Today Ken Jacobs is 85, Leslie Uggams is 75, and Kevin Heffernan and Joseph D. Reitman are 50. Today is also the birthday of Ian McKellen, Mike Myers, Octavia Spencer, Cillian Murphy, Anne Heche, Jacki Weaver, Frank Oz, Jamie Kennedy, Ethan Suplee, Demetri Martin, Bobby Slayton, Ray Stevenson, Justin Henry, Erinn Hayes, Neil Marshall, Ann Robinson, and the late Miles Davis, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Dixie Carter, Claude Akins, Raymond Carver, Jeanne Crain, Robert Ludlum, Bill Robinson and George Hickenlooper. Vic Tayback died 28 years ago in 1990 at age 60. Charles Nelson Reilly died eleven years ago in 2007 at age 76.
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