49 Years Old

Hello boils and ghouls. Today is December 9, 2008. I'm 49 years old today and I still look as good as a movie star!

The kids told me to make an ugly face, but I decided not too. ;-)

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Famous People Born on December 9

1447 — Chenghua, Emperor of China (d. 1487)
1508 — Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer (d. 1555)
1561 — Sir Edwin Sandys, English-born Virginian colonist (d. 1629)
1571 — Metius (Adriaan Adriaanszoon), Dutch mathematician and astronomer (d. 1635)
1579 — Martin de Porres, Peruvian saint (d. 1639)
1594 — Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (d. 1632)
1608 — John Milton, English poet (d. 1674)
1610 — Baldassare Ferri, Italian castrato (d. 1680)
1652 — Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician (d. 1723)
1667 — William Whiston, English mathematician (d. 1752)
1717 — Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German art historian (d. 1768)
1748 — Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (d. 1822)
1751 — Maria Luisa of Parma, queen of Charles IV of Spain (d. 1819)
1787 — John Dobson, English architect (d. 1865)
1806 — Jean-Olivier Chénier, French Canadian physician and Patriote (d. 1838)
1837 — Émile Waldteufel, French composer (d. 1915)
1842 — Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist (d. 1921)
1847 — George Grossmith, English actor and writer (d. 1912)
1850 — Emma Abbott, American soprano (d. 1891)
1868 — Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1934)
1871 — Joe Kelley, American baseball player (d. 1943)
1876 — Berton Churchill, American actor (d. 1940)
1882 — Joaquín Turina, Spanish composer (d. 1949)
1883 — Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician (d. 1950)
1886 — Clarence Birdseye, American frozen food manufacturer (d. 1956)
1887 — Tim Moore, American actor and vaudevillian (d. 1958)
1889 — Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish long-distance runner (d. 1966)
1891 — Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet (d. 1917)
1895 — Conchita Supervía, Spanish opera singer (d. 1936)
1897 — Hermione Gingold, English actress (d. 1987)
1898 — Emmett Kelly, American circus clown (d. 1979)
1899 — Jean de Brunhoff, French author (d. 1937)
1900 — Albert Weisbord, American labor organizer (d. 1977)
1901 — Carol Dempster, American actress (d. 1991)
1901 — Ödön von Horváth, Hungarian-born writer (d. 1938)
1901 — Jean Mermoz, French pilot (d. 1936)
1902 — Margaret Hamilton, American actress (d. 1985)
1904 — Robert Livingston, American actor (d. 1988)
1905 — Dalton Trumbo, American writer (d. 1976)
1906 — Grace Hopper, American computer pioneer (d. 1992)
1909 — Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American actor (d. 2000)
1911 — Broderick Crawford, American actor (d. 1986)
1911 — Ryūzō Sejima, Japanese educator (d. 2007)
1912 — Tip O'Neill, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1994)
1914 — Frances Reid, American actress
1915 — Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-born soprano (d. 2006)
1916 — Kirk Douglas, American actor
1917 — James Angleton, head of counterintelligence for the CIA (d. 1987)
1917 — James Rainwater, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1986)
1918 — Jerome Beatty Jr., American author
1919 — William Lipscomb, American chemist, Nobel laureate
1920 — Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, President of the Italian Republic
1922 — Redd Foxx, American comedian (d. 1991)
1925 — Dina Merrill, American actress
1926 — Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1999)
1926 — Jan Křesadlo, Czech writer (d. 1995)
1927 — Pierre Henry, French composer
1928 — André Milhoux, Belgian racing driver
1928 — Dick Van Patten, American actor
1929 — John Cassavetes, American actor and director (d. 1989)
1929 — Bob Hawke, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia
1930 — Buck Henry, American actor
1931 — William Reynolds, American actor
1931 — Ladislav Smoljak, Czech actor
1932 — Edd Wheeler, American singer-songwriter
1933 — Morton Downey Jr., American talk show host (d. 2001)
1933 — Monique Miller, French Canadian actress
1933 — Orville Moody, American golfer (d. 2008)
1934 — Dame Judi Dench, English actress
1934 — Junior Wells, American musician (d. 1998)
1937 — Darwin Joston, American actor (d. 1998)
1938 — David Houston, American country singer (d. 1993)
1938 — Deacon Jones, American football player
1941 — Beau Bridges, American actor
1941 — Dan Hicks, American musician
1942 — Billy Bremner, Scottish footballer (d. 1997)
1942 — Dick Butkus, American football player
1943 — Pit Martin, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2008)
1944 — Neil Innes, English singer (Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, The Rutles)
1944 — Ki Longfellow, American novelist
1944 — Bob O'Connor, American politician (d. 2006)
1945 — Matti Mäntylä, Finnish actor
1945 — Michael Nouri, American actor
1946 — Sonia Gandhi, Italian-born Indian politician
1946 — Shatrughan Sinha, Indian actor
1947 — Tom Daschle, American politician
1947 — Jaak Jõerüüt, Soviet-born Estonian politician
1948 — Dennis Dunaway, American musician
1948 — Marleen Gorris, Dutch film director
1949 — Tom Kite, American golfer
1949 — Nando Parrado, Uruguayan plane crash survivor
1950 — Joan Armatrading, St. Kitts-born English singer
1952 — Liaqat Baloch, Pakistani politician
1952 — Michael Dorn, American actor
1953 — World B. Free, American basketball player
1953 — John Malkovich, American actor
1954 — Herman Finkers, Dutch comedian
1955 — Chamras Saewataporn, Thai composer and musician
1957 — Donny Osmond, American singer and actor
1958 — Rikk Agnew, American guitarist (The Adolescents)
1958 — Nick Seymour, Australian bassist (Crowded House)

