ON THIS DAY IN 2025:
Grammy-winning US singer-songwriter Billie EiIish turns 24 today, while Brad Pitt (pictured) blows out 62 birthday cake candles today, and Rolling Stones member Keith Richards turns 82. Christina Aguilera turns 45 and singer Sia turns 50.
Also celebrating today are director Steven Spielberg (79) and actresses Katie Holmes (47) and Rachel Griffiths (57).
American actor Ray Liotta, who died, aged 67, in May 2022, was born on this day in 1954. He appeared in the films Goodfellas, Field of Dreams and Something Wild.
Today also marks the birthday of Betty Grable, who made 42 films in the 1930s and 1940s, and was 56 when she died in 1973. Long a sex symbol, Grable’s famous swim suit poster was later included in the Life magazine project, “100 Photographs that Changed the World, reports Wikipedia.
On this day in 1968, Peter Sellers and Britt Ekland ended their marriage after four years.
On the theatre scene, on this day in 1969, Katharine Hepburn starred as designer Coco Chanel in the Andre Previn musical Coco, at Broadway’s Mark Hellinger Theatre, where it had 329 performances.
The top single of the week on the South African Springbok Radio Top 20 on this week, in 1970, was Looky, Looky by Giorgio. It crowned the chart for four weeks. Just saying…
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