Today in History and Celebrity Birthdays

Celebrity Birthdays for Nov. 18: Actress Brenda Vaccaro is 84. Author-poet Margaret Atwood is 84. Actress Linda Evans is 81. Actress Susan Sullivan is 81. Country singer Jacky Ward is 81. Actor Jameson Parker is 76.

Today in Music History for Nov. 18: In 1926, 1950s pop singer Dorothy Collins, whose real name is Margaret Chandler, was born in Windsor, Ont. She got her start in Canadian radio, then performed with bandleader Raymond Scott in the U.S.

Celebrity Birthdays for Nov. 25: Actress Kathryn Crosby is 90. Actor Matt Clark is 87. Actor Christopher Riordan is 86. Pro Football Hall of Fame head coach Joe Gibbs is 83. Singer Bob Lind is 81. Actor-game show host Ben Stein is 79.

Celebrity Birthdays for Nov. 24: Ray Perkins of the '50s vocal group The Crew Cuts is 90. Basketball Hall-of-Famer Oscar Robertson is 85. Country singer Johnny Carver is 83. Author Eric Wilson is 83. Former Beatles drummer Pete Best is 82.

Celebrity Birthdays for Nov. 23: Movie producer-director Robert Towne is 89. Actor Franco Nero is 82. Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas ("Basic Instinct," ''Showgirls") is 79. Comedy writer Bruce Vilanch ("Hollywood Squares") is 75.

Celebrity Birthdays for Nov. 22: Comedian-director Terry Gilliam (Monty Python) is 83. Actor Tom Conti is 82. Singer Jesse Colin Young (The Youngbloods) is 82. Retired NASA astronaut Guion Bluford is 81.

Celebrity Birthdays for Nov. 21: Actor Laurence Luckinbill is 89. Actress Marlo Thomas is 86. Actor Rick Lenz is 84. Actress Juliet Mills ("Passions," ''Nanny and the Professor") is 82. Songwriter David Porter ("Soul Man") is 82.

Celebrity Birthdays for Nov. 20: Actress Estelle Parsons is 96. Author Don DeLillo is 87. Comedian Dick Smothers is 85. Tony Butala of the pop vocal group The Lettermen is 85. Singer Norman Greenbaum is 81. US President Joe Biden is 81.

Celebrity Birthdays for Nov. 19: Talk show host Dick Cavett is 87. Media mogul Ted Turner is 85. Songwriter and producer Jerry Fuller is 85. Fashion designer Calvin Klein is 81.

Today in History for Nov. 26: On this date: In 1539, in England, the monastery at the Fountains Abbey was surrendered to the Crown.