ON THIS DAY IN 2025:
Singer and TV star Jennifer Lopez (pictured) turns 56 today while Bindi Irwin, Aussie actress, TV star and daughter of the late crocodile hunter and TV star, Steve Irwin, turns 27 today.
Mara Wilson, child star of Matilda and Mrs Doubtfire, turns 38 today, which is also the day, in 1980, that the great Peter Sellers died. He was 59.
Professional wrestler and TV personality Hulk Hogan, whose real name was Terry Gene Bollea, died of cardiac arrest on this day in 2025, after many earlier health problems related to a weak heart. He was 71.
Cleo Laine, an English singer and actress known for her scat singing, died, aged 97, on this day in 2025. Known for a smoky voice that could cover four octaves, Laine recorded albums across six decades. She was the wife of jazz composer and musician Sir John Dankworth and the mother of bassist Alec Dankworth and singer Jacqui Dankworth.
It was on this day in 1978 that South Africa’s Margaret Gardiner was crowned Miss Universe. And still keeping things local… also celebrating birthdays today are singer Graeme Watkins of The Graeme Watkins Project and Swing City, and Durban designer Sandy Day.
It was on this day in 1972 that Andrew Lloyd Webber, then aged 24, married Sarah Hugill while today, in 1965, marked the day Bob Dylan released the classic Like a Rolling Stone.
Mungo Jerry rose to the top of the South African singles chart on this day in 1970, with his catchy In the Summertime. It remained there for five weeks. Just saying…
.....SoSuterBill..... 