Bonnie Lynn Raitt is 63 today. Raitt has received nine Grammy
Awards during her career. She is listed at number 50 in the
Rolling Stone magazine list of 100 Greatest Singers. She is
also listed at number 89 in the Rolling Stone list of 100
Greatest Guitarists.

William Theodore "Bill" Walton III is a retired basketball player and TV
sportscaster. He led the Portland Trail Blazers to a sweep of the Los
Angeles Lakers in the 1977 western conference finals and was named
MVP. He went on to help the Blazers to the NBA title over the favored Philadelphia 76ers.

Portland Trail Blazers’ Championship Team, 1976-77

Bill Walton taking a shot as Darryl Dawkins of the Philadelphia 76ers blocks

The party in Portland following the championship win

Richard Stephen Dreyfuss is best known for his starring roles in a 
number of films including American Graffiti (1973), Jaws (1975), Close
Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), and Mr. Holland’s Opus (1995) 
which was filmed in Portland, Oregon.  

Dreyfuss won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1977 for his role
in The Goodbye Girl. He began his acting career at a Beverly Hills
community center at the age of 15.

Richard Dreyfuss in American Graffiti

Dreyfuss with his Best Actor Oscar

English actor John Marwood Cleese is 73 today. He became a member of  
the comedy troupe Monty Python in the late 1960s and is probably best 
known for his role in “A Fish Called Wanda” (1988). Prior to fame, Cleese 
studied law at Cambridge.

The Python troupe in 1969, (back row) Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Terry
Gilliam, (front row) Terry Jones, John Cleese, and Michael Palin.

Australian-born singer Helen Reddy was the first artist to ever win 
the coveted American Music Award for “Favorite Pop/Rock Female”
artist. She was also the first Australian to win a Grammy award and 
to have three #1 hits in the same year.