Today in History and Celebrity Birthdays

Celebrity Birthdays for June 21: Composer Lalo Schifrin is 93. Actor Bernie Kopell ("The Love Boat") is 92. Actor Monte Markham is 90. Songwriters Hall of Fame member Don Black is 87. Actress Mariette Hartley is 85.

Celebrity Birthdays for June 15: Singer Ruby Nash Garnett of Ruby and the Romantics is 91. Muff Winwood, bass player with the Spencer Davis Group, is 82. Funk guitarist Leo Nocentelli of The Meters is 79. Singer Noddy Holder (Slade) is 79.

Celebrity Birthdays for June 19: Bass-baritone Donald Bell is 91. Hall of Fame race car driver Shirley Muldowney is 85. Singer Spanky McFarlane of Spanky and Our Gang is 83. Burmese politician Aung San Suu Kyi is 80. Author Sir Salman Rushdie is 78.

Celebrity Birthdays for June 18: Philosopher Jurgen Habermas is 96. Musician Sir Paul McCartney is 83. Actress Constance McCashin ("Knots Landing") is 78. Actress Linda Thorson ("The Avengers") is 78. Keyboardist John Evans (The Box Tops) is 78.

Celebrity Birthdays for June 17: Actor Peter Lupus (TV's "Mission: Impossible") is 93. Movie director Ken Loach is 89. Singer Barry Manilow is 82. Rock singer and keyboardist Gregg Rolie (Santana, Journey) is 78. Comedian Joe Piscopo is 74.

Celebrity Birthdays for June 16: Actress Eileen Atkins ("The Crown," ''Doc Martin") is 91. Country singer Billy "Crash" Craddock is 87. Author Joyce Carol Oates is 87. Singer Eddie Levert of The O'Jays is 83. Actress Joan Van Ark is 82.

Celebrity Birthdays for June 20: Actress Bonnie Bartlett ("St. Elsewhere," ''Once and Again") is 96. Actor James Tolkan is 94. '50s pop vocalist Jerry Keller is 88. Movie director Stephen Frears is 84. Musician Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys is 83.

Today in History for June 26: In 1284, legend has it that the Pied Piper of Hamelin led 130 German children to their deaths after being refused his fee for charming rats and mice into a river.

Today in History for June 24: In 541, Attila the Hun laid siege to Orleans, France. In 1099, the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, parent body of St. John Ambulance, was founded. It is the oldest order of chivalry in the Commonwealth.

Today in Music History for June 23: In 1920, Canadian dixieland jazz saxophonist and bandleader Lance Harrison was born in Vancouver. He died Nov. 26, 2000.