Birthday ALARM

Actor Jake Gyllenhaal (Brokeback Mountain) is 26.

Singer Maurice White of Earth, Wind and Fire is 65.
Actor Mike Lookinland (The Brady Bunch) is 46.
Actress Jennifer Beals is 43.
Actor Robert McNaughton is 40.
Actress Kristy Swanson is 37.
Actress Alyssa Milano is 34.
Actress Marla Sokoloff (The Practice ) is 26.
Rapper Lady Sovereign is 21.

FUN FACT: On this day in 1843, A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, was first published in England.