...ee_c&feature=related

Also November 11th is the birthdate of artist and writer Kurt Vonnegut.
http://www.vonnegut.com/index.asp

Later this week The Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library has a sneak peek opening.
http://www.vonnegutlibrary.org/

Elvis would have been 76 years old today.

Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_pr...eates/1964/king.html

Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech:

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_pr...king-acceptance.html

"Papa!"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_poe_mystery_visitor