These celebrities have birthdays this week:
Oct. 23
Film director Philip Kaufman is 89. Advocate and humanitarian Graça Machel is 80. Film director Ang Lee is 71. Jazz singer Dianne Reeves is 69. Country singer Dwight Yoakam is 69. Film director Sam Raimi is 66. Comedic musician “Weird Al” Yankovic is 66.
Oct. 24
Rock musician Bill Wyman is 89. Actor F. Murray Abraham is 86. Actor Kevin Kline is 78. Actor B.D. Wong is 65. Fashion designer Zac Posen is 45. Singer-rapper Drake is 39.
Oct. 25
Marion Ross is 96. Author Anne Tyler is 84. Rock singer Jon Anderson (Yes) is 81. Political strategist James Carville is 81. Basketball Hall of Famer Dave Cowens is 77. gold medal hockey player Mike Eruzione is 71. Actor Nancy Cartwright (“The Simpsons”) is 68.
Oct. 26
Musician Milton Nascimento is 83. Actor Jaclyn Smith is 80. TV host Pat Sajak is 79. Hillary Rodham Clinton is 78. Musician Bootsy Collins is 74. Actor-singer Rita Wilson is 69. Singer Natalie Merchant is 62. Country singer Keith Urban is 58.
Oct. 27
Actor-comedian John Cleese is 86. Author Maxine Hong Kingston is 85. Country singer Lee Greenwood is 83. Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is 80. Author Fran Lebowitz is 75. Actor-director Roberto Benigni is 73. Internet news editor Matt Drudge is 59.
Oct. 28
Basketball Hall of Famer Lenny Wilkens is 88. Actor Jane Alexander is 86. Actor Dennis Franz is 81. Actor-singer Telma Hopkins is 77. TV personality and Olympic gold medal decathlete Caitlyn Jenner is 76. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is 70. Actor Julia Roberts is 58.
Oct. 29
Actor Richard Dreyfuss is 78. Actor Kate Jackson is 77. Hockey Hall of Famer Denis Potvin is 72. Actor Dan Castellaneta (“The Simpsons”) is 68. Actor Joely Fisher is 58. Actor Winona Ryder is 54.
