Today's celebrity birthdays

His velvety voice gave a dreamy mood to his first hit, "Wicked Game." The sexy video didn't hurt, either. Rocker Chris Isaak is 50.

Also celebrating a birthday today:

•Actress Eleanor Parker is 84.

•Jazz musician-film composer Dave Grusin is 72.

•Actor Josef Sommer is 72.

•Singer Billy Davis Jr. (the Fifth Dimension) is 66.

•Rock singer Georgie Fame is 63.

•Actor Clive Francis is 60.

•Actor Robert Davi is 52.

•Singer-musician Mick Jones is 51.

•Actor Gedde Watanabe is 51.

•Rock singer Patty Smyth is 49.

•Singer Terri Nunn (Berlin) is 45.

•Rock singer Harriet Wheeler (the Sundays) is 43.

•Rock musician Colin Greenwood (Radiohead) is 37.

•Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson is 36.

•Actor Sean Hayes is 36.

•Actor Matt Letscher is 36.

•Actor Chris O'Donnell is 36.

•Actress Rebecca Budig is 33.

•Country singer Gretchen Wilson is 32.

•Actor-musician Jason Schwartzman is 26.

•Actress Kaitlin Cullum is 20.

Birthdays of the past:

•1819, Abner Doubleday, baseball pioneer; died 1893

•1892, Pearl S. Buck, writer;  ied 1973

•1893, Big Bill Broonzy, blues musician; died 1958

•1904, Peter Lorre, actor; died 1964

•1909, "Colonel" Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's manager; died 1997

•1911, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, pioneering athlete; died 1956