Today Richard Simmons is 70, and Topher Grace and Michelle Rodriguez are 40. Today is also the birthday of Bill Cosby, Cheryl Ladd, Cheyenne Jackson, Monte Hellman, Brian Grazer, Malala Yousafzai, Anna Friel, Steve Howey, Natalie Martinez, Byung-Hun Lee, Tamsin Greig, Erik Per Sullivan, Jeremy Sheridan, Mel Harris, Denise Nicholas, Edwin Neal, Phil Lord, and the late Milton Berle, Tod Browning, Joe DeRita, Jay Thomas, Beah Richards, Charlie Murphy, Louis B. Meyer, Jean Hersholt, Henry David Thoreau, Pablo Neruda, Donald E. Westlake, and George Eastman. Lon Chaney Jr. died 45 years ago in 1973 at age 67.
