It's Ann Reinking's birthday today, which gives you the perfect excuse to pretend you're Bob Fosse by forcing your pets, significant others, and neighbors to dance in your amateur chorus line. Enjoy the scowls of discontent! Discuss… 11/10/13 6:30pm 11/10/13 6:30pm

Jennifer Holliday turns 53 today, and this is the song she chose to sing to convince you that she’s not going home early on her birthday night. Discuss… 10/19/13 6:30pm 10/19/13 6:30pm

Lily Tomlin turns 74 today, and though we might watch a hilarious clip of Lily Tomlin giving Martin Sheen the business on the West Wing, or of Lily Tomlin giving Candice Bergen the business on Murphy Brown, or of Lily Tomlin giving Keith Carradine the eye business in Nashville, this bit from A Prairie Home Companion… Discuss… 9/01/13 6:30pm 9/01/13 6:30pm

On my 19th birthday, I spent several hours driving aimlessly around Albuquerque in a blue 1982 Dodge Ram listening to Jimmy Eat World on a Discman before I got lost in the South Valley and stopped to buy cigarettes, which I proceeded smoked so greedily that I threw up in a gravel parking lot. I was a virgin. The… Read… 8/06/13 4:10pm 8/06/13 4:10pm

Is your birthday coming up? Is one of your favorite pastimes to give yourself regular 3 AM panic attacks with WebMD self-diagnoses? Perhaps you should read no further. Read… 4/13/13 2:00pm 4/13/13 2:00pm

It took Mattel decades to introduce and widely distribute black Barbies, and the company still advertises its line with dolls as blue-eyed and flaxen-haired as a neo-Nazi child (see above.) Now, Harlem mother Karen Braithwaite is leading a group of 14 Harlem moms and thousands of others who have signed a Change.org… Read… 4/01/13 6:30pm 4/01/13 6:30pm

Happy Birthday to Clara Cowell, a 102-year-old English woman that the Surgeon General probably doesn't want you to hear about. You see, Cowell has been smoking for about 82 of those years, and she's in damn good health. Read… 2/18/13 9:30am 2/18/13 9:30am

Not just anyone is celebrated with a birthday special featuring Bill "Hillary's Husband" Clinton*, but that's what happens when you're Betty White. Read… 1/17/13 10:45pm 1/17/13 10:45pm

80% of the 53,364 people age 100 and older are women, according to the 2010 Census. Is it because women can deal with age-related diseases better than men, as some studies suggest? Maybe not, because men who do survive to 100 function better than women; the Census found that men were more likely to be living with… Read… 12/10/12 1:55pm 12/10/12 1:55pm

Google's latest doodle celebrates the 197th birthday of world's first computer programmer Lady Ada Lovelace. Discuss… 12/09/12 10:00pm 12/09/12 10:00pm

Juliana Koo is about to be 107, which means that she was born when Russia's last emperor was mucking his way through a war with the Japanese and Theodore Roosevelt's mustache was the U.S. president. On Sunday, according to the New York Times, her family threw her a preemptive 107th birthday party at the Pierre Hotel in … Read… 9/24/12 11:55pm 9/24/12 11:55pm

There are some unarguably monumental age milestones — 16, 21, 50, — but what about the not-so-obvious birthdays that we deem meaningful for one reason or another? Read… 8/29/12 6:30pm 8/29/12 6:30pm

One could argue that it started with Little League. In 1950, a 12-year-old girl named Kathryn Johnston asked her mother to cut off her braids, adopted the nickname "Tubby" and pretended to be a boy in order to go out for the Corning King's Dairy team in upstate New York. She made the cut, and eventually confessed to her… Read… 6/23/12 3:45pm 6/23/12 3:45pm

It's just dumb luck if your birthday happens to coincide with a major holiday like Christmas or Arbor Day, but when it's overlooked because of a middling holiday invented by boozy Catholics who wanted a plausible excuse to cheat during Lent, well, that seems downright unfair. Before you start brushing the green dye out … Read… 3/17/12 6:30pm 3/17/12 6:30pm

The author of Veronica, Bad Behavior, and Because They Wanted To (among other books) turns 57 today. Those unfamiliar with her writing may have seen the movie Secretary, which she called "a little too nice." I think it's pretty good, but the short story — in Bad Behavior — is better. And Veronica, which was nominated… Read… 11/11/11 7:00pm 11/11/11 7:00pm

Search engine —and "place you go to remember things you already knew but no longer have to remember"— Google celebrates its thirteenth birthday today! And to think it all began with a relatively modest $100,000 investment. Read… 9/04/11 3:35pm 9/04/11 3:35pm

Friends, tonight is Keanu Reeves's 47th birthday. To help you celebrate, here is a picture of him with Patrick Swayze in Point Break. Hope this gets your Labor Day weekend off to a good start. Read… 9/02/11 7:00pm 9/02/11 7:00pm

Oh god, panda panda panda. Panda eating a birthday cake. Panda panda panda panda! What? You try being coherent while watching this panda. Just fucking try it. Read… 8/19/11 3:25pm 8/19/11 3:25pm

The first African-American actress to win an Academy Award (for her role as Mammy in Gone With The Wind) is, alas, no longer with us — but if she were, today would be her 116th birthday. Raise a glass — or perhaps some kind of spiked popsicle, since it's so damn hot — in her honor tonight. Read… 6/10/11 7:12pm 6/10/11 7:12pm

Thessa just wanted to have a simple sixteenth birthday party like everyone else. Read… 6/06/11 9:37am 6/06/11 9:37am

Happy birthday to Susan Janet Ballion, whose 54th birthday kicks off the weekend. (It's also Rachel Carson's birthday, but I couldn't find a fun dancey video for Silent Spring.) Raise your glass or bottle or boda bag and throw one back for the birthday girls. Read… 5/27/11 6:15pm 5/27/11 6:15pm

Cherilyn Sarkisian turns 65 today! Recall that it was just this past September that she took to the stage at the VMAs, dressed in rehash of her epic getup (I don't think we can call it an "outfit") from the video for If I Could Turn Back Time. And she looked amazing. In her goddamn sixties. When you toast her tonight, … Read… 5/20/11 6:15pm 5/20/11 6:15pm

Bea Arthur would have turned 89 today, so if you don't already own the complete series DVD box set, tonight's a good night to get drunk and go shopping on Amazon (and as long as you're buying, feel free to send us one too, we won't mind). Other birthdays of note: Buckethead and Carrie Prejean. The internet wanted… Read… 5/13/11 7:00pm 5/13/11 7:00pm