BIRTHDAYS

  • Flavor Flav, 51
  • Peaches Geldof, 21
  • Judah Friedlander, 41
  • Brooke Burns, 32
  • Lauren Graham, 43
  • Blu Cantrell, 34
  • Rep. Joseph Crowley, 48
  • Jerry Lewis, 84
  • Victor Garber, 61
  • Erik Estrada, 61
  • Bernardo Bertolucci, 69
  • Chuck Woolery, 69
  • Sanford Weill, 77
  • Patty Griffin, 46
  • Jean-Georges Vongerichten, 53

SPLITS

  • Kate Winset and Sam Mendes announced yesterday that they've been separated since earlier this year.

EXPECTING

  • Paz Vega, the Spanish actress best known in the US for her forgettable role in 2004's Spanglish, says she's pregnant with her third child with husband Orson Salazar.

DEATHS

  • Charles Moore, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer who worked for Life magazine, died last Thursday. He was 79.
  • He Pingping, who held the record for being the world's shortest man, died in Rome last week. He was 21.
  • Joseph Dembo, a "news radio pioneer" at CBS, died in Manhattan on Monday. He was 83.