Today Barry Manilow and Newt Gingrich are 75, and Bobby Farrelly is 60. Today is also the birthday of Greg Kinnear, Thomas Haden Church, Kendrick Lamar, Will Forte, Ken Loach, Denis Lavant, Scott Adkins, John Gallagher Jr., Joshua Leonard, Michael Showalter, Jason Patric, Peter Lupus, Arthur Darvill, William Lucking, Joe Piscopo, Venus Williams, Jodie Whittaker, Jon Gries, Jennifer Irwin, Sonny Fox, Louis Leterrier, Phyllida Lloyd, and the late Ralph Bellamy, Lucio Fulci, Russell Simpson, James Shigeta, Setsuko Hara, Grant Mitchell, and M.C. Escher. Cyd Charisse died ten years ago in 2008 at age 86.
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