If they were still alive....

...today, the following notables would be celebrating their birthday (today is a special "mostly Michigan" edition:

Groundbreaking aviator Charles Lindbergh was born 109 years ago in Detroit.

Benjamin "Bennie" Oosterbaan, born 105 years ago in Muskegon, Michigan.  Three-time All-American with the University of Michigan Wolverines and widely considered to be one of the greatest football players of all time.



Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks would be 98.  She spent most of her later life in Detroit, where a major thoroughfare is named after her.

British-born film actress/director Ida Lupino, 97.  One of the only major female film directors in Hollywood in the 20th Century.  She once thought of visiting Detroit, but changed her mind. 

Here she is singing "One For My Baby" in the noir classic, Road House, (1948), with Richard Widmark and Cornel Wilde:





And HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Detroit's own...Mr. Alice Cooper, alive and well at 63.