Today Traci Lords is 50. Today is also the birthday of Breckin Meyer, Asghar Farhadi, Amy Heckerling, Randall ‘Tex’ Cobb, Mark O’Brien, Ned Bellamy, Michael Rosen, Ruggero Deodato, John Irvin, Nicholas Hytner, Lucile Hadzihalilovic, and the late Gary Cooper, Anne Baxter, Val Lewton, David Tomlinson, Darren McGavin, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Ishirô Honda, Robert Hegyes, Marilyn Burns, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Johannes Brahms, and Robert Browning. Ray Harryhausen died five years ago in 2013 at age 92.