Today Paul Verhoeven and Hampton Fancher are 80, James Faulkner is 70, and Andre Royo and Grant Bowler are 50. Today is also the birthday of Vin Diesel, Kristen Bell, James Brolin, Margo Martindale, Elizabeth McGovern, Kelly Reilly, Michiel Huisman, Priyanka Chopra, Chace Crawford, M.I.A., Ann-Marie Johnson, Richard Branson, Wendy Williams, Audrey Landers, Lee Arenberg, Jared Hess, and the late Nelson Mandela, who would be 100, Red Skelton, Hunter S. Thompson, Hume Cronyn, Chill Wills, John Glenn, Richard Dix, Gene Lockhart, Harriet Nelson, Lupe Velez, Burt Kwouk, and William Makepeace Thackeray.
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