Today Bruce Kirby is 90, and Aidan Gillen is 50. Today is also the birthday of Shirley MacLaine, Barbra Streisand, Djimon Hounsou, Eric Bogosian, Richard Donner, Cedric the Entertainer, Eric Balfour, Kelly Clarkson, Derek Luke, Michael O’Keefe, Rory McCann, Austin Nichols, Glenn Morshower, Peter Friedman, Damon Lindelof, and the late Michael Parks, William Castle, Jill Ireland, Jack E. Leonard, and Robert Wiene. Louise Dresser died 53 years ago in 1965 at age 86. Bud Abbott died 44 years ago in 1974 at age 78.
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