These celebrities have birthdays this week:
Sept. 11
Composer Arvo Pärt is 90. Film director Brian De Palma is 85. Singer-actor-dancer Lola Falana is 83. Musician Mickey Hart is 82. Guitarist Leo Kottke is 80. Actor Amy Madigan is 75. Actor Virginia Madsen is 64. Singer Harry Connick Jr. is 58.
Sept. 12
Actor Linda Gray is 85. Singer Maria Muldaur is 82. Author Michael Ondaatje is 82. Actor Joe Pantoliano is 74. Photographer Nan Goldin is 72. Composer Hans Zimmer is 68. TV host-commentator Greg Gutfeld is 61. Actor-comedian Louis C.K. is 58. Basketball Hall of Famer Yao Ming is 45.
Sept.13
Actor Barbara Bain is 94. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Óscar Arias is 85. Rock singer David Clayton-Thomas (Blood, Sweat & Tears) is 84. Actor Jacqueline Bisset is 81. Singer Peter Cetera is 81. Actor Jean Smart is 74. Olympic gold medal sprinter Michael Johnson is 58.
Sept. 14
Architect Renzo Piano is 88. Basketball Hall of Fame coach Larry Brown is 85. Actor Sam Neill is 78. Country singer John Berry is 66. Actor Melissa Leo is 65.
Sept. 15
Writer-director Ron Shelton is 80. Actor Tommy Lee Jones is 79. Film director Oliver Stone is 79. Football coach Pete Carroll is 74. Football Hall of Famer Dan Marino is 64. Actor Tom Hardy is 48.
Sept. 16
Actor George Chakiris is 93. Actor Ed Begley Jr. is 76. Author-historian-filmmaker Henry Louis Gates Jr. is 75. Actor Mickey Rourke is 73. Magician David Copperfield is 69. Retired MLB All-Star pitcher Orel Hershiser is 67. Singer Richard Marx is 62.
Sept. 17
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, is 92. Mountaineer-explorer Reinhold Messner is 81. Basketball Hall of Fame coach Phil Jackson is 80. Actor Cassandra Peterson (“Elvira, Mistress of the Dark”) is 74. Film director Baz Luhrmann is 63. NASCAR driver Jimmie Johnson is 50.
