Today is the birthday of Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, David Beckham, Christine Baranski, Bruce Robinson, Ellie Kemper, David Suchet, Bruce Glover, Lily Allen, Stephen Daldry, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Lone Scherfig, Donatella Versace, and the late Bing Crosby, Satyajit Ray, Theodore Bikel, John Neville, Roscoe Lee Browne, Lesley Gore, and Hedda Hopper. Oliver Reed died 19 years ago in 1999 at age 61. Lynn Redgrave died eight years ago in 2010 at age 67. Efrem Zimbalist Jr. died four years ago in 2014 at age 95.
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