Happy Birthday Rex Reed-73 Avery Brooks-63 Annie Leibovitz-62 Mike Rutherford-61 Sting (Gordon Sumner)-60 Kelly Ripa-41 Tiffany Darwish-40 ; 1950 The comic strip “Peanuts” by Charles M. Schulz was first published. ; 1959 “The Twilight Zone” debuted on CBS.