born 22 September 1970

Alfonso Medina, Caracas, Venezuela, actor

Andrei Kuzichev, Moscow, Soviet Union, actor

Barbara Albert, Vienna, Austria, writer/director

Brendan Whelan (died 19 January 2005), Dublin, Ireland, messer

Chris Tallman, Madison, Wisconsin, actor

Emmanuel Petit, Dieppe, France, soccer player

Jon Miller, Chillicothe, Ohio, title designer

Josef Lopez, Copenhagen, Denmark, lighting technician

Mike Matheny, Reynoldsberg, Ohio, major league catcher

Mystikal, New Orleans, Louisiana, rapper/sex offender

Rupert Penry-Jones, London, England, actor

Scot Armstrong, birthplace unspecified, American writer

Ted Alderman, Jackson, Mississippi, actor

When his song “Bouncin’ Back” played a major role in a recent episode of Treme, it had me wondering whatever happened to Today’s Winner. Turned out he and two members of his crew spent the last half a decade in prison for some bad nastiness with a woman. That’s not cool. Still, let’s hope that now, with his debts to society paid up, he can bring the word some more interesting music. The world is not kind to rappers over forty.