Today Sharon Gless and Joe Namath are 75. Today is also the birthday of Clint Eastwood, Colin Farrell, Brooke Shields, Tom Berenger, Chris Elliott, Lea Thompson, Susie Essman, Paolo Sorrentino, Eric Christian Olsen, Jonathan Tucker, Sebastian Koch, and the late Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Don Ameche, Walt Whitman, Denholm Elliott, Jim Hutton, Alida Valli, Fred Allen, John Bonham, Jack Holt, Barbara Pepper, Madge Blake, and Menahem Golan. William Castle died 41 years ago in 1977 at age 63. Jean Stapleton died five years ago in 2013 at age 90.
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