Today Ivan Passer is 85, and Fiona Shaw is 60. Today is also the birthday of Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sofía Vergara, Adrian Grenier, Arlo Guthrie, Robert Pine, Peter Serafinowicz, Golshifteh Farahani, Wyatt Russell, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Sue Lyon, Phyllis Smith, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Alice Munro, Annie Mumolo, Mavis Staples, Rodriguez, Joel Potrykus, Jessica Simpson, and the late Fred Gwynne, Marcel Proust, Jake LaMotta, Nikola Tesla, Ron Glass, David Brinkley, Tura Satana, Nick Adams, John Gilbert, and Jerry Nelson. Mel Blanc died 29 years ago in 1989 at age 81. Omar Sharif died three years ago in 2015 at age 83.
