These celebrities have birthdays this week:
March 20
Actor Hal Linden is 94. Basketball Hall of Fame coach Pat Riley is 80. Hockey Hall of Famer Bobby Orr is 77. Guitarist Jimmie Vaughan is 74. Film director Spike Lee is 68. Actor Holly Hunter is 67. Model entrepreneur Kathy Ireland is 62.
March 21
Football Hall of Fame coach Tom Flores is 88. Actor Timothy Dalton is 79. Actor Gary Oldman is 67. Actor Matthew Broderick is 63.
March 22
Artist Yayoi Kusama is 96. Actor William Shatner is 94. Former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins is 84. Musician George Benson is 82. Writer James Patterson is 78. Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber is 77. Sportscaster Bob Costas is 73. Actor Matthew Modine is 66. Actor-comedian Keegan-Michael Key is 54. Actor Reese Witherspoon is 49.
March 23
Director Mark Rydell (“On Golden Pond”) is 96. Singer Chaka Khan is 72. Actor Amanda Plummer is 68. Actor Catherine Keener is 66. Actor Richard Grieco (“21 Jump Street”) is 60.
March 24
Singer Nick Lowe is 76. Actor Robert Carradine (“Revenge of the Nerds”) is 71. Actor Kelly LeBrock is 65. TV personality Star Jones is 63. Guitarist Patterson Hood of Drive-By Truckers is 61.
March 25
Film critic Gene Shalit is 99. Actor Paul Michael Glaser (“Third Watch,” “Starsky and Hutch”) is 82. Musician Elton John is 78. Actor-comedian Mary Gross is 72. Actor Marcia Cross (“Desperate Housewives”) is 63. Actor Sarah Jessica Parker is 60.
March 26
Singer Diana Ross is 81. Singer Steven Tyler of Aerosmith is 77. Singer-actor Vicki Lawrence is 76. Country singer Ronnie McDowell is 75. Actor Martin Short is 75. Actor Jennifer Grey is 65. Actor Michael Imperioli (“Life on Mars,” ″The Sopranos”) is 59. Country singer Kenny Chesney is 57. Actor Leslie Mann (“Knocked Up,” ″This Is 40″) is 53.
