Today's Celebrity Birthdays

Broadcast journalist Morton Dean is 79.

Author Annie Proulx is 79.

Actress Valerie Harper is 75.

Baseball Hall of Famer Carl Yastrzemski is 75.

Pro Football Hall of Fame coach Bill Parcells is 73.

Writer-producer David Chase is 69.

CBS newsman Steve Kroft is 69.

Singer Ron Dante, lead vocalist for the cartoon group The Archies, is 69.

Actress Cindy Williams is 67.

Donna Godchaux, former vocalist with the Grateful Dead, is 67.

Pop musician David Marks is 66.

Baseball Hall of Famer Paul Molitor is 58.

Country singer Holly Dunn is 57.

Rock musician Vernon Reid is 56.

Ian Mitchell, guitarist with The Bay City Rollers, is 56.

Actor Colm Feore is 56.

Country singer Collin Raye is 54.

Actress Regina Taylor is 54.

Rock singer Roland Orzabal (Tears for Fears) is 53.

Country singer Ricky Lynn Gregg is 53.

Rock musician Debbi Peterson (The Bangles) is 53.

Rock musician Gary Lee Conner (Screaming Trees) is 52.

Singer Tori Amos is 51.

Country singer Mila Mason is 51.

R&B musician James DeBarge is 51.

International Tennis Hall of Famer Mats Wilander is 50.

Rapper GZA/The Genius is 48.

Actor Ty Burrell is 47.

Actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje is 47.

Celebrity chef Giada DeLaurentiis is 44.

Canadian country singer George Canyon is 44.

Actress Melinda Page Hamilton ("Devious Maids") is 43.

Actor Rick Yune is 43.

Rock musician Paul Doucette (Matchbox Twenty) is 42.

Rap-reggae singer Beenie Man is 41.

Singer Howie Dorough (Backstreet Boys) is 41.

Comedian-actress Kristen Wiig is 41.

Actress Jenna Leigh Green is 40.

Rock musician Bo Koster is 40.

Rock musician Dean Back (Theory of a Deadman) is 39.

Rock musician Jeff Stinco (Simple Plan) is 36.

Actor Brandon Adams is 35.

Actress Aya Sumika is 34.

Canadian actor Dakota Goyo is 15.

Also born on this date (death in parentheses):

In 1827, industrialist Ezra Butler Eddy. (Feb. 10, 1906)

In 1862, French composer Claude Debussy. (March 25, 1918)

In 1878, Canadian tenor Edward Johnson. (April 20, 1959)

In 1902, German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl. (Sept. 8, 2003)

In 1909, Hollywood screenwriter Julius J. Epstein, who co-wrote the script for "Casablanca," (Dec. 30, 2000)

In 1917, bluesman John Lee Hooker. (June 21, 2001)

In 1920, science fiction and fantasy author Ray Bradbury. (June 5, 2012)

In 1926, Bob Flanagan, lead singer of The Four Freshmen. (May 15, 2011)

In 1934, U.S. Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf. (Dec. 27, 2012)

In 1936, rockabilly singer-songwriter Dale Hawkins. (Feb. 13, 2010)

In 1939, Fred Milano of the '50s and '60s group The Belmonts. (Jan. 1, 2012)