Today in History and Celebrity Birthdays

Celebrity Birthdays for Jan. 26: Cartoonist Jules Feiffer is 95. Sports announcer-actor Bob Uecker is 90. Actor Scott Glenn is 85. Activist Angela Davis is 80. Actor Richard Portnow (``Trumbo,'' ''The Sopranos``) is 77.

Celebrity Birthdays for Jan. 25: Actress Leigh Taylor-Young (``Peyton Place,'' ''Soylent Green``) is 79. Larry Good, of the Canadian country group the Good Brothers, is 72. Andy Cox, guitarist with The Beat and Fine Young Cannibals, is 68.

Celebrity Birthdays for Jan. 23: Nobel Prize-winning Toronto chemist John Polanyi is 95. Actress Chita Rivera is 91. Actor-director Lou Antonio is 90. Jazz vibraphonist Gary Burton is 81. Actor Gil Gerard is 81.

Celebrity Birthdays for Jan. 24: Fiddler Doug Kershaw is 88. Singer Ray Stevens is 85. Singer Aaron Neville is 83. Singer Neil Diamond is 83. Actor Michael Ontkean (``Twin Peaks'') is 78. Country singer-songwriter Becky Hobbs is 74.

Celebrity Birthdays for Jan. 21: World Golf Hall-of-Famer Jack Nicklaus is 84. Opera singer Placido Domingo is 83. Actress Jill Eikenberry is 77. Guitarist Jim Ibbotson (The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) is 77. Singer-songwriter Billy Ocean is 74.

Celebrity Birthdays for Jan. 27: Actor James Cromwell (``Murder in the First,'' ''Babe``) is 84. Drummer Nick Mason of Pink Floyd is 80. Singer Nedra Talley of The Ronettes is 78.

Today in History for Jan. 30: On this date: In 1649, King Charles I was beheaded. In 1730, Russian Czar Peter II died of smallpox on his wedding day. In 1868, the Nova Scotia legislature opened its first session.

Today in Music History for Jan. 28: In 1834, Sabine Baring-Gould, Anglican clergyman and author, was born. He published numerous books on history, biography, poetry and fiction.

Today in History for Jan. 29: On this date: In 993, Ulric, bishop of Augsburg in present-day Germany from 923 to 973, was formally canonized by Pope John XV. It was the first recorded canonization by a Catholic pontiff.

Today in Music History for Feb. 2: In 1594, Giovanni da Palestrina, one of the most gifted composers of Renaissance church music, died. In 1901, violinist Jascha Heifetz was born in Vilna, Russia.