Lambs wool is a traditional English Christmas drink made with a hot brew of cider, ale, and spices along with floating baked apples. Sounds warm and toasty.

“Chances Are” you guessed Johnny Mathis, and you are correct. Other celebrities partaking in birthday celebrations today include Fran Drescher, better know as “The Nanny,” retired Slovakian tennis champ Martina Hingis, and Golden Globe-winning actress Angie Dickinson.

In Tchaikovsky’s ballet, the Mouse King is the Nutcracker’s main enemy.

Happy birthday to Bryant Gumbel. Also celebrating birthdays today are country rock singer Jerry Lee Lewis and Swedish actress Anita Ekberg.

The Julhukk, the traditional Christmas Swedish figurine, is usually made of straw.

Happy Birthday to Lil Abner cartoonist Al Capp. Also celebrating birthdays today include Academy Award-nominated actress Naomi Watts, pop sensation Hilary Duff, and actress/model Brigitte Bardot.

The Wollman Rink in Central Park is often used in Christmas card designs because of its backdrop of world-famous midtown high rises such as the Plaza Hotel and The Essex House. The Wollman Rink opened in 1949, and in its first year of operation, 300,000 skaters glided across the ice. Today, more than 4,000 skaters use the rink on a daily basis.

Happy birthday to Gwyneth Paltrow, mother of Apple and wife of Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin. Also celebrating birthdays today are former Phillies third baseman Mike Schmidt and the late actor Greg Morris.

New Yorkers and tourists all congregate in Rockefeller Center during the Christmas season. There’s so much to see and do here from the tree lighting ceremony to ice skating to seeing the Rockettes perform in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. And don’t forget to stroll past the world-famous Christmas windows at Saks Fifth Avenue.

It’s Jack LaLanne. A lifetime of fitness certainly paid off for him. Other celebrity birthdays today include tennis champ Serena Williams, the lovely Aussie Olivia Newton-John, and “The Weakest Link” host Anne Robinson.