Happy Birthday RIP Shemp Howard(Samuel Horwitz 1895–1955) Lawrence Welk(1903–1992) ; Rupert Murdoch–84 Samuel Donaldson–81 Nancy Kovach–80 Mark Metcalf–69 Jerry Zucker–65 Robert “Bobby” McFerrin–65 Susan Richardson–63 Catharina “Nina” Hagen–60 “Lady Chablis”(Benjamin Knox)–58 “Cheryl Lynn”(Lynda Cheryl Smith)–58 David LaChapelle–52 Terrence Howard–46 “Johnny Knoxville”(Philip Clapp)–44 Thora Birch–33 Anton Yelchin–26 ; 1985 – Mikhail S. Gorbachev was chosen to succeed the late Soviet President Konstantin Chernenko as General Secretary of the Communist Party.