Today in History and Celebrity Birthdays

Celebrity Birthdays for Sept. 1: Attorney and law professor Alan Dershowitz is 86. Comedian-actress Lily Tomlin is 85. Actor Don Stroud is 81. Singer Archie Bell of Archie Bell and the Drells is 80. Conductor Leonard Slatkin is 80.

Today in History for Sept. 1: On this date: In 1159, the only English pope in history, Adrian (or Hadrian) IV, died. In 1422, Henry VI, an infant, became King of England on the death of his father, Henry V.

Today in Music History for Sept. 1: In 1933, country singer Conway Twitty was born Harold Lloyd Jenkins in Friars Point, Miss. He took his stage name from the towns of Conway, Ark. and Twitty, Texas.

Celebrity Birthdays for Aug. 31: Actor Jack Thompson is 84. Singer Van Morrison is 79. Violinist Itzhak Perlman is 79. Guitarist Rudolf Schenker of Scorpions is 76. Actor Richard Gere is 75.

Today in History for Aug. 31: On this date: In 12 AD, the Roman Emperor Caligula, whose many unusual acts included naming his horse a senator of Rome, was born.

Today in Music History for Aug. 31: In 1922, Canadian country singer Orval Prophet was born in Edwards, Ont. After a 1949 Canadian tour with Wilf Carter, Prophet became the second Canadian -- after Hank Snow -- to record in Nashville.

Celebrity Birthdays for Sept. 2: Jazz saxophonist Lee Gagnon is 90. Former baseball commissioner Peter Ueberroth is 87. Singer Jimmy Clanton is 86. Singer Rosalind Ashford of Martha and the Vandellas is 81.

Celebrity Birthdays for Sept. 7: Jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins is 94. Soul singer-songwriter Latimore is 85. Singer Gloria Gaynor is 81. Former Supreme Court Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin is 81. Singer Alfa Anderson of Chic is 78.

Celebrity Birthdays for Sept. 6: Comedian JoAnne Worley is 89. Country singer David Allan Coe is 85. Singer-bassist Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) is 81. Actress Swoosie Kurtz is 80. Comedian-actress Jane Curtin is 77. Country singer Buddy Miller is 72.

Celebrity Birthdays for Sept. 5: Actress-singer Carol Lawrence is 92. Baseball Hall-of-Famer Bill Mazeroski is 88. Actor George Lazenby is 85. Actor William Devane is 85. Movie director Werner Herzog is 82.