Celebrity Birthdays for March 18:
Composer John Kander (``Chicago'') is 98.
Novelist Joy Fielding is 80.
Hockey Hall of Fame defenceman Guy Lapointe is 77.
Actor Brad Dourif (``Lord of the Rings,'' ''Chucky`` movies) is 75.
Jazz musician Bill Frisell is 74.
Keyboardist Karen Grotberg of The Jayhawks is 66.
Movie writer-director Luc Besson is 66.
Actor Geoffrey Owens is 64.
TV personality Mike Rowe (``Dirty Jobs'') is 63.
Actor Thomas Ian Griffith is 63.
Singer-songwriter James McMurtry is 63.
Singer-actress Vanessa Williams (``Ugly Betty'') is 62.
Olympic gold medal speedskater Bonnie Blair is 61.
Actor David Cubitt is 60.
Guitarist Jerry Cantrell of Alice in Chains is 59.
Rock singer-musician Miki Berenyi is 58.
Actor Michael Bergin is 56.
Rapper-actress Queen Latifah is 55.
Comedian Dane Cook (``Employee of the Month'') is 53.
Singer Philip Sweet of Little Big Town is 51.
Singers Evan and Jaron Lowenstein of Evan and Jaron are 51.
Rock musician Stuart Zender is 51.
Actress-singer-dancer Sutton Foster (``Bunheads'') is 50.
NHL defenceman Zdeno Chara is 48.
Singer Adam Levine of Maroon 5 is 46.
Olympic gold medal figure skater Alexei Yagudin is 45.
Actor Cornelius Smith Jr. (``Scandal'') is 43.
Actor Adam Pally is 43.
Actor Duane Henry (``NCIS'') is 40.
Singer Lykke Li is 39.
Actress Lily Collins is 36.
Actress-dancer Julia Goldani Telles (``Bunheads'') is 30.
Actress Madeline Carroll is 29.
Actress Ciara Bravo is 28.
Actor Blake Garrett Rosenthal (``Mom'') is 21.
Also born on this date (death in parentheses):
In 1782, U.S. President John C. Calhoun. (March 31, 1850)
In 1837, U.S President Grover Cleveland. (June 24, 1908)
In 1844, Russian composer Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov. (June 21, 1908)
In 1858, engine inventor Rudolph Diesel. (Sept. 29, 1913)
In 1869, British prime minister Arthur Neville Chamberlain. (Nov. 9, 1940)
In 1908, composer Louis Gaste, who wrote the song that was plagiarized as the hit ``Feelings.'' (Jan. 8, 1995)
In 1909, winemaker Ernest Gallo. (March 6, 2007)
In 1913, French filmmaker Ren Clement. (March 17, 1996)
In 1915, author Richard Condon. (April 9, 1996)
In 1926, actor Peter Graves. (March 14, 2010)
In 1927, journalist/writer George Plimpton. (Sept. 25, 2003)
In 1927, blues singer-guitarist Lester ``Big Daddy'' Kinsey. (April 3, 2001)
In 1932, author John Updike. (Jan. 27, 2009)
In 1934, country singer Charley Pride. (Dec. 12, 2020)
In 1936, Nobel peace laureate and former South African president F.W. de Klerk. (Nov. 11, 2021)
In 1941, singer Wilson Pickett. (Jan. 19, 2006)
In 1941, country singer Margie Bowes. (Oct. 22, 2020)
In 1943, Actor Kevin Dobson (``Knots Landing''). (Sept. 6, 2020)
In 1945, Eric Woolfson, co-founder of ``The Alan Parsons Project.'' (Dec. 2, 2009)
In 1947, Procul Harum drummer B.J. Wilson. (Oct. 8, 1990)
In 1950, drummer John Hartman (Doobie Brothers). (Dec. 29, 2021)
In 1952, Pro Football Hall of Fame centre Mike Webster. (Sept. 24, 2002)
In 1959, singer Irene Cara. (Nov. 25, 2022)
In 1961, musician Grant Hart (Husker Du). (Sept. 13, 2017)
In 1977, singer Devin Lima (LFO). (Nov. 21, 2018)
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