Happy Birthday Today

**Beanz** · 07-09-2019 05:45 PM

Happy Birthday Today to

David Hockney - The guy is 82! Absolute legend and very important to British Art. Obviously it is only my opinion, but now that Lucian Freud has passed away, you could quite easily mount an argument for him being the greatest living painter in England today. His knowledge of the history of art from the ancient Egyptians until the 20th century even as a youngster always marked him out as a special talent but his embrace of America and willingness to never stop learning and challenge himself made him into the colossus he is now.

Tom Hanks - is 63. Surely the last great bona fide 'Movie Star'. Not just a great screen actor but a presence who helps lend the kind of magic that Cary Grant, Stewart, etc managed to imbue their work with

Would have been Oliver Sacks Birthday too today but he died in 2015

**Beanz** · 07-10-2019 12:52 PM

JULY 10

Happy Birthday today to Mavis Staples. 80 today. here she is just 10 days ago

Virginia Wade is 74 and still the only British woman to win all four Tennis Grand Slams

Jake la Motta would have been 97 had he still been with us

Ronnie James Dio would have been 77 today. To say he could sing a bit is an understatement.

**walrus** · 07-11-2019 06:09 PM

Ronnie James Dio sung about as well as sandpaper. Thank god eighties and nineties music didn’t last

**Beanz** · 07-11-2019 07:23 PM

JULY 11

The great Yul Bryner would have been 99 today.

Leon Spinks is 66 today

**Beanz** · 07-13-2019 08:09 PM

JULY 13

Julius Caesar 100 BC . He is dead now.

Patrick Stewart he is 79 today being born in 1940. The Jean-luc Picard character he played shares his birthday but will not be born until 2305 ( That may win you a pub quiz one day) Saw him once in the National Portrait gallery and was going to say something but he looked like the last thing he wanted to do was someone to come up and ask him to 'make it so'.

Harrison Ford is 77.

Erno Rubik the guy who invented the cube is 75.

Cheech Marin is 73.