Today in History and Celebrity Birthdays

Celebrity Birthdays for Jan. 15: Actress Margaret O'Brien ("Meet Me In St. Louis") is 87. TV and radio personality Dini Petty is 79. Retired ballerina Veronica Tennant is 78. Actress Andrea Martin is 77.

Celebrity Birthdays for Jan. 19: Actress Tippi Hedren is 94. Former PBS newsman Robert MacNeil is 93. Movie director Richard Lester is 92. Country singer Stu Phillips is 91. Former CTV News anchor Lloyd Robertson is 90.

Celebrity Birthdays for Jan. 16: Author William Kennedy is 96. Author-editor Norman Podhoretz is 94. Opera singer Marilyn Horne is 90. Hall of Fame auto racer A.J. Foyt is 89. Singer Barbara Lynn is 82. Country singer Ronnie Milsap is 81.

Celebrity Birthdays for Jan. 20: Trumpeter and bandleader Ray Anthony is 102. Retired astronaut Buzz Aldrin is 94. Actor Tom Baker ("Doctor Who") is 90. Olympic gold medal figure skater Carol Heiss is 84.

Today in Music History for Jan. 23: In 1893, Episcopal minister Phillips Brooks, bishop of Massachusetts and author of "O Little Town of Bethlehem," died. In 1940, country singer-songwriter Johnny Russell was born.

Today in History for Jan. 25: On this date: In AD 749, Emperor Leo IV of Byzantium was born. He led the Eastern Christian Church away from iconoclasm and towards a restoration of icons.

Today in History for Jan. 27: On this date: In AD 398, John Chrysostom, the greatest preacher of his age, was consecrated bishop of Constantinople.

Today in History for Jan. 23: On this date: In AD 638, the Islamic calendar was created and first used. In 1492, the Jewish Pentateuch was first printed.

Today in History for Jan. 24: On this date: In 1076, Germany's Henry IV convened the synod of Worms to secure the deposition of Pope Gregory VII. It charged the pontiff with serious crimes and called upon Rome to depose him.

Today in History for Jan. 26: On this date: In 1500, the mouth of the Amazon River in South America was discovered by Vicente Yanez Pinzon, a veteran of Christopher Columbus' first voyage to the New World.