Actress-singer Deanna Durbin is 87.

Actor-producer Max Baer Jr. is 71.

Actress Gemma Jones is 66.

Actor Jeff Bridges (right) is 59.

Actress Patricia Wettig is 57.

Actor Tony Todd is 54.

Jazz singer Cassandra Wilson is 53.

Actress Marisa Tomei is 44.

Rapper Jay-Z is 39.

Actor Kevin Sussman is 38.

Actress-model Tyra Banks is 35.

Actor Orlando Brown is 21.

On Dec. 4, 1816, James Monroe of Virginia was elected the fifth president of the United States.

In 1875, William Marcy Tweed, the "Boss" of New York City's Tammany Hall political organization, escaped from jail and fled the country.

In 1918, President Woodrow Wilson left Washington on a trip to France to attend the Versailles Peace Conference.

In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the dismantling of the Works Progress Administration, which had been created to provide jobs during the Depression.

In 1978, San Francisco got its first female mayor as City Supervisor Dianne Feinstein was named to replace the assassinated George Moscone.