Misao Okawa celebrated her 116th birthday today, making her the oldest person in the world. » 3/05/14 9:00pm 3/05/14 9:00pm

Do you like cake? Are you one of those people who never got over childhood birthday parties and the sweet, smoky smell of snuffed candles mingling with buttercream icing? If you murmured "yes" to your computer, then the next sentence you read will horrify you and quite possibly turn you into a PIE person. An old man from … » 2/23/14 1:00pm 2/23/14 1:00pm

Happy Birthday to Gladys the baby gorilla! She turns one today and to mark the big day, she got a pretty pink birthday cake. » 1/29/14 10:30pm 1/29/14 10:30pm

Today, Ellen DeGeneres turns 56. Shower her with birthday gifts, and contemplate how much hairstyles have changed in the past 28 years. » 1/26/14 6:30pm 1/26/14 6:30pm

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! » 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. » 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… » 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… » 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. » 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… » 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. » 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. » 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… » 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. » 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 … » 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? » 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… » 6/23/12 3:45pm 6/23/12 3:45pm