1959 — Chuck Coker, World-Famous Photographer and All-Around Nice Guy

1960 — Terry Moran, American TV reporter
1960 — Juan Samuel, Dominican baseball player
1960 — Dobroslav Paraga, Croatian politician and editor
1961 — David Anthony Higgins, American actor
1961 — Joe Lando, American actor
1962 — Felicity Huffman, American actress
1963 — Dave Hilton, Jr., Canadian boxer
1963 — Masako, Crown Princess of Japan
1964 — Paul Landers, German guitarist (Rammstein)
1965 — Joe Ausanio, American baseball player
1965 — Vecepia Towery, American Survivor contestant
1966 — Kirsten Gillibrand, American politician
1966 — Toby Huss, American actor
1967 — Joshua Bell, American violinist
1967 — Jason Dozzell, English footballer
1967 — Gheorghe Popescu, Romanian footballer
1968 — Kurt Angle, American wrestler
1968 — Brian Bell, American guitarist (Weezer)
1968 — Dave Harold, English snooker player
1969 — Jakob Dylan, American singer (The Wallflowers)
1969 — Allison Smith, American actress
1969 — Bixente Lizarazu, French footballer
1969 — Sebastian Spence, Canadian actor
1970 — Kara DioGuardi, American songwriter, record producer, and singer
1971 — Petr Nedvěd, Czech ice hockey player
1972 — Reiko Aylesworth, American actress
1972 — Tre Cool, German-born American drummer (Green Day)
1972 — Fabrice Santoro, Tahitian-born French tennis player
1974 — Canibus, American rapper
1974 — Wendy Dillinger, American female soccer player and coach
1976 — Chris Booker, American baseball player
1977 — Saskia Garel, Canadian actress
1977 — Shayne Graham, American football player
1977 — Imogen Heap, English singer-songwriter
1978 — Jesse Metcalfe, American actor
1979 — Olivia Lufkin, Japanese singer
1979 — Stephen McPhail, Irish footballer
1980 — Ryder Hesjedal, Canadian cyclist
1981 — Mardy Fish, American tennis player
1981 — Diya Mirza, Indian actress
1982 — Tamilla Abassova, Russian cyclist
1982 — Nathalie De Vos, Belgian athlete
1983 — Dariusz Dudka, Polish footballer
1983 — Jermaine Beckford, English footballer
1990 — LaFee, German singer

Source: Wikipedia

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Some of My Favorite Age-Related Quotes

"You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely."
— Ogden Nash

"Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything."
— Kurt Vonnegut

"When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not."
— Mark Twain

"Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you."
— Fran Lebowitz

"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."
— Victor Hugo

"I am not young enough to know everything."
— Oscar Wilde

"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything."
— Oscar Wilde

"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."
— Mark Twain

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You can also see my daughter Rose's Birthday Photo.

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