Happy Birthday to *NSync member Justin Timberlake (1981), "Arrested Development" actress Portia de Rossi (1973), British actress/singer Minnie Driver (1970), Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman (1964), British singer/songwriter Lloyd Cole (1961),

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Norman Mailer is recovering after surgery to remove scar tissue around his lung. The 84-year-old literary giant was admitted to Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, New York last week, and the operation took place earlier this week.

Happy Birthday to *NSync member Justin Timberlake (1981), "Arrested Development" actress Portia de Rossi (1973), British actress/singer Minnie Driver (1970), Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman (1964), British singer/songwriter Lloyd Cole (1961), American actress Kelly Lynch (1959), "Without a Trace" star Anthony LaPaglia (1959), Sex Pistols singer Johnny Rotten (1956), seven-time no-hitter hurler Nolan Ryan (1947), blues harp player Charlie Musselwhite (1944), American actress Jessica Walter (1940), "The Bob Newhart Show" actress Suzanne Pleshette (1937), baseball legend Ernie Banks (1931), English actress Jean Simmons (1929), author Norman Mailer (1923), actress Carol Channing (1921), first African-American MLB player Jackie Robinson (1919; d. 1972), and Austrian composer Franz Schubert (1797;d. 1828).